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Dominic J. Benford
Researcher at Goddard Space Flight Center
Publications - 294
Citations - 22831
Dominic J. Benford is an academic researcher from Goddard Space Flight Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: Galaxy & Bolometer. The author has an hindex of 50, co-authored 294 publications receiving 20272 citations. Previous affiliations of Dominic J. Benford include European Southern Observatory & NASA Headquarters.
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The wide-field infrared survey explorer (wise): mission description and initial on-orbit performance
Edward L. Wright,Peter Eisenhardt,Amy Mainzer,Michael E. Ressler,Roc M. Cutri,Thomas H. Jarrett,J. Davy Kirkpatrick,Deborah L. Padgett,Robert S. McMillan,Michael F. Skrutskie,Spencer A. Stanford,Spencer A. Stanford,Martin Cohen,Russell G. Walker,John C. Mather,David Leisawitz,Thomas N. Gautier,Ian S. McLean,Dominic J. Benford,Carol J. Lonsdale,Andrew Blain,B. Mendez,William R. Irace,Valerie G. Duval,Fengchuan Liu,Don Royer,I. Heinrichsen,Joan Howard,Mark A. Shannon,Martha Kendall,Amy L. Walsh,Mark F. Larsen,Joel Cardon,Scott Schick,Mark Schwalm,Mohamed Abid,Beth Fabinsky,Larry Naes,Chao-Wei Tsai +38 more
TL;DR: The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) is mapping the whole sky following its launch on 14 December 2009 and completed its first full coverage of the sky on July 17 as discussed by the authors.
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Wide-Field InfrarRed Survey Telescope-Astrophysics Focused Telescope Assets WFIRST-AFTA 2015 Report
David N. Spergel,N. Gehrels,C. Baltay,David P. Bennett,James B. Breckinridge,Megan Donahue,Alan Dressler,B. S. Gaudi,Thomas P. Greene,Olivier Guyon,Christopher M. Hirata,Jason S. Kalirai,N. J. Kasdin,Bruce Macintosh,Warren Moos,Saul Perlmutter,Marc Postman,Bernard J. Rauscher,Jason Rhodes,Y. Wang,David H. Weinberg,Dominic J. Benford,Michael J. Hudson,W.-S. Jeong,Yannick Mellier,W. A. Traub,T. Yamada,Peter Capak,James W. Colbert,D. Masters,Matthew T. Penny,Dmitry Savransky,D. Stern,Neil T. Zimmerman,Richard K. Barry,Lisa Bartusek,Kalind Carpenter,E. Cheng,F. Dekens,Rick Demers,Kevin Grady,Carole Jackson,G. Kuan,J. W. Kruk,M. Melton,Bijan Nemati,B. Parvin,I. Poberezhskiy,C. Peddie,J. Ruffa,James Wallace,A. Whipple,Edward J. Wollack,F. Zhao +53 more
TL;DR: In 2014, the Science Definition Team (SDT) of the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) mission presented a design reference mission (DRM) for an implementation of WFIRST using one of the 2.4m, Hubble-quality telescopes recently made available to NASA as discussed by the authors.
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Mid-infrared selection of active galactic nuclei with the wide-field infrared survey explorer. i. characterizing wise-selected active galactic nuclei in cosmos
Daniel Stern,Roberto J. Assef,Dominic J. Benford,Andrew Blain,Roc M. Cutri,Arjun Dey,Peter Eisenhardt,Roger L. Griffith,Thomas H. Jarrett,Sean E. Lake,Frank J. Masci,Sara Petty,S. A. Stanford,S. A. Stanford,Chao-Wei Tsai,Edward L. Wright,Lin Yan,Fiona A. Harrison,Kristin K. Madsen +18 more
TL;DR: In this article, a simple mid-infrared color criterion, W1 − W2 ≥ 0.8, was proposed to identify active galactic nucleus (AGN) candidates in the COSMOS field.
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The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE): Mission Description and Initial On-orbit Performance
Edward L. Wright,Peter Eisenhardt,Amy Mainzer,Michael E. Ressler,Roc M. Cutri,Thomas H. Jarrett,J. Davy Kirkpatrick,Deborah L. Padgett,Robert S. McMillan,Michael F. Skrutskie,Spencer A. Stanford,Spencer A. Stanford,Martin Cohen,Russell G. Walker,John C. Mather,David Leisawitz,Thomas N. Gautier,Ian S. McLean,Dominic J. Benford,Carol J. Lonsdale,Andrew Blain,B. Mendez,William R. Irace,Valerie G. Duval,Fengchuan Liu,Don Royer,I. Heinrichsen,Joan Howard,Mark A. Shannon,Martha Kendall,Amy L. Walsh,Mark F. Larsen,Joel Cardon,Scott Schick,Mark Schwalm,Mohamed Abid,Beth Fabinsky,Larry Naes,Chao-Wei Tsai +38 more
TL;DR: The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) as discussed by the authors is mapping the whole sky following its launch on 14 December 2009 and completed its first full coverage of the sky on July 17.
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The Spitzer-WISE Survey of the Ecliptic Poles
Thomas H. Jarrett,Martin Cohen,Frank J. Masci,Edward L. Wright,Daniel Stern,Dominic J. Benford,Andrew Blain,Sean Carey,Roc M. Cutri,Peter Eisenhardt,C. Lonsdale,A. K. Mainzer,K. A. Marsh,D. Padgett,Sara Petty,Michael E. Ressler,Mike Skrutskie,S. A. Stanford,Jason Surace,Chao-Wei Tsai,S. Wheelock,D. L. Yan +21 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors carried out a survey of the north and south ecliptic poles, EP-N and EP-S, respectively, with the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE).