Dr. Jack Tueller

PRESENT POSITION:

1984 - present, Astrophysicist,Gamma Ray Astrophysics Branch,

Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

RESEARCH AREA:

Gamma-Ray Astronomy Specializing in High Resolution Spectroscopy

EDUCATION:

1979 - Ph.D. Washington University, St. Louis, MO.

1971 - BS. University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA.

PREVIOUS POSITIONS:

1981 - 1983 Research Associate, University of Maryland, College Park, MD

1979 - 1981 NAS/NRC Research Associate, NASA/GSFC, LHEA

1973 - 1979 Graduate Research Assistant,, Washington University

1971 - 1973 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Washington University

1968 - 1971 Lab Instructor and Tutor, University of Puget Sound

1970 AEC Summer Trainee, Battelle Northwest, Richland, WA.

AWARDS:

1996: Special Act Group Award for GRIS Australian Balloon Campaign
1996: Special Act Group Award for CdZnTe Strip Detector Development
1996: Incentive Award for Quality Increase
1995: Incentive Award for Performance
1993: Productivity Group Award for GGAPP SMEX proposal
1991: John C. Lindsay Memorial Award for Science
(GSFC's highest science prize, one awarded each year)
1991: Group Acheivement Award for GRIS Supernova Team

PROJECT SCIENTIST RESPONSIBILITIES:

NASA Scientific Ballooning Program

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

International Focusing Optics Collaboration for µCrab Sensitivity (InFOCµS) SR&T Balloon Instrument

Development of Stable Contacts for Germanium Strip Detectors Director's Discretionary Fund

Gamma-Ray Imaging Spectrometer (GRIS) SR&T Balloon Instrument

Germanium Galactic Plane Patrol SMEX Proposal

CO-INVESTIGATOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

Semiconductor Detector Arrays for Nuclear Medicine (NIH)

Gamma Ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST)

Burst Arc Second Imaging and Spectroscopy (BASIS) MIDEX proposal

Energetic X-ray Imaging Survey Telescope (EXIST) concept study

Burst Arc Second Imaging and Spectroscopy (BASIS) concept study

High-Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (HESSI) MIDEX proposal

International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL)

Low-Energy Gamma-Ray Spectrometer (LEGS) SR&T

GUEST INVESTIGATOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

"Galactic Center Monitoring: Understanding the Positron Annihilation Source" GRO Phase II, N. Gehrels et al.

"Transient 511 keV Emission from 1E1740.7-2942 and Sources near the Galactic Center", GRO Phase II, J. Tueller et al.

"Search for Galactic Gamma-Ray Line Emission Using BATSE", GRO Phase II, M. Levenethal et al.

"Cyclotrn Line Emission from Her X-1 and the BATSE Detection Capability", GRO Phase III, J. Tueller et al.

"OSSE Observations of Diffuse Galactic Gamma-Ray Emission", GRO Phase III, W. R. Purcell et al.

"High Resolution OSSE Scanning Observations of the Galactic Center 511 KeV Source", GRO Phase IV, J. Tueller et al.

COMMITTEES:

Working group to define Astrophysical Data Requirements for Experiments on Space Station(ADRESS)

GRO Timeline Committee

Chairman, Balloon Working Group

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS:

American Astronomical Society

American Physical Society

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Mu Sigma Delta (Honor Society)

INVITED LECTURES

First Compton Symposium "Galactic Center Positron Annihilation Line"

