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REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

  1. Magnetic Field in The Isolated Massive Dense Clump IRAS 20126+4104, Shinnaga et al. (including Houde, M.) 2011, ApJ, submitted
  2. Characterization of Turbulence from Submillimeter Dust Emission, Chitsazzadeh, S., Houde, M., Hildebrand, R. H., and Vaillancourt, J. E., 2012, Accepted for publication in the ApJ
  3. The Apparent Velocity and Acceleration of Relativistically Moving Objects, Berlet, A., McKeon, D. G. C., Chishtie, F., and Houde, M., 2011, Canadian Journal of Physics, 89, 657
  4. Ambipolar Diffusion and Turbulent Magnetic Fields in Molecular Clouds, Houde, M., Hezareh, T., Li, H., and Phillips, T. G. 2011, Modern Physics Letters A, vol. 26, No. 4, pp. 235-249 (invited review)
  5. The Carter Constant for Inclined Elliptical Orbits About a Massive Kerr Black Hole: II. Near-circular, near-polar orbits, Komorowski, P. G., Valluri, S. R., and Houde, M. 2011, Physical Review D, submitted
  6. Dispersion of Magnetic Fields in Molecular Clouds. III, Houde, M., Rao. R., Vaillancourt, J. E., and Hildebrand, R. H. 2011, ApJ, 733, 109
  7. Polarisation Observations of VY Canis Majoris H2O 532-441 620.701 GHz Maser Emission with HIFI, Harwit, M., Houde, M., et al. 2010, A&A, 521, L51
  8. Observational Determination of the Turbulent Ambipolar Diffusion Scale and Magnetic Strength in Molecular Clouds , Hezareh, T., Houde, M., McCoey, C., and Li, H. 2010, ApJ, 720, 603
  9. Tracing Turbulent Ambipolar Diffusion in Molecular Clouds, Li, H., Houde, M., Lai, S.-P., and Sridharan, T. K. 2010, ApJ, 718, 905
  10. The Carter Constant for Inclined Elliptical Orbits About a Massive Kerr Black Hole: I. Circular orbits, Komorowski, P. G., Valluri, S. R., and Houde, M. 2010, Classical and Quantum Gravity, 27 (225023)
  11. A Four-Stokes-Parameter Spectral Line Polarimeter at the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory, Hezareh, T., and Houde, M. 2010, PASP, 122, 786
  12. Damping of Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence in Partially Ionized Gas and the Observed Difference of Velocities of Neutrals and Ions, Falceta-Goncalves, D., Lazarian, A., and Houde, M. 2010, ApJ, 713, 1376
  13. Dispersion of Magnetic Fields in Molecular Clouds. II, Houde, M., Vaillancourt, J. E., Hildebrand, R. H., Chitsazzadeh, S., and Kirby, L. 2009, ApJ, 706, 1504
  14. Magnetic Fields and Infall Motions in NGC 1333 IRAS 4, Attard, M., Houde, M., Novak, G., Li, H., Vaillancourt, J. E., Dowell, C. D., Davidson, J., and Shinnaga, H. 2009, ApJ, 702, 1584
  15. Dispersion of Magnetic Fields in Molecular Clouds. I, Hildebrand, R. H., Kirby, L., Dotson, J. L., Houde, M., and Vaillancourt, J. E. 2009, ApJ, 696, 567
  16. A Study of Elliptical Last Stable Orbits About a Massive Kerr Black Hole , Komorowski, P. G., Valluri, S. R., Houde, M. 2009, Classical and Quantum Gravity, 26 (085001).
