Brian D. Mason

Astronomer, United States Naval Observatory

• B.S. Physics, Georgia State University, 1986
• Ph.D., Astronomy, Georgia State University, 1994: Speckles and Shadow Bands

Research Interests and Selected Publications

• Studies of Occultation Binary Stars

• Speckles and Shadow Bands (Dissertation Summary), March 1995, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Volume 107, Page 299. Postscript, ADS.
• Catalog of Photoelectric Measures of Occultation Binary Stars, 1995, CHARA Contribution No. 3, Georgia State University Postscript.
• ICCD Speckle Observations of Binary Stars. XV. An Investigation of Lunar Occultation Systems, November 1996, The Astronomical Journal, Volume 112, Page 2260-2273. Postscript, ADS.
• Binary Star Orbits from Speckle Interferometry. XI. Orbits of Twelve Lunar Occultation Systems, August 1997, The Astronomical Journal, Volume 114, Page 808-818. Compressed Postscript.

Studies of Binary Systems

• Binary Star Orbits from Speckle Interferometry. VI. The Multiple System Xi Ursae Majoris, January 1995, The Astronomical Journal, Volume 109, Page 332-340. Compressed Postscript, ADS.
• Binary Star Orbits from Speckle Interferometry. IX. The Nearby Solar-Type Speckle-Spectroscopic Binary Fin 347 Aa, July 1996, The Astronomical Journal, Volume 112, Page 276-283. Compressed Postscript, ADS.
• Binary Star Orbits from Speckle Interferometry. X. Speckle-Spectroscopic Orbits of HR 233, 36 Tau, and 73 Leo, October 1997, The Astronomical Journal, Volume 114, Page 1607-1622. Commpressed Postscript.

Multiplicity Studies of Samples of Stars

• ICCD Speckle Observations of Binary Stars. VII. A Duplicity Survey of the Hyades Cluster, January 1993, The Astronomical Journal, Volume 105, Page 220-225. Postscript, ADS.
• ICCD Speckle Observations of Binary Stars. IX. A Duplicity Survey of the Pleiades, Praesepe, and IC 4665 Clusters, August 1993, The Astronomical Journal, Volume 106, Page 637-641. Postscript, ADS.
• ICCD Speckle Observations of Binary Stars. XVIII. An Investigation of Be Stars, November 1997, The Astronomical Journal, Volume 114, Page 2112-2116. Compressed Postscript.
• ICCD Speckle Observations of Binary Stars. XIX. An Astrometric/Spectroscopic Survey of O Stars, February 1998, The Astronomical Journal, Volume 115, Page 821-847. Compressed Postscript.

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