Scientific Bibliography
Excluding colloquia and student presentations

Computer software and non-scientific works are on a separate page.

Theses

R. D. Meyer. Binary Star Speckle Photometry and Astrophysical Implications. Ph.D. dissertation, Yale University (2002).

R. D. Meyer. Interpretation of ROSAT Observations of PSR 0656+14 and Geminga. B.S. (honors) thesis, The Pennsylvania State University (1993).

Refereed Publications

R. D. Meyer, E. P. Horch, Z. Ninkov, W. F. van Altena, and C. A. Rothkopf. “RYTSI: The Rochester Institute of Technology–Yale Tip-Tilt Speckle Imager.” Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 118, 162–171 (2006).

E. P. Horch, R. D. Meyer, and W. F. van Altena. “Speckle Observations of Binary Stars with the WIYN Telescope. IV. Differential Photometry.” The Astronomical Journal, 127, 1727–1735 (2004).

E. P. Horch, S. E. Robinson, Z. Ninkov, W. F. van Altena, R. D. Meyer, S. E. Urban, and B. D. Mason. “Speckle Observations of Binary Stars with the WIYN Telescope. III. A Partial Survey of A, F, and G Dwarfs.” The Astronomical Journal, 124, 2245–2253 (2002).

E. P. Horch, S. E. Robinson, R. D. Meyer, W. F. van Altena, Z. Ninkov, and A. Piterman. “Speckle Observations of Binary Stars with the WIYN Telescope. II. Relative Astrometry Measures During 1998-2000.” The Astronomical Journal, 123, 3442–3459 (2002).

E. Horch, Z. Ninkov, W. F. van Altena, R. D. Meyer, T. M. Girard, and J. G. Timothy. “Speckle Observations of Binary Stars with the WIYN Telescope. I. Measures During 1997.” The Astronomical Journal, 117, 548–561 (1999).

R. D. Meyer, G. G. Pavlov, and P. Mészáros. “Soft X-Ray Spectral Fits of Geminga with Model Neutron Star Atmospheres.” The Astrophysical Journal, 433, 265–275 (1994).

Non-Refereed Publications

E. P. Horch, W. F. van Altena, and R. D. Meyer. “The WIYN Speckle Program: HIPPARCOS Binaries and Beyond.” In Astrometry in the Age of the Next Generation of Large Telescopes (ASP Conference Series Vol. 338), P. K. Seidelmann and A. K. B. Monet, eds., San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 90–97 (2005).

R. D. Meyer, K. J. Kearney, Z. Ninkov, C. T. Cotton, P. Hammond, and B. D. Statt. “RITMOS: a micromirror-based multi-object spectrometer.” [2783 kB PDF] In Ground-based Instrumentation for Astronomy, A. F. M. Moorwood and M. Iye, eds., Proceedings of SPIE, 5492, 200–219 (2004).

E. P. Horch, R. D. Meyer, W. F. van Altena, and M. MacKnight. “Observations of HIPPARCOS Double Stars with the WIYN Telescope.” Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica (Serie de Conferencias), 21, 69–70 (2004).

E. P. Horch, H. Riedel, W. F. van Altena, R. D. Meyer, and C. Corson. “Speckle Imaging of Binary Stars with the RYTSI Speckle Camera and the Kitt Peak Mini-Mosaic Imager.” Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 36, 787 (2004).

R. D. Meyer. “Binary Star Speckle Photometry and Astrophysical Implications.” Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 115, 1019–1019 (2003).

J. A. Dank, E. P. Horch, W. F. van Altena, T. M. Girard, R. D. Meyer, O. G. Franz, C. E. López, and J. G. Timothy. “Speckle Results from the Cesco Observatory.” Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 34, 655 (2002).

R. D. Meyer, E. P. Horch, and W. F. van Altena. “Astrophysical Parameters of Binary Stars via Spectral Fitting.” Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 34, 655 (2002).

E. P. Horch, Z. Ninkov, R. D. Meyer, and W. F. van Altena. “RYTSI: A New Way to do Speckle Imaging.” Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 33, 790–791 (2001).

S. E. Robinson, E. P. Horch, Z. Ninkov, W. F. van Altena, and R. D. Meyer. “Four Years of Speckle Observing at the WIYN Observatory.” Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 33, 849 (2001).

E. Horch, Z. Ninkov, W. F. van Altena, R. D. Meyer, T. M. Girard, and J. G. Timothy. “Speckle Interferometry at RIT/Yale.” News Letter of the Astronomical Society of New York, 5 (No. 4), 14 (1998).

E. Horch, Z. Ninkov, R. W. Slawson, W. F. van Altena, R. D. Meyer, and T. M. Girard. “Speckle Imaging of Binary Stars with Large-Format CCDs.” Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 29, 1277 (1997).

E. Horch, T. M. Girard, W. F. van Altena, R. D. Meyer, C. E. López, and O. G. Franz. “Measurement Precision of the Yale–San Juan Speckle Interferometry Program.” [507 kB PDF] In Visual Binary Stars: Formation, Dynamics and Evolutionary Tracks, J. Docobo, A. Elipe, and H. McAlister, eds., Dordrecht: Kluwer, 43–53 (1997).

G. G. Pavlov, Yu. A. Shibanov, V. E. Zavlin, and R. D. Meyer. “Neutron Star Atmospheres.” In The Lives of the Neutron Stars, M. A. Alpar, Ü. Kiziloglu, and J. van Paradijs, eds., Dordrecht: Kluwer, 71–90 (1995).

R. D. Meyer, G. G. Pavlov, and P. Mészáros. “Fitting Model Neutron Star Atmospheres to the Soft X-ray Spectrum of Geminga.” Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 26, 794 (1994).

Conference Presentations

R. D. Meyer, E. P. Horch, Z. Ninkov, and W. F. van Altena. “The RIT–Yale Tip-tilt Speckle Imager.” [1952 kB PDF] Presented at the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science (RIT) Spring 2002 Industrial Associates Meeting, Rochester, NY (2002).

R. D. Meyer, W. F. van Altena, and E. P. Horch. “Binary Star Photometry with the WIYN Telescope.” Presented at the October 2001 WIYNFest, New Haven, CT (2001).

R. D. Meyer, T. M. Girard, W. F. van Altena, C. E. López, and C. N. Francile. “Telescope and CCD Camera Control System for Linux.” Presented at the OPTO–Northeast and Imaging 2001 Conference, Rochester, NY (2001).

R. D. Meyer, E. P. Horch, W. F. van Altena, and Z. Ninkov. “Magnitude Differences of Binary Stars from Speckle Interferometry: An Imaging Science Approach.” Presented at the OPTO–Northeast and Imaging 2001 Conference, Rochester, NY (2001).

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