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Recent Conference Papers
  More Flexibility in Representing Geometric Distortion in Astronomical Images [Paper] [Poster],
    David L. Shupe, Russ R. Laher, Lisa Storrie-Lombardi, et al. 2012,
    Proceedings of SPIE, vol. 8451, paper 84511M (Amsterdam, Netherlands).
  Pipeline Processing of Infrared-Array-Camera Images from the Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF)
    (GSFC Workshop on Computational Optics and Imaging for Space Applications. May 10, 2000)
  New Software for Ensemble Creation in the Spitzer-Space-Telescope Operations Database
    (2004 ADASS XIV Conference, Pasadena, California)
  Caltrans Keeps the Spitzer Pipelines Moving
    (2004 ADASS XIV Conference, Pasadena, California)
  Processing of 24 Micron Image Data at the Spitzer Science Center [Paper] [Poster]
    (2004 ADASS XIV Conference, Pasadena, California)
  Position Refinement of Spitzer-Space-Telescope Images [Paper] [Poster]
    (2005 ADASS XV Conference, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain)
  Galaxy Clustering in Far-Infrared SWIRE Fields [Paper] [Poster]
    (2005 Spitzer Conference: Infrared Diagnostics of Galaxy Evolution, Pasadena, California)
  Data Quality Analysis at the Spitzer Science Center [Paper] [Poster]
    (2006 SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation Conference, Orlando, Florida)
  Post-Bandmerge Utilities Applied to Spitzer Pleiades Data [Paper] [Poster]
    (2006 ADASS XVI Conference, Tucson, Arizona)
  Optimal Point-Source Extraction for Spitzer IRS Spectra [Paper]
    (2006 ADASS XVI Conference, Tucson, Arizona)
  Image Processing Application for Cognition (IPAC) [Paper]
    (2006 ADASS XVI Conference, Tucson, Arizona)
  Optimal Merging of Point Sources Extracted from Spitzer Space Telescope Data in Multiple
    Infrared Passbands Versus Simple General Source Association [Paper] [Poster]
    (2007 ADASS XVII Conference, London, UK)
  Design of the Spitzer Space Telescope Heritage Archive, Levine et al. [PDF]
    (2008 ADASS XVIII Conference, Quebec City, Canada)
 
Recent Journal Papers
  IPAC Image Processing and Data Archiving for the Palomar Transient Factory [Paper],
    Russ R. Laher, Jason Surace, Carl J. Grillmair, et al. 2014,
    PASP, 126, 674.
  Reinvestigation of the electronic transition moment function of the BO B 2Σ+-X 2Σ+ band system [Paper],
    Russ R. Laher, Murtadha A. Khakoo, M. Kuzmanovic, A. Antic-Jovanovic 2014,
    Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer, 140, 67.
  Refinement of the Spitzer Telescope Pointing History Based on Image Registration Corrections from Multiple Data Channels [Paper],
    Howard L. McCallon, John W. Fowler, Russ R. Laher, Frank J. Masci, and Mehrdad Moshir 2007,
    PASP, 119, 1308.
  Direct evidence for channel-coupling effects in molecules: electron impact excitation of the a″ 1Σ+g state of N2 [Paper],
    M. A. Khakoo, S. Wang, R. Laher, P. V. Johnson, C. P. Malone, and I. Kanik 2007,
    J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 40, F167.
  Franck-Condon factors and r-centroids for the A 1Σ+u-X 1Σ+g band system of 107, 109Ag2: comparison of the observed and calculated absorption band strengths [Paper],
    A. Antic-Jovanovic, M. Kuzmanovic, V. Bojovic, Murtadha A. Khakoo, Russ R. Laher 2007,
    Chinese Physics Letters 24, 2566.
  Electron impact excitation of the (v″=0) to the a″ 1Σ+g, b 1Πu, c 1Πu, o 1Πu, b″ 1Σ+u, c″ 1Σ+u, F 3Πu and G 3Πu states of molecular nitrogen [Paper],
    Khakoo, Murtadha A., Shi-Yang Wang, Vaasu Swaminathan, Daniel Nuyujukian, Russ Laher , Brenton Lewis, Paul V. Johnson,
    Charles P. Malone, and Isik Kanik 2008,
    Phys. Rev. A, 77, 012704.
  Radiative transition parameters for the A 1Σ+u-X 1Σ+g band system of 107, 109Ag2 [Paper],
    Russ R. Laher, Murtadha A. Khakoo, A. Antic-Jovanovic 2008, J. Mol. Spectrosc., 248, 111.
 
Supplements
  Derivatives used in the Mapping Matrix in the PASP Paper entitled Refinement of the Spitzer Telescope
    Pointing History Based on Image Registration Corrections from Multiple Data Channels
    by Howard L. McCallon, John W. Fowler, Russ R. Laher, Frank J. Masci, and Mehrdad Moshir 2007 [PDF].

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