Sciences and Exploration Directorate

Marc J Kuchner

(AST, STELLAR GALACTIC&XTRGLTC ASTR)

 marc.j.kuchner@nasa.gov

 301.286.5165

Org Code: 667

NASA/GSFC
 Mail Code: 667
 Greenbelt, MD 20771

Employer: NASA

Brief Bio

Marc Kuchner is an astrophysicist and the Citizen Science Officer for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. His job is to foster citizen science at NASA; he oversees a portfolio of roughly 25 NASA-funded citizen science projects, reaching more than a million volunteers. He also serves as the principal investigator of the Zooniverse citizen science projects Disk Detective and Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 which search for new planet-forming disks, brown dwarfs and planets using data from NASA's WISE mission.


Besides citizen science, Kuchner is known for work on imaging of disks and exoplanets, for which he received an early career achievement award from SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics in 2009. Together with Wesley Traub, he invented the band-limited coronagraph, a design to be used on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). He is also known for his novel supercomputer models of planet-disk interactions and for developing the ideas of ocean planets and carbon planets. 

 

Positions/Employment

Citizen Science Officer

NASA Science Engagement and Partnerships Division - NASA Headquarters

2018 - Present

Astrophysicist

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - Greenbelt, MD

2006 - Present

Hubble Postdoctoral Fellow

Princeton University - Princeton, NJ

2003 - 2006

Michaelson Postdoctoral Fellow

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics - Cambridge, MA

2000 - 2003

Education

Ph.D. Astronomy with a Minor in Physics, Caltech, 2000
Thesis: Exozodiacal Dust, Advisor: Michael E. Brown
A.B. Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics with Honors, Harvard University, 1994

Teaching Experience

Graduate Students:

University of Oklahoma Astronomy Student: Steven Silverberg, 2015–2019

Penn State University Astronomy Student: Alex Richert, 2015–2018

University of Maryland Baltimore County Physics Student: Erika Nesvold, 2010–2015 

University of Maryland Physics Student: Christopher Stark, 2005–2010

Postdoctoral Fellows:

Aki Roberge, NPP Postdoctoral Fellow, GSFC. Now a staff scientist at GSFC.

Ruslan Belikov, NPP Postdoctoral Fellow, GSFC. Now a staff scientist at NASA Ames.

Hannah Jang-Condell, Michelson Postdoctoral Fellow, GSFC/UMD. Now an assistant professor at the University of Wyoming.

John Debes NPP postdoctoral fellow, GSFC. Now a staff scientist at STScI.

Thayne Currie, NPP postdoctoral fellow, GSFC. Now a researcher at NASA Ames

Margaret Pan, NPP postdoctoral fellow, GSFC. Now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto.

Petr Pokory, Catholic University of America postdoctoral fellow

Veselin Kostov, NPP postdoctoral fellow

Additional Thesis Committees

Swinburne University of Technology Ph. D. student, Elodie Thilliez, 2017 University of Jena

Ph. D. student, Christian Vitense, 2012

SAO Predoctoral Student: Tommy Grav, 2002

Johns Hopkins University Physics Ph. D. Student: Richard Barry, 2006–

Interns

International Space University Master’s Student: Susan Higaship, 2018--

International Space University Master’s Student: Shambo Bhattacharjee, 2015

International Space University Master’s Student: Dawoon Jung, 2014

Eleanor Roosevelt High School Senior Intern: James Greene, 2005

Princeton Undergraduate Junior Paper: Daniel Miller, 2003

Harvard Undergraduate Senior Thesis: Sean Moran, 2002

Harvard REU Summer Student: Joannah Metz, 2002

Classroom Teaching Experience:

Lecturer in Astronomy, Rio Hondo College, 1996 

Professional Societies

American Astronomical Society

1998 - Present

National Association of Science Writers

2012 - Present

Professional Service

Citizen Science Officer, Science Mission Directorate, 2018--

Member, SEEC ISFM Work Package Team, 2018--

Member, EIMM ISFM Work Package Team, 2018--

NASA ADAP Review Panelist, 2018

PI, Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 Citizen Science Project, 2017-

