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Dr. Morzinski specializes in direct imaging of extrasolar planets to measure their energy output and study their atmospheres. She is an instrument scientist within the Center for Astronomical Adaptive Optics, including for MagAO and LBTI.VOSviewer
Grants
- MIRAID: Mid-IR Characterization of Exoplanets
Co-Investigator (COI)
2020
$475.0K
Active - MAPS: The MMT Adaptive optics exoPlanet characterization System
Principal Investigator (PI)
2018
$5.5M
Active - OP: MRI: Development of a Visible Wavelength Extreme Adaptive Optics Coronagraphic Imager for the 6.5 meter Magellan Telescope
Co-Investigator (COI)
2016
$2.4M
Active - Program Facilitator for the Adaptive Optics Program at UCSC
Principal Investigator (PI)
2019
$11.6K
- Blazing a Trail: Detectors and Techniques for Imaging Habitable Exoplanets with Ground-Based Telescopes
Co-Investigator (COI)
2018
$260.1K
- Discovery of Accreting Planets with the MagAO SDI+ High Contrast Imager on the 6.5m Magellan Telescope: Defining the JWST Protoplanet Sample
Co-Investigator (COI)
2018
$247.5K
- Program Facilitator for the Adaptive Optics Program at UCSC
Principal Investigator (PI)
2018
$14.7K
- The First Census of Accreting Proto-Planets Inside the Gaps of Transitional Dusk Disks
Co-Investigator (COI)
2016
$293.6K
- Determining the Optical-to-Mid-Infrared SEDs and Empirical Bolometric Luminosities of Uoung Jovian Exoplanets Via Direct Imaging with Magellan Adaptive Optics.
Principal Investigator (PI)
2016
$246.7K
- Development of Technologies to Enable High Contrast, High Resolution, Low Emissivity Imaging at Visible and Thermal Wavelengths with the Magellan...
Co-Investigator (COI)
2012
$489.3K
News
- Astronomers Discover 'Young Jupiter' Exoplanet
2015
- A Small Step Toward Discovering Habitable Earths
2014
- UA Astronomers Take Sharpest Photos Ever of the Night Sky
2013
- UA Astronomers Discover Planet That Shouldn't Be There
2013
Publications (206)
Recent
- HIP 67506 C: MagAO-X Confirmation of a New Low-Mass Stellar Companion to HIP 67506 A
2023
- Applying a temporal systematics model to vector Apodizing Phase Plate coronagraphic data: TRAP4vAPP
2023
- The Giant Accreting Protoplanet Survey (GAPlanetS)—Results from a 6 yr Campaign to Image Accreting Protoplanets
2023
- The Giant Accreting Protoplanet Survey (GAPlanetS): Optimization Techniques for Robust Detections of Protoplanets
2023
- Improved companion mass limits for Sirius A with thermal infrared coronagraphy using a vector-apodizing phase plate and time-domain starlight-subtraction techniques
2023
- Improved Orbital Constraints and Hα Photometric Monitoring of the Directly Imaged Protoplanet Analog HD 142527 B
2022
- MIRAC-5: a ground-based mid-IR instrument with the potential to detect ammonia in gas giants
2022
- A near-infrared pyramid wavefront sensor for the MMT
2022
- Companion mass limits for 17 binary systems obtained with binary differential imaging and MagAO/Clio
2022
- Status update for MAPS, the MMT AO exoPlanet characterization System
2022
- High-contrast Imaging with Fizeau Interferometry: the Case of Altair
2022
- XPipeline: starlight subtraction at scale for MagAO-X
2022
- Characterizing deformable mirrors for the MagAO-X instrument
2021
- An LBT search for companions to the lowest mass stars in Taurus
2021
- High-contrast observations of brown dwarf companion HR 2562 B with the vector Apodizing Phase Plate coronagraph
2021
- Vector-apodizing phase plate coronagraph: design, current performance, and future development [Invited]
2021
- Drums in the Deep: constraining the orbit and photometric variability of the chasm-carving M-dwarf HD 142527B
