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:

For those interested, here is my curriculum vitae.

Current Publications

Schaefer, G. H., Gies, D. R., Monnier, J. D., Richardson, N. D., Touhami, Y., Zhao, M., Che, X., Pedretti, E., Thureau, N., ten Brummelaar, T., McAlister, H. A., Ridgway, S. T., Sturmann, J., Sturmann, L., Turner, N. H., Farrington, C. D., and Goldfinger, P. J. (2010) Multi-epoch Near-infrared Interferometry of the Spatially Resolved Disk around the Be Star Zeta Tau,
Astronomical Journal, 140:1838-1849

Chesneau, O., Dessart, L., Mourard, D., Birio, Ph., Buil, Ch., Bonneau, D., Borges Fernandes, M., Clausse, J. M., Delaa, O., Marcotto, A., Meilland, A., Millour, F., Nardetto, N., Perraut, K., Roussel, A., Spang, A., Stee, P., Tallon-Bosc, I., McAlister, H., ten Brummelaar, T., Sturmann, J., Sturmann, L., Turner, N., Farrington, C., and Goldfinger, P. J. (2010) Time, Spatial, and Spectral Resolution of the H-alpha Line-Formation Region of Deneb and Rigel with the VEGA/CHARA Interferometer,
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 521:A5-A18

Roberts, L. C., Gies, D. R., Parks, J. R., Grundstrom, E. D., McSwain, M. V., Berger, D. H., Mason, B. D., ten Brummelaar, T. A., and Turner, N. H. (2010) The Membership and Distance of the Open Cluster Collinder 419,
Astronomical Journal, 140:744-752

Baines, E. K., McAlister, H. A., ten Brummelaar, T. A., Turner, N. H., Sturmann, J., Sturmann, L., Goldfinger, P. J., Farrington, C. D., and Ridgway, S. T. (2010) Ruling Out Possible Secondary Stars to Exoplanet Host Stars Using the CHARA Array,
Astronomical Journal, 140:167-176

Merand, A., Kervella, P., Barban, C., Josselin, E., Ten Brummelaar, T. A., McAlister, H. A., Coude du Foresto, V., Ridgway, S. T., Turner, N., Sturmann, J., Sturmann, L., Goldfinger, P. J., and Farrington, C. (2010) Interferometric Radius and Limb Darkening of the Asteroseismic Red Giant Eta Serpentis with the CHARA Array,
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 517:A64-A68

Farrington, C. D., ten Brummelaar, T. A., Mason, B. D., Hartkopf, W. I., McAlister, H. A., Raghavan, D., Turner, N. H., Sturmann, L., Sturmann, J., and Ridgway, S. T. (2010) Separated Fringe Packet Observations with the CHARA Array. I. Methods and New Orbits for Chi Draconis, HD 184467, and HD 198084,
Astronomical Journal, 139:2308-2318

Rousselet-Perraut, K., Benisty, M., Mourard, D., Rajabi, S., Bacciotti, F., Birio, Ph., Bonneau, D., Chesneau, O., Clausse, J.-M., Delaa, O., Marcotto, A., Roussel, A., Spang, A., Stee, Ph., Tallon-Bosc, I., McAlister, H., ten Brummelaar, T., Sturmann, J., Sturmann, L., Turner, N., Farrington, C., and Goldfinger, P. J. (2010) The H-alpha Line Forming Region of AB Aurigae Spatially Resolved at Sub-AU with the VEGA/CHARA Spectro-Interferometer,
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 516:L1-L4

Kloppenborg, B., Stencel, R., Monnier, J. D., Schaefer, G., Zhao, M., Baron, F., McAlister, H., ten Brummelaar, T., Che, X., Farrington, C., Pedretti, E., Sallave-Goldfinger, P. J., Sturmann, J., Sturmann, L., Thureau, N., Turner, N., and Carroll, S. M. (2010) Infrared Images of the Transiting Disk in the Epsilon Aurigae System,
Nature, 464:870-872
See also arXiv:1004.2464

Bruntt, H., Kervella, P., Merand, A., Brandao, I. M., Bedding, T. R., ten Brummelaar, T. A., Coude du Foresto, V., Cunha, M. S., Farrington, C., Goldfinger, P. J., Kiss, L. L., McAlister, H. A., Ridgway, S. T., Sturmann, J., Sturmann, L., Turner, N., and Tuthill, P. G. (2010) The Radius and Effective Temperature of the Binary Ap Star Beta CrB from CHARA/FLUOR and VLT/NACO Observations,
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 512:A55-A61

Baines, E. K., Doellinger, M. P., Cusano, F., Guenther, E. W., Hatzes, A. P., McAlister, H. A., ten Brummelaar, T. A., Turner, N. H., Sturmann, J., Sturmann, L., Goldfinger, P. J., Farrington, C. D., and Ridgway, S. T. (2010) Angular Diameters and Effective Temperatures of 25 K Giant Stars from the CHARA Array,
Astrophysical Journal, 710:1365-1374

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

This is an evolving list of source code that I and my colleagues have released to the general public. Most of it is released under the GNU Public License. The listing can be found here.

Occidental-Caltech Orchestra

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Personal Pages

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