Lead Organizer, National Capital Area Disks (NCAD) Meeting, 2016

PI, DiskDetective.org citizen science website. Launched 2014

Science Team. PICTURE-C Coronagraph, 2014

WFIRST-AFTA Study Scientist, 2014

NASA HQ Research and Analysis Working Group, SERA Program, 2014

Science Team, ACESat: Alpha Centauri Exoplanet Satellite, 2014

JWST Communications Scientist, 2014

NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program Science and Technology Definition Team, 2013-

Science Team, BENI Explorer mission (proposed), 2012-

Scientific Organizing Committee, Planets Around Stellar Remnants meeting, 2011

EXCEDE Explorer Mission Proposal Science Team, 2011

SPICES ESA Medium-Class Mission Proposal Science Team, 2011

Scientific Organizer, NASA GSFC Signposts of Planets meeting, 2011

Scientific Organizing Committee, Disks, Meteorites, and Planetesimals meeting, 2010

NASA Goddard Space Center Astrobiology Team (PI Mike Mumma), 2009–2014

Keck/IRTF Management and Operations Working Group, 2009–2011

NASA TDEM Review Panel, 2009–

eXtrasolar Planet Characterizer (XPC) Science Team, 2008–2009

Bern International Space Science Institute Team, Exozodiacal Dust Disks and DARWIN, 2007–

Scientific Organizing Committee, Extreme Planetary Systems, Santorini, 2007 Science Director’s Council, Goddard Space Flight Center, 2007

Astrophysics Science Division Prize Committee, Goddard Space Flight Center, 2007

Scientific Organizing Committee, TPF/Darwin Conference, 2006

New Worlds Discoverer Science Team, 2006–

Gemini/Near Infrared Coronagraphic Imager(NICI) Campaign Science Team, 2005

Chair, Lab Chief Search Committee, GSFC Exoplanets and Stellar Astrophys. Lab., 2006

Subaru HiCiao Adaptive Optics Instrument Preliminary Design Review Panelist, 2005

Session Chair, STSCI Nearby Resolved Debris Disks Workshop, 2005

Founder and Organizer, “Exoplanet Club” Seminar Series, GSFC, 2005–

Terrestrial Planet Finder Coronagraph Science & Technology Definition Team, 2005–2006 Chair, Committee on Circumstellar Disks

Scientific Organizer (1 of 4), Aspen Winter Conference on Planet Formation, 2005

NASA TPF/SSO Review Panelist, 2004, 2005

Orgainizer, Princeton Conference on General Astrophysics with TPF, 2004

Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) Science Working Group, 2002–2004

Chair, Committee on General Astrophysics and Comparative Planetology Northrop Grumman Space Technology TPF Science Advisory Team, 2003

Space Infrared Interferometric Telecsope (SPIRIT) Science Team, 2003–

Founder, Astrobiology Seminar Series, Princeton University, 2003

Aspen Gemini Future Instrumentation Workshop: U.S. Delegate, 2003

Eclipse Coronagraph Science Team, 2002–

Fourier-Kelvin Space Interferometer (FKSI) Science Team, 2002–

Princeton Extra-Solar Planets Advanced Mission Concepts Team, 2002

Harvard-Smithsonian CfA Giant Segmented Mirror Telescope Committee, 2002

Chair, Extrasolar Planets Session, AAS Division of Planetary Sciences Meetings, 2001,2002

Ball Aerospace TPF Architecture Team, 2001

Founder, Planet Formation Discussion Group, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA, 2001

Solar System Dust Panel, Planetary Science Decadal Survey, 2001

Awards

Robert H. Goddard Award, Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 Team, 2021

Robert H. Goddard Award, Disk Detective Team, 2016

NASA Honor Award, Center Research & Analysis Workforce Planning Team, 2015

Gold medal, Axiom Business Book Awards 2013

Silver Nautilus Book Award in Business/Leadership, 2012

SPIE Early Career Award, 2009

Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Fellowship, 1994–199

Westinghouse Science Competition, Semifinalist, 199

Harvard University Honors Scholarship, 1990

Publications

Refereed

Pokorný, P., and M. Kuchner. 2019. Co-orbital Asteroids as the Source of Venus's Zodiacal Dust Ring The Astrophysical Journal 873 (2): L16 [10.3847/2041-8213/ab0827]

