Refereed Publications

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Non-Refereed Publications
  • The Galactic Center with Roman
    Terry, S.K., Hosek Jr., M.W., Lu, J.R., Lam, C., Abrams, N., Bahramian, A., Barry, R., Beaulieu, J-P., Bhattacharya, A., Chu, D., Ciurlo, A., Clarkson, W., Do, T., El-Badry, K., Felton, R., Freeman, M., Gautam, A., Ghez, A., Huber, D., Hunt, J., Huston, M., Jayasinghe, T., Koshimoto, N., Lucey, M., Peisker, F., Pusack, A., Ranc, Cl., Rowan, D., Sanderson, R., Shoedel, R., Spencer, R.G., Street, R., Suzuki, D., & Vandorou, A., 2023, Roman Space Telescope CCS white paper

  • Analyzing long-term performance of the Keck-II adaptive optics system
    Ramey, E., Lu, J.R., Yin, R., Robinson, S., Wizinowich, P., Ragland, S., Lyke, J., Jia, S., Sakai, S., Gautam, A., Do, T., Hosek Jr., M.W., Ghez, A., Morris, M., Becklin, E., Matthews, K., 2020, Proceedings of SPIE, 11448

  • Star Formation in Different Environments: The Initial Mass Function
    Hosek Jr., M.W., Lu, J.R., Andersen, M., Do, T., Kim, D., Rui, N.Z., Boyle, P., Williams, B.F., Chakrabarti, S., & Beaton, R.L., 2019, Astro2020 White Paper, BAAS, 51, 439

  • Envisioning the Next Decade of Galactic Center Science: A Laboratory for the Study of Physics and Astrophysics of Supermassive Black Holes
    Do, T., Ghez, A.M., Lu, J.R., Morris, M.R., Hosek Jr., M.W., Hees, A., Noaz, S., Ciurlo, A., Armitage, P.J., Beaton, R.L., Becklin, E.E., Bellini, A., Bentley, R.O., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Chakrabarti, S., Chen, Z., Chu, D.S., Dehghanfar, A., Gammie, C., Guatam, A.K., Genzel, R., Greene, J., Haggard, D., Hora, J., Kerzendorf, W.E., Libralato, M., Nishiyama, S., Kosmo O'Neil, K., Ozel, F., Perets, H., Psaltis, D., Quataert, E., Ramirez-Ruiz, E., Rich, R.M., Rasio, F., Sakai, S., Schoedel, R., Smith, H., Weinberg, & N.N., Witzel, G., 2019, Astro2020 White Paper, BAAS, 51, 530

  • Local Dwarf Galaxy Archaeology
    Ji, A.P., Beaton, R.L., Chakrabarti, S., Duggan, G., Frebel, A., Geha, M., Hosek Jr., M.W. , Kirby, E., Li, T., Roederer, I., & Simon, J., 2019, Astro2020 White Paper, arXiv:1903.09275

  • The Local Relics of Supermassive Black Hole Seeds
    Greene, J.E., Barth, A., Bellini, A., Bellovary, J., Holley-Bockelmann, K., Do, T., Gallo, E., Gebhardt, K., Gultekin, K., Haiman, Z., Hosek Jr., M.W., Kim, D., Libralato, M., Lu, J.R., Nyland, K., Malkan, M., Reines, A., Seth, A., Treu, T., Walsh, J., & Wrobel, J., 2019, Astro2020 White paper, arXiv:1903.08670

  • Near-Infrared Astrometry of Star Clusters with Different Flavors of Adaptive Optics and HST
    Lu, J.R., Neichel, B., Anderson, J., Sinukoff, E., Hosek Jr., M.W., Ghez, A.M., & Rigaut, F., 2014, Proceedings of SPIE, 9148
Talks and Posters
  • Revealing the Large-Scale Kinematic Structure of the Galactic Center with the Roman Space Telescope (Contributed Talk)
    Roman Science Inspired by Emerging JWST Results, STScI, Baltimore, MD, June 2023

  • The Arches and Quintuplet Clusters: Exploring Scenarios for Star Formation Near the Galactic Center (Contributed Talk)
    Galactic Center Workshop, Granada, Spain, April 2023

