Stephen T. Ridgway

• B.A. Physics, Carlton College, 1966
• Ph.D. Physics, SUNY Stony Brook, 1972

Astronomer, National Optical Astronomy Observatory, 1980 - present

Visiting Scientist, Observatory of Lyon, 1984-1985

Visiting Scientist, Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy, Georgia State University, 1994 - 2000

Adjunct Professor, Georgia State University, 1996 - present

Pascal International Research Chair, Foundation of the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Meudon Observatory, 2002-2004

Program Scientist, NASA Headquarters, Astrophysics Division, 2005-2008

Selected Publications

• Galilean Satellites: Identification of Water Frost, Science 178, 1087, 1972
• Jupiter: Identification of Ethane and Acetylene, Ap. J. 187, 41-43, 1974
• Polyatomic Species Contributing to the Carbon Star 3 Micrometer Band, Ap. J. 225, 138-147, 1978
• Astronomical Fourier Transform Spectroscopy Revisited, Ann. Rev. Astron. Astrophys. 22, 291-318, 1984
• The IRC + 10 216 Circumstellar Envelope: II. Spatial Measurements of the Dust, Ap. J. 326, 843-858, 1988
• The Impact of Adaptive Optics on Focal Plane Instrumentation, in Adaptive Optics for Astronomy, ed. D.M. Alloin and J.M. Mariotti, NATO ASI Series, Ser. C, Vol. 423, 269-286, 1994
• Design of Arrays for Ground-Based Optical Interferometry, in High Angular Resolution in Astrophysics, Kluwer, 13-38, 1997
Ultraviolet-Optical Space Astronomy beyond HST, ed. J.A. Morse, J.M. Shull, A.L. Kinney, 352, 1988
• Filling Factor and Signal-to-Noise Ratios in Optical Interferometry, PASP 111, 990-996, 1999
• An Infrared Very Large Array for the 21st Century, SPIE 4006, 940-950, 2000
• Comparison of Several Coronagraphic Approaches to the Terrestrial Planet Finder, in Proceedings of the Conference on Towards Other Earths: DARWIN/TPF and the Search for Extrasolar Terrestrial Planet, ESA SP-539, Noordwijk, Netherlands: ESA Publications Division, ed. M. Fridlund and T. Henning, 561-563, 2000
• The CHARA Visible/IR Array on Mt. Wilson: Small Telescopes with Large Baselines, in The Future of Small Telescopes in the New Millenium, ed. T. Oswalt, Astgrophysics and Space Science Library, V. 287-289, 2001
• Theoretical Limits on Extrasolar Terrestrial Planet Detection with Coronagraphs, ApJS 167, 81, 2003
• Optical Interferometry: How far we’ve come, Where we Are, Métrologie 6/1-4 227, 2006
• Adaptive Optics for the CHARA Array, SPIE 7013, 102R, 2008

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Email: ridgway@noao.edu

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