Chad Bender
- Associate Astronomer, Steward Observatory
- Member of the Graduate Faculty
Contact
- (520) 626-8795
- Steward Observatory, Rm. N208
- Tucson, AZ 85721
- cbender@arizona.edu
Degrees
- Ph.D. Physics
- Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States
- Dynamical Masses of Low Mass Spectroscopic Binaries
- M.A. Physics
- Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States
- B.S. Physics and Astronomy
- University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois, United States
Work Experience
- Steward Observatory (2016 - Ongoing)
- The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania (2016 - 2017)
- The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania (2016)
- The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania (2013 - 2016)
- The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania (2009 - 2012)
- Naval Research Laboratory (2007 - 2009)
Awards
- NASA Group Achievement Award
- NASA, Fall 2020
Interests
No activities entered.
Courses
2024-25 Courses
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Independent Study
PHYS 499 (Fall 2024) -
Independent Study
PHYS 599 (Fall 2024)
2023-24 Courses
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Independent Study
PHYS 599 (Spring 2024) -
Intro Observation Astr
ASTR 302 (Spring 2024)
2022-23 Courses
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Independent Study
PHYS 599 (Fall 2022)
2021-22 Courses
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Directed Research
PHYS 492 (Spring 2022) -
Dissertation
ASTR 920 (Spring 2022) -
Directed Research
ASTR 492 (Fall 2021) -
Dissertation
ASTR 920 (Fall 2021) -
Intro Observation Astr
ASTR 302 (Fall 2021)
2020-21 Courses
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Dissertation
ASTR 920 (Spring 2021) -
Intro Observation Astr
ASTR 302 (Spring 2021) -
Dissertation
ASTR 920 (Fall 2020) -
Instrumentation and Statistic
ASTR 418 (Fall 2020) -
Instrumentation and Statistic
ASTR 518 (Fall 2020) -
Instrumentation and Statistic
PTYS 518 (Fall 2020)
2019-20 Courses
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Intro Observation Astr
ASTR 302 (Spring 2020) -
Research
ASTR 900 (Spring 2020) -
Research
ASTR 900 (Fall 2019)
2018-19 Courses
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Intro Observation Astr
ASTR 302 (Spring 2019) -
Research
ASTR 900 (Spring 2019) -
Instrumentation and Statistic
ASTR 418 (Fall 2018) -
Instrumentation and Statistic
ASTR 518 (Fall 2018) -
Instrumentation and Statistic
PTYS 518 (Fall 2018) -
Research
ASTR 900 (Fall 2018)
2017-18 Courses
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Research
ASTR 900 (Spring 2018) -
Research
ASTR 900 (Fall 2017)
Scholarly Contributions
Journals/Publications
- Beaton, R. L., Oelkers, R. J., Hayes, C. R., Covey, K. R., Chojnowski, S., De, L. N., Sobeck, J. S., Majewski, S. R., Cohen, R. E., Fern{'andez-Trincado}, J., Longa-Pe{~na}, P., O'Connell, J. E., Santana, F. A., Stringfellow, G. S., Zasowski, G., Aerts, C., Anguiano, B., Bender, C., Ca{~nas}, C. I., , Cunha, K., et al. (2021). "Final Targeting Strategy for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment 2 North Survey". AJ, 162(6), 302. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/ac260c
- Buzard, C., Piskorz, D., Lockwood, A. C., Blake, G., Barman, T. S., Benneke, B., Bender, C. F., & Carr, J. S. (2021). "Reinvestigation of the Multiepoch Direct Detections of HD 88133 b and Upsilon Andromedae b". AJ, 162(6), 269. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/ac2a2c
- Finnerty, L., Buzard, C., Pelletier, S., Piskorz, D., Lockwood, A. C., Bender, C. F., Benneke, B., & Blake, G. A. (2021). "Contrast and Temperature Dependence of Multi-epoch High-resolution Cross-correlation Exoplanet Spectroscopy". AJ, 161(3), 104. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/abd6ec
- Gupta, A. F., Wright, J. T., Robertson, P., Halverson, S., Luhn, J., Roy, A., Mahadevan, S., Ford, E. B., Bender, C. F., Blake, C. H., Hearty, F., Kanodia, S., Logsdon, S. E., McElwain, M. W., Monson, A., Ninan, J. P., Schwab, C., Stef{'ansson}, G., & Terrien, R. C. (2021). "Target Prioritization and Observing Strategies for the NEID Earth Twin Survey". AJ, 161(3), 13. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/abd79e
- Kanodia, S., Halverson, S., Ninan, J. P., Mahadevan, S., Stefansson, G., Roy, A., Ramsey, L. W., Bender, C. F., Janowiecki, S., Cochran, W. D., Diddams, S. A., Drory, N., Endl, M., Ford, E. B., Hearty, F., Metcalf, A. J., Monson, A., Robertson, P., Schwab, C., , Terrien, R. C., et al. (2021). "A Harsh Test of Far-Field Scrambling with the Habitable Zone Planet Finder and the Hobby Eberly Telescope". ApJ, 912, 11. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/abec83
