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List of works by Jessica R. Lu

<tt>SPISEA</tt>: A Python-based Simple Stellar Population Synthesis Code for Star Clusters

scientific article published on 28 August 2020

A Binary-Induced Pinwheel Outflow from the Extreme Carbon Star, AFGL 3068

A Glitch in an Anomalous X-Ray Pulsar

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

A measurement of the systematic astrometric error in GeMS and the short-term astrometric precision in ShaneAO

A population of luminous accreting black holes with hidden mergers

scientific article published in Nature

An Adaptive Optics Survey of Stellar Variability at the Galactic Center

scholarly article

An Isolated Mass-gap Black Hole or Neutron Star Detected with Astrometric Microlensing

scientific article published in July 2022

Analyzing long-term performance of the Keck-II adaptive optics system

scientific article published on 30 May 2022

Analyzing long-term performance of the Keck-II adaptive optics system

scientific article published on 14 December 2020

Astrometric performance of the Gemini multiconjugate adaptive optics system in crowded fields

scientific article

Confusing Binaries: The Role of Stellar Binaries in Biasing Disk Properties in the Galactic Center

article

Constraining the Variability and Binary Fraction of Galactic Center Young Stars

Discovery of low-metallicity stars in the central parsec of the Milky Way

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Discovery of precursor luminous blue variable outbursts in two recent optical transients: the fitfully variable missing links UGC 2773-OT and SN 2009ip

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Disentangling the Black Hole Mass Spectrum with Photometric Microlensing Surveys

scholarly article

Erratum: “Investigating the Binarity of S0-2: Implications for Its Origins and Robustness as a Probe of the Laws of Gravity around a Supermassive Black Hole” (2018, ApJ, 854, 12)

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Ground layer adaptive optics for the W. M. Keck Observatory: feasibility study

HST/WFC3 observations of an off-nuclear superbubble in Arp 220

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

High angular resolution integral-field spectroscopy of the Galaxy's nuclear cluster: a missing stellar cusp?

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Imaka: a ground-layer adaptive optics system on Maunakea

Individual, Model-independent Masses of the Closest Known Brown Dwarf Binary to the Sun

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Investigating the Binarity of S0-2: Implications for Its Origins and Robustness as a Probe of the Laws of Gravity around a Supermassive Black Hole

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Keck adaptive optics observations of the protostellar disk around radio source I in the Orion Kleinmann-Low nebula

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Keck all sky precision adaptive optics: project overview

scientific article published on 13 December 2020

LOTTTTUCE: Layer Oriented Tip-Tilt Turbulence Tomography using Covariance and Elevation

Long‐TermRossi X‐Ray Timing ExplorerMonitoring of the Anomalous X‐Ray Pulsar 1E 1048.1−5937

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

MOA-2007-BLG-400 A Super-Jupiter-mass Planet Orbiting a Galactic Bulge K-dwarf Revealed by Keck Adaptive Optics Imaging

scientific article published on 15 July 2021

Massive Young Clusters Near the Galactic Center

Measuring the stellar luminosity function and spatial density profile of the inner 0.5 pc of the Milky Way nuclear star cluster

Modeling anisoplanatism in the Keck II laser guide star AO system

Modeling instrumental field-dependent aberrations in the NIRC2 instrument on the Keck II telescope

Near-infrared astrometry of star clusters with different flavors of adaptive optics and HST

Observational constraints on the formation and evolution of the Milky Way nuclear star cluster with Keck and Gemini

Planets around low-mass stars (PALMS). VI. Discovery of a remarkably red planetary-mass companion to the AB Dor moving group candidate 2MASS J22362452+4751425*

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Precision astrometry with adaptive optics: constraints on the mutual orbit of Luhman 16AB from GeMS

Radial trends in IMF-sensitive absorption features in two early-type galaxies: evidence for abundance-driven gradients

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Real-time Likelihood-free Inference of Roman Binary Microlensing Events with Amortized Neural Posterior Estimation

scientific article published on 11 May 2021

Recent results and perspectives for precision astrometry and photometry with adaptive optics

Relativistic redshift of the star S0-2 orbiting the Galactic Center supermassive black hole

scientific article published in January 2019

Second generation Robo-AO instruments and systems

Super-solar Metallicity Stars in the Galactic Center Nuclear Star Cluster: Unusual Sc, V, and Y Abundances

scientific article

Supplement: “An Isolated Mass-gap Black Hole or Neutron Star Detected with Astrometric Microlensing” (2022, ApJL, 933, L23)

scientific article published in June 2022

Testing General Relativity with Stellar Orbits around the Supermassive Black Hole in Our Galactic Center.

scientific article published on 25 May 2017

Testing for periodicities in near-IR light curves of Sgr A*

The AIROPA software package: milestones for testing general relativity in the strong gravity regime with AO

The Galactic Center: An Improved Astrometric Reference Frame for Stellar Orbits around the Supermassive Black Hole

scholarly article by Shoko Sakai et al published 5 March 2019 in The Astrophysical Journal

The Galactic Center: Improved Relative Astrometry for Velocities, Accelerations, and Orbits near the Supermassive Black Hole

scholarly article by Siyao Jia et al published 27 February 2019 in The Astrophysical Journal

The Infrared Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) for TMT: the science case

The Optical/Near-infrared Extinction Law in Highly Reddened Regions

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Quintuplet Cluster: Extended Structure and Tidal Radius

scholarly article

The Unusual Initial Mass Function of the Arches Cluster

scientific article

The arches cluster: extended structure and tidal radius

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The infrared imaging spectrograph (IRIS) for TMT: latest science cases and simulations

The infrared imaging spectrograph (IRIS) for TMT: overview of innovative science programs

The orbital motion of the Arches cluster — clues on cluster formation near the galactic center

The orbital motion of the Arches cluster: clues on cluster formation near the Galactic Center

Unveiling MOA-2007-BLG-192: An M Dwarf Hosting a Likely Super-Earth

WFIRST Exoplanet Mass-measurement Method Finds a Planetary Mass of 39 ± 8 M ⊕ for OGLE-2012-BLG-0950Lb

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Young stars in the Galactic center

`imaka: a path-finder ground-layer adaptive optics system for the University of Hawaii 2.2-meter telescope on Maunakea