Tod R. Lauer

Infobox Scientist
name = Tod R. Lauer


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birth_date =
birth_place = Ohio
residence = United States
citizenship = United States
nationality = USA
field = Astronomy
work_institution = NOAO
Princeton University
alma_mater = Caltech
UC Santa Cruz
prizes = NASA Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement (1992)

Tod R. Lauer is an associate astronomer on the research staff of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory. He was a member of the Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field and Planetary Camera team. His research interests includes observational searches for massive black holes [Lauer, T. R. et al. 2007, Astrophysical Journal v.662, pp. 808-834; "The Masses of Nuclear Black Holes in Luminous Elliptical Galaxies and Implications for the Space Density of the Most Massive Black Holes"] in the centers of galaxies, the structure of elliptical galaxies, stellar populations, large scale structure of the Universe, and astronomical image processing [Lauer, T. R. 1999, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific v.111, pp. 227-237; "Combining Undersampled Dithered Images"] . He is presently PI of the Destiny JDEM concept study [Benford, D. J. & T. R. Lauer 2006, Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 6265, pp. 626528 "Destiny: a candidate architecture for the Joint Dark Energy Mission"] . Asteroid 3135 Lauer is named for him.

References

External links

* [http://www.noao.edu/noao/staff/lauer/ Tod Lauer's web page at NOAO]
* [http://www.noao.edu/noao/staff/lauer/destiny.htm Destiny Team's web page]