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John C. Wilson, Research Scientist

Email: jcw6z@virginia.edu
Phone: (434) 924-4907
Fax: (434) 924-3104
Office: 255 Astronomy Building
Address:
   Department of Astronomy
   PO Box 400325
   Charlottesville, VA 22904-4325

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Curriculum Vitae
B.S. Systems Engineering, U.S. Naval Academy, 1987
M.S. Applied Physics, Cornell University, 1998
Ph.D. Applied Physics, Cornell University, 2002

Presently:
Research Scientist, University of Virginia

Previous Positions:
Palomar Instrumentation Postdoc, Astronomy Department,
Cornell University, 2001-2002

Current Instrumentation Projects
TripleSpec R~3500 cross-dispersed near-infrared facility spectrograph for Apache Point Observatory
CorMASS R~300 cross-dispersed near-infrared spectrograph visiting instrument



My primary research interests are infrared astronomy and instrumentation. I am a staff member in the Astronomy Department's infrared instrumentation group led by Professor Mike Skrutskie.

Selected Recent Papers
Semiconductor fabrication techniques for producing an ultra-flat reflective slit, T.E. Vandervelde, M.J. Cabral, J. Wilson & M. Skrutskie, in Optomechanical Technologies for Astronomy, eds E. Attad-Ettedgui, J. Antebi and D. Lemke, 2006, SPIE, 6273 abstract

Discovery of a Young Substellar Companion in Chamaeleon, K.L. Luhman, J.C. Wilson, W. Brandner, M.F. Skrutskie, M.J. Nelson, J.D. Smith, D.E. Peterson, M.C. Cushing & E. Young, 2006, ApJ, 649, 894 abstract

A Spitzer Infrared Spectrograph Spectral Sequence of M, L, and T Dwarfs, M.C. Cushing, T.L. Roellig, M.S. Marley, D. Saumon, S.K. Leggett, J.D. Kirkpatrick, J.C. Wilson, G.C. Sloan, A.K. Mainzer, J.E. VanCleve & J.R. Houck, 2006, ApJ, 648, 614 abstract

Spectrum of a Habitable World: Earthsine in the Near-Infrared, M.C. Turnbull, W.A. Traub, K.W. Jucks, N.J. Woolf, M.R. Meyer, N. Gorlova, M.F. Skrutskie & J.C. Wilson, 2006, ApJ, 644, 551 abstract

Near-infrared spectra of the leading and trailing hemispheres of Enceladus A.J. Verbiscer, D.E. Peterson, M.F. Skrutskie, M. Cushing, P. Helfenstein, M.J. Nelson, J.D. Smith & J.C. Wilson, 2006, Icarus, 182, 211 abstract


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