Stephen Holland received his PhD in Astronomy from the University of British Columbia in 1997. His thesis work involved deep colour-magnitude studies of the stellar populations in the halo and globular clusters of M31. From 1998 to 2000 he was a post-doctoral researcher at the Danish Centre for Astrophysics with the HST in Århus, Denmark. His research at the time was stellar populations in the Local Group and the optical afterglows of gamma-ray bursts. From 2001 to 2003 he was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Notre Dame in the US working on gamma-ray bursts and using supernovae to probe dark energy. In 2003 Dr Holland started as a research scientist at the Swift Science Centre located at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. In 2001 he was a guest researcher at ESO Headquarters in Germany, and in 2006 he was a guest researcher at the Niels Bohr institute in Denmark. From 2012 to 2014 he was at the Space Telescope Science Institute and since 2014 he has worked on the ICESat-2 mission at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
Stephen Holland
(Support Scientist)
| Email: | stephen.t.holland@nasa.gov |
| Phone: | 301.286.5142 |
| Org Code: | 615 |
| Address: |
NASA/GSFC Mail Code 615 Greenbelt, MD 20771 |
| Employer: | SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC |
Missions & Projects
Brief Bio
Current Projects
ICESat-2
Positions/Employment
Chief Research Scientist
SSAI - NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
August 2020 - Present
Education
Thesis Title: The Globular Clusters and Halo of M31
MSc Astronomy - McMaster University
Thesis Title: A Colour-Magnitude Study of Palomar 14
BSc Physics and Astronomy - University of Victoria
Professional Societies
American Geophysical Union
2016 - Present
Selected Publications
Refereed
2021. "ICESat‐2/ATLAS Onboard Flight Science Receiver Algorithms: Purpose, Process, and Performance." Earth and Space Science 8 (e2020EA001235): [10.1029/2020ea001235] [Journal Article/Letter]
2012. "SWIFT J2058.4+0516: DISCOVERY OF A POSSIBLE SECOND RELATIVISTIC TIDAL DISRUPTION FLARE?." The Astrophysical Journal 753 (1): 77 [10.1088/0004-637x/753/1/77] [Journal Article/Letter]
2011. "EPOXI : COMET 103P/HARTLEY 2 OBSERVATIONS FROM A WORLDWIDE CAMPAIGN." The Astrophysical Journal 734 (1): L1 [10.1088/2041-8205/734/1/l1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2011. "The Late Peaking Afterglow of GRB 100418A." The Astrophysical Journal 727 132 [Full Text] [10.1088/0004-637X/727/2/132] [Journal Article/Letter]
2010. "GRB 090926A and Bright Late-time Fermi Large Area Telescope Gamma-ray Burst Afterglows." The Astrophysical Journal Letters Volume 718 14 [10.1088/2041-8205/718/1/L14] [Journal Article/Letter]
2010. "Spectra of Type Ia Supernovae from Double Degenerate Mergers." The Astrophysical Journal 725 296 [Full Text] [10.1088/0004-637X/725/1/296] [Journal Article/Letter]
2010. "The Absolute Magnitudes of Type Ia Supernovae in the Ultraviolet." The Astrophysical Journal 721 1608 [Full Text] [10.1088/0004-637X/721/2/1608] [Journal Article/Letter]
2010. "Near-ultraviolet Properties of a Large Sample of Type Ia Supernovae as Observed with the Swift UVOT." The Astrophysical Journal 721 1627 [Full Text] [10.1088/0004-637X/721/2/1627] [Journal Article/Letter]
2010. "The 22 Month Swift-BAT All-Sky Hard X-ray Survey." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement 186 378 [Full Text] [10.1088/0067-0049/186/2/378] [Journal Article/Letter]
2010. "Further calibration of the Swift ultraviolet/optical telescope." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 406 1687 [Full Text] [10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.16832.x] [Journal Article/Letter]
2010. "Faint Near-ultraviolet/Far-ultraviolet Standards from Swift/UVOT, GALEX, and SDSS Photometry." The Astrophysical Journal 725 1215 [Full Text] [10.1088/0004-637X/725/1/1215] [Journal Article/Letter]
2010. "Swift and Fermi Observations of the Early Afterglow of the Short Gamma-Ray Burst 090510." The Astrophysical Journal Letters 709 L146 [Full Text] [10.1088/2041-8205/709/2/L146] [Journal Article/Letter]
2009. "Ultraviolet Light Curves of Supernovae with the Swift Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope." The Astronomical Journal 137 4517 [Full Text] [10.1088/0004-6256/137/5/4517] [Journal Article/Letter]
2009. "GRB090423 at a redshift of z~8.1." Nature 461 1258 [Full Text] [10.1038/nature08445] [Journal Article/Letter]
2009. "Multi-Wavelength Properties of the Type IIb SN 2008ax." The Astrophysical Journal Letters 704 L118 [Full Text] [10.1088/0004-637X/704/2/L118] [Journal Article/Letter]
2009. "Spectra and Light Curves of Failed Supernovae." The Astrophysical Journal 707 193 [Full Text] [10.1088/0004-637X/707/1/193] [Journal Article/Letter]