- Kanodia, S., Stefansson, G., Ca{~nas}, C. I., Maney, M., Lin, A. S., Ninan, J. P., Jones, S., Monson, A., Parker, B. A., Kobulnicky, H. A., Rothenberg, J., Beard, C., Lubin, J., Robertson, P., Gupta, A. F., Mahadevan, S., Cochran, W. D., Bender, C. F., Diddams, S. A., , Fredrick, C., et al. (2021). "TOI-532b: The Habitable-zone Planet Finder confirms a Large Super Neptune in the Neptune Desert orbiting a metal-rich M-dwarf host". AJ, 162(4), 135. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/ac1940
- Krishnamurthy, V., Hirano, T., Stef{'ansson}, G., Ninan, J. P., Mahadevan, S., Gaidos, E., Kopparapu, R., Sato, B., Hori, Y., Bender, C. F., Ca{~nas}, C. I., Diddams, S. A., Halverson, S., Harakawa, H., Hawley, S., Hearty, F., Hebb, L., Hodapp, K., Jacobson, S., , Kanodia, S., et al. (2021). "Nondetection of Helium in the Upper Atmospheres of TRAPPIST-1b, e, and f". AJ, 162, 82. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/ac0d57
- Lubin, J., Robertson, P., Stefansson, G., Ninan, J., Mahadevan, S., Endl, M., Ford, E., Wright, J. T., Beard, C., Bender, C., Cochran, W. D., Diddams, S. A., Fredrick, C., Halverson, S., Kanodia, S., Metcalf, A. J., Ramsey, L., Roy, A., Schwab, C., & Terrien, R. (2021). "Stellar Activity Manifesting at a One-year Alias Explains Barnard b as a False Positive". AJ, 162(2), 61. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/ac0057
- Mahadevan, S., Stef{'ansson}, G., Robertson, P., Terrien, R. C., Ninan, J. P., Holcomb, R. J., Halverson, S., Cochran, W. D., Kanodia, S., Ramsey, L. W., Wolszczan, A., Endl, M., Bender, C. F., Diddams, S. A., Fredrick, C., Hearty, F., Monson, A., Metcalf, A. J., Roy, A., & Schwab, C. (2021). "The Habitable-zone Planet Finder Detects a Terrestrial-mass Planet Candidate Closely Orbiting Gliese 1151: The Likely Source of Coherent Low-frequency Radio Emission from an Inactive Star". ApJL, 919, 9. doi:10.3847/2041-8213/abe2b2
- Sneden, C., Af{c{s}ar}, M., Bozkurt, Z., Topcu, G. B., {"Ozdemir}, S., Zeimann, G. R., Froning, C. S., Mahadevan, S., Ninan, J. P., Bender, C. F., Terrien, R., Ramsey, L. W., Lind, K., Mace, G. N., Kaplan, K. F., Kim, H., Hawkins, K., & Bowler, B. P. (2021). "Chemical Compositions of Red Giant Stars from Habitable Zone Planet Finder Spectroscopy". AJ, 161(3), 128. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/abd7ee
- Terrien, R. C., Ninan, J. P., Diddams, S. A., Mahadevan, S., Halverson, S., Bender, C., Fredrick, C., Hearty, F., Jennings, J., Metcalf, A. J., Monson, A., Roy, A., Schwab, C., & Stefansson, G. (2021). "Broadband stability of the Habitable Zone Planet Finder Fabry-P'erot etalon calibration system: evidence for chromatic variation". AJ, 161, 252. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/abef68
- Tran, Q. H., Bowler, B. P., Cochran, W. D., Endl, M., Stef{'ansson}, G., Mahadevan, S., Ninan, J. P., Bender, C. F., Halverson, S., Roy, A., & Terrien, R. C. (2021). "The Epoch of Giant Planet Migration Planet Search Program. I. Near-infrared Radial Velocity Jitter of Young Sun-like Stars". AJ, 161(4), 173. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/abe041
- Ahumada, R., Prieto, C. A., Almeida, A., Anders, F., Anderson, S. F., Andrews, B. H., Anguiano, B., Arcodia, R., Armengaud, E., Aubert, M., & al., e. (2020). "The 16th Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: First Release from the APOGEE-2 Southern Survey and Full Release of eBOSS Spectra". apjs, 249(1), 3.
- Buzard, C., Finnerty, L., Piskorz, D., Pelletier, S., Benneke, B., Bender, C. F., Lockwood, A. C., Wallack, N. L., Wilkins, O. H., & Blake, G. A. (2020). "Simulating the Multi-epoch Direct Detection Technique to Isolate the Thermal Emission of the Non-transiting Hot Jupiter HD187123b". aj, 160(1), 1.
- Ca{~nas}, C. I., Stefansson, G., Kanodia, S., Mahadevan, S., Cochran, W. D., Endl, M., Robertson, P., Bender, C. F., Ninan, J. P., Beard, C., Lubin, J., Gupta, A. F., Everett, M. E., Monson, A., Wilson, R. F., Lewis, H. M., Brewer, M., Majewski, S. R., Hebb, L., , Dawson, R. I., et al. (2020). "A Warm Jupiter Transiting an M Dwarf: A TESS Single-transit Event Confirmed with the Habitable-zone Planet Finder". aj, 160(3), 147.
- Kanodia, S., Ca{~nas}, C. I., Stefansson, G., Ninan, J. P., Hebb, L., Lin, A. S., Baran, H., Maney, M., Terrien, R. C., Mahadevan, S., Cochran, W. D., Endl, M., Dong, J., Bender, C. F., Diddams, S. A., Ford, E. B., Fredrick, C., Halverson, S., Hearty, F., , Metcalf, A. J., et al. (2020). "TOI-1728b: The Habitable-zone Planet Finder Confirms a Warm Super-Neptune Orbiting an M-dwarf Host". apj, 899(1), 29.
- Ninan, J. P., Stefansson, G., Mahadevan, S., Bender, C., Robertson, P., Ramsey, L., Terrien, R., Wright, J., Diddams, S. A., Kanodia, S., Cochran, W., Endl, M., Ford, E. B., Fredrick, C., Halverson, S., Hearty, F., Jennings, J., Kaplan, K., Lubar, E., , Metcalf, A. J., et al. (2020). "Evidence for He I 10830 {r{A} Absorption during the Transit of a Warm Neptune around the M-dwarf GJ 3470 with the Habitable-zone Planet Finder}". apj, 894(2), 97.
