Papers Resulting from Past and Ongoing FGS Projects
Our Papers
Astrometry with the Hubble Space Telescope: Trigonometric Parallaxes of Planetary Nebula Nuclei NGC 6853,
NGC 7293, Abell 31, and DeHt 5
Benedict, G. F., Mc Arthur, B. E., Napiwotzki, R., Harrison, T. E., Harris, H. C., Nelan, E., Bond, H. E., Patterson, R. J.,
& Ciardullo, R., 2009, AJ, 138, 1969
A Hubble Space Telescope transit light curve for GJ 436b
Bean, J. L., Benedict, G. F., Charbonneau, D., Homeier, D., Taylor, D. C., McArthur, B., Seifahrt, A., Dreizler, S.,
& Reiners, A., 2008, A A, 486, 1039
Detection of a Third Planet in the HD 74156 System Using the Hobby-Eberly Telescope
Bean, J. L., McArthur, B. E., Benedict, G. F., Armstrong, A., 2008, ApJ, 672, 1202
A new calibration of Galactic Cepheid period-luminosity relations from B to K bands, and a comparison to
LMC relations
Fouqué, P., Arriagada, P., Storm, J., Barnes, T. G., Nardetto, N., Mérand, A., Kervella, P., Gieren, W., Bersier,
D., Benedict, G. F., & McArthur, B. E., 2007, A&A, 476, 73
Hubble Space Telescope Parallaxes of AM CVn Stars and Astrophysical Consequences
Roelofs, G. H. A., Groot, P. J., Benedict, G. F., McArthur, B. E., Steeghs, D., Morales-Rueda, L., Marsh, T. R.,
& Nelemans, G., 2007, ApJ, 666, 1174
The Mass of the Candidate Exoplanet Companion to HD 33636 from Hubble Space Telescope Astrometry
and High-Precision Radial Velocities
Bean, J. L., McArthur, B. E., Benedict, G. F., Harrison, T. E., Bizyaev, D., Nelan, E., & Smith, V. V., 2007, AJ, 134, 749
Hubble Space Telescope Fine Guidance Sensor Parallaxes of Galactic Cepheid Variable Stars: Period-Luminosity Relations
Benedict, G.F., McArthur, B.E., Feast, M.W., Barnes, T.G., Harrison, T.E., Patterson, R.J., Menzies, J.W., Bean, J.L., & Freedman, W.L. 2007, AJ, 133, 1810
The Extrasolar Planet ε Eridani b: Orbit and Mass
Benedict, G.F., McArthur, B.E., Gatewood, G., Nelan, E., Cochran, W.D., Hatzes, A., Endl, M., Wittenmyer, R., Baliunas, S.L., Walker, G.A.H.,
Yang, S., Kürster, M., Els, S., & Paulson, D.B. 2006, AJ, 132, 2206
The Optical Field Angle Distortion Calibration of HST Fine Guidance Sensors 1R and 3
McArthur, B.E., Benedict, G.F., Jefferys, W.J., & Nelan, E. 2006, The 2005 HST Calibration Workshop: Hubble After the Transition to
Two-Gyro Mode, 396
Confirmation of Errors in Hipparcos Parallaxes from Hubble Space Telescope Fine Guidance Sensor Astrometry of the Pleiades
Soderblom, D.R., Nelan, E., Benedict, G.F., McArthur, B., Ramirez, I., Spiesman, W., & Jones, B.F. 2005, AJ, 129, 1616
Detection of a Neptune-Mass Planet in the ρ1 Cancri System Using the Hobby-Eberly Telescope
McArthur, B.E., Endl, M., Cochran, W.D., Benedict, G.F., Fischer, D.A., Marcy, G.W., Butler, R.P., Naef, D., Mayor, M., Queloz, D., Udry, S., & Harrison,
T.E. 2004, ApJL, 614, L81
An Astrometric Calibration of the MV-Porb Relationship for Cataclysmic Variables based on
Hubble Space Telescope Fine Guidance Sensor Parallaxes
Harrison, T.E., Johnson, J.J., McArthur, B.E., Benedict, G.F., Szkody, P., Howell, S.B., & Gelino, D.M. 2004, AJ, 127, 460
A precise HST parallax of the cataclysmic variable EX Hydrae, its system parameters, and accretion rate
Beuermann, K., Harrison, T.E., McArthur, B.E., Benedict, G.F., { Gä}nsicke, B.T. 2003, A&A, 412, 821
Astrometry with The Hubble Space Telescope: A Parallax of the Central Star of the Planetary Nebula NGC 6853
Benedict, G.F., McArthur, B.E., Fredrick, L.W., Harrison, T.E., Skrutskie, M.F., Slesnick, C.L., Rhee, J., Patterson, R.J., Nelan, E., Jefferys, W.H.,
van Altena, W., Montemayor, T., Shelus, P.J., Franz, O.G., Wasserman, L.H., Hemenway, P.D., Duncombe, R.L., Story, D., Whipple, A.L., & Bradley,
A.J. 2003, AJ, 126, 2549
Mass-luminosity relation and space-based interferometry: from Hubble Space Telescope to the space interferometry mission
Benedict, G.F., Henry, T.J., McArthur, B.E., Gies, D.R., Golimowski, D.A., Ianna, P.A., Mason, B.D., Nelan, E.P., & Torres, G. 2003, Proc. SPIE, 4852, 110
A Mass for the Extrasolar Planet Gliese 876b Determined from
Hubble Space Telescope Fine Guidance Sensor 3 Astrometry and High-Precision Radial Velocities
