Research

Dr. Jack Burns photo with Moon on Science on the Sphere in the background

Jack's current research focuses on the design and flight of low radio frequency telescopes on the Moon, including the ROLSES and LuSEE-Night missions. These telescopes along with arrays such as FARSIDE and FarView will probe the unexplored Dark Ages and Cosmic Dawn of the Universe at redshifts 15-100. HeÌýwasÌýPrincipal Investigator of the Ìýa five-year, $3.5 million cooperative agreement from NASA to research the science and design of astronomical observatories on the Moon.

Burns' otherÌýresearch has involvedÌýnumerical simulations of clusters of galaxies for comparison with observational tests of the the growth of large-scale structure and cosmological tests such as the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect. His observational background includes studies at both radio and X-ray wavelengths.Ìý

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The Galactic and Extragalactic spectra for a typical region away from the Galactic center.

The Galactic and Extragalactic spectra for a typical region away from the Galactic center.

Supervision of Graduate Students

  1. David Batuski, Ph.D., ³Ô¹ÏÍø of New Mexico, 1986.
  2. David Clarke, Ph.D., ³Ô¹ÏÍø of New Mexico, 1988.
  3. Jun-Hui Zhao, Ph.D., ³Ô¹ÏÍø of New Mexico, 1990.
  4. Ilias Fernini, Ph.D., ³Ô¹ÏÍø of New Mexico, 1991.
  5. David Brown, M.S., New Mexico State ³Ô¹ÏÍø, 1992.ÌýÌý Ìý
  6. Brian Kooiman, M.S., New Mexico State ³Ô¹ÏÍø, 1993.
  7. Jason Pinkney, Ph.D., New Mexico State ³Ô¹ÏÍø, 1995.
  8. Kurt Roettiger, Ph.D., New Mexico State ³Ô¹ÏÍø, 1995.
  9. Kevin Marvel, Ph.D., New Mexico State ³Ô¹ÏÍø, 1996.
  10. Percy Gómez, Ph.D., New Mexico State ³Ô¹ÏÍø, 1997.
  11. Mark Bliton, New Mexico State ³Ô¹ÏÍø, Ph.D., 2000.
  12. Elizabeth Rizza, New Mexico State ³Ô¹ÏÍø, Ph.D., 2000.
  13. Samuel Skillman, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado, Ph.D., 2013.
  14. Jason Henning, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado, 2007-2009.
  15. Laura Kruger, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado, 2009-2014.
  16. David Schenck, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado, 2011-2015.
  17. Jordan Mirocha, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado, 2009-2015, Ph.D. 2015.
  18. Hilary Egan, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado, 2013-2016.
  19. Bang Nhan, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado, 2013-2018, Ph.D. 2018.
  20. Scott Sullivan, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado, 2014-2015.
  21. Keith Tauscher, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado, 2015-2021.
  22. Brian Alden, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado, 2016-2023.
  23. Benjamin Mellinkoff, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado, Aerospace Engineering, M.S. 2018.
  24. Michael Walker, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado & ³Ô¹ÏÍø of North Carolina, Computer Science, 2017 – 2023.
  25. Joshua Hibbard, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado, 2019 – present.
  26. Neil Bassett,Ìý³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado, 2018-2023.
  27. Johnny Dorigo Jones, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado, 2022-present.
  28. Ky Putnam, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado, 2023-present.

Supervision of Postdoctoral Fellows

  1. Thomas Balonek, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of New Mexico, 1982-1984.
  2. J. Ward Moody, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of New Mexico, 1985-1987.
  3. Martin Sulkanen, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of New Mexico, 1986-1989.
  4. Michael Newberry, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of New Mexico, 1988-1989.
  5. George Rhee, New Mexico State ³Ô¹ÏÍø, 1990-1993.
  6. Chris Loken, New Mexico State ³Ô¹ÏÍø, 1990-1996.
  7. Michael Ledlow, New Mexico State ³Ô¹ÏÍø, 1994-1997.
  8. Kurt Roettiger, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Missouri, 1997-2000.
  9. Patrick Motl, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Missouri and ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado, 2000-2004.
  10. Eric Hallman, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado, 2004-2009.
  11. Geraint Harker, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado, 2009-2014.
  12. Abhi Datta, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado, 2010-2015.
  13. Stephen Skory, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado, 2010-2013.
  14. Raul Monsalve, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado, 2016-2018.
  15. David Rapetti, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado, 2016-2019.
  16. Midhun Sreekumar Menon, 2019 - present.