Theo ten Brummelaar

Mug shot:

Here I am in rock mode playing with the band at that time called "Soft Money" at CalTech. Other things you may wish to see are my band's homepage, now called Dangerous Aliens, Sallie and Theo Times, Old pictures, My wife's homepage, Father's homepage, Brother's homepage, Aunt's homepage , and the Photo Album.. There is also a short documentary made by the American Museum of Natural History about the CHARA Array.

Office: 626/796-8607
Lab: 626/796-3254
Control Room: 626/796-8468
Fax: 626/796-6717

Associate Director, Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA)

B.Sc. Hons (Syd) University of Sydney, 1985
Experimental Scientist, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), 1986,1987
Ph.D. University of Sydney, 1993: Taking the twinkle out of the stars: An adaptive wavefront tilt correction servo and preliminary seeing study for SUSI

Selected publications:

A wavefront tilt correction servo for the Sydney University Stellar Interferometer , with W.J. Tango, Experimental Astronomy, 4, 297-315 (1994) (1996).
Strehl ratio and coherence loss in long baseline stellar interferometry, with S.T. Ridgway and W.G. Bagnuolo, Optics Letters, 20, 521-523 (1995)
The contribution of high order Zernike modes to wavefront tilt, Optics Communications, 115, 417-424 (1995)
Differential path considerations in optical stellar interferometry, Applied Optics, 34, 2214-2219 (1995)
Differential Binary Star Photometry using the Adaptive Optics system at Starfire Optical Range with .D. Mason, W.G. Bagnuolo, Jr., W.I. Hartkopf, H.A. McAlister \& N.H. Turner, The Astronomical Journal, vol. 112, 1180-1187 (1996).
Modeling atmospheric wave aberrations and astronomical instrumentation using the polynomials of Zernike, Optics Communications, vol 132, 329-342 (1996).
Correlation measurement and group delay tracking in optical stellar interferometry with a noisy detector, MNRAS, 285, 135-150, (1997).
Adaptive Optics Observations of Arcturus using the Mount Wilson 100-inch Telescope, with N.H. Turner B.D. Mason, PASP, 111. 556-558 (1999)
A Technical update on the CHARA array, SPIE [4006-68] (2000)
Differential Binary Star Photometry using the Adaptive Optics system at Mount Wilson, with B. D. Mason, W. I. Hartkopf, H. A. McAlister, L. C. Roberts Jr., N. H. Turner, and W. G. Bagnuolo Jr, Astronomical Journal, 119, 2403-2414 (2000).
Search for Faint Companions to Nearby Solar-like Stars using the Adaptve Optics System at Mount Wilson Observatory with N.H. Turner, H.A. McAlister, B.D. Mason, W.I. Hartkopf, and L.C. Roberts Jr, Astronomical Journal, 121, 3254-3258 (2001).
An Update of the CHARA Array, with H.A. McAlister, S.T. Ridgway, N.H. Turner, L. Sturmann, J. Sturmann, W.G. Bagnuolo Jr, and M.A. Shure, SPIE [4838-09] (2002)
CHARA Recent Techology and Science, with H.A. McAlister, J.P. Aufdenberg, W.G. Bagnuolo, D.H. Berger, V.C. du Foresto, A. Merand, C. Ogden, S.T. Ridgway, J. Sturmann, L. Sturmann, S.F. Taylor and N.H. Turner, SPIE [5487] (in press)

It seems more and more difficult to keep an online publication list up to date. If you really want to hear about the most recent stuff feel free to email me. Otherwise you can look at my publication list on the ADS. If you want to know more (probably more than you could want to know) here's my (probably out of date) CV

Some personal notes:

You are probably not at all interested but I am very fond of music, especially that of the late great Frank Zappa although I like a lot of things from Deep Purple through to Baroque and Romantic musics. Classical leaves me a bit bored. Yes I am in a band.. I also waste a lot of time playing the drums, piano, guitar, role playing games and surfing.

CHARA is part of the Astronomy group within the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Georgia State University.