  17. New Results on the Submillimeter Polarization Spectrum of the Orion Molecular Cloud, Vaillancourt, J. E., Dowell, C. D., Hildebrand, R. H., Kirby, L., Krejny, M. M., Li, H., Novak, G., Houde, M., Shinnaga, H., and Attard, M. 2008, ApJ, 675, L25
  18. The Hertz/VPM Polarimeter: Design and First Light Observations, Krejny, M. M., Chuss, D., Drouet d'Aubigny, C., Golish, D., Houde, M., Hui, H., Kulesa, C., Loewenstein, R. F., Moseley, S. H., Novak, G., Voellmer, G., Walker, C., and Wollack, E. 2008, Appl. Opt. 47, 4429-4440
  19. Simultaneous Determination of the Cosmic Ray Ionization Rate and Fractional Ionization in DR21(OH), Hezareh, T., Houde, M., McCoey, C., Vastel C., and Peng, R. 2008, ApJ, 684, 1221
  20. The Removal of Artificially Generated Polarization in SHARP Maps, Attard, M., Houde, M., Novak, G., and Vaillancourt, J. E. 2008, PASP, 120, 805
  21. Probing the Turbulence Dissipation Range and Magnetic Field Strengths in Molecular Clouds, Li, H. and Houde, M. 2008, ApJ, 677, 1151
  22. An Upper Limit on Gas Production from 3200 Phaethon, Wiegert, P., Houde, M., and Peng, R. 2008, Icarus, 194, 843
  23. Astronomical Image Processing with Array Detectors, Houde, M., and Vaillancourt, J. E. 2007, PASP, 119, 871
  24. The James Clerk Maxwell Telescope Legacy Survey of Nearby Star-forming Regions in the Gould Belt, Ward-Thompson, D. et al. (including Houde, M.) 2007, PASP, 119, 855
  25. The Distribution of ortho-H2D+ in L1544: Tracing the Deuteration Factory in Prestellar Cores, Vastel, C., Caselli, P., Ceccarelli, C., Phillips, T. G., Wiedner, M., Peng, R., Houde, M., Dominik, C. 2006, ApJ, 645, 1198
  26. Evaluating the Magnetic Field Strength in Molecular Clouds, Houde, M. 2004, ApJ, 616, L111
  27. The Measurement of the Orientation of the Magnetic Field in Molecular Clouds, Houde, M., Peng, R., Yoshida, H., Hildebrand, R. H., Phillips, T. G., Dowell, C. D., Bastien, P., Dotson, J. L., Vaillancourt, J. E. 2004, Ap&SS, 292, 127
  28. Tracing the Magnetic Field in Orion A, Houde, M., Dowell, C. D., Hildebrand, R. H., Dotson, J. L., Vaillancourt, J. E., Phillips, T. G., Peng, R., Bastien, P. 2004, ApJ, 604, 717
  29. Controlling a Telescope Chopping Secondary Mirror Assembly Using a Signal Deconvolution Technique, Houde, M., Holt, L. C., Yoshida, H., and Nelson, P. M. 2003, Rev. Sci. Inst., vol. 74, no. 8, 3802
  30. On the Measurement of the Magnitude and Orientation of the Magnetic Field in Molecular Clouds, Houde, M., Bastien, P., Dotson, J. L., Dowell, C. D., Hildebrand, R. H., Peng, R., Phillips, T. G., Vaillancourt, J. E., and Yoshida, H. 2002, ApJ, 569, 803
  31. Polarizing Grids, Their Assemblies, and Beams of Radiation, Houde, M., Akeson, R. L., Carlstrom, J. E., Lamb, J. W., Schleuning, D. A., Woody, D. P. 2001, PASP, 113, 622
  32. The Alignment of the Magnetic Field and Collimated Outflows in Star-forming Regions - The Case of NGC 2071, Houde, M., Phillips, T. G., Bastien, P., Peng, R., and Yoshida, H. 2001, ApJ, 547, 311
  33. Probing the Magnetic Field with Molecular Ion Spectra - II, Houde, M., Peng, R., Phillips, T. G., Bastien, P., and Yoshida, H. 2000, ApJ, 537, 245
  34. Probing the Magnetic Field with Molecular Ion Spectra, Houde, M., Bastien, P., Peng, R., Phillips, T. G., and Yoshida, H. 2000, ApJ, 536, 847
  35. New Molecules Found in Comet C/1995 O1 (Hale-Bopp). Investigating the Link between Cometary and Interstellar Material, Bockelée-Morvan, D., Lis, D. C., Wink, J. E., Despois, D., Crovisier, J., Bachiller, R., Benford, D. J., Biver, N., Colom, P., Davies, J. K., Gérard, E., Germain, B., Houde, M., Merhinger, D., Moreno, R., Paubert, G., Phillips, T. G., Rauer, H. 2000, A&A, 353, 1101
  36. Submillimeter Array Polarimetry with Hertz, Dowell, C. D., Hildebrand, R. E., Schleuning, D. A., Vaillancourt, J. E., Dotson, J. L., Novak, G., Renbarger, T., Houde, M. 1998, ApJ, 504, 588