Pokorný, P., D. Janches, M. Sarantos, et al. J. R. Szalay, M. Horányi, D. Nesvorný, and M. J. Kuchner. 2019. Meteoroids at the Moon: Orbital Properties, Surface Vaporization, and Impact Ejecta Production Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets [10.1029/2018je005912]

Baranec, C., M. Chun, D. Hall, et al. M. Connelley, K. Hodapp, D. Huber, M. Liu, E. Magnier, K. Meech, M. Takamiya, R. Griffiths, R. Riddle, R. Dekany, M. Kasliwal, R. Lau, N. M. Law, O. Guyon, I. de Pater, M. Wong, E. Ofek, H. Hammel, M. Kuchner, A. Simon, A. Moore, M. Kissler-Patig, and M. A. van Dam. 2018. The Robo-AO-2 facility for rapid visible/near-infrared AO imaging and the demonstration of hybrid techniques Adaptive Optics Systems VI [10.1117/12.2312835]

Schneider, G., C. A. Grady, C. C. Stark, et al. A. Gaspar, J. Carson, J. H. Debes, T. Henning, D. C. Hines, H. Jang-Condell, M. J. Kuchner, M. Perrin, T. J. Rodigas, M. Tamura, and J. P. Wisniewski. 2016. Deep HST/STIS Visible-light Imaging of Debris Systems around Solar Analog Hosts The Astronomical Journal 152 (3): 64 [10.3847/0004-6256/152/3/64]

Marino, S., L. Matrà, C. Stark, et al. M. C. Wyatt, S. Casassus, G. Kennedy, D. Rodriguez, B. Zuckerman, S. Perez, W. R. Dent, M. Kuchner, A. M. Hughes, G. Schneider, A. Steele, A. Roberge, J. Donaldson, and E. Nesvold. 2016. Exocometary gas in the HD 181327 debris ring Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 460 (3): 2933-2944 [10.1093/mnras/stw1216]

Nesvold, E. R., and M. J. Kuchner. 2015. A SMACK Model of Colliding Planetesimals in the βPictoris Debris Disk The Astrophysical Journal 815 (1): 61 [10.1088/0004-637x/815/1/61]

Stark, C. C., G. Schneider, A. J. Weinberger, et al. J. H. Debes, C. A. Grady, M. J. Kuchner, and H. Jang-Condell. 2014. Revealing Asymmetries in the HD 181327 Debris Disk: A Recent Massive Collision or Interstellar Medium Warping Astrophysical Journal 789 58

Schneider, G., C. A. Grady, D. C. Hines, et al. C. C. Stark, J. H. Debes, J. Carson, M. J. Kuchner, M. D. Perrin, A. J. Weinberger, J. P. Wisniewski, M. D. Silverstone, H. Jang-Condell, T. Henning, B. E. Woodgate, E. Serabyn, A. Moro-Martin, M. Tamura, P. M. Hinz, and T. J. Rodigas. 2014. Probing for Exoplanets Hiding in Dusty Debris Disks: Disk Imaging, Characterization, and Exploration with HST/STIS Multi-Roll Coronagraphy ArXiv e-prints arXiv:1406.7303

Stark, C. C., G. Schneider, A. J. Weinberger, et al. J. H. Debes, C. A. Grady, H. Jang-Condell, and M. J. Kuchner. 2014. Revealing Asymmetries in the HD 181327 Debris Disk: A Recent Massive Collision or Interstellar Medium Warping The Astrophysical Journal 789 58 [10.1088/0004-637X/789/1/58]

Mennesson, B., R. Millan-Gabet, M. M. Colavita, et al. E. Serabyn, P. Hinz, M. Kuchner, W. Liu, R. Barry, C. Stark, S. Ragland, J. Woillez, W. Traub, O. Absil, D. Defrere, J. C. Augereau, and J. Lebreton. 2012. Keck Interferometer Nuller science highlights Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series 8445 [10.1117/12.926548]

