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Donald Figer's Degrees
- PhD Physics University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Physics University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Physics University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Donald F. Figer is an American astronomer and a professor in the College of Science of the Rochester Institute of Technology. He is also the director of RIT's Future Photon Initiative, Center for Detectors, and Rochester Imaging Detector Laboratory. His research interests include massive stars, massive star clusters, red supergiants, the Galactic Center, and the development of advanced technologies for astrophysics and a broad range of applications.
Donald Figer's Published Works
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- Design and development of NIRSPEC: a near-infrared echelle spectrograph for the Keck II telescope (1998) (592)
- Hubble Space Telescope/NICMOS Observations of Massive Stellar Clusters near the Galactic Center (1999) (316)
- Massive Stars in the Quintuplet Cluster (1999) (270)
- An upper limit to the masses of stars (2005) (254)
- Massive Stars in the Arches Cluster (2002) (244)
- An Extended Star Formation History for the Galactic Center from Hubble Space Telescope NICMOS Observations (2003) (143)
- A Massive Cluster of Red Supergiants at the Base of the Scutum-Crux Arm (2007) (143)
- The Pistol Star (1998) (138)
- Discovery of an Extraordinarily Massive Cluster of Red Supergiants (2006) (132)
- Performance and results with the NIRSPEC echelle spectrograph on the Keck II telescope (2000) (130)
- The mass function of the Arches cluster from Gemini adaptive optics data (2002) (117)
- HST/NICMOS observations of massive stellar clusters near the galactic center (1999) (109)
- A Survey of Organic Volatile Species in Comet C/1999 H1 (Lee) Using NIRSPEC at the Keck Observatory (2000) (107)
- A K-Band Spectral Atlas of Wolf-Rayet Stars (1997) (98)
- Metallicity in the Galactic Center: The Arches Cluster (2004) (94)
- The Cool Supergiant Population of the Massive Young Star Cluster RSGC1 (2007) (92)
- The Arches Cluster Mass Function (2006) (89)
- METALLICITY IN THE GALACTIC CENTER: THE QUINTUPLET CLUSTER (2008) (82)
- Massive Stars in the SGR 1806–20 Cluster (2005) (79)
- An extraordinary cluster of massive stars near the centre of the Milky Way (1998) (77)
- The Rest-Frame Optical Spectrum of MS 1512–cB58 (2000) (71)
- N-Body Simulations of Compact Young Clusters near the Galactic Center (2000) (70)
- Dynamical Friction on Galactic Center Star Clusters with an Intermediate-Mass Black Hole (2004) (70)
- THE PROGENITOR MASS OF THE MAGNETAR SGR1900+14 (2009) (69)
- Mid-infrared imaging and spectroscopy of the enigmatic cocoon stars in the Quintuplet Cluster (2000) (66)
- A third red supergiant rich cluster in the Scutum-Crux arm (2009) (64)
- CHEMICAL ABUNDANCE PATTERNS IN THE INNER GALAXY: THE SCUTUM RED SUPERGIANT CLUSTERS (2009) (64)
- Infrared diffuse interstellar bands in the Galactic Centre region (2011) (61)
- Two New Wolf-Rayet Stars and a Luminous Blue Variable Star in the Quintuplet (AFGL 2004) Near the Galactic Center (1995) (55)
- THE CHEMICAL ABUNDANCES IN THE GALACTIC CENTER FROM THE ATMOSPHERES OF RED SUPERGIANTS (2008) (53)
- Measurement of [O III] Emission in Lyman-Break Galaxies (2000) (50)
- The G305 star-forming complex: the central star clusters Danks 1 and Danks 2 (2011) (49)
- High-Resolution Infrared Imaging and Spectroscopy of the Pistol Nebula: Evidence for Ejection (1999) (49)
- Pinwheels in the Quintuplet Cluster (2006) (49)
- Infrared Spectroscopy of a Massive Obscured Star Cluster in the Antennae Galaxies (NGC 4038/9) with NIRSPEC (1999) (48)
- The potential of red supergiants as extragalactic abundance probes at low spectral resolution (2010) (43)
- High-Precision Stellar Radial Velocities in the Galactic Center (2003) (41)
