Paul Robertson, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Physics & Astronomy Email: [email protected] The University of California, Irvine Phone: (949) 824-6660 4129 Frederick Reines Hall Web: http://faculty.sites.uci.edu/robertson/ Irvine, CA 92697 EDUCATION Doctor in Astrophysics, 2013 The University of Texas, Austin, TX Dissertation: “Discovering New Solar Systems: Jupiter Analogs and the Quest to Find Another Earth” Master of Arts in Astrophysics, 2010 The University of Texas, Austin, TX Thesis: “The Hobby-Eberly Telescope M dwarf Planet Search Program: New Observations and Results” Bachelor of Arts in Physics and Mathematics, 2008 The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS Assistant Professor, UC Irvine 2018-present NASA Sagan Fellow, Penn State University 2015-2017 Postdoctoral Fellow, Penn State University 2013-2015 AWARDS University of New South Wales Science Visiting Fellowship, 2016 Carl Sagan Fellowship, NASA, 2015 Graduate Continuing Fellowship, University of Texas, 2012-2013 Frank N. Edmonds Jr. Memorial Fellowship in Astronomy, The University of Texas, 2011-2012 Graduate with Distinction, The University of North Carolina, 2008 FIRST-AUTHORED PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS Robertson, P., Anderson, T., Stefansson, G. et al. 2019, “Ultra-Stable Environment Control for the NEID Spectrometer: Design and Performance Demonstration.” Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, accepted. arXiv:1902.07729. Robertson, P. 2018. “Aliasing in the Radial Velocities of YZ Ceti: An Ultra-short Period for YZ Ceti c?” The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Vol. 864, p. 28. Robertson, P., Bender, C., Mahadevan, S., Roy, A., & Ramsey, L. W. 2016. “Proxima Centauri as a Benchmark for Stellar Activity Indicators in the Near Infrared.” The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 832, p. 112. Robertson, P., Roy, A., & Mahadevan, S. 2015. “Stellar activity mimics a habitable-zone planet around Kapteyn’s star.” The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Vol. 805, p. 22. Robertson, P., Endl, M., Henry, G. W., Cochran, W. D., MacQueen, P. J., & Williamson, M. H. 2015. “Stellar Activity and its Implications for Exoplanet Detection on GJ 176.” The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 801, p. 79. Robertson, P. & Mahadevan, S. 2014. “Disentangling Planets and Stellar Activity for Gliese 667C.” The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Vol. 793, p. 24. Robertson, P., Mahadevan, S., Endl, M., & Roy, A. 2014. “Stellar Activity Masquerading as Planets in the Habitable Zone of the M Dwarf Gliese 581.” Science, Vol. 345, p. 440. Robertson, P., Endl, M., Cochran, W. D., MacQueen, P. J., & Boss, A. P. 2013. “Secretly Eccentric: The Giant Planet and Activity Cycle of GJ 328.” The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 774, p. 147. Robertson, P., Shields, G. A., Blanc, G. A., Davé, R., & Wright, A. 2013. “Dependence of Nebular Heavy-Element Abundance on HI content for Spiral Galaxies.” The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 773, p. 4. Robertson, P., Endl, M., Cochran, W. D., & Dodson-Robinson, S. E. 2013. “Ha Activity of Old M Dwarfs: Stellar Cycles and Mean Activity Levels For 93 Low-Mass Stars in the Solar Neighborhood.” The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 764, p. 3. Robertson, P., Horner, J., Wittenmyer, R. A. et al. 2012. “A Second Giant Planet in 3:2 Mean- Motion Resonance in the HD 204313 System.” The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 754, p. 50. Robertson, P., Endl, M., Cochran, W. D. et al. 2012. “The McDonald Observatory Planet Search: New Long-Period Giant Planets, and Two Interacting Jupiters in the HD 155358 System.” The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 749, p. 39. Robertson, P., Shields, G. A., & Blanc, G. A. 2012. “Enhanced Abundances in Spiral Galaxies of the Pegasus I Cluster.” The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 748, p. 48. CONTRIBUTING PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS Metcalf, A. J., Anderson, T., Bender, C. F. et al. 2019. “Stellar Spectroscopy in the Near-infrared with a Laser Frequency Comb.” Optica, Vol. 6(2), p. 233. Furlan, E., Ciardi, D. R., Cochran, W. D. et al. 2018. “The Kepler Follow-up Observation Program. II. Stellar Parameters from Medium- and High-resolution Spectroscopy.” The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 861, p. 149. Jontof-Hutter, D., Truong, V., Ford, E. B., Robertson, P., & Terrien, R. C. 2018. “Dynamical Constraints on Nontransiting Planets Orbiting TRAPPIST-1.” The Astronomical Journal, Vol. 155, p. 239. Stefánsson, G. K., Mahadevan, S., Hebb, L. et al. 2017. “Toward Space-like Photometric Precision from the Ground with Beam-shaping Diffusers.” The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 848, p. 9. Stefánsson, G. K., Hearty, F., Robertson, P. et al. 2016. “A Versatile Technique to Enable Sub- Milli-Kelvin Instrument Stability for Precise Radial Velocity Measurements: Tests with the Habitable Zone Planet Finder.” The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 833, p. 175. Fischer, D., Anglada-Escudé, G., Arriagada, P. et al. 2016. “State of the Field: Extreme Precision Radial Velocities.” Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 128, p. 066001. Johnson, M. C., Endl, M., Cochran, W. D., Meschiari, S., Robertson, P. et al. 2016. “A 12-year activity cycle for the nearby planet host star HD 219134.” The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 821, p. 74. Wittenmyer, R. A., Johnson, J. A., Butler, R. P., Horner, J., Wang, L., Robertson, P. et al. 2016. “The Pan-Pacific Planet Search. IV. Two super-Jupiters in a 3:5 resonance orbiting the giant star HD 33844.” The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 818, p. 35. Endl, M., Brugamyer, E., Cochran, W. D., MacQueen, P. J., Robertson, P. et al. 2016. “Two New Long-Period Giant Planets from the McDonald Observatory Planet Search and Two Stars with Long-Period Radial Velocity Signals Related to Stellar Activity Cycles.” The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 818, p. 34. Nelson, B. E., Robertson, P., Payne, M. et al. 2016. “An Empirically Derived Three-Dimensional Laplace Resonance in the Gliese 876 Planetary System.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 455, p. 2484. Terrien, R. C., Mahadevan, S., Bender, C. F., Deshpande, R., & Robertson, P. 2015. “M Dwarf Luminosity, Radius, and α-enrichment from I-band Spectral Features.” The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Vol. 802, p. 10. Marchwinski, R. C., Mahadevan, S., Robertson, P., Ramsey, L. W., & Harder, J. 2015. “Towards Understanding Stellar Radial Velocity Jitter as a Function of Wavelength: The Sun as a Proxy.” The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 798, p. 63. Endl, M., Caldwell, D. C., Barclay, T. et al. 2014. “Kepler-424b: A ‘Lonely’ Hot Jupiter That Found A Companion.” The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 795, p. 151. Marcy, G. W., Isaacson, H., Howard, A. W. et al. 2014. “Masses, Radii, and Orbits of Small Kepler Planets: The Transition from Gaseous to Rocky Planets.” The Astrophysical Journal Supplements, Vol. 210, p. 20. Antoci, V., Handler, G., Grundahl, F., Carrier, F., Brugamyer, E. J., Robertson, P. et al. 2013. “Searching for solar-like oscillations in the d Scuti star r Puppis.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 435, p. 1563. Green, J. D., Robertson, P., Baek, G. et al. 2013. “Possible Detection of the Accretion Streams onto a Young Stellar Object: Optical/Near-IR Rapid Cadence Monitoring of HBC 722.” The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 764, p. 22. Steffen, J. H., Fabrycky, D. C., Agol, E. et al. 2013. “Transit Timing Observations from Kepler: VII. Confirmation of 27 planets in 13 multiplanet systems via Transit Timing Variations and orbital stability.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 428, p. 1077. Endl, M., Robertson, P., Cochran, W. D. et al. 2012. “Revisiting r1 Cancri e: A New Mass Determination of the Transiting super-Earth.” The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 759, p. 19. Breger, M., Fossati, L., Balona, L., Kurtz, D. W., Robertson, P. et al. 2012. “Relationship between low and high frequencies in A/F hybrid stars: Photometric Kepler and spectroscopic analyses of the rapid rotator KIC 8054146.” The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 759, p.59. Buchhave, L. A., Latham, D. W., Johansen, A. et al. 2012. “An abundance of small exoplanets around stars with a wide range of metallicities.” Nature, Vol. 486, p. 375. Borucki W. J., Koch, D. G., Batalha, N. et al. 2012. “Kepler-22b: A 2.4 Earth-radius Planet in the Habitable Zone of a Sun-like Star.” The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 745, p. 120. Welsh, W. F., Orosz, J. A., Carter, J. A. et al. 2012. “Transiting Circumbinary Planets Kepler-34 b and Kepler-35 b.” Nature, Vol. 481, p. 475. Bayless, A. J., Robinson, E. L., Mason, P. A., & Robertson, P. 2011. “The Optical Orbital Light Curve of the Low-Mass X-ray Binary V1408 Aquilae (=4U 1957+115).” The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 730, p. 43. Rose, J. A., Robertson, P., Miner, J., & Levy, L. 2010. “Star Formation in Partially Gas-Depleted Spiral Galaxies.” The Astronomical Journal, Vol. 139, p. 765. CONTRIBUTING PEER-REVIEWED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS Horner, J., Wittenmyer, R. A., Tinney, C. G., Robertson, P., Hinse, T. C., & Marshall, J. P. “Dynamical Constraints on Multi-Planet Exoplanetary Systems.” Proceedings of the 12th Annual Australian Space Science Conference, 2013. arXiv:1302.5247 FIRST-AUTHORED NON-PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS Robertson, P., Hearty, F., Anderson, T. et al. 2016. “A system to provide sub-milliKelvin temperature control at T~300K for extreme precision optical radial velocimetry.” Proceedings of the SPIE, Vol. 9908, id. 228. Robertson, P., Endl, M., Cochran, W. D., MacQueen, P. J., & Hatzes, A. P. 2015. “30 Years of the McDonald Observatory Planet Search.” Proceedings of the colloquium “Twenty years of giant exoplanets,” Ed. Boisse, I., Demangeon, O., Bouchy, F., & Arnold, L. http://ohp2015.scienceconf.org CONTRIBUTING NON-PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS Ninan, J. P., Bender, C. F., Mahadevan, S. et al. 2018. “The Habitable-Zone Planet Finder: improved flux image generation algorithms for H2RG up-the-ramp data.” Proceedings of the SPIE, Vol. 10702, id. 2U. Kanodia, S., Mahadevan, S., Ramsey, L. W. et al. 2018. “Overview of the spectrometer optical fiber feed for the habitable-zone planet finder.” Proceedings of the SPIE, Vol.