Publications

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Refereed Journal Articles

  1. Reconnaissance of the HR 8799 Exosolar System I: Near IR Spectroscopy by Oppenheimer, B. R., C. Baranec, C. Beichman, D. Brenner, R. Burruss, E. Cady, J. R. Crepp, R. Dekany, R. Fergus, D. Hale, L. Hillenbrand, S. Hinkley, David W. Hogg, D. King, E. R. Ligon, T. Lockhart, R. Nilsson, I. R. Parry, L. Pueyo, E. Rice, J. E. Roberts, L. C. Roberts, Jr., M. Shao, A. Sivaramakrishnan, R. Soummer, T. Truong, G. Vasisht, A. Veicht, F. Vecelus, J. K. Wallace, C. Zhai, & N. Zimmerman, The Astrophysical Journal, in press (accepted March 8, 2013).
  2. High-resolution Infrared Imaging and Spectroscopy of the Z Canis Majoris System during Quiescence and Outburst
     by Hinkley, S., L. Hillenbrand, B. R. Oppenheimer, E. L. Rice, L. Pueyo, G. Vasisht, N. Zimmerman, A. L. Kraus, M. J. Ireland, D. Brenner, C. Beichman, R. Dekany, J. E. Roberts, I. R. Parry, L. C. Roberts Jr., J. R. Crepp, R. Burruss, J. K. Wallace, E. Cady, C. Zhai, M. Shao, T. Lockhart, R. Soummer, & A. Sivaramakrishnan,The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 763, pp. L9 (January 2013).
  3. Constraining mass ratio and extinction in the FU Orionis binary system with infrared integral field spectroscopy
     by L. Pueyo, L. Hillenbrand, G. Vasisht, B. R. Oppenheimer, J. Monnier, S. Hinkley, J. Crepp, L. C. Roberts Jr, D. Brenner, N. Zimmerman, I. Parry, C. Beichman, R. Dekany, M. Shao, R. Burruss, E. Cady, J. Roberts, R. Soummer, Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 757, pp. 57-68 (September 2012).
  4. Spectral Typing of Late Type Stellar Companions to Young Stars from Low Dispersion Near-Infrared Integral Field Unit Data
     by Roberts, L. C., Jr, E. L. Rice, C. A. Beichman, D. Brenner, R. Burruss, J. R. Crepp, R. G. Dekany, L. A. Hillenbrand, S. Hinkley, E. R. Ligon, T. G. Lockhart, D. King, S. Metchev, B. R. Oppenheimer, I. R. Parry, L. Pueyo, J. E. Roberts, M. Shao, A. Sivaramakrishnan, R. Soummer, G. Vasisht, F. E. Vescelus, J. K. Wallace, N. T. Zimmerman,  & C. Zhai, Astronomical Journal, Vol. 144, pp. 14-25 (July 2012). 
  5. Application of a Damped Locally Optimized Combination of Images Method to the Spectral Characterization of Faint Companions Using an Integral Field...
     by Pueyo, L., J. R. Crepp, G. Vasisht, D. Brenner, B. R. Oppenheimer, N. Zimmerman, S. Hinkley, I. Parry, C. Beichman, L. Hillenbrand, L. C. Roberts, R. Dekany, M. Shao, R. Burruss, A. Bouchez, J.  Roberts, & R. Soummer, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series,  Vol. 199,  pp. 6-23 (March 2012). 
  6. A Data Cube Extraction Pipeline for a Coronagraphic Integral Field Spectrograph
     by Zimmerman, N., D. Brenner, B. R. Oppenheimer, I. R. Parry, S. Hinkley, S. Hunt, & R. Roberts, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 123, p. 746. (June 2011).
  7. Apodized Pupil Lyot Coronagraphs for Arbitrary Apertures. III. Quasi-achromatic Solutions
    by Soummer, R., A. Sivaramakrishnan, L. Pueyo, B. Macintosh, & B. R. Oppenheimer, The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 729: 144 (March 2011). 
  8. Speckle Suppression with the Project 1640 Integral Field Spectrograph
