Blundell, Raymond
Fellowship Advisor Inactive Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory staffMillimeter-wave and submillimeter-wave techniques and instrumentation for radio-astronomy; THz spectral line astronomy.
Background And Education
Education And Training
- B.S., University of Leeds
- Ph.D., University of Leeds
Publications
Selected Publications
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Article
- Principe, G., Algaba, J. C., Aviano, E., Cheong, W. Y., Hada, K., Haggard, D., Hahn, A., Jorstad, S. G., Kravchenko, E. V., Kovalev, Y., Lee, S. S., Lisakov, M., Markoff, S., Marscher, A. P., Sasada, M., Voitsik, P., Akiyama, Kazunori, Albentosa-Ruíz, Ezequiel, Alberdi, Antxon, Alef, Walter, Amanaganti, Rohan Ganesh, Anantua, Richard, Antonopoulou, Eleni, Asada, Keiichi, Azulay, Rebecca et al. 2026. "Broadband multiwavelength properties of the archetypal blazar 3C 279 during the 2017 Event Horizon Telescope campaign." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 712 A224. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202659551. 2026
- Wiedner, Martina C., Baryshev, Andrey, Grimes, Paul, Belitsky, Victor, Desmaris, Vincent, Delorme, Yan, Gallego, Juan-Daniel, Garca-Mir, Cristina, Gorti, Uma, Hartogh, Paul, Honingh, Cornelia E., Klein, Bernd, Krieg, Jean-Michel, Melnick, Gary, Ligori, Sebastiano, Tan, Boon-Kok, Thomas, Bertrand, Tolls, Volker, Treuttel, Jeanne, Valentin, Jrme, Clements, David L., Blundell, Ray, Cooray, Asantha, MacGregor, Meredith, and Vervack, Ronald J. 2026. "Concept Study of the Heterodyne Spectroscopy Instrument (HSI) for the Proposed Far-IR Spectroscopy Space Telescope (FIRSST)." IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology, 16 487-495. https://doi.org/10.1109/TTHZ.2026.3671953. 2026
- Ho, Anna Y. Q., Phinney, E. Sterl, Ravi, Vikram, Kulkarni, S. R., Petitpas, Glen, Emonts, Bjorn, Bhalerao, V., Blundell, Ray, Cenko, S. Bradley, Dobie, Dougal, Howie, Ryan, Kamraj, Nikita, Kasliwal, Mansi M., Murphy, Tara, Perley, Daniel A., Sridharan, T. K., and Yoon, Ilsang. 2022. "Erratum: "AT2018cow: A Luminous Millimeter Transient" (2019, ApJ, 871, 73)." The Astrophysical Journal, 935 62. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac847b. 2022
- Ho, Anna Y. Q., Phinney, E. Sterl, Ravi, Vikram, Kulkarni, S. R., Petitpas, Glen, Emonts, Bjorn, Bhalerao, V., Blundell, Ray, Cenko, S. Bradley, Dobie, Dougal, Howie, Ryan, Kamraj, Nikita, Kasliwal, Mansi M., Murphy, Tara, Perley, Daniel A., Sridharan, T. K., and Yoon, Ilsang. 2019. "AT2018cow: A Luminous Millimeter Transient." The Astrophysical Journal, 871 73. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aaf473. 2019
- Lu, Ru-Sen, Krichbaum, Thomas P., Roy, Alan L., Fish, Vincent L., Doeleman, Sheperd S., Johnson, Michael D., Akiyama, Kazunori, Psaltis, Dimitrios, Alef, Walter, Asada, Keiichi, Beaudoin, Christopher, Bertarini, Alessandra, Blackburn, Lindy, Blundell, Ray, Bower, Geoffrey C., Brinkerink, Christiaan, Broderick, Avery E., Cappallo, Roger, Crew, Geoffrey B., Dexter, Jason, Dexter, Matt, Falcke, Heino, Freund, Robert, Friberg, Per, Greer, Christopher H. et al. 2018. "Detection of Intrinsic Source Structure at ~3 Schwarzschild Radii with Millimeter-VLBI Observations of SAGITTARIUS A*." The Astrophysical Journal, 859 60. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aabe2e. 2018
- Fish, Vincent L., Johnson, Michael D., Doeleman, Sheperd S., Broderick, Avery E., Psaltis, Dimitrios, Lu, Ru-Sen, Akiyama, Kazunori, Alef, Walter, Algaba, Juan Carlos, Asada, Keiichi, Beaudoin, Christopher, Bertarini, Alessandra, Blackburn, Lindy, Blundell, Ray, Bower, Geoffrey C., Brinkerink, Christiaan, Cappallo, Roger, Chael, Andrew A., Chamberlin, Richard, Chan, Chi-kwan, Crew, Geoffrey B., Dexter, Jason, Dexter, Matt, Dzib, Sergio A., Falcke, Heino et al. 2016. "Persistent Asymmetric Structure of Sagittarius A* on Event Horizon Scales." The Astrophysical Journal, 820 90. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/820/2/90. 2016
