Science - Evolution of Galaxies: People: Amy Mainzer

WISE
Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) is a four-channel, super-cooled infrared telescope designed to survey the entire sky with 1,000 times more sensitivity than previous infrared missions.

Spitzer
The Spitzer Space Telescope (formerly SIRTF, the Space Infrared Telescope Facility) was launched into space by a Delta rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida on 25 August 2003.

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Astrophysics and Space Sciences Section (2003-present)

Principal Scientist (2012-Present)
Principal Investigator, Near Earth Object Camera (NEOCam), a proposed Discovery mission selected for technology development funding in 2011
Deputy Project Scientist, Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
Principal Investigator, NEOWISE, an enhancement to the WISE data processing pipeline that will facilitate solar system science, including discovery of new asteroids with WISE

Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center (1995-2003)
- Principal Investigator, Pointing Calibration & Reference Sensor (PCRS) for Spitzer Space Telescope. The PCRS is the Observatory's fine guidance sensor, and it has been operational on-orbit since 2003.

NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal (2011)
NASA Group Achievement Award Near Earth Objects Observation Program Team (2011)
NASA Group Achievement Award WISE Project Science Team (2011)
Lew Allen Award for Excellence (2010)
Muhlmann Award from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific to the Spitzer Space Telescope Team (2010)
JPL Ranger Award (2008 and 2011)
NASA Graduate Student Research Program Fellowship (2001-2003)
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (1996-1999)

Mainzer, A., Tommy Grav, Joseph Masiero, James Bauer, Edward L Wright, Roc M. Cutri, Russell Walker, and Robert McMillan. "Thermal Model Calibration for Minor Planets Observed with WISE/NEOWISE: Comparison with IRAS" 2011 ApJL accepted.
Mainzer, A.; Grav, T.; Masiero, J.; Bauer, J.; Wright, E.; Cutri, R. M.; McMillan, R. S.; Cohen, M.; Ressler, M.; Eisenhardt, P. "Thermal Model Calibration for Minor Planets Observed with WISE/NEOWISE" ApJ 2011 accepted.
Bauer, J. M.; Walker, R. W.; Mainzer, A.; Masiero, J.; Grav, T.; et al. "WISE/NEOWISE Observations of Comet 103P/Hartley 2" 2011 ApJ accepted.
Masiero, J., Mainzer, A., T. Grav, Bauer, J., et al. "Main Belt Asteroids with WISE/NEOWISE I: Preliminary Albedos and Diameters" 2011 ApJ accepted.
Mainzer, A.; Bauer, J.; Grav, T.; Masiero, J.; Cutri, R.M.; Dailey, J.; Eisenhardt, P.; McMillan, R.S.; Wright, E.; Walker, R.; and 25 coauthors. "Preliminary Results from NEOWISE: An Enhancement to the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer for Solar System Science" 2011 ApJ 731, 53
Mainzer, A.; Cushing, Michael C.; Skrutskie, M.; Gelino, C.R.; Kirkpatrick, J.Davy; Jarrett, T.; Masci, F.; Marley, Mark S.; Saumon, D.; Wright, E.; and 10 coauthors. "The First Ultra-cool Brown Dwarf Discovered by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer", ApJ 726, 30 (2011).
Ressler, Michael E.; Cohen, Martin; Wachter, Stefanie; Hoard, D.W.; Mainzer, A.; Wright,EdwardL. "The Discovery of Infrared Rings in the Planetary Nebula NGC 1514 During the WISE All-sky Survey", AJ 140, 1882 (2010).
Wright, Edward L.; Eisenhardt, Peter R.M.; Mainzer, Amy K.; Ressler, Michael E.; Cutri, Roc M.; Jarrett, Thomas; Kirkpatrick, J. Davy; Padgett, Deborah; McMillan, Robert S.; Skrutskie, Michael; and 28 coauthors. "The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE): Mission Description and Initial On-orbit Performance", AJ 140, 1868 (2010).
Bacon, Candice M.; McMurtry, Craig W.; Pipher, Judith L.; Mainzer, A.; Forrest, William "Effect of dislocations on dark current in LWIR HgCdTe photodiodes", SPIE 7742, 50 (2010).
Mainzer, A.; Larsen, Mark; Stapelbroek, Maryn G.; Hogue, Henry; Garnett, James; Zandian, Majid; Mattson, Reed; Masterjohn, Stacy; Livingston, John; Lingner, Nicole; and 3 coauthors "Characterization of flight detector arrays for the wide-field infrared survey explorer", SPIE 7021, 27 (2008).
Mainzer, A.K.; Hogue, Henry; Stapelbroek, Maryn; Molyneux, Dale; Hong, John; Werner, Mike; Ressler, Michael; Young, Erick "Characterization of a megapixel mid-infrared array for high background applications", SPIE 7021, 24 (2008).
Gautier, Thomas N.,III; Rebull, L.M.; Stapelfeldt, K.R.; Mainzer, A. "Spitzer-MIPS Observations of the η Chamaeleontis Young Association", ApJ 683, 813 (2008).
Mainzer, A.; Roellig, Thomas L.; Saumon, D.; Marley, Mark S.; Cushing, Michael C.; Sloan, G.C.; Kirkpatrick, J. Davy; Leggett, S.K.; Wilson, John C., "Moderate-Resolution Spitzer Infrared Spectrograph Observations of M, L, and T Dwarfs", ApJ 662, 1245 (2007).
Mainzer, A.; McLean, Ian S., "Using Narrowband Photometry to Detect Young Brown Dwarfs in IC 348", ApJ 597, 555 (2003).
Mainzer, A.; McLean, Ian S.; Aliado, Ted; Becklin, Eric E.; Brims, George; Goulter, John; Kress, Evan; Magnone, Nick; Milburn, John; Skulason, Gunnar; Spencer, Michael, "Characterization of FLITECAM: the first light camera for SOFIA," Airborne Telescope Systems II. Edited by Ramsey K. Melugin, Hans-Peter Roeser. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 4857, pp. 21-28 (2003).
Mainzer, A.; Young, Erick T.; Greene, Thomas P.; Acu, Nagarjuna; Jamieson, Thomas H.; Mora, Hank; Sarfati, Sean; van Bezooijen, Roelof W. "Pointing calibration and reference sensor for the Space Infrared Telescope Facility," Proc. SPIE Vol. 3356, p. 1095-1101, Space Telescopes and Instruments V (1998).