Brian D. Mason
Astronomer, United States Naval Observatory
B.S. Physics, Georgia State University, 1986
Ph.D., Astronomy, Georgia State University, 1994: Speckles and Shadow Bands
Research Interests and Selected Publications
Studies of Occultation Binary Stars
Speckles and Shadow Bands (Dissertation Summary), March 1995, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Volume 107, Page 299. Postscript, ADS.
Catalog of Photoelectric Measures of Occultation Binary Stars, 1995, CHARA Contribution No. 3, Georgia State University Postscript.
ICCD Speckle Observations of Binary Stars. XV. An Investigation of Lunar Occultation Systems, November 1996, The Astronomical Journal, Volume 112, Page 2260-2273. Postscript, ADS.
Binary Star Orbits from Speckle Interferometry. XI. Orbits of Twelve Lunar Occultation Systems, August 1997, The Astronomical Journal, Volume 114, Page 808-818. Compressed Postscript.
Studies of Binary Systems
Binary Star Orbits from Speckle Interferometry. VI. The Multiple System Xi Ursae Majoris, January 1995, The Astronomical Journal, Volume 109, Page 332-340. Compressed Postscript, ADS.
Binary Star Orbits from Speckle Interferometry. IX. The Nearby Solar-Type Speckle-Spectroscopic Binary Fin 347 Aa, July 1996, The Astronomical Journal, Volume 112, Page 276-283. Compressed Postscript, ADS.
Binary Star Orbits from Speckle Interferometry. X. Speckle-Spectroscopic Orbits of HR 233, 36 Tau, and 73 Leo, October 1997, The Astronomical Journal, Volume 114, Page 1607-1622. Commpressed Postscript.
Multiplicity Studies of Samples of Stars
ICCD Speckle Observations of Binary Stars. VII. A Duplicity Survey of the Hyades Cluster, January 1993, The Astronomical Journal, Volume 105, Page 220-225. Postscript, ADS.
ICCD Speckle Observations of Binary Stars. IX. A Duplicity Survey of the Pleiades, Praesepe, and IC 4665 Clusters, August 1993, The Astronomical Journal, Volume 106, Page 637-641. Postscript, ADS.
ICCD Speckle Observations of Binary Stars. XVIII. An Investigation of Be Stars, November 1997, The Astronomical Journal, Volume 114, Page 2112-2116. Compressed Postscript.
ICCD Speckle Observations of Binary Stars. XIX. An Astrometric/Spectroscopic Survey of O Stars, February 1998, The Astronomical Journal, Volume 115, Page 821-847. Compressed Postscript.
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