Present PositionStaff ScientistPI: TES x-ray microcalorimeter development Co-I: XQC sounding rocket payload for study of diffuse x-ray background Brief BioCaroline Kilbourne has been working with microcalorimeters for high-resolution x-ray spectroscopy since 1987 when, as a Stanford graduate student, she began to adapt the Goddard calorimeters to a hard x-ray inelastic scattering experiment. She came to Goddard Space Flight Center as a post-doc in 1992 and joined the permanent staff in 1995. Her work with calorimeters at Goddard has ranged from studies of x-ray thermalization in superconducting absorbers to the more mundane problems of absorber attachment and uniformity of performance across an array. She has been instrumental in the development of the XQC sounding rocket calorimeter payload and the X-Ray Spectrometer (XRS) on Astro-E and Suzaku (formerly Astro-E2). She is presently directing the Goddard development of high-performance arrays of superconducting transition-edge sensor (TES) x-ray calorimeters.PRIOR NAME: Caroline Kilbourne Stahle (1988-2003) Educational Background1992 - Ph.D., MSE, Stanford Universitythesis: "The Development of High Resolution Calorimetric X-ray Detectors for Compton Scattering Experiments" 1988 - M.S., MSE, Stanford University 1985 - B.S.E., EECS (Engineering Physics Program), Princeton University Research Interestsmicrocalorimeters, x-ray interactions with matter, x-ray astrophysicsCurrent ProjectsTES calorimeter development for Constellation-X and other opportunitiessilicon microcalorimeter development for the XQC sounding rocket and other opportunities magnetic calorimeter development Suzaku data analysis Selected Publications“High-density arrays of x-ray microcalorimeters for Constellation-X”, Kilbourne CA, Bandler SR, Brown AD, Chervenak JA, Figueroa-Feliciano E, Finkbeiner FM, Iyomoto N, Kelley RL, Porter FS, Saab R, Sadleir J, and White J, 2006, Proc. SPIE, 6266, 626621.“Analysis of the Suzaku/XRS background”, Kilbourne CA, Boyce KR, Brown GV, Cottam J, Figueroa-Feliciano E, Fujimoto R, Furusho T, Ishisaki Y, Kelley RL, McCammon D, Mitsuda K, Morita U, Porter FS, Ota N, Saab T, Takei Y, and Yamamoto M, 2006, NIM A, 559, 620. "GEANT modeling of the low-earth-orbit cosmic-ray background for the Astro-E2 XRS instrument", Saab T, Fujimoto R, Kilbourne CA, and Kelley RL, 2004, Proc. SPIE, 5501, 320. “The science and technology of microcalorimeter arrays”, Kilbourne CA, invited, 2004, Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Low Temperature Detectors – 2003, NIM A, 520, 402. “The next-generation microcalorimeter array of XRS on ASTRO-E2”, Stahle CK, Allen CA, Boyce KR, Brekosky RP, Brown GV, Cottam J, Figueroa-Feliciano E, Galeazzi M, Gygax JD, Jacobson MB, Kelley RL, Liu, D, McCammon D, McClanahan RA, Moseley SH, Porter FS, Rocks LE, Szymkowiak AE, and Vaillancourt JE, 2004, Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Low Temperature Detectors – 2003, NIM A, 520, 466. “Cosmic ray effects in microcalorimeter arrays”, Stahle CK, Boyce KR, Brown GV, Cottam J, Figueroa-Feliciano E, Galeazzi M, Kelley RL, McCammon D, Porter FS, Szymkowiak AE, and Tillotson WA, 2004, Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Low Temperature Detectors – 2003, NIM A, 520, 472. “Microcalorimeter optimization for the Constellation-X mission”, Bandler S, Figueroa-Feliciano E, Boyce K, Chervenak J, Finkbeiner F, Hammock C, Kelley R, Lindeman M, Porter FS, and Stahle CK, 2004, Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Low