Dr. Marc A. Murison

United States Naval Observatory
3450 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20392-5420

202-762-1555

http://murison.alpheratz.net/

Research Specialization and Skills

Computer algebraic and numerical analyses & modeling of physical systems:

Chaotic dynamics of the gravitational few-body problem

Analytical and numerical analysis of high-precision optical systems

Systematic error analysis of instrument systems

Data reduction and analysis

Observational:

stellar spectropolarimetry

broadband photometry

Programming languages: Maple, C++, C, php, javascript, fortran, basic, assembler

Teaching Capabilities

Undergraduate and graduate astronomy, astrophysics, and celstial mechanics

Undergraduate physics, optics; undergraduate and graduate classical mechanics and E & M

Undergraduate calculus, differential equations, numerical

Professional Experience

1995-present

Astronomer, U.S. Naval Observatory

1996-present

Secretary, AAS Division on Dynamical Astronomy

1989-1995

Physicist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

1988-1989

Associate Scientist, Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field/Planetary Camera, University of Wisconsin Space Astronomy Laboratory

1985-1988

Research Assistant, University of Wisconsin Space Astronomy Laboratory and the Pine Bluff Observatory

1984-1985

Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin Astronomy Department

summer 1984

Research Assistant, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville, VA

1983-1984

Research Assistant, University of Wisconsin Astronomy Department

summers 1982, 1983

Research Assistant, High Altitude Observatory, National Center for Atmospheric Research

Education

1988

Ph.D., Astronomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison. "Satellite Capture and the Restricted Three-Body Problem." (Arthur D. Code, thesis advisor.)

1983

A.B., magna cum laude, Astronomy, San Diego State University.

Mentoring

2002-2004: Andrei Munteanu, Benjamin Banneker High School. Andrei won 9th place in the 2003-2004 Intel Science Talent Search for our project on computing the minimum distance between elliptical orbits. Andrei is now at Harvard.

summer 2006: Daniel Pozniak, pre-college. I supervised Daniel in back-end web design and algorithms for our departmental web site.

summer/fall 2006: Alex Simone, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. I taught Alex aspects of celestial mechanics related to doing astrometry of artificial satellites from a space-based platform.

Professional Society Membership and Service

American Astronomical Society

1996-present

Secretary of the AAS Division on Dynamical Astronomy

Astronomical Society of the Pacific

American Institute of Physics

American Physical Society

American Association of Physics Teachers

Mathematical Association of America

Teaching Philosophy

My teaching philosophy centers around “learn by doing”. To learn – and to have any hope of becoming proficient in – physics, math, and astronomy, there is no substitute for problem-solving elbow grease. Physical science majors learn most thoroughly and reliably by working through interesting problem sets, as well as seeing and participating in solving selected problems as part of regular lecture classes. I heartily approve of students working on problems together in small groups, if possible. Also, the opportunity for students to work on collaborative research problems is highly desireable. I have a list of suitable problems in gravitational dynamics that could serve as student research projects. Similar to the culture among surgeons of “see it, do it, teach it”, students working through problems (and on research problems) together and in class profitably pass through the same three stages, each equally important to the process of learning physics and math. Introductory and survey classes, however, cannot be so rigorous or demanding. However, students of all levels learn best by actively engaging in the class lessons and solving thoughtful (if not necessarily mathematical or equation-laden) problems. Such engagement is indeed hard work, for both the students and the teacher, but there is little in the academic process that inculcates similar levels of critical and analytical thinking, self esteem, learning, and intellectual satisfaction for all involved.

Detailed Professional Experience

1995-present

Astronomer, U.S. Naval Observatory, Astronomical Applications Dept.

Dynamics of asteroids, inner Solar System resonances, and asteroid belt mass distribution.
Orbit determination from and analysis of systematic errors in astrometric observations of artificial satellites from an orbiting platform.
Analyses of optical systems for various projects, including the Full-sky Astrometric Mapping Explorer (FAME) satellite, Origins Billion Star Survey satellite, and the USNO dispersed Fourier Transform Spectrometer (dFTS).
Analyses of FAME attitude perturbations, spin dynamics, and subsequent star motions in the instrument focal plane.
Analyses of systematic errors in the astrometry from a spin-stabilized precessing satellite using solar radiation to drive the precession torque.
Analyses of the observation density and scan angle distributions for FAME-like astrometric satellites.
Preliminary designs of the FAME data reduction pipeline.
Analysis of dFTS optics. Design of custom, 7-element back-end lens assembly.
Design, construction, testing, and control software for dFTS adaptive optics front end.
30 technical memoranda.

