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Curriculum Vitae Teaching Curriculum Vitae Darren L. DePoy Current Position: Rachal/Mitchell/Heep Endowed Professorship in Physics, Texas A&M Univ. Postal Address: Department of Physics & Astronomy Texas A&M University TAMU 4242 College Station, Texas 77843 E-mail Address: [email protected] Voice: 979-862-2082 or 979-458-7923 Fax: 979-845-2590 Education: B.S. in Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982 Ph.D. in Astronomy, Univ. of Hawaii, 1987 Appointments: Physics Lab Instructor, Wellesley College, 1981-1982 Postdoctoral Fellow, Kitt Peak National Observatory, 1987-1988 Postdoctoral Fellow, Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, 1988-1990 Assistant Professor of Astronomy, Ohio State Univ., 1990-1996 Associate Professor of Astronomy, Ohio State Univ., 1996-2002 Professor of Astronomy, Ohio State Univ., 2002-2008 Vice Chair for Instrumentation, Dept. of Astronomy, Ohio State Univ., 2002-2007 Rachal/Mitchell/Heep Professor of Physics, Texas A&M University, 2008-present Publications and Presentations: See following pages for list Total citations according to ADS as of June 2010: 4621 Recent Close Collaborators G. J. Hill (UT-Austin), B. Flaugher (FNAL), A. Gould (Ohio State) Thesis Students and Postdoctoral Scholars Advised B. Ali, C. J. Burke, J. L. Marshall, P. Martini, J. Pepper, K. Sills, A. Stephens Graduate and Postdoctoral Advisors E. E. Becklin (UCLA/SOFIA), I. Gatley (NJIT) Refereed Publications (as of June 2010) Masses and Orbital Constraints for the OGLE-2006-BLG-109Lb,c Jupiter/Saturn Analog Planetary System, Bennett, D. P., and 78 others including D. L. DePoy, The Astrophysical Journal, 2010, 713, 837 Variability and stability in blazar jets on time-scales of years: optical polarization monitoring of OJ 287 in 2005-2009, Villforth, C., and 47 others including D. L. DePoy, The Astrophysical Journal, 2010, 711, 731 Sub-Saturn Planet MOA-2008-BLG-310Lb: Likely to be in the Galactic Bulge, Janczak, J., and 69 others including D. L. DePoy, The Astrophysical Journal, 2010, 711, 731 A Cold Neptune-Mass Planet OGLE-2007-BLG-368Lb: Cold Neptunes Are Common, Sumi, T., and 106 others including D. L. DePoy, The Astrophysical Journal, 2010, 710, 1641 Mass measurement of a single unseen star and planetary detection efficiency for OGLE 2007-BLG-050, Batista, V., and 99 others including D. L. DePoy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2009, 508, 467 First-Year Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II Supernova Results: Hubble Diagram and Cosmological Parameters, Kessler, R., and 45 others including D. L. DePoy, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 2009, 185, 32 Extreme Magnification Microlensing Event OGLE-2008-BLG-279: Strong Limits on Planetary Companions to the Lens Star, Yee, J. C., and 88 others including D. L. DePoy, The Astrophysical Journal, 2009, 703, 2082 The Extreme Microlensing Event OGLE-2007-BLG-224: Terrestrial Parallax Observation of a Thick-Disk Brown Dwarf, Gould, A., and 77 others including D. L. DePoy, Astrophysical Journal, 2009, 698, L147 Microlensing Event MOA-2007-BLG-400: Exhuming the Buried Signature of a Cool, Jovian-Mass Planet, Dong, S., and 60 others including D. L. DePoy, Astrophysical Journal, 2009, 698, 1826 Tidally Induced Outbursts in OJ 287 during 2005-2008, Valtonen, M. J., and 40 