BRIAN S. MASON


 Address: 		 		Contact Info: 
Brian S. Mason 		 		Phone: +1(434)244-6831
520 Edgemont Rd 	 		email: bmason@nrao.edu   
Charlottesville, VA

Education: 


1999 		 Ph.D. in Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania
                   Thesis: ``An Improved Measurement of the Hubble Constant from the Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect'' (ps)
                   (Advisor: Steven T. Myers) 
1994 		 B.S. with High Honors, Physics, College of William and Mary

Employment: 


2006-            Associate Scientist, National Radio Astronomy Observatory (Charlottesville, VA) 
2004-2006	 Associate Scientist, National Radio Astronomy Observatory (Green Bank, WV) 
2002-2004        Assistant Scientist, National Radio Astronomy Observatory (Green Bank, WV) 
1999-2002 	 Postdoctoral Scholar, California Institute of Technology 
1994-1999 	 Teaching & Research Assistantships, University of Pennsylvania
Research Interests

Selected Publications: (current astro-ph listing -- plus some papers about Polaris and optical interferometry which aren't by me-- current ADS listing, slac spires citations)

Observatory Service

Committee & Other Service Activities

Students Supervised

Professional Society Memberships: American Astronomical Society; American Association for the Advancement of Science; American Physical Society; URSI.

Full Bibliography

Refereed Papers

  1. ``CMB observations from the CBI and VSA: A comparison of coincident maps and parameter estimation methods'', N. Rajguru et al., submitted to MNRAS.

  2. ``Polarization Observations with the Cosmic Background Imager'', A. C. S. Readhead, S. T. Myers, T. J. Pearson, J. L. Sievers, B. S. Mason, C. R. Contaldi, J. R. Bond, R. Bustos, P. Altamirano, C. Achermann, L. Bronfman, J. E. Carlstrom, J. K. Cartwright, S. Casassus, C. Dickinson, W. L. Holzapfel, J. M. Kovac, E. M. Leitch, J. May, S. Padin, D. Pogosyan, M. Pospieszalski, C. Pryke, R. Reeves, M. C. Shepherd, S. Torres, 2004 Science, v306, pp 836-844

  3. ``The Radio Source Population at High Frequency: follow-up of the 15 GHz 9C survey'', R.C.Bolton, G.Cotter, G.G.Pooley, J.M.Riley, E.M.Waldram, C.J. Chandler, B.S. Mason, T.J. Pearson, A.C.S. Readhead, 2004 MNRAS 354 485

  4. ``Vela X at 31 GHz'', A. S. Hales, S. Casassus, H. Alvarez, J. May, L. Bronfman, A. C. Readhead, T. J. Pearson, B. S. Mason, R. Dodson, ApJ in press

  5. ``Extended Mosaic Observations with the Cosmic Background Imager'', A.C.S. Readhead, B.S. Mason, C. Contaldi, T. J. Pearson, J. R. Bond, S. T. Myers, S. Padin, J. L. Sievers, J. K. Cartwright, M. C. Shepherd, D. Pogosyan, S. Prunet, P. Altamirano, R. Bustos, L. Bronfman, S. Casassus, W. L. Holzapfel, J. May, U .-L. Pen, S. Torres, & P. S. Udomprasert, 2004 ApJ v.609 p.498

  6. ``An Unbiased Measurement of $H_0$ through Cosmic Background Imager Observations of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect in Nearby Galaxy Clusters'', P.S. Udomprasert, B.S. Mason, A.C.S. Readhead, & T.J Pearson, 2004 ApJ v.615 p.63

  7. ``The Anisotropy of the Microwave Background to l = 3500: Deep Field Observations with the Cosmic Background Imager'', B.S. Mason, T. J. Pearson, A. C. S. Readhead, M. C. Shepherd, J. L. Sievers, P. S. Udomprasert, J. K. Cartwright, A. J. Farmer, S. Padin, S. T. Myers, J. R. Bond, C. R. Contaldi, U.-L. Pen, S. Prunet, D. Pogosyan, J. E. Carlstrom, J. Kovac, E. M. Leitch, C. Pryke, N. W. Halverson, W. L. Holzapfel, P. Altamirano, L. Bronfman, S. Casassus, J. May, & M. Joy, 2003, ApJ 591, 540.

  8. `` The Anisotropy of the Microwave Background to l = 3500: Mosaic Observations with the Cosmic Background Imager'', T. J. Pearson, B. S. Mason, A. C. S. Readhead, M. C. Shepherd, J. L. Sievers, P. S. Udomprasert, J. K. Cartwright, A. J. Farmer, S. Padin, S. T. Myers, J. R. Bond, C. R. Contaldi, U.-L. Pen, S. Prunet, D. Pogosyan, J. E. Carlstrom, J. Kovac, E. M. Leitch, C. Pryke, N. W. Halverson, W. L. Holzapfel, P. Altamirano, L. Bronfman, S. Casassus, J. May, & M. Joy, 2003, ApJ 591, 556.