1991-1995

Physicist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Analyses of the POINTS (Precision Optical INTerferometer in Space) optical subsystems. I designed, wrote, and developed two comprehensive programs to perform high-precision misalignment and tolerance analyses. RayTrace is an object-oriented numerical program designed specifically for sub-picometer optical path length variation studies. AESOP (An Extensible Symbolic Optics Package) is a large computer algebra program which performs analytical ray tracing and wavefront analysis of optical systems, again with emphasis on perturbations. Both programs are unique in the optics profession.
6 technical memoranda, 3 Astronomical Journal papers.

1989-1991

Physicist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Comprehensive analysis and upgrade of PEP (Planetary Ephemeris Program), an extensive model of the Solar System. This included conversion to the FORTRAN-77 standard and extensive documentation of code and equations.
Research in general relativistic effects in the Solar System, including use of PEP.

1988-1989

Associate Scientist, Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field/Planetary Camera, University of Wisconsin Space Astronomy Laboratory

Creation of optical polarization reduction and calibration software.
Modeling of WF/PC detector response to different classes of astronomical objects.

1986-1988

Research Assistant, University of Wisconsin Space Astronomy Laboratory and the Pine Bluff Observatory

Gravitational satellite capture, thesis research. Created optimized restricted three-body codes to determine conditions for capture and to study the general nonlinear nature of the satellite capture problem.
- Discovered the fractal nature of periodic orbit families.
Wisconsin Ultraviolet Photo-Polarimeter Experiment (WUPPE) ground support equipment operation and data reduction, at both the Marshall Space Flight Center and the University of Wisconsin's Space Astronomy Laboratory.
Visual observations of selected WUPPE target objects, using the Pine Bluff Observatory 0.9 meter telescope, as part of an effort to develop an observational database and reference for WUPPE objects.
Stability of young open clusters: studied tidal stability and survivability of newly-formed open clusters in the tidal field of the parent molecular cloud. Created 2-D and 3-D integration and finite-difference codes to calculate gravitational fields and potentials.

1984-1985

Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin Astronomy Department

summer 1984

Research Assistant, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville

Searched VLA radio data of the galaxy M33 for supernova remnants similar to the Crab nebula.

1983-1984

Research Assistant, University of Wisconsin Astronomy Department

Theoretical studies of the wavelength dependence of the polarization of optical radiation due to ejection of stellar material from O and B stars.

summers 1982, 1983

Research Assistant, High Altitude Observatory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder

Created and developed a finite difference electrodynamics code to determine the three-dimensional structure of ionospheric magnetic and electric fields and currents over Scandinavia during a magnetic substorm event.

References

Robert D. Reasenberg
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

617-495-7108

Arsen R. Hajian
United States Naval Observatory

202-762-1087

James L. Hilton
United States Naval Observatory

541-899-3966

Publications

(See also my Publications web page.)