2009. "The First Swift Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope GRB Afterglow Catalog." The Astrophysical Journal 690 163 [Full Text] [10.1088/0004-637X/690/1/163] [Journal Article/Letter]
2009. "GRB 081203A: Swift UVOT captures the earliest ultraviolet spectrum of a gamma-ray burst." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters 395 L21 [Full Text] [10.1111/j.1745-3933.2009.00632.x] [Journal Article/Letter]
2009. "Ultraviolet Spectroscopy of Supernovae: The First Two Years of Swift Observations." The Astrophysical Journal 700 1456 [Full Text] [10.1088/0004-637X/700/2/1456] [Journal Article/Letter]
2008. "GRB 060607A: a gamma-ray burst with bright asynchronous early X-ray and optical emissions." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 385 453 [Full Text] [10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.12859.x] [Journal Article/Letter]
2008. "Using Quantitative Spectroscopic Analysis to Determine the Properties and Distances of Type II Plateau Supernovae: SN 2005cs and SN 2006bp." The Astrophysical Journal 675 644 [Full Text] [10.1086/526451] [Journal Article/Letter]
2008. "Broadband observations of the naked-eye γ-ray burst GRB080319B." Nature 455 183 [Full Text] [10.1038/nature07270] [Journal Article/Letter]
2008. "Photometric calibration of the Swift ultraviolet/optical telescope." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 383 627 [Full Text] [10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.12563.x] [Journal Article/Letter]
2008. "Swift and Chandra Detections of Supernova 2006jc: Evidence for Interaction of the Supernova Shock with a Circumstellar Shell." The Astrophysical Journal 674 L85 [Full Text] [10.1086/529373] [Journal Article/Letter]
2007. "The exceptionally extended flaring activity in the X-ray afterglow of GRB 050730 observed with Swift and XMM-Newton." Astronomy and Astrophysics [10.1051/0004-6361:20066227] [Journal Article/Letter]
2007. "Swift observations of GRB 060614: an anomalous burst with a well behaved afterglow." Astronomy and Astrophysics [10.1051/0004-6361:20077232] [Journal Article/Letter]
2007. "Swift Observations of High-Redshift Radio-loud Quasars." The Astrophysical Journal 669 884 [Full Text] [10.1086/521694] [Journal Article/Letter]
2007. "Optical, Infrared, and Ultraviolet Observations of the X-Ray Flash XRF 050416A." The Astronomical Journal 133 122 [Full Text] [10.1086/509656] [Journal Article/Letter]
2007. "Early Ultraviolet, Optical, and X-Ray Observations of the Type IIP SN 2005cs in M51 with Swift." The Astrophysical Journal 659 1488 [Full Text] [10.1086/511968] [Journal Article/Letter]
2007. "X-Ray, UV, and Optical Observations of Supernova 2006bp with Swift: Detection of Early X-Ray Emission." The Astrophysical Journal 664 435 [Full Text] [10.1086/518466] [Journal Article/Letter]
2006. "X-Ray Observations of Type Ia Supernovae with Swift: Evidence of Circumstellar Interaction for SN 2005ke." The Astrophysical Journal 648 L119 [Full Text] [10.1086/507947] [Journal Article/Letter]
2006. "Prompt Optical Observations of GRB 050319 with the Swift UVOT." The Astrophysical Journal 639 311 [Full Text] [10.1086/499293] [Journal Article/Letter]
2006. "Long γ-ray bursts and core-collapse supernovae have different environments." Nature 441 463 [Full Text] [10.1038/nature04787] [Journal Article/Letter]
2006. "Very Early Optical Afterglows of Gamma-Ray Bursts: Evidence for Relative Paucity of Detection." The Astrophysical Journal 652 1416 [Full Text] [10.1086/508481] [Journal Article/Letter]
2006. "Swift Panchromatic Observations of the Bright Gamma-Ray Burst GRB 050525a." The Astrophysical Journal 637 901 [Full Text] [10.1086/498425] [Journal Article/Letter]
2005. "A short gamma-ray burst apparently associated with an elliptical galaxy at redshift z = 0.225." Nature 437 851-854 [10.1038/nature04142] [Journal Article/Letter]
2005. "A short γ-ray burst apparently associated with an elliptical galaxy at redshift z = 0225." Nature 437 851 [Full Text] [10.1038/nature04142] [Journal Article/Letter]
2005. "Swift UVOT Detection of GRB 050318." The Astrophysical Journal 635 1187 [Full Text] [10.1086/497627] [Journal Article/Letter]
2005. "Ultraviolet, Optical, and X-Ray Observations of the Type Ia Supernova 2005am with Swift." The Astrophysical Journal 635 1192 [Full Text] [10.1086/497437] [Journal Article/Letter]
2005. "A short γ-ray burst apparently associated with an elliptical galaxy at redshift z = 0.225." Nature 437 (7060): 851-854 [Full Text] [10.1038/nature04142] [Journal Article/Letter]
Non-Refereed
2019. "ATLAS Flight Science Receiver Algorithms, Version 4.0." NASA/TM–2019-219037 [Full Text] [Report]
2010. "GRB 101011A: Swift detection of a burst." GRB Coordinates Network, Circular Service, 11331, 1 (2010) [Journal Article/Letter]