  9. ``Cosmological Parameters from Cosmic Background Imager Observations and Comparisons with BOOMERANG, DASI, and MAXIMA'', J. L. Sievers, J. R. Bond, J. K. Cartwright, C. R. Contaldi, B. S. Mason, S. T. Myers, S. Padin, T. J. Pearson, U.-L. Pen, D. Pogosyan, S. Prunet, A. C. S. Readhead, M. C. Shepherd, P. S. Udomprasert, L. Bronfman, W. L. Holzapfel, J. May, 2003, ApJ 591, 599.

  10. ``A Fast Gridded Method for the Estimation of the Power Spectrum of the Cosmic Microwave Background from Interferometer Data with Application to the Cosmic Background Imager'', S. T. Myers, C. R. Contaldi, J. R. Bond, U.-L. Pen, D. Pogosyan, S. Prunet, J. L. Sievers, B. S. Mason, T. J. Pearson, A. C. S. Readhead, & M. C. Shepherd, 2003, ApJ 591, 575.

  11. ``The Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect in CMB-calibrated theories applied to the Cosmic Background Imager anisotropy power at l $>$ 2000'', J. R. Bond, C. R. Contaldi, U.-L. Pen, D. Pogosyan, S. Prunet, M. I. Ruetalo, J. W. Wadsley, P. Zhang, B. S. Mason, S. T. Myers, T. J. Pearson, A. C. S. Readhead, J. L. Sievers, P. S. Udomprasert, ApJ in press.

  12. ``The Cosmic Background Imager'', S. Padin, M.C. Shepherd, J.K. Cartwright, R.G. Keeney, B.S. Mason, T.J. Pearson, A.C.S. Readhead, W.A. Schaal, J. Sievers, P.S. Udomprasert, J.K. Yamasaki, W.L. Holzapfel, J.E. Carlstrom, M. Joy, S.T. Myers, & A. Otarola, 2002, PASP 114, 83.

  13. ``DASI First Results: A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Angular Power Spectrum'' N. W. Halverson , E. M. Leitch , C. Pryke , J. Kovac , J. E. Carlstrom , W. L. Holzapfel , M. Dragovan , J. K. Cartwright , B. S. Mason , S. Padin , T. J. Pearson , M. C. Shepherd , & A. C. S. Readhead, 2002, ApJ 568, 38.

  14. `` Experiment Design and First Season Observations with the Degree Angular Scale Interferometer'' E. M. Leitch , C. Pryke , N. W. Halverson , J. Kovac , G. Davidson , S. LaRoque , E. Schartman , J. Yamasaki , J. E. Carlstrom , W. L. Holzapfel , M. Dragovan , J. K. Cartwright , B. S. Mason , S. Padin , T. J. Pearson , M. C. Shepherd , & A. C. S. Readhead, 2002, ApJ 568, 28.

  15. ``An Improved Measurement of the Hubble Constant from the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect,'' B.S. Mason, S.T. Myers, & A.C.S. Readhead, 2001, ApJ 555, L11.

  16. ``First Intrinsic Anisotropy Observations with the Cosmic Background Imager,'' S. Padin, J.K. Cartwright, B.S. Mason, T.J. Pearson, A.C.S. Readhead, M.C. Shepherd, J. Sievers, P.S. Udomprasert, W.L. Holzapfel, S.T. Myers, J.E. Carlstrom, E.M. Leitch, M. Joy, L. Bronfman & J. May, 2001, ApJ 549, L1.

  17. ``The Bright Gamma-Ray Burst 991208 - Tight Constraints on Afterglow Models from Observations of the Early-Time Radio Evolution,'' T. J. Galama, M. Bremer, F. Bertoldi, K.M. Menten, U. Lisenfeld, D. S. Shepherd, B. Mason, F. Walter, G. G. Pooley, D. A. Frail, R. Sari, S. R. Kulkarni, E. Berger, J.S. Bloom, A. J. Castro-Tirado, & J. Granot 2000, ApJ 541, L45.

  18. ``X-Ray Mass Models and Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect Predictions for a Sample of 22 Nearby Galaxy Clusters,'' B.S. Mason & S.T. Myers, 2000, ApJ 540, 614.

  19. ``An Absolute Flux Density Measurement of the Supernova Remnant Casseopeia A at 32 GHz,'' B.S. Mason, E.M. Leitch, S.T. Myers, J.K. Cartwright , & A.C.S. Readhead, 1999, AJ 118, 2908.

