Dr. Rosalie McGurk
Welcome! I'm a Staff Astronomer at W.M. Keck Observatory in Waimea, Hawaii. I help astronomers take the best data possible with great instruments on two of the biggest telescopes in the world! I am working with the KCRM team to bring red wavelengths to the Keck Cosmic Web Imager, or KCWI.
As an Instrumentation Postdoctoral Fellow at Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California, from 2017 to 2021, I worked with Steve Shectman to design and build the Reformatting Optically Sensitive IMACS-Enhancing Integral Field Unit (ROSIE IFU) for the IMACS wide-field camera spectrograph on the Magellan Baade Telescope at Las Campanas Observatory.
Beyond instrumentation, I am finishing a project hunting for pairs of AGNs present in double-peaked emission line merging galaxies in the near-IR and X-rays. I have also begun a near-IR spectroscopy project to examine and characterize the multiphase near-IR outflows found in low star formation rate surface density galaxies previously thought incapable of driving outflows.