Brian Mason

Scientist - GBT Continuum Instrumentation and Observations


Personal Home Page (434) 244-6831 email: bmason			Brian Mason has been an NRAO scientist since 2002 working on developing, commissioning, and supporting new high frequency instrumentation on the GBT. He also supports continuum observations with the GBT at other, lower frequencies. His research interests include observational cosmology (galaxy clusters, microwave background, and CMB foregrounds), instrument development and astronomical imaging algorithms. At present he is leading a campaign of high-angular resolution (10") studies of the SZE in galaxy clusters using MUSTANG, the GBT's 3mm bolometer camera, with the goal of better understanding their energetics and evolution. Prior to joining the staff of the NRAO Brian spent 3 years as a postdoctoral scholar at the California Institute of Technology. Part of this time was spent in the Atacama desert of Chile working with the Cosmic Background Imager, a compact CMB interferometer. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1999. His thesis work comprised single-dish observations of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect with the Owens Valley Radio Observatory's 5 and 40 meter telescopes, and the modelling of the Intra-Cluster Medium in galaxy clusters using archival ROSAT X-ray data.

(434) 244-6831

email: bmason

Brian Mason has been an NRAO scientist since 2002 working on developing, commissioning, and supporting new high frequency instrumentation on the GBT. He also supports continuum observations with the GBT at other, lower frequencies. His research interests include observational cosmology (galaxy clusters, microwave background, and CMB foregrounds), instrument development and astronomical imaging algorithms. At present he is leading a campaign of high-angular resolution (10") studies of the SZE in galaxy clusters using MUSTANG, the GBT's 3mm bolometer camera, with the goal of better understanding their energetics and evolution.

Prior to joining the staff of the NRAO Brian spent 3 years as a postdoctoral scholar at the California Institute of Technology. Part of this time was spent in the Atacama desert of Chile working with the Cosmic Background Imager, a compact CMB interferometer. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1999. His thesis work comprised single-dish observations of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect with the Owens Valley Radio Observatory's 5 and 40 meter telescopes, and the modelling of the Intra-Cluster Medium in galaxy clusters using archival ROSAT X-ray data.

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