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Alfred B. Schultz

Solar System Exploration Division Services Office
NASA/GSFC, Code 690.1
Greenbelt, MD 20771

Phone: (301)286 8132

FAX: (301) 286-1771

Email: schultz@mail630.gsfc.nasa.gov

Education


    BS Physics, 1975, University of California, Davis, CA;
    MS Physics, 1978, University of Nevada, Reno, NV;
    PhD Physics, 1982, University of Nevada, Reno, NV;

Current Position


    Technical overseer of Planetary Data System (PDS),
    Monthly reports manager for NASA Headquarters and PDS program management,
    Workshops coordinator and/or reviewer.

Selected Publications


1998 Schultz, A.B., et al., "A Possible Companion to Proxima Centauri," AJ, 115, 345.

1998 Sinner, C.J., Bergeron, L.E., Schultz, A.B., et al., "On-orbit properties of the NICMOS Detectors on HST," Proc. SPIE Vol. 3354, 2.

1998 Schultz, A. B., et al., "Hubble Space Telescope/Faint Object Spectrograph Imaging of Wolf 424 AB: Is This Binary a Double Brown Dwarf System?," PASP, 110, 31.

1998 Schultz, A.B., et al., "First Results from the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph: Optical Spectra of Gl229B," ApJ, 492, L181.

1999 Schultz, A.B., et al., "Imaging Planets About Other Stars with UMBRAS," Proc. SPIE Vol. 3759, 49-58.

2000 Schultz, A.B., et al., "Imaging Planets About Other Stars with UMBRAS II," Proc. SPIE Vol. 4131, 132-140.

2001 Suchkov, A.A. and Schultz, A.B., "Evidence for a Very Young Age of F Stars with Extrasolar Planets," ApJ, 549, L237.

2002 McGrath, M.A., Nelan, E., Black, D.C., Gatewood, G., Noll, K., Schultz, A., et al., "An Upper Limit to the Mass of the Radial Velocity Companion to Rho1 Cancri," ApJ, 564, L27.

2003 Schultz, A.B., et al., "Monitoring the Planetary Transits of HD 209458b," ASP Conf. Ser. 294, 479.

2003 Schultz, A.B., et al., "UMBRAS: a matched occulter and telescope for imaging extrasolar planets," Proc. of SPIE Vol. 4860, 54-61.

2003 Schultz, A.B., et al., "Imaging terrestrial planets with a free-flying occulter and space telescope: an optical simulation," Proc. SPIE, 5170, 262.

2003 Jordan, I.J.E., Wu, C.-C., Schultz, A.B., Kochte, M., and Hart, H.M., "NOME: Modifying Nexus into an Occulter for use with NGST," JBIS, 56, 218.

2003 Kochte, M., Schultz, A.B., et al., "Imaging Terrestrial Planets," AIP Conf. Proc. 713: The Search for Other Worlds, eds. S. Holt & D. Deming (New York:AIP), 223.

2003 Schultz, A.B. et al., "HST/FGS Photometry of Planetary Transits of HD 209458b," AIP Conf. Proc. 713: The Search for Other Worlds, eds. S. Holt & D. Deming (New York:AIP), 161.

2004 Fraquelli, D.A., Schultz, A.B., Bushouse, H., Hart, H.M. and Vener, P., "NICMOS Coronagraphy," PASP, 116, 55.

2004 Kochte, M., Schultz, A.B., et al., "External Occulter Operations Requirements," Space Ops 2004, May 17-21, 2004 Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

2005 Kochte, M., Schultz, A.B., et al., "Doing the Tango, Enhancing JWST with an Occulter," Proc. of STScI May 2005 Symposium: A Decade of Extrasolar Planets Around Normal Stars, eds. M. Livio, K. Sahu, & J. Valenti (Baltimore:STScI), 26.

2005 Schultz, A.B. et al., "Transiting Planet Light Curves with the Fine Guidance Sensor," Proc. of STScI May 2005 Symposium: A Decade of Extrasolar Planets Around Normal Stars, eds. M. Livio, K. Sahu, & J. Valenti (Baltimore:STScI), 64.


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