Dr. Michelle Creech-Eakman has been working for years on a project of astronomical proportions and she recently gave a TEDxABQ talk to a packed Popejoy Hall at University of New Mexico (UNM) in Albuquerque about this ambitious project and its unmatched capabilities. Dr. Creech-Eakman’s talk, “The Magdalena Ridge Observatory houses technology that will change our understanding of the universe”, described the array of ten telescopes that is being constructed on Magdalena Ridge. Creech-Eakman is Chair of the Physics Department at New Mexico Tech (NMT) and Project Scientist for the Magdalena Ridge Observatory Interferometer (MROI). TED, a prestigious national nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading was created in […]

On June 28, 2013  the first delay line trolley, built by the Cavendish Laboratory team at Cambridge University arrived in Socorro, NM for site acceptance verification tests and installation at the Observatory on Magdalena Ridge. The arrival of the trolley is a major milestone for the project because the Delay Line System is one of the essential subsystems of the Interferometer. As part of the beam train system, the delay line is responsible for correcting path delay between telescopes due to the different locations of the telescopes and from atmospheric turbulence. Such corrections are difficult to make as they must be done precisely and in real time. Following delivery from the University of Cambridge the trolley has been […]

Dr. Ifan Payne and Dr. Michelle Creech-Eakman are co-chairs of the Imaging of Objects in Space session at the IEEE Aerospace Conference being held in Big Sky, Montana, March 1 – 7, 2014. The session forms part of Track 5. Electro-Optics, Photonics, and Observation Systems. The session is aimed at those in the astronomy community concerned with imaging across a wide range of techniques: “This Session provides a forum for state of the art imaging of objects in space (both natural and man-made) using optical, infrared, and radio, radar techniques; single and multiple apertures, active and passive imaging; and ground-based […]