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J. Roger P. Angel

Regents' Professor of Astronomy
Regents' Professor of Optical Sciences
Director of the Steward Observatory Mirror Laboratory
Email Address:
angelj@arizona.edu
Office Location:
Steward N412B Mailing Address:
Department of Astronomy and Steward Observatory
The University of Arizona
933 N. Cherry Ave.
P.O. Box 210065
Tucson, AZ 85721
Phone Number:
520-621-6541 Education:
- D.Phil., Oxford University (United Kingdom), 1967
- M.S., California Institute of Technology, 1966
- B.A., Oxford University (United Kingdom), 1963
Specific Research Interests:
- Astronomical telescopes and Instrumentation.
- Extrasolar planets.
- Optical design and fabrication.
- Geoengineeering.
- Optics for solar energy generation
Selected Papers:
- Pantheon habitat made from regolith, with a focusing solar reflector. Woolf N, Angel R. 2020 Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 378: 20200142. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2020.0142, 2020.
- A 20 m wide-field diffraction-limited telescope. Eads RW, Angel JRP. 2020 Phil. Trans. A, Royal Society 20200141. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2020.0141, 2020. One contribution of 15 to a discussion meeting issue ‘Astronomy from the Moon: the next decades’.
- 6.5 m telescope for multi-object spectroscopy over a 3° field of view. Ryker Eads and Roger Angel Applied Optics Vol. 59, pp. G154-G159 (2020) doi.org/10.1364/AO.393365
- LSST: From Science Drivers to Reference Design and Anticipated Data Products Željko Ivezić et al.,2019 ApJ. 873:111 (44pp), 2019 https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab042c
- A Cryogenic, Liquid-mirror Telescope on the Moon, to Study the Early Universe Roger Angel et al., ApJ, 680, 1582, 2008.
- Feasibility of cooling the Earth with a cloud of small spacecraft near the inner Lagrange point (L1) Roger Angel PNAS, 103, #46, 17184-17189, 2006.
- Buyer’s guide to telescopes at the best sites: Dome A, L2 and Shackleton Rim (Roger Angel), Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Space Telescope, SPIE Proc. 5487, 13-25, 2004.
- Direct Detection of Terrestrial ExoPlanets: Comparing the Potential for Space and Ground Telescopes, (Roger Angel) ESA Special Publication SP-539, 221-230, 2003.
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