Phil Judge

Phil Judge is a Senior Scientist in the High Altitude Observatory (HAO) 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"