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h-index: 42
Works: 196
Citations: 9,000

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THE INFRARED TELESCOPE FACILITY (IRTF) SPECTRAL LIBRARY: COOL STARS
J. Rayner, M. Cushing, W. Vacca
2009628 citations Open access
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THE FIRST HUNDRED BROWN DWARFS DISCOVERED BY THE WIDE-FIELD INFRARED SURVEY EXPLORER (WISE)
J. Kirkpatrick, M. Cushing, C. Gelino, R. Griffith +37 more
2011347 citations Open access
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EPOXI: COMET 103P/HARTLEY 2 OBSERVATIONS FROM A WORLDWIDE CAMPAIGN
K. Meech, M. A'Hearn, J. Adams, P. Bacci +193 more
2011101 citations Open access
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FIRST SCIENCE OBSERVATIONS WITH SOFIA/FORCAST: THE FORCAST MID-INFRARED CAMERA
T. Herter, J. Adams, J. D. De Buizer, G. Gull +6 more
201284 citations Open access
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DIRECT SPECTROSCOPIC IDENTIFICATION OF THE ORIGIN OF “GREEN FUZZY” EMISSION IN STAR-FORMING REGIONS
J. D. De Buizer, W. Vacca
201069 citations Open access
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SpeX Near-infrared Spectroscopic Extinction Curves in the Milky Way
M. Decleir, K. Gordon, J. Andrews, G. Clayton +6 more
202267 citations Open access
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NEAR-INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY OF TW Hya: A REVISED SPECTRAL TYPE AND COMPARISON WITH MAGNETOSPHERIC ACCRETION MODELS
W. Vacca, G. Sandell
201167 citations Open access
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HERSCHEL/PACS SURVEY OF PROTOPLANETARY DISKS IN TAURUS/AURIGA—OBSERVATIONS OF [O i] AND [C ii], AND FAR-INFRARED CONTINUUM
C. Howard, G. Sandell, W. Vacca, G. Duchêne +16 more
201357 citations Open access
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Data Reduction and Early Science Calibration for FORCAST, A Mid-Infrared Camera for SOFIA
T. Herter, W. Vacca, J. Adams, Luke D. Keller +6 more
201352 citations Open access
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THE SOFIA OBSERVATORY AT THE START OF ROUTINE SCIENCE OPERATIONS: MISSION CAPABILITIES AND PERFORMANCE
P. Temi, P. Marcum, E. Young, J. Adams +64 more
201448 citations Open access
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iSHELL: a 1–5 micron R = 80,000 Immersion Grating Spectrograph for the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility
J. Rayner, A. Tokunaga, D. Jaffe, T. Bond +8 more
2022Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific43 citations Open access
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STAR CLUSTERS IN THE TIDAL TAILS OF INTERACTING GALAXIES: CLUSTER POPULATIONS ACROSS A VARIETY OF TAIL ENVIRONMENTS
B. Mullan, I. Konstantopoulos, A. Kepley, K. H. Lee +16 more
201139 citations Open access
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Young star clusters in interacting galaxies - NGC 1487 and NGC 4038/4039
S. Mengel, M. Lehnert, N. Thatte, W. Vacca +2 more
200838 citations Open access
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2MASS 22344161+4041387AB: A WIDE, YOUNG, ACCRETING, LOW-MASS BINARY IN THE LkHα233 GROUP
K. Allers, Michael C. Liu, E. Shkolnik, M. Cushing +5 more
200935 citations Open access
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The CO-dark molecular gas mass in 30 Doradus
M. Chevance, S. Madden, C. Fischer, W. Vacca +15 more
202029 citations Open access
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The Inner 25 au Debris Distribution in the ϵ Eri System
K. Su, J. D. De Buizer, G. Rieke, A. Krivov +5 more
201729 citations Open access
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FIRST SCIENCE OBSERVATIONS WITH SOFIA/FORCAST: 6–37 μm IMAGING OF ORION BN/KL
J. D. De Buizer, M. Morris, E. Becklin, H. Zinnecker +4 more
201229 citations Open access
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FIFI-LS: The Field-Imaging Far-Infrared Line Spectrometer on SOFIA
