Stuart McMuldroch
Wilmington University
5 Papers
3 Citations
Stuart McMuldroch is an academic researcher from Wilmington University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Pluto & Dark current. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 5 publications.
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Ralph: A Visible/Infrared Imager for the New Horizons Pluto/Kuiper Belt Mission
Dennis C. Reuter,S. Alan Stern,John Scherrer,Donald E. Jennings,James W. Baer,John J. Hanley,Lisa Hardaway,Allen Lunsford,Stuart McMuldroch,Jeffrey M. Moore,Catherine B. Olkin,Robert Parizek,Harold Reitsma,Derek Sabatke,John R. Spencer,John Stone,Henry B. Throop,Jeffrey E. Van Cleve,G. Weigle,Leslie A. Young +19 more
TL;DR: The New Horizons instrument named Ralph is a visible/near infrared multi-spectral imager and a short-wavelength infrared spectral imager as discussed by the authors, which is one of the core instruments on New Horizons, NASA's first mission to the Pluto/Charon system and the Kuiper Belt.
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Space telescope focal planes: history and future technology directions
TL;DR: The capabilities and performance of focal plane subsystems used in astronomical space telescopes have increased significantly over the last 45 years as mentioned in this paper, and significant gains have been made in format size, sensitivity, and spectral range coverage.
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Ralph: A Visible/Infrared Imager for the New Horizons Pluto/Kuiper Belt Mission
Dennis C. Reuter,S. Alan Stern,John Scherrer,Donald E. Jennings,James W. Baer,John J. Hanley,Lisa Hardaway,Allen Lunsford,Stuart McMuldroch,Jeffrey M. Moore,Catherine B. Olkin,Robert Parizek,Harold Reitsma,Derek Sabatke,John R. Spencer,John Stone,Henry B. Throop,Jeffrey E. Van Cleve,G. Weigle,Leslie A. Young +19 more
TL;DR: The New Horizons instrument named Ralph is a visible/near infrared multi-spectral imager and a short-wavelength infrared spectral imager as discussed by the authors, which is one of the core instruments on New Horizons, NASA's first mission to the Pluto/Charon system and the Kuiper Belt.
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2Kx2K molecular beam epitaxy HgCdTe detectors for the James Webb Space Telescope NIRCam instrument
James D. Garnett,Mark Farris,Selmer Wong,M. Zandian,Donald N. B. Hall,Shane Jacobson,Gerard Anthony Luppino,Susan Parker,David A. Dorn,Steve Franka,Edward Freymiller,Stuart McMuldroch +11 more
TL;DR: The NIRCam instrument will fly 10 of Rockwell Scientific's infrared molecular beam epitaxy HgCdTe 2048x2048 element detector arrays, each the largest available with current technology, for a total of 40 Megapixels.
Ralph: a visible/infrared imager for the New Horizons Pluto/Kuiper belt mission
Dennis C. Reuter,S. Alan Stern,John Scherrer,Donald E. Jennings,James W. Baer,John J. Hanley,Lisa Hardaway,Allen Lunsford,Stuart McMuldroch,Jeffrey M. Moore,Catherine B. Olkin,Robert Parizek,Harold Reitsma,Derek Sabatke,John R. Spencer,John Stone,Henry B. Throop,Jeffrey E. Van Cleve,G. Weigle,Leslie A. Young +19 more
TL;DR: The New Horizons instrument named Ralph is a visible/near infrared multi-spectral imager and a short-wavelength infrared spectral imager as discussed by the authors, which is one of the core instruments on New Horizons, NASA's first mission to the Pluto/Charon system and the Kuiper Belt.