- Robertson, P., Stefansson, G., Mahadevan, S., Endl, M., Cochran, W. D., Beard, C., Bender, C. F., Diddams, S. A., Duong, N., Ford, E. B., Fredrick, C., Halverson, S., Hearty, F., Holcomb, R., Juan, L., Kanodia, S., Lubin, J., Metcalf, A. J., Monson, A., , Ninan, J. P., et al. (2020). "Persistent Starspot Signals on M Dwarfs: Multiwavelength Doppler Observations with the Habitable-zone Planet Finder and Keck/HIRES". apj, 897(2), 125.
- Roy, A., Halverson, S., Mahadevan, S., Stefansson, G., Monson, A., Logsdon, S. E., Bender, C. F., Blake, C. H., Golub, E., Gupta, A., Jaehnig, K. P., Kanodia, S., Kaplan, K., McElwain, M. W., Ninan, J. P., Rajagopal, J., Robertson, P., Schwab, C., Terrien, R. C., , Wang, S. X., et al. (2020). "Solar Contamination in Extreme-precision Radial-velocity Measurements: Deleterious Effects and Prospects for Mitigation". aj, 159(4), 161.
- Stefansson, G., Ca{~nas}, C., Wisniewski, J., Robertson, P., Mahadevan, S., Maney, M., Kanodia, S., Beard, C., Bender, C. F., Brunt, P., Clemens, J. C., Cochran, W., Diddams, S. A., Endl, M., Ford, E. B., Fredrick, C., Halverson, S., Hearty, F., Hebb, L., , Huehnerhoff, J., et al. (2020). "A Sub-Neptune-sized Planet Transiting the M2.5 Dwarf G 9-40: Validation with the Habitable-zone Planet Finder". aj, 159(3), 100.
- Stefansson, G., Mahadevan, S., Maney, M., Ninan, J. P., Robertson, P., Rajagopal, J., Haase, F., Allen, L., Ford, E. B., Winn, J., Wolfgang, A., Dawson, R. I., Wisniewski, J., Bender, C. F., Ca{~nas}, C., Cochran, W., Diddams, S. A., Fredrick, C., Halverson, S., , Hearty, F., et al. (2020). "The Habitable Zone Planet Finder Reveals a High Mass and Low Obliquity for the Young Neptune K2-25b". aj, 160(4), 192.
- Stef{'ansson}, G., Kopparapu, R., Lin, A., Mahadevan, S., Ca{~nas}, C. I., Kanodia, S., Ninan, J. P., Cochran, W. D., Endl, M., Hebb, L., Wisniewski, J., Gupta, A., Everett, M., Bender, C. F., Diddams, S. A., Ford, E. B., Fredrick, C., Halverson, S., Hearty, F., , Levi, E., et al. (2020). "A Mini-Neptune and a Radius Valley Planet Orbiting the Nearby M2 Dwarf TOI-1266 in Its Venus Zone: Validation with the Habitable-zone Planet Finder". aj, 160(6), 259.
- Blake, C. H., Li, D., Tufts, J. R., Ninan, J., Mahadevan, S., Bender, C., Hearty, F. R., Monson, A., & Giovinazzi, M. (2019). Improving the thermal stability of a CCD through clocking. JOURNAL OF ASTRONOMICAL TELESCOPES INSTRUMENTS AND SYSTEMS, 5(4).
- Canas, C. I., Stefansson, G., Monson, A. J., Teske, J. K., Bender, C. F., Mahadevan, S., Aerts, C., Beaton, R. L., Butler, R. P., Covey, K. R., Crane, J. D., De, L. N., Diaz, M. R., Fleming, S. W., Garcia-Hernandez, D. A., Hearty, F. R., Kollmeier, J. A., Majewski, S. R., Nitschelm, C., , Schneider, D. P., et al. (2019). TOI-150: A Transiting Hot Jupiter in the TESS Southern CVZ. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS, 877(2).
- Kaplan, K. F., Bender, C. F., Terrien, R. C., Ninan, J., Roy, A., & Mahadevan, S. (2019). The Algorithms Behind the HPF and NEID Pipeline. ASTRONOMICAL DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE AND SYSTEMS XXVIII, 523, 567-570.
- Mahadevan, S., Bender, C. F., Hambleton, K., Fleming, S. W., Deshpande, R., Conroy, K., Matijevic, G., Hebb, L., Roy, A., Ak, H., Leban, B., & Prsa, A. (2019). The SDSS-HET Survey of Kepler Eclipsing Binaries. Description of the Survey and First Results. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, 884(2).
- Metcalf, A. J., Anderson, T., Bender, C. F., Blakeslee, S., Brand, W., Carlson, D. R., Cochran, W. D., Diddams, S. A., Endl, M., Fredrick, C., Halverson, S., Hickstein, D. D., Hearty, F., Jennings, J., Kanodia, S., Kaplan, K. F., Levi, E., Lubar, E., Mahadevan, S., , Monson, A., et al. (2019). Stellar spectroscopy in the near-infrared with a laser frequency comb. OPTICA, 6(2), 233-239.
- Ninan, J. P., Mahadevan, S., Stefansson, G., Bender, C., Roy, A., Kaplan, K. F., Fredrick, C., Metcalf, A. J., Monson, A., Terrien, R., Ramsey, L. W., & Diddams, S. A. (2019). Impact of crosshatch patterns in H2RGs on high-precision radial velocity measurements: exploration of measurement and mitigation paths with the Habitable-Zone Planet Finder. JOURNAL OF ASTRONOMICAL TELESCOPES INSTRUMENTS AND SYSTEMS, 5(4).
- Robertson, P., Anderson, T., Stefansson, G., Hearty, F. R., Monson, A., Mahadevan, S., Blakeslee, S., Bender, C., Ninan, J. P., Conran, D., Levi, E., Lubar, E., Cole, A., Dykhouse, A., Kanodia, S., Nitroy, C., Smolsky, J., Tuggle, D., Blank, B., , Nelson, M., et al. (2019). Ultrastable environment control for the NEID spectrometer: design and performance demonstration. JOURNAL OF ASTRONOMICAL TELESCOPES INSTRUMENTS AND SYSTEMS, 5(1).