     by Crepp, J. R., L. Pueyo, D. Brenner, B. R. Oppenheimer, N. Zimmerman, S. Hinkley, I. Parry, D. King, G. Vasisht, C. Beichman, L. Hillenbrand, R. Dekany, M. Shao, R. Burruss, L. C. Roberts, A. Bouchez, J. Roberts, & R. Soummer, The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 729: 132 (March 2011). 
  9. A New High Contrast Imaging Program at Palomar Observatory
     by Hinkley, S., B. R. Oppenheimer, N. Zimmerman, D. Brenner, I. R. Parry, J. R. Crepp, G. Vasisht, E. Ligon, D. King, R. Soummer, A. Sivaramakrishnan, C. Beichman, M. Shao, L. C. Roberts, A. Bouchez, R. Dekany, L. Pueyo, J. E. Roberts, T. Lockhart, C. Zhai, C. Shelton, & R. Burruss, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 123: 74-86 (January 2011).  
  10. Establishing α Oph as a Prototype Rotator: Improved Astrometric Orbit
     by Hinkley, S., J. D. Monnier, B. R. Oppenheimer, L. C. Roberts, M. Ireland, N. Zimmerman, D. Brenner, I. R. Parry, F. Martinache, O. Lai, R. Soummer, A. Sivaramakrishnan, C. Beichman, L. Hillenbrand, M. Zhao, J. P. Lloyd, D. Bernat, G. Vasisht, J. R. Crepp, L. Pueyo, M. Shao, M. D. Perrin, D. L. King, A. Bouchez, J. E. Roberts, R. Dekany, & R. Burruss, The Astrophysical Journal, 726: 104 (January 2011). 
  11. The Lyot Project Direct Imaging Survey of Substellar Companions: Statistical Analysis and Information from Nondetections”, by Leconte, Jeremy; Sou...
     by Leconte, Jeremy; Soummer, Remi; Hinkley, Sasha; Oppenheimer, Ben R.; Sivaramakrishnan, Anand; Brenner, Douglas; Kuhn, Jeffrey; Lloyd, James P.; Perrin, Marshall D.; Makidon, Russell; Roberts, Lewis C.; Graham, James R.; Simon, Michal; Brown, Robert A.; Zimmerman, Neil; Chabrier, Gilles; Baraffe, Isabelle; The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 716, pp. 1551-1565 (June 2010).
  12. Discovery and Characterization of a Faint Stellar Companion to the A3V Star ζ Virginis
     by Hinkley, Sasha; Oppenheimer, Ben R.; Brenner, Douglas; Zimmerman, Neil; Roberts, Lewis C.; Parry, Ian R.; Soummer, Rémi; Sivaramakrishnan, Anand; Simon, Michal; Perrin, Marshall D.; King, David L.; Lloyd, James P.; Bouchez, Antonin; Roberts, Jennifer E.; Dekany, Richard; Beichman, Charles; Hillenbrand, Lynne; Burruss, Rick; Shao, Michael; Vasisht, Gautam, The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 712, pp. 421-428 (March 2010). 
  13. Imaging Young Giant Planets From Ground and Space
     by Beichman, Charles A.; Krist, John; Trauger, John T.; Greene, Tom; Oppenheimer, Ben; Sivaramakrishnan, Anand; Doyon, René; Boccaletti, Anthony; Barman, Travis S.; Rieke, Marcia; The Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 122, pp. 162-200 (February 2010). 
  14. Parallactic Motion for Companion Discovery: An M-Dwarf Orbiting Alcor
     by Zimmerman, Neil; Oppenheimer, Ben R.; Hinkley, Sasha; Brenner, Douglas; Parry, Ian R.; Sivaramakrishnan, Anand; Hillenbrand, Lynne; Beichman, Charles; Crepp, Justin R.; Vasisht, Gautam; Roberts, Lewis C.; Burruss, Rick; King, David L.; Soummer, Rémi; Dekany, Richard; Shao, Michael; Bouchez, Antonin; Roberts, Jennifer E.; Hunt, Stephanie; The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 709, pp. 733-740 (February 2010). 
  15. “High-Contrast Observations in Optical and Infrared Astronomy” by Oppenheimer, Ben R. and Hinkley, Sasha, Annual Review of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Vol. 47, pp.253-289 (September 2009). PDF File from ARAA

