Dr. Jeffrey W. Kruk Profile

Dr. Jeffrey W. Kruk

Research Astrophysicist

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Publications (43)

Proceedings Article | 2 October 2024 Presentation

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope: observatory build, test, and verification status

Jeremy Perkins, Ed Wollack, Dave Content, Josh Abel, Joanne Baker, Lisa Bartusek, Matthew Bolcar, Bente Eegholm, Lawrence Han, Alexia Harper, Jeff Kruk, Ilya Poberezhskiy, Maxime Rizzo, Josh Schlieder, Scott Smith, Missy Vess, Neil Zimmerman

Proceedings Volume PC13131, PC1313103 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3032499

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Proceedings Article | 23 August 2024 Poster + Paper

Resolving the dark current anomaly in the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope focal plane

Gregory Mosby, Synthia Tonn, Jay Chervenak, Bob Hill, Majid Zandian, Bernie Rauscher, Jeff Kruk, Mat Samuel, John Auyeung, Randy Kimble, Matt Greenhouse, Josh Schlieder, Ed Cheng, Craig Cabelli, Eric Piquette, Jianmei Pan, Murzy Jhabvala, Alan Abeel, Mark Farris, Anders Petersen, John Gygax, Mario Cabrera, Michael Hickey, Colin Stuart, Analia Cillis, Stephanie Cheung, Nibir Dhar

Proceedings Volume 13092, 130923K (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3020366

KEYWORDS: Dark current, Sensors, Diffusion, Space telescopes, Mosaic detectors, Mercury cadmium telluride, Activation energy

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Proceedings Article | 23 August 2024 Presentation + Paper

REX, the reionization explorer: science and mission overview

Sangeeta Malhotra, James Rhoads, Thomas Casey, Bert Pasquale, Austen Gabrielpillai, Anne Hutter, Ali Ahmad Khostovan, Jeffrey Kruk, Gregory Mosby, Bernard Rauscher, Isak G. Wold, L. Y. Aaron Yung

Proceedings Volume 13092, 130920U (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3020423

KEYWORDS: Tunable filters, Galactic astronomy, Sensors, Telescopes, James Webb Space Telescope, Photons, Hydrogen, Earth atmosphere, Design, Astrophysics

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Proceedings Article | 23 August 2024 Presentation + Paper

The Roman Space Telescope observatory build, test, and verification status

Jeremy Perkins, Edward Wollack, David Content, Joshua Abel, Joanne Baker, Lisa Bartusek, Matthew Bolcar, Lawrence Han, Alexia Harper, Jeffrey Kruk, Kuo-Chia (Alice) Lui, Ilya Poberezhskiy, Maxime Rizzo, Jeffrey Scott Smith, Joshua Schlieder, Melissa Vess, Neil Zimmerman

Proceedings Volume 13092, 130920R (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3022616

KEYWORDS: Space operations, Equipment, Observatories, Coronagraphy, Optical fabrication, Imaging spectroscopy, Design, Dark energy, Vibration, Thermal modeling

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Proceedings Article | 23 August 2024 Presentation + Paper

Survey science with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Wide Field Instrument

Joshua Schlieder, Thomas Barclay, Amethyst Barnes, Evan Bray, Ami Choi, Benjamin Cromey, Thomas Delker, Timothy Finch, Eric Frater, Robert Hill, Jeffrey Kruk, Jeffrey Lasco, Dana Louie, Sangeeta Malhotra, Julie McEnery, Gregory Mosby, Jennie Paine, Jeremy Perkins, Bernard Rauscher, James Rhoads, Maxime Rizzo, Derek Sabatke, Rusty Schweickart, Diana Shukis, Eric Switzer, Edward Wollack, Robert Zellem, Neil Zimmerman

Proceedings Volume 13092, 130920S (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3020622

KEYWORDS: Equipment, Sensors, Astrophysics, Design, Spectroscopy, Optical components, Imaging spectroscopy

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Proceedings Article | 19 July 2024 Presentation