- Wang, S. X., Wright, J. T., Bender, C., Howard, A. W., Isaacson, H., Veyette, M., & Muirhead, P. S. (2019). The Effects of Telluric Contamination in Iodine-calibrated Precise Radial Velocities*(?) Based on observations obtained at the Keck Observatory, which is operated by the University of California. The Keck Observatory was made possible by the generous financial support of the W. M. Keck Foundation.. ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL, 158(5).
- Abolfathi, B., Aguado, D. S., Aguilar, G., Prieto, C. A., Almeida, A., Ananna, T. T., Anders, F., Anderson, S. F., Andrews, B. H., Anguiano, B., Aragon-Salamanca, A., Argudo-Fernandez, M., Armengaud, E., Ata, M., Aubourg, E., Avila-Reese, V., Badenes, C., Bailey, S., Balland, C., , Barger, K. A., et al. (2018). The Fourteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey and from the Second Phase of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES, 235(2).
- Canas, C. I., Bender, C. F., Mahadevan, S., Fleming, S. W., Beatty, T. G., Covey, K. R., De, L. N., Hearty, F. R., Garcia-Hernandez, D. A., Majewski, S. R., Schneider, D. P., Stassun, K. G., & Wilson, R. F. (2018). Kepler-503b: An Object at the Hydrogen Burning Mass Limit Orbiting a Subgiant Star. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS, 861(1).More infoCanas is a Penn State graduate student being jointly supervised by C. Bender and S. Mahadevan
- Canas, C. I., Wang, S., Mahadevan, S., Bender, C. F., De, L. N., Fleming, S. W., Garcia-Hernandez, D. A., Hearty, F. R., Majewski, S. R., Roman-Lopes, A., Schneider, D. P., & Stassun, K. G. (2019). Kepler-730: A Hot Jupiter System with a Close-in, Transiting, Earth-sized Planet. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS, 870(2).More infoCanas is a Penn State graduate student being jointly supervised by C. Bender and S. Mahadevan.
- Gilhool, S. H., Blake, C. H., Terrien, R. C., Bender, C., Mahadevan, S., & Deshpande, R. (2018). The Rotation of M Dwarfs Observed by the Apache Point Galactic Evolution Experiment. ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL, 155(1).
- Kanodia, S., Mahadevan, S., Ramsey, L. W., Stefansson, G. K., Monson, A. J., Hearty, F. R., Blakeslee, S., Lubar, E., Bender, C. F., Ninan, J. P., Sterner, D., Roy, A., Halverson, S. P., & Robertson, P. M. (2018). Overview of the spectrometer optical fiber feed for the Habitable-zone Planet Finder. GROUND-BASED AND AIRBORNE INSTRUMENTATION FOR ASTRONOMY VII, 10702.
- Logsdon, S. E., McElwain, M. W., Gong, Q., Liang, M., Santoro, F., Schwab, C., Bender, C., Blake, C., Halverson, S., Hearty, F., Hunting, E., Jaehnig, K. P., Mahadevan, S., Monson, A. J., Percival, J. W., Rajagopal, J., Ramsey, L., Roy, A., Smith, M. P., , Terrien, R. C., et al. (2018). The NEID precision radial velocity spectrometer: port adapter overview, requirements, and test plan. GROUND-BASED AND AIRBORNE INSTRUMENTATION FOR ASTRONOMY VII, 10702.
- Ninan, J. P., Bender, C. F., Mahadevana, S., Ford, E. B., Monson, A. J., Kaplan, K. F., Terrien, R. C., Roy, A., Robertson, P. M., Kanodia, S., & Stefansson, G. K. (2018). The Habitable-Zone Planet Finder: Improved flux image generation algorithms for H2RG up-the-ramp data. HIGH ENERGY, OPTICAL, AND INFRARED DETECTORS FOR ASTRONOMY VIII, 10709.More infoNinan is a postdoctoral associate on the NEID instrument team being supervised by C. Bender.
- Piskorz, D., Buzard, C., Line, M. R., Knutson, H. A., Benneke, B., Crockett, N. R., Lockwood, A. C., Blake, G. A., Barman, T. S., Bender, C. F., Deming, D., & Johnson, J. A. (2018). Ground- and Space-based Detection of the Thermal Emission Spectrum of the Transiting Hot Jupiter KELT-2Ab. ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL, 156(3).
- Schwab, C., Liang, M., Gong, Q., Bender, C., Blake, C., Halverson, S., Harbeck, D., Hearty, F., Hunting, E., Jaehnig, K. P., Logsdon, S. E., Mahadevan, S., McElwain, M. W., Monson, A. J., Percival, J. W., Rajagopal, J., Ramsey, L., Robertson, P. M., Roy, A., , Santoro, F., et al. (2018). The NEID precision radial velocity spectrometer: Optical design of the port adapter and ADC. GROUND-BASED AND AIRBORNE INSTRUMENTATION FOR ASTRONOMY VII, 10702.
- Skinner, J., Covey, K. R., Bender, C. F., Rivera, N., De, L. N., Souto, D., Chojnowski, D., Troup, N., Badenes, C., Bizyaev, D., Blake, C. H., Burgasser, A., Canas, C., Carlberg, J., Maqueo, C., Deshpande, R., Fleming, S. W., Fernandez-Trincado, J. G., Garcia-Hernandez, D. A., , Hearty, F., et al. (2018). Forty-four New and Known M-dwarf Multiples in the SDSS-III/APOGEE M-dwarf Ancillary Science Sample. ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL, 156(2).