SPIE Papers

SPIE papers are instrumentation papers. While not anonymously refereed, they are refereed by the editors of the volume (who are experts in the field) and are full, final references, sometimes widely cited, in the field of astronomical instrumentation. 

  1. Project 1640: The World’s First Extreme-AO Exoplanet Imager
     by B. R. Oppenheimer, S. Hinkley, G. Vasisht, R. G. Dekany, Roberts, L. C., Jr, E. L. Rice, C. A. Beichman, D. Brenner, R. Burruss, J. R. Crepp, L. A. Hillenbrand, S. Hinkley, E. R. Ligon, T. G. Lockhart, D. King, S. Metchev, I. R. Parry, L. Pueyo, J. E. Roberts, M. Shao, A. Sivaramakrishnan, R. Soummer, F. E. Vescelus, J. K. Wallace, N. T. Zimmerman,  & C. Zhai, in Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series, 8447: 8447720-844720-13 (September 2012).  
  2. First Order Wavefront Estimation Algorithm for P1640 Calibrator
     by Zhai, C., G. Vasisht, M. Shao, T. Lockhart, E. Cady, B. Oppenheimer, R. Burruss, J. Roberts, C. Beichman, D. Brenner, J. Crepp, R. Dekany, S. Hinkley, L. Hillenbrand, E. R. Ligon, I. Parry, L. Pueyo, E. Rice, L. C. Roberts, A. Sivaramakrishnan, R. Soummer, F. Vescelus, K. Wallace, & N. Zimmerman, in Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series, 8447: 84476W-84476W-12 (September 2012).
  3. Aperture mask interferometry with an integral field spectrograph
     by Zimmerman, N., A. Sivaramakrishnan, D. Bernat, B. R. Oppenheimer, S. Hinkley, J. P. Lloyd, P. G. Tuthill, D. Brenner, I. R. Parry, M. Simon, J. E. Krist, & L. Pueyo, in Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series, 8445: 84452G-84452G-15 (September 2012).
  4. Review of small-angle coronagraphic techniques in the wake of ground-based second-generation adaptive optics systems
     by Mawet, D., L. Pueyo, P. Lawson, L. Mugnier, W. Traub, A. Boccaletti, J. T. Trauger, S. Gladysz, E. Serabyn, J. Milli, R. Belikov, M. Kasper, P. Baudoz, B. Macintosh, C. Marois, B. Oppenheimer, H. Barrett, J.-L. Beuzit, N. Devaney, J. Girard, O. Guyon, J. Krist, B. Mennesson, D. Mouillet, N. Murakami, L. Poyneer, D. Savransky, C. Vérinaud, & J. K. Wallace, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series, 8442: 844204-844204-21 (September 2012).
  5. Gemini Planet Imager coronagraph testbed results
    by Sivaramakrishnan, A., R. Soummer, B. R. Oppenheimer, G. L. Carr, J. L. Mey, D. Brenner, C. W. Mandeville, N. Zimmerman, B. A. Macintosh, J. R. Graham, L. Saddlemyer, B. Bauman, A. Carlotti, L. Pueyo, P. G. Tuthill, C. Dorrer, R. Roberts, & A. Greenbaum. 2010. Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series, 7735:  773586-773586-12. 
  6. Calibrating IR optical densities for the Gemini Planet Imager extreme adaptive optics coronagraph apodizers
     by Sivaramakrishnan, Anand; Soummer, Rémi; Carr, G. Lawrence; Dorrer, Christophe; Bolognesi, Allen; Zimmerman, Neil; Oppenheimer, Ben R.; Roberts, Robin; Greenbaum, Alexandra, inTechniques and Instrumentation for Detection of Exoplanets IV, Shaklan, Stuart B., ed., Proceedings of the SPIE, Vol. 7440, pp. 74401C-74401C-10 (August 2009). 
  7. Testing the APLC on the LAO ExAO testbed
     by Thomas, Sandrine J.; Soummer, Rémi; Dillon, Daren; Macintosh, Bruce; Evans, Julia W.; Gavel, Donald; Sivaramakrishnan, Anand; Marois, Christian; Oppenheimer, Ben R., in Adaptive Optics Systems, Hubin, Norbert; Max, Claire E.; Wizinowich, Peter L., eds., Proceedings of the SPIE, Vol. 7015, pp. 70156I-70156I-11 (July 2008). 
  8. A new integral field spectrograph for exoplanetary science at Palomar
     by Hinkley, Sasha; Oppenheimer, Ben R.; Brenner, Douglas; Parry, Ian R.; Sivaramakrishnan, Anand; Soummer, Remi; King, David, in Adaptive Optics Systems, Hubin, Norbert; Max, Claire E.; Wizinowich, Peter L., eds., Proceedings of the SPIE, Vol. 7015, pp. 701519-701519-10 (July 2008). 

