Refereed Publications

  1. Neilson, Hilding R.; Engle, Scott C.; Guinan, Edward; Langer, Norbert; Wasatonic, Richard. P.; & Williams, David. B. The Period Change of the Cepheid Polaris Suggests Enhanced Mass Loss, 2012, ApJ, 745, L32 (Press)
  2. Neilson, Hilding R. & Langer, Norbert; Is the Cepheid Binary OGLE-LMC-CEP0227 Consistent with No Cepheid Mass Discrepancy, 2012, A&A, 537, 26
  3. Croll, Bryce; Albert, Loic; Jayawardhana, Ray; Miller-Ricci Kempton, Eliza; Fortney, Jonathon; Murray, Norman; & Neilson, Hilding R.; Broadband transmission sprectroscopy of the super-Earth GJ 1214b suggests a low mean molecular weight atmosphere, 2011, ApJ, 736, 78
  4. Neilson, Hilding R.; & Lester, John B.; Limb-darkening as a test of stellar atmospheres, 2011, A&A, 530, 65
  5. Neilson, Hilding R.; Cantiello, Matteo; & Langer, Norbert; The Cepheid mass discrepancy and pulsation-driven mass loss, 2011, A&A Letter to the Editor, 529, L9 (Appeared as an A&A Highlight)
  6. Ngeow, Chow-Choong; Ita, Yoshifusa; Kanbur, Shashi M.; Neilson, Hilding R.; Onaka, Takashi; & Kato, Daisuke; Cepheid period-luminosity relation from AKARI observations, 2010, MNRAS, 408, 983
  7. Neilson, Hilding R.; Ngeow, Chow-Choong; Kanbur, Shashi M.; & Lester, John B.; Testing mass loss in Large Magellanic Cloud Cepheids using infrared and optical observations II, 2010, ApJ, 716, 1136
  8. Ngeow, Chow-Choong; Kanbur, Shashi M.; Neilson, Hilding R.; Nanthakumar, A.; & Buonaccorsi, John; Period-luminosity relations derived from the OGLE-III fundamental mode Cepheids, 2009, ApJ, 693, 69
  9. Neilson, Hilding R.; Ngeow, Chow-Choong; Kanbur, Shashi M.; & Lester, John B.; Testing mass loss in Large Magellanic Cloud Cepheids using infrared and optical observations, 2009, ApJ, 692, 81
  10. Neilson, Hilding R.; & Lester, John B.; On the enhancement of mass loss in Cepheids due to radial pulsation II: the effect of metallicity, 2009, ApJ, 690, 1829
  11. Lester, John B.; & Neilson, Hilding R.; SATLAS: spherical versions of the ATLAS stellar atmosphere program, 2008, A&A, 491, 633
  12. Neilson, Hilding R.; & Lester, John B.; Determining parameters of cool giant stars by modeling spectrophotometric and interferometric observations using the SATLAS program, 2008, A&A, 490, 807
  13. Neilson, Hilding R.; & Lester, John B.; On the enhancement of mass loss in Cepheids due to radial pulsation, 2008, ApJ, 684, 569


Submitted for Publication

  1. Neilson, Hilding R.; Nardetto, Nicholas; Ngeow, Chow Choong; Fouqué, Pascal; & Storm, Jesper; Cepheid limb darkening and projection factor from static spherical model stellar atmospheres, 2012, Submitted to A&AL
  2. Neilson, Hilding R. & Lester, John B.; Using Limb-Darkening to Measure Fundamental Parameters of Stars, 2012, Submitted to A&A


Non-Refereed Publications

  1. Neilson, Hilding R.; Ngeow, Chow-Choong; & Lester, John B.; Constructing a Cepheids Period p-Factor Relation From Static Model Stellar Atmospheres, 2012, 20th Stellar Pulsation Conference Series: Impact of New Instrumentation and New Insights in Stellar Pulsations, ArXiv 1201.0802
  2. Neilson, Hilding R.; Langer, Norbert; & Cantiello, Matteo; Stellar Evolution with Pulsation-Driven Mass Loss: The Case of LMC Cepheids, 2011, 9th Pacific Rim Conference on Stellar Astrophysics, ArXiv 1109.4563
  3. Neilson, Hilding R.; Lester, John B.; & Haubois, Xavier; Weighing Betelgeuse: Measuring the Mass of α Orionis from Stellar Limb-Darkening, 2011, 9th Pacific Rim Conference on Stellar Astrophysics, ArXiv 1109.4562 (Press)
  4. Neilson, Hilding R.; Comparison of Limb-Darkening Laws From Plane-Parallel and Spherically-Symmetric Model Stellar Atmospheres, 2011, IAUS 282: From Interacting Binaries to Exoplanets: Essential Modeling Tools, ArXiv 1109.4559
  5. Neilson, Hilding R.; & Lester, John B.; Using limb-darkening to measure the masses of red giants, 2011, Why Galaxies Care about AGB stars II, ASPC, 445, 165
  6. Neilson, Hilding R.; Cantiello, Matteo; & Langer, Norbert; Convective core overshoot & mass loss in classical Cepheids: a solution to the mass discrepancy?, 2010 Cool Stars XVI, ArXiv 1011.4391
  7. Neilson, Hilding R.; Ngeow, Chow-Choong; Kanbur, Shashi M.; & Lester, John B.; The connection between pulsation, mass loss, and circumstellar shells in classical Cepheids, 2009 Stellar Pulsation: Challenges for Theory and Observations, AIPC, 1170, 141
  8. Ngeow, Chow-Choong; Kanbur, Shashi; Ghobria, L; Neilson, Hilding R.; & Macri, Lucas; IRAC band period-luminosity relations from LMC Cepheids: application to three nearby galaxies, 2009, Stellar Pulsation: Challenges for Theory and Observations, AIPC, 1170, 37
  9. Neilson, Hilding R.; Ngeow, Chow-Choong; Kanbur, Shashi M.; & Lester, John B.; Modeling mass loss and infrared excess in Large Magellanic Cloud Cepheids, 2009, IAU Symposium 256: The Magellanic System: Stars, Gas, and Galaxies, ArXiv 0808.3995
  10. Neilson, Hilding R.; & Lester, John B.; Modeling stellar atmospheres with a spherically symmetric version of the ATLAS code: testing the code by comparisons to interferometric observations and PHOENIX models, 2009, Cool Stars XV, AIPC, 1094, 804