- Strassmeier, K. G., Ilyin, I., Weber, M., Jaervinen, A., Woche, M., Jaervinen, S., Sablowski, D., Mallonn, M., Keles, E., Carroll, T., Johnson, M. C., Bender, C., Wagner, R. M., & Veillet, C. (2018). Want a PEPSI? Performance status of the recently commissioned high-resolution spectrograph and polarimeter for the 2x8.4m Large Binocular Telescope. GROUND-BASED AND AIRBORNE INSTRUMENTATION FOR ASTRONOMY VII, 10702.
- Wilson, R. F., Teske, J., Majewski, S. R., Cunha, K., Smith, V., Souto, D., Bender, C., Mahadevan, S., Troup, N., Prieto, C. A., Stassun, K. G., Skrutskie, M. F., Almeida, A., Garcia-Hernandez, D. A., Zamora, O., & Brinkmann, J. (2018). Elemental Abundances of Kepler Objects of Interest in APOGEE. I. Two Distinct Orbital Period Regimes Inferred from Host Star Iron Abundances. ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL, 155(2).
- Abolfathi, B., Aguado, D., Aguilar, G., Allende Prieto, C., Almeida, A., Tasnim Ananna, T., Anders, F., Anderson, S., Andrews, B., Anguiano, B., & al., e. (2017). "The Fourteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey and from the second phase of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment". ArXiv e-prints.
- Blanton, M. R., Bershady, M. A., Abolfathi, B., Albareti, F. D., Allende, P. C., Almeida, A., Alonso-Garcia, J., Anders, F., Anderson, S. F., Andrews, B., Aquino-Ortiz, E., Aragon-Salamanca, A., Argudo-Fernandez, M., Armengaud, E., Aubourg, E., Avila-Reese, V., Badenes, C., Bailey, S., Barger, K. A., , Barrera-Ballesteros, J., et al. (2017). Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV: Mapping the Milky Way, Nearby Galaxies, and the Distant Universe. ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL, 154(1).
- Blanton, M., Bershady, M., Abolfathi, B., Albareti, F., Allende Prieto, C., Almeida, A., Alonso-Garc{'{i}a}, J., Anders, F., Anderson, S., Andrews, B., & al., e. (2017). "Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV: Mapping the Milky Way, Nearby Galaxies, and the Distant Universe". Astronomical Journal, 154, 28.
- Piskorz, D., Benneke, B., Crockett, N. R., Lockwood, A. C., Blake, G. A., Barman, T. S., Bender, C. F., Carr, J. S., & Johnson, J. A. (2017). Detection of Water Vapor in the Thermal Spectrum of the Non-transiting Hot Jupiter Upsilon Andromedae b. ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL, 154(2).
- Piskorz, D., Benneke, B., Crockett, N., Lockwood, A., Blake, G., Barman, T., Bender, C., Carr, J., & Johnson, J. (2017). "Detection of Water Vapor in the Thermal Spectrum of the Non-transiting Hot Jupiter Upsilon Andromedae b". Astronomical Journal, 154, 78.
- Stefansson, G., Mahadevan, S., Hebb, L., Wisniewski, J., Huehnerhoff, J., Morris, B., Halverson, S., Zhao, M., Wright, J., O'rourke, J., Knutson, H., Hawley, S., Kanodia, S., Li, Y., Hagen, L., Liu, L. J., Beatty, T., Bender, C., Robertson, P., , Dembicky, J., et al. (2017). Toward Space-like Photometric Precision from the Ground with Beam-shaping Diffusers. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, 848(1).
- Stefansson, G., Mahadevan, S., Hebb, L., Wisniewski, J., Huehnerhoff, J., Morris, B., Halverson, S., Zhao, M., Wright, J., O'rourke, J., Knutson, H., Hawley, S., Kanodia, S., Li, Y., Hagen, L., Liu, L., Beatty, T., Bender, C., Robertson, P., , Dembicky, J., et al. (2017). "Toward Space-like Photometric Precision from the Ground with Beam-shaping Diffusers". Astrophysical Journal, 848, 9.
- Zasowski, G., Cohen, R., Chojnowski, S., Santana, F., Oelkers, R., Andrews, B., Beaton, R., Bender, C., Bird, J., Bovy, J., Carlberg, J., Covey, K., Cunha, K., Dell'Agli, F., Fleming, S., Frinchaboy, P., Garc{'{i}a-Hern'andez}, D., Harding, P., Holtzman, J., , Johnson, J., et al. (2017). "Target Selection for the SDSS-IV APOGEE-2 Survey". Astronomical Journal, 154, 198.
- Bender, C. F., Robertson, P., Stefansson, G. K., Monson, A., Anderson, T., Halverson, S., Hearty, F., Levi, E., Mahadevan, S., Nelson, M., Ramsey, L., Roy, A., Schwab, C., Shetrone, M., & Terrien, R. (2016). The instrument control software package for the Habitable-Zone Planet Finder Spectrometer. SOFTWARE AND CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR ASTRONOMY IV, 9913.
- Gaulme, P., McKeever, J., Jackiewicz, J., Rawls, M. L., Corsaro, E., Mosser, B., Southworth, J., Mahadevan, S., Bender, C., & Deshpande, R. (2016). TESTING THE ASTEROSEISMIC SCALING RELATIONS FOR RED GIANTS WITH ECLIPSING BINARIES OBSERVED BY KEPLER. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, 832(2).
- Halverson, S., Terrien, R., Mahadevan, S., Roy, A., Bender, C., Stefansson, G. K., Monson, A., Levi, E., Hearty, F., Blake, C., McElwain, M., Schwab, C., Ramsey, L., Wright, J., Wang, S., Gong, Q., & Robertson, P. (2016). A comprehensive radial velocity error budget for next generation Doppler spectrometers. GROUND-BASED AND AIRBORNE INSTRUMENTATION FOR ASTRONOMY VI, 9908.