Temperature Detectors – 2003, NIM A, 520, 285. “Next generation of silicon-based x-ray microcalorimeters”, Stahle CK, Allen CA, Boyce KR, Brekosky RP, Brown GV, Cottam J, Figueroa-Feliciano E, Galeazzi M, Gygax JD, Jacobson MB, Kelley RL, Liu, D, McCammon D, McClanahan RA, Moseley SH, Porter FS, Rocks LE, Sanders WT, Szymkowiak AE, Tan P, and Vaillancourt JE, 2003. Proc. SPIE, 4851, 1394 “A high spectral resolution observation of the soft x-ray diffuse background with thermal detectors”, McCammon D, Almy R, Apodaca E, Bergmann Tiest W, Cui W, Deiker S, Galeazzi M, Juda M, Lesser A, Mihara T, Morgenthaler J, Sanders WT, Zhang J, Figueroa-Feliciano E, Kelley RL, Moseley SH, Mushotzky RF, Porter FS, Stahle CK, and Szymkowiak AE, 2002, Ap. J., 576, 188. “Arraying compact pixels of transition-edge microcalorimeters for imaging x-ray spectroscopy”, Stahle CK, Lindeman MA, Figueroa-Feliciano E, Li MJ, Tralshawala N, Finkbeiner FM, Brekosky RP, and Chervenak JA, 2002, Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Low Temperature Detectors – 2001, ed. Porter FS, McCammon D, Galeazzi M, and Stahle CK, AIP Conference Proceedings, 605, 223 “ACIS Imaging and Spectroscopy of the SNR W49B”, Stahle CK, Petre R, Hwang U, Harrus IM, and Holt SS, 2001, Proceedings of the New Century of X-ray Astronomy – 2001, ed. Inoue H and Kunieda H, ASP Conference Series 251, 278 “Quantum Calorimetry”, Stahle CK, McCammon D, and Irwin KD, 1999, Physics Today, 52, 32. “Design and Performance of the Astro-E/XRS Microcalorimeter Array and Anti-coincidence Detector”, Stahle, CK. et al., 1999, Proc. SPIE, 3765, 128. “Toward a 2-eV Microcalorimeter X-ray Spectrometer for Constellation-X”, Stahle CK, et al., 1999, Proc. SPIE, 3765, 82. “The Physics and the Optimization of the XRS Calorimeters on Astro-E”, Stahle CK, et al., 1999, NIM A, 436, 218. "Non-Ohmnic Effects in Hopping Conduction in Doped Silicon and Germanium Between 0.05 and 1 Kelvin", Zhang J, Cui W, Juda M, McCammon D, Kelley RL, Moseley SH, Stahle CK, Szymkowiak AE, 1998, Phys. Rev. B, 677, 57, 4472. “The X-ray Spectrum of SMC X-1”, Stahle CK, Ebisawa K, Kelley RL, Mukai K, and White NE, 1997, in 'X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy of Cosmic Hot Plasmas', Proceedings of ASCA Third Anniversary International Symposium on X-ray Astronomy, Universal Academy Press, Inc., Tokyo, 495. "Microcalorimeter Arrays for High Resolution Soft X-ray Spectroscopy", Stahle CK., Kelley RL, McCammon D, Moseley SH, and Szymkowiak AE, Nucl. Inst. and Meth., 1996, A370, 173. “Charge Collection and Thermalization in a Composite Calorimetric and Ionization X-ray Detector”, Stahle CK, Wouters J, Kelley RL, Moseley SH, and Szymkowiak AE, 1994, J. Appl Phys 75, 3723. “Delayed Thermalization of X-rays Absorbed in Tin Films Far Below the Superconducting Transition Temperature”, Stahle CK, Kelley RL, Moseley SH, Szymkowiak, AE, Juda M, McCammon D, and Zhang J, 1994, Physica B, 194, 127. "Thermalization of X-rays in Evaporated Tin and Bismuth Films Used as the Absorbing Materials in X-ray Calorimeters", Stahle CK, Kelley RL, Moseley SH, Szymkowiak AE, Juda M, McCammon D, and Zhang J, 1993, J. Low Temp. Phys., 93, 257. “Adapting Calorimetric X-ray Detectors for Compton Scattering Experiments Performed at High Energies”, Stahle CK, Osheroff, D, Kelley RL, Moseley SH, and Szymkowiak AE, 1992, Nucl. Inst. Meth., A319, 393. PRIOR NAME: Caroline Kilbourne Stahle (1988-2003) Publications at the ADS website.
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