Nils Henning Turner

Research Scientist, The CHARA Array
CHARA/Georgia State University

• Ph.D. Astronomy, Georgia State University, 1998, A Prototype Imager for the CHARA Array
• M.S. Physics, Georgia State University, 1997
• B.S. Astrophysics, University of Wyoming, 1990

Telephone: 626-796-5405
Fax: 626-796-6717
Email: nils{at}chara-array{dot}org
Postal Mail:

The CHARA Array
c/o Mount Wilson Observatory
Mount Wilson CA 91023

Current Publications

Smith, M. A., Lopes de Oliveira, R., Motch, C., Henry, G. W., Richardson, N. D., Bjorkman, K. S., Stee, Ph., Mourard, D., Monnier, J. D., Che, X., Bucke, R., Pollmann, E., Gies, D. R., Schaefer, G. H., ten Brummelaar, T., McAlister, H. A., Turner, N. H., Sturmann, J., Sturmann, L., and Ridgway, S. T. (2012) The Relationship Between Gamma Cassiopeiae's X-ray Emission and its Circumstellar Environment,
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 540:A53-A68

Huber, D., Ireland, M. J., Bedding, T. R., Howell, S. B., Maestro, V., Merand, A., Tuthill, P. G., White, T. R., Farrington, C. D., Goldfinger, P. J., McAlister, H. A., Schaefer, G. H.; Sturmann, J., Sturmann, L., ten Brummelaar, T. A., and Turner, N. H. (2012) Validation of the Exoplanet Kepler-21b Using PAVO/CHARA Long-Baseline Interferometry,
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, Early Online, March 2012

Boyajian, T. S., McAlister, H. A., van Belle, G., Gies, D. R., ten Brummelaar, T. A., von Braun, K., Farrington, C., Goldfinger, P. J., O'Brien, D., Parks, J. R., Richardson, N. D., Ridgway, S., Schaefer, G., Sturmann, L., Sturmann, J., Touhami, Y., Turner, N. H., and White, R. (2012) Stellar Diameters and Temperatures. I. Main-sequence A, F, and G Stars,
Astrophysical Journal, 746:101-126

Raghavan, D., Farrington, C. D., ten Brummelaar, T. A., McAlister, H. A., Ridgway, S. T., Sturmann, L., Sturmann, J., and Turner, N. H. (2012) A Search for Separated Fringe Packet Binaries Using the CHARA Array,
Astrophysical Journal, 745:24-33

Kraus, S., Monnier, J. D., Che, X., Schaefer, G., Touhami, Y., Gies, D. R., Aufdenberg, J. P., Baron, F., Thureau, N., ten Brummelaar, T. A., McAlister, H. A., Turner, N. H., Sturmann, J., and Sturmann, L. (2012) Gas Distribution, Kinematics, and Excitation Structure in the Disks around the Classical Be Stars Beta Canis Minoris and Zeta Tauri,

Older Publications

Other Publications of Interest

Berger, D. H., Aufdenberg, J. P., and Turner, N. H. (2007) Resolving the Faces of Stars, in Sky & Telescope , New Track Media LLC, February issue, pages 40-45.

Turner, N. H. (2004) Speckle Interferometry for the Amateur, in Argyle, R. W., editor, Observing and Measuring Visual Double Stars, Springer-Verlag, London, ISBN 1-85233-558-0, Chapter 17, Pages 209-229

• Here's the listed link to the Linux DVA Software.
• Typo Alert! An itemized listing of the Chapter 17 typos can be found here.

Turner, N. H., ten Brummelaar, T. A., and Roberts, Jr., L. C. (2003) Faint Companion Search to O-stars using the Adaptive Optics System on the 3.63-meter Telescope on Haleakala, in Proceedings of the SPIE, 4839:1103-1109

Turner, N. H. and ten Brummelaar, T. A. (1998) A Protoype Single-Mode Fiber Beam Combiner for the CHARA Array, in Proceedings of the SPIE, 3350:1037-1044

McAlister, H. A. (1996) Twenty Years of Seeing Double, in Sky & Telescope , Sky Publishing Corporation, November issue, Pages 28-35.

• Sidebox, page 34, the software described, SpekLite, can be found here.

Turner, N. H., Barry, D. J., and McAlister, H. A. (1992) Astrometric Speckle Interferometry for the Amateur, in Complementary Approaches to Double and Multiple Star Research, Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Proceedings, 32:577-579

Source Code

Occidental-Caltech Orchestra

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