John P. (Jack) Hughes

Professor
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Contact Information:

Office Hours: Wednesday 3-4PM for Physics 110 students. Others should call or email to set up an appointment

Links:

• Useful Web Resources
• ADS
• VoxCharta
• Physics Department research, teaching, and professional activities page
• Astronomy Group web page
• Rutgers sakai website
• Current course, Physics 110 Astronomy and Cosmology
• Previous courses:
  • "Einstein" SAS Honors Seminar
  • Physics 442 High Energy Astrophysics
  • Physics 441/541 Stars and Star Formation
  • Physics 109 Astronomy and Cosmology
  • Physics 301 Physics of Sound
  • Physics 612 High Energy Astrophysics
  • Physics 342 Principles of Astrophysics
  • Physics 275 Classical Physics Lab
• Curriculum vitae and bibliography
• Electronically available publications.
• Electronically available presentations.
• Physics Colloquia and Astronomy Seminars.

Current and Recent Projects:

• Science Advisor for the Astro-H Mission GSFC site; JAXA/ISAS site
• Cosmology
  • ACTPol: Probing the Polarization of the CMB on arcminute angular scales
    • Member of the Guiding Board
    • Poster from CCAT workshop (Nov 2010)
    • Wiki
  • The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT): Probing the CMB at l>500
    • Member of the Guiding Board
    • User supported website
    • Wiki
    • ACT-Hermes joint analysis wiki
• Clusters of galaxies
  • Press/photo releases
    • NASA's Chandra Finds Largest Galaxy Cluster in Early Universe (See published article)
    • DLSCL J0916.2+2951: Discovery of the Musket Ball Cluster (See published article)
    • Rutgers, Chilean Astrophysicists Discover New Galaxy Clusters Revealed by Cosmic 'Shadows' (See published article)
  • ACT SZE-selected clusters southern strip sample
  • Studying "Clusters of Mass" detected in the Deep Lens Survey (DLS)
  • ACT Cluster summary
  • The intrinsic shapes of galaxy clusters
  • Selected X-ray images of clusters
• Supernova remnants
  • Press/photo releases
    • Clues to the Mysterious Origin of Cosmic Rays, VLT probes remains of medieval supernova (See published article)
    • Exploding Stars and Stripes in the Tycho SNR (for more information see the Published article).
    • Hubble image of 0509-67.5
    • SN1006 (for more information see the Published article).
    • G292.0+1.8 (for more information see the Published article).
    • Kepler SNR (for more information see the Published article).
    • SNR 0509, N103B (for more information see the Published article).
    • Tycho's Remnant Provides Shocking Evidence for Cosmic Rays (for more information see the Published article).
    • SN1006 (for more information see the Published article).
    • N49B (for more information see the Published article).
    • Cas A (for more information see the Published article).
    • N63A: Celestial Illumination: The X-Ray Glow From An Exploded Star (for more information see the Published article).
    • DEM L71: Supernova Origin Revealed (for more information see the Published article).
    • SNR 0103-72.6 (for more information see the Published article).
    • G292.0+1.8 (for more information see the Published article).
    • Cas A (for more information see the Published article).
  • Chandra images of Supernova Remnants
    • Supernova Remnant Cas A
    • X-ray "true" color image of Cas A
    • X-ray "true" color image of G292.0+1.8
    • N132D (HRC)
    • X-ray "true" color image of E0102.2-7219
    • X-ray "true" color image of N63A
    • Optical (Halpha) and X-ray overlay of DEM L71
  • X-ray expansion of the historical SNRs: Tycho (SN1572) and Kepler (SN1604)
    • Radio/X-ray comparison for Tycho: Northern Rim and Eastern Rim
  • An X-ray imaging atlas of SMC SNRs
  • Molecular clouds and supernova remnants in the LMC
• Member of the Suzaku International Science Working Group
  • Suzaku GOF
  • Chair of Diffuse Galactic Emission science panel
  • SWG (password protected)

Revised February 18, 2013