2021
- Characterizing microlensing planetary system OGLE-2014-BLG-0676Lb with adaptive optics imaging
2021
- MagAO Observations of the Binary Microlens OGLE-2014-BLG-1050 Prefer the Higher-mass Solution
2021
- The HOSTS Survey: Evidence for an Extended Dust Disk and Constraints on the Presence of Giant Planets in the Habitable Zone of β Leo
2021
- OGLE-2007-BLG-224L: A Direct Test of Terrestrial Parallax
2021
- The HOSTS Survey for Exozodiacal Dust: Observational Results from the Complete Survey
2020
- MagAO-X first light
2020
- Laboratory testing and calibration of the upgraded MMT adaptive secondary mirror
2020
- AO-assisted Ground-based Mid-Infrared Imaging in the JWST Era: MIRAC-5 with Geosnap
2020
- Imaging the 44 au Kuiper Belt Analog Debris Ring around HD 141569A with GPI Polarimetry
2020
- Prediction of the planet yield of the MaxProtoPlanetS high-contrast survey for H-alpha protoplanets with MagAO-X based on first light contrasts
2020
- Betelgeuse scope: single-mode-fibers-assisted optical interferometer design for dedicated stellar activity monitoring
2020
- Development and status of MAPS, the MMT AO exoPlanet characterization system
2020
- VizieR Online Data Catalog: LC of microlensing event OGLE-2012-BLG-0838 (Poleski+, 2020)
2020
- A Wide-orbit Exoplanet OGLE-2012-BLG-0838Lb
2020
- GeoSnap: A 1024x1024 HgCdTe array covering 3-13µm
2020
- Implementing multiwavelength fringe tracking for the Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer’s phase sensor, PHASECam
2020
- Design and development of a high-speed visible pyramid wavefront sensor for the MMT AO system
2020
- Training the Next Generation of OIR Instrumentalists
2019
- New Spatially Resolved Imaging of the SR 21 Transition Disk and Constraints on the Small-grain Disk Geometry
2019
- The Gemini Planet Imager Exoplanet Survey: Giant Planet and Brown Dwarf Demographics From 10-100 AU
2019
- On-sky performance of the GMT dispersed fringe phasing sensor prototype
2019
- The Gemini Planet Imager Exoplanet Survey: giant planet and brown dwarf demographics from 10 to 100 au
2019
- VizieR Online Data Catalog: The LEECH exoplanet imaging survey (Stone+, 2018)
2019
- New Spatially Resolved Observations of the SR 21 Transition Disk
2019
- VizieR Online Data Catalog: The first 300 stars observed by the GPIES (Nielsen+, 2019)
2019
- A Wide Orbit Exoplanet OGLE-2012-BLG-0838Lb
2019
- Status of commissioning stabilized infrared Fizeau interferometry with LBTI
2019
- Performance of the Gemini Planet Imager Non-Redundant Mask and spectroscopy of two close-separation binaries HR 2690 and HD 142527
2019
- Magellan adaptive optics imaging of PDS 70: measuring the mass accretion rate of a young giant planet within a gapped disk
2018
- The Intricate Structure of HH 508, the Brightest Microjet in the Orion Nebula
2018
- Optical calibration and performance of the adaptive secondary mirror at the Magellan telescope
2018
- Status of MagAO and review of astronomical science with visible light adaptive optics
2018
- The hunt for Sirius Ab: comparison of algorithmic sky and PSF estimation performance in deep coronagraphic thermal-IR high contrast imaging
2018
- The MagAO Giant Accreting Protoplanet Survey (GAPlanetS): Recent Results
2018
- Surveying the Epsilon Eridani system Using MagAO
2018
- The HOSTS survey for exo-zodiacal dust: preliminary results and future prospects
2018
- MagAO-X: project status and first laboratory results
2018
- The Orbit of the Companion to HD 100453A: Binary-driven Spiral Arms in a Protoplanetary Disk
2018
