Dr. Richard S. Woolf Profile

Dr. Richard S. Woolf

at US Naval Research Lab

SPIE Involvement:

Conference Program Committee | Author

Publications (15)

Proceedings Article | 8 October 2024 Presentation + Paper

Presentation + Paper

On-orbit performance of Glowbug, a telescope on the ISS for gamma-ray transients

Richard Woolf, J. Eric Grove, Matthew Kerr, C. C. Teddy Cheung, J. Mitch Davis, Theodore Finne, W. Neil Johnson, Michael Briggs, Adam Goldstein, Daniel Kocevski, Colleen Wilson-Hodge, A. Wilder Crosier

Proceedings Volume 13151, 1315108 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3029888

KEYWORDS: Sensors, Silicon photomultipliers, Equipment, Gamma radiation, Detector arrays, Plastics, Analytical research, Amplifiers, Temperature metrology, Scintillators

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Proceedings Article | 21 August 2024 Poster + Paper

Poster + Paper

The anti-coincidence detector subsystem for ComPair

Zachary Metzler, Nicholas Cannady, Daniel Shy, Regina Caputo, Carolyn Kierans, Richard Woolf

Proceedings Volume 13093, 130937Q (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3017653

KEYWORDS: Silicon photomultipliers, Particles, Sensors, Gamma radiation, Plastics, Calibration, Balloons, Scintillators, Signal attenuation, Attenuation

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Proceedings Article | 21 August 2024 Presentation + Paper

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ComPair-2: a next-generation medium-energy gamma-ray telescope prototype

Regina Caputo, Carolyn Kierans, Nicholas Cannady, Abe Falcone, Yasushi Fukazawa, Manoj Jadhav, Matthew Kerr, Nicolas Kirschner, Kavic Kumar, Adrien Laviron, Richard Leys, Julie McEnery, Jessica Metcalfe, Zachary Metzler, Nathan Miller, John Mitchell, Lucas Parker, Ivan Peric, Jeremy Perkins, Bernard Phlips, Judith Racusin, Makoto Sasaki, Kenneth Segal, Daniel Shy, Amanda Steinhebel, Nicolas Striebig, Yusuke Suda, Hiroyasu Tajima, Janeth Valverde, Daniel Violette, Richard Woolf, Andreas Zoglauer

Proceedings Volume 13093, 130932L (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3017619

KEYWORDS: Gamma radiation, Telescopes, Equipment, Prototyping, Design, Sensors, Photons, Silicon photomultipliers, Balloons, Observatories

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Proceedings Article | 21 August 2024 Poster + Paper

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The 2023 balloon flight of the ComPair instrument

Lucas Smith, Nicholas Cannady, Regina Caputo, Carolyn Kierans, Nicholas Kirschner, Iker Liceaga-Indart, Julie McEnery, Zachary Metzler, A. Moiseev, Lucas Parker, Jeremy Perkins, Makoto Sasaki, Adam Schoenwald, Daniel Shy, Janeth Valverde, Sambid Wasti, Richard Woolf, Aleksey Bolotnikov, Thomas Caligiure, A. Wilder Crosier, Jack Fried, Priyarshini Ghosh, Sean Griffin, J. Eric Grove, Elizabeth Hays, Emily Kong, John Mitchell, Bernard Phlips, Clio Sleator, D. Thompson, Eric Wulf, Anna Zajczyk

Proceedings Volume 13093, 130937Z (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3020463

KEYWORDS: Sensors, Equipment, Balloons, Gamma radiation, Data acquisition, Electrons, Compton scattering, Signal detection, Sensor calibration, Scintillators

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Proceedings Article | 21 August 2024 Poster + Paper

Poster + Paper

Results from the CsI calorimeter onboard the 2023 ComPair balloon flight

Daniel Shy, Richard Woolf, Clio Sleator, Bernard Phlips, J. Eric Grove, Eric Wulf, Mary Johnson-Rambert, Mitch Davis, Emily Kong, Thomas Caligiure, A. Wilder Crosier, Aleksey Bolotnikov, Nicholas Cannady, Gabriella Carini, Regina Caputo, Jack Fried, Priyarshini Ghosh, Sean Griffin, Elizabeth Hays, Sven Herrmann, Carolyn Kierans, Nicholas Kirschner, Iker Liceaga-Indart, Zachary Metzler, Julie McEnery, John Mitchell, A. Moiseev, Lucas Parker, Alfred Dellapenna, Jeremy Perkins, Makoto Sasaki, Adam Schoenwald, Lucas Smith, Janeth Valverde, Sambid Wasti, Anna Zajczyk

