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H. Warren Moos
The FUSE Mission (http://fuse.pha.jhu.edu/) is a NASA space astronomy mission with participation by the Canadian and French space agencies. It provides high spectral resolution astronomical spectroscopy in the far ultraviolet at wavelengths beyond the Hubble Space Telescope cut off down to 912 Å where the interstellar medium becomes essentially opaque due to photoionization of atomic hydrogen. The construction of the satellite and its control center was led by scientists and engineers at Hopkins and since launch by NASA on June 24, 1999, the FUSE satellite has been operated from a control center in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. The Prime Science Phase ended March 31, 2003 and the FUSE Mission is now in the Extended Mission Phase. The primary scientific goals of the Principal Investigator Team included the measurement of deuterium abundances in the Milky Way and the analysis of hot ionized gas in the halo of the galaxy. Additional goals included investigations of the intergalactic medium, the interstellar medium, stars and planets. Although the FUSE instrument was optimized for these goals, its versatility makes possible a wide range of investigations by Guest Investigators selected by NASA. Dr. Moos' research interests center on the use of space borne telescopes to analyze objects of astrophysical importance. He has been involved in several space missions as a co-investigator, including the ultraviolet spectrometers on the Apollo 17, the Voyager missions and the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope flown on the space shuttle in 1990 and 1995. He was also a co-investigator for the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph installed in the Hubble Space Telescope February 14, 1997. Dr. Moos used the instrument to study the volcanic gas from Io, which fuels the plasma torus about Jupiter. He also participates with Professor Michael Finkenthal in a program to diagnose the high temperature plasmas used in fusion research. They are Dr. Moos graduated from Brown University in 1957 and. received the Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Michigan in 1962. From 1961 to 1963 he was a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University, becoming an Acting Assistant Professor in 1963. In 1964 he joined the faculty of the Johns Hopkins University. His early research was concerned with atomic physics and quantum optics. He has served as Director of the Center for Astrophysical Sciences and as Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy.
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Warren Moos is Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at The