- The HOSTS Survey—Exozodiacal Dust Measurements for 30 Stars
2018
- Finding and Characterizing Other Worlds: the Thermal-IR ELT Opportunity
2018
- Modeling coronagraphic extreme wavefront control systems for high contrast imaging in ground and space telescope missions
2018
- Focal plane wavefront sensing and control strategies for high-contrast imaging on the MagAO-X instrument
2018
- GPI spectra of HR8799 c, d, and e in HK bands with KLIP Forward Modeling
2018
- VizieR Online Data Catalog: The multiplicity of M dwarfs in young moving groups (Shan+, 2017)
2018
- Preliminary on-sky results of the next generation GMT phasing sensor prototype
2018
- Direct Imaging in Reflected Light: Characterization of Older, Temperate Exoplanets With 30-m Telescopes
2018
- The LEECH exoplanet imaging survey: limits on planet occurrence rates under conservative assumptions
2018
- Minimum variance control for mitigation of vibrations in adaptive optics systems
2017
- 1 to 2.4 micron Near-IR spectrum of the Giant Planet Pictoris b obtained with the Gemini Planet Imager
2017
- Improving and Assessing Planet Sensitivity of the GPI Exoplanet Survey with a Forward Model Matched Filter
2017
- Complex spiral structure in the HD 100546 transitional disk as revealed by GPI and MagAO
2017
- 1–2.4 μm Near-IR spectrum of the giant planet β pictoris b obtained with the gemini planet imager
2017
- Phasing the GMT with a next generation e-APD dispersed fringe sensor: design and on-sky prototyping
2017
- An ALMA and MagAO Study of the Substellar Companion GQ Lup B∗
2017
- On-sky performance analysis of the vector apodizing phase plate coronagraph on MagAO/Clio2
2017
- Evidence that the directly imaged planet HD 131399 Ab Is a Background Star
2017
- 1–2.4 μ m Near-IR Spectrum of the Giant Planet β Pictoris b Obtained with the Gemini Planet Imager [1 TO 2.4 Micron Near-Ir Spectrum Of The Giant Planet Beta Pictoris B …
2017
- An optical/near-infrared investigation of HD 100546 b with the gemini planet imager and MagAO
2017
- Characterizing 51 Eri b from 1 to 5 μm: A Partly Cloudy Exoplanet
2017
- Laser-guide-star satellite for ground-based adaptive optics imaging of geosynchronous satellites
2017
- Radar observations and shape model of asteroid 16 Psyche
2017
- The Multiplicity of M Dwarfs in Young Moving Groups
2017
- The TWA 3 Young Triple System: Orbits, Disks, Evolution
2017
- Resolving the H α -emitting Region in the Wind of η Carinae
2017
- 1-2.4 μm Near-IR Spectrum of the Giant Planet β Pictoris b Obtained with the Gemini Planet Imager
2017
- Spectroscopic characterization of HD 95086 b with the Gemini Planet Imager
2016
- Constraints on the Architecture of the HD 95086 Planetary System with the Gemini Planet Imager
2016
- On-sky demonstration of the GMT dispersed fringe phasing sensor prototype on the Magellan Telescope
2016
- Discovery and Validation of a High-Density sub-Neptune from the K2 Mission
2016
- How to Image Exoplanets at Solar System Scales
2016
- The LEECH Exoplanet Imaging Survey: Orbit and Component Masses of the Intermediate-Age, Late-Type Binary NO UMa
2016
- Adaptive Optics imaging of VHS 1256-1257: A Low Mass Companion to a Brown Dwarf Binary System
2016
- High-contrast imaging in the cloud with klipReduce and Findr
2016
- VizieR Online Data Catalog: MILO. I. HD 7449 radial velocities (Rodigas+, 2016)
2016
- Laser Guidestar Satellite for Ground-based Adaptive Optics Imaging of Geosynchronous Satellites
2016
- The path to visible extreme adaptive optics with MagAO-2K and MagAO-X
2016
- L-BAND SPECTROSCOPY WITH MAGELLAN-AO/Clio2: FIRST RESULTS ON YOUNG LOW-MASS COMPANIONS
2016