Hajian, A. R., Behr, B. B., Cenko, A. T., Olling, R. P., Mozurkewich, D., Armstrong, J. T., Pohl, B., Petrossian, S., Knuth, K. H., Hindsley, R. B., Murison, M., Efroimsky, M., Dantowitz, R., Kozubal, M., Currie, D. G., Nordgren, T. E., Tycner, C., and McMillan, R. S. (2007). "Initial Results from the USNO Dispersed Fourier Transform Spectrograph", Astrophysical Journal 661, 616-633. (Abstract)
Chambers, J. E. and Murison, M. A. (2000). "Pseudo-High-Order Symplectic Integrators", Astronomical Journal 119, 425-433. (Abstract)
Murison, M. A., Lecar, M., and Franklin, F. A. (1994). "Chaotic motion in the outer asteroid belt and its relation to the age of the solar system", Astronomical Journal 108, 2323-2329. (Abstract)
Franklin, F., Lecar, M., and Murison, M. (1993). "Chaotic orbits and long term stability - an example from asteroids of the Hilda group", Astronomical Journal 105, 2336-2343. (Abstract)
Lecar, M., Franklin, F., and Murison, M. (1992). "On predicting long-term orbital instability - A relation between the Lyapunov time and sudden orbital transitions", Astronomical Journal 104, 1230-1236. (Abstract)
Murison, M. A. (1989). "The fractal dynamics of satellite capture in the circular restricted three-body problem", Astronomical Journal 98, 2346-2359. (Abstract)
Murison, M. A. (1989). "On an efficient and accurate method to integrate restricted three-body orbits", Astronomical Journal 97, 1496-1509. (Abstract)
Murison, M. A. (1989). "An Optimum Method for Calculating Restricted Three-Body Orbits", Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy 45, 175. (Abstract)
Stanford, S. A., Clayton, G. C., Meade, M. R., Nordsieck, K. H., Whitney, B. A., Murison, M. A., Nook, M. A., and Anderson, C. M. (1988). "R Coronae Borealis dust ejections - A preferred plane?", Astrophysical Journal 325, L9-L12. (Abstract)
Cassinelli, J. P., Nordsieck, K. H., and Murison, M. A. (1987). "Polarization of light scattered from the winds of early-type stars", Astrophysical Journal 317, 290-302. (Abstract)
Murison, M., Richmond, A. D., Baumjohann, W., and Matsushita, S. (1985). "Estimation of ionospheric electric fields and currents from a regional magnetometer array", Journal of Geophysical Research 90, 3525-3530. (Abstract)

