From CASS

Research Groups

CASS activities are generally organized by research group, consisting of faculty, research staff, graduate students, and support staff who study a common scientific theme or use a common facility. To facilitate cross-group interaction, most groups are located continguously.

Observational Astrophysics

• Gravitational Astrophysics: Testing General Relativity via Lunar Laser Ranging
• Radio Astrophysics: Pulsars & Interplanetary Scintillation
• VLBI Imaging of Luminous IR Galaxies & Megamaser Systems
• Infrared Astronomy: Infrared imaging of dust in galaxies, star-forming regions, and comets

Ultraviolet and Optical Astrophysics:

• Quasi-Stellar Objects, Active Galaxies and Luminous Infrared Galaxies
• Lyman alpha forest
• Damped Lyman alpha absorption systems: Studying Galaxy Formation at z~3.
• Hubble Space Telescope instruments: FOS and GHRS
• MACHOs: Finding Dark Matter.
• Redshift Surveys
• Large-Scale Structure

High Energy Astronomy

• High Energy Instrument Development and Science:
  • High Resolution Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy - HIREGS
  • Burst and Transient Source Experiment -BATSE
  • High Energy X-Ray Timing Experiment - HEXTE
• High Energy Astrophysics Group

Observational Cosmology:

• Observational Cosmology Group
  • Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization - BICEP
  • Polarization of Background Radiation - POLARBEAR
  • Cosmic Infrared Background Experiment - CIBER

Theoretical Astrophysics:

• Galaxies and Cosmology
• Dark Matter
• Early Universe Nucleosynthesis
• Fundamental Processes in Astrophysics
• Gyrokinetic Particle Simulation of Turbulent Transport in Burning Plasmas (GPS-TTBP)
• Plasma Theory Group

Solar System and Space Physics:

• Solar and Heliospheric Physics
• Solar System
• Space Physics
• Cosmochemistry