Accelerated Aging and Solderability Testing of Printed Wiring Boards, (9999)
Wooldridge,James R., Mather,John C.
There is presently much industry activity related to solderability testing. Test methods, test parameters, and accelerated aging conditions are among the items being studied. But the bulk of the...
REPORT OF THE DARK ENERGY TASK FORCE (2008)
Andreas Albrecht, Wendy L. Freedman, Carnegie Observatories, John Huth, John C. Mather, Goddard Space
Dark energy appears to be the dominant component of the physical Universe, yet there is no persuasive theoretical explanation for its existence or magnitude. The acceleration of the Universe is,...
Ipatov, Sergei I., Kutyrev, Alexander S., Madsen, Greg J., Mather, John C., Moseley, S. Harvey, Reynolds, Ronald J.
The simulated Doppler shifts of the solar Mg I Fraunhofer line produced by scattering on the solar light by asteroidal, cometary, and trans-Neptunian dust particles are compared with the shifts...
Report of the Dark Energy Task Force (2006)
Albrecht, Andreas, Bernstein, Gary, Cahn, Robert, Freedman, Wendy L., Hewitt, Jacqueline, Hu, Wayne, ...
Dark energy appears to be the dominant component of the physical Universe, yet there is no persuasive theoretical explanation for its existence or magnitude. The acceleration of the Universe is,...
The James Webb Space Telescope (2006)
Gardner, Jonathan P., Mather, John C., Clampin, Mark, Doyon, Rene, Greenhouse, Matthew A., Hammel, Heidi B., ...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large (6.6m), cold (50K), infrared-optimized space observatory that will be launched early in the next decade. The observatory will have four instruments: a...
Science with the James Webb space telescope (2006)
Gardner, Jonathan P., Mather, John C., Clampin, Mark, Doyon, Rene, Greenhouse, Matthew A., Hammel, Heidi B., ...
The scientific capabilities of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) fall into four themes. The End of the Dark Ages: First Light and Reionization theme seeks to identify the first luminous sources...
Mission Concept for the Single Aperture Far-Infrared (SAFIR) Observatory (2005)
Benford, Dominic J., Amato, Michael J., Mather, John C., Moseley, S. Harvey, Leisawitz, David T.
The Single Aperture Far-InfraRed (SAFIR) Observatory's science goals are driven by the fact that the earliest stages of almost all phenomena in the universe are shrouded in absorption by and emission...
Does the Lunar Surface Still Offer Value As a Site for Astronomical Observatories? (2004)
Lester, Daniel F., Yorke, Harold W., Mather, John C.
Current thinking about the Moon as a destination has revitalized interest in lunar astronomical observatories. Once seen by a large scientific community as a highly enabling site, the dramatic...
The Wide Field Imaging Interferometry Testbed (2001)
Zhang, Xiaolei, Feinberg, Lee, Leisawitz, Dave, Leviton, Douglas B., Martino, Anthony J., Mather, John C.
We are developing a Wide-Field Imaging Interferometry Testbed (WIIT) in support of design studies for NASA's future space interferometry missions, in particular the SPIRIT and SPECS...
Signatures of exosolar planets in dust debris disks (2000)
Ozernoy, Leonid M., Gorkavyi, Nick N., Mather, John C., Taidakova, Tanya
We apply our recently elaborated, powerful numerical approach to the high-resolution modeling of the structure and emission of circumstellar dust disks, incorporating all relevant physical processes....
Distribution of dust from Kuiper belt objects (2000)
Gorkavyi, Nick N., Ozernoy, Leonid M., Taidakova, Tanya, Mather, John C.
(Abridged) Using an efficient computational approach, we have reconstructed the structure of the dust cloud in the Solar system between 0.5 and 100 AU produced by the Kuiper belt objects. Our...
Gorkavyi, Nick N., Ozernoy, Leonid M., Mather, John C., Heap, Sara R.
We have applied a powerful numerical approach to compute, with a high resolution, the structure of dusty circumstellar disks with embedded planets. We emphasize some testable implications of our...
The Submillimeter Frontier: A Space Science Imperative (1998)
Mather, John C., Moseley, S. Harvey, Leisawitz, David, Dwek, Eli, Hacking, Perry, ...
A major goal of modern astrophysics is to understand the processes by which the universe evolved from its initial simplicity, as seen in measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background, to the...
NASA's Next Generation Space Telescope:Visiting a Time When Galaxies Were Young (1998)
Seery, Bernard D., Smith, Eric P., Mather, John C.
With the discovery of galaxies that existed when the universe was very young (approximately 5 percent of its current age), of planets not in our own solar system, and with the tantalizing evidence...
Far infrared spectrometry of the cosmic background radiation. (1974)
Thesis (Ph. D. in Physics)--Univ. of California, Berkeley, June 1974.