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Publications

Ruffio, Jean-Baptiste, Dimitri Mawet, Ian Czekala, et al. "A Bayesian Framework for Exoplanet Direct Detection and Non-Detection." Accepted to The Astronomical Journal

Meeker, Seth R., Benjamin A. Mazin, Alex B. Walter, Paschal Strader, Neelay Fruitwala, Clint Bockstiegel, Paul Szypryt et al. "DARKNESS: A Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detector Integral Field Spectrograph for High-contrast Astronomy." Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 130, no. 988 (2018): 065001.

Guidi, G., G. Ruane, J. P. Williams, D. Mawet, L. Testi, A. Zurlo, O. Absil et al. "High-contrast imaging of HD 163296 with the Keck/NIRC2 L΄-band vortex coronograph." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2018).

M. Bottom, G. Ruane, D. Mawet. "Noise-weighted Angular Differential Imaging." Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society 1, 30 (November 2017)

J. Pepper, J.E. Rodriguez, K. A. Collins, J.A. Johnson et al. "KELT-11b: A Highly Inflated Sub-Saturn Exoplanet Transiting the V = 8 Subgiant HD 93396" The Astronomical Journal 153, 5 (April 2017)

E. Huby, M. Bottom, B. Femenia, H. Ngo, D. Mawet, E. Serabyn, and O. Absil. "On-sky performance of the QACITS pointing control technique with the Keck/NIRC2 vortex coronagraph." Astronomy and Astrophysics 600, A46 (April 2017)

E. Serabyn, E. Huby, K. Matthews, D. Mawet, O. Absil et al. "The W. M. Keck Observatory infrared vortex coronagraph and a first image of HIP79124B." The Astronomical Journal, 153, 1 (Jan 2017).

Dimitri Mawet, Elodie Choquet, Olivier Absil, Elsa Huby, Michael Bottom et al. "Characterization of the inner disk around HD 141569 A from Keck/NIRC2 L-band vortex coronagraphy." The Astronomical Journal , 153, 44 (Jan 2017)

Bottom, M., J. K. Wallace, R. Bartos, J. C. Shelton, E. Serabyn. "Speckle suppression and companion detection using coherent differential imaging." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 464, 3 (Oct 2016)

Peter Gao, Plavchan P., Gagne J., Furlan E., Bottom M., Anglada-Escude G. et al. "Retrieval of Precise Radial Velocities from Near-infrared High-resolution Spectra of Low-mass Stars" Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 128, 968 (August 2016)

Bottom, M., J. C. Shelton, J. K. Wallace, R. Bartos, J. Kuhn, D. Mawet, B. Mennesson, R. Burruss, E. Serabyn. "Stellar Double Coronagraph: a multistage coronagraphic platform at Palomar observatory" Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 128, 965 (June 2016)

Yi, X., K. Vahala, S. Diddams, G. Ycas, P. Plavchan, S. Leifer et al. "Demonstration of a Near-IR Laser Comb for Precision Radial Velocity Measurements in Astronomy". Nature Communications 7, 10436 (Jan 2016)

Jensen-Clem, R., P.S. Muirhead, M. Bottom, J. K. Wallace, G. Vasisht, J.A. Johnson. "Attaining a Doppler precision of 10 cm/s with a lock-in amplified spectrometer". Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 127, 957 (November 2015)

Mawet, D., T. David, M. Bottom, S. Hinkley, K. Stapelfeldt, D. Padgett, B. Mennesson, E. Serabyn, F. Morales, J. Kuhn. "Discovery of a Low-Mass Companion Around HR 3549" The Astrophysical Journal, 811, 2 (Sept 2015)

Bottom, Michael, Jonas Kuhn, Bertrand Mennesson, Dimitri Mawet, Jean C. Shelton, J. Kent Wallace, Eugene Serabyn. "Resolving the delta Andromedae spectroscopic binary with direct imaging". The Astrophysical Journal, 809, 11 (June 2015)

Swift, Jonathan J., Michael Bottom, John A. Johnson, Jason T. Wright, Nate McCrady, Robert A. Wittenmyer, Peter Plavchan et al. "Miniature Exoplanet Radial Velocity Array (MINERVA) I. Design, Commissioning, and First Science Results." Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, Volume 1, Issue 2 (21 April 2015)

Muirhead, Philip S., Andrew Vanderburg, Avi Shporer, Juliette Becker, Jonathan J. Swift, James P. Lloyd, Jim Fuller et al. "Characterizing the cool KOIs. V. KOI-256: A mutually eclipsing post-common envelope binary." The Astrophysical Journal 767, no. 2 (2013): 111.

