Jeffrey D. Crane
Carnegie Observatories813 Santa Barbara Street
Pasadena, CA 91101
626.304.0217
crane[at]ociw.edu
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Jeffrey D. CraneCarnegie Observatories813 Santa Barbara Street Pasadena, CA 91101 626.304.0217 crane[at]ociw.edu
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I'm a Carnegie Fellow in Instrumentation at the Observatories of the
Carnegie Institution of Washington. In addition to instrumentation, my
primary scientific interests involve understanding the formation and
evolution of the Milky Way and its satellites. I've recently finished commissioning the Carnegie Planet Finder Spectrograph (PFS) for the Magellan telescopes, primarily with Steve Shectman and Paul Butler. I am currently working on the design of the Michigan/Magellan Fiber System (M2FS), a multi-fiber optical echelle spectrograph, with Mario Mateo as Principal Investigator. I am also involved with several smaller projects, including the upgrade of the IMACS low dispersion prism and prototype testing of mirror actuators for the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT). As a graduate student at the University of Virginia, I worked with Steve Majewski on various projects related to Galactic structure and built the Fan Observatory Bench Optical Spectrograph. |