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Michael R. Meyer - Recent Publications

  • Evidence for a Turnover in the IMF of Low Mass Stars and Sub-stellar Objects: Analysis from an Ensemble of Young Clusters Andersen, Meyer, Greissl, and Aversa, ApJL, in press.

  • Star Formation in NGC 2024, 2023, and L1630 (South) Meyer et al., Handbook of Star-Forming Regions, in press.

  • The formation and evolution of planetary systems: Grain growth and chemical processing of dust in T Tauri systems Bouwman et al. ApJ, in press.

  • The Complete Census of 70-um-Bright Debris Disks within the FEPS (Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems) Spitzer Legacy Survey of Sun-like Stars Hillenbrand et al. ApJ, in press.

  • Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems: Evolution of Mid-IR Excess Emission Meyer et al. ApJ, V672, L181.

  • Medium-Separation Binaries do not affect the First Steps of Planet Formation Pascucci et al. ApJ, 2008, V673, 477.

  • A Survey for Massive Giant Planets in Debris Disks with Evacuated Inner Cavities Apai et al. ApJ, 2008, V672, 1192.

  • An Improbable Solution to the Underluminosity of 2M1207B: A Hot Protoplanet Collision Afterglow Mamajek & Meyer, ApJ, 2007, V668, L175.

  • The Moth: An Unusual Circumstellar Structure Associated with HD 61005 Hines et al. ApJ, 2007, V671, L165.

  • Debris Disk Around the Planet Host Star HD 38529 Moro-Martin et al. ApJ, 2007, V668, 1165.

  • Detection of [NeII] Emission from Young Circumstellar Disks Pascucci et al. ApJ, 2007, V663, 383.

  • Are Debris Disks and Massive Planets Correlated? Moro-Martin et al. ApJ, 2007, V658, 1312.

  • HST/NICMOS Grism Observations of NGC 1333: The Ratio of Stars to Sub-stellar Objects Greissl, J., Meyer, M.R. et al. 2007, AJ, 133, 1321.

  • Nulling Interferometric Survey of Herbig Ae/Be Stars: Physical Scale of the Mid-IR Emission Liu, Hinz, et al. ApJ, 2007, 658, 1164.

  • The Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems: A Spitzer Legacy Science Program Meyer, M.R. et al., 2006, PASP, V118, 1690.

  • Evidence for Mass-dependent Circumstellar Disk Evolution in the 5 Myr-old Upper Scorpius OB Association Carpenter, J.M., Mamajek, E.E., Hillenbrand, L.A., and Meyer, M.R., 2006, ApJ, 651, L49.

  • HST/NICMOS Observations of Mon R2: The Ratio of Stars to Sub-stellar Objects Andersen, M., Meyer, M.R., et al. 2006, AJ, 132, 2296.

  • Mid-IR Observations of T Tauri stars: Probing the Star-Disk Connection Kundurthy, P. et al. 2006, AJ, 132, 2469.

  • The Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems: Upper Limits to the Gas Mass in Disks Around Sun-like Stars Pascucci, I. et al., 2006, ApJ, 651, 1177.

  • Wide-field IR Imaging with GLAO on the MMT Lloyd-Hart, M. et al., SPIE, 6272, 143.

  • Telescope to Observe Other Planetary Systems Guiyon, O. et al., SPIE, 6265, 52.

  • Thermal IR Searches for Planets with MMT-AO Heinze, A., et al., SPIE, 6272, 121.

  • Disk Evolution Around Normal Stars: Placing Our Solar System in Context Meyer, M.R., Backman, D., Weinberger, A., and Wyatt, M. 2007, Protostars and Planets V (B. Reipurth et al., eds.), Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, pp. 573-588.

  • Near-Infrared Observations of Earthshine: The Spectrum of a Habitable Planet" Turnbull, M. et al. 2006, ApJ, V644, 551.

  • High Contrast Imaging with NIRCam on JWST Green et al., SPIE, 5905, 185.

  • Bispectrum Speckle Interferometry of the Massive Protostellar Outflow Source IRAS 23151+5912, Weigelt, G. et al. 2006, A&A, 447, 655.

