Publications by Christoph C. Birk

• IFUM: Integral field units for Magellan
  Mario Mateo, John Bailey, Yingyi Song, Jeffrey Crane, Charlie Hull, Stephen Shectman, Christoph Birk
  Proc SPIE, 12184, 2022/8

• Henrietta: a low-resolution, high-precision exoatmosphere spectrograph for Las Campanas Observatory
  Jason E. Williams, Nicholas P. Konidaris II, Tyson S. Hare, Julia Brady, Christoph Birk, Johanna K. Teske, Daniel D. Kelson, Gwen C. Rudie, Andrew B. Newman
  Proc SPIE, 12184, 2022/8

• Conceptual design of the Giant Magellan Telescope Commissioning Camera
  Jeffrey D. Crane, Alan Uomoto, Philippe Amram, Sergio R. Augusto, Christoph Birk, Antonio Braulio Neto, Daniel M. Faes, Tyson Hare, Patricio Jones, Claudia Mendes de Oliveira, Stephen A. Shectman, Macro A.F. de Souza
  Proc. SPIE, 11447, 2020/12

• The IMACS Occultation Survey: I. Pilot Study
  Payne, M. J.; Holman, M. J.; Alcock, C.; Schlichting, H.; Osip, D.; Bianco, F.; McLeod, B.; Murray-Clay, R.; Nulsen, P.; Protopapas, P.; Thompson, I.; Burley, G.; Birk, C.
  2014AGUFM.P51D3975P 2014/12

• The IMACS Occultation Survey: I. Pilot Study
  Holman, Matthew J.; Payne, Matthew J.; Alcock, Charles; Schlichting, Hilke; Osip, David; Bianco, Federica; McLeod, Brian; Murray-Clay, Ruth; Nulsen, Paul; Protopapas, Pavlos; Thompson, Ian; Burley, Greg; Birk, Christoph
  2014DPS....4642101H 2014/11

• FourStar: The Near-Infrared Imager for the 6.5-m Baade Telescope at Las Campanas Observatory [pdf]
  S. E. Persson, D. C. Murphy, S. Smee, C. Birk, A. J. Monson, A. Uomoto, E. Koch, S. Shectman, R. Barkhouser, J. Orndorff, R. Hammond, A. Harding, G. Scharfstein, D. Kelson, J. Marshall, P. J. McCarthy
  Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (PASP), Volume 125, Issue 928, pp.654-682, 06/2013

• Demographics of the Galaxies Hosting Short-duration Gamma-Ray Bursts [APJ]
  W. Fong, E. Berger, R. Chornock, R. Margutti, A. J. Levan, N. R. Tanvir, R. L. Tunnicliffe, I. Czekala, D. B. Fox, D. A. Perley, S. B. Cenko, B. A. Zauderer, T. Laskar, S. E. Persson, A. J. Monson, D. D. Kelson, C. Birk, D. Murphy, M. Servillat, and G. Anglada
  The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 769, 1, 56, 2013

• IMACS: The Inamori-Magellan Areal Camera & Spectrograph on Magellan-Baade [pdf]
  Alan Dressler, Bruce Bigelow, Tyson Hare, Brian Sutin, Ian Thompson, Greg Burley, Harland Epps, Augustus Oemler Jr., Alan Bagish, Christoph Birk, Ken Clardy, Steve Gunnels, Daniel Kelson, Stephen Shectman, David Osip
  Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (PASP), Volume 123, Issue 910, pp.288-332, 03/2011

• The Carnegie Planet Finder Spectrograph: integration and commissioning [pdf]
  Jeffrey D. Crane, Stephen A. Shectman, R. Paul Butler, Ian B. Thompson, Christoph Birk, Patricio Jones and Gregory S. Burley
  Proc. SPIE, 7735, pp.773553-773553-15, 2010

• MMTF: The Maryland Magellan Tunable Filter [pdf]
  S. Veilleux, B. J. Weiner, D. S. N. Rupke, M. A. McDonald, C. Birk, J. Bland-Hawthorn, A. Dressler, T. Hare, D. Osip, C. Pietraszewski, and S. N. Vogel
  The Astronomical Journal, Volume 139, Issue 1, pp. 145-157, 2010

• The Carnegie Astrometric Planet Search Program [pdf]
  Alan P. Boss, Alycia J. Weinberger, Gulliem Anglada-Escude, Ian B. Thompson, Gregory Burley, Christoph Birk, Steven H. Pravdo, Stuart B. Shaklan, George D. Gatewood, Steven R. Majewski, Richard J. Patterson
  Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (PASP), Volume 121, Issue 885, pp.1218-1231, 11/2009

• The FourStar Infrared Camera [pdf]
  S. E. Persson, Robert Barkhouser, Christoph Birk, Randy Hammond, Albert Harding, E. R. Koch, J. L. Marshall, Patrick J. McCarthy, David Murphy, Joe Orndorff, Gregg Scharfstein, Stephen A. Shectman, Stephen Smee, Alan Uomoto
  Proc. SPIE, 7014, 2008

• The MagE Spectrograph [pdf]
  J. L. Marshall, Scott Burles, Ian B. Thompson, Stephen A. Shectman, Bruce C. Bigelow, Gregory Burley, Christoph Birk, Jorge Estrada, Patricio Jones, Matthew Smith, Vince Kowal, Jerson Castillo, Robert Storts, Greg Ortiz
  Proc. SPIE, 7014, 2008

