JAMES C. GREEN

Position: Professor Office: ARL E132 Phone: 303-492-7645 FAX: 303-492-5941 Email: james.green@colorado.edu

Teaching Interests:

• ASTR 5760-001 Astrophysical Instrumentation (spring 2003)
• Introduction to Space Astronomy
• Topics in Stars and Galaxies

Research Interests:

• Design and leadership of Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) proposal effort recently selected for the 2009 reservicing mission.
• Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer. Development of current optical design of FUSE which includes design, assembly, alignment and calibration of FUSE spectrograph.
• Ultraviolet sounding rocket program.
• Planetary sounding rocket program with observations of comet Hale-Bopp.
• Astrophysical interest: interstellar medium, hot stars, cosmology.
• Technical Development: Grazing incidence optics, microchannel plate detectors, UV, EUV, and X-ray gratings, spectroscopic instrument design.

  See APS Faculty Research Interests for additional research interest information. Scroll down to Dr. Green's individual listing.

Recent Publications (2006 - 2009):

• Froning, C. and Green, J. 2009, "The Cosmic Origins Spectrograph: Capabilities and Prelaunch Performance", Astrophys. and Space Sci., 320, 181-185.


• Finkelstein, S., Morse, J., Green, J., Linsky, J., Shull, M., Snow, T., Stocke, J., Brownsberger, K., Ebbets, D., Wilkinson, E., Heap, S., Leitherer, C., Savage, B., Siegmund, O., and Stern, A. 2006, "Optical Structure and Proper-Motion Age of the Oxygen-Rich Supernova Remnant 1E 0102-7219 in the Small Magellanic Cloud", Ap.J., 641, 919-929.
  

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