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.
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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.
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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.
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