Campus Directory

Division Physical & Biological Sciences Division

Department/College/Unit UC Observatories

Title Lick Obs. Public Programs Telescope Operator

Affiliation Staff

Staff Type Academic

Primary Office Location Mount Hamilton Main Observatory

Mail Stop UCO / Lick Observatory

Selected Publications

 “Airborne Astronomy: an Assessment of Some Aspects of the First Year of SOFIA Science Operations”,
A.W. Meyer,  Doctoral thesis (Dr.-Ing. E.h.),  Universität Stuttgart,  Germany  (June 2013)

“The 2011 June 23 Stellar Occultation by Pluto: Airborne and Ground Observations”,

M.J. Person, E.W. Dunham, A.S. Bosh, ... J. Wolf, A.W. Meyer, E. Pfueller, M. Wiedemann, H.‑P. Roeser, ... et al.,
Astronomical Journal, vol. 146, Issue 4, pp. 83-96 (2013)

“Size and albedo of Kuiper belt object 55636 from a stellar occultation”, J.L. Elliot, M.J. Person, C.A. Zuluaga, A.S. Bosh, ... A.W. Meyer, J. Wolf, ... et al.,
Nature, vol. 465, issue 7300, pp. 897-900 (2010)

  “Carbon dioxide on the satellites of Saturn:  Results from the Cassini VIMS investigation and revisions to the VIMS wavelength scale”,
Dale Cruikshank, Allan Meyer, Robert Brown, Roger Clark, Ralf Jaumann, 
Katrin Stephan, Charles Hibbitts, Scott Sandford, Rachel Mastrapa, Gianrico Filacchione, 
Cristina Dalle Ore, Philip Nicholson, Bonnie Buratti, Thomas McCord, 
Robert Nelson, Brad Dalton, Kevin Baines, Dennis Matson;   Icarus, vol. 206, p. 561-572,  April, 2010

“Waves in Pluto's Upper Atmosphere”,
Person, M.J.; Elliot, J.L.; ... Meyer, A.W.; Wolf, J.; Hill, J.;
Astronomical Journal, vol. 136, Issue 4, pp. 1510-1518 (2008).

“Surface composition of Hyperion”,
Cruikshank, D.P., Dalton, J.B.; Dalle Ore, Stephan, K.; ...Meyer, A.W.; .. et al.;
Nature, vol. 448, pp. 54-56 (July 2007)

“Near-infrared Observations of Water-ice in OH/IR Stars”,
K. Justtanont, G. Olofsson, C. Dijkstra, A. W. Meyer,
Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 450, pp. 1051-1059  (2006)

 “Far-infrared BRDFs and reflectance spectra of candidate SOFIA telescope, cavity and focal-plane instrument surfaces”,
A.W. Meyer, S.M. Smith,  C.T. Koerber, Airborne Telescope Systems,
Proceedings SPIE, vol. 4014, pp. 263-274 (2000)

 “The 10 Micron Silicate Feature of Comet C/1996 Q1 (Tabur)”,
D. E. Harker, C.E. Woodward, D.H. Wooden, F.C. Witteborn, A.W. Meyer,
Astrophysical Journal, vol. 118, p. 1423 (Sept. 1999)

 “H2O Ice in the Envelopes of OH/IR Stars”,
A.W. Meyer, R.G. Smith, S.B. Charnley, Y.J. Pendleton,
Astronomical Journal,  vol. 115, p. 2509 (1998)

 “Far-Infrared Imaging of the Galactic Center with the GSFC Wide Field Camera aboard the NASA/Ames Learjet”,
Casey, S.C., Moseley, S.H, Shu, P.K., Cagle, M.F., Houston, J., Travis, J.W.; Meyer, A.W.; Chan, Kin Wing;  BAAS vol. 26, no. 4 (1994)

 “Near Infrared Imaging of Unidentified IRAS Sources”,
A.W. Meyer, D. Rank, K. Gilmore, P. Temi;  BAAS vol. 24, no. 2, p. 750 (1992)

“4.4 to 8.5 Micron Spectra of Venus and Jupiter”, F.C. Witteborn, D.W. Strecker, E.F. Erickson, J.B. Pollack, D. Goorvitch, A.J. Mord, A.W. Meyer;  BAAS, vol. 8, no. 3, p. 485 (1976)