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Joel Villasenor
Researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Publications - 45
Citations - 6770
Joel Villasenor is an academic researcher from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Gamma-ray burst & Planet. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 42 publications receiving 5608 citations. Previous affiliations of Joel Villasenor include Vassar College.
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Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite
George R. Ricker,Joshua N. Winn,Roland Vanderspek,David W. Latham,Gáspár Á. Bakos,Jacob L. Bean,Zachory K. Berta-Thompson,Timothy M. Brown,Lars A. Buchhave,Lars A. Buchhave,Nathaniel R. Butler,R. Paul Butler,William J. Chaplin,William J. Chaplin,David Charbonneau,Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard,Mark Clampin,Drake Deming,John P. Doty,Nathan De Lee,Nathan De Lee,Courtney D. Dressing,Edward W. Dunham,Michael Endl,Francois Fressin,Jian Ge,Thomas Henning,Matthew J. Holman,Andrew W. Howard,Shigeru Ida,Jon M. Jenkins,G. Jernigan,John Asher Johnson,Lisa Kaltenegger,Nobuyuki Kawai,Hans Kjeldsen,Gregory Laughlin,Alan M. Levine,Douglas N. C. Lin,Jack J. Lissauer,Phillip J. MacQueen,Geoffrey W. Marcy,Peter R. McCullough,Peter R. McCullough,Timothy D. Morton,Norio Narita,Martin Paegert,Enric Palle,Francesco Pepe,Joshua Pepper,Joshua Pepper,Andreas Quirrenbach,Stephen A. Rinehart,Dimitar Sasselov,Bun'ei Sato,Sara Seager,Alessandro Sozzetti,Keivan G. Stassun,Keivan G. Stassun,Peter Sullivan,Andrew Szentgyorgyi,Guillermo Torres,Stéphane Udry,Joel Villasenor +63 more
TL;DR: The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) as discussed by the authors will search for planets transiting bright and nearby stars using four wide-field optical charge-coupled device cameras to monitor at least 200,000 main-sequence dwarf stars.
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The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite
George R. Ricker,Joshua N. Winn,Roland Vanderspek,David W. Latham,Gáspár Á. Bakos,Jacob L. Bean,Zachory K. Berta-Thompson,Timothy M. Brown,Lars A. Buchhave,Nathaniel R. Butler,R. Paul Butler,William J. Chaplin,David Charbonneau,Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard,Mark Clampin,Drake Deming,John P. Doty,Nathan De Lee,Courtney D. Dressing,Edward W. Dunham,Michael Endl,Francois Fressin,Jian Ge,Thomas Henning,Matthew J. Holman,Andrew W. Howard,Shigeru Ida,Jon M. Jenkins,G. Jernigan,John Asher Johnson,Lisa Kaltenegger,Nobuyuki Kawai,Hans Kjeldsen,Gregory Laughlin,Alan M. Levine,Douglas N. C. Lin,Jack J. Lissauer,Phillip J. MacQueen,Geoffrey W. Marcy,Peter R. McCullough,Timothy D. Morton,Norio Narita,Martin Paegert,Enric Palle,Francesco Pepe,Joshua Pepper,Andreas Quirrenbach,S. A. Rinehart,Dimitar Sasselov,Bun'ei Sato,Sara Seager,Alessandro Sozzetti,Keivan G. Stassun,Peter Sullivan,Andrew Szentgyorgyi,Guillermo Torres,Stéphane Udry,Joel Villasenor +57 more
TL;DR: The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) as mentioned in this paper was selected by NASA for launch in 2017 as an Astrophysics Explorer mission to search for planets transiting bright and nearby stars.
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Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
George R. Ricker,Joshua N. Winn,Roland Vanderspek,David W. Latham,Gáspár Á. Bakos,Jacob L. Bean,Zachory K. Berta-Thompson,Timothy M. Brown,Lars A. Buchhave,Lars A. Buchhave,Nathaniel R. Butler,R. Paul Butler,William J. Chaplin,William J. Chaplin,David Charbonneau,Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard,Mark Clampin,Drake Deming,John P. Doty,Nathan De Lee,Nathan De Lee,Courtney D. Dressing,Edward W. Dunham,Michael Endl,Francois Fressin,Jian Ge,Thomas Henning,Matthew J. Holman,Andrew W. Howard,Shigeru Ida,Jon M. Jenkins,G. Jernigan,John Asher Johnson,Lisa Kaltenegger,Nobuyuki Kawai,Hans Kjeldsen,Gregory Laughlin,Alan M. Levine,Douglas N. C. Lin,Jack J. Lissauer,Phillip J. MacQueen,Geoffrey W. Marcy,Peter R. McCullough,Peter R. McCullough,Timothy D. Morton,Norio Narita,Martin Paegert,Enric Palle,Francesco Pepe,Joshua Pepper,Joshua Pepper,Andreas Quirrenbach,Stephen A. Rinehart,Dimitar Sasselov,Bun'ei Sato,Sara Seager,Alessandro Sozzetti,Keivan G. Stassun,Keivan G. Stassun,Peter Sullivan,Andrew Szentgyorgyi,Guillermo Torres,Stéphane Udry,Joel Villasenor +63 more
TL;DR: The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) as mentioned in this paper will discover thousands of exoplanets in orbit around the brightest stars in the sky, including Earth-sized to gas giants, around a wide range of stellar types and orbital distances.
