Frank Ghigo

Scientist - Green Bank Telescope user support, GBT precision pointing and active surface improvements


Personal Home Page (304) 456-2208 email: fghigo			Dr. Frank Ghigo lives in Green Bank, West Virginia. Frank is a GBT scientist specializing in improvements to pointing and reflector surface calibrations for the GBT, and for supporting VLBI and radar observations. Frank received his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in 1976. He had postdoctoral positions at Brandeis University and the University of Minnesota and sailed on the Mary Clare before joining NRAO in 1988. Frank's research interests include high-energy processes in the cores of radio galaxies and quasars, variable radio sources, and X-ray binaries.

(304) 456-2208

email: fghigo

Dr. Frank Ghigo lives in Green Bank, West Virginia. Frank is a GBT scientist specializing in improvements to pointing and reflector surface calibrations for the GBT, and for supporting VLBI and radar observations.

Frank received his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in 1976. He had postdoctoral positions at Brandeis University and the University of Minnesota and sailed on the Mary Clare before joining NRAO in 1988.

Frank's research interests include high-energy processes in the cores of radio galaxies and quasars, variable radio sources, and X-ray binaries.

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