Terry Herter's interests include normal and starburst galaxies, circumstellar disks, and the galactic center. In the recent past he has also studied HII (ionized hydrogen) regions and planetary nebulae. From time to time, he has dabbled in planetary astronomy: observing planets, moons and comets. He has also working on the development and testing of infrared arrays for ground-based, airborne, and space-based astronomy.

Research Projects:

• FORECAST: A Widefield Infrared Camera for SOFIA
• TripleSpec 4: A Facility Near-Infrared Spectrograph for the Blanco 4-m Telescope at CTIO

-Radio-selected Galaxies in Very Rich Cluster at z < 0.25: I. Multi-wavelength Observations and Data Reduction Techniques, G. E. Morrison, F. N. Owen, M. J. Ledlow, W. C. Keel, J. M. Hill, W. Voges, and T. Herter, 2003, ApJS, 146, 267.

-FORCAST: The Faint Object Infrared Camera for the SOFIA Telescope, Keller, Luke D., Herter, Terry L., Stacey, Gordon J., Gull, George E., Schoenwald, Justin, Pirger, Bruce, Nikola, Thomas, 2003, SPIE, 4857, 29.

-Large Atacama Telescope (LAT) project, Herter, Terry L., Brandl, Bernhard R., Eikenberry, Stephen S., Giovanelli, Riccardo, Keller, Luke D., Lester, Daniel F.; Sebring, Thomas A., Stacey, Gordon J. 2003, SPIE, 4837, 1.

-The I-Band Tully-Fisher Relation for Sc Galaxies: Optical Imaging Data, Haynes, Martha P.; Giovanelli, Riccardo; Salzer, John J.; Wegner, Gary; Freudling, Wolfram; da Costa, Luiz N.; Herter, Terry; Vogt, Nicole P. 1999, AJ, 117, 1668.

-Mid- and Far-Infrared Hybrid Focal Plane Arrays for Astronomy, T. Herter, T. L. Hayward, J. R. Houck, D. H. Seib, and W. N. Lin 1998, in SPIE Conference 3356, Space Telescopes V.

-The I-Band Tully-Fisher Relation for Cluster Galaxies: A Template Relation, its Scatter and Bias Corrections, R. Giovanelli, M. P. Haynes, T. Herter, N. P. Vogt, Gary Wegner, J. J. Salzer, L. N. Da Costa, W. Freudling 1997, AJ, 113, 53.

-The Wide-Field Infrared Explorer (WIRE), H. Schember, J. Kemp, H. Ames, P. Hacking, T. Herter, B. Fafaul, D. Everett, and L. Sparr 1996, in Infrared Technology and Applications XXII Conference, SPIE Proceedings, 2744, 751.

-Detection of Water After the Collision of Fragments G and K of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter,G. L. Bjoraker, S. R. Stolovy, T. L. Herter, G. E. Gull, and B. E. Pirger 1996, Icarus, 121, 411.

-IBC Arrays: Present and Future Prospects, T. Herter, 1994 in Infrared Astronomy with Arrays, ed. I. McLean, (Kluwer: Netherlands), p. 409-417.

-The Rotation Curves of Galaxies at Intermediate Redshift, N. P. Vogt, T. Herter, M. P. Haynes, and S. Courteau 1993, Ap. J. (Letters), 415, L95.
Si:Sb blocked impurity band detectors for infrared astronomy, J. E. Huffman, A. G. Crouse, B. L. Halleck, T. V. Downes, and T. Herter, 1992, J. Appl. Phys., 72, 273.