Robert A. McLaren

Specialist and Associate Director, Mauna Kea Division Ph.D., University of Toronto, 1973 mclaren@ifa.hawaii.edu Astronomical instrumentation Infrared astronomy Extragalactic distance scale

Awards

Robert W. Clopton Award for Distinguished Community Service (University of Hawaii), 1992

Selected Publications

Starcasting
S. Businger, R. McLaren, R. Ogasawara, D. Simons, and R. Wainscoat
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 83, 858-871 (2002)

Real-Time Mesoscale Simulations in Support of Astronomical Observations at Mauna Kea Observatories
R. Knabb, R. McLaren, J. Tonry, R. Wainscoat, S. Businger, R. Ogasawara, D. Simons, and M. Mountain
Twenty-fourth Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, American Meteorological Society, 406-407 (2000)

Communications Infrastructure for New Observing Techniques
T. Sun and R. A. McLaren
New Observing Modes for the Next Century, ASP Conference Series, 87, ed. T. Boroson, J. Davies, and I. Robson, 219-222 (1996)

Mauna Kea Observatories Communications Network: A Fiber Optics Based High Bandwidth Astronomy Network
T. Sun, P. H. Rhoads, and R. McLaren
Observing at a Distance, ed. D. T. Emerson and R. G. Clowes, World Scientific, 103-114 (1993)

Structure of Scintillations in Neptune's Occultation Shadow
W. B. Hubbard, E. Lellouch, B. Sicardy, A. Brahic, F. Vilas, P. Bouchet, R. A. McLaren, and C. Perrier
The Astrophysical Journal, 325, 490-502 (1988)

Distance Moduli and Structure of the Magellanic Clouds from Near-Infrared Photometry of Classical Cepheids
D. L. Welch, R. A. McLaren, B. F. Madore, and C. W. McAlary
The Astrophysical Journal, 321, 162-185 (1987)

A Near-Infrared and Optical Study of X-ray Selected Seyfert Galaxies. I. Observations
C. W. McAlary, R. A. McLaren, R. J. McGonegal, and J. Maza
The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 52, 341-362 (1983)

The Cepheid Distance Scale: A New Application for Infrared Photometry
R. McGonegal, R. A. McLaren, C. W. McAlary, and B. F. Madore
The Astrophysical Journal (Letters), 257, L33-L36 (1982)

Infrared Observations of Circumstellar Ammonia in OH/IR Supergiants
R. A. McLaren and A. L. Betz
The Astrophysical Journal (Letters), 240, L159-L163 (1980)

Heterodyne Detection of CO₂ Emission Lines and Wind Velocities in the Atmosphere of Venus
A. L. Betz, M. A. Johnson, R. A. McLaren, and E. C. Sutton
The Astrophysical Journal (Letters), 208, L141-L144 (1976)

Spectroscopy of the Orion Nebula from 80 to 135 Microns
D. Brandshaft, R. A. McLaren, and M. W. Werner,
The Astrophysical Journal (Letters), 199, L115-L117 (1975)

Elastic Constants of Neon Single Crystals Determined by Brillouin Scattering
R. A. McLaren, H. Kiefte, D. Landheer, and B. P. Stoicheff
Physical Review B, 11, 1705-1717 (1975)