• PANIC: A Near-infrared Camera for the Magellan Telescopes
  Paul Martini, S.E. Persson, D.C. Murphy, C. Birk, S.A. Shectman, S.M. Gunnels and E.Koch
  Proc. SPIE, 5492, p.1653-1660, 2004

• The Las Campanas Infrared Survey Camera
  Persson, S. E.; Murphy, D. C.; Gunnels, S. M.; Birk, C.; Bagish, A.; Koch, E.
  The Astronomical Journal, Volume 124, Issue 1, pp. 619-634, 2002

• Omega Prime: the wide-field near-infrared camera for the 3.5m telescope of the Calar Alto Observatory.
  P. Bizenberger, M. J. McCaughrean, C. Birk, D. Thompson, & C. Storz.
  Proc. SPIE, 3354, p.825-832, 1998

• CHARM - A Tip-Tilt Tertiary System for the Calar Alto 3.5m Telescope
  Glindemann, A.; McCaugrhean, M. J.; Hippler, S.; Birk, C.; Wagner, K.; Rohloff, R-R
  Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (PASP), 109, 668-696, 1997

• Thermal IR Imaging with Max: Pushing the Limit of Single-Dish Ground-Based Observations
  Robberto, M.; Herbst, T.M.; Beckwith, S.V.W.; Birk, C.; Bizenberger, P.
  Science with the VLT Interferometer,Proceedings of the ESO workshop, held at Garching, Germany, 18-21 June 1996, Publisher: Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, ESO Astrophysics Symposia, ISBN: 3540632646, 1997, p.391

• CHARM - a tip-tilt tertiary system for the Calar Alto 3.5m telescope
  Andreas Glindemann, Mark J. McCaughrean, Stefan Hippler, Karl Wagner and Ralf-Rainer Rohloff
  Adaptive Optics, Vol. 13, 1996, OSA Technical Digest Series (Optical Society of America, Washington DC, 1996), p. 275-277

• Vertical Disk Structure in HL Tauri
  Beckwith, Steven V. W.; Birk, Christoph C.
  Astrophysical Journal Letters, 449, L5, 1995

• Magic and Charm: A novel approach to tip-tilt adaptive optics
  McCaughrean, M. J.; Glindemann, A.; Birk, C.; Herbst,T. M.; Rohloff, R.-R.; Beckwith, S. V. W.
  Experimental Astronomy, 3, No. 1-4, 137, 1994

• Magic and Charm: A Novel Approach to Tip-Tilt Adaptive Optics
  McCaughrean, M. J.; Glindemann, A.; Birk, C.; Herbst, T. M.; Rohloff, R. R.; Beckwith, S.
  Infrared Astronomy with Arrays, The Next Generation, edited by Ian S. McLean. ISBN 0-7923-2778-0; Astrophysics and Space Science Library, Vol. 190, p.297, 1994

• MAGIC: A new near-infrared camera for Calar Alto
  Herbst, Thomas M.; Beckwith, Steven V. W.; Birk, C.; Hippler, Stefan; McCaughrean, Mark J.; Mannucci, F.; Wolf, Juergen.
  Proc. SPIE, 1946, 605, Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation, Albert M. Fowler; Ed, 1993

• A chopping secondary for the MPIA 3.5m-telescope at Calar Alto, Spain.
  Diploma (M.S.) thesis, Christoph Birk, University of Heidelberg,1990

• A chopping secondary for the ESO 2.2m-telescope at La Silla, Chile
  Sekundaespiegel-Chopper fuer.2-m-Teleskop II auf La Silla
  Mitteilungen der Astronomischen Gesellschaft, 68, 214, 1987

And (without credits):

Omega Cass: a new multimode NIR-imager/spectrometer for the Calar Alto Observatory

Lenzen, Rainer; Bizenberger, Peter; Salm, Norbert; Storz, Clemens

Proc. SPIE, 3354, p.493-499, 1998

The Michigan/Magellan Fiber System

Mario Mateo, John I. Bailey, Jeffrey Crane, Stephen Shectman, Ian Thompson, Ian Roederer, Bruce Bigelow and Steve Gunnels

Proc. SPIE 8446, 2012

The Carnegie Planet Finder Spectrograph: a status report [pdf]

Crane, Jeffrey D.; Shectman, Stephen A.; Butler, R. Paul; Thompson, Ian B.; Burley, Gregory S.

Proc. SPIE, 7014, 2008

Giant Magellan Telescope Site Evaluation and Characterization at Las Campanas Observatory [pdf]

Joanna E. Thomas-Osip , Gabriel Prieto , Matt Johns , Mark M. Phillips

Proc. SPIE, 7012, 2008

GMT Site Evaluation at Las Campanas Observatory

J. E. Thomas-Osip

RevMexAA, 31, pp.18-24, 2007

IMACS, the multiobject spectrograph and imager for Magellan: a status report [pdf]

Bruce C. Bigelow and Alan Dressler

Proc. SPIE, 4841, 2003

The Transitional Pre-Main-Sequence Object DI Tauri: Evidence for a Substellar Companion and Rapid Disk Evolution [pdf]

Meyer, Michael R.; Beckwith, S. V. W.; Herbst, T. M.; Robberto, M.

Astrophysical Journal Letters v.489, p.L173, 1997