Technical Memoranda

Murison, M. A. (2008). "Zenith Calibration of a New Geodetic Astrolabe", AA-2008-01.
[This paper is, temporarily, not publicly available due to proprietary issues regarding the astrolabe project.]
Abstract
A procedure is detailed for calibrating a proposed geodetic astrolabe to the local gravity field and hence to the true local zenith. The calibration optical setup is simple, involving [redacted]. In principle the optics mountings can be motorized and the procedure largely automated. Advantages are that this can be done in the lab, where the weather is nice; that the devices are calibrated close to their optimum level prior to shipment; and that this will provide an independent check on field calibrations. Another advantage is that a fortuitous design decision to separate the instrument into two pieces allows an assembly-line style of calibrating several instruments using just one calibration setup. The calibration optics themselves need to be precisely aligned just once, independent of subsequent calibration of the astrolabes.
An analytical ray tracing and error analysis is performed for small misalignments of the calibration optics. I show that, in general, errors in the retroreflector return beam direction cannot be mitigated at first order by small rotations of the beam launcher and first pellicle. Thus, the accuracy to which a true vertical reference beam can be established, and to which the astrolabe top assembly can then be calibrated, is of order the return beam deviation from the retroreflector. (There may be ways to get around this problem.) A survey of optical supply vendors reveals the lower bound of this deviation to be one arcsec. If not for this retroreflector problem, the fundamental limitation to the calibration accuracy would otherwise appear to be the level to which two overlaid spots on a CCD detector can be discriminated. This discrimination capability is set by the focal length f₂ of the calibration setup focusing lens. Assuming 10 micron detector pixels and a perfect retroreflector, values of f₂ of order 20 meters would be required to achieve an absolute calibration of order 0.1 arcsec.
Murison, M. A. (2007). "Calibration of the dFTS Adaptive Optics Module", AA-2007-07.
[This paper is, temporarily, not publicly available due to U.S. patent and other proprietary issues regarding the dFTS project.]
Abstract
The USNO dFTS makes use of a commercially available tip/tilt adaptive optics module (the AO-7 from SBIG) as part of the guider box, located at the telescope, whose job it is to keep starlight centered on the fiber optic which is the input to the dFTS instrument. We briefly describe the guider box in order to put our discussion of the AO movement calibration into context. Then, given the geometry of the AO-7 adaptive optics module, we calculate the expressions needed to convert coordinates and distances as measured in CCD pixels into the corresponding coordinates and distances in the AO mirror frame in AO units.
Murison, M. A. (2007). "The Relative Velocity between Two Confocal Keplerian Orbits", AA-2007-04. xml version
Murison, M. A. (2007). "On the Precision of Artificial Satellite Orbit Determination from Observations from an Orbiting Platform. I. Analytical Results for Dominant Transverse Motion.", AA-2007-03. xml version
Murison, M. A. (2007). "Two Designs for the USNO dFTS Back-End Lens Assembly", AA-2007-01. xml version
Murison, M. A. (2006). "An Error Analysis of Elliptical Orbit Transfer Between Two Coplanar Circular Orbits", AA-2006-04. xml version
Murison, M. A. (2006). "Partial Derivatives of Observables with Respect to Two-Body Orbital Elements", AA-2006-03. xml version
Murison, M. A. (2006). "A Practical Method for Solving the Kepler Equation", AA-2006-02. xml version
Murison, M. A. (2004). "A Rudimentary Analysis of Spectroscopic Smearing Due to a Converging Incident Starlight Beam in a Spin-Stabilized Spacecraft", AA-2004-07.
Murison, M. A. (2004). "Geometric Ray Tracing of a Paraxial Lens", AA-2004-01.
Murison, M. A. (2000). "Astrometric Parameter Estimation Suitable for Simulations", AA-2000-07.
Murison, M. A. (2000). "The Observation Density and Scan Angle Distributions of a Spin-Stabilized, Precessing, Scanning Satellite Instrument: I. Geometry", AA-2000-06.
Murison, M. A. (2000). "Characteristics of Selected Map Projections", AA-2000-05.
Murison, M. A. (2000). "Ecliptic Coordinates of the FAME Viewports and Symmetry Axis", AA-2000-04.
Murison, M. A. (2000). "A Method for Directly Generating a Gaussian Distribution with Nonunit Variance and Nonzero Mean from Uniform Random Deviates", AA-2000-03.
Murison, M. A. (2000). "Associated Legendre Polynomials in sin(x) to Twelfth Order", AA-2000-02.
Murison, M. A. (1999). "Pseudo-High-Order Symplectic Integrators", AA-1999-16.
Murison, M. A. (1999). "Modeling planetary motions: why we care and how we do it", AA-1999-15.
Murison, M. A. (1999). "The Magnetosphere and Solar Wind Environments", AA-1999-13.
Murison, M. A. (1999). "Notes on How to Numerically Calculate the Maximum Lyapunov Exponent", AA-1999-11.
Murison, M. A. (1999). "An Automated Linear Least Squares Solution Generator", AA-1999-10.
Murison, M. A. (1999). "Stretching of a Cable with a Weight Attached", AA-1999-09.
Murison, M. A. (1999). "Conversions between Taylor Series and Orthogonal Polynomials", AA-1999-08.
Murison, M. A. (1999). "A Cubic Transition Curve to Bridge a Discontinuity", AA-1999-06.
Murison, M. A. (1998). "A Brief Summary of FAME Science", AA-1998-19.
Murison, M. A. (1998). "How to Rotate a Vector", AA-1998-18.
Murison, M. A. (1998). "Series Solutions of Kepler's Equation", AA-1998-17.
Murison, M. A. (1998). "A Dynamical Survey of Inner Solar system Asteroids: Preliminary Results", extended abstract for IAU Colloquium 172, AA-1998-16.
Murison, M. A. (1998). "Graphical Portraits of Selected Coordinate Systems".
Murison, M. A. (1998). "Calculation of an Integral for FAME", AA-1998-15.
Murison, M. A. (1998). "Evaluation of a Photon Sensitivity Integral for the FAME Instrument", AA-1998-14.
Murison, M. A. (1998). "A Symbolic Newton-Raphson Method of Finding Roots", AA-1998-13.
Murison, M. A. (1996). "POINTS Science".
Murison, M. A. (1995). "Temperature Gradient Sensitivity of the FAME Basic Angle", FTM-USNO-95-01, AA-1998-10.
Murison, M. A. (1995). "The Shape of a Beam Compressor Primary that Compensates for a Spherical Secondary", (GIF page images) TM95-05.
Murison, M. A. (1995). "Expansion of Wavefront Errors in an Infinite Series of Zernike Polynomials", (GIF page images) TM95-04.
Murison, M. A. (1995). "Sky Background in Space and the POINTS Limiting Magnitudes", TM95-01.
Murison, M. A. (1993). "Ray Trace Analysis of Selected POINTS Optical Subsystems", TM93-08.
Murison, M. A., and Noecker, M.C. (1993). "Ray Tracing of and Optical Path across a Holographic Optical Element", (GIF page images) TM93-04.
Murison, M. A. (1991). "PEP Upgrade", TM91-05.

