Dr. Jeff T. Booth Profile

Dr. Jeff T. Booth

Manager, Astrophysics & Physics Formulation Office at Jet Propulsion Lab

SPIE Involvement:

Conference Program Committee | Author

SPIE Journal Paper | 13 March 2021 Open Access

Origins Space Telescope: trades and decisions leading to the baseline mission concept

David Leisawitz, Edward Amatucci, Lynn Allen, Jonathan Arenberg, Lee Armus, Cara Battersby, James Bauer, Ray Bell, Dominic Benford, Edwin Bergin, Jeffrey Booth, Charles Bradford, Damon Bradley, Sean Carey, Ruth Carter, Asantha Cooray, James Corsetti, Larry Dewell, Michael DiPirro, Bret Drake, Matthew East, Kimberly Ennico, Greg Feller, Angel Flores, Jonathan Fortney, Zachary Granger, Thomas Greene, Joseph Howard, Tiffany Kataria, John Knight, Charles Lawrence, Paul Lightsey, John Mather, Margaret Meixner, Gary Melnick, Craig McMurtry, Stefanie Milam, Samuel Moseley, Desika Narayanan, Alison Nordt, Deborah Padgett, Klaus Pontoppidan, Alexandra Pope, Gerard Rafanelli, David Redding, George Rieke, Thomas Roellig, Itsuki Sakon, Carly Sandin, Karin Sandstrom, Anita Sengupta, Kartik Sheth, Lawrence Sokolsky, Johannes Staguhn, John Steeves, Kevin Stevenson, Kate Su, Joaquin Vieira, Cassandra Webster, Martina Wiedner, Edward Wright, Chi Wu, David Yanatsis, Jonas Zmuidzinas, the Origins Space Telescope Mission Concept Study Team

JATIS, Vol. 7, Issue 01, 011014, (March 2021) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.10.1117/1.JATIS.7.1.011014

KEYWORDS: Space telescopes, Telescopes, James Webb Space Telescope, Mirrors, Optical instrument design, Astronomy, Space operations, Cryogenics, Aerospace engineering, Cryocoolers

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SPIE Journal Paper | 9 January 2021 Open Access

Starshade rendezvous: exoplanet sensitivity and observing strategy

Andrew Romero-Wolf, Geoffrey Bryden, Sara Seager, N. Jeremy Kasdin, Jeff Booth, Matt Greenhouse, Doug Lisman, Bruce Macintosh, Stuart Shaklan, Melissa Vess, Steve Warwick, David Webb, John Ziemer, Andrew Gray, Michael Hughes, Greg Agnes, Jonathan Arenberg, S. Case Bradford, Michael Fong, Jennifer Gregory, Steve Matousek, Jason Rhodes, Phil Willems, Simone D'Amico, John Debes, Shawn Domagal-Goldman, Sergi Hildebrandt, Renyu Hu, Alina Kiessling, Nikole Lewis, Maxime Rizzo, Aki Roberge, Tyler Robinson, Leslie Rogers, Dmitry Savransky, Chris Stark

JATIS, Vol. 7, Issue 02, 021210, (January 2021) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.10.1117/1.JATIS.7.2.021210

KEYWORDS: Planets, Exoplanets, Stars, Telescopes, Signal to noise ratio, Spectroscopy, Target detection, Observatories, Sensors, Point spread functions

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Proceedings Article | 1 August 2018 Presentation + Paper

The Habitable Exoplanet Observatory (HabEx)

B. Scott Gaudi, Bertrand Mennesson, Sara Seager, Kerri Cahoy, John Clarke, Shawn Domagal-Goldman, Lee Feinberg, Olivier Guyon, Jeremy Kasdin, Christian Marois, Dimitri Mawet, Motohide Tamura, David Mouillet, Timo Prusti, Andreas Quirrenbach, Tyler Robinson, Leslie Rogers, Paul Scowen, Rachel Somerville, Karl Stapelfeldt, Christopher Stark, Daniel Stern, Martin Still, Margaret Turnbull, Jeffrey Booth, Alina Kiessling, Gary Kuan, Keith Warfield

Proceedings Volume 10698, 106980P (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2312278

KEYWORDS: Exoplanets, Planets, Ultraviolet radiation, Stars, Coronagraphy, Observatories, Imaging spectroscopy, Telescopes, Planetary systems, Astrophysics

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Proceedings Article | 24 August 2016 Paper

The Habitable Exoplanet (HabEx) Imaging Mission: preliminary science drivers and technical requirements

Bertrand Mennesson, Scott Gaudi, Sara Seager, Kerri Cahoy, Shawn Domagal-Goldman, Lee Feinberg, Olivier Guyon, Jeremy Kasdin, Christian Marois, Dimitri Mawet, Motohide Tamura, David Mouillet, Timo Prusti, Andreas Quirrenbach, Tyler Robinson, Leslie Rogers, Paul Scowen, Rachel Somerville, Karl Stapelfeldt, Daniel Stern, Martin Still, Margaret Turnbull, Jeffrey Booth, Alina Kiessling, Gary Kuan, Keith Warfield