- Possible Identification of the Progenitor of SN 2016adj in NGC 5128 (Centaurus A)
2016
- Vibrations in MagAO: frequency-based analysis of on-sky data, resonance sources identification, and future challenges in vibrations mitigation
2016
- Vibrations in MagAO: resonance sources identification and first approaches for modeling and control
2016
- Adaptive optics imaging of VHS 1256–1257: A low mass companion to a Brown dwarf binary system
2016
- Imaging protoplanets: observing transition disks with non-redundant masking
2016
- MAGELLAN AO SYSTEMz′,YS, ANDL′ OBSERVATIONS OF THE VERY WIDE 650 AU HD 106906 PLANETARY SYSTEM
2016
- MagAO: status and science
2016
- Asteroid 16 Psyche: Radar Observations and Shape Model
2016
- Magellan AO System z′, Ys, and L′ Observations of the Very Wide 650 AU HD 106906 Planetary System
2016
- MagAO Imaging of Long-period Objects (MILO). II. A Puzzling White Dwarf around the Sun-like Star HD 11112
2016
- Overview of LBTI: a multipurpose facility for high spatial resolution observations
2016
- The LEECH Exoplanet Imaging Survey: Characterization of the Coldest Directly Imaged Exoplanet, GJ 504 b, and Evidence for Superstellar Metallicity
2016
- New extinction and mass estimates from optical photometry of the very low mass brown dwarf companion ct Chamaeleontis b with the Magellan AO system
2015
- First-light LBT nulling interferometric observations: warm exozodiacal dust resolved within a few AU of η Crv
2015
- An Accreting Protoplanet: Confirmation and Characterization of LkCa15b
2015
- New spatially resolved observations of the T Cha transition disk and constraints on the previously claimed substellar companion
2015
- β PICTORIS’INNER DISK IN POLARIZED LIGHT AND NEW ORBITAL PARAMETERS FOR β PICTORIS b
2015
- The LEECH Exoplanet Imaging Survey. Further constraints on the planet architecture of the HR 8799 system
2015
- The LEECH Exoplanet Imaging Survey: Orbit and Component Masses of the Intermediate Age, Late-Type Binary NO UMa
2015
- 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 LEECH Exoplanet Imaging Survey: Characterization of the Coldest Directly Imaged Exoplanet, GJ 504 b, and Evidence for Super-Stellar Metallicity
2015
- Gemini Planet Imager observations of the AU Microscopii debris disk: asymmetries within one arcsecond
2015
- Prototyping the GMT phasing camera with the Magellan AO system
2015
- Multiwavelength observations of NaSt1 (WR 122): equatorial mass loss and X-rays from an interacting Wolf-Rayet binary
2015
- Beta Pictoris' Inner Disk in Polarized Light and New Orbital Parameters for Beta Pictoris b
2015
- Magellan adaptive optics first-light observations of the exoplanet β Pic b. II. 3–5 μm direct imaging with MagAO+ Clio, and the empirical bolometric luminosity of a self …
2015
- Accreting protoplanets in the LkCa 15 transition disk
2015
- Polarimetry with the Gemini Planet Imager: Methods, Performance at First Light, and the Circumstellar Ring around HR 4796A
2015
- Vibrations in MagAO: resonance sources identification through frequency-based analysis
2015
- The LEECH Exoplanet Imaging Survey. Further constraints on the planet architecture of the HR 8799 system (Corrigendum)
2015
- MagAO Imaging of Long-period Objects (MILO). I. A Benchmark M Dwarf Companion Exciting a Massive Planet around the Sun-like Star HD 7449
2015
- Direct Exoplanet Detection with Binary Differential Imaging
2015
- Magellan Adaptive Optics First-light Observations of the Exoplanet β Pic b. II. 3─5 μm Direct Imaging with MagAO+Clio, and the Empirical Bolometric Luminosity of a Self-luminous Giant Planet
2015