others including D. L. DePoy, Astrophysical Journal, 2009, 698, 781 Optical spectroscopy and photometry of SAX J1808.4-3658 in outburst, Elebert, P., and 10 others including D. L. DePoy, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2009, 395, 884 OGLE-2005-BLG-071Lb, the Most Massive M Dwarf Planetary Companion? Dong, S., 86 others including D. L. DePoy, Astrophysical Journal, 2009, 695, 970 The Mass of the Black Hole in the Quasar PG 2130+099, Grier, C. J., and 16 others including D. L. DePoy, Astrophysical Journal, 2008, 688, 837 The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II: Photometry and Supernova IA Light Curves from the 2005 Data, Holtzman, J. A., and 31 others including D. L. DePoy, Astronomical Journal, 2008, 136, 2306 A Measurement of the Rate of Type Ia Supernovae at Redshift z ~ 0.1 from the First Season of the SDSS-II Supernova Survey, Dilday, B., and 52 other including D. L. DePoy, Astrophysical Journal, 2008, 682, 262 2 First-Year Spectroscopy for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II Supernova Survey, Zheng, C., and 79 others including D. L. DePoy, Astronomical Journal, 2008, 135, 1766 A Photometric Survey for Variables and Transits in the Field of Praesepe with the Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope, Pepper, J., Stanek, K. Z., Pogge, R. W., Latham, D. W., DePoy, D. L., Siverd, R., Poindexter, S., Sivakoff, G. R., Astronomical Journal, 2008, 135, 907 The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II Supernova Survey: Search Algorithm and Follow-Up Observations Sako, M., and 48 others including D. L. DePoy, Astronomical Journal, 2008,135, 348 Discovery of a Jupiter/Saturn Analog with Gravitational Microlensing Gaudi, B. S., and 58 other including D. L. DePoy. Science, 2008, 319, 927 The Luminous and Carbon-rich Supernova 2006gz: A Double Degenerate Merger? Hicken, M., Garnavich, P., Prieto, J. L., Blondin, S., DePoy, D. L., Kirshner, R. P., & Parrent, J. Astrophysical Journal, 2007, 669, 17. The Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT): A Small Robotic Telescope for Large-Area Synoptic Surveys, Pepper, J., Pogge, R. W., DePoy, D. L., Marshall, J. L., Stanek, K., Stutz, A., Poindexter, S., Siverd, R., O’Brien, T., Trueblood, M., & Trueblood, P. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2007, 119, 923. First Space-Based Microlens Parallax Measurement: Spitzer Observations of OGLE- 2005-SMC-001, Dong, Subo, and 22 others including DePoy, D. L., Astrophysical Journal, 2007, 664, 862. A Study of Stellar Photometric Variability Within the Central 4pc of the Galactic Center with Infrared Image Subtraction, Peeples, M. S., Stanek, K. Z., & DePoy, D. L. Acta Astronomica, 2007, 57, 173 The Peculiar SN 2005hk: Do Some Type Ia Supernovae Explode as Deflagrations? Philips, M. M., and 43 other including DePoy, D. L., Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2007, 19, 360 Exploring Broadband GRB Behavior during γ-Ray Emission, Yost, S. A., and 46 others including DePoy, D. L., Astrophysical Journal, 2007, 657, 925. The Nature of the Variable Galactic Center Source GCIRS 16SW Revisited: A Massive Eclipsing Binary, Peeples, Molly S., Bonanos, A. Z., DePoy, D. L., Stanek, K. Z., Pepper, J., Pogge, R. W., Pinsonneault, M.,, & Sellgren, K. Astrophysical Journal, 2007, 654, 61 Survey for Transiting Extrasolar Planets in Stellar Systems. III. A Limit on the Fraction of Stars with Planets in the Open Cluster NGC 1245, Burke, C. J., Gaudi, B. S., DePoy, D. L., and Pogge, R. W., Astronomical Journal, 2006, 132, 210. Microlens OGLE-2005-BLG-169 Implies That Cool Neptune-Like Planets Are Common, Gould, A., Udalski, A., An, D., Bennett, D., Zhou, A.