Roberge, A., C. H. Chen, R. Millan-Gabet, et al. A. J. Weinberger, P. M. Hinz, K. R. Stapelfeldt, O. Absil, M. J. Kuchner, and G. Bryden. 2012. The Exozodiacal Dust Problem for Direct Observations of Exo-Earths Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 124 799 [10.1086/667218]

Ballard, S., J. L. Christiansen, D. Charbonneau, et al. D. Deming, M. J. Holman, M. F. A'Hearn, D. D. Wellnitz, R. K. Barry, M. J. Kuchner, T. A. Livengood, T. Hewagama, J. M. Sunshine, D. L. Hampton, C. M. Lisse, S. Seager, and J. F. Veverka. 2011. A Search for Additional Planets in Five of the Exoplanetary Systems Studied by the NASA EPOXI Mission The Astrophysical Journal 732 41 [10.1088/0004-637X/732/1/41]

Millan-Gabet, R., E. Serabyn, B. Mennesson, et al. W. A. Traub, R. K. Barry, W. C. Danchi, M. Kuchner, C. C. Stark, S. Ragland, M. Hrynevych, J. Woillez, K. Stapelfeldt, G. Bryden, M. M. Colavita, and A. J. Booth. 2011. Exozodiacal Dust Levels for Nearby Main-sequence Stars: A Survey with the Keck Interferometer Nuller The Astrophysical Journal 734 67 [10.1088/0004-637X/734/1/67]

Leisawitz, D., D. Benford, A. Blain, et al. J. Carr, M. Fich, J. Fischer, P. Goldsmith, J. Greaves, M. Griffin, G. Helou, R. Ivison, M. Kuchner, R. Lyon, H. Matsuo, S. A. Rinehart, E. Serabyn, H. Shibai, R. Silverberg, J. Staguhn, S. Unwin, D. Wilner, A. Wootten, and E. L. Wright. 2011. Is Space-based Interferometry Dead? American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #218, #32401; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol 43, 2011 218 32401

Li, J., M. J. Kuchner, R. J. Allen, and S. S. Sheppard. 2011. Measuring the sizes, shapes, surface features and rotations of Solar System objects with interferometry Icarus 211 1007 [10.1016/j.icarus.2010.11.017]

Wahhaj, Z., M. C. Liu, B. A. Biller, et al. F. Clarke, E. L. Nielsen, L. M. Close, T. L. Hayward, E. E. Mamajek, M. Cushing, T. Dupuy, M. Tecza, N. Thatte, M. Chun, C. Ftaclas, M. Hartung, I. N. Reid, E. L. Shkolnik, S. H. Alencar, P. Artymowicz, A. Boss, E. de Gouveia Dal Pino, J. Gregorio-Hetem, S. Ida, M. Kuchner, D. N. Lin, and D. W. Toomey. 2011. The Gemini NICI Planet-finding Campaign: Discovery of a Substellar L Dwarf Companion to the Nearby Young M Dwarf CD-35 2722 The Astrophysical Journal 729 139 [10.1088/0004-637X/729/2/139]

Ballard, S., J. L. Christiansen, D. Charbonneau, et al. D. Deming, M. J. Holman, D. Fabrycky, M. F. A'Hearn, D. D. Wellnitz, R. K. Barry, M. J. Kuchner, T. A. Livengood, T. Hewagama, J. M. Sunshine, D. L. Hampton, C. M. Lisse, S. Seager, and J. F. Veverka. 2010. A Search for Additional Planets in the NASA EPOXI Observations of the Exoplanet System GJ 436 The Astrophysical Journal 716 1047 [10.1088/0004-637X/716/2/1047]

Biller, B. A., M. C. Liu, Z. Wahhaj, et al. E. L. Nielsen, L. M. Close, T. J. Dupuy, T. L. Hayward, A. Burrows, M. Chun, C. Ftaclas, F. Clarke, M. Hartung, J. Males, I. N. Reid, E. L. Shkolnik, A. Skemer, M. Tecza, N. Thatte, S. H. Alencar, P. Artymowicz, A. Boss, E. de Gouveia Dal Pino, J. Gregorio-Hetem, S. Ida, M. J. Kuchner, D. Lin, and D. Toomey. 2010. The Gemini NICI Planet-finding Campaign: Discovery of a Close Substellar Companion to the Young Debris Disk Star PZ Tel The Astrophysical Journal Letters 720 L82 [10.1088/2041-8205/720/1/L82]

