Erika Hamden
American astrophysicist
Erika Tobiason Hamden is an American astrophysicist and associate professor at the University of Arizona and Steward Observatory . Her research focuses on developing ultraviolet (UV) detector technology, ultraviolet–visible spectroscopy (UV/VIS) instrumentation and spectroscopy , and galaxy evolution .[ 1] She served as the project scientist and project manager of a UV multi-object spectrograph , FIREBall-2, that is designed to observe the circumgalactic medium (CGM).[ 2] She is a 2019 TED fellow .[ 3]
Early life and education
Hamden was born in Montclair, New Jersey . Hamden studied astrophysics at Harvard College and graduated in 2006.[ 4] Hamden worked at the Harvard Center for Astrophysics, completing a senior thesis under Andrew Szentgyorgyi.[ 4] After graduating, she completed a diploma at Le Cordon Bleu in London, before working as a chef in New Jersey . She joined Columbia University for her doctoral studies in 2007, earning a PhD supervised by David Schiminovich [Wikidata ] in 2014.[ 5] She worked on the diffuse galactic far UV background using archival GALEX data, far UV bright galactic clouds , UV detector development, and ultraviolet instrumentation.[ 6] [ 4] She held a NASA Earth and Space Science fellowship from 2011 to 2014.
Career and research
Hamden joined California Institute of Technology as a postdoctoral researcher, working with Christopher Martin. Here she developed an ultraviolet telescope for a high-altitude balloon , the "Faint Intergalactic medium Redshifted Emission Balloon" (FIREBall-2).[ 4] [ 7] FIREBall-2 will observe circumgalactic media (CGM) emission in the ultraviolet .[ 8] She appeared on the podcast 365 Days of Astronomy .[ 9] She was a National Science Foundation Astronomy and Astrophysics postdoctoral fellow in 2014.[ 10] The fellowship allowed her to develop instrumentation to study galaxies in the Keck Cosmic Web Imager redshift range.[ 11] In 2016 she was the first woman to be awarded a NASA Nancy Roman technology fellowship for her work in detectors.[ 12] She was made a Robert Andrews Millikan fellow in 2017.
Hamden joined the faculty at the University of Arizona and Steward Observatory in 2018.[ 13] Here she is building a UV detector lab and continuing work on FIREBall-2 and as the project scientist for the Keck Cosmic Reionization Mapper.
She is interested in silicon detector technologies and Lyman-alpha emission from the circumgalactic media.[ 14] She has worked on anti-reflective coatings for delta-doped CCDs , helping to improve their efficiency in the ultraviolet.[ 15] [ 16] [ 17] FIREBall-2 was designed to test this new technology.[ 8] The electron multiplying charge-coupled devices (EMCCDs) can suffer from clock-induced charge and spurious signals and require carefully designed shaped pixel clocks to minimize noise.[ 18] [ 19] She has worked as US lead on FIREBall-2 from 2014 to its launch on September 22, 2018. Hamden was present during integration of FIREBall-2 at Fort Sumner in 2018, when a falcon landed in the telescope.[ 20]
Hamden is a member of the Goddard Space Flight Center Cosmic Origins Science Working Group.[ 21] She is one of 20 people selected as TED fellow in 2019.[ 22] [ 23] Her TED Talk was selected by TED as a highlight of their April 2019 conference, and covered by Wired magazine .[ 24] [ 25]
Awards and honors
Her awards and honors include
References
^ Arnaud, Monique; Milliard, Bruno; Murray, Stephen S.; Martin, D. Christopher; Schiminovich, David; Takahashi, Tadayuki; Evrard, Jean; Matuszewski, Matt; Rahman, Shahinur; Tuttle, Sarah; McLean, Ryan; Deharveng, Jean-Michel; Mirc, Frederi; Grange, Robert; Chave, Robert (2010). "FIREBALL: The Faint Intergalactic medium Redshifted Emission Balloon: Overview and first science flight results" (PDF) . In Arnaud, Monique; Murray, Stephen S.; Takahashi, Tadayuki (eds.). Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2010: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray . Vol. 7732. Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). p. 773205. doi :10.1117/12.857850 . ISBN 9780819482228 . ISSN 0277-786X . S2CID 8060117 .
^ Hamden, Erika (August 2019). "Observing hydrogen from the stratosphere" . Nature Astronomy . 3 (8): 783. Bibcode :2019NatAs...3..783H . doi :10.1038/s41550-019-0866-0 . ISSN 2397-3366 . S2CID 201248061 .
^ "Prof. Erika Hamden" . Ehamdeb.org . Retrieved 7 February 2019 .
^ a b c d "Erika Hamden '06" . Alumni.harvard.edu . Harvard University. Retrieved 2019-01-26 .
^ Hamden, Erika Tobiason (2014). FIREBall, CHAS, and the diffuse universe (PhD thesis). Columbia University. doi :10.7916/D8Z31WZF . OCLC 1004780751 .
^ Hamden, Erika T.; Schiminovich, David; Seibert, Mark (2013). "The Diffuse Galactic Far-Ultraviolet Sky". The Astrophysical Journal . 779 (2): 180. arXiv :1311.0875 . Bibcode :2013ApJ...779..180H . doi :10.1088/0004-637X/779/2/180 . ISSN 0004-637X . S2CID 119285683 .
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^ "Citizen Science" . 365 Days of Astronomy . Retrieved 2019-01-26 .
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^ Schiminovich, David; Nikzad, Shouleh; Dickie, Matt; Hoenk, Michael; Jones, Todd; Jacquot, Blake; Blacksberg, Jordana; Hamden, Erika (2010). Anti-Reflection Coatings for Silicon Ultraviolet Detectors . Optical Society of America. pp. MD6. doi :10.1364/OIC.2010.MD6 . ISBN 978-1-55752-891-9 .
^ Hamden, Erika T.; Lingner, Nicole; Kyne, Gillian; Morrissey, Patrick; Martin, D. Christopher (2015). Siegmund, Oswald H. (ed.). "Noise and dark performance for FIREBall-2 EMCCD delta-doped CCD detector" . UV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Space Instrumentation for Astronomy XIX . 9601 : 96010O. Bibcode :2015SPIE.9601E..0OH . doi :10.1117/12.2190679 . S2CID 38993182 .
^ Nikzad, Shouleh; Hoenk, Michael; Jewell, April; Hennessy, John; Carver, Alexander; Jones, Todd; Goodsall, Timothy; Hamden, Erika; Suvarna, Puneet (2016). "Single Photon Counting UV Solar-Blind Detectors Using Silicon and III-Nitride Materials" . Sensors . 16 (6): 927. Bibcode :2016Senso..16..927N . doi :10.3390/s16060927 . ISSN 1424-8220 . PMC 4934352 . PMID 27338399 .
^ Letzter, Rafi; June 12, Staff Writer |; ET, 2018 06:05pm (12 June 2018). "Confused Baby Falcon Rescued from Inside Balloon Telescope" . Live Science . Retrieved 2019-01-26 . {{cite web }}
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