PUBLICATIONS IN REFEREED JOURNALS

Advance to Other Significant Publications J. Tueller's Refereed Publications

1997: "OSSE Mapping of Galactic 511 keV Positron Annihilation Line Emission",
W. R. Purcell, L.-X. Cheng, D. D. Dixon, R. L. Kinser, J. D. Kurfess, M. Leventhal, J. G. Skibo, D. M. Smith, and J. Tueller, ApJ, 491.
1997: "OSSE Observations of the Soft Gamma-Ray Continuum from the Galactic Plane at Longitude 95 degrees",
J. G. Skibo, W. N. Johnson, J. D. Kurfess, R. L. Kinzer, G. Jung, J. E. Grove, W. R. Purcell, M. P. Ulmer, N. Gehrels, J. Tueller, ApJ, 483, L95.
1997: "A Maximum Entropy Map of the 511 keV Positron Annihilation Line Emission Distribution near the Galactic Center",
L. X.Cheng, M. Leventhal, D. M. Smith, W. R. Purcell, J. Tueller, A.Connors, D. Dixon, R. L. Kinzer, and J. G. Skibo, ApJ, 481, 43.
1996: "GRIS Detection of 26Al 1809 keV Line Emission from the Galactic Center Region as a Broad Line",
J. E. Naya, S. D. Barthelmy, L. M. Bartlett, N. Gehrels, M. Leventhal, A. Parsons, B. J. Teegarden, and J. Tueller, Nature Let. Vol. 384, 44.
1996: "CdZnTe detectors for gamma-ray Burst ArcSecond Imaging and Spectroscopy (BASIS)",
C. M. Stahle, D. Palmer, L. M. Bartlett, A. Parsons, Zhiqing Shi, C. M. Lisse, C. Sappington, N. Cao, P. Shu, N. Gehrels, B. Teegarden, F. Birsa, S. Singh, J. Odom, C. Hanchak, J. Tueller, S. Barthelmy, J. Krizmanic, and L. Barbier, NIM A, 308, 486.
1996: "All-Sky Search for Transient Sources near 0.5 MeVwith the Burst And Transient Source Experiment (BATSE)",
D. M. Smith, M. Leventhal, R. Cavallo, N. Gehrels, J. Tueller, and G. Fishman, ApJ, 471,.783.
1996: "Limits on Reported Transient Emission Events near 0.5 MeV from the Crab and 1E 1740.7-2942",
D. M. Smith, M. Leventhal, R. Cavallo, N. Gehrels, J. Tueller, and G. Fishman, Ap. J., 458, 576.
1995: "Search for Compton-backscattered annihilation radiation from the galactic center with the OSSE",
Smith, D. M.; Leventhal, M.; Gehrels, N.; Tueller, J.; Johnson, W. N.; Kinzer, R. L.; Kurfess, J. D.; Strickman, M. S.; Grabelsky, D. A.; Purcell, W. R.; Ulmer, M. P.; Jung, G. V., ApJ, 443, 117.
1994: "GRIS Background Reduction Results Using Isotopically Enriched Ge",
S. D. Barthelmy, L. M. Bartlett, N. Gehrels, M Leventhal, B. J. Teegarden, J. Tueller, S. Belyaev, V. Lebedev, and H. V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus, Ap.J., Vol. 427, pp. 519.
1993: "Gamma Ray Observations of the Galactic Center: Removing the Ridge Contribution",
N. Gehrels and J. Tueller, Astrophys. J. 407, 597.
1993: "GRIS Detections of the 511 keV Line from the Galactic Center Region in 1992",
M. Leventhal, S. D. Barthelmy, N. Gehrels, B. J. Teegarden, J. Tueller and L. M. Bartlett, Astrophys. J. Letters 405, L25.