Performance characterization of the iLocater spectrograph

Jonathan Crass, Michael Engelman, Brian Sands, Daniel Pappalardo, Marshall Johnson, Richard Pogge, Justin Crepp, Jeffrey Kruk, Christian Schwab, Jacob Pember, Jerry Mason, Hali Jakeman Flores, Joseph Thomes

Proceedings Volume 13096, 130961E (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3020556

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SPIE Journal Paper | 8 February 2024

Spectral characterization of the Grism and Prism slitless spectrometers for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

Evan Bray, Mateo Batkis, Victor J. Chambers, Margaret Dominguez, Bente Eegholm, Guangjun Gao, Qian Gong, Wesley Halliday, Elias Howe, Jeffrey Kruk, Eliot Malumuth, Sangeeta Malhotra, Catherine Marx, James Rhoads, Maxime Rizzo, Joshua E. Schlieder, Laurie Seide, Eric R. Switzer, Jay Voris

JATIS, Vol. 10, Issue 01, 014003, (February 2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.10.1117/1.JATIS.10.1.014003

KEYWORDS: Prisms, Cameras, Linear filtering, Point spread functions, Polarization, Optical fabrication, Diffraction, Sensors, Spectral models, Diffraction gratings

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Proceedings Article | 13 December 2020 Presentation

Calibration strategies for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Wide Field Instrument

Susana Deustua, Stefano Casertano, Chris Hirata, Daniel Scolnic, Rebekah Hounsell, Robert Hill, Sangeeta Malhotra, James Rhoads, Maxime Rizzo, David Rubin, Edward Wollack, Jeff Kruk

Proceedings Volume 11443, 114430E (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562604

KEYWORDS: Calibration, Infrared telescopes, Infrared radiation, Space telescopes

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SPIE Journal Paper | 19 November 2020

Properties and characteristics of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope H4RG-10 detectors

Gregory Mosby, Bernard Rauscher, Chris Bennett, Edward Cheng, Stephanie Cheung, Analia Cillis, David Content, David Cottingham, Roger Foltz, John Gygax, Robert Hill, Jeffrey Kruk, Jon Mah, Lane Meier, Chris Merchant, Laddawan Miko, Eric Piquette, Augustyn Waczynski, Yiting Wen

JATIS, Vol. 6, Issue 04, 046001, (November 2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.10.1117/1.JATIS.6.4.046001

KEYWORDS: Sensors, Space telescopes, Mercury cadmium telluride, Signal detection, Quantum efficiency, Diffusion, Photodiodes, Calibration, Point spread functions, Electronics

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Proceedings Article | 10 July 2018 Presentation

The wide field infrared survey telescope (WFIRST) observatory: design formulation (phase-A) overview (Conference Presentation)

Thomas Casey, Nerses Armani, Wes Alexander, Lisa Bartusek, Carl Blaurock, David Braun, Alexander Carra, David Content, Yves Conturie, Christine Cottingham, Richard Demers, Michael Dipirro, Robert Effinger, Robert Egerman, Frank Forkl, Guangjun Gao, John Gygax, John Hagopian, Timothy Hahm, John Hawk, Gurnie Hobbs, Clifton Jackson, Alden Jurling, Brian Kern, Jeffrey Kruk, Xiaoyi Li, Kuo-chia Liu, Catherine Marx, Marzouk Marzouk, Carson McDonald, Seke Godo, Mark Melton, James Mondello, M. Charley Noecker, Bert Pasquale, Hume Peabody, Ilya Poberezhskiy, Cory Powell, Giulio Rosanova, John Ruffa, Jeffrey Smith, Hong Tang, Christopher Tolman, Arthur Whipple, Timothy Wilson, Melissa Vess, Perry Voyer

Proceedings Volume 10698, 106982C (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2313748

KEYWORDS: Infrared telescopes, Space telescopes, Observatories, Telescopes, Infrared radiation, Optical instrument design, Infrared imaging, Exoplanets, Imaging spectroscopy, Coronagraphy