- Akiyama, Kazunori, Lu, Ru-Sen, Fish, Vincent L., Doeleman, Sheperd S., Broderick, Avery E., Dexter, Jason, Hada, Kazuhiro, Kino, Motoki, Nagai, Hiroshi, Honma, Mareki, Johnson, Michael D., Algaba, Juan C., Asada, Keiichi, Brinkerink, Christiaan, Blundell, Ray, Bower, Geoffrey C., Cappallo, Roger, Crew, Geoffrey B., Dexter, Matt, Dzib, Sergio A., Freund, Robert, Friberg, Per, Gurwell, Mark, Ho, Paul T. P., Inoue, Makoto et al. 2015. "230 GHz VLBI Observations of M87: Event-horizon-scale Structure during an Enhanced Very-high- energy -Ray State in 2012." The Astrophysical Journal, 807 150. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/807/2/150. 2015
- Johnson, Michael D., Fish, Vincent L., Doeleman, Sheperd S., Marrone, Daniel P., Plambeck, Richard L., Wardle, John F. C., Akiyama, Kazunori, Asada, Keiichi, Beaudoin, Christopher, Blackburn, Lindy, Blundell, Ray, Bower, Geoffrey C., Brinkerink, Christiaan, Broderick, Avery E., Cappallo, Roger, Chael, Andrew A., Crew, Geoffrey B., Dexter, Jason, Dexter, Matt, Freund, Robert, Friberg, Per, Gold, Roman, Gurwell, Mark A., Ho, Paul T. P., Honma, Mareki et al. 2015. "Resolved magnetic-field structure and variability near the event horizon of Sagittarius A*." Science, 350 1242–1245. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aac7087. 2015
- Tong, Cheuk-Yu Edward, Trifonov, Andrey, Shurakov, Alexander, Blundell, Raymond, and Goltsman, Gregory. 2014. "A Microwave-Operated Hot-Electron-Bolometric Power Detector for Terahertz Radiation." IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, 1–1. https://doi.org/10.1109/TASC.2014.2377670. 2014
- Tong, Cheuk-Yu Edward, Grimes, Paul, Blundell, Raymond, Wang, Ming-Jye, and Noguchi, Takashi. 2013. "Wideband SIS Receivers Using Series Distributed SIS Junction Array." IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology, Volume 3, Issue 4, Page 428-432, 3 428–432. 2013
- Doeleman, Sheperd S., Fish, Vincent L., Schenck, David E., Beaudoin, Christopher, Blundell, Ray, Bower, Geoffrey C., Broderick, Avery E., Chamberlin, Richard, Freund, Robert, Friberg, Per, Gurwell, Mark A., Ho, Paul T. P., Honma, Mareki, Inoue, Makoto, Krichbaum, Thomas P., Lamb, James, Loeb, Abraham, Lonsdale, Colin, Marrone, Daniel P., Moran, James M., Oyama, Tomoaki, Plambeck, Richard, Primiani, Rurik A., Rogers, Alan E. E., Smythe, Daniel L. et al. 2012. "Jet-Launching Structure Resolved Near the Supermassive Black Hole in M87." Science, 338 355. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1224768. 2012
- Grimes, Paul and Blundell, Raymond. 2012. "The Greenland Telescope." Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series, 8444. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.927459. 2012
- Kimberk, Robert S., Hunter, Todd R., Leiker, Patrick S., Blundell, Raymond, Nystrom, George U., Petitpas, Glen R., Test, John, Wilson, Robert W., Yamaguchi, Paul, and Young, Kenneth H. 2012. "a Multi-Baseline 12 GHz Atmospheric Phase Interferometer with One Micron Path Length Sensitivity." Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation, 1 50002. https://doi.org/10.1142/S225117171250002X. 2012
- Fish, Vincent L., Doeleman, Sheperd S., Beaudoin, Christopher, Blundell, Raymond, Bolin, David E., Bower, Geoffrey C., Chamberlin, Richard, Freund, Robert, Friberg, Per, Gurwell, Mark A., Honma, Mareki, Inoue, Makoto, Krichbaum, Thomas P., Lamb, James, Marrone, Daniel P., Moran, James M., Oyama, Tomoaki, Plambeck, Richard, Primiani, Rurik, Rogers, Alan E. E., Smythe, Daniel L., SooHoo, Jason, Strittmatter, Peter, Tilanus, Remo P. J., Titus, Michael et al. 2011. "1.3 mm Wavelength VLBI of Sagittarius A*: Detection of Time-variable Emission on Event Horizon Scales." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 727, (2) L36. 2011
