HST FGS Guest Observer Projects

Our Papers

A Mass for the Extrasolar Planet Gliese 876b Determined from Hubble Space Telescope Fine Guidance Sensor 3 Astrometry and High-Precision Radial Velocities
Benedict, G. F.; McArthur, B. E.; Forveille, T.; Delfosse, X.; Nelan, E.; Butler, R. P.; Spiesman, W.; Marcy, G.; Goldman, B.; Perrier, C.; Jefferys, W. H.; Mayor, M., 2002, ApJL, 581, 115L

The Optical Field Angle Distortion Calibration of HST Fine Guidance Sensors 1R and 3,
McArthur, B., Benedict, G. F., Jefferys, W. H., & Nelan, E. 2002, The 2002 HST Calibration Workshop : Hubble after the Installation of
the ACS and the NICMOS Cooling System, Proceedings of a Workshop held at the Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, October 17 and 18, 2002. Edited by Santiago Arribas, Anton Koekemoer, and Brad Whitmore. Baltimore, MD: Space Telescope Science Institute, 2002., p.373

Mass-luminosity relation and space-based interferometry: from Hubble Space Telescope to the space interferometry mission
Benedict, G. F.; Henry, Todd J.; McArthur, Barbara E.; Gies, Douglas R.; Golimowski, David A.; Ianna, Philip A.; Mason, Brian D.; Nelan, Edmund P.; Torres, Guillermo, 2002, SPIE, 4852, 110

Interferometric Astrometry of the Low-Mass Binary GL 791.2 (= HU Del) Using Hubble Space Telescope Fine Guidance Sensor 3: Parallax and Component Masses
Benedict, G. F., McArthur, B. E., Franz, O. G., Wasserman, L. H., & Henry, T. J., 2000, AJ, 120, 1106

Hubble Space Telescope Fine Guidance Sensor Astrometric Parallaxes for Three Dwarf Novae: SS Aurigae, SS Cygni, and U Geminorum
Harrison, T. E., McNamara, B. J., Szkody, P., McArthur, B. E., Benedict, G. F., Klemola, A.R., & Gilliland, R.L. 1999, ApJL, 515, L93

The Optical Mass-Luminosity Relation at the End of the Main Sequence (0.08-0.20 Msun)
Henry, T. J., Franz, O. G., Wasserman, L. H., Benedict, G. F., Shelus, P. J., Ianna, P. A., Kirkpatrick, J. D., & McCarthy, D. W. 1999, ApJ, 512, 864

HD 98800: A Unique Stellar System of Post-T Tauri Stars
Soderblom, D. R., King, J. R., Siess, L., Noll, K. S., Gilmore, D. M., Henry, T. J., Nelan, E., Burrows, C. J., Brown, R. A., Perryman, M. A. C., Benedict, G. F., McArthur, B. E., Franz, O. G., Wasserman, L. H., Jones, B. F., Latham, D. W., Torres, G., & Stefanik, R. P. 1998, ApJ, 498, 385

Other Papers

The mass ratio of Charon to Pluto from Hubble Space Telescope astrometry with the fine guidance sensors,
Olkin, C. B., Wasserman, L. H., & Franz, O. G. 2003, Icarus, 164, 254

Asteroid observations with the Hubble Space Telescope. II. Duplicity search and size measurements for 6 asteroids,
Tanga, P., Hestroffer, D., Cellino, A., Lattanzi, M., Di Martino, M., & Zappala, V. 2003, A & A,
401, 733

Asteroids observations with the Hubble Space Telescope. I. Observing strategy, and data analysis and modeling process,
Hestroffer, D., Tanga, P., Cellino, A., Guglielmetti, F., Lattanzi, M., Di Martino, M., Zappala, V., & Berthier, J. 2002, A & A, 391, 1123

An Upper Limit to the Mass of the Radial Velocity Companion to rho^1 Cancri,
McGrath, M. A., Nelan, E., Black, D. C., Gatewood, G., Noll, K., Schultz, A., Lubow, S., Han, I., Stepinski, T. F., & Targett, T. 2002, ApJL, 564, L27

