Stellar Mass Black Holes and Other Compact Objects
A Reanalysis of the Isolated Black Hole Candidate OGLE-2011-BLG-0462/MOA-2011-BLG-191 (Lam & Lu, 2023)
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022ApJ...933L..23L/abstract (Lam et al. 2022)
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022ApJS..260...55L/abstract (Lam et al. 2022)
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022arXiv220108335M/abstract (Medford and Abrams et al. 2023)
The Impact of Initial-Final Mass Relations on Black Hole Microlensing (Rose et al. 2022)
Gravitational Microlensing Event Statistics for the Zwicky Transient Facility (Medford et al. 2020)
PopSyCLE: A New Population Synthesis Code for Compact Object Microlensing Events (Lam et al. al 2020)
Primordial Black Hole Microlensing: The Einstein Crossing Time Distribution (Lu et al. 2019)
A Search For Stellar-mass Black Holes Via Astrometric Microlensing (Lu et al. 2016)
Collaboration Papers:
Disentangling the Black Hole Mass Spectrum with Photometric Microlensing Surveys (Perkins et al. 2023)
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020arXiv200907927G/abstract (Golovich et al. 2020)
Probing the Fundamental Nature of Dark Matter with the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (Drlica Wagner et al. 2019) - LSST dark matter collaboration
Keck Observations Confirm a Super-Jupiter Planet Orbiting M Dwarf OGLE-2005-BLG-071L (Bennett et al. 2020)
Full orbital solution for the binary system in the northern Galactic disc microlensing event Gaia16aye (Wyrzykowski et al. 2020)
Astrometry with the Wide-Field Infrared Space Telescope (WFIRST Astrometry Working Group et al. 2019)
A Remarkable Low-Mass X-Ray Binary within 0.1 Parsecs of the Galactic Center (Muno et al. 2005)
An Overabundance of Transient X-Ray Binaries within 1 Parsec of the Galactic Center (Muno et al. 2005)
Long-Term Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer Monitoring of the Anomalous X-Ray Pulsar 1E 1048.1-5937 (Kaspi et. al 2001)
A Glitch in an Anomalous X-Ray Pulsar (Kaspi et al. 2000)
Star Formation and the Initial Mass Function
SPISEA: A Python-Based Simple Stellar Population Synthesis Code for Star Clusters (Hosek et al. 2020)
The Quintuplet Cluster: Extended Structure and Tidal Radius (Rui et al. 2019)
Stellar Proper Motions in the Orion Nebula Cluster (Kim et al. 2019)
The Unusual Initial Mass Function of the Arches Cluster (Hosek et al. 2019)
The Optical/Near-infrared Extinction Law in Highly Reddened Regions (Hosek et al. 2018)
Massive Young Clusters Near the Galactic Center (Lu et al. 2018), Book Chapter
The Arches Cluster: Extended Structure and Tidal Radius (Hosek et al. 2015)
Stellar Populations in the Central 0.5 pc of the Galaxy. II. The Initial Mass Function (Lu et al. 2013)
A Binary-Induced Pinwheel Outflow from the Extreme Carbon Star, AFGL 3068 (Morris et al. 2006)
Collaboration Papers:
Probing the Low-Mass End of the Initial Mass Function with an HST DASH Survey of Star-Forming Regions (Best et al. 2020)
Adaptive Optics, Astrometry, Instrumentation
AIROPA IV: Validating Point Spread Reconstruction on Various Science Cases (Terry et al. 2023)
Adaptive Optics Imaging Can Break the Central Caustic Cusp Approach Degeneracy in High-magnification Microlensing Events (Terry et al. 2022)
Transformations from Pan-STARRS1 and UBV Filters into ZTF Filters (Medford et al. al 2020)
KAPA: A new Keck laser-guide star AO system that increases image quality and sky coverage (Lu et al. al 2020)
Geometric distortion calibration with photolithographic pinhole masks for high-precision astrometry (Service et al. al 2019)
Characterizing and Improving the Data Reduction Pipeline for the Keck OSIRIS Integral Field Spectrograph (Lockhart et al. al 2019)
Improved Image Quality over 10′ Fields with the ́Imaka Ground-layer Adaptive Optics Experiment (Abdurrahman et al. 2018)
Geometric distortion calibration using a pinhole mask (Service et al. 2018)
Ground layer adaptive optics for the W. M. Keck Observatory: feasibility study (Lu et al. 2018)
ExtLaw_H18: Extinction law code (Hosek et al. 2018)
Near-infrared astrometry of star clusters with different flavors of adaptive optics and HST (Lu et al. al 2014)
Clarifying our View of Star Formation in Massive Young Clusters with Adaptive Optics (Lu et al. al 2011)
Collaboration Papers:
AIROPA III: Testing Simulated and On-sky Data (Turri et al. 2022) - AIROPA collaboration
AIROPA II: Modeling Instrumental Aberrations for Off-axis Point Spread Functions in Adaptive Optics (Ciurlo et al. 2022) - AIROPA Collaboration