- 2 Micron Spectroscopy within 0.″3 of Sagittarius A* (2000) (41)
- H-Band spectroscopic classification of OB stars (1997) (40)
- Polarization of the Thermal Emission from the Dust Ring at the Center of the Galaxy (1993) (40)
- NEAR-INFRARED SPECTRA OF GALACTIC STELLAR CLUSTERS DETECTED ON SPITZER/GLIMPSE IMAGES (2009) (39)
- A Second Luminous Blue Variable in the Quintuplet Cluster (1999) (38)
- A newly discovered young massive star cluster at the far end of the Galactic Bar (2011) (38)
- A new mass-loss rate prescription for red supergiants (2020) (37)
- Polarization of the Far-Infrared Emission from the Thermal Filaments of the Galactic Center Arc (1992) (31)
- The Double-lined Spectrum of LBV 1806–20 (2004) (30)
- High Spectral Resolution Observations of the Massive Stars in the Galactic Center (2005) (30)
- Independent testing of JWST detector prototypes (2004) (29)
- NUCLEAR STAR-FORMING RING OF THE MILKY WAY: SIMULATIONS (2011) (29)
- Discovery of a Young Massive Stellar Cluster near HESS J1813–178 (2008) (29)
- Radio Detections of Stellar Winds from the Pistol Star and Other Stars in the Galactic Center Quintuplet Cluster (1999) (26)
- Massive stars: From Pop III and GRBs to the Milky Way: Massive-star formation in the Galactic center (2008) (26)
- MASSIVE STARS IN THE Cl 1813-178 CLUSTER: AN EPISODE OF MASSIVE STAR FORMATION IN THE W33 COMPLEX (2011) (25)
- UCLA double-beam infrared camera system (1993) (25)
- Near infrared detectors for SNAP (2006) (25)
- Stellar metallicities beyond the Local Group: the potential of J-band spectroscopy with extremely large telescopes (2010) (23)
- NIRSPEC: a near-infrared cross-dispersed echelle spectrograph for the Keck II telescope (1995) (21)
- J-Band Infrared Spectroscopy of a Sample of Brown Dwarfs Using NIRSPEC on Keck II (2000) (20)
- Performance and results with a double-beam infrared camera (1994) (19)
- Near-infrared spectroscopy in NGC 7538 (2010) (18)
- Radial Velocities of Stars in the Galactic Center (2008) (18)
- An updated stellar census of the Quintuplet cluster (2018) (17)
- A Circumstellar H2O Maser Associated with the Circumnuclear Molecular Disk at the Galactic Center? (1995) (17)
- A photon-counting detector for exoplanet missions (2011) (17)
- MASSIVE STARS IN THE W33 GIANT MOLECULAR COMPLEX (2015) (17)
- An infrared ring around the magnetar SGR 1900+14 (2008) (17)
- Study of silicon thickness optimization for LSST (2006) (16)
- HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE/NEAR-INFRARED CAMERA AND MULTI-OBJECT SPECTROMETER OBSERVATIONS OF THE GLIMPSE9 STELLAR CLUSTER (2010) (16)
- Hot Stars and Cool Clouds: The Photodissociation Region M16 (2000) (16)
- Theoretical Isochrones with Extinction in the K Band (2005) (15)
- Massive stars and the creation of our Galactic Center (2002) (13)
- Discovery of an Obscured Broad-Line Region in the High-Redshift Radio Galaxy MRC 2025–218 (2000) (13)
- Near-infrared spectroscopy of candidate red supergiant stars in clusters (2014) (12)
- Development of NIR detectors and science-driven requirements for SNAP (2006) (12)
- First use of a HyViSI H4RG for astronomical observations (2007) (12)
- First detections of FS Canis Majoris stars in clusters. Evolutionary state as constrained by coeval massive stars (2014) (11)
- The LSST sensor technologies studies (2006) (11)
- Emission Lines in the Near-infrared Spectra of the Infrared Quintuplet Stars in the Galactic Center (2017) (9)
- Red Supergiants in the Inner Galaxy: Stellar Properties (2017) (9)
- Large format MBE HgCdTe on silicon detector development for astronomy (2015) (9)
- Massive stars in the giant molecular cloud G23.3−0.3 and W41 (2014) (9)
- Resolved Infrared Spectroscopy of Two High-Redshift Radio Galaxies (2001) (9)
- HST/NICMOS observations of the GLIMPSE9 stellar cluster (2009) (9)
- DISCOVERY OF AN EXTRAORDINARY NUMBER OF RED SUPERGIANTS IN THE INNER GALAXY (2016) (9)