C. Fischer, S. Beckmann, Aaron Bryant, S. Colditz +17 more
2018Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation26 citations Open access
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SPECTRAL CLASSIFICATION OF THE BRIGHTEST OBJECTS IN THE GALACTIC STAR-FORMING REGION W40
R. Shuping, W. Vacca, M. Kassis, Ka-Chun Yu
201225 citations Open access
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ELEMENTAL ABUNDANCES IN THE EJECTA OF OLD CLASSICAL NOVAE FROM LATE-EPOCH SPITZER SPECTRA
L. Helton, R. Gehrz, C. Woodward, R. Wagner +6 more
201222 citations Open access
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Rise and fall of the dust shell of the classical nova V339 Delphini
A. Evans, D. Banerjee, R. Gehrz, V. Joshi +15 more
201621 citations Open access
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Dust physics in the nucleus of NGC 4151
K. Schnülle, J. Pott, H. Rix, R. Decarli +2 more
201321 citations Open access
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FIRST SCIENCE RESULTS FROM SOFIA/FORCAST: THE MID-INFRARED VIEW OF THE COMPACT H ii REGION W3A
F. Salgado, O. Berné, J. Adams, T. Herter +9 more
201220 citations Open access
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THE EARLY INFRARED TEMPORAL DEVELOPMENT OF NOVA DELPHINI 2013 (V339 DEL) OBSERVED WITH THE STRATOSPHERIC OBSERVATORY FOR INFRARED ASTRONOMY (SOFIA) AND FROM THE GROUND
R. Gehrz, A. Evans, L. Helton, D. Shenoy +15 more
201519 citations Open access
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Extragalactic Magnetism with SOFIA (SALSA Legacy Program). III. First Data Release and On-the-fly Polarization Mapping Characterization
E. López-Rodríguez, Melanie J. Clarke, S. Shenoy, W. Vacca +16 more
2022Astrophysical Journal18 citations Open access
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Spectral and Spatial Characterization and Calibration of FIFI-LS — The Field Imaging Spectrometer on SOFIA
S. Colditz, S. Beckmann, Aaron Bryant, C. Fischer +16 more
2018Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation17 citations Open access
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FORCAST: A Mid-Infrared Camera for SOFIA
T. Herter, J. Adams, G. Gull, J. Schoenwald +8 more
2018Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation17 citations Open access
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Haze in Pluto's atmosphere: Results from SOFIA and ground-based observations of the 2015 June 29 Pluto occultation
Michael J. Person, A. Bosh, C. Zuluaga, A. Sickafoose +43 more
2015Icarus (New York, N.Y. 1962)17 citations Open access
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SOFIA Observations of 30 Doradus. I. Far-infrared Dust Polarization and Implications for Grain Alignment and Disruption by Radiative Torques
L. N. Tram, Thiem C. Hoang, E. López-Rodríguez, Simon Coud'e +6 more
2021Astrophysical Journal16 citations Open access
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Status of the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA)
R. Gehrz, E. Becklin, J. D. De Buizer, T. Herter +9 more
201116 citations Open access
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SOFIA/FIFI-LS Full-disk [C ii] Mapping and CO-dark Molecular Gas across the Nearby Spiral Galaxy NGC 6946
F. Bigiel, I. de Looze, A. Krabbe, D. Cormier +16 more
2020Astrophysical Journal14 citations Open access
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FIRST SCIENCE RESULTS FROM SOFIA/FORCAST: SUPER-RESOLUTION IMAGING OF THE S140 CLUSTER AT 37 μm
P. Harvey, J. Adams, T. Herter, G. Gull +6 more
201214 citations Open access
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SOFIA Observations of 30 Doradus. II. Magnetic Fields and Large-scale Gas Kinematics
L. N. Tram, L. Bonne, Yue Hu, E. López-Rodríguez +12 more
2022Astrophysical Journal13 citations Open access
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SOFIA/FORCAST AND SPITZER/IRAC IMAGING OF THE ULTRACOMPACT H ii REGION W3(OH) AND ASSOCIATED PROTOSTARS IN W3