-Y., Dong, S., Rattenbury, N., Gaudi, B. S., Yock, P., Bond, I., Christie, G., Horne, K., Anderson, J., Stanek, K., DePoy, D. L., Han, C., McCormick, J., Park, B.-G., Pogge, R. W., Poindexter, S., Soszynski, I., Szymanski, M., Kubiak, M., Pietrzynski, G., Szewczyk, O., Wyrzykowski, L., Ulaczyk, K., Paczynski, B., Bramich, D., Snodgrass, C., Steele, I., Burgdorf, M., Bode, M., Botzler, C., Mao, S., and Swaving, S. Astrophysical Journal, 2006, 644, L37. 3 Planetary Detection Efficiency of the Magnification 3000 Microlensing Event OGLE- 2004-BLG-343, Dong, S., DePoy, D. L., Gaudi, B. S., Gould, A., Han, C., Park, B.-G., Pogge, R. W., Udalski, A., Szewczyk, O., Kubiak, M., Szymanski, M., Pietrzynski, G., Soszynski, I., Wyrzykowski, L., Zebrun, K., Astrophysical Journal, 2006, 642, 842. Optical and Near-Infrared Observations of the Peculiar Type Ia Supernova 1999ac, Phillips, M., Krisciunas, K., Suntzeff, N., Abraham, R., Beckett, M., Bonati, M., Candia, P., Corwin, T. M., DePoy, D. L., Espinoza, J., Firth, A. E., Freedman, W. L., Galaz, G., Germany, L., Gonzalez, D., Hamuy, M., Hastings, N. C., Hungerford, A., Ivanov, V., Labbé, E., Marzke, R., McCarthy, P., McMahon, R., McMillan, R., Muena, C., Persson, S., Roth, M., Ruiz, M., Smith, R. C., Smith, R., Strolger, L., Stubbs, C., Astronomical Journal, 2006, 131, 2615. Survey for Transiting Extrasolar System Planets in Stellar Systems. II. Spectrophotometry and Metallicities of Open Clusters, Marshall, J. L., Burke, C. J., DePoy, D. L., Gould, A., and Kollmeier, J., Astronomical Journal, 2005, 130, 1916. The Disappearing Act of KH 15D: Photometric Results from 1995 to 2004, Hamilton, C. M., Herbst, W., Vrba, F. J., Ibrahimov, M. A., Mundt, R., Bailer-Jones, C. A. L., Filipenko, A. V. Li, W., Bejar, V. J. S., Abraham, P., Kun, M., Moor, A., Benko, J., Csizmadia, S., DePoy, D. L., Pogge, R. W., and Marshall, J. L., Astronomical Journal, 2005, 130, 1896. A Jovian-Mass Planet in Microlensing Event OGLE-2005-BLG-071, Udalski, A., Jaroszynski, M., Paczynski, B., Kubiak, M., Szymanski, M. K., Soszynski, I., Pietrzynski, G., Ulaczyk, K., Szewczyk, O., Wyrzykowski, L;., Christie, G. W., DePoy, D. L., Dong, S., Gal- Yam, A., Gaudi, B. S., Gould, A., Han, C., Lepine, S., McCormick, J., Park, B.-G., Pogge, R. W., Bennett, D. P., Bond, I. A., Muraki, Y., Tristram, P. J., Yock, P. C. M., Beaulieu, J.-P., Bramich, D. M., Dieters, S. W., Greenhill, J., Hill, K., Horne, K., and Kubas, D., Astrophysical Journal, 2005, 628, L109 RETROCAM: A Versatile Optical Imager for Synoptic Studies, Morgan, C. W., Byard, P. L., DePoy, D. L., Derwent, M., Kochanek, C. S., Marshall, J. L., O'Brien, T. P., and Pogge, R. W., Astronomical Journal, 2005, 129, 2504 OGLE-2003-BLG-238: Microlensing Mass Estimate of an Isolated Star, Jiang, G., DePoy, D. L., Gal-Yam, A., Gaudi, B. S., Gould, A., Han, C., Lipkin, Y., Maoz, D., Ofek, E. O., Park, B.-G., Pogge, R. W., Udalski, A., Kubiak, M., Szymanski, M. K., Szewczyk, O., Zebruna, K., Wyrzykowski, L;., Soszynski, I., Pietrzynski, G., Albrow, M.
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