Proceedings Volume 13093, 130937X (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3020032

KEYWORDS: Balloons, Equipment, Gamma radiation, Silicon photomultipliers, Sensors, Analytical research, Visible radiation, Global Positioning System, Telescopes, Silicon

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Proceedings Article | 21 August 2024 Poster + Paper

Poster + Paper

Glowbug-2: a gamma-ray transient instrument for the ISS

Richard Woolf, J. Eric Grove, Matthew Kerr, C. C. Teddy Cheung, J. Mitch Davis, Theodore Finne, W. Neil Johnson, Michael Briggs, Adam Goldstein, Daniel Kocevski, Colleen Wilson-Hodge

Proceedings Volume 13093, 130937V (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3019502

KEYWORDS: Equipment, Sensors, Silicon photomultipliers, Gamma radiation, Crystals, Space operations, Design, Data acquisition, Scintillation, X-ray optics

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Proceedings Article | 5 October 2023 Presentation + Paper

Presentation + Paper

On-orbit results of the GAGG radiation instruments

Lee Mitchell, Bernard Phlips, Richard Woolf, Anthony Hutcheson, Wiley Johnson, Mary Johnson-Rambert

Proceedings Volume 12678, 1267815 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2672563

KEYWORDS: Gamma radiation, Silicon photomultipliers, Crystals, Space operations, Particles, Spectroscopy, Radiation effects, Scintillators, Spaceflight missions

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Proceedings Article | 3 October 2023 Presentation + Paper

Presentation + Paper

Neutron radiation detection instrument-1A (NeRDI-1A)

Anthony Hutcheson, Bernard Phlips, W. Neil Johnson, Lee Mitchell, Joshua Wolf, Mary Johnson-Rambert, Joseph Davis, Theodore Finne, Richard Woolf, Rose Perea

Proceedings Volume 12696, 1269603 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2682621

KEYWORDS: Silicon photomultipliers, Scintillators, Equipment, Design and modelling, Gamma radiation, Space operations, Data acquisition

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SPIE Journal Paper | 28 October 2022

All-sky Medium Energy Gamma-ray Observatory eXplorer mission concept

Regina Caputo, Marco Ajello, Carolyn Kierans, Jeremy Perkins, Judith L. Racusin, Luca Baldini, Matthew Baring, Elisabetta Bissaldi, Eric Burns, Nicholas Cannady, Eric Charles, Rui Curado da Silva, Ke Fang, Henrike Fleischhack, Chris Fryer, Yasushi Fukazawa, J. Eric Grove, Dieter Hartmann, Eric Howell, Manoj Jadhav, Christopher Karwin, Daniel Kocevski, Naoko Kurahashi, Luca Latronico, Tiffany Lewis, Richard Leys, Amy Lien, Lea Marcotulli, Israel Martinez-Castellanos, Mario Nicola Mazziotta, Julie McEnery, Jessica Metcalfe, Kohta Murase, Michela Negro, Lucas Parker, Bernard Phlips, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Soebur Razzaque, Peter Shawhan, Yong Sheng, Tom Shutt, Daniel Shy, Clio Sleator, Amanda Steinhebel, Nicolas Striebig, Yusuke Suda, Donggeun Tak, Hiro Tajima, Janeth Valverde, Tonia Venters, Zorawar Wadiasingh, Richard Woolf, Eric Wulf, Haocheng Zhang, Andreas Zoglauer

JATIS, Vol. 8, Issue 04, 044003, (October 2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.10.1117/1.JATIS.8.4.044003

KEYWORDS: Gamma radiation, Observatories, Photons, Space operations, Sensors, Polarization, Pulsars, Physics, Spatial resolution, Telescopes

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Proceedings Article | 31 August 2022 Presentation + Paper

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Development of the balloon-borne Galactic Explorer Coded Aperture Mask and Compton Telescope (GECCO) prototype

