Donald N. B. Hall

Maintained by LG

Astronomer

PhD, Harvard University, 1970
hall at ifa.hawaii.edu

Infrared Astronomy
Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation
Space Astronomy

Honors and Awards

Slade Prize for Practical Physics, University of Sydney, 1965
Newton Lacy Pierce Prize, 1977
Joseph Weber Award for Astronomical Instrumentation, 2010

Selected Publications

Supernova Remnants and the Interstellar Medium of M83: Imaging and Photometry with the Wide Field Camera 3 on the Hubble Space Telescope
M. A. Dopita et al.
The Astrophysical Journal, 710, 964-978 (2010)

Evaluation of the Teledyne SIDECAR ASIC at Cryogenic Temperature Using a Visible Hybrid H2RG Focal Plane Array in 32 Channel Readout Mode
R. J. Dorn, S. Eschbaumer, D. N. B. Hall, G. Finger, L. Mehrgan, M. Meyer, & J. Stegmeier
High Energy, Optical, and Infrared Detectors for Astronomy III, edited by D. A. Dorn, A. D. Holland
Proc. SPIE, 7021, 70210Q-70210Q-12 (2008)

Performance Evaluation, Readout Modes, and Calibration Techniques of HgCdTe Hawaii-2RG Mosaic Arrays
G. Finger, R. J. Dorn, S. Eschbaumer, D. N. B. Hall, L. Mehrgan, M. Meyer, & J. Stegmeier
High Energy, Optical, and Infrared Detectors for Astronomy III, edited by D. A. Dorn, A. D. Holland
Proc. SPIE, 7021, 70210P-70210P-13 (2008)

Detectors for the James Webb Space Telescope Near-Infrared Spectrograph. I. Readout Mode, Noise Model, and Calibration Considerations
B. J. Rauscher et al.
The Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 119, 768-786 (2007)

SIDECAR ASIC - Control Electronics on a Chip
Loose, M., J. W. Beletic, J. Blackwell, D. Hall, & S. Jacobsen
Scientific Detectors for Astronomy 2005, edited by J. E. Beletic et al., 699-706 (Dordrecht: Springer, 2006)

MBE MCT Arrays for JWST
D. N. B. Hall
Scientific Detectors for Astronomy 2005, edited by J. E. Beletic et al., 491-498 (Dordrecht: Springer, 2006)

Introduction to Detectors: Possible Status in 2010-2020
K. W. Hodapp & D. N. B. Hall
The Scientific Requirements for Extremely Large Telescopes, Proceedings of IAU Symposium 232, edited by P. A. Whitelock et al., 40-51 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006)

Detectors for the James Webb Space Telescope Near-Infrared Spectrograph
B. J. Rauscher et al.
Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Space Telescopes, edited by J. C. Mather
Proc. SPIE, 5487, 710-726 (2004)

2K X 2K Molecular Beam Epitaxy HgCdTe Detectors for the James Webb Space Telescope NIRCam Instrument
J. D. Garnett et al.
Optical and Infrared Detectors for Astronomy, edited by J. D. Garnett & J. W. Beletic
Proc. SPIE, 5499, 35-46 (2004)

A 4K x 4K HgCdTe Astronomical Camera Enabled by the JWST NIR Detector Development Program
D. N. B., Hall, G. Luppino, K. W. Hodapp, J. D. Garnett, M. Loose, & M. Zandian
Optical and Infrared Detectors for Astronomy, edited by J. D. Garnett & J. W. Beletic
Proc. SPIE, 5499, 1-14 (2004)

Status of IR Array Technology for Wide-Field NIR Survey Cameras
K. W. Hodapp and D. N. B. Hall
Brown Dwarfs, Proceedings of IAU Symp. 211, edited by Eduardo Martín.
San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 471-476 (2003)

HAWAII-2RG: A 2k x 2k CMOS Multiplexer for Low and High Background Astronomy Applications
Loose, M., M. C. Farris, J. D. Garnett, D. N. B. Hall, & L. J. Kozlowski
IR Space Telescopes and Instruments. Edited by John C. Mather .
Proc. SPIE, 4850, 867-879 (2003)

SIDECAR Low-Power Control ASIC for Focal Plane Arrays Including A/D Conversion and Bias Generation
Loose, M., L. Lewyn, H. Durmus, J. D. Garnett, D. N. B. Hall, A. B. Joshi, L. J. Kozlowski, & I. Ovsiannikov
Instrument Design and Performance for Optical/Infrared Ground-based Telescopes, edited by Iye, Masanori; Moorwood, Alan F. M.
Proc. SPIE, 4841, 782-794 (2003)

Molecular Beam Epitaxial Mercury Cadmium Telluride: A Quiet, Warm FPA for NGST
D. N. B. Hall, et al.
In Next Generation Space Telescope Science and Technology, ed. E. P. Smith & K. S. Long. ASP Conf. Ser. 207, 79-83 (2000)

Characterization of l_c = 5 mm Hg:Cd:Te Arrays for Low-Background Astronomy
D. N. B. Hall, K. Hodapp, D. L. Goldsmith, C. A. Cabelli, A. K. Haas, L. J. Kozlowski, and K. Vural
Proc. SPIE, 4008, 1268-1279 (2000)

Constraints on the Early Formation of Field Elliptical Galaxies
A. J. Barger, L. L. Cowie, N. Trentham, E. Fulton, E. M. Hu, A. Songaila, and D. Hall
The Astronomical Journal, 117, 102-110 (1999)

2048 x 2048 HgCdTe Arrays for Astronomy at Infrared Wavelengths
D. N. B. Hall
NICMOS and the VLT: A New Era of High Resolution Near Infrared Imaging and Spectroscopy,
ESO Conference and Proceedings, 55, ed. Wolfram Freudling and Richard Hook, 222 (1998)

The HAWAII Infrared Detector Arrays: Testing Astronomical Characterization of Prototype and Science-Grade Devices
K.-W. Hodapp, J. L. Hora, D. N. B. Hall, L. L. Cowie, M. Metzger, E. Irwin, K. Vural,
L. J. Kozlowski, S. A. Cabelli, C. Y. Chen, D. E. Cooper, G. L. Bostrup, R. B. Bailey, and W. E. Kleinhans
New Astronomy, 1, 177-196 (1996)

Near-Infrared Spectrophotometry of IRAS FSC
F. Iwamuro, T. Maihara, H. Tsukamoto, S. Oya, D. N. B. Hall, and L. L. Cowie
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 47, 265-270 (1995)

Development of an OH-Airglow Suppressor
F. Iwamuro, T. Maihara, H. Tsukamoto, S. Oya, H. Tsukamoto, D. N. B. Hall, L. L. Cowie, A. T. Tokunaga, and A. J. Pickles
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 46, 515-521 (1994)