  • The Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems: Placing Our Solar System in Context with Spitzer Meyer, M.R. et al., 2005, Spitzer New Views of the Cosmos, ASP Conference Series, in press.

  • The IMF in Extreme Star-Forming Environments: Searching for Variations vs. Initial Conditions Andersen, M., Meyer, M.R., Greissl, J., Oppenheimer, B.D., Kenworthy, M.A., McCarthy, D., and Zinnecker, H., 2005, IAU Symposium 227,

  • Spitzer Observations of G Dwarfs in the Pleiades: Circumstellar Debris Disks at 100 Myr Age , Stauffer, J.R. et al., 2005, AJ, 130, 1834.

  • Constraining the IMF in Extreme Environments: Direct Detection of Young Low Mass Stars in Unresolved Stellar Populations Meyer, M.R., & Griessl, J. 2005, ApJ, 630, L177.

  • Spitzer Observations of Gas in Circumstellar Disks: Upper Limits to the Gas Mass in HD 105 Hollenbach, D. et al. 2005, ApJ, 631, 1180.

  • Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems: Discovery of an Unusual Debris System Associated with HD 12039 , Hines, D. et al. 2006, ApJ, 638, 1070.

  • Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems: Cold Outer Disks Associated with Sun-like Stars , Kim, J.S. et al. 2005, ApJ, 632, 659.

  • Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems: Primordial Warm Dust Evolution from 3-30 Myr Around Sun-like Stars , Silverstone, M.D. et al. 2006, ApJ, 639, 1138.

  • Optical Spectroscopy of the Surface Population of the rho Oph Cloud: The First Wave of Star Formation Wilking et al. 2005, AJ, 130, 1733.

  • 8-13 micron spectra of Young Stellar Objects: Evolution in the Silicate Feature Kessler, Hillenbrand, Blake, and Meyer, 2005, ApJ, 622, 404.

  • Gould's Belt to Starburst Galaxies: The IMF of Extreme Star Formation , Meyer, Greissl, Kenworthy, and McCarthy, to appear in the IMF@50, Kluwer (Astrophysics and Space Science Series), eds. E. Corbelli, F. Palla, and H. Zinnecker.

  • Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems: First Results from a Spitzer Legacy Science Program M.R. Meyer et al., 2004, ApJS, 154, 422.

  • Constraining the Lifetime of Circumstellar Disks in the Terrestrial Planet Zone: A Mid-IR Survey of the 30 Myr Old Tuc-Hor Association , Mamajek, Meyer, Hinz, Hoffmann, Cohen, and Hora, 2004, ApJ, 612, 496.

  • Clio: A 5 micron camera for the detection of giant exoplanets" M. Freed, P. Hinz, and M. Meyer, SPIE, 5492, 1561.

  • Scientific results from the MMT Natural Guide Star Adaptive Optics System Kenworthy, m. et al., SPIE, 5490, 351.

  • Near--IR Spectra of Brown Dwarf Candidates in NGC 1333 , Wilking et al., 2004, AJ, 127, 1131.

  • The Detection of Cool Dust Around the G2V Star HD 107146 J. Williams, et al., 2004, ApJ, 604, 414.

  • Ten Micron Observations of Nearby Young Stars S. Metchev, L. Hillenbrand, and M. Meyer 2004, ApJ, 600, 435.

  • Spatially Resolved Circumstellar Dust in Centarus A Karovska, M. et al. 2003, ApJ, 598, L91.

  • Detection of a Circumstellar Disk around the Herbig Ae Star HD 100546 with Nulling Interferometry W. Liu et al. 2003, ApJ, 598, L111.

  • NICMOS Observations of NGC 2024: Constraints on the IMF and Binarity" W. Liu, M.R. Meyer, A. Cotera, and E. Young, 2003, AJ,126, 1665.

  • Gravity Indicators in the Near-Infrared Spectra of Brown Dwarfs N. Gorlova, M.R. Meyer, G. Rieke, and J. Liebert, 2003, ApJ, 593, 1074.

  • Near-Infrared Spectroscopy and Young Stellar Populations M.R. Meyer, 2003, in The Garrison Festschrift, R. Gray, C. Corbally, and A.G.D. Philip, editors, Davis Press, 137.

