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Physics & Astrophysics Laboratories (CSH-005)

Physics & Astrophysics Laboratories is documented in the DePaul Resource Map as shared research or teaching infrastructure at DePaul University, College of Science and Health, Department of Physics and Astrophysics, Lincoln Park. Documentation is partial or indirect, so the listing is treated as likely current. Department-wide Physics and Astrophysics research infrastructure including x-ray sources, optical tables, lasers, electronics instrumentation, sample preparation, materials/detector testing, and access to shared McGowan instrumentation, machine shop, dedicated laser/FPGA labs (CSH-007), and HPCC for computational workflows. Access: 🟡 Yellow — Needs an appointment or affiliation.

Summary 🟡 ~

  • College / school: College of Science and Health
  • Sub-unit: Department of Physics and Astrophysics
  • Campus/Location: Lincoln Park
  • Last Verified: May 30, 2026

Access (availability): 🟢 Green — open or routine · 🟡 Yellow — appointment or affiliation · 🔴 Red — restricted · ⚪/⚫ White/Black — not yet classified

Verification: ✓ confirmed · ~ likely · ? needs review · ✕ archived

Description & capabilities

Department-wide Physics and Astrophysics research infrastructure including x-ray sources, optical tables, lasers, electronics instrumentation, sample preparation, materials/detector testing, and access to shared McGowan instrumentation, machine shop, dedicated laser/FPGA labs (CSH-007), and HPCC for computational workflows.

Observational astrophysics faculty also use external survey archives and user facilities (not campus telescopes): EXT-025 NRAO (VLA/VLBA/GBT; Anuj Sarma), EXT-026 Spitzer/IRSA (historical IRS time, NGC 6334A), and EXT-027 SDSS/ARC (FAST / eBOSS; Jesús Pando). NASA Space Grant membership is EXT-028 (Bernhard Beck-Winchatz); ballooning hardware and the ISGC-funded solar telescope sit on CSH-009, not at the consortium office.

Access status

Verification

  • Status: ~ Likely current
  • Rationale: Physics & Astrophysics department page active; research infrastructure references McGowan and specialized labs.
  • Last verified: 2026-05-30
  • Evidence:
  • Official physics department page
  • Linked CSH-007 laser/FPGA labs in map

Equipment

Find this resource from the Equipment catalog or site search by instrument or lab name.

Category Specific equipment
X-ray sources X-ray tube sources (department)
Optical tables and laser optics Optical tables; Department lasers for general optics research
Electronics benches and prototyping Electronics instrumentation (department)
Sample preparation (lab) Sample preparation areas for materials / detector work
Materials and detector testing Materials and detector testing infrastructure; Smart-pixel / gated detector characterization workflows (campus prep for beamline deployment)

Equipment access (via linked resources)

Resource Notes
CSH-001 McGowan-South core instrumentation and chemistry machine shop
CSH-007 Byrne Hall femtosecond laser and FPGA/electronics laboratories
CSH-013 Gonzalez Materials Laboratory (Byrne Hall 114) — materials synthesis/characterization adjacency
CDM-014 HPCC GPU compute for image analysis, model fitting, and ML workflow development
EXT-003 APS beamlines (7-ID, 1-BM-C, 1-ID, 11-BM, Bio-CAT 18-ID, etc.) — DePaul user access, not campus inventory
EXT-019 PAL-XFEL — DePaul-affiliated ultrafast x-ray experiments, not campus inventory
EXT-020 SNS POWGEN — neutron powder diffraction user facility, not campus inventory
EXT-025 NRAO user facilities — DePaul radio-astronomy observing, not campus inventory
EXT-026 NASA Spitzer / IRSA archive — historical guest-observer data, not campus inventory
EXT-027 SDSS / ARC survey catalogs — cosmology data access, not campus inventory
CSH-009 STEM Center high-altitude ballooning and ISGC-funded solar telescope
EXT-041 Argonne CNM — nanoscience user facility under DePaul–Argonne agreement; not campus inventory

Source: CSH Physics & Astrophysics facilities + Landahl ultrafast/x-ray research pages; OA methods census (Oct 2026). Last verified: July 29, 2026.

Contacts (resource-level)

Last verified: May 28, 2026.

People & contacts

Named contacts when publicly documented.

Source URL

Official links and email are listed under Contacts above.

Documented Relationships

Uses CSH-001 McGowan instrumentation and machine shop; hosts or connects to CSH-007 laser/FPGA labs; uses CDM-014 HPCC for image analysis and ML pipelines. External user-facility partners: EXT-003 (APS), EXT-004 (ALCF), EXT-025 (NRAO), EXT-026 (Spitzer/IRSA), EXT-027 (SDSS). NASA Space Grant consortium: EXT-028.

Notes

Department facilities partially documented via grant facilities narrative (May 2026); verify against public Physics pages when updated.