Publications

First Author Publications:

(prior to my marriage, my publications were made in my maiden name, McGary)

Herrnstein, R.M. & Ho, P.T.P. "The Nature of the Molecular Environment within 5 pc of the Galactic Center," 2005, ApJ, 620, 287

Herrnstein, R.M., Zhao, J.-H., Bower, G.C., & Goss, W.M. " The Variability of Sagittarius A* at Centimeter Wavelengths," 2004, AJ, 127, 3399

Herrnstein, R.M. & Ho, P.T.P. "Hot Molecular Gas in the Central 10 Parsecs of the Galaxy," in "The central 300 parsecs of the Milky Way", Eds. A. Cotera, H. Falcke, T. R. Geballe, S. Markoff, 2003, ANS, 324, No. S1, 583

Herrnstein, R.M. "Ammonia at the Galactic Center:  A Detailed Study of the Molecular Environment in the Central 10 Parsecs of the Galaxy," 2003, PhD Thesis .

Herrnstein, R.M. & Ho, P.T.P. "Hot Molecular Gas in the Galactic Center," 2002, ApJL, 579, 83

McGary, R.S. & Ho, P.T.P. "NH3 in the Central 10 pc of the Galaxy. II.  Determination of Opacity for Gas with Large Linewidths," 2002, ApJ, 577, 757  

McGary, R. S., Coil, A. L., & Ho, P. T. P.  ``NH3 in the Central 10 pc of the Galaxy. I. General Morphology and Kinematic Connections Between the CND and GMCs,'' 2001,  ApJ, 559, 326

McGary, R. S., Brisken, W. F., Fruchter, A. S., Goss, W. M. & Thorsett, S. E.  ``Proper Motion Measurements with the VLA. I. Wide-Field Imaging and Pulse-Gating Techniques,''  2001, AJ, 121, 1192

Other Publications:

(prior to my marriage, my publications were made in my maiden name, McGary)

Bower, G.C., Falcke, H., Herrnstein, R.M., Zhao, J.-H., & Goss, W.M., & Backer, D.C. "Detection of the Intrinsic Size of Sagittarius A* through Closure Amplitude Imaging," 2004, Science, 304, 704

      (For a very accessible summary of this result, see the related perspective article by Mark Morris)

Zhao, J.-H., Herrnstein, R.M., Bower, G.C., Goss, W.M, & Liu, S.M. " A Radio Outburst Coincident with the Large X-ray Flare from Sgr A* on 2002 October 3," 2004, ApJL, 603, 85

Brisken, W.F., Fruchter, A.S., Goss, W.M., Herrnstein, R.M., & Thorsett, S.E. "Proper-Motion Measurements with the VLA. II. Observations of 28 Pulsars," 2003, AJ, 126, 3090

Zhao, J.-H., Young, K.H, Herrnstein, R.M., Ho, P.T.P., Tsutsumi, T., Lo, K.Y., Bower, G.C., & Goss, W.M. "Variability of Sgr A* -- Flares at 1 Millimeter," 2003, ApJL, 586, 29

Lee, S., Pak, S., Davis, C.J., Herrnstein, R.M., Geballe, T.R., Ho, P.T.P., Wheeler, J.C. "Interaction between the Northeastern Boundary of Sgr A East and Giant Molecular Clouds: Excitation Mechanisms of the H2 Emission," in "The central 300 parsecs of the Milky Way", Eds. A. Cotera, H. Falcke, T. R. Geballe, S. Markoff, 2003, ANS, 324, 189

Lee, S., Pak, S., Davis, C.J., Herrnstein, R.M., Geballe, T.R., Ho, P.T.P., Wheeler, J.C. "Interaction between the Northeastern Boundary of Sgr A East and Giant Molecular Clouds," 2003, MNRAS, 341, 509

Wright, M. C. H., Coil, A. L., McGary, R. S., Ho, P. T. P., & Harris, A.I. ``Molecular Tracers of the Central 12 pc of the Galactic Center, '' 2001, ApJ, 551, 254

Posters:

(prior to my marriage, my publications were made in my maiden name, McGary)

Herrnstein, R.M. & Ho, P.T.P.  "The Forest from the Trees:  A 3-D View of the Inner 10 pc of the Galaxy from High-Resolution Spectral Line Images," 2004, poster presented at "Sgr A* at 30" conference, Green Bank, WV (PDF mini-poster)

Baganoff, F. K. et al. (25 co-authors) "Multiwavelength Monitoring of Sgr A* During Chandra Observations of Multiple X-ray Flares," 2002, poster presented at American Astronomical Society meeting

McGary, R.S., Ho, P.T.P., & Coil, A.L.  "Temperature, Opacity, and Kinematics of NH3 at the GalacticCenter," 2001, poster presented at American Astronomical Society meeting, Washington, DC (PDF mini-poster)

Bower, G.C., McGary, R.S., Zhao, J.-H., & Goss, W.M. "The Intrinsic Variability of Sgr A* at Radio Wavelengths," 2001, poster presented at American Astronomical Society meeting, Washington, DC (PDF mini-poster)

Zhao, J.-H., Young, K.H., McGary, R.S., Ho, P.T.P., Tsutsumi, T., Goss, W.M., Bower, G.C., & SMA Team "The Submillimeter Array Observations of Sagittarius A*: I. & II. Flares at 1~Millimeter from The Supermassive Black Hole at The Galactic Center," 2001, poster presented at American Astronomical Society meeting, Washington, DC

McGary, R. S. & Ho, P. T. P. ``Infalling Gas onto the Circumnuclear Disk,''1999, poster press release presented at American Astronomical Society meeting, Atlanta, GA 

McGary, R. S., Goss, W. M., Fruchter, A. S., \& Thorsett, S. E. `` Proper Motion of High Galactic Latitude Pulsars, '' 1997, poster presented at American Astronomical Society meeting, Washington, DC

McGary, R. S. ``The Distribution of Evolved IR Variable Stars in the Galaxy,'' 1996, poster presented at American Astronomical Society meeting, Toronto, Canada

Press Coverage:

Streamers Show a Black Hole Feeding January 17, 2000 (space.com)

Streamers of Gas Feeding the Beast at the Center of Our Galaxy January 12, 2000 (CfA)


CV:

Herrnstein_cv.ps
Herrnstein_cv.pdf