Matranga, M., J. J. Drake, V. L. Kashyap, M. Marengo, and M. J. Kuchner. 2010. Close Binaries with Infrared Excess: Destroyers of Worlds? The Astrophysical Journal Letters 720 L164 [10.1088/2041-8205/720/2/L164]

Kuchner, M. J., and C. C. Stark. 2010. Collisional Grooming Models of the Kuiper Belt Dust Cloud The Astronomical Journal 140 1007 [10.1088/0004-6256/140/4/1007]

Jang-Condell, H., and M. J. Kuchner. 2010. Radiative Transfer Models of a Possible Planet in the AB Aurigae Disk Astrophysical Journal Letters 714 L142 [10.1088/2041-8205/714/1/L142]

Debes, J. H., A. J. Weinberger, and M. J. Kuchner. 2009. Interstellar Medium Sculpting of the HD 32297 Debris Disk The Astrophysical Journal 702 318 [10.1088/0004-637X/702/1/318]

Stark, C. C., M. J. Kuchner, W. A. Traub, et al. J. D. Monnier, E. Serabyn, M. Colavita, C. Koresko, B. Mennesson, and L. D. Keller. 2009. 51 Ophiuchus: A Possible Beta Pictoris Analog Measured with the Keck Interferometer Nuller The Astrophysical Journal 703 1188 [10.1088/0004-637X/703/2/1188]

Stark, C. C., and M. J. Kuchner. 2009. A New Algorithm for Self-consistent Three-dimensional Modeling of Collisions in Dusty Debris Disks The Astrophysical Journal 707 543 [10.1088/0004-637X/707/1/543]

Christiansen, J. L., D. Charbonneau, M. F. A'Hearn, et al. D. Deming, M. J. Holman, S. Ballard, D. T. Weldrake, R. K. Barry, M. J. Kuchner, T. A. Livengood, J. Pedelty, A. Schultz, T. Hewagama, J. M. Sunshine, D. D. Wellnitz, D. L. Hampton, C. M. Lisse, S. Seager, and J. F. Veverka. 2008. The NASA EPOXI mission of opportunity to gather ultraprecise photometry of known transiting exoplanets IAU 4 (S253): 301 [10.1017/s1743921308026525]

Ballard, S., D. Charbonneau, M. F. A'Hearn, et al. D. Deming, M. J. Holman, J. L. Christiansen, D. T. Weldrake, R. K. Barry, M. J. Kuchner, T. A. Livengood, J. Pedelty, A. Schultz, T. Hewagama, J. M. Sunshine, D. D. Wellnitz, D. L. Hampton, C. M. Lisse, S. Seager, and J. F. Veverka. 2008. Preliminary Results on HAT-P-4, TrES-3, XO-2, and GJ 436 from the NASA EPOXI Mission IAU 4 (S253): 470 [10.1017/s1743921308026963]

Barry, R. K., W. C. Danchi, W. A. Traub, et al. J. L. Sokoloski, J. P. Wisniewski, E. Serabyn, M. J. Kuchner, R. Akeson, E. Appleby, J. Bell, A. Booth, H. Brandenburg, M. Colavita, S. Crawford, M. Creech-Eakman, W. Dahl, C. Felizardo, J. Garcia, J. Gathright, M. A. Greenhouse, J. Herstein, E. Hovland, M. Hrynevych, C. Koresko, R. Ligon, B. Mennesson, R. Millan-Gabet, D. Morrison, D. Palmer, T. Panteleeva, S. Ragland, M. Shao, R. Smythe, K. Summers, M. Swain, K. Tsubota, C. Tyau, E. Wetherell, P. Wizinowich, J. Woillez, and G. Vasisht. 2008. Milliarcsecond N-Band Observations of the Nova RS Ophiuchi: First Science with the Keck Interferometer Nuller The Astrophysical Journal 677 1253 [10.1086/529422]

