Nils Henning Turner

Research Scientist, The CHARA Array
CHARA/Georgia State University

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

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. (2008) Dust in the Inner Regions of Debris Disks around A Stars, arXiv:0810.3701

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. (2008) Angular Diameters of the Hyades Giants Measured with the CHARA Array, arXiv:0810.2238

Zhao, M., Gies, D., Monnier, J. D., Thureau, N., Pedretti, E., Baron, F., Merand, A., ten Brummelaar, T., McAlister, H., Ridgway, S. T., Turner, N., Sturmann, J., Sturmann, L., Farrington, C., and Goldfinger, P. J. (2008) First Resolved Images of the Eclipsing and Interacting Binary Beta Lyrae, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 684:L95-L98

Kervella, P., Merand, A., Pichon, B., Thevenin, F., Heiter, U., Bigot, L., ten Brummelaar, T. A., McAlister, H. A., Ridgway, S. T., Turner, N., Sturmann, J., Sturmann, L., Goldfinger, P. J., and Farrington, C. (2008) The Radii of the Nearby K5V and K7V Stars 61 Cygni A & B. CHARA/FLUOR Interferometry and CESAM2k Modeling, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 488:667-674

Absil, O., Di Folco, E., Merand, A., Augereau, J.-C., Coude du Foresto, V., Defrere, D., Kervella, P., Aufdenberg, J. P., Desort, M., Ehrenreich, D., Lagrange, A.-M., Montagnier, G., Olofsson, J., ten Brummelaar, T. A., McAlister, H. A., Sturmann, J., Sturmann, L., and Turner, N. H. (2008) A Near-Infrared Interferometric Survey of Debris Disc Stars. II. CHARA/FLUOR Observations of Six Early-Type Dwarfs, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 487:1041-1054

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. (2008) The Visual Orbit of the 1.1-day Spectroscopic Binary Sigma2 Coronae Borealis from Interferometry at the CHARA Array, arXiv:0808.4015

Tannirkulam, A., Monnier, J. D., Harries, T. J., Millan-Gabet, R., Zhu, Z., Pedretti, E., Ireland, M., Tuthill, P., ten Brummelaar, T., McAlister, H., Farrington, C., Goldfinger, P. J., Sturmann, J., Sturmann, L., and Turner, N. (2008) A Tale of Two Herbig Ae stars - MWC275 and AB Aurigae: Comprehensive Models for SED and Interferometry, arXiv:0808.1728

Boyajian, T. S., McAlister, H. A., Baines, E. K., Gies, D. R., Henry, T., Jao, W.-C., O'Brien, D., Raghavan, D., Touhami, Y., ten Brummelaar, T. A., Farrington, C., Goldfinger, P. J., Sturmann, L., Sturmann, J., Turner, N. H., and Ridgway, S. (2008) Angular Diameters of the G Subdwarf Mu Cassiopeiae A and the K Dwarfs Sigma Draconis and HR 511 from Interferometric Measurements with the CHARA Array, Astrophysical Journal, 683:424-432

Turner, N. H., ten Brummelaar, T. A., Roberts, L. C., Mason, B. D., Hartkopf, W. I., and Gies, D. R. (2008) Adaptive Optics Photometry and Astrometry of Binary Stars. III. A Faint Companion Search of O-Star Systems, Astronomical Journal, 136:554-565

Baines, E. K., McAlister, H. A., ten Brummelaar, T. A., Turner, N. H., Sturmann, J., Sturmann, L., and Ridgway, S. T. (2008) The Search for Stellar Companions to Exoplanet Host Stars Using the CHARA Array, Astrophysical Journal, 682:577-585

Baines, E. K., McAlister, H. A., ten Brummelaar, T. A., Turner, N. H., Sturmann, J., Sturmann, L., Goldfinger, P. J., and Ridgway, S. T. (2008) CHARA Array Measurements of the Angular Diameters of Exoplanet Host Stars, Astrophysical Journal, 680:728-733

Tannirkulam, A., Monnier, J. D., Millan-Gabet, R., Harries, T. J., Pedretti, E., ten Brummelaar, T. A., McAlister, H., Turner, N., Sturmann, J., and Sturmann, L. (2008) Strong Near-Infrared Emission Interior to the Dust Sublimation Radius of Young Stellar Objects MWC 275 and AB Aurigae, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 677:L51-L54

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

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.

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.


Personal Pages

For those interested, here are my personal pages.