- MULTIWAVELENGTH OBSERVATIONS OF MASSIVE STELLAR CLUSTER CANDIDATES IN THE GALAXY (2012) (8)
- Limits on routine wavefront sensing with NIRCam on JWST (2004) (8)
- Fully digital image sensor employing delta-sigma indirect feedback ADC with high-sensitivity to low-light illuminations for astronomical imaging applications (2010) (8)
- Young Massive Clusters (2007) (8)
- Probing Dark Energy via Weak Gravitational Lensing with the Supernova Acceleration Probe (SNAP) (2005) (8)
- The Age of Westerlund 1 Revisited (2021) (7)
- Comparing the low-temperature performance of megapixel NIR InGaAs and HgCdTe imager arrays (2007) (7)
- The Altitude of an Infrared-bright Cloud Feature on Neptune from Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (2001) (6)
- Independent Testing of Silicon PIN Detector Arrays for LSST (2004) (6)
- NAOS-CONICA performance in a crowded field – the Arches cluster (2003) (6)
- Supernova Acceleration Probe: Studying Dark Energy with Type Ia Supernovae (2005) (6)
- Cryogenic performance of the NIRSPEC three-mirror anastigmat (1998) (6)
- Independent detector testing laboratory and the NGST detector characterization project (2003) (5)
- Seeing the Nature of the Accelerating Physics: It's a SNAP (2005) (5)
- Probing the Dragonfish star-forming complex: the ionizing population of the young massive cluster Mercer 30 (2016) (5)
- NIRCAM image simulations for NGST wavefront sensing (2003) (5)
- A NEAR-INFRARED STUDY OF THE STELLAR CLUSTER: [DBS2003] 45 (2009) (5)
- Filters for HST Wide Field Camera 3 (2006) (4)
- Spitzer space telescope observations of SGR and AXP environments (2007) (4)
- Characteristics of the Hubble Space Telescope's radiation environment inferred from charge-collection modeling of Near-Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer dark frames (2002) (4)
- Characterization of NIR InGaAs imager arrays for the JDEM SNAP mission concept (2006) (4)
- New Infrared Spectral Indices of Luminous Cold Stars: From Early K to M Types (2021) (4)
- A Search for Emission-Line Stars Near the Galactic Center (1995) (4)
- Enabling the next generation of scientific discoveries by embracing photonic technologies (2019) (4)
- FLITECAM: a 1- to 5-μm camera for testing the performance of SOFIA (1998) (4)
- Astrophysics: Monster star found hiding in plain sight (2014) (3)
- Detections of Massive Stars in the Cluster MCM2005b77, in the Star-forming Regions GRS G331.34−00.36 (S62) and GRS G337.92−00.48 (S36) (2018) (3)
- Intra-pixel sensitivity in NIR detectors for NGST (2003) (3)
- Ultra-Low Background Operation of Near-Infrared Detectors Using Reference Pixels for NGST (2003) (3)
- NIRSPEC observations of the galactic center (2000) (3)
- Hybridization of a sigma-delta-based CMOS hybrid detector (2010) (2)
- GM-APD imaging arrays for direct imaging of exoplanets (2015) (2)
- Infrared surveys of Galactic star clusters (2009) (2)
- 2.2. The stellar content of the Quintuplet cluster (1998) (2)
- Silicon single photon imaging detectors (2011) (2)
- Design study for the WIYN high-resolution infrared camera (2004) (2)
- Telescope guiding with a HyViSI H2RG used in guide mode (2009) (2)
- Spectroscopy of the Pistol and Quintuplet Stars in the Galactic Centre (1998) (2)
- Hot Stars in the Quintuplet (1996) (2)
- Test Results for an Array-Based GM-APD Detector Before and After Irradiation (2014) (2)
- Evaluation of GM-APD array devices for low-light-level imaging (2014) (2)
- HgCdTe detectors grown on silicon substrates for observational astronomy (2018) (2)
- Characterization of a Single Photon Sensing Detector for Astrophysics (2020) (2)
- The Massive stellar Population at the Galactic Center (2016) (1)
- Starburst clusters in galactic nuclei (2000) (1)
- NIRCAM Image Simulations for JWST (2002) (1)
- INTEGRAL-ISGRI observations of the CygOB 2 region : searching for hard X-ray point sources in a region containing several non-thermal emitting massive stars (2007) (1)
