Darren Dowell
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4800 Oak Grove Drive
M/S 169-506
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818.393.5032Fax:
818.354.8895Member of:
Interstellar and Heliospheric PhysicsEducation
- B.A., Physics (Space Physics and Astronomy), cum laude, Rice University (1991)
- M.S., Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago (1992)
- Ph.D., Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago (1997)
Professional Experience
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Scientist/Research Scientist (2003 - Present)
- California Institute of Technology, Department of Physics (1997 - 2003)
- Sr. Postdoctoral Scholar (2000 - 2003)
- Postdoctoral Scholar (1997 - 2000)
Research Interests
- Astronomical instrumentation
- Polarimetry, as applied to studies of interstellar magnetic fields and the cosmic microwaveBackground
- Far-IR detectors
- Far-IR investigations of star formation
Selected Awards
- JPL Voyager Award (2017, 2022)
- USRA Award for Outstanding Scientific Contribution to SOFIA (2019)
- NASA Outstanding Public Leadership Medal (2018)
- NASA Group Achievement Awards (2018, 2009)
Selected Publications
- Y.M. Seo, C. D. Dowell, P. F. Goldsmith, J. L. Pineda, & L. Majumdar, Astrophysical Journal, 917, 57 (2021) – “Probing Polarization and the Role of Magnetic Fields in Cloud Destruction in the Keyhole Nebula”
- T.J. Jones, J.-A. Kim, C.D. Dowell, et al., Astronomical Journal, 160, 167 (2020) – “HAWC+ Far-infrared Observations of the Magnetic Field Geometry in M51 and NGC 891”
- E. Lopez-Rodriguez, C.D. Dowell, et al., Astrophysical Journal, 888, 66 (2020) – “SOFIA/HAWC+ Traces the Magnetic Fields in NGC 1068”
- D. T. Chuss, B.-G. Andersson, J. Bally, J. D. Dotson, C. D. Dowell, et al., Astrophysical Journal, 872, 187 (2019) – “HAWC+/SOFIA Multiwavelength Polarimetric Observations of OMC-1”
- D. A. Harper, M. C. Runyan, C. D. Dowell, et al., Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation, 7, 1840008 (2018) – “HAWC+, the Far-Infrared Camera and Polarimeter for SOFIA”
- C. D. Dowell, A. Conley, J. Glenn, et al., Astrophysical Journal, 780, 75 (2014) – “HerMES: Candidate High-redshift Galaxies Discovered with Herschel/SPIRE”
- BICEP2 Collaboration, including C. D. Dowell, Physical Review Letters, 112, 241101 (2014) – “Detection of B-Mode Polarization at Degree Angular Scales by BICEP2”
- H. C. Chiang, et al., including C. D. Dowell, Astrophysical Journal, 711, 1123 (2010) – “Measurement of Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Power Spectra from Two Years of BICEP Data”
- C. D. Dowell, et al., Proc. SPIE, 7731, 101 (2010) – “Status of the SPIRE photometer data processing pipelines during the early phases of the Herschel Mission”
- K. Tassis, C. D. Dowell, R. H. Hildebrand, L. Kirby, & J. E. Vaillancourt, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 399, 1681 (2009) – “Statistical Assessment of Shapes and Magnetic Field Orientations in Molecular Clouds through Polarization Observations”
- C. D. Dowell, C. A. Allen, S. Babu, M. M. Freund, M. B. Gardner, J. Groseth, M. Jhabvala, A. Kovacs, D. C. Lis, S. H. Moseley, T. G. Phillips, R. Silverberg, G. Voellmer, & H. Yoshida, in “Millimeter and Submillimeter Detectors for Astronomy”, ed. T. G. Phillips & J. Zmuidzinas, Proc. SPIE, 4855, 73 (2003) – “SHARC II: a Caltech Submillimeter Observatory facility camera with 384 pixels”
- C. D. Dowell, R. H. Hildebrand, D. A. Schleuning, J. E. Vaillancourt, J. L. Dotson, G. Novak, T. Renbarger, & M. Houde, Astrophysical Journal, 504, 588 (1998) – “Submillimeter Array Polarimetry with Hertz”
- C. D. Dowell, Astrophysical Journal, 487, 237 (1997) – “Far-Infrared Polarization by Absorption in the Molecular Cloud Sagittarius B2”