  • Beyond the Cosmic Veil: Star and Planet Formation Research after SIRTF and NGST M.R. Meyer, 2003, in "Hubble's Science Legacy: Future Optical-Ultraviolet Astronomy from Space", eds. K.R. Sembach, J.C. Blades, G.D. Illingworth, & R.C. Kennicutt, ASP Conference Series, 291, 53.

  • Mass and Kinetic Energy of the Homunculus Nebula around eta Carinae N. Smith et al., 2003, ApJ, 125, 1458.

  • NGST NIRCam Scientific Program and Design Concept M. Rieke et al., 2003, SPIE, 4850, 478.

  • The Star-Formation History and Accretion Disk Census of the Pre-Main Sequence Stars in the LCC & UCL Subgroups of Sco-Cen E. Mamajek, M.R. Meyer, and J. Liebert, 2002, AJ, 124, 1670.

  • The Near-IR Photometric Variability of Stars Towards the Cham I Molecular Cloud J.M. Carpenter et al., 2002, AJ, 124, 1001.

  • A Disrupted Circumstellar Torus inside Eta Car's Homunculus Nebula N. Smith et al., 2002, ApJ, 567, L77.

  • The Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems: SIRTF Legacy Science in the VLT Era" to appear in the Springer-Verlag Astrophysics Series `The Origins of Stars and Planets: The VLT View' eds. J. Alves & M. McCaughrean.

  • "Structure and Evolution of Circumstellar Disks Around Young Stars: New Views from ISO", Meyer, M.R., & Beckwith, S.V.W., 2000, ISO Surveys of a Dusty Universe, Lecture Notes in Physics, Springer-Verlag, in press.
  • "Near-IR Classification Spectroscopy: J-Band Spectra of Fundamental MK Standards", L. Wallace, M.R. Meyer, K. Hinkle, & S. Edwards, 2000, Astrophysical Journal, in press.
  • "Silicate Emission in T Tauri Stars: Evidence for Disk Atmospheres?", A. Natta, M.R. Meyer, & S.V.W. Beckwith, 2000, Astrophysical Journal, in press.
  • "Stellar Masses", Massey, P., & Meyer, M.R., 1999, Encyclopedia of Astronomy & Astrophysics, IOP and Macmillan Publishers Ltd., in press.
  • "The Stellar Initial Mass Function: Constraints from Young Clusters and Theoretical Perspectives", M.R. Meyer, F.C. Adams, L.A. Hillenbrand, J.M. Carpenter, & R.B. Larson, 1999, Protostars & Planets IV, in press.
  • "ISOPHOT Observations of Circumstellar Disks Around Young Stellar Objects", 1999, The Universe as Seen by ISO, eds. P. Cox & M. Kessler, 195, ESA SP-427.
  • "Circumstellar Disks in the Orion Nebula Cluster", L.A. Hillenbrand, S.E. Strom, N. Calvet, K.M. Merrill, I. Gatley, R.B. Makidon, M.R. Meyer, & M.F. Skrutskie, 1998, Astronomical Journal, 116, 1816.
  • "Spectroscopy of Brown Dwarf Candidates in the Rho Oph Molecular Core", B.A. Wilking, T.P. Greene, and M.R. Meyer, 1998, Astronomical Journal, 117, 469.
  • "The Stellar Populations in the L1630 (Orion B) Cloud" , M.R. Meyer and E. Lada, To appear in ASP Conference Series, The Orion Complex Revisted, eds. M.J. McCaughrean and A. Burkert, 1998.
  • "Near-IR Classification Spectroscopy: H-Band Spectra of Fundamental MK Standards", M.R. Meyer, S. Edwards, K. Hinkle, and S. Strom, 1998, Astrophysical Journal, 508, 397.
  • "Magnetospheric Accretion and PMS Masses", I. Bonnell, K. Smith, M. Meyer, C. Tout, D. Folha, and J. Emerson, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1998, 299, 1013.
  • "Infrared Astronomical Spectroscopy with a Non-Cryogenic Spectrograph", R. Joyce, K. Hinkle, M. Meyer, and M. Skrutskie, Proceedings of SPIE No. 3354, 1998, in press.
  • "The Environments of Pre-Main Sequence Stars: Brown Dwarf Companions and Circumstellar Disk Evolution" , Michael R. Meyer and Steven V.W. Beckwith, 1998, ASP Conference Series Vol. 134, eds. R. Rebolo, E. Martin, & M. Zapatero Osorio, 245.
  • "Circumstellar Disks around Pre-Main-Sequence Stars: What ISO can tell us", A. Natta, M.R. Meyer, and S.V.W. Beckwith, In: Star Formation with Infrared Space Observatory, ASP Conference Series Vol. 132, eds. J. Yun & R. Liseau, 1998, 265.
  • "The Transitional PMS Object DI Tauri: Evidence for a Substellar Companion and Rapid Disk Dissipation" , M.R. Meyer, S.V.W. Beckwith, T.M. Herbst, and M. Robberto, 1997. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 1997, 489, L173.
  • "Properties of the Monoceros R2 Stellar Cluster" J.M. Carpenter, M.R. Meyer, C. Dougados, S. Strom, and and Lynne Hillenbrand, 1997, Astronomical Journal, 114, 198.