- Discovery and spectroscopy of the young Jovian planet 51 Eri b with the Gemini Planet Imager
2015
- Astrometric confirmation and preliminary orbital parameters of the young exoplanet 51 Eridani b with the Gemini Planet Imager
2015
- Vibrations in MagAO: analysis of on-sky data and future challenges in vibrations mitigation
2015
- Direct imaging of an asymmetric debris disk in the HD 106906 planetary system
2015
- Directly imaged LT transition exoplanets in the mid-infrared
2014
- The atmosphere of Beta Pictoris b via 0.9-5um imaging with Magellan Adaptive Optics
2014
- The Gemini planet imager: first light and commissioning
2014
- Magellan adaptive optics first-light observations of the exoplanet β pic b. I. direct imaging in the far-red optical with MagAO+ VisAO and in the near-ir with nici
2014
- High contrast imaging at the LBT: the LEECH exoplanet imaging survey
2014
- The first H-band spectrum of the massive gas giant planet Beta Pictoris b with the Gemini Planet Imager
2014
- Discovery of Hα Emission from the Close Companion inside the Gap of Transitional Disk HD 142527
2014
- Directly Imaged L-T Transition Exoplanets in the Mid-infrared
2014
- An Enigmatic Point-like Feature within the HD 169142 Transitional Disk
2014
- Magellan Adaptive Optics First-light Observations of the Exoplanet β Pic B. I. Direct Imaging in the Far-red Optical with MagAO+VisAO and in the Near-ir with NICI
2014
- MagAO: Status and on-sky performance of the Magellan adaptive optics system
2014
- Observations of Beta Pictoris b with the Gemini Planet Imager
2014
- Testing Atmospheric Models Across the Brown Dwarf/Planet Boundary with Benchmark Young Substellar Companions
2014
- First light of the Gemini Planet Imager
2014
- On the morphology and chemical composition of the hr 4796a debris disk
2014
- Gemini Planet Imager Spectroscopy of the HR 8799 Planets c and d
2014
- The Gemini NICI Planet-Finding Campaign: The Orbit of the Young Exoplanet β Pictoris b
2014
- Into the blue: AO science with MagAO in the visible
2014
- Gemini planet imager observational calibrations V: astrometry and distortion
2014
- The first H-band spectrum of the giant planet β Pictoris b
2014
- Direct imaging of exoplanets in the habitable zone with adaptive optics
2014
- New Frontiers in Circumstellar Science with MagAO's Visible Light Simultaneous Differential Imaging Mode
2014
- Diffraction-limited visible light images of orion trapezium cluster with the magellan adaptive secondary adaptive optics system (MagAO)
2013
- A Direct Imaging Study to Search for and to Characterize Planetary Mass Companions
2013
- High Resolution Hα Images of the Binary Low-mass Proplyd LV 1 with the Magellan AO System
2013
- A 100-Night Exoplanet Imaging Survey at the LBT
2013
- Early Visible Adaptive Optics Science Results from MagAO's VisAO Camera in Simultaneous Differential Imaging (SDI) Mode: Disks and Point Sources
2013
- Direct imaging of Beta Pictoris b with first-light Magellan Adaptive Optics
2013
- High-Contrast Exoplanet Imaging with CLIO2, the Magellan Adaptive Optics Infrared Camera
2013
- SCExAO as a precursor to an ELT exoplanet direct imaging instrument
2013
- Into the Blue: AO Science in the Visible with MagAO
2013
- The first circumstellar disk imaged in silhouette at visible wavelengths with adaptive optics: MagAO imaging of Orion 218-354
2013
- HD 106906 b: A planetary-mass companion outside a massive debris disk
2013
- High contrast imaging with the Magellan VisAO camera
2013
- Visible AO observations at halpha for accreting young planets
2013
- The First Circumstellar Disk Imaged in Silhouette with Adaptive Optics: MagAO Imaging of Orion 218-354
