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

Current Publications

Zhao, M., Monnier, J. D., Pedretti, E., Thureau, N., Merand, A., ten Brummelaar, T. A., McAlister, H. A., Ridgway, S. T., Turner, N. H., Sturmann, J., Sturmann, L., Goldfinger, P. J., and Farrington, C. (2009) Imaging and Modeling Rapidly Rotating Stars: Alpha Cephei and Alpha Ophiuchi, Astrophysical Journal, 701:209-224

Baines, E. K., McAlister, H. A., ten Brummelaar, T. A., Sturmann, J., Sturmann, L., Turner, N. H., and Ridgway, S. T. (2009) Eleven Exoplanet Host Star Angular Diameters from the CHARA Array, Astrophysical Journal, 701:154-162

Mazumdar, A., Merand, A., Demarque, P., Kervella, P., Barban, C., Baudin, F., Coude du Foresto, V., Farrington, C., Goldfinger, P. J., Goupil, M.-J., Josselin, E., Kuschnig, R., McAlister, H. A., Matthews, J., Ridgway, S. T., Sturmann, J., Sturmann, L., ten Brummelaar, T. A., and Turner, N. (2009) Asteroseismology and Interferometry of the Red Giant Star Epsilon Ophiuchi, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 503:521-531

Akeson, R. L., Ciardi, D. R., Millan-Gabet, R., Merand, A., Di Folco, E., Monnier, J. D., Beichman, C. A., Absil, O., Aufdenberg, J., McAlister, H. A., ten Brummelaar, T., Sturmann, J., Sturmann, L., and Turner, N. (2009) Dust in the Inner Regions of Debris Disks around A Stars, Astrophysical Journal, 691:1896-1908

Boyajian, T. S., McAlister, H. A., Cantrell, J. R., Gies, D. R., ten Brummelaar, T. A., Farrington, C., Goldfinger, P. J., Sturmann, L., Sturmann, J., Turner, N. H., and Ridgway, S. (2009) Angular Diameters of the Hyades Giants Measured with the CHARA Array, Astrophysical Journal, 691:1243-1247

Raghavan, D., McAlister, H. A., Torres, G., Latham, D. W., Mason, B. D., Boyajian, T. S., Baines, E. K., Williams, S. J., ten Brummelaar, T. A., Farrington, C. D., Ridgway, S. T., Sturmann, L., Sturmann, J., and Turner, N. H. (2009) The Visual Orbit of the 1.1-day Spectroscopic Binary Sigma2 Coronae Borealis from Interferometry at the CHARA Array, Astrophysical Journal, 690:394-406

Older Publications

Other Publications of Interest

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

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