Stark, C. C., and M. J. Kuchner. 2008. The Detectability of Exo-Earths and Super-Earths Via Resonant Signatures in Exozodiacal Clouds The Astrophysical Journal 686 637 [10.1086/591442]

Seager, S., M. Kuchner, C. A. Hier-Majumder, and B. Militzer. 2007. Mass-Radius Relationships for Solid Exoplanets The Astrophysical Journal 669 1279 [10.1086/521346]

Mullally, F., M. Kilic, W. T. Reach, et al. M. J. Kuchner, T. von Hippel, A. Burrows, and D. E. Winget. 2007. A Spitzer White Dwarf Infrared Survey The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 171 206 [10.1086/511858]

von Hippel, T., M. J. Kuchner, M. Kilic, F. Mullally, and W. T. Reach. 2007. The New Class of Dusty DAZ White Dwarfs The Astrophysical Journal 662 544 [10.1086/518108]

Leisawitz, D., C. Baker, A. Barger, et al. D. Benford, A. Blain, R. Boyle, R. Broderick, J. Budinoff, J. Carpenter, R. Caverly, P. Chen, S. Cooley, C. Cottingham, J. Crooke, D. Dipietro, M. Dipirro, M. Femiano, A. Ferrer, J. Fischer, J. P. Gardner, L. Hallock, K. Harris, K. Hartman, M. Harwit, L. Hillenbrand, T. Hyde, D. Jones, J. Kellogg, A. Kogut, M. Kuchner, B. Lawson, J. Lecha, M. Lecha, A. Mainzer, J. Mannion, A. Martino, P. Mason, J. Mather, G. McDonald, R. Mills, L. Mundy, S. Ollendorf, J. Pellicciotti, D. Quinn, K. Rhee, S. Rinehart, T. Sauerwine, R. Silverberg, T. Smith, G. Stacey, H. P. Stahl, J. Staguhn, S. Tompkins, J. Tveekrem, S. Wall, and M. Wilson. 2007. The space infrared interferometric telescope (SPIRIT): High-resolution imaging and spectroscopy in the far-infrared Advances in Space Research 40 (5): 689-703 [10.1016/j.asr.2007.05.081]

Leisawitz, D., C. Baker, A. Barger, et al. D. Benford, A. Blain, R. Boyle, R. Broderick, J. Budinoff, J. Carpenter, R. Caverly, P. Chen, S. Cooley, C. Cottingham, J. Crooke, D. DiPietro, M. DiPirro, M. Femiano, A. Ferrer, J. Fischer, J. Gardner, L. Hallock, K. Harris, K. Hartman, M. Harwit, L. Hillenbrand, T. Hyde, D. Jones, J. Kellogg, A. Kogut, M. Kuchner, B. Lawson, J. Lecha, M. Lecha, A. Mainzer, J. Mannion, A. Martino, P. Mason, J. Mather, G. McDonald, R. Mills, L. Mundy, S. Ollendorf, J. Pellicciotti, D. Quinn, K. Rhee, S. Rinehart, T. Sauerwine, R. Silverberg, T. Smith, G. Stacey, H. P. Stahl, J. Staguhn, S. Tompkins, J. Tveekrem, S. Wall, and M. Wilson. 2006. The Space Infrared Interferometric Telescope (SPIRIT): mission study results Space Telescopes and Instrumentation I: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter [10.1117/12.669820]

Clampin, M., R. Lyon, L. Petro, et al. S. Seager, M. Marley, G. Melnick, A. Weinberger, R. Woodruff, S. Horner, H. Ford, G. Illingworth, J. Kasting, D. Lin, M. Kuchner, M. Shao, W. Sparks, B. Rauscher, V. Tolls, and R. Carter. 2006. Coronagraphic Exploration Camera (CorECam) Space Telescopes and Instrumentation I: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Edited by Mather, John C; MacEwen, Howard A; de Graauw, Mattheus W M Proceedings of the SPIE 6265 18 [10.1117/12.672816]

Kilic, M., T. von Hippel, F. Mullally, et al. W. T. Reach, M. J. Kuchner, D. E. Winget, and A. Burrows. 2006. The Mystery Deepens: Spitzer Observations of Cool White Dwarfs The Astrophysical Journal 642 1051 [10.1086/501042]