2013
- Magellan Adaptive Optics First Light Results
2013
- High contrast imaging of an exoplanet with the Magellan VisAO Camera
2013
- Visible light adaptive optics imaging of the orion 218-354 silhouette disk
2013
- LEECH: A 100 night exoplanet imaging survey at the LBT
2013
- High-contrast imaging in the Hyades with snapshot LOCI
2012
- On the influence of the Illuminati in astronomical adaptive optics
2012
- First Light LBT AO Images of HR 8799 bcde at 1.6 and 3.3 μm: New Discrepancies between Young Planets and Old Brown Dwarfs
2012
- Status update and closed-loop performance of the Magellan adaptive optics VisAO camera
2012
- Andrew J. Skemer1, Philip M. Hinz1, Simone Esposito2, Adam Burrows3, Jarron Leisenring4, Michael Skrutskie5, Silvano Desidera6, Dino Mesa6, Carmelo Arcidiacono2, 7, Filippo …
2012
- MEMS practice: from the lab to the telescope
2012
- First closed-loop visible AO test results for the advanced adaptive secondary AO system for the Magellan Telescope: MagAO's performance and status
2012
- Laboratory demonstration of real time frame selection with Magellan AO
2012
- A Search for Satellites of Kuiper Belt Object 55636 from the 2009 October 9 Occultation
2011
- Adaptive optics for high-contrast imaging of faint substellar companions
2011
- High-contrast Adaptive Optics and a Search for Late-type Companions to Hyades FGK Dwarfs
2011
- Advancements in adaptive optics technology: micro deformable mirrors and laser guidestars for the next generation of extremely large telescopes
2011
- Circuit Design: An Inquiry Lab Activity at Maui Community College
2010
- Performance of MEMS-based visible-light adaptive optics at Lick Observatory: closed- and open-loop control
2010
- Size and albedo of Kuiper belt object 55636 from a stellar occultation
2010
- Digital image exploration at Maui Community College
2010
- Preliminary characterization of Boston Micromachines' 4096-actuator deformable mirror
2009
- Stroke saturation on a MEMS deformable mirror for woofer-tweeter adaptive optics
2009
- Visible light laser guidestar experimental system (Villages): on-sky tests of new technologies for visible wavelength all-sky coverage adaptive optics systems
2008
- Villages: an on-sky visible wavelength astronomy AO experiment using a MEMS deformable mirror (Invited Paper)[6888-03]
2008
- Villages: an on-sky visible wavelength astronomy AO experiment using a MEMS deformable mirror
2008
- Empirical measurement of MEMS stroke saturation, with implications for woofer-tweeter architectures
2008
- ViLLaGEs: opto-mechanical design of an on-sky visible-light MEMS-based AO system
2008
- Characterizing MEMS deformable mirrors for open-loop operation: high-resolution measurements of thin-plate behavior
2008
- Application of Hartmann linear calibrations to ViLLaGEs
2008
- The open-loop control of MEMS: modeling and experimental results
2007
- The extreme adaptive optics testbed at UCSC: current results and coronagraphic upgrade
2006
- The Gemini planet imager
2006
- Characterizing the potential of MEMS deformable mirrors for astronomical adaptive optics
2006
- Demonstrating 6× 10− 7 Contrast Measurements with a MEMS Deformable Mirror
2006
- Extreme adaptive optics testbed: performance and characterization of a 1024-MEMS deformable mirror
2006
- Demonstrating sub-nm closed loop MEMS flattening
2006
- Extreme adaptive optics testbed: high contrast measurements with a MEMS deformable mirror
2005
- Triton's Atmospheric Structure in 2001 from the Tr231 Occultation
2001
- Two-satellite observations of substorm injections at geosynchronous orbit
2001