- Li, Hua-Bai, Blundell, Raymond, Hedden, Abigail, Kawamura, Jonathan, Paine, Scott N., and Tong, Edward. 2011. "Evidence for dynamically important magnetic fields in molecular clouds." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 411 2067–2075. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.17839.x. 2011
- Cox, P., Krips, M., Neri, R., Omont, A., Güsten, R., Menten, K. M., Wyrowski, F., Weiß, A., Beelen, A., Gurwell, M. A., Dannerbauer, H., Ivison, R. J., Negrello, M., Aretxaga, I., Hughes, D. H., Auld, R., Baes, M., Blundell, Ray, Buttiglione, S., Cava, A., Cooray, A., Dariush, A., Dunne, L., Dye, S., Eales, S. A. et al. 2011. "Gas and Dust in a Submillimeter Galaxy at z = 4.24 from the Herschel Atlas." The Astrophysical Journal, 740 63. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/740/2/63. 2011
- Hopwood, R., Wardlow, J., Cooray, A., Khostovan, A. A., Kim, S., Negrello, M., da Cunha, E., Burgarella, D., Aretxaga, I., Auld, R., Baes, M., Barton, E., Bertoldi, F., Bonfield, D. G., Blundell, Raymond, Buttiglione, S., Cava, A., Clements, David L., Cooke, J., Dannerbauer, H., Dariush, A., de Zotti, G., Dunlop, J., Dunne, L., Dye, S. et al. 2011. "Spitzer Imaging of Herschel-atlas Gravitationally Lensed Submillimeter Sources." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 728, (1) L4. https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/728/1/L4. 2011
- Swinbank, A. M., Smail, I., Longmore, S., Harris, A. I., Baker, A. J., de Breuck, C., Richard, J., Edge, A. C., Ivison, R. J., Blundell, Raymond, Coppin, K. E. K., Cox, P., Gurwell, Mark A., Hainline, L. J., Krips, M., Lundgren, A., Neri, R., Siana, B., Siringo, G., Stark, D. P., Wilner, David J., and Younger, J. D. 2010. "Intense star formation within resolved compact regions in a galaxy at z = 2.3." Nature, 464 733–736. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature08880. 2010
- Negrello, Mattia, Hopwood, R., de Zotti, G., Cooray, A., Verma, A., Bock, J., Frayer, D. T., Gurwell, Mark A., Omont, A., Neri, R., Dannerbauer, H., Leeuw, L. L., Barton, E., Cooke, J., Kim, S., da Cunha, E., Rodighiero, G., Cox, P., Bonfield, D. G., Jarvis, M. J., Serjeant, S., Ivison, R. J., Dye, S., Aretxaga, I., Hughes, D. H. et al. 2010. "The Detection of a Population of Submillimeter-Bright, Strongly Lensed Galaxies." Science, 330 800. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1193420. 2010
- Zhao, Jun-Hui, Blundell, Raymond, Moran, James M., Downes, Dennis, Schuster, Karl F., and Marrone, Daniel P. 2010. "The High-density Ionized Gas in the Central Parsec of the Galaxy." The Astrophysical Journal, 723 1097–1109. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/723/2/1097. 2010
- Ryabchun, Sergey, Tong, Cheuk-Yu Edward, Blundell, Raymond, and Gol'Tsman, Gregory. 2009. "Stabilization Scheme for Hot-Electron Bolometer Receivers Using Microwave Radiation." IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, 19 14–19. https://doi.org/10.1109/TASC.2008.2008398. 2009
- Younger, Joshua D., Fazio, Giovanni G., Wilner, David J., Ashby, Matthew L. N., Blundell, Raymond, Gurwell, Mark A., Huang, Jia-Sheng, Iono, Daisuke, Peck, Alison B., Petitpas, Glen R., Scott, Kimberly S., Wilson, Grant W., and Yun, Min S. 2008. "The Physical Scale of the Far-Infrared Emission in the Most Luminous Submillimeter Galaxies." The Astrophysical Journal, 688 59–66. 2008
- Groppi, Christopher E., Hunter, Todd R., Blundell, Raymond, and Sandell, Göran. 2007. "High Spatial Resolution Observations of Two Young Protostars in the R Corona Australis Region." The Astrophysical Journal, 670 489–498. 2007