  • "The Intrinsic Near-IR Excesses of T Tauri Stars: Understanding the Classical T Tauri Star Locus" M.R. Meyer, N. Calvet, and Lynne Hillenbrand, 1997, Astronomical Journal, 114, 288.

  • "The Structure of Circumstellar Disks and Envelopes Around Young Stars: New Results from ISO" , M.R. Meyer, S.V.W. Beckwith, and A. Natta, 1997, Proceedings of IAU Symposium No. 182, 224.

  • "Near-Infrared Photometric Monitoring of Young Stellar Objects" , M.F. Skrutskie, M.R. Meyer, D. Whalen, and C. Hamilton, 1996, Astronomical Journal, 112, 2168.

  • "Stellar Populations of Deeply Embedded Young Clusters: Near-Infrared Spectroscopy and Emergent Mass Distributions" Michael R. Meyer, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Massachusetts, (1996).

  • "An Infrared Spectroscopic Survey of the rho Ophiuchi Young Stellar Cluster: Masses and Ages from the H-R Diagram" , Greene, T.P., and Meyer, M.R., Astrophys. J., 1995, 450, 233.

  • "The Stellar Populations of Deeply Embedded Young Clusters: Near-Infrared Specral Classification" , Meyer, M.R., Edwards, S., Hinkle, K., Skrutskie, M., and Strom, S., Disks and Outflows Around Young Stars, ed. S. Beckwith, Springer-Verlag, 1995.

  • "Isolated Star-Forming Regions Containing Herbig Ae/Be Stars I: The Young Stellar Aggregate Associated with BD+404124" , Hillenbrand, L.A., Meyer, M.R., and Strom, S.E., Astron. J., 1994, 109, 280.

  • "Camila: An Infrared Imager/Spectrometer for the San Pedro Martir Observatory", Cruz-Gonzales, I., et al., Proceedings SPIE, 1994, 2198, 774.

  • "Imaging of Embedded Clusters: Mon R2," Meyer, M.R., et al., Infrared Astronomy with Arrays: The Next Generation, ed. I. McLean, Kluwer, 105, 1994.

  • "Discovery of a Main-Belt Asteroid Resmbling Ordinary Chondrite Meteorites," Binzel, R.P., et al., Science, 262, 1541 (1993).

  • "Near-Infrared Spectral Monitoring of Nova Cygni 1992," Meyer, M.R., Dutkevitch, D., and Skrutskie, M.F., Astronomical Infrared Spectroscopy: Future Observational Directions, ed. S. Kwok, PASP, 131 (1993).

  • "Young Low Mass Stars in the Vicinity of s Scorpii," Meyer, M.R., Wilking, B .A., and Zinnecker, H., Astron J., 105, 619 (1993).

  • "Spectro-polarimetric Observations of Mars with an AOTF," Smith, W.H., et al ., B.A.A.S., 24, 2, 1993.

  • "Near-Infrared Imaging of the Bright-Rimmed Cloud IC1805W," Skrutskie, M.F., et al., B.A.A.S., 23, 4 (1992).

  • "IRAS Observations of Young Stellar Objects in the Corona Australis Dark Cloud," Wilking, B.A., et al., Astrophys. J., 397, 520 (1992).