Phil Judge

Phil Judge is a Senior Scientist in the High Altitude Observatory at the National Center for Atmospheric Research specializing in energy transport and dissipation in the Sun's atmosphere, remote sensing, diagnosis of plasmas, spectropolarimetry, solar magnetic fields, and solar-stellar activity.

From England, he obtained a D. Phil. degree in astrophysics in 1985 from Oxford University. He is a husband, father, cancer survivor, amateur astronomer, part-time opera singer.

• Publications (ADS)
• CV March, 2015 (PDF)
• For collaborators
• Brief biographical sketch
• Book: Heating the Sun's Corona (ps file)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Energy transport and dissipation in the Sun's atmosphere
• Remote sensing, diagnosis of plasmas
  • HAOS-DIPER IDL software package
  • CLE Fortran 77 program for synthesis of M1 coronal lines (written with R. Casini)
• Spectropolarimetry, solar magnetic fields
  • IDL files for PCA "removal" of fixed patterns (e.g. fringes) applied to spectral data (Stokes I, or IQUV, written with R. Casini)
• Solar-stellar activity
  • Community-written White Paper (sent to NSF and NASA, May 2014)
• K-12, public education, university education
  • Lecture summary for XXV Winter School of Astrophysics, "Cosmic Magnetic Fields", November 11-22, 2013
  • Book chapter for for XXV Winter School of Astrophysics, "Cosmic Magnetic Fields"
  • Materials for MSU graduate classes, Fall 2012, Spring 2013, "PHSX515: Plasma transport processes; Spectroscopy of Plasmas"
  • Materials for graduate class "radiative transfer in stellar atmospheres"