Joseph L. Hora

Astronomer

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Research Activities

Instrumentation Projects:

IRAC - I am the Project Scientist for the InfraRed Array Camera for the Spitzer Space Telescope , now operating in its "Warm Mission"
MIRSI (Mid-InfraRed Spectrometer and Imager)
NIRI camera, Gemini telescope
IRCS - Infrared Camera and Spectrograph, Subaru telescope
KSPEC - K-band spectrograph
QUIRC - QUick InfraRed Camera
MIRAC - Mid-InfraRed Array Camera

Astronomical Research

My active research is in several areas, including star formation, IR observations of near-earth objects, and near- and mid-infrared observations of planetary nebulae.

Cygnus-X Star Formation Region

Several current projects are related to the study of massive star formation in the Cygnus-X region. I led a team that performed a Spitzer Legacy Survey during the cyogenic Spitzer mission, and we are now performing a survey with Herschel as well as several other investigations of the massive star formation in this region.

Examples of recent results:

Older results, press releases:

IRAC First Light on the Spitzer Space Telescope - 2003/09/03
MIRSI first light at IRTF - 2002/10/30
MIRSI first Light - 2001/12/05
HST imaging of the young planetary nebula NGC 7027
Planetary nebula M 2-9 color image
Proto-planetary nebula AFGL 915 (the ``Red Rectangle'') in the mid-infrared
SL9/Jupiter crash observing:
- 10.3 micron image of Fragment R Impact
- 2.3 micron image of Fragment R impact
- Three-color image of Fragments K, L, and R impacts

More information:

CV - available upon request at address below
Publications
Preprints
Ph. D. Dissertation (1991)

Contact Information

Email:

jhora(at)cfa(dot)harvard(dot)edu

Address:

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, MS/65
60 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138-1516
USA

Phones:

office: (617)496-7548
Fax: (617)495-7490

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