Russell G. Walker
Monterey Institute for Research in Astronomy
57 Papers
514 Citations
Russell G. Walker is an academic researcher from Monterey Institute for Research in Astronomy. The author has contributed to research in topics: Comet & Infrared astronomy. The author has an hindex of 25, co-authored 57 publications.
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The wide-field infrared survey explorer (wise): mission description and initial on-orbit performance
Edward L. Wright,Peter Eisenhardt,Amy Mainzer,Michael E. Ressler,Roc M. Cutri,Thomas H. Jarrett,J. Davy Kirkpatrick,Deborah L. Padgett,Robert S. McMillan,Michael F. Skrutskie,Spencer A. Stanford,Spencer A. Stanford,Martin Cohen,Russell G. Walker,John C. Mather,David Leisawitz,Thomas N. Gautier,Ian S. McLean,Dominic J. Benford,Carol J. Lonsdale,Andrew Blain,B. Mendez,William R. Irace,Valerie G. Duval,Fengchuan Liu,Don Royer,I. Heinrichsen,Joan Howard,Mark A. Shannon,Martha Kendall,Amy L. Walsh,Mark F. Larsen,Joel Cardon,Scott Schick,Mark Schwalm,Mohamed Abid,Beth Fabinsky,Larry Naes,Chao-Wei Tsai +38 more
- 01 Dec 2010
TL;DR: The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) is mapping the whole sky following its launch on 14 December 2009 and completed its first full coverage of the sky on July 17 as discussed by the authors.
The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE): Mission Description and Initial On-orbit Performance
Edward L. Wright,Peter Eisenhardt,Amy Mainzer,Michael E. Ressler,Roc M. Cutri,Thomas H. Jarrett,J. Davy Kirkpatrick,Deborah L. Padgett,Robert S. McMillan,Michael F. Skrutskie,Spencer A. Stanford,Spencer A. Stanford,Martin Cohen,Russell G. Walker,John C. Mather,David Leisawitz,Thomas N. Gautier,Ian S. McLean,Dominic J. Benford,Carol J. Lonsdale,Andrew Blain,B. Mendez,William R. Irace,Valerie G. Duval,Fengchuan Liu,Don Royer,I. Heinrichsen,Joan Howard,Mark A. Shannon,Martha Kendall,Amy L. Walsh,Mark F. Larsen,Joel Cardon,Scott Schick,Mark Schwalm,Mohamed Abid,Beth Fabinsky,Larry Naes,Chao-Wei Tsai +38 more
TL;DR: The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) as discussed by the authors is mapping the whole sky following its launch on 14 December 2009 and completed its first full coverage of the sky on July 17.
The Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) mission
G. Neugebauer,H. J. Habing,R. J. van Duinen,H. H. Aumann,B. Baud,Charles Beichman,D. A. Beintema,N. Boggess,P. E. Clegg,T. de Jong,J. P. Emerson,T. N. Gautier,F. C. Gillett,S. Harris,M. G. Hauser,J. R. Houck,R. E. Jennings,F. J. Low,P. L. Marsden,George K. Miley,F. M. Olnon,Stuart Pottasch,E. Raimond,M. Rowan-Robinson,B. T. Soifer,Russell G. Walker,P. R. Wesselius,Erick T. Young +27 more
TL;DR: The Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) as discussed by the authors consists of a spacecraft and a liquid helium cryostat that contains a cooled IR telescope, whose focal plane assembly is cooled to less than 3 K, and contains 62 IR detectors in the survey array.
Neowise observations of near-earth objects: preliminary results
Amy Mainzer,Tommy Grav,James M. Bauer,Joseph Masiero,Robert S. McMillan,Roc M. Cutri,Russell G. Walker,Edward L. Wright,Peter Eisenhardt,David J. Tholen,Timothy Spahr,Robert Jedicke,Larry Denneau,E. DeBaun,D. Elsbury,Thomas Gautier,S. Gomillion,E. Hand,W. Mo,J. A. Watkins,A. Wilkins,G. Bryngelson,A. Del Pino Molina,Shantanu Desai,M. Go'mez Camus,Sebastian L. Hidalgo,I. S. Konstantopoulos,Jeffrey A. Larsen,C. Maleszewski,M. A. Malkan,J. C. Mauduit,B. Mullan,Edward W. Olszewski,Janine Pforr,A. Saro,James V. Scotti,Lawrence H. Wasserman +36 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors carried out a highly uniform survey of the near-Earth object (NEO) population at thermal infrared wavelengths ranging from 3 to 22 μm, allowing them to refine estimates of their numbers, sizes, and albedos.
Spectral irradiance calibration in the infrared .1. ground-based and iras broad-band calibrations
Martin Cohen,Russell G. Walker,M. J. Barlow,Deacon +3 more
- 01 Oct 1992
TL;DR: In this article, an absolute calibration of infrared broad and narrow filters for Sirius and Vega was presented and used as a basis to offer a new absolute calibrator for infrared broad filters.
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