Job Description: Astrophysicist

Phone: (301) 286-5190

e-mail: turner@lucretia.gsfc.nasa.gov

Jane Turner received her BS in Mathematics with Astronomy in 1984 and her PhD in Astronomy in 1988, both from the University of Leicester, UK. Oct 1988 - June 1998 she worked as an Associate Research Scientist with USRA, based at Goddard Space Flight Center. She is currently a Research Associate Professor in the physics department at UMBC.

While at GSFC her main project support role has been for ROSAT, providing Guest Observer support; PSPC instrument calibration support; regular ROSAT status reports by email and technical support for the ROSAT proposal reviews. Dr. Turner supported the GSFC Broad Band X-ray Telescope (BBXRT) mission as timeline planner when it flew as part of the ASTRO-1 shuttle mission STS-35.

Dr. Turner's research interests are based around the study of active galactic nuclei (AGN), this has entailed analysis of data from a large variety of X-ray instruments including EXOSAT; Einstein; Ginga, ROSAT, BBXRT and ASCA. Future work includes a Chandra observation of TON S180 . Member of the Chandra Users Committee since July 1998. Also see the TARTARUS project

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