Marshall Perrin's Publications

Papers and Presentations

Please see my complete publication list in ADS, or in my CV.

Thesis | Refereed Publications | Conference Proceedings | Posters | Popular Science Writing

Thesis

My thesis: A High Resolution Survey of Circumstellar Dust around Herbig Ae/Be Stars, UC Berkeley, 2006. (Warning: lots of full-resolution figures. 350 page, 40 MB PDF file)

Peer-Reviewed First-Author Publications

Marshall D. Perrin, Vacca, William D., & Graham, James R. 2009, Astronomical Journal Evidence for an Edge-on Disk Around the Young Star MWC 778 from Infrared Imaging and Polarimetry
Marshall D. Perrin, Graham, James R., & Lloyd, James P. 2008, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific The IRCAL Polarimeter: Design, Calibration, and Data Reduction for an Adaptive Optics Imaging Polarimeter
Marshall D. Perrin & Graham, James R. 2007, Astrophysical Journal Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics Integral Field Spectroscopy of a Tightly Collimated Bipolar Jet from the Herbig Ae Star LkHα 233
Marshall D. Perrin, Gaspard Duchene, Paul Kalas, & James R. Graham. Discovery of an Optically Thick, Edge-on Disk around the Herbig Ae star PDS 144N. ApJ, July 2006. [astro-ph]
Marshall D. Perrin, James R. Graham, Paul Kalas, James P. Lloyd, Claire E. Max, Donald T. Gavel, Deanna M. Pennington, & Elinor L. Gates Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics Imaging Polarimetry of Herbig Ae/Be Stars 2004, Science [astro-ph]
Marshall D. Perrin, Anand Sivaramakrishnan, Russell B. Makidon, Ben R. Oppenheimer, and James R. Graham. The Structure of High Strehl Ratio Point-Spread Functions 2003 Oct 10. Astrophysical Journal. [astro-ph]

Selected Conference Proceedings and Other Publications

Marshall D. Perrin, Graham, James R., Kalas, Paul, Lloyd, James P., Max, Claire E., Gavel, Donald T., Pennington, Deanna M., & Gates, Elinor L. 2004, Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 5490, pp. 309-320 (2004). Laser guide star adaptive optics imaging polarimetry of Herbig Ae/Be stars
M. D. Perrin, J. R. Graham, M. Trumpis, J. Kuhn, K. Whitman, R. Coulter, J. P. Lloyd, and L. C. Roberts, Jr. First light with the Kermit Infrared Camera Proceedings of the Air Force AMOS Technical Conference. 2003.
Sivaramakrishnan, Anand, Hodge, Philip E., Makidon, Russell B., Perrin, Marshall D., Lloyd, James P., Bloemhof, Eric E., & Oppenheimer, Ben R. 2003, High-Contrast Imaging for Exo-Planet Detection. Edited by Alfred B. Schultz. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 4860, pp. 161-170 (2003). The adaptive optics point-spread function at moderate and high Strehl ratios
Bloser, Peter F., Narita, Tomohiko, Jenkins, Jonathan A., Perrin, Marshall, Murray, Ruth, & Grindlay, Jonathan E. 2002, Proc. SPIE Vol. 4497, p. 88-99, X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Instrumentation for Astronomy XII, Kathryn A. Flanagan; Oswald H. Siegmund; Eds. Balloon flight background measurement with actively-shielded planar and imaging CZT detectors
Narita, Tomohiko, Grindlay, Jonathan E., Jenkins, Jonathan A., Perrin, Marshall, Marrone, D., Murray, Ruth, & Connell, B. 2002, Proc. SPIE Vol. 4497, p. 79-87, X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Instrumentation for Astronomy XII, Kathryn A. Flanagan; Oswald H. Siegmund; Eds. Design and preliminary tests of a prototype CZT imaging array

Posters

Simulating Point Spread Functions for JWST with WebbPSF, from the July 2012 SPIE meeting.
The Campaign Data System for the Gemini Planet Imager, from the July 2012 SPIE meeting.
A Reconfigurable Lenslet Integral Field Spectrograph for Detecting and Characterizing Terrestrial Exoplanets, from the January 2012 AAS meeting.
Imaging Exoplanets with JWST: Capabilities and Comparisons, from the June 2011 JWST Frontier Science Opportunities workshop.
Polarimetry with GPI: Simulations and Sensitivities, from the Jan 2011 AAS meeting.
Imaging Polarimetry with the Gemini Planet Imager, from the 2010 June SPIE meeting.
Discovery of a Nearly Edge On Disk around the Young Star PDS 453, from the Jan 2010 AAS meeting.
Beyond Astro 101: A first report on interactive education in an astrophysics class for majors, from the 2009 June AAS meeting.
Coronagraphic Polarimetry of Disks around Herbig Ae/Be Stars, from the 2009 January AAS meeting.
Polarimetry with the Gemini Planet Imager, from the 2008 Astronomical Polarimetry meeting.
Integral Field Spectroscopy of Jets from Young Stars, from the 2007 Keck Science Meeting.
The Edge-On Circumstellar Disk of the Herbig Ae Star PDS 144N, from the 2006 Cambridge meeting on Circumstellar disks
LGS AO Polarimetry of Herbig AE/Be stars, from the 2006 Winter AAS meeting

Popular Science Writing

I wrote a bimonthly science column for the speculative fiction web magazine Strange Horizons.

I wrote an article on the search for extrasolar planets which was published in the November 2001 issue of Imagine, the magazine of the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth.