Laird M. Close

8.2k total citations
203 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Laird M. Close is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Instrumentation. According to data from OpenAlex, Laird M. Close has authored 203 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 167 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 97 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 84 papers in Instrumentation. Recurrent topics in Laird M. Close's work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (155 papers), Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing (97 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (83 papers). Laird M. Close is often cited by papers focused on Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (155 papers), Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing (97 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (83 papers). Laird M. Close collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Chile. Laird M. Close's co-authors include Beth Biller, Nick Siegler, W. Brandner, E. Nielsen, Melanie Freed, Jared R. Males, Markus Hartung, R. Lenzen, Domenico Bonaccini Calia and G. Parmeggiani and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Astrophysical Journal and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Laird M. Close

187 papers receiving 3.2k citations

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	WIde Separation Planets In Time (WISPIT): A Gap-clearing Planet in a Multi-ringed Disk around the Young Solar-type Star WISPIT 2 2025 ·The Astrophysical Journal Letters ·(unknown), C. Ginski, Matthew D. Kenworthy, John G. Byrne, (unknown), (unknown), Eric E. Mamajek, T. Stolker, M. Benisty, A. J. Bohn, Laird M. Close, C. Dominik, Sebastiaan Y. Haffert, Rico Landman, Jie Ma, I. A. G. Snellen, Ryo Tazaki, Nienke van der Marel, (unknown), Yapeng Zhang	3
2	Hα Variability of AB Aur b with the Hubble Space Telescope: Probing the Nature of a Protoplanet Candidate with Accretion Light Echoes 2025 ·The Astronomical Journal ·Brendan P. Bowler, Yifan Zhou, Lauren I. Biddle, (unknown), Jaehan Bae, Laird M. Close, Katherine B. Follette, Kyle Franson, Adam L. Kraus, Aniket Sanghi, (unknown), Kimberly Ward-Duong, Ya-Lin Wu, Zhaohuan Zhu	5
3	Making the unmodulated pyramid wavefront sensor smart 2025 ·Astronomy and Astrophysics ·Rico Landman, Sebastiaan Y. Haffert, Joseph D. Long, Jared R. Males, Laird M. Close, (unknown), Kyle Van Gorkom, Olivier Guyon, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), A. McLeod, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown)	0
4	High-contrast imaging at first-light of the GMT: the preliminary design of GMagAO-X 2024 ·Jared R. Males, Laird M. Close, Sebastiaan Y. Haffert, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Logan Pearce, (unknown), Olivier Guyon, Alycia J. Weinberger, Brendan P. Bowler, Adam L. Kraus, Natasha E. Batalha	2
5	Astrometric Calibration of MagAO-X with Updated Solutions for HD 165054 Field Stars 2024 ·The Astronomical Journal ·Joseph D. Long, Logan Pearce, Sebastiaan Y. Haffert, Jared R. Males, Laird M. Close, Olivier Guyon, (unknown), Kyle Van Gorkom, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Jialin Li, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown)	1
6	Probing Disk Ice Content and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Emission through Multiband MagAO+Clio Images of HD 141569 2024 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·(unknown), Alycia J. Weinberger, Jared R. Males, Katie M. Morzinski, Laird M. Close, Katherine B. Follette, Philip M. Hinz	2
7	The Giant Accreting Protoplanet Survey (GAPlanetS): Optimization Techniques for Robust Detections of Protoplanets 2023 ·The Astronomical Journal ·Jéa Adams Redai, Katherine B. Follette, Jason Wang, (unknown), William O. Balmer, Laird M. Close, (unknown), Jared R. Males, Katie M. Morzinski, (unknown), Laurent Pueyo, (unknown), (unknown), Kimberly Ward-Duong, (unknown)	6
8	UV-optical Emission of AB Aur b Is Consistent with Scattered Stellar Light 2023 ·The Astronomical Journal ·Yifan Zhou, Brendan P. Bowler, Haifeng Yang, Aniket Sanghi, Gregory J. Herczeg, Adam L. Kraus, Jaehan Bae, Feng Long, Katherine B. Follette, Kimberly Ward-Duong, Zhaohuan Zhu, Lauren I. Biddle, Laird M. Close, (unknown), Ya-Lin Wu	15
9	Implicit electric field conjugation: Data-driven focal plane control 2023 ·Astronomy and Astrophysics ·Sebastiaan Y. Haffert, Jared R. Males, (unknown), Kyle Van Gorkom, Olivier Guyon, Laird M. Close, Joseph D. Long, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown)	14
10	HST/WFC3 Hα Direct-imaging Detection of a Pointlike Source in the Disk Cavity of AB Aur 2022 ·The Astrophysical Journal Letters ·Yifan Zhou, Aniket Sanghi, Brendan P. Bowler, Ya-Lin Wu, Laird M. Close, Feng Long, Kimberly Ward-Duong, Zhaohuan Zhu, Adam L. Kraus, Katherine B. Follette, Jaehan Bae	33
11	ALMA Discovery of a Disk around the Planetary-mass Companion SR 12 c 2022 ·The Astrophysical Journal Letters ·Ya-Lin Wu, Brendan P. Bowler, Patrick Sheehan, Laird M. Close, (unknown), William M. J. Best, Kimberly Ward-Duong, Zhaohuan Zhu, Adam L. Kraus	12
12	High-contrast observations of brown dwarf companion HR 2562 B with the vector Apodizing Phase Plate coronagraph 2021 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·(unknown), A. J. Bohn, Jayne Birkby, Matthew D. Kenworthy, Katie M. Morzinski, David Doelman, Jared R. Males, Frans Snik, Laird M. Close, Philip M. Hinz, David Charbonneau	8
13	Possible Identification of the Progenitor of SN 2016adj in NGC 5128 (Centaurus A) 2016 ·The astronomer's telegram ·Schuyler D. Van Dyk, Joana Ascenso, (unknown), Nathan Smith, Laird M. Close, Jared R. Males, Katie M. Morzinski, R. J. Foley, Saurabh W. Jha, Adam A. Miller, A. V. Filippenko, J. Alves	0
14	NEW EXTINCTION AND MASS ESTIMATES OF THE LOW-MASS COMPANION 1RXS 1609 B WITH THE MAGELLAN AO SYSTEM: EVIDENCE OF AN INCLINED DUST DISK 2015 ·The Astrophysical Journal Letters ·Ya-Lin Wu, Laird M. Close, Jared R. Males, Travis Barman, Katie M. Morzinski, Katherine B. Follette, Vanessa P. Bailey, Timothy J. Rodigas, Philip M. Hinz, Alfio Puglisi, Marco Xompero, Runa Briguglio	16
15	The Gemini NICI Planet-Finding Campaign: The Offset Ring of HR 4796 A 2014 ·Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology) ·Z. Wahhaj, Michael C. Liu, Beth Biller, E. Nielsen, T. L. Hayward, Marc J. Kuchner, Laird M. Close, Mark Chun, Christ Ftaclas, Douglas W. Toomey	7
16	THE GEMINI NICI PLANET-FINDING CAMPAIGN: THE ORBIT OF THE YOUNG EXOPLANET β PICTORIS b 2014 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·E. Nielsen, Michael C. Liu, Z. Wahhaj, Beth Biller, T. L. Hayward, Jared R. Males, Laird M. Close, Katie M. Morzinski, Andrew Skemer, Marc J. Kuchner, Timothy J. Rodigas, Philip M. Hinz, Mark Chun, Christ Ftaclas, Douglas W. Toomey	17
17	NACO-SDI imaging of known companion host stars from the AAPS and Keck planet search surveys 2010 ·Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology) ·J. S. Jenkins, H. R. A. Jones, Beth Biller, S. J. O’Toole, D. J. Pinfield, Laird M. Close, C. G. Tinney, R. Paul Butler, Robert A. Wittenmyer, (unknown), A. C. Day-Jones	5
18	A Survey of Close, Young Stars with SDI at the VLT and MMT 2006 ·Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics ·Beth Biller, Laird M. Close, Elena Masciadri, R. Lenzen, W. Brandner, D. D. McCarthy, Thomas Henning, E. Nielsen, Markus Hartung	1
19	Discovery of new asteroid binaries (121) Hermione and (1509) Esclangona 2003 ·DPS ·W. J. Merline, Laird M. Close, (unknown), C. R. Chapman, F. Ménard, Peter Tamblyn, D. D. Durda	4
20	Satellites of Minor Planets 2000 ·IAUC ·W. J. Merline, Laird M. Close, J. C. Shelton, Christophe Dumas, F. Ménard, C. R. Chapman, D. C. Slater, (unknown)	5

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