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Overview

Valerie Connaughton is affiliated with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in the United States. Their research spans primarily the fields of Physics and Astronomy as well as Engineering, with specific focus on areas including Instrumentation, Biomedical Engineering, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

The scholar's work covers several main topics, notably:

  • Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
  • Photocathodes and Microchannel Plates
  • Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing

Valerie Connaughton's publication record includes contributions to the following frequent venues:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Among their recent scholarly works is the paper titled International Coordination of Multi-Messenger Transient Observations in the 2020s and Beyond: Kavli-IAU White Paper, published in 2020 through the arXiv platform. This work addresses collaborative frameworks for transient observations in multi-messenger astronomy.

Frequent collaborators in Valerie Connaughton's research include:

  • S. B. Cenko
  • P. A. Whitelock
  • L. Cadonati
  • Roger Davies
  • R. P. Fender

The combination of interdisciplinary technical fields and astronomy suggests that Valerie Connaughton's expertise integrates advanced instrumentation techniques applicable to astrophysical phenomena and adaptive optics, highlighting cross-cutting scientific contributions that support observational and experimental astrophysics.

Best Publications

  • Gravitational Waves and Gamma-Rays from a Binary Neutron Star Merger: GW170817 and GRB 170817A

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;F. Acernese

  • THE fermi gamma-ray burst monitor

    Charles Meegan;Giselher Lichti;P. N. Bhat;Elisabetta Bissaldi

  • An Ordinary Short Gamma-Ray Burst with Extraordinary Implications: Fermi-GBM Detection of GRB 170817A

    A. Goldstein;P. Veres;E. Burns;M. S. Briggs

  • Design concepts for the Cherenkov Telescope Array CTA: An advanced facility for ground-based high-energy gamma-ray astronomy

    M. Actis;G. Agnetta;F. Aharonian;A. Akhperjanian

  • The Fourth BATSE Gamma-Ray Burst Catalog (Revised)

    William S. Paciesas;Charles A. Meegan;Geoffrey N. Pendleton;Michael S. Briggs

  • Introducing the CTA concept

    B. S. Acharya;M. Actis;T. Aghajani;G. Agnetta

  • A limit on the variation of the speed of light arising from quantum gravity effects

    A. A. Abdo;M. Ackermann;M. Ajello;K. Asano

  • Detection of Gamma Rays with E > 300 GeV from Markarian 501

    J. Quinn;J. Quinn;C. W. Akerlof;S. Biller;J. Buckley

  • Fermi Observations of High-Energy Gamma-Ray Emission from GRB 080916C

    M. Ackermann;M. Ajello;L. Baldini;J. Ballet

  • The Fourth BATSE Gamma-Ray Burst Catalog (Revised)

    W. S. Paciesas;C. A. Meegan;G. N. Pendleton;M. S. Briggs

  • Fermi Observations of GRB 090902B: A Distinct Spectral Component in the Prompt and Delayed Emission

    A. A. Abdo;A. A. Abdo;M. Ackermann;M. Ajello;K. Asano

  • Science with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

    B.S. Acharya;I. Agudo;I. Al Samarai

  • Fermi observations of GRB 090510 : A short-hard gamma-ray burst with an additional, hard power-law component from 10 keV to GeV energies

    Markus Ackermann;K. Asano;W. B. Atwood;Magnus Axelsson;Magnus Axelsson

  • A relativistic type Ibc supernova without a detected gamma-ray burst.

    A. M. Soderberg;S. Chakraborti;G. Pignata;R. A. Chevalier

  • Fermi GBM Observations of LIGO Gravitational Wave event GW150914

    V. Connaughton;E. Burns;A. Goldstein;L. Blackburn;L. Blackburn

  • The First FERMI-LAT Gamma-Ray Burst Catalog

    M. Ackermann;M. Ajello;K. Asano;M. Axelsson;M. Axelsson

  • Fermi-LAT Observations of the Gamma-Ray Burst GRB 130427A

    M. Ackermann;M. Ajello;K. Asano;W. B. Atwood

  • Localization and broadband follow-up of the gravitational-wave transient GW150914

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;M. R. Abernathy

  • The Fermi GBM Gamma-Ray Burst Spectral Catalog: Four Years of Data

    David Gruber;Adam Goldstein;Victoria Weller von Ahlefeld;Victoria Weller von Ahlefeld;P. Narayana Bhat

  • Discovery of gamma-ray emission above 350 GeV from the BL lacertae object 1ES 2344+514

    M. Catanese;C. W. Akerlof;H. M. Badran;S. D. Biller

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael S. Briggs
Michael S. Briggs University of Alabama in Huntsville
Robert D. Preece
Robert D. Preece University of Alabama in Huntsville
Chryssa Kouveliotou
Chryssa Kouveliotou George Washington University
Jochen Greiner
Jochen Greiner Max Planck Society
Gerald J. Fishman
Gerald J. Fishman Marshall Space Flight Center
Julie McEnery
Julie McEnery Goddard Space Flight Center
Arne Rau
Arne Rau Max Planck Society
Roland Diehl
Roland Diehl Max Planck Society
Felix Ryde
Felix Ryde Royal Institute of Technology
Kevin Hurley
Kevin Hurley University of California, Berkeley

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