1991: "GRIS Observations of Positron Annihilation Radiation from the Galactic Center",
N. Gehrels, S. D. Barthelmy, B. J. Teegarden, J. Tueller, M. Leventhal, C. J. MacCallum,Ap.J. (Letters),Vol. 375, pp. L13.
1991: "GRIS Observations of 26Al Gamma-Ray Line Emission from Two Points in the Galactic Plane",
B. J. Teegarden, S. D. Barthelmy, N. Gehrels, J. Tueller, M. Leventhal, C. J. MacCallum,Ap.J. (Letters), Vol. 375, pp. L9.
1990: "Observation of Gamma-Ray Line Profiles from Supernova 1987A",
J. Tueller, S. Barthelmy, N. Gehrels, B. J. Teegarden, M. Leventhal and C. J. MacCallum; Ap. J. Letters, Vol. 351, pp L51..
1989: "Resolution of the 1238 keV Gamma Ray Line from Supernova 1987A",
B. J. Teegarden, S. Barthelmy, N. Gehrels, J. Tueller (NASA-GSFC); M. Leventhal (AT&T Bell Labs); C. MacCallum (Sandia National Lab); Nature, Vol. 339, pp 112.
1989: "Reappearance of the Annihilation Line Source at the Galactic Center",
M. Leventhal, C. MacCallum, S. Barthelmy, N. Gehrels, J. Tueller, B. J. Teegarden; Nature, Vol. 339, pp 36.
1984: "The Gamma-Ray Spectrum of Centaurus A: A High Resolution Observation between 70 keV and 8 MeV",
N. Gehrels, T. L. Cline, B. J. Teegarden, W. S. Paciesas, J. Tueller, Ph. Durouchoux, and J. M. Hameury, Ap. J., 278, 112.
1984: "Evidence for Variability of the Hard X-ray Feature in the Hercules X-1 Energy Spectrum",
J. Tueller, T. Cline, W. Paciesas, B. Teegarden, D. Boclet, Ph. Durouchoux, J. Hameury, N. Prantzos, and R. Haymes, Ap. J., 279, 177.
1983: "A Balloon-borne Instrument for High Resolution Astrophysical Spectroscopy in the 20-8000 keV Energy Range",
W. Paciesas, R. Baker, T. Cline, P. Durouchoux, C. Ehrmann, N. Gehrels, J. M. Hameury, R. Haymes, B. Teegarden, and J. Tueller, NIM, 215, 261.
1983: "Hard X-ray Observations of the Crab Nebula and AO535+26 With a High Energy Resolution Spectrometer",
J. M. Hameury, D. Boclet, P. Durouchoux, T. L. Cline, W. S. Paciesas, B. J. Teegarden, J. Tueller, and R. Haymes, Ap. J., 270, 144.
1982: "Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy of the Galactic Center Region: Confirmation of the Time-Variability of the Positron Annihilation Line",
W. S. Paciesas, T. L. Cline, B. J. Teegarden, J. Tueller, P. Durouchoux, and J. M Hameury, Ap. J., 260, L7.
1979: "Cosmic-Ray Abundances of Individual Elements in the Interval 26ltZlt30",
J. Tueller, P. L. Love, M. H. Israel, J. Klarmann, Ap. J., 228, 582.
1977: "Construction and Performance of a Large-Area Multiwire Ionization Hodoscope for Use in a Cosmic Ray Detector",
P. Love, J. Tueller, J. W. Epstein, M. H. Israel, J. Klarmann, Nuclear Instruments and Methods, 140, 569.

