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Dr. Michael J. Tripicco
- Employer: Science Systems & Applications, Inc.
- Job Description: Department Manager - SESDA Space Science
- Phone: 301 286-9244
- e-mail: miket@lheamail.gsfc.nasa.gov
Mike Tripicco is a Lead Programmer/Analyst with
Science Systems & Applications, Inc.
and since 1995 has been providing science support for the
Office of General Investigator Programs
in
GSFC's Exploration of
the Universe Division (EUD).
Mike's duties are primarily concerned with the
FTOOLS/HEAdas software package for processing and analyzing data in the
FITS format. He has been part of the
RXTE Guest Observer Facility over the entire mission lifetime,
writing and maintaining RXTE-specific FTOOLS and managing the RXTE
data archive. More recently Mike has been a part of the
Swift Science Center where his duties
center around configuration management for the Swift data analysis
software package.
Currently Mike spends half of his time on management and is responsible
for the Space Science Department under the SESDA contract.
Mike received a B.S. in Physics & Astronomy from the
University of Rochester in 1982. The grey skies and (seemingly) nonstop
snow of Rochester drove him to seek refuge in Hawaii, where he earned M.S.
(1984) and PhD degrees (1987) in Astronomy from the
University of Hawaii at Manoa.
His PhD thesis research was an
observational study of the globular star clusters in the Andromeda
Galaxy (M31). From late 1987 until mid-1995, he worked as an Assistant
Research Scientist at the
University of Maryland in College Park. His
research there centered around the synthesis of composite visible-light
spectra for star clusters and galaxies using model atmospheres and
computer-generated stellar spectra.
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