John Rayner

Irish Hospice Foundation — Ireland

Physics and Astronomy · Physical Sciences

31h-index6.0kcitations152works3.22yr avg
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Research Topics

Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies(54), Astro and Planetary Science(42), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research(42), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies(40), Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing(30)

Publications152 total

Near-discovery Observations of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS with the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility
The Astrophysical Journal Letters·2025· 15 citedOpen Access
Near-Discovery Observations of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS with the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility
arXiv (Cornell University)·2025Open Access
Design and Performance of the Upgraded Mid-infrared Spectrometer and Imager (MIRSI) on the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Design and Performance of the Upgraded Mid-InfraRed Spectrometer and Imager (MIRSI) on the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility
arXiv (Cornell University)·2024Open Access
First laboratory and on-sky results of an adaptive secondary mirror with TNO-style actuators on the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility
2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Machine Learning of Large Scale Imagery for Wildlife Conservation
2024· 1 citedOpen Access
The Extended IRTF Spectral Library: Expanded Coverage in Metallicity, Temperature, and Surface Gravity
UNC Libraries·2023Open Access
The Kinematics and Excitation of Infrared Water Vapor Emission from Planet-forming Disks: Results from Spectrally Resolved Surveys and Guidelines for JWST Spectra
The Astronomical Journal·2023· 44 citedOpen Access
SPECTRE: a 0.4-4.2-micron IFU Spectrograph for the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility
Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX·2022
TANSPEC: TIFR-ARIES Near-infrared Spectrometer
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific·2022· 18 citedOpen Access
TANSPEC: TIFR-ARIES Near Infrared Spectrometer
arXiv (Cornell University)·2022Open Access
SpeX Near-infrared Spectroscopic Extinction Curves in the Milky Way
The Astrophysical Journal·2022· 60 citedOpen Access
Scanning Disk Rings and Winds in CO at 0.01–10 au: A High-resolution M-band Spectroscopy Survey with IRTF-iSHELL
The Astronomical Journal·2022· 56 citedOpen Access
iSHELL: a 1–5 micron R = 80,000 Immersion Grating Spectrograph for the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific·2022· 39 citedOpen Access
An IRTF-iSHELL Survey of 4.52–5.25 μm CO Spectra in Protoplanetary Disks of Intermediate-mass Stars: Preliminary Sample and Analysis
Research Notes of the AAS·2021· 1 citedOpen Access
The NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) 2023-2032
2021Open Access
An IRTF-iSHELL survey of near-infrared CO spectra in Herbig disks: sample and excitation analysis
American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts·2021
Key Technologies Developed Through Hawaíi Astronomy
American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #235·2020
Astrophysics with the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility
Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society·2019
Observing the linked depletion of dust and CO gas at 0.1–10 au in disks of intermediate-mass stars
Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology)·2018· 28 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Peter M. Onaka(8), M. J. McCaughrean(8), Douglas W. Toomey(7), William D. Vacca(7), Michael C. Cushing(7), A. T. Tokunaga(7), Anthony J. Denault(6), Werner E. Stahlberger(6), H. Zinnecker(6), K. W. Hodapp(4), Joseph L. Hora(4), Louis Robertson(4), M. A. Shure(4), Darryl Y. Watanabe(4), Morgan Bonnet(3), Michael S. Connelley(3), Andrea Banzatti(3), S. Brittain(3), K. M. Pontoppidan(3), R. W. Russell(3)