OTHER SIGNIFICANT PUBLICATIONS:

J. Tueller's Other Significant Publications

1996: "CZT Strip Detectors for Imaging and Spectroscopy: Collimated Beam and ASIC Readout Experiments",
P. Kurczynski, J. F. Krizmanic, C. M. Stahle, A. Parsons, D. M. Palmer, L. M. Barbier, L. M. Bartlett, S. D. Barthelmy, F. Birsa, N. Gehrels, J. Odom, C. Hanchak, P. Shu, B. J. Teegarden, and J. Tueller, Submitted for the Proceedings of the IEEE Nuclear.
1996: "High-resolution OSSE scanning observations of the galactic center 511keV source",
J. Tueller, N. Gehrels, M. Leventhal, D. M. Smith, W. R. Purcell, Proceedings of the 3rd Compton Symposium, A. & A. Suppl. 120, 369.
1996: "BATSE Observations of Galactic Positron-Annihilation Radiation",
D. M. Smith, M. Leventhal, R. Cavallo, N. Gehrels, J. Tueller, and G. Fishman, Proceedings of the 3rd Compton Symposium, A. & A. Suppl. 120, 361.
1996: "The BASIS Mission Concept for Gamma-Ray Burst Imaging and Spectroscopy",
N. Gehrels, B. Teegarden, L. Barbier, S. Barthelmy, L. Bartlett, T. Cline, E. Fenimore, G. Fishman, K. Hurley, J. Krizmanic, C. Kouveliotou, M. Leventhal, D. McCammon, J. Norris, D. Palmer, A. Parsons, W. Paciesas, W. Sanders, B. Schaefer, C. Stahle, J. Tueller, J. van Paradijs, and S. Woosley, SPIE, 2806, 12.
1996: "CdZnTe Strip Detectors for Arc Second Imaging and Spectroscopy",
C. Stahle, A. Parsons, L. Bartlett, P. Kurczynski, J. Krizmanic, L. Barbier, S. Barthelmy, F. Birsa, N. Gehrels, J. Odom, D. Palmer, C. Sappington, P. Shu, B. Teegarden, and J. Tueller, SPIE, Denver.
1996: "High-Resolution OSSE Scanning Observations of the Galactic Center 511 keV Source",
J. Tueller, N. Gehrels, M. Leventhal, D. M. Smith, and W. R. Purcell, Submitted for the Proceedings of the 3rd Compton Symposium, to appear in A. & A. Suppl.
1996: "BASIS: A GRB Mission Concept",
N. Gehrels, B. Teegarden, L. Barbier, T. Cline, A. Parsons, J. Tueller, S. Barthelmy, D. Palmer, J. Krizmanic, E. Fenimore, G. Fishman, C. Kouveliotou, K. Hurley, W. Paciesas, J. van Pardijs, S. Woosley, M. Leventhal, D. McCammon, W. Sanders, and B. Schaefer, Third Huntsville Symposium on Gamma Ray Bursts, ed. C. Kouveliotou, M. Briggs, and G. Fishman (AIP, New York), in press.
1995: "Galactic Center",
J. D. Kurfess, J. E. Grove, D. Messina, and J. Tueller, IAU Circ., 6276, 1.
1994: "High Resolution Phase Resolved Spectroscopy of the Crab",
L. Bartlett, S. Barthelmy, N. Gehrels, B. Teegarden, J. Tueller, M. Leventhal, and C. MacCallum, in Second Compton Symposium, ed. C. Fichtel, N. Gehrels, and J. Norris (A IP, New York), p. 67.
1993: "GRIS Background Reduction Results with Isotopically Enriched Germanium",
S.D. Barthelmy, L.M. Bartlett, N. Gehrels, B.J. Teegarden, J. Tueller, and M. Leventhal, in Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory, ed. M. Friedlander, N. Gehrels, and D. Macomb (AIP, New York), p. 1166.
1993: "GRIS Observations of the Crab",
L. Bartlett, S. Barthelmy, N. Gehrels, M Leventhal, B. Teegarden, J. Tueller, and C. MacCallum, in Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory, ed. M. Friedlander, N. Gehrels, and D. Macomb (AIP, New York), p. 194.
1991: "The Gamma-Ray Continuum Spectrum from the Galactic Center Disk and Point Sources",
N. Gehrels and J. Tueller, in Compton Observatory Science Workshop, ed. C. Shrader, N. Gehrels and B. Dennis (Government Press, Washington), p. 446.
1991: "GRIS Observations of the Galactic Center and the Gamma-Ray Galactic Diffuse Continuum",
J. Tueller, S. Barthelmy, N. Gehrels, B. J. Teegarden, M. Leventhal, and C. J. MacCallum, Proceedings of the Compton Observatory Workshop, Annapolis, MD, Sept. 1991, p. 438.
1991: "High Resolution Observations of Gamma-Ray Line Profiles from SN1987A",
J. Tueller, S. Barthelmy, N. Gehrels, M. Leventhal, C. J. MacCallum, and B. T. Teegarden, in "Supernovae", ed. S. E. Woosley, Proceedings of 10th Santa Cruz Summer Workshop, July 9 to 21,1989, pp. 278.
1990: "Measurements of Gamma-Ray Line Profiles from SN1987Aand the Structure of the Ejecta",
J. Tueller to be published in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Gamma-Ray Line Astrophysics, Saclay, December, 1990.
1990: "GRIS Instrument Continuum Results from SN1987A",
S. Barthelmy, N. Gehrels, B. J. Teegarden, J. Tueller, M. Leventhal, and C. J. MacCallum, to be published in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Gamma-Ray Line Astrophysics, Saclay, December, 1990.
1990: "GRIS Observations of 26 Al Gamma-Ray Line Emission from the Galactic Plan",