Proceedings Volume 9904, 99040L (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2240457

KEYWORDS: Stars, Planets, Galactic astronomy, Imaging spectroscopy, Exoplanets, Telescopes, Coronagraphy, Astrophysics, Ultraviolet radiation, Spectroscopy

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Proceedings Article | 6 August 2010 Paper

Euclid imaging channels: from science to system requirements

J. Amiaux, J. L. Auguères, O. Boulade, C. Cara, S. Paulin-Henriksson, A. Réfrégier, S. Ronayette, A. Amara, A. Glauser, C. Dumesnil, A. Di Giorgio, J. Booth, M. Schweitzer, R. Holmes, M. Cropper, E. Atad-Ettedgui, L. Duvet, D. Lumb

Proceedings Volume 7731, 77311I (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.857030

KEYWORDS: Galactic astronomy, Near infrared, Point spread functions, Visible radiation, Imaging spectroscopy, Satellites, Mirrors, Sensors, Error analysis, Imaging systems

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Proceedings Article | 6 August 2010 Paper

NIP: the near infrared imaging photometer for Euclid

Mario Schweitzer, Ralf Bender, Reinhard Katterloher, Frank Eisenhauer, Reiner Hofmann, Roberto Saglia, Rory Holmes, Oliver Krause, Hans-Walter Rix, Jeff Booth, Parker Fagrelius, Jason Rhodes, Suresh Seshadri, Alexandre Refregier, Jerome Amiaux, Jean-Louis Augueres, Olivier Boulade, Christophe Cara, Adam Amara, Simon Lilly, Eli Atad-Ettedgui, Anna-Maria Di Giorgio, Ludovic Duvet, Christopher Kuehl, Mohsin Syed

Proceedings Volume 7731, 77311K (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.857031

KEYWORDS: Sensors, Near infrared, Staring arrays, Electronics, Monochromatic aberrations, Photometry, Point spread functions, Thermography, Galactic astronomy, Interfaces

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Proceedings Article | 12 July 2008 Paper

The Observatory for Multi-Epoch Gravitational Lens Astrophysics (OMEGA)

Leonidas Moustakas, Adam Bolton, Jeffrey Booth, James Bullock, Edward Cheng, Dan Coe, Christopher Fassnacht, Varoujan Gorjian, Cate Heneghan, Charles Keeton, Christopher Kochanek, Charles Lawrence, Philip Marshall, R. Benton Metcalf, Priyamvada Natarajan, Shouleh Nikzad, Bradley Peterson, Joachim Wambsganss

Proceedings Volume 7010, 70101B (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.789987

KEYWORDS: Galactic astronomy, Sensors, Imaging spectroscopy, Mirrors, Spectroscopy, Observatories, Astrophysics, Photometry, Space telescopes, Hubble Space Telescope

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Dark matter in a universe dominated by a cosmological constant seeds the formation of structure and is the scaffolding for galaxy formation. The nature of dark matter remains one of the fundamental unsolved problems in astrophysics and physics even though it represents 85% of the mass in the universe, and nearly one quarter of its total mass-energy budget. The mass function of dark matter "substructure" on sub-galactic scales may be enormously sensitive to the mass and properties of the dark matter particle. On astrophysical scales, especially at cosmological distances, dark matter substructure may only be detected through its gravitational influence on light from distant varying sources. Specifically, these are largely active galactic nuclei (AGN), which are accreting super-massive black holes in the centers of galaxies, some of the most extreme objects ever found. With enough measurements of the flux from AGN at different wavelengths, and their variability over time, the detailed structure around AGN, and even the mass of the super-massive black hole can be measured. The Observatory for Multi-Epoch Gravitational Lens Astrophysics (OMEGA) is a mission concept for a 1.5-m near-UV through near-IR space observatory that will be dedicated to frequent imaging and spectroscopic monitoring of ~100 multiply-imaged active galactic nuclei over the whole sky. Using wavelength-tailored dichroics with extremely high transmittance, efficient imaging in six channels will be done simultaneously during each visit to each target. The separate spectroscopic mode, engaged through a flip-in mirror, uses an image slicer spectrograph. After a period of many visits to all targets, the resulting multidimensional movies can then be analyzed to a) measure the mass function of dark matter substructure; b) measure precise masses of the accreting black holes as well as the structure of their accretion disks and their environments over several decades of physical scale; and c) measure a combination of Hubble's local expansion constant and cosmological distances to unprecedented precision. We present the novel OMEGA instrumentation suite, and how its integrated design is ideal for opening the time domain of known cosmologically-distant variable sources, to achieve the stated scientific goals.

Proceedings Article | 12 July 2008 Paper

The focal plane instrumentation for the DUNE mission

Jeff Booth, Mark Cropper, Frank Eisenhauer, Alexandre Refregier

Proceedings Volume 7010, 70101D (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.790066

KEYWORDS: Near infrared, Charge-coupled devices, Staring arrays, Sensors, Mirrors, Electronics, Point spread functions, Calibration, Space operations, Space telescopes

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Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray

16 June 2024 | Yokohama, Japan

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