HEASARC Office

Donald J Horner

(SR. PROGRAMM/ANALYST)

Donald J Horner's Contact Card & Information.
Email: donald.j.horner@nasa.gov
Phone: 301.286.9903
Org Code: 660.1
Address:
NASA/GSFC
Mail Code 660.4
Greenbelt, MD 20771
Employer: ADNET SYSTEMS INC

Brief Bio


I attended graduate school at the University of Maryland. After obtaining my Ph.D. in 2001, I completed post-docs at STScI and the UMass before returning to GSFC in 2004 as a programmer for the Fermi mission.

Positions/Employment


Principal Software Engineer

Adnet Systems - Greenbelt, MD

April 2023 - Present

Archive and Data Operations Manager for the Fermi Science Support Center (FSSC)


Principal Software Engineer

Innovim - Greenbelt, MD

October 2017 - April 2023

Archive and Data Operations Manager for the Fermi Science Support Center (FSSC)


Principal Software Engineer

Wyle Laboratories - Greenbelt, MD

January 2008 - October 2017

Software developer and software manager for the Fermi Science Support Center (FSSC).


Principal Software Engineer

RSIS - Greenbelt, MD

July 2006 - January 2008

Software developer and software manager for the Fermi Science Support Center (FSSC).


Senior Programmer/Analyst

L-3 Communications GSI - Greenbelt, MD

September 2004 - June 2006

Software developer for the Fermi Science Support Center.


Senior Postdoctoral Researcher

University of Massachusetts Amherst - Amherst, MA

September 2003 - September 2004

Conducted independent scientific research, assisted other projects, and help oversee student projects related to the X-ray properties of galaxies and galaxy clusters.


Postdoctoral Researcher

Space Telescope Science Institute - Baltimore, MD

October 2001 - September 2003

Conducted independent scientific research and assisted other projects related to the X-ray properties of galaxies and galaxy clusters.


Graduate Research Associate

University of Maryland - College Park, MD

August 1993 - October 2001

Conducted scientific research at GSFC culminating in a Ph.D. Taught undergraduate classes. Interfaced with the public as UMCP observatory open house director.

Education


University of Maryland, Ph.D., 2001
University of Maryland, M.S. Astronomy, 1996
University of Virginia, B.A. Astronomy-Physics, 1993

Selected Publications


Refereed

2008. "The WARPS Survey. VII. The WARPS‐II Cluster Catalog." ASTROPHYS J SUPPL S 176 (2): 374-413 [10.1086/529494] [Journal Article/Letter]

2006. "Entropy Profiles in the Cores of Cooling Flow Clusters of Galaxies." The Astrophysical Journal 643 (2): 730-750 [10.1086/503270] [Journal Article/Letter]

2005. "Intermediate-Element Abundances in Galaxy Clusters." The Astrophysical Journal 620 680 [Full Text] [10.1086/427158] [Journal Article/Letter]

2003. "Constraints on the Cluster Environments and Hot Spot Magnetic Field Strengths of the Radio Sources 3C 280 and 3C 254." The Astrophysical Journal 584 (2): 643-656 [10.1086/345831] [Journal Article/Letter]

2002. "The WARPS Survey. VI. Galaxy Cluster and Source Identifications from Phase I." ASTROPHYS J SUPPL S 140 (2): 265-301 [10.1086/339685] [Journal Article/Letter]

1999. "Observational Tests of the Mass‐Temperature Relation for Galaxy Clusters." The Astrophysical Journal 520 (1): 78-86 [10.1086/307437] [Journal Article/Letter]