Meeting & Conference Presentations

Murison, M. A. (2007). "The Orbit-Orbit Distance Function: On the Maximum Number of Stationary Points, and a Fast Filter for Finding Asteroid-Asteroid Encounters", American Astronomical Society, DDA meeting #38. (Abstract)
Murison, M. A. (2006). "On the Precision of Artificial Satellite Orbit Determination from Observations from an Orbiting Platform", American Astronomical Society, DDA meeting #37. (Abstract)
Hajian, A. R., Behr, B. B., Cenko, A. T., Olling, R. P., Murison, M., Efroimsky, M., Dantowitz, R., and Kozubal, M. (2005). "The Dispersed Fourier Transform Spectrometer - Toward Earth-Mass Planet Detection", Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 37, 1268. (Abstract)
Murison, M. A. (2005). "A Genetic Algorithm Approach to Finding Orbit-Orbit Distance Function Stationary Points", Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 37, 531. (Abstract)
Efroimsky, M. and Murison, M. A. (2004). "On the Orbital Evolution of Satellites near the Equator of a Precessing Planet", Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 36, 863. (Abstract)
Murison, M. A. and Efroimsky, M. (2003). "Gauge Drift in Numerical Integrations of the Lagrange Planetary Equations", Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 35, 1043. (Abstract)
Murison, M. A. and Munteanu, A. (2003). "On an Analytical Solution for the Minimum Distance between Two Confocal Elliptical Orbits Used as a Close Approach Filter", Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 35, 1039. (Abstract)
Johnston, K., Dorland, B., Gaume, R., Hajian, A., Harris, F., Harris, H., Hennessy, G., Kaplan, G., Levine, S., Monet, D., Munn, J., Murison, M., Pier, J., Urban, S., Zacharias, N., Seidelmann, P. K., Lee, J., Makarov, V., Olling, R., Codella, T., Geary, J., Latham, D., Phillips, J., Johnson, M., Vassar, R., and Horner, S. (2001). "Full-sky Astrometric Mapping Explorer (FAME) Rescope Activities", Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 33, 1367. (Abstract)
Murison, M. A. (2001). "Lower Bounds on Astrometric Errors from a Spinning, Precessing Astrometric Satellite due to the Geometry of the Observation Scanning Pattern", Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 33, 1190. (Abstract)
Johnston, K., Gaume, R., Harris, F., Monet, D., Murison, M., Seidelmann, P. K., Urban, S., Johnson, M., Horner, S., and Vassar, R. (2000). "Full-sky Astrometric Mapping Explorer (FAME)", Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 32, 1425. (Abstract)
Horner, S. D., Germain, M. E., Harris, F. H., Johnson, M. S., Johnston, K. J., Monet, D. G., Murison, M. A., Phillips, J. D., Reasenberg, R. D., Seidelmann, P. K., Urban, S. E., and Vassar, R. H. (2000). "Full-sky Astrometric Mapping Explorer: an optical astrometric survey mission", Proc. SPIE Vol. 4013, p. 473-481, UV, Optical, and IR Space Telescopes and Instruments, James B. Breckinridge; Peter Jakobsen; Eds. 4013, 473-481. (Abstract)
Murison, M. A. (2000). "Asteroid Noise in the Motions of the Inner Planets", Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 32, 860. (Abstract)
Peale, S., Murison, M. A., and Lebo, H. (2000). "Obituary: William Mason Kaula, 1926-2000", Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 32, 1673-1674. (Abstract)
Horner, S. D., Germain, M. E., Greene, T. P., Harris, F. H., Johnson, M. S., Johnston, K. J., Monet, D. G., Murison, M. A., Phillips, J. D., Reasenberg, R. D., Seidelmann, P. K., Urban, S. E., and Vassar, R. H. (2000). "The Full-Sky Astrometric Mapping Explorer -- Distances and Photometry of 40 Million Stars", ASP Conf. Ser. 203: IAU Colloq. 176: The Impact of Large-Scale Surveys on Pulsating Star Research 203, 76-77. (Abstract)
