My CV (pdf)

Refereed Publications:

• Multiwavelength Monitoring of the Enigmatic Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 PMN J0948+ 0022 in 2009 March-July
• Hot Subdwarf Stars Among the Objects Rejected from the PG Catalog: a First Assessment Using GALEX Photometry (astro-ph0906.2360)
• A New, Bright, Short-Period, Emission Line Binary in Ophiuchus (Astronomical Journal (v135, pp991-999), astro-ph/arXive:0801.2963)
• The Nature of Late-Type Companions in Hot Subdwarf Composite-Spectrum Binaries (astro-ph/0511404)
• Searching for the "MISSING" PG Hot Subdwarfs in SDSS and Galex Data (astro-ph/0511403)
• 51 Eri and GJ 3305: A 10-15 Myr old binary star system at 30 parsecs (astro-ph/0511618)
• "The Origins of Hot Subdwarf Stars as Illuminated by Composite-Spectrum Binaries" (Ph.D. Dissertation) - gziped-pdf for double-sided printing, also available electronically as a single-sided pdf file from the Penn State Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive Home Page -- Please note, there is an error with the figure on page 42 of the final thesis on the Penn State archive (I corrected the figure in the direct link to the gziped-pdf above, but not in the versions on the ftp site), a corrected version of only pages 41-42 suitable for double-sided printing is available as a pdf file
• Identification of the Mass Donor Star's Spectrum in SS 433 (astro-ph/0403634)
• Single and Composite Hot Subdwarf Stars in the Light of 2MASS All-Sky Photometry (astro-ph/0309194) - proceedings of the meeting held in Keele, UK, June 16-20, 2003
• Are All Hot Subdwarf Stars in Close Binaries? (astro-ph/0309195) - proceedings of the meeting held in Keele, UK, June 16-20, 2003
• Single and Composite Hot Subdwarf Stars in the Light of 2MASS Photometry (2003AJ....126.1455S) - AJ article, (also astro-ph/0305511, straight to electronic journal)
• GSC 3948:1963 A New Variable Star (IBVS 5247)
• Variable Stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud (2002AJ....123.3216S) (Astro-ph version)
• The Light Curve of the Eclipsing Binary Star XX Leo (2000JAVSO..28...25S)

Non-Refereed Publications and Conference Proceedings:

• A Hidden Population of Hot Subdwarf Stars in Close Binaries - International Conference on Binaries: In celebration of Ron Webbink's 65th Birthday, Dec 2010
• Swift follow-up of the gamma-ray flaring blazar PKS 0521-36, ATel 2689
• Swift XRT/UVOT follow-up of blazar PKS B0906+015 after a gamma-ray flare, ATel 2582
• Swift XRT/UVOT follow-up of blazar PKS B0906+015 after a gamma-ray flare
• Searching for the "Missing" PG Hot Subdwarfs in SDSS and GALEX Data - Proceedings of Second Meeting on Hot Subdwarf Stars and Related Objects, 6-10 June 2005 (La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain) to appear in Baltic Astronomy
• The Nature of the Late-Type Companions in Hot Subdwarf Composite-Spectrum Binaries - Proceedings of Second Meeting on Hot Subdwarf Stars and Related Objects, 6-10 June 2005 (La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain) to appear in Baltic Astronomy
• Disentangling Composite Spectrum Hot Subdwarfs - 14th European Workshop on White Dwarfs, July 2004, ASP Conference Series
• How many hot subdwarf stars were rejected from the PG survey? - 14th European Workshop on White Dwarfs, July 2004, ASP Conference Series

Posters:

• Status Report on a Search for F stars with Hidden Hot Subdwarf Companions (AAS 218, May 2011)
• Testing the Radiative-Driving Hypothesis of Quasar Outflows (AAS 217, Jan 2011)
• Searching for Unidentified Bright Cataclysmic Variables (AAS 211, Jan 2008)
• A Radial Velocity Study of Hot Subdwarf Stars with Cool Companions (AAS 211, Jan 2008)
• A New, Bright, Short-period, Emission Line Binary in Ophiuchus (AAS 209, Jan 2007)
• A Radial Velocity Study of Hot Subdwarf Stars with Composite Spectra (AAS 209, Jan 2007)
• The PGR Catalog of Objects Rejected from the PG Survey ("PG Rejects") (AAS 207, Jan 2006)
• Searching for the "missing PG hot subdwarfs" in SDSS and Galex data (AAS 207, Jan 2006)
• The Origins of Hot Subdwarf Stars as Illuminated by Composite-Spectrum Binaries (AAS 205, Jan 2005)
• How Many Hot Subdwarf Stars Were Rejected from the PG Survey? (AAS 205, Jan 2005)
• Are VIMs Bad for SIM?: Assessing the Impact of Variability-Induced Movers on the SIM Grid (AAS 199, Jan 2002)
• 2MASS Examination of Hot Subdwarfs (AAS Meeting 198, 2001)
• Hot Subdwarf Star Membership in Visual Binaries (AAS Meeting 198, 2001)
• Hot Subdwarf Membership in Visual Binaries (AAS Meeting 199, 2002): ADS Abstract / Poster Text

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