Patents

  1. “Telescope Accessory-Coronagraph,” Ben R. Oppenheimer and Michael Shara, Inventors; American Museum of Natural History, Assignee; United States Patent Office, Patent Number 7,130,051 B2, December 16, 2003-December 15, 2026, awarded October 16, 2006.
  2. Astrometry and Photometry with Coronagraphs
     by Anand Sivaramakrishnan and Ben R. Oppenheimer, Inventors; American Museum of Natural History, Assignee, United States Patent Office, Patent Number 7,777,943, August 17, 2010-March 1, 2027, Awarded August 17, 2010.

Book Chapters

  1. Direct Imaging of Exoplanets
     by Wesley A. Traub and Ben R. Oppenheimer in Exoplanets, S. Seager, ed. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press), 2010, p.111-156.

Conference Abstracts/Posters/Talks:

  1. “Near Infrared Integral Field Spectroscopy of the HR8799 Planetary System” by Pueyo, L., B. R. Oppenheimer, C. A. Beichman, D. Brenner, R. Burruss, E. Cady, J. R. Crepp, R. Dekany, R. Fergus, L. Hillenbrand, S. Hinkley, D. W. Hogg, D. King, E. Lingon, T. Lockhart, R. Nilsson, E. L. Rice, L. C. Roberts, J. Roberts, M. Shao, A. Sivaramakrishnan, R. Soummer, G. Vasisht, F. Vescelus, J. K. Wallace, C. Zhai, & N. Zimmerman, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts, Vol. 221, pp. #126.02 (2013). 
  2. “Characterizing Low-Mass Companions with Integral Field Spectroscopy from Project 1640” by Rice, E. L., B. R. Oppenheimer, N. Zimmerman, L. C. Roberts, S. Hinkley, & P. 1640,American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts, Vol. 221, pp. #333.05 (2013).
  3. "Characterizing Extra-Solar Planets with Low Resolution Spectroscopy" by Rice, E. L., B. R. Oppenheimer, N. Zimmerman, L. C. Roberts Jr., & S. Hinkley,  American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #219,  Vol. 219,  pp. #339.04(2012).
  4. "The Post-Coronagraph Wavefront Sensing Instruments for GPI and P1640," J. Kent Wallace, et al., Oct 2010, Spirit of Lyot, Paris France
  5. "High Contrast Studies of Nearby Stars with Project 1640", Zimmerman, N. et al. 2011. Dissertation Talk, American Astronomical Society Meeting, 217, 413.05.
  6. "Quasi Static Speckle Calibration Using an Integral Field Spectrograph: Extraction of a Faint Compainion" Pueyo, L. et al. 2011. American Astronomical Society Meeting, 217, 344.18.
  7. "High Contrast Studies of Nearby Stars with Project 1640", Zimmerman, N. et al. 2010. Contributed Talk, In the Spirit of Lyot 2010, Paris.
  8. "Towards Very Hight Contrast Imaging with Project 1640 at the Hale Telescope", Vasisht, G. et al. 2010. Contributed Talk, In the Spirit of Lyot 2010, Paris.
  9. "Quasi-Static Speckle Calibration Using an Integral Field Spectrograph: Extraction of the Spectra of a Faint Companion." Pueyo, L. et al. 2010. Contributed Talk, In the Spirit of Lyot 2010, Paris.
  10. "A New High Contrast Imaging Program at Palomar Observatory", Hinkley, S. et al. 2010. In the Spirit of Lyot 2010, Paris.
  11. "Early Data from Project 1640: A New High Contrast Imaging Program at Palomar Observatory. " Hinkley, S. et al 2010. American Astronomical Society Meeting, 215, 601.05.
  12. "Exoplanet Imaging at the Palomar 5m: Enhancing the Contrast of the Project 1640 Coronagraph", Roberts, L. C. et al. 2009, American Astronomical Society Meeting, 214, 434.01.
  13. "A New Integral Field Spectrograph and Coronagraph for Exoplanetary Science at Palomar, " Hinkley, S. et al. 2009. Dissertaion Talk, American Astronomical Society Meeting, 213, 336.04
  14. “High Contrast Studies of Nearby Stars with Project 1640,” Zimmerman, N., 2010, Astronomical Society of New York Spring Meeting, Colgate University, Colgate, NY.
  15. "First Light with Project 1640, an Integral Field Spectrograph for Exoplanetary Science,” Zimmerman et al., 2009, May Symposium: The Search for Life in the Universe, Space Telescope Science Institute; Baltimore MD.