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Paul Strycker

Research Assistant
Entered: 2005
Office: 107 Astronomy
Phone: (575)646-4834
Fax: (575)646-1602
 
E-mail: strycker
(append "@nmsu.edu")
 
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B.S. University of Notre Dame, 2005

Research

I am currently working with my advisor Nancy Chanover on Jovian chromophores.

Despite many decades of ground-based, space-based, and in situ observations of Jupiter's atmosphere, the chemical agent(s) responsible for the varying colors seen in visible images of Jupiter remain unidentified. Spatially resolved high spectral resolution observations are needed to isolate different colored regions on the planet in order to identify these chromophores.

Observations

Observatories and Telescopes
               Apache Point Observatory (APO) 3.5-meter telescope
               Maui Space Surveillance System (MSSS) Advanced Electro Optical System (AEOS) 3.67-meter telescope

Instruments
               Astrophysical Research Consortium Echelle Spectrograph (ARCES) at APO
               NMSU Acousto-optic Imaging Camera (NAIC)

Campaigns
               April 2006 -- ARCES spectra of Jupiter (2 half-nights)
               July 2006 -- ARCES spectra of Jupiter (2 half-nights; Michael Sussman observing)
               February 2007 -- ARCES spectra of Jupiter and Saturn (5 half-nights; Michael Sussman observing)
               February 2007 -- AEOS NAIC spectral image cubes of Jupiter and Saturn (4 full nights)
               June 2007 -- APO NAIC spectral image cubes of Jupiter (6 half-nights)

Meetings

October 2006: Division for Planetary Sciences meeting, A Spectroscopic Search for Jupiter's Chromophores
Strycker, P. D.; Chanover, N. J.; Sussman, M.; Simon-Miller, A. A.
      poster -- PDF -- PS

November 2007: Workshop on Planetary Atmospheres, Hyperspectral Imaging of Jupiter and Saturn
Strycker, P. D.; Chanover, N. J.; Voelz, D. G.; Simon-Miller, A. A.
      abstract -- PDF -- PS
      poster -- PDF -- PS -- PPT




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