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Charles M. (Matt) Bradford

Education
  • B.S. Physics, Stanford University. (1994)
  • Ph.D. Experimental Astronomy, Cornell University, Advisor: Prof. Gordon Stacey. (2000)

Research Interests
  • The properties and energetics of the interstellar medium in galactic nuclei and regions of active star formation.
  • Far-IR - millimeter wave spectroscopic probes of the gas conditions in the Galaxy, nearby galaxies, and at high redshift.
  • Novel ground-based instrumentation to facilitate sensitive new spectroscopic measurements at the Earth's best submillimeter and millimeter-wave sites.
  • Development of technology to realize the astronomical potential of cryogenic orbital far-IR - millimeter wave observatories.

Projects

SAFIR Icon SAFIR
The Single Aperture Far-Infrared Observatory (SAFIR) is a large cryogenic space telescope envisioned as a follow-on to the Spitzer Space Telescope (Spitzer) and the Herschel Space Observatory.


Professional Experience
  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Research Scientist, Astrophysics Element (Oct 2003 - Present)
  • California Institute of Technology, R,A. Millikan Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Physics (Jan. 2001 - Sept. 2003)

Selected Publications
  1. Bradford, C.M., Naylor, B.J., Zmuidzinas, J., Bock, J.J., Dragovan, M., Yun, M., Earle, L., Glenn,J., Matsuhara, H., Ade, P., Duband, L. (2005) "Z-Spec: a broadband millimeter-wave grating spectrometer: design, construction, and first cryogenic measurements," Proc. SPIE 4850, 1137.
  2. Bradford, C.M., Nikola, T., Stacey, G.J., Bolatto, A.D., Jackson, J.M., Savage, M.L., Davidson, J.A., (2004) "High Resolution Imaging of CO (J=7->6) in the Central 2 pc of the Galaxy: Dynamical Heating of the Circumnuclear Disk," Astrophys. J. 623, 866.
  3. Pak, S., Jaffe, D.T., Stacey, G.J, Bradford, C.M., Klumpe, E., Keller, L. (2004), "Near Infrared Molecular Hydrogen Emission from the Central Regions of Galaxies: Regulated Physical Conditions in the Interstellar Medium," Astrophys. J., in press (astro-h403491)
  4. Bradford, C.M., Naylor, B.J., Zmuidzinas, J., Bock, J.J., Dragovan, M., Yun, M., Earle, L., Glenn,J., Matsuhara, H, Ade, P. Duband, L., (2003). "WaFIRS: a waveguide far-IR spectrometer: enabling spectroscopy of high-z galaxies in the far-IR and submillimeter." Proc. SPIE 4850, 1137.
  5. Bradford, C.M., Nikola, T., Stacey, G.J., Bolatto, A.D., Jackson, J.M., Savage, M.L., Davidson, J.A., Higdon, S.J. (2003) "CO (J=7->6) Observations of NGC 253: Evidence for Cosmic-Ray Heated Warm Molecular Gas," Astrophys. J. 586, 891.
  6. Bradford, C.M. & Zmuidzinas, J. (2003), 'The Future of Far-Infrared / Submillimeter Astrophysics with Single-Dish Telescopes,' Invited contribution to the 4th Cologne-Bonn- Zermatt Symposium on the Dense ISM in Galaxies (astro-ph401236).
  7. Bradford, C.M., Stacey, G.J., Swain, M.R., Nikola, T., Bolatto, A.D., Jackson, J.M., Savage, M.L., Davidson, J.A. and Ade, P., (2002), "SPIFI: a direct-detection imaging spectrometer for submillimeter wavelengths, Applied Optics, 41, 2561-2575.
  8. Bradford, C.M., Stacey, G.J., Nikola, T., Bolatto, A.D., Jackson, J.M., Savage, M.L., (2000), "Direct Detection CO (J=7->6) Spectroscopy of the Galactic Center and Starburst Galaxies: SPIFI at the JCMT," in Imaging at Radio through Submillimeter Wavelengths, ASP Proceedings v. 217, p. 43.
  9. Bradford, C.M., Stacey, G.J., Fischer, J., Smith, H.A., Cohen, R.J., Greenhouse, M.A., Lord, S.D., Lutz, D., Maiolino, R., Malkan, M.A., Rieu, N.Q. (1999), "ISO Spectroscopy of OH in the starburst galaxy NGC 253," in The Universe as seen by ISO, Eds. P. Cox & M.F. Kessler, p. 861.

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