John P. (Jack) Hughes

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

Contact Information:

Office Hours: Please contact by e-mail.

Links:

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

Current and Recent Projects:

• Cosmology
  • Probing the CMB at l>500 The Atacama Cosmology Telescope
    • Penn Site
    • User supported website
    • Simulations
    • Wiki
• M33 Chandra Very Large Project
  • ChaSeM33
  • Knox's Wiki site
• Clusters of galaxies
  • Studying "Clusters of Mass" detected in the Deep Lens Survey (DLS)
  • Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect and the Hubble Constant
    • Interferometric Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect Imaging Experiment
    • Chandra Observations of SZE Clusters (as Co-I)
    • Confronting the Complexity of Galaxy Clusters with Lensing, SZ, and XMM Data (as PI)
  • Statistical weak lensing observations of the Chandra / SZE cluster sample
  • The intrinsic shapes of galaxy clusters
  • Poor clusters at a redshift of 1/2
  • Mass determination of Coma
  • Selected X-ray images of clusters
• Supernova remnants
  • Press releases
    • Kepler SNR (for more information see the Published article).
    • SNR 0509, N103B (for more information see the Published article).
    • Tycho SNR (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 (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)
• Member of the Constellation-X Facility Science Team
  • Chair of Supernova Remnant science panel

Revised September 6, 2007