"' Franco Pacini "'( May 10, 1939 January 25, 2012 ) was an High Energy Astrophysics, in Italy, France, United States and at the European Southern Observatory.
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From 1970 to 1982, McDonald was chief of Goddard s Laboratory of High Energy Astrophysics, where he helped design a satellite program with instruments that could study X-rays, gamma rays and cosmic rays.
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It was merged to the International X-ray Observatory around 2008, but as that project ran into issues in 2010, the ESA component was forked off into Advanced Telescope for High Energy Astrophysics ( ATHENA ).
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It consists of radio astronomy, optical astronomy and applications of astronomy, especially pulsars, star formation and evolution, galaxies and cosmology, high energy astrophysics, microwave receiver, digital technology, GPS, and so on.
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In 1966 he joined the AAS . In 1969 he was one of the founders of the Section for High Energy Astrophysics Division of the AAS and, in 1970 and 1971, was the first chair of this division.
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The "'Advanced Telescope for High ENergy Astrophysics "'( "'ATHENA "') is a future X-ray telescope of the European Space Agency, under development for launch around 2028.
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The two gamma-ray instruments ( KONUS and TGRS ) on board of Wind, are described on their [ / / heasarc . gsfc . nasa . gov / docs / heasarc / missions / wind . html High Energy Astrophysics Home Page ].
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He has worked predominantly in the area of high energy astrophysics, studying explosive objects in the universe such as supernovae, gamma-ray bursts, gravitational wave transients and tidal disruption events ( stars torn apart when they approach too close to a massive black hole ).
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Frank Chalupka said of the High Energy Astrophysics Workshop he attended with the others at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala . " Just about everybody there had a Ph . D . They were calling us "'the Buffalo group . "'
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He served in a number of significant positions that included those of Instrumentation Branch head, associate chief of the Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics, and, then in 1987, director of the Space and Earth Sciences Directorate, the latter of which contained more than one-half of all NASA scientists.
