Abstract: The Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) discovered gravitational waves (GWs) from a binary black…
Author: New NASA STI
Optics of Balloon Experimental Twin Telescope for Infrared Interferometry (BETTII): Delay Lines and Alignment
Abstract: We present the optics of Balloon Experimental Twin Telescope for Infrared Interferometry (BETTII) as it…
Final Summary of On-Orbit ADR Operation on Hitomis Soft X-Ray Spectrometer Instrument
Abstract: The Soft X-ray Spectrometer (SXS) on the Astro-H observatory contains a 6x6 array of x-ray…
NuSTAR Observations of WISE J1036+0449, A Galaxy at zeta approx 1 Obscured by Hot Dust
Abstract: Hot dust-obscured galaxies (hot DOGs), selected from Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer's all-sky infrared survey, host…
Exploring Damped Ly Alpha System Host Galaxies Using Gamma-Ray Bursts
Abstract: We present a sample of 45 Damped Ly-Alpha system [DLA; H I-N is greater than…
Thermochemistry of Calcium-Magnesium-Aluminum-Silicate (CMAS) and Components of Advanced Thermal and Environmental Barrier Coating Systems
Abstract: There is increasing interest in the degradation mechanism studies of thermal and environmental barrier coatings…
Cryogenic Thermal Conductivity Measurements on Candidate Materials for Space Missions
Abstract: Spacecraft and instruments on space missions are built using a wide variety of carefully-chosen materials.…
Cooling the Origins Space Telescope
Abstract: The NASA Astrophysics Division has commissioned 4 studies for consideration by the 2020 Decadal Survey…
An Application Programming Interface for Synthetic Snowflake Particle Structure and Scattering Data
Abstract: The work by Kuo and colleagues on growing synthetic snowflakes and calculating their single-scattering properties…
Partially Turboelectric Aircraft Drive Key Performance Parameters
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to propose electric drive specific power, electric drive efficiency,…