Horner, S. D., Germain, M. E., Greene, T. P., Harris, F. H., Harris, H. C., Johnson, M. S., Johnston, K. J., Monet, D. G., Murison, M. A., Phillips, J. D., Reasenberg, R. D., Seidelmann, P. K., Urban, S. E., and Vassar, R. H. (1999). "The Full-sky Astrometric Mapping Explorer - An optical, astrometric survey mission", Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 31, 1504. (Abstract)
Seidelmann, P. K., Germain, M. E., Greene, T. P., Horner, S. D., Johnston, K. J., Monet, D. G., Murison, M. A., Phillips, J. D., Reasenberg, R. D., and Urban, S. E. (1999). "FAME- Full-sky Astrometric Mapping Explorer", Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 31, 1231. (Abstract)
Hilton, J. L. and Murison, M. A. (1999). "Optimized Chebyshev Polynomial Representations of Ephemerides", Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 31, 1230. (Abstract)
Murison, M. A. and Chambers, J. E. (1999). "On Computer Algebra Generation of Symplectic Integrator Methods", Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 31, 1227. (Abstract)
Horner, S. D., Germain, M. E., Greene, T. P., Harris, F. H., Johnson, M. S., Johnston, K. J., Monet, D. G., Murison, M. A., Phillips, J. D., Reasenberg, R. D., Seidelmann, P. K., Talabac, S. J., Urban, S. E., van Buren, D., and Vassar, R. H. (1999). "The Full-sky Astrometric Mapping Explorer Concept Study", Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 31, 835. (Abstract)
Murison, M. A. (1999). "Modeling Planetary Motions: Why We Care and How We Do It", Proceedings : Nautical Almanac Office, 377. (Abstract)
Horner, S. D., Germain, M. E., Greene, T. P., Harris, F. H., Johnson, M. S., Johnson, K. J., Monet, D. G., Murison, M. A., Phillips, J. D., Reasenberg, R. D., Seidelmann, P. K., Urban, S. E., and Vassar, R. H. (1999). "The Full-sky Astrometric Mapping Explorer - Astrometry for the New Millennium", ASP Conf. Ser. 194: Working on the Fringe: Optical and IR Interferometry from Ground and Space 194, 114. (Abstract)
Horner, S. D., Germain, M. E., Greene, T. P., Johnston, K. J., Monet, D. G., Murison, M. A., Phillips, J. D., Reasenberg, R. D., Seidelmann, P. K., and Urban, S. E. (1998). "FAME - The Full-sky Astrometric Mapping Explorer", Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 30, 1269. (Abstract)
Murison, M. A. (1998). "Harnessing Radiation Torques to Drive the Precession of a Spin-Stabilized Spacecraft", Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 30, 1145. (Abstract)
Murison, M. A. (1998). "A Dynamical Survey of Inner Solar System Asteroids", Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 30, 1144. (Abstract)
Murison, M. A. (1998). "A Dynamical Survey of Inner Solar System Asteroids", IAU Colloq. 172: Impact of Modern Dynamics in Astronomy. (Abstract)
Murison, M. A. (1997). "Analytical Study of Optical Wavefront Aberrations Using Maple", ArXiv Astrophysics e-prints, arXiv:astro-ph/9710180. (Abstract)
Germain, M., Urban, S., Murison, M., Seidelmann, P. K., Johnston, K. J., Shao, M., Fanson, J., Yu, J., Davinic, N., and Rickard, L. J. (1997). "Fizeau Astrometric Mapping Explorer", ASP Conf. Ser. 119: Planets Beyond the Solar System and the Next Generation of Space Missions 119, 273. (Abstract)
