MKI Projects, Programs and Observatories

 

 

X-Ray Astronomy

 

 

Chandra ACIS, CCD Imaging Spectrometer

PI: George Ricker

contact person: Mark Bautz

Chandra HETG, High Energy Transmission Grating

PI: Claude Canizares

contact person: Dan Dewey

RXTE Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer

PI: Alan Levine

contact person: Alan Levine

Chandra X-Ray Center

Associate Director: Claude Canizares

contact person: David Huenemoerder

Suzaku XIS, CCD Imaging Spectrometer

PI: Mark Bautz

contact person: Mark Bautz

Micro-X

PI: Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano

contact person: Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano

 

 

 

 

Optical Astronomy

 

 

MagIC

PI: James Elliot

contact person: James Elliot

MagES

PI: Scott Burles

contact person: Scott Burles

FIRE

PI: Rob Simcoe

contact person: Rob Simcoe

Magellan Observatory

Director: Paul Schechter

contact person: Paul Schechter

Wallace Astrophysical Observatory

Director: James Elliot

contact person: James Elliot

PICTURE

MIT CoI: Mark Bautz

contact person: Rick Foster

 

 

 

 

Radio Astronomy

 

 

Murchison Widefield Array

MKI CoI: Jacqueline Hewitt:

contact person: Jacqueline Hewitt

 

 

 

 

Solar System Astronomy

 

 

CRaTER

MIT PI: John Richardson

contact person: Rick Foster

IBEX

MIT PI: Peter Ford

contact person: Geoff Crew

 

 

 

 

Space Plasma Physics

 

 

Voyager

PI: John Richardson

contact person: John Richardson

ISTP/WIND

PI: Alan Lazarus

contact person: Alan Lazarus

IMP 8

PI: Alan Lazarus

contact person: Alan Lazarus

TRIANA

PI: Alan Lazarus

contact person: Alan Lazarus

 

 

 

 

Gravitation and Cosmology

 

 

LIGO

PI: David Shoemaker

contact person: David Shoemaker

Quantum Measurement Group

PI: Nergis Mavalvala

contact person: Nergis Mavalvala

 

 

 

Man Vehicle Laboratory

 

 

Human Orientation

PI: Charles Oman

contact person: Charles Oman

 

 

 

 

Space Nanotechnology Laboratory

 

 

Space Nanotechnology Laboratory

PI: Mark Schattenburg

contact person: Mark Schattenburg

Chandra HETG High Energy Transmission Grating

PI: Claude Canizares

contact person: Mark Schattenburg

 

 

updated May 2008