Pineda, J. Sebastian, Michael Bottom, and John A. Johnson. "Using High-Resolution Optical Spectra to Measure Intrinsic Properties of Low-Mass Stars: New Properties for KOI-314 and GJ 3470." The Astrophysical Journal 767, no. 1 (2013): 28.

Bottom, Michael, Philip S. Muirhead, John Asher Johnson, and Cullen H. Blake. "Optimizing Doppler Surveys for Planet Yield." Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 125, no. 925 (2013): 240-251.

Ben-Ami, Sagi, Avishay Gal-Yam, Alexei V. Filippenko, Paolo A. Mazzali, Maryam Modjaz, Ofer Yaron, Iair Arcavi et al. "Discovery and early multi-wavelength measurements of the energetic type Ic supernova PTF12gzk: a massive-star explosion in a dwarf host galaxy." The Astrophysical Journal Letters 760, no. 2 (2012): L33.

Muirhead, Philip S., John Asher Johnson, Kevin Apps, Joshua A. Carter, Timothy D. Morton, Daniel C. Fabrycky, John Sebastian Pineda et al. "Characterizing the cool KOIs. III. KOI 961: a small star with large proper motion and three small planets." The Astrophysical Journal 747, no. 2 (2012): 144.


Conference proceedings

Michael Bottom, Leo S. Neat, Leon K. Harding, Patrick Morrissey, Seth R. Meeker,Richard T. Demers. "Smartphone scene generator for efficient characterization of visible imaging detectors" In SPIE Astronomical Telescopes+ Instrumentation, 2018

Kühn, Jonas, Sebastian Daemgen, Ji Wang, Farisa Morales, Michael Bottom, Eugene Serabyn, Jean C. Shelton, Jacques-Robert Delorme, and Samaporn Tinyanont. "High-contrast imaging of tight resolved binaries with two vector vortex coronagraphs in cascade with the Palomar SDC instrument." In SPIE Astronomical Telescopes+ Instrumentation, 2018

Michael Bottom, Stefan Martin, Carl Seubert, Eric Cady, Shannon Kian Zareh, Stuart Shaklan. "Precise starshade stationkeeping and pointing with a Zernike wavefront sensor" Proc. SPIE 10400, Techniques and Instrumentation for Detection of Exoplanets VIII, 104001B (1 September 2017)

Bottom, Michael, Bruno Femenia, Elsa Huby, Dimitri Mawet, Richard Dekany, Jennifer Milburn, Eugene Serabyn. "Speckle nulling wavefront control for Palomar and Keck" SPIE Adaptive Optics Systems V (July 2016)

Bottom, Michael, Philip S. Muirhead, Jonathan J. Swift, Ming Zhao, Paul Gardner, Peter P. Plavchan, Reed L. Riddle et al. "Design, motivation, and on-sky tests of an efficient fiber coupling unit for 1-meter class telescopes." In SPIE Astronomical Telescopes+ Instrumentation, pp. 91472E-91472E. International Society for Optics and Photonics, 2014.

Mawet, Dimitri; Shelton, Chris; Wallace, James; Bottom, Michael; Kuhn, Jonas et al. "Demonstration of vortex coronagraph concepts for on-axis telescopes on the Palomar Stellar Double Coronagraph." In SPIE Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2014: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave, (August 2014).

Plavchan, Peter P., Michael Bottom, Peter Gao, J. Kent Wallace, Bertrand Mennesson, David Ciardi, Sam Crawford et al. "Precision near-infrared radial velocity instrumentation II: noncircular core fiber scrambler." In SPIE Optical Engineering+ Applications, pp. 88640G-88640G. International Society for Optics and Photonics, 2013.

Plavchan, Peter P., Guillem Anglada-Escude, Russel White, Peter Gao, Cassy Davison, Sean Mills, Chas Beichman et al. "Precision near-infrared radial velocity instrumentation I: absorption gas cells." In SPIE Optical Engineering+ Applications, pp. 88641J-88641J. International Society for Optics and Photonics, 2013.