J. Roger Angel
J. Roger Angel
Professor of Astronomy

Steward N412B
Department of Astronomy and Steward Observatory
The University of Arizona
933 N. Cherry Ave.
P.O. Box 210065
Tucson, AZ 85721
Additional Affiliations
- Astronomer, Steward Observatory
- Regents Professor
- Professor, Optical Sciences
- Professor, Arid Lands Resources Sciences - GIDP
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.
Degree(s)
- D.Phil., Oxford University (United Kingdom), 1967
- M.S., California Institute of Technology, 1966
- B.A., Oxford University (United Kingdom), 1963