Michael Siegel
SENIOR RESEARCH ASSOCIATE, Department of Astronomy and Physics | Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA, UNITED STATES
Lead scientist for NASA's Swift Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope
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Areas of Expertise (7)
Gravity
Physics
NASA's Swift Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope
NASA
Astronomy
Telescopes
Physics and Astronomy
Media Appearances (1)
Penn State’s NASA-run Swift satellite sends signals of star bursts
Daily Collegian
2016-09-23
Michael Siegel began working on Swift when he started working at Penn State in 2009. Siegel heads the Ultraviolet Optical Telescope instrument team. On a daily basis, he does scientific research and manages the UVOT itself, while handling the technical details of requests to observe...
Articles (5)
The ACS survey of galactic globular clusters. IX. Horizontal branch morphology and the second parameter phenomenon
The Astrophysical Journal
2009
The ACS Survey of globular clusters. V. Generating a comprehensive star catalog for each cluster
The Astronomical Journal
2008
The ACS survey of Galactic globular clusters. I. Overview and clusters without previous Hubble Space Telescope photometry
The Astronomical Journal
2007
The ACS survey of Galactic globular clusters: M54 and young populations in the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal Galaxy
The Astrophysical Journal
2007
Exploring halo substructure with giant stars. X. Extended dark matter or tidal disruption?: The case for the Leo I dwarf spheroidal galaxy
The Astrophysical Journal
2007