Education
2000 – 2004 Ph.D. in Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto
1999 – 2000 M.Sc. in Astronomy, University of Toronto
1995 – 1999 B.Sc. in Astronomy with Honours, University of Western Ontario
Employment History
2007 – present
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Central Michigan University
2004 – 2007
Michelson Postdoctoral Fellow, U. S. Naval Observatory, Flagstaff Station
Recent Publications
Schmitt, H. R., Pauls, T. A., Tycner, C., Armstrong, J. T.,
Zavala, R. T., Benson, J. A., Gilbreath, G. C., Hindsley,
R. B., Hutter, D. J., Johnston, K. J., Jorgensen, A. M.,
Mozurkewich, D. 2009, "Navy Prototype Optical
Interferometer Imaging of Line Emission Regions of β Lyrae
Using Differential Phase Referencing," Astrophysical Journal, 691, 984-996
Tycner, C., Jones, C. E., Sigut, T. A. A., Schmitt, H. R.,
Benson, J. A., Hutter, D. J., Zavala, R. T. 2008,
"Constraining the Physical Parameters of the Circumstellar
Disk of χ Ophiuchi," Astrophysical Journal, 689, 461-470
Jones, C. E., Tycner, C., Sigut, T. A. A., Benson, J. A., Hutter, D. J. 2008,
"A Parameter Study of Classical Be Star Disk Models Constrained by Optical Interferometry,"
Astrophysical Journal, 687, 598-607
Halonen, R. J., Jones, C. E., Sigut, T. A. A.,
Zavala, R. T., Tycner, C., Levine, S. E., Luginbuhl, C. B.,
Vlig, N., Vrba, F. J. 2008, “Infrared Excess in the Be Star
δ Scorpii,” Publications of the Astronomical Society of the
Pacific, 120, 498–509
Patience, J., Zavala, R. T., Prato, L., Franz, O., Wasserman, L.,
Tycner, C., Hutter,
D. J., & Hummel, C. A. 2008, “Optical Interferometric Observations of θ1
Orionis C from NPOI and Implications
for the System Orbit,” Astrophysical Journal, 674, L97–L100
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Research Field
Observational Stellar Astrophysics
Current Projects
Study of circumstellar disks of hot stars using a variety of ground based instruments including long-baseline optical interferometry and spectroscopy. One application of this work is an improved understanding of the disk dynamics and disk-star interactions that are important physical phenomena in planet-forming circumstellar disks.
Funding
My research is funded in part by the Central Michigan
University and in part by a grant from the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Any individual
working on a NASA sponsored project should be aware of
the
Nondiscrimination and Equal Opportunity in NASA Assisted
Programs policy.