- Piskorz, D., Benneke, B., Crockett, N. R., Lockwood, A. C., Blake, G. A., Barman, T. S., Bender, C. F., Bryan, M. L., Carr, J. S., Fischer, D. A., Howard, A. W., Isaacson, H., & Johnson, J. A. (2016). EVIDENCE FOR THE DIRECT DETECTION OF THE THERMAL SPECTRUM OF THE NON-TRANSITING HOT GAS GIANT HD 88133 b. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, 832(2).
- 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. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, 832(2).
- Robertson, P., Hearty, F. R., Anderson, T. B., Stefansson, G. K., Levi, E. I., Bender, C. F., Mahadevan, S., Halverson, S. P., Monson, A. J., Ramsey, L. W., Roy, A., Schwab, C., Terrien, R. C., Nelson, M. J., & Blank, B. (2016). A system to provide sub-milliKelvin temperature control at T similar to 300K for extreme precision optical radial velocimetry. GROUND-BASED AND AIRBORNE INSTRUMENTATION FOR ASTRONOMY VI, 9908.
- Schwab, C., Rakich, A., Gong, Q., Mahadevan, S., Halverson, S. P., Roy, A., Terrien, R. C., Robertson, P. M., Hearty, F. R., Levi, E. I., Monson, A. J., Wright, J. T., McElwain, M. W., Bender, C. F., Blake, C. H., Sturmer, J., Gurevich, Y. V., Chakraborty, A., & Ramsey, L. W. (2016). Design of NEID, an extreme precision Doppler spectrograph for WIYN. GROUND-BASED AND AIRBORNE INSTRUMENTATION FOR ASTRONOMY VI, 9908.
- Stefansson, G. K., Hearty, F. R., Robertson, P. M., Levi, E. I., Mahadevan, S., Anderson, T. B., Monson, A. J., Bender, C. F., Halverson, S. P., Li, Y., Ramsey, L. W., Roy, A., Schwab, C., Terrien, R. C., Nelson, M. J., & Blank, B. (2016). Ultra-stable temperature and pressure control for the Habitable zone Planet Finder spectrograph. GROUND-BASED AND AIRBORNE INSTRUMENTATION FOR ASTRONOMY VI, 9908.
- Stefansson, G., Hearty, F., Robertson, P., Mahadevan, S., Anderson, T., Levi, E., Bender, C., Nelson, M., Monson, A., Blank, B., Halverson, S., Henderson, C., Ramsey, L., Roy, A., Schwab, C., & Terrien, R. (2016). A VERSATILE TECHNIQUE TO ENABLE SUB-MILLI-KELVIN INSTRUMENT STABILITY FOR PRECISE RADIAL VELOCITY MEASUREMENTS: TESTS WITH THE HABITABLE-ZONE PLANET FINDER. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, 833(2).
- Terrien, R. C., Monson, A. J., Mahadevan, S., Bender, C., Halverson, S. P., & Ramsey, L. (2016). Measuring extended red sensitivity in a 1.7 mu m-cutoff HgCdTe detector array. HIGH ENERGY, OPTICAL, AND INFRARED DETECTORS FOR ASTRONOMY VII, 9915.
- Alam, S., Albareti, F. D., Allende, P. C., Anders, F., Anderson, S. F., Anderton, T., Andrews, B. H., Armengaud, E., Aubourg, E., Bailey, S., Basu, S., Bautista, J. E., Beaton, R. L., Beers, T. C., Bender, C. F., Berlind, A. A., Beutler, F., Bhardwaj, V., Bird, J. C., , Bizyaev, D., et al. (2015). THE ELEVENTH AND TWELFTH DATA RELEASES OF THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY: FINAL DATA FROM SDSS-III. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES, 219(1).
- Fleming, S. W., Mahadevan, S., Deshpande, R., Bender, C. F., Terrien, R. C., Marchwinski, R. C., Wang, J. i., Roy, A., Stassun, K. G., Allende, P. C., Cunha, K., Smith, V. V., Agol, E., Ak, H., Bastien, F. A., Bizyaev, D., Crepp, J. R., Ford, E. B., Frinchaboy, P. M., , Anibal, G. D., et al. (2015). THE APOGEE SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEY OF KEPLER PLANET HOSTS: FEASIBILITY, EFFICIENCY, AND FIRST RESULTS. ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL, 149(4).
- Nidever, D. L., Holtzman, J. A., Allende, P. C., Beland, S., Bender, C., Bizyaev, D., Burton, A., Desphande, R., Fleming, S. W., Garcia, P., Hearty, F. R., Majewski, S. R., Meszaros, S., Muna, D., Nguyen, D., Schiavon, R. P., Shetrone, M., Skrutskie, M. F., Sobeck, J. S., & Wilson, J. C. (2015). THE DATA REDUCTION PIPELINE FOR THE APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY GALACTIC EVOLUTION EXPERIMENT. ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL, 150(6).
- Terrien, R. C., Mahadevan, S., Bender, C. F., Deshpande, R., & Robertson, P. (2015). M DWARF LUMINOSITY, RADIUS, AND alpha-ENRICHMENT FROM I-BAND SPECTRAL FEATURES. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS, 802(1).
- Terrien, R. C., Mahadevan, S., Deshpande, R., & Bender, C. F. (2015). A NEAR-INFRARED SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEY OF 886 NEARBY M DWARFS. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES, 220(1).
- Ahn, C. P., Alexandroff, R., Allende, P. C., Anders, F., Anderson, S. F., Anderton, T., Andrews, B. H., Aubourg, E., Bailey, S., Bastien, F. A., Bautista, J. E., Beers, T. C., Beifiori, A., Bender, C. F., Berlind, A. A., Beutler, F., Bhardwaj, V., Bird, J. C., Bizyaev, D., , Blake, C. H., et al. (2014). THE TENTH DATA RELEASE OF THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY: FIRST SPECTROSCOPIC DATA FROM THE SDSS-III APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY GALACTIC EVOLUTION EXPERIMENT. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES, 211(2).