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Benedict, G. F.; McArthur, B. E.; Forveille, T.; Delfosse, X.; Nelan, E.; Butler, R. P.; Spiesman, W.; Marcy, G.; Goldman, B.; Perrier, C.;
Jefferys, W. H.; Mayor, M., 2002, ApJL, 581, 115L
The Optical Field Angle Distortion Calibration of HST Fine Guidance Sensors 1R and 3
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McArthur, B., Benedict, G. F., Jefferys, W. H., & Nelan, E. 2002, The 2002 HST Calibration Workshop : Hubble after the Installation of
the ACS and the NICMOS Cooling System, Proceedings of a Workshop held at the Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Maryland,
October 17 and 18, 2002. Edited by Santiago Arribas, Anton Koekemoer, and Brad Whitmore. Baltimore, MD: Space Telescope Science
Institute, 2002., p.373
Mass-luminosity relation and space-based interferometry: from Hubble Space Telescope to the space interferometry mission
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Benedict, G. F.; Henry, Todd J.; McArthur, Barbara E.; Gies, Douglas R.; Golimowski, David A.; Ianna, Philip A.; Mason, Brian D.;
Nelan, Edmund P.; Torres, Guillermo, 2002, SPIE, 4852, 110
Interferometric Astrometry of the Low-Mass Binary GL 791.2 (= HU Del) Using Hubble Space Telescope Fine Guidance Sensor 3:
Parallax and Component Masses
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Benedict, G. F., McArthur, B. E., Franz, O. G., Wasserman, L. H., & Henry, T. J., 2000, AJ, 120, 1106
Hubble Space Telescope Fine Guidance Sensor Astrometric Parallaxes for Three Dwarf Novae: SS Aurigae, SS Cygni, and U Geminorum
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Harrison, T. E., McNamara, B. J., Szkody, P., McArthur, B. E., Benedict, G. F., Klemola, A.R., & Gilliland, R.L. 1999, ApJL, 515, L93
The Optical Mass-Luminosity Relation at the End of the Main Sequence (0.08-0.20 Msun)
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Henry, T. J., Franz, O. G., Wasserman, L. H., Benedict, G. F., Shelus, P. J., Ianna, P. A., Kirkpatrick, J. D., & McCarthy, D. W. 1999, ApJ, 512, 864
HD 98800: A Unique Stellar System of Post-T Tauri Stars
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Soderblom, D. R., King, J. R., Siess, L., Noll, K. S., Gilmore, D. M., Henry, T. J., Nelan, E., Burrows, C. J., Brown, R. A., Perryman, M. A. C.,
Benedict, G. F., McArthur, B. E., Franz, O. G., Wasserman, L. H., Jones, B. F., Latham, D. W., Torres, G., & Stefanik, R. P. 1998, ApJ, 498, 385
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Other Papers
Resolving LB 11146 with Hubble Space Telescope's Fine Guidance Sensor
Nelan, E. P., 2007, AJ, 134, 1934
Pismis 24-1: The Stellar Upper Mass Limit Preserved
Maíz Apellániz, J., Walborn, N. R., Morrell, N. I., Niemela, V. S., & Nelan, E. P., 2007, ApJ, 660, 1480
Dynamical Mass Estimates for Incomplete Orbits: Young Multiple Stars in Taurus and Ophiuchus
Schaefer, G. H., Simon, M., Beck, T. L., Nelan, E., & Prato, L., 2006, AJ, 132, 2618
Dynamical Masses for Low-Mass Pre-Main-Sequence Stars: A Preliminary Physical Orbit for HD 98800 B
Boden, A. F., et al., 2005, ApJ, 635, 442
Dynamical Masses of Young Stars in Multiple Systems
Schaefer, G. H., Simon, M., Nelan, E., & Holfeltz, S. T., 2003, AJ, 126, 1971
The mass ratio of Charon to Pluto from Hubble Space Telescope astrometry with the fine guidance sensors
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Olkin, C. B., Wasserman, L. H., & Franz, O. G. 2003, Icarus, 164, 254
Asteroid observations with the Hubble Space Telescope. II. Duplicity search and size measurements for 6 asteroids
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Tanga, P., Hestroffer, D., Cellino, A., Lattanzi, M., Di Martino, M., & Zappala, V. 2003, A & A,
401, 733
Asteroids observations with the Hubble Space Telescope. I. Observing strategy, and data analysis and modeling process
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Hestroffer, D., Tanga, P., Cellino, A., Guglielmetti, F., Lattanzi, M., Di Martino, M., Zappala, V., & Berthier, J. 2002, A & A, 391, 1123
An Upper Limit to the Mass of the Radial Velocity Companion to rho^1 Cancri