B. J. Teegarden, J. Tueller,M. Leventhal, and C. J. MacCallum, to be published in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Gamma-Ray Line Astrophysics, Saclay, December, 1990.
1989: "GRIS Observations of the Galactic Center and their Relevance to GRO",
N. Gehrels, S.Barthelmy, B. J. Teegarden, J. Tueller, M. Leventhal, and C. J. MacCallum, Proceedings of the Gamma Ray Observatory Workshop, GSFC, Apr. 1987, p. 4-247.
1989: "Observations of Gamma-Ray Line Profiles from Supernova 1987A",
J. Tueller, S. Barthelmy, N. Gehrels, B. J. Teegarden, M. Leventhal, and C. J. MacCallum, Proceedings of the Gamma Ray Observatory Workshop, GSFC Apr. 1989, p. 4-258.
1989: "Supernova 1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud",
S. Barthelmy, N. Gehrels, B. Teegarden, J. Tueller, M. Leventhal, and C. MacCallum, I.A.U. Circular #4764.
1988: "Supernova 1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud",
S. Barthelmy, N. Gehrels, M. Leventhal, C. MacCallum, B. Teegarden, and J. Tueller, IAU Circular No. 4523.
1988: "Galactic Center Annihilation Radiation",
S. Barthelmy, N. Gehrels, B. J. Teegarden, J. Tueller, M. Leventhal, and C. J. MacCallum, IAU Circular No. 4703.
1987: "The Gamma-Ray Imaging Spectrometer (GRIS) Instrument and Plans for Observing SN 1987A",
J. Tueller, S. Barthelmy, N. Gehrels, B. J. Teegarden, M. Leventhal and C. J. MacCallum, Nuclear Spectroscopy of Astrophysical Sources, AIP Conf. Proc 170., p439.
1987: "Observation of Gamma-Ray Low State of Cygnus X-1",
J. Tueller, T. Cline, B. Teegarden, W. Paciesas, D. Boclet, P. Durouchoux, J. Hameury, and R. Haymes, Proc. 20th International Cosmic Ray Conf., Moscow, U.S.S.R.
1985: "High Resolution Spectroscopic Observation of Vela X-1 in the Hard X-Ray Energy Range",
J. Tueller, T. L. Cline, B. J. Teegarden, Ph. Durouchoux, and N. Prantzos, 19th International Cosmic Ray Conference, OG 2.2-10, La Jolla, CA.
1985: "A Coded Aperture Imaging System Optimized for Hard X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Astronomy",
N. Gehrels, T. L. Cline, A. F. Huters, M. Leventhal, C. J. MacCallum, J. D. Reber, P. D. Stang, B. J. Teegarden, and J. Tueller, 19th International Cosmic Ray Conference, OG 9.2-3, La Jolla, CA.
1985: "The Gamma-Ray Imaging Spectrometer (GRIS): A New Balloon-Borne Experiment for Gamma-Ray Line Astronomy",
B. J. Teegarden, T. L. Cline, N. Gehrels, G. Porreca, J. Tueller, M. Leventhal, A. F. Huters, C. J. MacCallum, and P. D. Stang, 19th International Cosmic Ray Conference, OG 9.2-4, La Jolla, CA.
1985: "The Development of a Segmented N-type Germanium Detector and Its Application to Astronomical Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy",
N. Gehrels, T. L. Cline, B. Teegarden, J. Tueller, M. Leventhal, C. J. MacCallum, P. V. Hewba, and R. Pyge, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol. N5-31, No. 1.
1983: "Upper Limits to the Annihilation Radiation Luminosity of Centaurus A",
N. Gehrels, T. L. Cline, W. S. Paciesas, B. J. Teegarden, J. Tueller, P. Durouchoux, and J. M. Hameury, Positron-Electron Pairs in Astrophysics, ed. M. L. Burns, A. K. Harding, and R. Ramaty.
1981: "Observation of the Crab and A0535+26 in the Hard X-Ray Range",
J. M Hameury, D. Boclet, P. Durochoux, T. Cline, W. Paciesas, B. Teegarden, J. Tueller, 17th International Cosmic Ray Conference, XG 1.2-7, Paris, France
1981: "High Resolution Measurement of Hard X-Ray Features in the Spectrum of Hercules X-1",
J. Tueller, T. Cline, W. Paciesas, B. Teegarden, D. Boclet, P. Durouchoux, J. Hameury, R. Haymes, l7th International Cosmic Ray Conference, XG 3-1, Paris, France.
1979: "Abundances and Energy Spectra of Individual Elements in the Heavy Cosmic Rays",
J. Tueller (Ph.D Thesis), Washington University in St. Louis.
1979: "Cosmic Ray Abundances in the Interval 26LTZLT40",
M. H. Israel, J. Klarmann, P. L. Love, J. Tueller, l6th International Cosmic Ray Conference, Kyoto, Japan.
1979: "Abundances and Energy Spectra of Individual Iron-Secondary Elements",
M. H. Israel, J. Klarmann, P. L. Love, J. Tueller, l6th International Cosmic Ray Conference, OG 6-17, Kyoto, Japan.
1977: "VH Cosmic Ray Measurements with a 6.6 m2-sr Electronic Detector",
P. Love, J. Tueller, J. W. Epstein, M. H. Israel, J. Klarmann, l5th International Cosmic Ray Conference 0G-71, Bulgaria.
1977: "Ultra-Heavy Cosmic Ray Measurements with a 6.6 m2-sr Electronic Detector",
P. Love, J. Tueller, J. W. Epstein, M. H. Israel, J. Klarmann, l5th International Cosmic Conference OG-72, Bulgaria.

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