- Halverson, S., Mahadevan, S., Ramsey, L., Terrien, R., Roy, A., Schwab, C., Bender, C., Hearty, F., Levi, E., Osterman, S., Ycas, G., & Diddams, S. (2014). The Habitable-zone Planet Finder Calibration System. GROUND-BASED AND AIRBORNE INSTRUMENTATION FOR ASTRONOMY V, 9147.
- Hearty, F., Levi, E., Nelson, M., Mahadevan, S., Burton, A., Ramsey, L., Bender, C., Terrien, R., Halverson, S., Robertsonl, P., Roy, A., Blank, B., Blanchard, K., & Stefansson, G. (2014). Environmental control system for Habitable-zone Planet Finder (HPF). GROUND-BASED AND AIRBORNE INSTRUMENTATION FOR ASTRONOMY V, 9147.
- Lockwood, A. C., Johnson, J. A., Bender, C. F., Carr, J. S., Barman, T., Richert, A., & Blake, G. A. (2014). NEAR-IR DIRECT DETECTION OF WATER VAPOR IN TAU BOOTIS b. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS, 783(2).
- Mahadevan, S., Ramsey, L. W., Terrien, R., Halverson, S., Roy, A., Hearty, F., Levi, E., Stefansson, G. K., Robertson, P., Bender, C., Schwab, C., & Nelson, M. (2014). The Habitable-zone Planet Finder: A status update on the development of a stabilized fiber-fed near-infrared spectrograph for the Hobby-Eberly telescope. GROUND-BASED AND AIRBORNE INSTRUMENTATION FOR ASTRONOMY V, 9147.
- Terrien, R. C., Bender, C. F., Mahadevan, S., Halverson, S. P., Ramsey, L. W., & Hearty, F. R. (2014). Developments in simulations and software for a near-infrared precision radial velocity spectrograph. SOFTWARE AND CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR ASTRONOMY III, 9152.
- Terrien, R. C., Mahadevan, S., Deshpande, R., Bender, C. F., Cargile, P. A., Hearty, F. R., Cottaar, M., Allende, P. C., Fleming, S. W., Frinchaboy, P. M., Jackson, K. M., Johnson, J. A., Majewski, S. R., Nidever, D. L., Pepper, J., Rodriguez, J. E., Schneider, D. P., Siverd, R. J., Stassun, K. G., , Weaver, B. A., et al. (2014). NEW RED JEWELS IN COMA BERENICES. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, 782(2).
- Deshpande, R., Blake, C. H., Bender, C. F., Mahadevan, S., Terrien, R. C., Carlberg, J. K., Zasowski, G., Crepp, J., Rajpurohit, A. S., Reyle, C., Nidever, D. L., Schneider, D. P., Allende, P. C., Bizyaev, D., Ebelke, G., Fleming, S. W., Frinchaboy, P. M., Ge, J., Hearty, F., , Hernandez, J., et al. (2013). THE SDSS-III APOGEE RADIAL VELOCITY SURVEY OF M DWARFS. I. DESCRIPTION OF THE SURVEY AND SCIENCE GOALS. ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL, 146(6).
- Bender, C. F., Mahadevan, S., Deshpande, R., Wright, J. T., Roy, A., Terrien, R. C., Sigurdsson, S., Ramsey, L. W., Schneider, D. P., & Fleming, S. W. (2012). THE SDSS-HET SURVEY OF KEPLER ECLIPSING BINARIES: SPECTROSCOPIC DYNAMICAL MASSES OF THE KEPLER-16 CIRCUMBINARY PLANET HOSTS. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS, 751(2).
- Mahadevan, S., Ramsey, L., Bender, C., Terrien, R., Wright, J. T., Halverson, S., Hearty, F., Nelson, M., Burton, A., Redman, S., Osterman, S., Diddams, S., Kasting, J., Endl, M., & Deshpande, R. (2012). The Habitable-Zone Planet Finder: A Stabilized Fiber-Fed NIR Spectrograph for the Hobby-Eberly Telescope. GROUND-BASED AND AIRBORNE INSTRUMENTATION FOR ASTRONOMY IV, 8446.
- Osterman, S., Ycas, G. G., Diddams, S. A., Quinlan, F., Mahadevan, S., Ramsey, L., Bender, C. F., Terrien, R., Botzer, B., Sigurddson, S., & Redman, S. L. (2012). A near infrared frequency comb for Y plus J band astronomical spectroscopy. MODERN TECHNOLOGIES IN SPACE-AND GROUND-BASED TELESCOPES AND INSTRUMENTATION II, 8450.
- Redman, S. L., Ycas, G. G., Terrien, R., Mahadevan, S., Ramsey, L. W., Bender, C. F., Osterman, S. N., Diddams, S. A., Quinlan, F., Lawler, J. E., & Nave, G. (2012). A HIGH-RESOLUTION ATLAS OF URANIUM-NEON IN THE H BAND. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES, 199(1).
- Terrien, R. C., Fleming, S. W., Mahadevan, S., Deshpande, R., Feiden, G. A., Bender, C. F., & Ramsey, L. W. (2012). THE METALLICITY OF THE CM DRACONIS SYSTEM. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS, 760(1).
- Terrien, R. C., Mahadevan, S., Bender, C. F., Deshpande, R., Ramsey, L. W., & Bochanski, J. J. (2012). AN H-BAND SPECTROSCOPIC METALLICITY CALIBRATION FOR M DWARFS. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS, 747(2).
