UCSD Astrophysics Research

Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences (CASS) Most astrophysics and space physics at UCSD is carried out within the Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences (CASS) an organized research unit consisting of faculty from the Departments of Physics, Chemistry (Cosmochemistry), and Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE - Radio Astronomy and Space Plasma Physics).

Astrophysics Research Groups

Radio Astrophysics

• Pulsars & Interplanetary Scintillation
• VLBI Imaging of Luminous IR Galaxies & Megamaser Systems

Infrared Astrophysics

• Infrared imaging of dust in galaxies, star-forming regions, and comets
• Keck Long Wavelength Spectrometer - (LWS)
• Mt. Lemmon Observing Facility (U.Minnesota/UCSD)

Ultraviolet and Optical Astrophysics

• Quasi-Stellar Objects, Active Galaxies and Luminous Infrared Galaxies
• Lyman alpha forest
• Damped Lyman alpha absorption systems: Galaxy Formation
• Hubble Space Telescope instruments: FOS and GHRS
• MACHOs

High Energy Astrophysics

• High Resolution Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy - (HIREGS)
• BATSE Gamma Burst Detectors on the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory - (GRO)
• High Energy X-Ray Timing Experiment - (HEXTE)

Theoretical Astrophysics

• High Energy Astrophysics
• Galaxies and Cosmology
• Dark Matter
• Early Universe Nucleosynthesis
• Fundamental Processes in Astrophysics
• Gravitational Astrophysics

Solar System and Space Physics:

• Solar and Heliospheric Physics
• Solar System
• Space Physics
• Cosmochemistry

Astrophysics and Space Physics Faculty

• Geoffrey Burbidge (Professor) - Extragalactic Astrophysics and Cosmology Theory
• Margaret Burbidge (Emeritus) - Optical Astronomy/HST Faint Object Spectrograph
• Patrick Diamond (Professor) - Theoretical Plasma Physics/Astrophysics
• George Fuller (Professor) - Theoretical Nuclear/Particle Astrophysics
• Robert J. Gould (Emeritus) - Theoretical Astrophysics/Astrophysical Processes
• Kim Griest (Professor) - Theoretical Particle Astrophysics/MACHO Project
• Barbara Jones (Professor) - Infrared Instrumentation/Infrared Extragalactic Astrophysics
• Carl McIlwain (Emeritus) - Magnetospheric Physics
• Thomas Murphy (Professor) - Gravitational Astrophysics
• Laurence E. Peterson (Emeritus) - High-Energy Astrophysics; Director CASS
• Sally Ride (Professor) - Space Plasma Physics; Director CalSpace
• Harding E. Smith (Professor) - Observational Extragalactic Astrophysics/Cosmology
• David Tytler (Professor) - Extragalactic Astrophysics/Planetary Formation and Detection
• Arthur M. Wolfe (Professor) - Obs/Theor. Extragalactic Astrophysics and Cosmology

Related Astrophysics/Space Physics Links

• Astronomy and Physics Education
• CalSpace California Space Institute

Last Updated 20 January, 1999

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