Astrometry with the Wide-Field Infrared Space Telescope (WFIRST Astrometry Working Group et al. 2019)
Deconstructing turbulence and optimizing GLAO using imaka telemetry (Lai et al. al 2018) - 'imaka collaboration
Off-axis PSF reconstruction for integral field spectrograph: instrumental aberrations and application to Keck/OSIRIS data (Ciurlo et al. 2018) - AIROPA collaboration
Point-spread function reconstruction for integral-field spectrograph data (Do et al. 2018) - AIROPA collaboration
On-sky results from the wide-field ground-layer adaptive optics demonstrator 'imaka (Chun et al. 2018) - 'imaka collaboration
OSIRIS Toolbox: OH-Suppressing InfraRed Imaging Spectrograph pipeline (Lyke et al. 2017)
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The Galactic Center: Improved Relative Astrometry for Velocities, Accelerations, and Orbits near the Supermassive Black Hole (Jia et al. al 2019)
A Slowly Precessing Disk in the Nucleus of M31 as the Feeding Mechanism for a Central Starburst (Lockhart et al. 2018)
HST/WFC3 Observations of an Off-nuclear Superbubble in Arp 220 (Lockhart et al. 2015)
Young Stars in the Galactic Center (Lu et al. al 2014)
Stellar Populations in the Central 0.5 pc of the Galaxy. II. The Initial Mass Function (Lu et al. 2013)
Orbits and origins of the young stars in the central parsec of the galaxy (Lu et al. al 2008)
Exploring the origins of the young stars in the central parsec of the Galaxy with stellar dynamics (Lu 2008)
Constraints on Orbits and Origins of Young Stars in the Central Parsec of the Galaxy (Lu et al. 2005)
IRS 16 SW: A New Comoving Group of Young Stars in the Central Parsec of the Milky Way (Lu et al. 2005)
Collaboration Papers:
Understanding the star formation and dynamical histories of the Milky Way Galactic center with stellar binaries (Gautam et al. al 2020)
Search for a Variation of the Fine Structure Constant around the Supermassive Black Hole in Our Galactic Center (Hees et al. 2020)
Consistency of the Infrared Variability of SGR A* over 22 yr (Chen et al. al 2019)
Relativistic redshift of the star S0-2 orbiting the Galactic Center supermassive black hole (Do et al. al 2019)
Monitoring the Unprecendented Near-Infrared Variability of Sgr A* (Do et al. al 2019)
Building an astrometric reference frame for tests of General Relativity with stellar orbits at the Galactic center with HST and GAIA (Do. et al. al 2019)
The Galactic Center: An Improved Astrometric Reference Frame for Stellar Orbits around the Supermassive Black Hole (Sakai et al. 2019)
An Adaptive Optics Survey of Stellar Variability at the Galactic Center (Gautam et al. 2019)
Monitoring the Variability of the Supermassive Black Hole at the Galactic Center (Chen 2018)
Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics Proper Motion Measurements of Stars in the Central Parsec of the Galactic Center (Yelda et al. al 2007)
A Constant Spectral Index for Sagittarius A* during Infrared/X-Ray Intensity Variations (Hornstein et al. al 2007)
White Papers
2007)
Photometric Stellar Variability in the Galactic Center (Rafelski et al. 2006)
The First Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics Observations of the Galactic Center: Sgr A*'s Infrared Color and the Extended Red Emission in its Vicinity (Ghez et al. 2005)
A Remarkable Low-Mass X-Ray Binary within 0.1 Parsecs of the Galactic Center (Muno et al. 2005)
An Overabundance of Transient X-Ray Binaries within 1 Parsec of the Galactic Center (Muno et al. 2005)
Stellar Orbits around the Galactic Center Black Hole (Ghez et al. 2005)
White Papers
The Galactic Center with Roman (Terry et al. 2023)
Roman CCS White Paper: Characterizing the Galactic population of isolated black holes (Lam et al. 2023)
Rubin Microlensing Discovery and Characterization Efficiency at Different Timescales (Abrams et al. 2021)
From Stars to Compact Objects: The Initial-Final Mass Relation (Lu et al. al 2019)
Training the Next Generation of OIR Instrumentalists (Lu et al. al 2019)
Star Formation in Different Environments: The Initial Mass Function (Hosek et al. al 2019)
Dark Matter Science in the Era of LSST (Bechtol et al. 2019)
Envisioning the next decade of Galactic Center science: a laboratory for the study of the physics and astrophysics of supermassive black holes (Do et al. 2019)
The Local Relics of of Supermassive Black Hole Seeds (Greene et al. 2019)
Astro2020 Science White Paper: The Local Relics of of Supermassive Black Hole Seeds (Lu et al. 2019)
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