    Conference Proceedings, Internal Memos, and other Publications:

  20. '`Pseudo-Continuum Polarimetry with the GBT'', B. Mason, GBT Memo 253 (Sept 2007)
  21. ``Mustang Fall 2006 Engineering Run Results'', B. Mason, S. Dicker, P. Korngut, J. Aguirre. GBT M\ emo 252 (March 2007)
  22. ``New Results and Current Work with the Cosmic Background Imager'', B.S. Mason et al., in Proceedings of the Mykonos Conference on Multiwavelength Cosmology (2004)
  23. ``A 90-GHz Array for Use on the Green Bank Telescope'', S. Dicker, P. Ade, D. Benford, M. Devlin, K. Irwin, P. Jewell, B. Mason, S. Moseley, M. Supanich, and C. Tucker, in Proceedings of the SPIE v.5489 p.1221 (2004)
  24. ``Implementation and Analysis of Test Data for new GBT scan patterns'', B.S. Mason, NRAO Internal Memo (February 2004)
  25. ``New Scan Patterns for the GBT'', B.S. Mason, NRAO Internal Memo (December 2003)
  26. ``New Results & Current Work with the CBI'', B.S. Mason et al., in Proceedings of the Mykonos Conference on Multiwavelength Cosmology (2003).
  27. ``GBT Bolometer Array Science Case Review'', B.S. Mason, NRAO Internal Memo (June 2003).
  28. ``Correlation Radiometer Observing Modes & Calibration'', B.S. Mason, NRAO Internal Memo (August 2002).
  29. `` CMB observations with the Cosmic Background Imager (CBI) Interferometer'', C.R.Contaldi, J.R.Bond, D.Pogosyan, B.S.Mason, S.T.Myers, T.J.Pearson, U.L.Pen, S.Prunet, A.C.Readhead, M.I.Ruetalo, J.L.Sievers, J.W.Wadsley, P.J.Zhang, to appear in Proceedings of the XVIII IAP Colloquium `On the nature of dark energy', Paris, 1-5 July 2002.
  30. ``The Cosmic Microwave Background & Inflation, Then & Now'', J.R. Bond, C.R. Contaldi, D. Pogosyan, B.S. Mason, S.T. Myers, T.J. Pearson, U.-L. Pen, S. Prunet, A.C.S. Readhead, J.L. Sievers, in Theoretical Physics MRST 2002: A Tribute to George Libbrandt.
  31. ``Measurements of the CMB Power Spectrum to $\ell = 3500$ with the CBI'', B.S. Mason et al., in Proceedings of the XXXVIIth Moriond Astrophysics Meeting.
  32. ``Cosmological Parameters from CMB measurements with the CBI'', C. R. Contaldi, J. R. Bond, D. Pogosyan, B. S. Mason, S. T. Myers, T. J. Pearson, U. L. Pen, S. Prunet, A. C. Readhead, M. I. Ruetalo, J. L. Sievers, J. W. Wadsley, P. J. Zhang, in Proceedings of the XXXVIIth Moriond Astrophysics Meeting.
  33. ``Determining $H_0$ with XMM-Newton and the Cosmic Background Imager'', P.S. Udomprasert, B.S. Mason, & A.C.S. Readhead, 2001, in New Century of X-Ray Astronomy, ASP Conference Proceedings Vol.251.
  34. ``First Results from the CBI'', B.S. Mason, T.J. Pearson, A.C.S. Readhead, M. Shepherd, J. Sievers, P. Udomprasert, J.K. Cartwright, & S. Padin, 2001, in Proceedings of the 20th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics, AIP conference proceedings Vol 586.
  35. ``An Improved Measurement of ${\rm H_0}$ from the Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect,'' B.S. Mason, S.T. Myers, & A.C.S. Readhead 2000, , to appear. in Proc. 9th Marcel Grossman Meeting.
  36. ``Preliminary Results from the Cosmic Background Imager,'' B.S. Mason et al. 2000, Proc. 9th Marcel Grossman Meeting.
  37. ``The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect with the Cosmic Background Imager,'' P.S. Udomprasert, B.S. Mason, & A.C.S. Readhead 2000, to appear in Constructing the Universe with Clusters of Galaxies, ed. F. Duret & D. Gerbal.
  38. ``The Cosmic Background Imager'', T.J. Pearson, A.C.S. Readhead, S. Padin, J. Cartwright, B.S. Mason, S. Myers, M. Shepherd, J. Sievers, & P. Udomprasert, in Proceedings of IAU Symposium number 201 (2000).
  39. ``An Improved Measurement of the Hubble Constant Using the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect'', B.S. Mason, 1999 (Ph.D. Thesis, University of Pennsylvania).
  40. ``An Improved Measurement of the Hubble Constant from the SZE,'' B.S. Mason & S.T. Myers 1999, American Astronomical Society Meeting 194, Abstract 19.04. (thesis presentation)
  41. ``Detection and Possible Flare of GM SGR at 29-34 GHz'', B.S. Mason et al. 1999, Astronomer's Telegram #45.
  42. ``Solar Neutrino Oscillations in the Moon,'' B.S. Mason & M. Sher 1994 , preprint WM-94-114 (hep-ph/9409400-- undergraduate thesis).

References available upon request.

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