Tod R. Lauer
| Tod R. Lauer | |
|---|---|
| Born |
1957 Ohio |
| Residence | Arizona, United States |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Nationality | USA |
| Fields | Astronomy |
| Institutions |
NOAO Princeton University |
| Alma mater |
Caltech UC Santa Cruz |
| Notable awards | NASA Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement (1992) |
Tod R. Lauer is an American astronomer on the research staff of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory. He was a member of the Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field and Planetary Camera team, and is a founding member of the Nuker Team. His research interests includes observational searches for massive black holes[1] in the centers of galaxies, the structure of elliptical galaxies, stellar populations, large-scale structure of the universe, and astronomical image processing.[2] He was the Principal Investigator of the Destiny JDEM concept study,[3] one of the precursors to the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope mission. Asteroid 3135 Lauer is named for him. He appears in an episode of the documentary series Naked Science.[4]
References
- ↑ Lauer, T. R. et al. 2007, Astrophysical Journal v.662, pp. 808-834; "The Masses of Nuclear Black Holes in Luminous Elliptical Galaxies and Implications for the Space Density of the Most Massive Black Holes"
- ↑ Lauer, T. R. 1999, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific v.111, pp. 227-237; "Combining Undersampled Dithered Images"
- ↑ Benford, D. J. & T. R. Lauer 2006, Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 6265, pp. 626528 "Destiny: a candidate architecture for the Joint Dark Energy Mission"
- ↑ "IMDB Entry for Naked Science episode #78, 'Hubble's Amazing Universe'".