Guyon, O., E. A. Pluzhnik, M. J. Kuchner, B. Collins, and S. T. Ridgway. 2006. Theoretical Limits on Extrasolar Terrestrial Planet Detection with Coronagraphs The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 167 81 [10.1086/507630]

Crepp, J. R., J. Ge, A. D. Vanden Heuvel, S. P. Miller, and M. J. Kuchner. 2006. Laboratory Testing of a Lyot Coronagraph Equipped with an Eighth-Order Notch Filter Image Mask The Astrophysical Journal 646 1252 [10.1086/504977]

Danchi, W. C., J. Rajagopal, M. Kuchner, L. J. Richardson, and D. Deming. 2006. The Importance of Phase in Nulling Interferometry and a Three-Telescope Closure-Phase Nulling Interferometer Concept The Astrophysical Journal 645 1554 [10.1086/504511]

Winn, J. N., C. M. Hamilton, W. J. Herbst, et al. J. L. Hoffman, M. J. Holman, J. A. Johnson, and M. J. Kuchner. 2006. The Orbit and Occultations of KH 15D The Astrophysical Journal 644 510 [10.1086/503417]

Monnier, J. D., R. K. Barry, W. A. Traub, et al. B. F. Lane, R. L. Akeson, S. Ragland, P. A. Schuller, H. Le Coroller, J. Berger, R. Millan-Gabet, E. Pedretti, F. P. Schloerb, C. Koresko, N. P. Carleton, M. G. Lacasse, P. Kern, F. Malbet, K. Perraut, M. J. Kuchner, and M. W. Muterspaugh. 2006. No Expanding Fireball: Resolving the Recurrent Nova RS Ophiuchi with Infrared Interferometry The Astrophysical Journal 647 L127 [10.1086/507584]

Reach, W. T., M. J. Kuchner, T. von Hippel, et al. A. Burrows, F. Mullally, M. Kilic, and D. E. Winget. 2005. The Dust Cloud around the White Dwarf G29-38 The Astrophysical Journal 635 L161 [10.1086/499561]

Leisawitz, D. T., T. Abel, R. J. Allen, et al. D. J. Benford, A. Blain, C. Bombardelli, D. Calzetti, M. J. DiPirro, P. Ehrenfreund, N. J. Evans II, J. Fischer, M. Harwit, T. T. Hyde, M. J. Kuchner, J. A. Leitner, E. C. Lorenzini, J. C. Mather, K. M. Menten, S. H. Moseley, Jr., L. G. Mundy, T. Nakagawa, D. A. Neufeld, J. C. Pearson, S. A. Rinehart, J. Roman, S. Satyapal, R. F. Silverberg, H. P. Stahl, M. R. Swain, T. D. Swanson, W. A. Traub, E. L. Wright, and H. W. Yorke. 2004. SPECS: the kilometer-baseline far-IR interferometer in NASA's space science roadmap Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Space Telescopes [10.1117/12.552150]

Danchi, W., R. Allen, D. Benford, et al. D. Deming, D. Gezari, M. Kuchner, D. Leisawitz, R. Linfield, R. Millan-Gabet, J. Monnier, L. Mundy, C. Noecker, J. Rajagopal, L. Richardson, S. Rinehart, S. Seager, W. Traub, and D. Wallace. 2004. The Fourier-Kelvin Stellar Interferometer: a practical interferometer for the detection and characterization of extrasolar giant planets New Frontiers in Stellar Interferometry 5491 236

Danchi, W. C., D. Deming, M. J. Kuchner, and S. Seager. 2003. Detection of Close-In Extrasolar Giant Planets Using theFourier-Kelvin Stellar Interferometer The Astrophysical Journal 597 L57 [10.1086/379640]

Non-Refereed

Shiri, R. S., C. Jhabvala, G. Georgiev, et al. A. Barlis, R. Soummer, P. Petrone, M. Kuchner, E. Wollack, M. Biskach, T. Saha, W. Zhang, and J. Butler. 2019. Highly absorptive pupil mask fabricated with black silicon Astronomical Optics: Design, Manufacture, and Test of Space and Ground Systems II [10.1117/12.2532567]

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