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Overview of LBTI: a multipurpose facility for high spatial resolution observations
P. M. Hinz, D. Defrère, A. Skemer, V. Bailey, J. Stone, E. Spalding, A. Vaz, E. Pinna, A. Puglisi, S. Esposito, M. Montoya, E. Downey, J. Leisenring, O. Durney,; W. Hoffmann,; J. Hill, R. Millan-Gabet, B. Mennesson, W. Danchi, K. Morzinski, P. Grenz, M. Skrutskie, S. Ertel
SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2016: Proceedings Volume 9907, Optical and Infrared Interferometry and Imaging V; 990704 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2233795

Towards controlled Fizeau observations with the Large Binocular Telescope
Eckhart Spalding, Phil Hinz, Steve Ertel, Erin Maier, Jordan Stone
SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2018:
Proceedings Volume 10701, Optical and Infrared Interferometry and Imaging VI; 107010J (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2315498

Design of ALES: a broad wavelength integral field unit for LBTI/LMIRcam
P. M. Hinz; A. Skemer; J. Stone; O. M. Montoya; O. Durney
SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2018:

Proceedings Volume 10702, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII; 107023L (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2314289

On-sky operations with the ALES integral field spectrograph
Jordan M. Stone, Andrew J. Skemer, Philip Hinz; Zack Briesemeister, Travis Barman, Charles E. Woodward, Mike Skrutskie, Jarron Leisenring
SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2018
Proceedings Volume 10702, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII; 107023F (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2313977

ALES: overview and upgrades
Andrew J. Skemer; Philip Hinz; Jordan Stone; Michael Skrutskie; Charles E. Woodward; Jarron Leisenring; Zackery Briesemeister

SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2018
Proceedings Volume 10702, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII; 107020C (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2314091

The HOSTS survey for exozodiacal dust: Observational results from the complete survey
Ertel, S.,Defrere, D., Hinz, P., Mennesson, B., Kennedy, G. M., Danchi, W. C., Gelino, C., Hill, J. M., Hoffmann, W. F., Rieke, G., Shannon, A., Spalding, E.,Stone, J. M., Vaz, A., Weinberger, A. J., Willems, P., Absil, O., Arbo, P., Bailey, V. P., Beichman, C., Bryden, G., Downey, E. C., Durney, O., Esposito, S., Gaspar, A., Grenz, P., Haniff, C. A., Leisenring, J. M., Marion, L. McMahon, T. J. Millan-Gabet, R.,Montoya, M., Morzinski, K. M., Perera, S.,Pinna, E., Pott, J.-U., Power, J., Puglisi, A.,Roberge, A.,Serabyn, E., Skemer, A. J., Stapelfeldt, K., Su, K. Y. L., Vaitheeswaran, V., and Wyatt, M. C. Pending Publication

Enabling the direct detection of earth-sized exoplanets with the LBTI HOSTS project: a progress report
W. Danchi, V. Bailey, G. Bryden, D. Defrère, S. Ertel, C. Haniff, P. Hinz, G. Kennedy, B. Mennesson, R. Millan-Gabet, G. Rieke, A. Roberge, E. Serabyn, A. Skemer, K. Stapelfeldt, A. Weinberger, M. Wyatt, A. Vaz
SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2016
Proceedings Volume 9907, Optical and Infrared Interferometry and Imaging V; 990713 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2233397

A two-band approach to nλ phase error corrections with LBTI’s PHASECam
E. R. Maier, P. M. Hinz, D. Defrère, S. Ertel, E. Downey
SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2018
Proceedings Volume 10701, Optical and Infrared Interferometry and Imaging VI; 107011M (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2313627

Precision Time-series Photometry in the Thermal Infrared with a “Wall-eyed” Pointing Mode at the Large Binocular Telescope
Spalding, Eckhart; Hinz, Phil; Skemer, Andrew; Hill, John; Bailey, Vanessa P.; Vaz, Amali
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Volume 130, Issue 983, pp. 014504 (2018)