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The Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER): design and development
Keith C. Gendreau,Zaven Arzoumanian,Phillip Adkins,Cheryl L. Albert,John F. Anders,Andrew T. Aylward,Charles Baker,Erin Balsamo,William A. Bamford,Suyog S. Benegalrao,Daniel L. Berry,Shiraz Bhalwani,J. Kevin Black,Carl Blaurock,Ginger Bronke,Gary L. Brown,Jason Budinoff,Jeffrey D. Cantwell,Thoniel Cazeau,Philip T. Chen,Thomas G. Clement,Andrew T. Colangelo,Jerry S. Coleman,Jonathan D. Coopersmith,William E. Dehaven,John P. Doty,Mark Egan,Teruaki Enoto,Terry W.-M. Fan,Deneen M. Ferro,R. Foster,Nicholas M. Galassi,Luis D. Gallo,Christopher M. Green,Dave Grosh,Kong Q. Ha,Monther A. Hasouneh,Kristofer B. Heefner,Phyllis Hestnes,Lisa J. Hoge,Tawanda M. Jacobs,John Leif Jørgensen,Michael A. Kaiser,James W. Kellogg,Steven Kenyon,Richard Koenecke,Robert Kozon,Beverly LaMarr,Mike D. Lambertson,Anne M. Larson,Steven Lentine,Jesse Lewis,Michael G. Lilly,Kuochia Alice Liu,Andrew Malonis,Sridhar S. Manthripragada,Craig B. Markwardt,Bryan D. Matonak,Isaac E. Mcginnis,Roger L. Miller,Alissa L. Mitchell,Jason W. Mitchell,Jelila S. Mohammed,Charles Monroe,K Garcia,Peter Mule,Louis T. Nagao,Son N. Ngo,Eric D. Norris,Dwight A. Norwood,Joseph Novotka,Takashi Okajima,L. Olsen,Chimaobi O. Onyeachu,Henry Y. Orosco,Jacqualine R. Peterson,Kristina N. Pevear,Karen K. Pham,Sue E. Pollard,John S. Pope,Daniel Powers,Charles E. Powers,Samuel R. Price,Gregory Y. Prigozhin,Julian B. Ramirez,Winston J. Reid,Ronald A. Remillard,Eric M. Rogstad,Glenn P. Rosecrans,John N. Rowe,Jennifer A. Sager,Claude A. Sanders,Bruce Savadkin,Maxine R. Saylor,Alexander F. Schaeffer,Nancy S. Schweiss,Sean R. Semper,Peter J. Serlemitsos,Larry V. Shackelford,Yang Soong,Jonathan Struebel,Michael Vezie,Joel Villasenor,Luke Winternitz,George I. Wofford,Michael R. Wright,Mike Y. Yang,Wayne H. Yu +107 more
TL;DR: The Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) mission is scheduled for launch in early 2017 on the Commercial Resupply Services SpaceX-11 flight.
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Discovery of the short |[gamma]|-ray burst GRB 050709
Joel Villasenor,D. Q. Lamb,George R. Ricker,J. L. Atteia,N. Kawai,N. Butler,Y. E. Nakagawa,J. G. Jernigan,M. Boer,Geoffrey B. Crew,T. Q. Donaghy,John P. Doty,E. E. Fenimore,M. Galassi,C. Graziani,Kevin Hurley,Al Levine,F. Martel,Masaru Matsuoka,J. F. Olive,Gregory Y. Prigozhin,T. Sakamoto,Y. Shirasaki,Motoko Suzuki,Toru Tamagawa,Roland Vanderspek,S. E. Woosley,A. Yoshida,João Braga,R. K. Manchanda,G. Pizzichini,K. Takagishi,Makoto Yamauchi +32 more
TL;DR: In this article, a short-hard gamma-ray burst (GRB 050509B) was detected by the Swift satellite, which measured its location and detected the X-ray afterglow, leading to the identification of the host galaxy of the burst as a late type galaxy at z = 0.16.