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Ming Zhao

Ming Zhao

Michelson Graduate Fellow

mingzhao (at) umich.edu

1013 Dennison
500 Church St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Phone: 615-6138
Fax: (734) 763-6317

 

Research Interests

  • Imaging and modeling rapidly rotating stars
  • Imaging and modeling interacting binaries
  • Direct detection of nearby hot Jupiters using optical/IR interferometry and other high contrast imaging methods
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Education

  • 2005 - Present : Ph.D. Candidate. Advisor: Prof. John Monnier
  • May 2005 : M.S. in Astronomy, University of Michigan

Publications

    Refereed:

  • M. Zhao, J. D. Monnier, T. ten Brummelaar, E. Pedretti, N. Thureau, "Detecting high contrast binaries and hot Jupiters using precision closure phase", 2009, PASP, in preparation

  • J. P. Aufdenberg, M. Ireland, A. Merand, J. D. Monnier, M. Zhao, E. Pedretti, N. Thureau, et al. “The Interferometric Orbit and Fundamental Parameters for Spica from the CHARA and SUSI Arrays.” 2009, The Astrophysical Journal, submit soon

  • M. Zhao, J. D. Monnier, E. Pedretti, et al. “Imaging and Modeling Rapidly Rotating Stars: Alp Oph and Alf Cep.” 2009, The Astrophysical Journal, submit soon

  • M. Zhao, D. Gies, J. D. Monnier, et al. “First Resolved Images for the Eclipsing and Interacting Binary Beta Lyrae.” 2008, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 684, 95Z

  • J. D. Monnier, M. Zhao, E. Pedretti, et al. “Imaging the Surface of Altair”, 2007, Science, 317

  • M. Zhao, J. D. Monnier, G. Torres, et al. “Physical Orbit for Lambda Virginis and a Test of Stellar Evolution Models”, 2007, The Astrophysical Journal, 659, 626

  • J. D. Monnier, J.-P. Berger, R. Millan-Gabet, W. A. Traub, F. P. Schloerb, E. Pedretti, M. Benisty, N. P. Carleton, P. Haguenauer, P. Kern, P. Labeye, M. G. Lacasse, F. Malbet, K. Perraut, M. Pearlman, M. Zhao. “Few Skewed Disks Found in First Closure-Phase Survey of Herbig Ae/Be Stars”, 2006, The Astrophysical Journal, 647, 444

  • Y. Wu, Y. Wei, M. Zhao, et al. “A study of high velocity molecular outflows with an up-to-date sample”, 2004, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 426, 503W

    Conference proceedings:

  • M. Zhao, J. D. Monnier, T. ten Brummelaar, E. Pedretti, N. Thureau, “Exoplanet studies with CHARA-MIRC”, 2008, in Proceedings of the SPIE, Vol. 7013, 70131K

  • M. Zhao, J. D. Monnier, T. ten Brummelaar, E. Pedretti, N. Thureau, “Closure phase studies toward direct detection of light from hot Jupiters”, 2007, in Proceeding of IAU Symposium No. 249, p71.

  • J. D. Monnier, E. Pedretti, N. Thureau, J.-P. Berger, R. Millan- Gabet, T. ten Brummelaar, H. McAlister, J. Sturmann, L. Sturmann, P. Muirhead, A. Tannirkulam, S. Webster, M. Zhao, “Michigan Infrared Combiner: commissioning results at the CHARA Array.” 2006, in Proceedings of the SPIE, Vol. 6268, pp. 62681P

  • P. R. Lawson, W. D. Cotton, C. A. Hummel, J. D. Monnier, M. Zhao, J. S. Young, et al. “An interferometry imaging beauty contest” 2004, in Proceedings of the SPIE, 5491, 886L
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