MROI project scientist, Dr. M. Creech-Eakman, is a co-author of a paper, Circumstellar disks and planets. Science cases for next-generation optical/infrared long-baseline interferometers which will appear shortly in the “Astronomy and Astrophysics Review”. The paper details how current optical and infrared interferometers can contribute to theoretical issues associated with the formation and evolution of stars and planets. The data obtained from the interferometers will also help to discriminate among competing models of the processes involved in the evolutionary processes. The paper also details how this work will complement studies taking place at other facilities, such as ALMA and JWST, over the […]

New Mexico Tech undergraduate student,  Kelsey Miller was recently accepted into the Ph.D. program at the College of Optics Sciences at the University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ. Born and raised in Albuquerque, NM, Ms. Miller came to New Mexico Tech as an Astrophysics major at the Physics Department in August 2008 and joined MRO in September 2011. She was a recipient of the NMT Silver Scholarship and is due to finish her B.S. in May 2012. While at MRO Ms. Miller worked on modeling an aberrated atmosphere in ZEMAX and analyzing the output in Matlab. Her results will help inform the design of the MRO countinuous alignment system, BEASST (Back End Active Stabilization […]