- Massive Stars in Molecular Clouds Rich in High-energy Sources: The Bridge of G332.809–0.132 and CS 78 in NGC 6334 (2020) (1)
- Erratum: “Discovery of an Extraordinarily Massive Cluster of Red Supergiants” (ApJ, 643, 1166 [2006]) (2006) (1)
- Young Massive Clusters in the Galactic Center (2004) (1)
- THE STELLAR INITIAL MASS FUNCTION IN THE GALACTIC CENTER (2004) (1)
- Hunting For Massive Late-Type Stars In The Inner Disk Of The Milky Way (2016) (1)
- Detection of ethane, methane, OH and other volatile species in Comet C/1999 H1 (Lee) with NIRSPEC at the Keck Observatory. (1999) (1)
- Discovery and spectroscopic study of the massive Galactic cluster Mercer 81 (2012) (1)
- Dynamical Friciton near the Galactic Center (2003) (1)
- Characterization of single-photon sensing and photon-number resolving CMOS image sensors (2022) (1)
- Characterization of a ΣΔ-based CMOS monolithic detector (2010) (1)
- Erratum: “High-Precision Stellar Radial Velocities in the Galactic Center” (ApJ, 599, 1139 [2003]) (2004) (1)
- Future Detectors for Astrophotonics (2010) (1)
- Second Generation IR Detectors for the Wide Field Camera 3 (2006) (1)
- Characterization of a Large Format HgCdTe on Si Focal Plane Array (2013) (1)
- The Initial Mass Function in the Galactic Center (2000) (1)
- Keck LGS/AO Observations of the Arches Cluster (2007) (1)
- Discovery of Luminous NIR Sources Associated With Ionized Gas Near the Galactic Center (1994) (1)
- Stellar Collisions and Mergers in the Galactic Center (2000) (1)
- JPL Document D-66493 TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT FOR EXOPLANET MISSIONS Technology Milestone Whitepaper A Photon-Counting Detector for Exoplanet Missions (2011) (1)
- Blowing a carbon-rich bubble in the Galactic Centre medium around the Quintuplet (1999) (1)
- NIRSPEC brown dwarf spectroscopic survey (2000) (1)
- Increasing the Sample of Galactic Red Supergiants (2018) (0)
- Stellar Age Distribution at the Central Few Parsecs of Our Galaxy (2003) (0)
- IRMOS Spectroscopy of Candidate Massive Star Clusters (2007) (0)
- 7.2. 12.5 μ imaging of Sgr A West with the Keck Telescope (1998) (0)
- The Stellar Populations of the Milky Way and Nearby Galaxies with LSST (2011) (0)
- A new sample of red supergiants in the Inner Galaxy (2016) (0)
- A 22 GHz maser near the Galactic Center. (1994) (0)
- Phase 2 of Comparative NIR Detector Characterization for NGST (2005) (0)
- The nature of GLIMPSE 81: a star cluster to rival Westerlund 1? (2009) (0)
- Results of WFC3 Thermal Vacuum (2005) (0)
- The SATIN infrared detector development program and the road to HELLSTAR (2022) (0)
- Metallicity in the Quintuplet Cluster and the Galactic Center: Evidence for a top-heavy star formation history? (2012) (0)
- Improved Infrared Focal Plane Arrays for HST/Wide Field Camera 3 (2005) (0)
- Young Massive Clusters/Associations in the GMC G23.3-0.3 (2014) (0)
- VizieR Online Data Catalog: Observed red supergiants in the inner Galaxy (Messineo+, 2016) (2018) (0)
- A Low Progenitor Mass for the Magnetar SGR1900+14 (2009) (0)
- Evaluating detector requirements for the next UV/O/IR flagship observatory (2022) (0)
- Super-star clusters in the Galactic Center as revealed by HST-NICMOS (1999) (0)
- Metallicity studies of the Galactic center: evidence for a top-heavy star formation history? (2013) (0)
- Dynamical Evolution of Compact Young Clusters near the Galactic Center (1998) (0)
- Characterization Tests of WFC3 Filters (2006) (0)
- Metal abundances in the Galactic Center (1999) (0)
- Evolved massive stars in W33 and in GMC G23.3 − 0.3 (2015) (0)
- ANUBIS - A Probe-Class UVO Space Observatory (AstroNomical Uv proBe Imager & Spectrograph) (2019) (0)
- Nonlinear Reddening Behavior in the Near-Infrared Color-Magnitude Diagram (2005) (0)
- Upper mass-loss limits and clumping in the intermediate and outer wind regions of OB stars (2021) (0)