- Ycas, G. G., Quinlan, F., Diddams, S. A., Osterman, S., Mahadevan, S., Redman, S., Terrien, R., Ramsey, L., Bender, C. F., Botzer, B., & Sigurdsson, S. (2012). Demonstration of on-sky calibration of astronomical spectra using a 25 GHz near-IR laser frequency comb. OPTICS EXPRESS, 20(6), 6631-6643.
- van, E., Ciardi, D. R., von, B. K., Kane, S. R., Plavchan, P., Bender, C. F., Brown, T. M., Crepp, J. R., Fulton, B. J., Howard, A. W., Howell, S. B., Mahadevan, S., Marcy, G. W., Shporer, A., Szkody, P., Akeson, R. L., Beichman, C. A., Boden, A. F., Gelino, D. M., , Hoard, D. W., et al. (2012). THE PTF ORION PROJECT: A POSSIBLE PLANET TRANSITING A T-TAURI STAR. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, 755(1).
- Ramsey, L., Mahdevan, S., Redman, S., Bender, C., Roy, A., Zonak, S., Sigursdson, S., & Wolszczan, A. (2010). The Pathfinder Testbed: Exploring Techniques for Achieving Precision Radial Velocities in the Near-Infrared. GROUND-BASED AND AIRBORNE INSTRUMENTATION FOR ASTRONOMY III, 7735.
- Bender, C. F., & Simon, M. (2008). THE DETECTION OF LOW-MASS COMPANIONS IN HYADES CLUSTER SPECTROSCOPIC BINARY STARS. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, 689(1), 416-429.
- Simon, M., Bender, C., & Prato, L. (2006). The Gl569 multiple system. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, 644(2), 1183-1192.
- Bender, C., Simon, M., Prato, L., Mazeh, T., & Zucker, S. (2005). An upper bound on the 1.6 micron flux ratio of the companion to rho Coronae Borealis. ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL, 129(1), 402-408.
- Dietrich, M., Bender, C. F., Bergmann, D. J., Bills, T. E., Bochkarev, N. G., Burenkov, A., Gaskell, C. M., Gutzmer, D. D., Grove, R., Hiller, M. E., Huchra, J. P., Klimek, E. S., Lund, C., Merkulova, N., Pebley, S., Poulsen, M. A., Pronik, V. I., Sergeev, S. G., Sergeeva, E. A., , Shapovalova, A. I., et al. (2001). A spectroscopic and photometric study of short-timescale variability in NGC 5548. ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS, 371(1), 79-92.
- McCullough, P. R., Bender, C., Gaustad, J. E., Rosing, W., & Van, B. D. (2001). The 5 degrees diameter ionized halo of the planetary nebula Abell 36. ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL, 121(3), 1578-1582.
Proceedings Publications
- Kanodia, S., Ninan, J. P., Monson, A. J., Mahadevan, S., Nitroy, C., Schwab, C., Halverson, S., Bender, C. F., Terrien, R., Hearty, F. R., Lubar, E., McElwain, M. W., Ramsey, L. W., Robertson, P. M., Roy, A., Stefansson, G., & Stevens, D. J. (2020, dec). "Ghosts of NEID's past". In Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series, 11447.
- Schwab, C., Monson, A. J., Kanodia, S., Lubar, E., Lin, A. S., Nitroy, C., Halverson, S., Gong, Q., Terrien, R. C., Ninan, J. P., Bender, C., Blake, C., Hearty, F. R., Mahadevan, S., McElwain, M. W., Robertson, P. M., Roy, A., & Stefansson, G. (2020, dec). "The NEID spectrometer: fibre injection system design". In Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series, 11447.
Presentations
- Bender, C. (2020, July). Why are RVs Important?. NASA Sagan Exoplanet Summer School. zoom: NASA Exoplanet Science Center.
- Bender, C. (2020, Nov). NEID: A next generation extreme precision RV spectrometer and the quest for Earth twins. JPL Colloquium. zoom: JPL.
- Bender, C. (2019, March). Automated data reduction pipelines for the HPF and NEID spectrometers. Extreme Precision in Radial Velocity IV. Grindelwald, Switzerland.
- Bender, C. (2019, September). The NEID Precision Radial Velocity Spectrometer: Laboratory AI&V and Commissioning Update. EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2019. Geneva, Switzerland.
- Bender, C. (2018, August). How to establish queues, formal and informal. Precision Radial Velocity Landscapes Meeting. Caltech: Keck Observatories.
- Bender, C. (2018, February). Binaries: What have we done in SDSS-III/IV with APOGEE. SDSSV Milky Way Mapper Meeting. Flatiron Institute, New York: Simons Institution.
- Bender, C. (2018, June). A decade of dynamical stellar astrophysics with RVs from APOGEE and SDSS (II, IV, and V). SDSSIV Collaboration Meeting. Seoul, South Korea.
- Bender, C. (2018, November). Exploring the Kepler Object of Interest Planet Sample with SDSS-APOGEE Spectroscopy. University of Texas Astronomy Seminar. Austin, TX: Dept of Astronomy, U Texas Austin.
- Bender, C. (2018, November). The Habitable Zone Planet Finder: Engineering & Comissioning Results and Data Analysis Workshop. HPF Users Workshop. UT Austin: Dept of Astronomy UT Austin.
- Bender, C. (2017, Dec). NEID: A next generation Doppler spectrometer for exoplanet discovery and followup at the WIYN telescope. American Geophysical Union 2017 Fall Meeting. New Orleans, LA: AGU.
- Bender, C. (2017, July). APOGEE - Kepler Object of Interest Goal Program Status. SDSSIV Collaboration Meeting. Santiago, Chile: SDSS.
- Bender, C. (2017, Sept). The Search for Earth-Twins with a New Generation of Doppler Spectrometers. Steward Observatory Colloquium. Tucson, AZ: Steward Observatory.