I am interested in extrasolar planets and their formation. In order to study these objects and processes, I am seeking to advance astronomical instrumentation and observational technique. Particularly interesting are indirect and direct techniques for detecting extrasolar planets with adaptive optics, coronagraphy, and interferometry. I am also studying dust disks around main sequence stars. High-contrast observations of circumstellar debris can reveal signatures of planet formation.
| Lin, J., Fitzgerald, M.P., Xin, Y., Guyon, O., Leon-Saval, S., Norris, B., Jovanovic, N. | "Focal-plane wavefront sensing with photonic lanterns I: theoretical framework" | Journal of the Optical Society of America B, 39 (2022): 2643 | [ADS; PDF] |
| Gibbs, A., Fitzgerald, M.P. | "Limits on the Auroral Generation of H3+ in Brown Dwarf and Extrasolar Giant Planet Atmospheres with Keck/NIRSPEC." | Astronomical Journal, 164 (2022): 63 | [ADS; PDF] |
| Horstman, K., Fitzgerald, M.P., Lyke, J.E., Yeh, S.C.C., Chu, D.S. | "Using Non-Negative Matrix Factorization to Improve Calibration of the Keck OSIRIS Integral Field Spectrograph." | Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 134 (2022): 064504 | [ADS; PDF] |
| Lin, J., Jovanovic, N, Fitzgerald, M.P. | "Design considerations of photonic lanterns for diffraction-limited spectrometry." | Journal of the Optical Society of America B, 38 (2021): A51 | [ADS; PDF] |
| Arriaga, P., Fitzgerald, M.P., Duchêne, G., Kalas, P., et al. | "Multiband Polarimetric Imaging of HR 4796A with the Gemini Planet Imager." | Astronomical Journal, 160 (2020): 79 | [ADS; PDF] |
| Esposito, T. M., Fitzgerald, M. P., Graham, J. R., Kalas, P. et al. | "Bringing `The Moth' to Light: A Planet-Sculpting Scenario for the HD 61005 Debris Disk." | Astronomical Journal, 152 (2016): 85 | [ADS; PDF] |
| Hung, L.-W., Duchêne, G., Arriaga, P., Fitzgerald, M. P., et al. | "First Scattered-light Image of the Debris Disk around HD 131835 with the Gemini Planet Imager" | Astrophysical Journal, 815 (2015): L14 | [ADS; PDF] |
| Hung, L.-W., Fitzgerald, M. P., Chen, C. H., Mittal, T., Kalas, P. G., & Graham, J. R. | "Discovery of Resolved Debris Disk Around HD 131835." | Astrophysical Journal, 802 (2015): 138 | [ADS; PDF] |
| Esposito, T. M., Fitzgerald, M. P., Graham, J. R., & Kalas, P. | "Modeling Self-subtraction in Angular Differential Imaging: Application to the HD 32297 Debris Disk." | Astrophysical Journal, 780 (2014): 25 | [ADS; PDF] |
| Kalas, P., Graham, J. R., Fitzgerald, M. P., & Clampin, M. | "STIS Coronagraphic Imaging of Fomalhaut: Main Belt Structure and the Orbit of Fomalhaut b." | Astrophysical Journal, 775 (2013): 56 | [ADS; PDF] |
| Fitzgerald, M. P., Kalas, P., & Graham, J. R. | "Orbital Constraints on the beta Pic Inner Planet Candidate with Keck Adaptive Optics." | Astrophysical Journal, 706 (2009): L41-45 | [ADS; PDF] |
| Chen, C. H., Fitzgerald, M. P., & Smith, P. S. | "A Possible Icy Kuiper Belt around HD 181327." | Astrophysical Journal, 689 (2008): 539-544 | [ADS; PDF] |
| Kalas, P., Graham, J. R., Chiang, E., Fitzgerald, M. P., Clampin, M., Kite, E. S., Stapelfeldt, K., Marois, C., & Krist, J. | "Optical Images of an Exosolar Planet 25 Light-Years from Earth." | Science, 322 (2008): 1345-1348 | [ADS; PDF] |
| Maness, H. L., Fitzgerald, M. P., Paladini, R., Kalas, P., Duchêne, G., & Graham, J. R. | "CARMA Millimeter-Wave Aperture Synthesis Imaging of the HD 32297 Debris Disk." | Astrophysical Journal, 686 (2008): L25-L28 | [ADS; PDF] |
| Fitzgerald, M. P., Kalas, P. G., & Graham, J. R. | "A Ring of Warm Dust in the HD 32297 Debris Disk." | Astrophysical Journal, 670 (2007): 557-564 | [ADS; PDF] |
| Fitzgerald, M. P., Kalas, P. G., Duchêne, G., Pinte, C., & Graham, J. R. | "The AU Mic Debris Disk: Multiwavelength Imaging and Modeling." | Astrophysical Journal, 670 (2007): 536-556 | [ADS; PDF] |
| Fitzgerald, M. P., & Graham, J. R. | "Speckle Statistics in Adaptively Corrected Images." | Astrophysical Journal, 637 (2006): 541-547 | [ADS; PDF] |