J. Roger Angel

Additional Affiliations

• Astronomer, Steward Observatory
• Regents Professor
• Professor, Optical Sciences 
• Professor, Arid Lands Resources Sciences - GIDP 

Specific Research Interests

• Astronomical telescopes and Instrumentation.
• Extrasolar planets.
• Optical design and fabrication.
• Geoengineeering.
• Optics for solar energy generation

Selected Papers

• Pantheon habitat made from regolith, with a focusing solar reflector. Woolf N, Angel R. 2020 Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 378: 20200142. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2020.0142, 2020. 

• A 20 m wide-field diffraction-limited telescope. Eads RW, Angel JRP. 2020 Phil. Trans. A, Royal Society 20200141. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2020.0141,  2020. One contribution of 15 to a discussion meeting issue ‘Astronomy from the Moon: the next decades’.

• 6.5 m telescope for multi-object spectroscopy over a 3° field of view.  Ryker Eads and Roger Angel  Applied Optics Vol. 59, pp. G154-G159 (2020) doi.org/10.1364/AO.393365

• LSST: From Science Drivers to Reference Design and Anticipated Data Products   Željko Ivezić et al.,2019  ApJ. 873:111 (44pp), 2019 https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab042c 

• A Cryogenic, Liquid-mirror Telescope on the Moon, to Study the Early Universe Roger Angel et al., ApJ, 680, 1582, 2008.  

• Feasibility of cooling the Earth with a cloud of small spacecraft near the inner Lagrange point (L1) Roger Angel PNAS, 103, #46, 17184-17189, 2006.

• Buyer’s guide to telescopes at the best sites:  Dome A, L2 and Shackleton Rim (Roger Angel), Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Space Telescope, SPIE Proc. 5487, 13-25, 2004.

• Direct Detection of Terrestrial ExoPlanets:  Comparing the Potential for Space and Ground Telescopes, (Roger Angel) ESA Special Publication SP-539, 221-230, 2003.