Publications (8)
Description of the Damn Yankee Controller (DYC)
Steve Bracker, Sten Hansen
Versions of the Damn Yankee Controller (DYC) have been used to read out digitizers on the Fermilab E791, E835, FOCUS, SELEX, and KTeV experiments. The DYC accepts 16-bit data and c…
Spitzer Analysis of HII Region Complexes in the Magellanic Clouds: Determining a Suitable Monochromatic Obscured Star Formation Indicator
Brandon Lawton, Karl D. Gordon, Brian Babler +18
HII regions are the birth places of stars, and as such they provide the best measure of current star formation rates (SFRs) in galaxies. The close proximity of the Magellanic Cloud…
The Mass-Loss Return From Evolved Stars to the LMC: Empirical Relations for Excess Emission at 8 and 24 μm
Sundar Srinivasan, Margaret Meixner, Claus Leitherer +18
We present empirical relations describing excess emission from evolved stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) using data from the SAGE (Surveying the Agents of a Galaxy's Evolut…
An Efficient Multiprocessor Management System for Event-Parallel Computing
Don Summers, Steve Bracker, Krishnaswamy Gounder +1
Performance of software using TCP/IP sockets to distribute events to UNIX workstations is described. This simple software was written at the University of Mississippi to control UM…
Surveying the Agents of Galaxy Evolution in the Tidally-Stripped, Low Metallicity Small Magellanic Cloud (SAGE-SMC) II. Cool Evolved Stars
Martha L. Boyer, Sundar Srinivasan, Jacco Th. van Loon +17
We investigate the infrared (IR) properties of cool, evolved stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), including the red giant branch (RGB) stars and the dust-producing red superg…
Dust Production and Mass Loss in the Galactic Globular Cluster NGC 362
Martha L. Boyer, Iain McDonald, Jacco Th. van Loon +14
We investigate dust production and stellar mass loss in the Galactic globular cluster NGC 362. Due to its close proximity to the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), NGC 362 was imaged wi…
Surveying the Agents of Galaxy Evolution in the Tidally-Stripped, Low Metallicity Small Magellanic Cloud (SAGE-SMC). I. Overview
Karl D. Gordon, Margaret Meixner, Marilyn Meade +57
The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) provides a unique laboratory for the study of the lifecycle of dust given its low metallicity (~1/5 solar) and relative proximity (~60 kpc). This m…
A Simple Multiprocessor Management System for Event-Parallel Computing
Steve Bracker, Krishnaswamy Gounder, Kevin Hendrix +1
Offline software using TCP/IP sockets to distribute particle physics events to multiple UNIX/RISC workstations is described. A modular, building block approach was taken, which all…