Research Interests
Dr. Huentemeyer's background is in astrophysics and elementary particle physics. She is currently interested in the study of gamma and cosmic rays to solve the century old puzzle of the origin of Galactic cosmic rays which were first detected by the Austrian-American scientist Victor Hess in 1912.
Where and how are cosmic rays produced and accelerated to highest energies? The study of gamma rays provides a crucial piece of the puzzle. Gamma rays are produced by cosmic ray interactions with matter and radiation fields in space and as neutral particles they can be traced back to the location of their creation. The high energy processes in which they are produced can be studied by measuring their energy spectra, source morphologies, and spatial correlation of their sources with sources at other wavelengths.
Previously, Dr. Huentemeyer was a member of the OPAL collaboration at CERN and later joined the HiRes and Milagro experiments. Most recently she has been involved in the analysis of Milagro data and the design and construction of the HAWC Observatory on the Sierra Negra plateau near Puebla in Mexico.
Open Positions
Open position in Dr. Huentemeyer's research group:
Postdoctoral Position
The Gamma Ray Astronomy group at Michigan Technological University has an opening for a postdoctoral position. Candidates will be considered until the position is filled. The anticipated starting date of the appointment is February 2012.
Posted November 10, 2012.
Education
PhD, University of Hamburg, 2001. Major: Physics
Diploma, University of Muenster, 1996. Major: Physics
Selected Publications
Including proceedings.
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"Indications of Proton-Dominated Cosmic-Ray Composition above 1.6 EeV" (with Abbasi et al.) , Physical Review Letters , Vol. 104, No. 161101 (2010).
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"Milagro Observations of Multi-TeV Emission from Galactic Sources in the Fermi Bright Source List" (with Abdo et al.), The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 700, L127 (2009).
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"HAWC Timing Calibration" (Huentemeyer, P. H., Matthews, J. A.J., Dingus, B. ), Proceedings of the 31st International Cosmic Ray Conference (2009)
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"The Large-Scale Cosmic-Ray Anisotropy as Observed with Milagro" (with Abdo et al.), The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 698, 2121 (2009).
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"A Measurement of the Spatial Distribution of Diffuse TeV Gamma-Ray Emission from the Galactic Plane with Milagro" (with Abdo et al.), The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 688, 1078 (2008).
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"Air Fluorescence Measurements in the Spectral Range 300–400 nm Using a 28.5 GeV Electron Beam", Astroparticle Physics, Vol. 29, 77 (2008).
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"An Upper Limit on the Electron-Neutrino Flux from the HiRes Detector" (with Abbasi et al.), The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 684, 790 (2008).
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"Discovery of Localized Regions of Excess 10 TeV Cosmic Rays" (with Abdo et al.), Physical Review Letters, Vol. 101, 221101 (2008).
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"First Observation of the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin Suppression" (with Abbasi et al., Physical Review Letters, Vol. 100, 101101, (2008). "TeV Gamma-Ray Sources from a Survey of the Galactic Plane with Milagro" (with Abdo et al.), The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 664, L91 (2007).
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"Measurement of the partial widths of the Z into up- and down-type quarks" (with Abbiendi et al.), Physics Letters B, 586, 167 (2004).
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