- The Massive Star Population at the Center of the Milky Way (2014) (0)
- Ju l 2 00 5 Probing Dark Energy via Weak Gravitational Lensing with the SuperNova Acceleration Probe ( SNAP ) A White Paper to the Dark Energy Task Force (2019) (0)
- Centroid precision as a function of total counts in a windowed CMOS image of a point source (2010) (0)
- Ultra wide‐field infrared astronomy in Antarctica (2023) (0)
- The WR population in the Galactic Center (2015) (0)
- Secular Evolution of Nuclear Bulges through Sustained Star Formation (2010) (0)
- Characterization Tests of WFC 3 Filters (2006) (0)
- Performance of NIR InGaAs imager arrays for science applications (2007) (0)
- The nature of FS CMa stars as revealed by host young clusters (2015) (0)
- Detectors for the JWST Near-Infrared Spectrometer (2004) (0)
- ANUBIS - A Probe-Class UVO Space Observatory (2019) (0)
- A New VIS/IR Detector for NASA Missions (2011) (0)
- Young Massive Stellar Clusters in the Milky Way: the Cl1813-178 and GLIMPSE 9 Clusters (2012) (0)
- Comparative NIR Detector Characterization for NGST (2004) (0)
- VizieR Online Data Catalog: Massive stars in two giant molecular clouds (Messineo+, 2014) (2014) (0)
- MASS DISTRIBUTION IN THE CENTRAL FEW PARSECS OF OUR GALAXY[Author's correction] (2009) (0)
- An Extraordinary Cluster of Massive Young Stars in the Milky Way's Nucleus (1998) (0)
- Reinvigorating the Astrophysics Sounding Rocket Program: Strategic Investment in the Future of Space Astronomy (2009) (0)
- D-93392 TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT FOR EXOPLANET MISSIONS Technology Milestone Report A Photon-Counting Detector for Exoplanet Missions (2014) (0)
- The Progenitors of Neutron Stars & Magnetars (2010) (0)
- A Superbubble Surrounding the Quintuplet at the Galactic Center (1998) (0)
- Massive Binaries in the Galactic Center (2007) (0)
- K-band spectroscopy of an obscured massive stellar cluster in the Antennae galaxies (NGC 4038/4039) with NIRSPEC (2000) (0)
- Wavefront error budget and optomechanical tolerancing for NIRSPEC (1998) (0)
- The new infrared diffuse interstellar bands in the Galactic center (2013) (0)
- High Precision Stellar Velocity Measurements in the Galactic Center (2001) (0)
- ERRATUM: “MASS DISTRIBUTION IN THE CENTRAL FEW PARSECS OF OUR GALAXY” (JKAS, 42, 17, [2009]) (2009) (0)
- 2 µm Spectroscopy within 0. ′ ′ ∗ 1 (2000) (0)
- The LSST Sensor Development Program (2005) (0)
- Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy of the Most Massive Stars (2004) (0)
- The Pistol Star: A Supergiant Among Its Ponderous Peers (1999) (0)
- A ug 2 00 6 Pinwheels in the Quintuplet Cluster (2006) (0)
- Ju l 2 00 5 Supernova Acceleration Probe : Studying Dark Energy with Type Ia Supernovae A White Paper to the Dark Energy Task Force (2022) (0)
- N-Body Simulations of Compact Young Star Clusters near the Galactic Center (2001) (0)
- Infrared Spectroscopy of the High Redshift Radio Galaxy MRC~2025-218 and a Neighboring Extremely Red Galaxy (1999) (0)
- Radiation tolerance of a Geiger-mode avalanche photodiode imaging array (2016) (0)
- What makes a Neutron Star a Magnetar (2005) (0)
- CRDIR : Cosmic Ray Damaged Image Repair for DSLR Cameras Primary (2017) (0)
- Supporting Online Material for Pinwheels in the Quintuplet Cluster (2006) (0)
- Herschel/PACS: Constraining clumping in the intermediate wind region of OB stars (2014) (0)
- 2 micron Spectroscopy within 0.3 arcseconds of SgrA (2000) (0)
- A New Candidate Luminous Blue Variable (2020) (0)
- Starburst Clusters in Galactic Nuclei (Invited) (2002) (0)
- Far-Infrared Herschel-PACS flux observations of OB stars (2013) (0)
- Star Formation in the Central Molecular Zone of the Milky Way (2010) (0)
- Optical Properties of Blocking Glass in the WFC3 IR Channel (2005) (0)
- Infrared Imaging of the Arches Cluster - Adaptive Optics in the Densest Region of the Milky Way (2002) (0)
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