Optical Interferometry with HST/FGS at V > 15,
Nelan, E. & Makidon, R. 2002, The 2002 HST Calibration Workshop : Hubble after the Installation of the ACS and the NICMOS Cooling System, Proceedings of a Workshop held at the Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, October 17 and 18, 2002. Edited by Santiago Arribas, Anton Koekemoer, and Brad Whitmore. Baltimore, MD: Space Telescope Science Institute, 2002., p.367,

NOTE: HST/FGS Observations of the Asteroid (216) Kleopatra,
Tanga, P., Hestroffer, D., Berthier, J., Cellino, A., Lattanzi, M. G., di Martino, M., & Zappala, V. 2001, Icarus, 153, 451

A Dynamical Mass Constraint for Pre-Main-Sequence Evolutionary Tracks: The Binary NTT 045251+3016,
Steffen, A. T., Mathieu, R. D., Lattanzi, M. G., Latham, D. W., Mazeh, T., Prato, L., Simon, M., Zinnecker, H., & Loreggia, D. 2001, AJ, 122, 997

The Nearby M Dwarf System Gliese 866 Revisited
Woitas, J., Leinert, Ch., Jahreiss, H., Henry, T.J., Franz, O.G., & Wasserman, L.H. 2000, A&A, 353, 253

Variable HST guide stars (I),
Zwintz, K., Weiss, W. W., Kuschnig, R., Gruber, R., Frandsen, S., Gray, R., & Jenkner, H. 2000, A&A Supl., 145, 481

Limits on the Spatial Extent of Active Galactic Nuclei Measured with the Fine Guidance Sensors of the Hubble Space Telescope,
Hook, R. N., Schreier, E. J., & Miley, G. 2000, ApJ, 536, 308

Hubble Deep Field guide star photometry,
Zwintz, K., Kuschnig, R., Weiss, W. W., Gray, R. O., & Jenkner, H. 1999, A&A, 343, 899

The Nearby Low-Mass Visual Binary Wolf 424
Torres, G., Henry, T.J., Franz, O.G., & Wasserman, L.H. 1999, AJ, 117, 562

Hubble Space Telescope Astrometric Observations of the Metal-poor Spectroscopic Binary HD 20039
Osborn, W. & Hershey, J. L. 1999, PASP, 111, 566

HST-FGS parallaxes of two high-velocity stars
MacConnell, D. J., Osborn, W. H., & Miller, R. J.\ 1997, AJ, 114, 1268

Hubble space telescope astrometric observations of pre-main sequence stars for the HIPPARCOS program
Bernacca, P. L., Lattanizi, M.~G., Bucciarelli, B., Bastian, U., Barabaro, G., Pannunzio, R., Badiali, M., Cardini, D., &
Emanuele, A. 1993, A&A, 278, L47

Interferometric Angular Diameters of Mira Variables with the Hubble Space Telescope
Lattanzi, M. G., Munari, U., Whitelock, P. A., & Feast, M. W. 1997, ApJ, 485, 328

Hubble Space Telescope Fine Guidance Sensor interferometric observations of the core of 30 doradus
Lattanzi, M. G., Hershey, J. L., Burg, R., Taff, L. G., Holfeltz, S. T., Bucciarelli, B., Evans, I. N., Gilmozzi, R., Pringle, J., & Walborn, N. R. 1994, ApJL, 427, L21

Duplicity in Hubble Space Telescope Guide Stars: Fine Guidance Sensor Serendipitous Survey Results
Schneider, G., Hershey, J. L., & Wenz, M. T. 1998, PASP, 110, 1012

Hubble Space Telescope Fine Guidance Sensor Astrometry of the Low-Mass Binary L722-22
Hershey, J. L. & Taff, L. G. 1998, AJ, 116, 1440

The effect of double stars on the guidance system of the Hubble Space Telescope
Hershey, J. L. & Bely, P. Y. 1994, PASP, 106, 542

A deconvolution technique for Hubble Space Telescope FGS fringe analysis
Hershey, J. L. 1992, PASP, 104, 592

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