Reasenberg, R. D., Babcock, R. W., Murison, M. A., Noecker, M. C., Phillips, J. D., Schumaker, B. L., Ulvestad, J. S., McKinley, W. G., Zielinski, R. J., and Lillie, C. F. (1996). "POINTS: high astrometric capacity at modest cost via focused design", Proc. SPIE Vol. 2807, p. 32-50, Space Telescopes and Instruments IV, Pierre Y. Bely; James B. Breckinridge; Eds. 2807, 32-50. (Abstract)
Murison, M. A. (1996). "On the Applicability of the Lyapunov Exponent Relation", Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 28, 1181. (Abstract)
Reasenberg, R. D., Babcock, R. W., Murison, M. A., Noecker, M. C., Phillips, J. D., Schumaker, B. L., Ulvestad, J. S., McKinley, W., Zielinski, R. J., and Lillie, C. F. (1995). "POINTS: a small low-cost spaceborne astrometric optical interferometer", Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 27, 1384. (Abstract)
Phillips, J. D., Babcock, R. W., Murison, M. A., Reasenberg, R. D., Bronowicki, A. J., Gran, M. H., Lillie, C. F., McKinley, W. G., and Zielinski, R. J. (1995). "Newcomb: a small astrometric interferometer", Proc. SPIE Vol. 2477, p. 209-225, Spaceborne Interferometry II, Robert D. Reasenberg; Ed. 2477, 209-225. (Abstract)
Reasenberg, R. D., Babcock, R. W., Murison, M. A., Noecker, M. C., Phillips, J. D., and Schumaker, B. L. (1995). "POINTS: the instrument and its mission", Proc. SPIE Vol. 2477, p. 167-187, Spaceborne Interferometry II, Robert D. Reasenberg; Ed. 2477, 167-187. (Abstract)
Reasenberg, R. D., Babcock, R. W., Murison, M. A., Noecker, M. C., Phillips, J. D., Schumaker, B. L., and Ulvestad, J. S. (1994). "POINTS: an astrometric spacecraft with multifarious applications", Proc. SPIE Vol. 2200, p. 2-17, Amplitude and Intensity Spatial Interferometry II, James B. Breckinridge; Ed. 2200, 2-17. (Abstract)
Noecker, M. C., Murison, M. A., and Reasenberg, R. D. (1993). "Optic-misalignment tolerances for the POINTS interferometers", Proc. SPIE Vol. 1947, p. 218-231, Spaceborne Interferometry, Robert D. Reasenberg; Ed. 1947, 218-231. (Abstract)
Murison, M. A., Lecar, M., and Franklin, F. A. (1993). "Chaotic Motion in the Outer Asteroid Belt and its Relation to the Age of the Solar System", Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 25, 1232. (Abstract)
Lecar, M., Franklin, F., and Murison, M. (1992). "On predicting long-term orbital instability:A relation between the Lyapunov time and sudden orbital transitions", Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 24, 1063. (Abstract)
Whitney, B. A., Schulte-Ladbeck, R. E., Aspin, C., Meade, M. R., Anderson, C. M., Clayton, G. C., Murison, M. A., Nordsieck, K. H., Nook, M. A., and Schutt, R. L. (1988). "Polarimetry of the Wolf-Rayet Star WR 136=HD 192163, WN6 (SB1)", Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 20, 1013. (Abstract)
Murison, M. A. (1988). "Temporary Satellite Capture: A Fractal Boundary Phenomenon", Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 20, 901. (Abstract)
Whitney, B. A., Schulte-Ladbeck, R. E., Meade, M. R., Anderson, C. M., Clayton, G. C., Murison, M. A., Nordsieck, K. H., Nook, M. A., Schutt, R. L., Slovak, M. H., and Stanford, S. A. (1988). "Polarization Variations in the Wolf-Rayet Binary HD 193793", Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 20, 738. (Abstract)
Schutt, R. L., Nordsieck, K. H., Anderson, C. M., Clayton, G. C., Doherty, L. H., Meade, M. R., Murison, M. A., Nook, M. A., Schulte-Ladbeck, R. E., Stanford, S. A., and Whitney, B. A. (1988). "A Polarimetric Prespective on the Close Binaries HD207739 and HD37453", Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 20, 736. (Abstract)
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