Richard Woolf, A. Moiseev, Aleksey Bolotnikov, Nicholas Cannady, Gabriella Carini, John Krizmanic, John Mitchell, Bernard Phlips, Makoto Sasaki, Daniel Shy, Lucas Smith, David Thompson, Eric Yates, Klaus Ziock, Andreas Zoglauer

Proceedings Volume 12181, 121812J (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2630681

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Spatial resolution, Sensors, Coded apertures, Prototyping, Crystals, Gamma radiation, Data acquisition, Photomasks

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Proceedings Article | 31 August 2022 Presentation + Paper

Presentation + Paper

Characterization of Glowbug: a gamma-ray telescope for bursts and other transients

Richard Woolf, J. Eric Grove, Michael Briggs, J. Mitch Davis, Theodore Finne, W. Neil Johnson, Matthew Kerr, Daniel Kocevski, Colleen Wilson-Hodge

Proceedings Volume 12181, 121811O (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2630543

KEYWORDS: Sensors, Crystals, Gamma radiation, Electronics, Analytical research, Stars, Calibration, Telescopes, Scintillation

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Proceedings Article | 31 August 2022 Presentation + Paper

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Development of the ComPair gamma-ray telescope prototype

Daniel Shy, Carolyn Kierans, Nicolas Cannady, Regina Caputo, Sean Griffin, J. Eric Grove, Elizabeth Hays, Emily Kong, Nicholas Kirschner, Iker Liceaga-Indart, Julie McEnery, John Mitchell, A. Moiseev, Lucas Parker, Jeremy Perkins, Bernard Phlips, Makoto Sasaki, Adam Schoenwald, Clio Sleator, Jacob Smith, Lucas Smith, Sambid Wasti, Richard Woolf, Eric Wulf, Anna Zajczyk

Proceedings Volume 12181, 121812G (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2628811

KEYWORDS: Gamma ray imaging, Gamma-ray astronomy, Astronomical instrumentation, Gamma radiation, Photons, Telescopes, Muons, Silicon

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Proceedings Article | 24 August 2021 Presentation + Paper

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GAGG Radiation Instrumentation (GARI)

Lee Mitchell, Bernard Phlips, Richard Woolf, Theodore Finne, Anthony Hutcheson, W. Neil Johnson, Mary Johnson-Rambert, Rose Perea

Proceedings Volume 11821, 1182105 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2598588

KEYWORDS: Space sensors, Gamma-ray astronomy, Scintillation, Homeland security, Sensors, Crystals, Gamma radiation, Space operations, Data acquisition, Aerospace engineering, Spectroscopes, Scintillators

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Proceedings Article | 9 September 2019 Presentation + Paper

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Strontium iodide radiation instrumentation II (SIRI-2)

Lee Mitchell, Bernard Phlips, Richard Woolf, Theodore Finne, W. Neil Johnson

Proceedings Volume 11118, 111180I (2019) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2528073

KEYWORDS: Sensors, Europium, Gamma radiation, Solar processes, Space operations, Electrons, Crystals, Detector arrays, Data acquisition, Strontium

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Proceedings Article | 9 September 2019 Presentation + Paper

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Novel inorganic scintillators for future space-based solar gamma-ray and neutron research

Richard Woolf, Bernard Phlips, J. Eric Grove, Ronald Murphy, Gerald Share

Proceedings Volume 11114, 1111407 (2019) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2528434

KEYWORDS: Sensors, Ions, Solar processes, Scintillation, Scintillators, Sun, Particles, Crystals, Spectroscopy, Space operations, Gamma radiation

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Conference Committee Involvement (6)

Hard X-Ray, Gamma-Ray, and Neutron Detector Physics XXVII

3 August 2025 | San Diego, California, United States

Hard X-Ray, Gamma-Ray, and Neutron Detector Physics XXVI

19 August 2024 | San Diego, California, United States

Hard X-Ray, Gamma-Ray, and Neutron Detector Physics XXV

21 August 2023 | San Diego, California, United States

Hard X-Ray, Gamma-Ray, and Neutron Detector Physics XXIV

22 August 2022 | San Diego, California, United States

Hard X-Ray, Gamma-Ray, and Neutron Detector Physics XXIII

1 August 2021 | San Diego, California, United States

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