  • Star Formation Near the Galactic Center: New Insights from HST + Gaia (Colloquium)
    UCLA Physics and Astronomy Department, Los Angeles, CA, February 2023

  • The Arches and Quintuplet Clusters: Probes of Star Formation in the Extreme Environment Near the Galactic Center (Invited Talk)
    Puzzles of the Galactic Center, Heidelberg, Germany, September 2022

  • SPISEA: A Python Package for Generating Star Clusters (Workshop)
    PySnacks Lecture Series, IAA - CSIC (virtual), April 2022

  • Measuring the Orbits of the Arches and Quintuplet Clusters: Exploring Scenariors for Star Formation Near the Galactic Center (Talk)
    UC Berkeley Astro Lunch Talk, April 2022

  • The Arches and Quintuplet Clusters: Probes of Star Formation in the Extreme Environment Near the Galactic Center (Talk)
    Chalmers Astrophysics Colloquium (virtual), April 2022

  • The Arches and Quintuplet Clusters: Evidence of an Unusual Initial Mass Function Near the Galactic Center? (Talk)
    CMZoom Virtual Talk Series, January 2021

  • SPISEA: A New Tool for Simulating Stellar Populations and Associated Case Study: Predictions for Compact Remnants at the Galactic Center (Poster)
    Keck Science Meeting (virtual), September 2020

  • PopStar: A New Code for Simulating Star Clusters (Poster)
    Keck Science Meeting, UCLA, Los Anges, CA, September 2019

  • Young Massive Clusters Near the Galactic Center: The Initial Mass Function (Talk)
    MorrisFest, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, September 2019

  • Young Massive Clusters at the Galactic Center: Top-Heavy IMF and the Increased Population of Stellar Remnants (Poster)
    2019 Spring Symposium: The Death and Afterlives of Stars, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, April 2019

  • The Arches and Quintuplet Clusters: Evidence of an Unusual Initial Mass Function Near the Galactic Center? (Department Lunch Talk)
    UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, February 2019

  • The Initial Mass Function of the Arches and Quintuplet Clusters: Testing the Impact of the Galactic Center Environment (contributed talk)
    Stars: Birth and Death, GMT Community Science Meeting, Honolulu, Hi, September 2018

  • The Initial Mass Function of the Arches and Quintuplet Clusters (Visiting Talk)
    UCLA, Los Angeles, Ca, July 2018

  • The Initial Mass Function of the Arches Clusters (Talk)
    UC Berkeley Graduate Student-Postdoc Hour, Berkeley, Ca, April 2018

  • The Initial Mass Function of the Arches Cluster (contributed dissertation talk)
    231st Meeting of the AAS, Washington, D.C., January 2018

  • The Optical/Near-Infrared Extinction Law in Highly Reddened Regions (contributed talk)
    Piercing the Galactic Darkness, Heidelberg, Germany, October 2017

  • The Initial Mass Function of the Arches Cluster (contributed talk)
    Keck Science Conference, Santa Cruz, Ca, September 2017

  • Toward a Precise Measurement of Initial Mass Function of the Arches Cluster (contributed talk)
    UC Berkeley Astronomy Lunch Talk, Berkeley, Ca, March 2017

  • The Dynamics, Structure, and Initial Mass Function of the Arches Cluster (contributed talk)
    Keck Science Conference, Pasadena, Ca, September 2016

  • The Dynamical Structure and Initial Mass Function of the Arches Cluster (contributed talk)
    Dynamics and Accretion at the Galactic Center, Aspen Center for Physics, Aspen, Co, February 2016

  • The Initial Mass Function of the Outer Arches Cluster (poster)
    IAU XXIX General Assembly, Honolulu, Hi, August 2015

  • The Arches Cluster: Extended Profile and Tidal Radius (poster)
    IAU XXIX General Assembly, Honolulu, Hi, August 2015

  • The Tidal Radius of the Arches Cluster (poster)
    From Galactic to Extragalactic Star Formation, Marseille, France, September 2014

  • An FGLR Distance to Metal-Poor Dwarf Galaxy NGC 3109 (contributed talk)
    The Extragalactic Distance Scale Workshop, Munich Institute for Astro- and Particle Physics, Munich, Germany, June 2014