L. Hirsch, J. Adams, T. Herter, J. Hora +7 more
201213 citations Open access
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Tracing PAH Size in Prominent Nearby Mid-Infrared Environments
C. Knight, E. Peeters, D. Stock, W. Vacca +1 more
2021Astrophysical Journal12 citations Open access
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SOFIA Observations of Far-IR Fine-structure Lines in Galaxies to Measure Metallicity
L. Spinoglio, J. Fern'andez-Ontiveros, M. Malkan, Suyash Kumar +7 more
2021Astrophysical Journal12 citations Open access
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SOFIA-HIRMES: Looking Forward to the HIgh-Resolution Mid-infrarEd Spectrometer
S. Richards, S. Moseley, G. Stacey, M. Greenhouse +47 more
2018Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation12 citations Open access
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OBSERVATIONS OF TYPE Ia SUPERNOVA 2014J WITH FLITECAM ON SOFIA
W. Vacca, R. Hamilton, M. Savage, S. Shenoy +19 more
201511 citations Open access
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Probing the Atmospheric Precipitable Water Vapor with SOFIA, Part I, Measurements of the Water Vapor Overburden with FIFI-LS
C. Fischer, C. Iserlohe, W. Vacca, D. Fadda +3 more
2021Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific10 citations Open access
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SOFIA-EXES Mid-IR Observations of Emission from the Extended Atmosphere of Betelgeuse
G. M. Harper, C. DeWitt, M. Richter, T. Greathouse +4 more
201710 citations Open access
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Characterization and Absolute Calibration of the Far-infrared Field Integral Line Spectrometer for SOFIA
D. Fadda, S. Colditz, C. Fischer, W. Vacca +6 more
2023Astronomical Journal7 citations Open access
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FIFI-LS Observations of the Circumnuclear Ring— Probing the High-density Phase of the PDR
C. Iserlohe, Aaron Bryant, A. Krabbe, S. Beckmann +12 more
2019Astrophysical Journal7 citations Open access
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Redux: A Common Interface for SOFIA Data Reduction Pipelines
M. Clarke, W. Vacca, R. Shuping
20157 citations
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FLITECAM: early commissioning results
S. Logsdon, I. Mclean, E. Becklin, E. Dunham +7 more
2014Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation7 citations Open access
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The FORCAST mid-infrared facility instrument and in-flight performance on SOFIA
J. Adams, T. Herter, G. Gull, J. Schoenwald +9 more
2012Other Conferences7 citations
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The Science Vision for the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA)
T. Roellig, J. D. De Buizer, E. Becklin, D. Backman +6 more
20097 citations
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Probing the Atmospheric Precipitable Water Vapor with SOFIA, Part III. Atlas of Seasonal Median PWV Maps from ERA5, Implications for FIFI-LS and in situ Comparison Between the ERA5 and MERRA-2 Atmospheric Re-analyses
C. Iserlohe, W. Vacca, C. Fischer, N. Fischer +1 more
2022Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific6 citations Open access
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FIRST SCIENCE OBSERVATIONS WITH SOFIA/FORCAST: 6–37 μm IMAGING OF THE CENTRAL ORION NEBULA
R. Shuping, M. Morris, T. Herter, J. Adams +8 more
20126 citations Open access
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MID-IR FORCAST/SOFIA OBSERVATIONS OF M82
T. Nikola, T. Herter, W. Vacca, J. Adams +8 more
20125 citations Open access
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EPOXI: Comet 103P/Hartley 2 Observations from a Worldwide Campaign ; Astrophysical Journal Letters
K. Meech, M. A'Hearn, J. Adams, P. Bacci +192 more
20115 citations
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