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McGrath, M. A., Nelan, E., Black, D. C., Gatewood, G., Noll, K., Schultz, A., Lubow, S., Han, I., Stepinski, T. F., & Targett, T. 2002, ApJL, 564, L27
Optical Interferometry with HST/FGS at V > 15
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Nelan, E. & Makidon, R. 2002, The 2002 HST Calibration Workshop : Hubble after the Installation of the ACS and the NICMOS Cooling System,
Proceedings of a Workshop held at the Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, October 17 and 18, 2002. Edited by Santiago Arribas,
Anton Koekemoer, and Brad Whitmore. Baltimore, MD: Space Telescope Science Institute, 2002., p.367
NOTE: HST/FGS Observations of the Asteroid (216) Kleopatra
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Tanga, P., Hestroffer, D., Berthier, J., Cellino, A., Lattanzi, M. G., di Martino, M., & Zappala, V. 2001, Icarus, 153, 451
A Dynamical Mass Constraint for Pre-Main-Sequence Evolutionary Tracks: The Binary NTT 045251+3016
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Steffen, A. T., Mathieu, R. D., Lattanzi, M. G., Latham, D. W., Mazeh, T., Prato, L., Simon, M., Zinnecker, H., & Loreggia, D. 2001, AJ, 122, 997
The Nearby M Dwarf System Gliese 866 Revisited
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Woitas, J., Leinert, Ch., Jahreiss, H., Henry, T.J., Franz, O.G., & Wasserman, L.H. 2000, A&A, 353, 253
Variable HST guide stars (I)
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Zwintz, K., Weiss, W. W., Kuschnig, R., Gruber, R., Frandsen, S., Gray, R., & Jenkner, H. 2000, A&A Supl., 145, 481
Limits on the Spatial Extent of Active Galactic Nuclei Measured with the Fine Guidance Sensors of the Hubble Space Telescope
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Hook, R. N., Schreier, E. J., & Miley, G. 2000, ApJ, 536, 308
Hubble Deep Field guide star photometry
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Zwintz, K., Kuschnig, R., Weiss, W. W.,
Gray, R. O., & Jenkner, H. 1999, A&A, 343, 899
The Nearby Low-Mass Visual Binary Wolf 424
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Torres, G., Henry, T.J., Franz, O.G., & Wasserman, L.H. 1999, AJ, 117, 562
Hubble Space Telescope Astrometric Observations of the Metal-poor Spectroscopic Binary HD 20039
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Osborn, W. & Hershey, J. L. 1999, PASP, 111, 566
HST-FGS parallaxes of two high-velocity stars
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MacConnell, D. J., Osborn, W. H., & Miller, R. J.\ 1997, AJ, 114, 1268
Hubble space telescope astrometric observations of pre-main sequence stars for the HIPPARCOS program
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Bernacca, P. L., Lattanizi, M.~G., Bucciarelli, B., Bastian, U., Barabaro, G., Pannunzio, R., Badiali, M., Cardini, D., &
Emanuele, A. 1993, A&A, 278, L47
Interferometric Angular Diameters of Mira Variables with the Hubble Space Telescope
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Lattanzi, M. G., Munari, U., Whitelock, P. A., & Feast, M. W. 1997, ApJ, 485, 328
Hubble Space Telescope Fine Guidance Sensor interferometric observations of the core of 30 doradus
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Lattanzi, M. G., Hershey, J. L., Burg, R., Taff, L. G., Holfeltz, S. T., Bucciarelli, B., Evans, I. N., Gilmozzi, R.,
Pringle, J., & Walborn, N. R. 1994, ApJL, 427, L21
Duplicity in Hubble Space Telescope Guide Stars: Fine Guidance Sensor Serendipitous Survey Results
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Schneider, G., Hershey, J. L., & Wenz, M. T. 1998, PASP, 110, 1012
Hubble Space Telescope Fine Guidance Sensor Astrometry of the Low-Mass Binary L722-22
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Hershey, J. L. & Taff, L. G. 1998, AJ, 116, 1440
The effect of double stars on the guidance system of the Hubble Space Telescope
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Hershey, J. L. & Bely,
P. Y. 1994, PASP, 106, 542
A deconvolution technique for Hubble Space Telescope FGS fringe analysis
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Hershey, J. L. 1992, PASP, 104, 592
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