Paine, Scott
Senior Physicist
0000-0003-4622-5857
Paine, Scott
Senior Physicist
Millimeter-wave and submillimeter-wave optics and instrumentation; Fourier transform spectroscopy; Atmospheric radiometry and radiative transfer modeling; Radio spectrum management
Background And Education
Education And Training
- B.S. in Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology
- Ph.D. in Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Professional Biography
- Scott Paine has been affiliated with the Submillimeter Array radio interferometer on Maunakea, Hawaii, since its original development and construction, and is also active in the CMB-S4 experimental cosmology project. His research interests include advancing instrumentation and techniques for radio astronomy, and measuring, understanding, and statistically characterizing radiative properties of the Earth’s atmosphere having broad application to optimizing astronomical observations, remote sensing, and modeling of the Earth’s climate system.
Research And Grants
Co-principal Investigator On
Other Research Activities
- Submillimeter Array 1992 -
Publications
Selected Publications
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Article
- Raymond, Alexander W., Palumbo, Daniel, Paine, Scott N., Blackburn, Lindy, Córdova Rosado, Rodrigo, Doeleman, Sheperd S., Farah, Joseph R., Johnson, Michael D., Roelofs, Freek, Tilanus, Remo P. J., and Weintroub, Jonathan. 2021. "Evaluation of New Submillimeter VLBI Sites for the Event Horizon Telescope." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 253:5. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/abc3c3 2021
- Zeng, Lingzhen, Tong, Chenuk-Yu Edward, Paine, Scott N., and Grimes, Paul K. 2020. "A Compact Machinable 90° Waveguide Twist for Broadband Applications." IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory Techniques 68:2515-2520. https://doi.org/10.1109/TMTT.2020.2987800 2020
- Roelofs, F., Janßen, M., Natarajan, I., Deane, R., Davelaar, J., Olivares, H., Porth, O., Paine, Scott N., Bouman, Katherine L., Tilanus, R. P. J., van Bemmel, I. M., Falcke, H., Akiyama, K., Alberdi, A., Alef, W., Asada, K., Azulay, R., Baczko, A., Ball, D., Baloković, Mislav, Barrett, J., Bintley, D., Blackburn, Lindy, Boland, W., Bower, G. C. et al. 2020. "SYMBA: An end-to-end VLBI synthetic data generation pipeline. Simulating Event Horizon Telescope observations of M 87." Astronomy and Astrophysics 636:A5. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936622 2020
- Matsushita, Satoki, Asada, Keiichi, Martin-Cocher, Pierre L., Chen, Ming-Tang, Ho, Paul T. P., Inoue, Makoto, Koch, Patrick M., Paine, Scott N., and Turner, David D. 2017. "3.5 Year Monitoring of 225 GHz Opacity at the Summit of Greenland." Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 129:025001. https://doi.org/10.1088/1538-3873/129/972/025001 2017
- Shi, Sheng-Cai, Paine, Scott N., Yao, Qi-Jun, Lin, Zhen-Hui, Li, Xin-Xing, Duan, Wen-Ying, Matsuo, Hiroshi, Zhang, Qizhou, Yang, Ji, Ashley, M. C. B., Shang, Zhaohui, and Hu, Zhong-Wen. 2016. "Terahertz and far-infrared windows opened at Dome A in Antarctica." Nature Astronomy 1:0001. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-016-0001 2016
- Paine, Scott N. and Turner, David D. 2013. "Processing and Calibration of Submillimeter Fourier Transform Radiometer Spectra From the RHUBC-II Campaign." IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 51:5187-5198. https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2012.2231869 2013
- Turner, D. D., Mlawer, E. J., Bianchini, G., Cadeddu, M. P., Crewell, S., Delamere, J. S., Knuteson, R. O., Maschwitz, G., Mlynzcak, M., Paine, Scott N., Palchetti, L., and Tobin, D. C. 2012. "Ground-based high spectral resolution observations of the entire terrestrial spectrum under extremely dry conditions." Geophysical Research Letters 39:L0801. https://doi.org/10.1029/2012GL051542 2012
- 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
Contact
Location
- Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Academic Department