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Proceedings Article | 5 September 2017 Paper

ACCESS: integration and pre-flight performance

Mary Elizabeth Kaiser, Matthew Morris, Lauren Aldoroty, Russell Pelton, Robert Kurucz, Grant Peacock, Jason Hansen, Stephan McCandliss, Bernard Rauscher, Randy Kimble, Jeffrey Kruk, Edward Wright, Joseph Orndorff, Paul Feldman, H. Warren Moos, Adam Riess, Jonathan Gardner, Ralph Bohlin, Susana Deustua, W. Dixon, David Sahnow, Saul Perlmutter

Proceedings Volume 10398, 1039815 (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2274637

KEYWORDS: Calibration, Sensors, Standards development, Space telescopes, Spectrographs, Aerospace engineering, Mercury cadmium telluride, Stars, Near infrared, Rockets

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Proceedings Article | 9 August 2016 Paper

Wide-Field InfraRed Survey Telescope (WFIRST) slitless spectrometer: design, prototype, and results

Qian Gong, David Content, Margaret Dominguez, Thomas Emmett, Ulf Griesmann, John Hagopian, Jeffrey Kruk, Catherine Marx, Bert Pasquale, Thomas Wallace, Arthur Whipple

Proceedings Volume 9904, 990412 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2231665

KEYWORDS: Prototyping, Spectroscopy, Optical design, Chemical elements, Interferometers, Computer generated holography, Wavefronts, Diffraction, Diffraction gratings, Collimation

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Proceedings Article | 22 September 2015 Paper

Spectral performance of WFIRST/AFTA bandpass filter prototypes

Manuel Quijada, Winson Huang, Kevin Miller, Laurie Seide, David Content, Jeffrey Kruk

Proceedings Volume 9602, 96020X (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2188496

KEYWORDS: Bandpass filters, Optical filters, Transmittance, Prototyping, Distortion, Space telescopes, Imaging spectroscopy, Telescopes, Sensors, Optical coatings

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Proceedings Article | 17 December 2014 Paper

Optical design of the WFIRST-AFTA wide-field instrument

Bert Pasquale, David Content, Jeffery Kruk, David Vaughnn, Qian Gong, Joseph Howard, Alden Jurling, Len Seals, Eric Mentzell, Nerses Armani, Gary Kuan

Proceedings Volume 9293, 929305 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2177847

KEYWORDS: Mirrors, Telescopes, Optical design, Space telescopes, Staring arrays, Sensors, James Webb Space Telescope, Infrared telescopes, Observatories, Ray tracing

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Proceedings Article | 2 August 2014 Paper

Breakthrough capability for UVOIR space astronomy: reaching the darkest sky

Matthew Greenhouse, Scott Benson, Jacob Englander, Robert Falck, Dale Fixsen, Jonathan Gardner, Jeffrey Kruk, Steven Oleson, Harley Thronson

Proceedings Volume 9143, 914317 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2055340

KEYWORDS: Astrophysics, Space telescopes, Astronomy, Observatories, James Webb Space Telescope, Space operations, Telecommunications, Mars, Telescopes, Asteroids

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Proceedings Article | 2 August 2014 Paper

ACCESS: status and pre-flight performance

Mary Elizabeth Kaiser, Matthew Morris, Grant Peacock, Stephan McCandliss, Bernard Rauscher, Randy Kimble, Jeffrey Kruk, Russell Pelton, Edward Wright, D. Brent Mott, Yiting Wen, Paul Feldman, H. Warren Moos, Adam Riess, Jonathan Gardner, Dominic Benford, Bruce Woodgate, Ralph Bohlin, Susana Deustua, W. Dixon, David Sahnow, Robert Kurucz, Michael Lampton, Saul Perlmutter

Proceedings Volume 9143, 91434Y (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2057689

KEYWORDS: Spectrographs, Sensors, Camera shutters, Telescopes, Stars, Computer programming, Computing systems, Field programmable gate arrays, Calibration, Standards development

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