  37. Image Restoration and Photometric Monitoring of the Gravitational Lens Q2237+0305, Houde, M., Racine, R. 1994, AJ, 107, 466 (Reprint (.pdf), ~1 MB)

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

  1. Magnetic Fields in Three Dimensions, Houde, M. 2011, in "Astronomical Polarimetry 2008: Science from Small to Large Telescopes", ASP Conference Series, in press
  2. POL-2: The SCUBA-2 Polarimeter, Bastien P. et al. (including Houde, M.) 2011, in "Astronomical Polarimetry 2008: Science from Small to Large Telescopes", ASP Conference Series, in press
  3. Probing the Magnetic Field with Molecular Ion Spectra, Houde, M., Phillips, T. G., Vaillancourt, J. E., Li, H., Hildebrand, R. H., Dowell, C. D., Peng, R., Yoshida, H., Bastien, P. and Dotson, J. L. 2009, in "Submillimeter Astrophysics and Technology - A Symposium Honouring Thomas G. Phillips", ASP Conference Series, vol. 418, p. 265
  4. SHARP: The SHARC-II polarimeter at the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory, Vaillancourt, J. E., Attard, M., Dowell, C. D., Hildebrand, R. H., Houde, M., Kirby, L., Krejny, M., Li, H., Novak, G., and Shinnaga, H., 2007, in "2007 AAS/AAPT Joint Meeting, American Astronomical Society Meeting 209"
  5. SHARP: the SHARC-II Polarimeter for CSO, Li, H., Attard, M., Dowell, C. D., Hildebrand, R. H., Houde, M., Kirby, L., Novak, G., and Vaillancourt, J. E. 2006, in "Millimeter and Submillimeter Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy III", Proceedings of the International Society for Optical Engineering, Vol. 6275, p. 48 (Bellingham:SPIE)
  6. A CSO Submillimeter Active Optics System, Leong, M., Peng, R., Houde, M., Yoshida, H., Chamberlin, R., and Phillips, T. G., 2006, in "Millimeter and Submillimeter Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy III", Proceedings of the International Society for Optical Engineering, Vol. 6275, p. 21 (Bellingham:SPIE)
  7. Tracing the Magnetic Field in Molecular Clouds, Houde, M., Peng, R., Yoshida, H. Hildebrand, R. H., Dowell, C. D., Phillips, T. G., Dotson, J. L., Bastien, P., and Vaillancourt, J. E., 2005, in "Astronomical Polarimetry - Current Status and Future Directions", ASP Conference Series, eds. A. Adamson, C. Aspin, C. J. Davis, and T. Fujiyoshi, Vol. 343, p. 154
  8. A Polarimetry Module for CSO/SHARC-II, Novak, G., Chuss, D. T., Davidson, J. A., Dotson, J. L., Dowell, C. D., Hildebrand, R. H., Houde, M., Kirby, L., Krejny, M.,, Lazarian, A., Li, H., Moseley, S. H., Vaillancourt, J. E., and Yusef-Zadeh, F. 2004, SPIE Glasgow conference, submitted ( Preprint (.ps.gz), ~3.5 MB )
  9. Tracing the Magnetic Field in Molecular Clouds, Houde, M., Phillips, T. G., Hildebrand, R. H., Dowell, C. D., Bastien, P., Peng, R., Vaillancourt, J. E., Dotson, J. L., and Yoshida, H. 2004, in "The Dense Interstellar Medium in Galaxies", Proceedings of 4th Cologne-Bonn-Zermatt-Synposium, eds. Pfalzner, S., Kramer, C., Straubmeier, C., Heithausen, A., Springer-Verlag, p. 90
  10. The Measurement of the Magnetic Field in Molecular Clouds, Houde, M., Bastien, P., Dotson, J. L., Dowell, C. D., Hildebrand, R. H., Peng, R., Phillips, T. G., Vaillancourt, J. E., and Yoshida, H. 2003, in "Chemistry as a Diagnostic of Star Formation", eds. Curry, C. L. & Fich, M., NRC Research Press, 46
  11. Depletion of CO in Warm HCN Cores in G1.6-0.025, Peng, R., Whiteoak, J. B., Houde, M., and Yoshida, H. 2003, in "Chemistry as a Diagnostic of Star Formation", eds. Curry, C. L. & Fich, M., NRC Research Press, 85
  12. Using FIRST to Probe the Magnetic Field with Low-mass Molecular Ions, Houde, M., Phillips, T. G., Peng, R., Bastien, P., Yoshida, H. 2001, in "The Promise of Herschel Space Observatory", eds. Pilbratt, G. L., Cernicharo, J., Heras, A. M., Prusti, T., Harris, R., Noordwijk: ESA SP-460, 231 ( Preprint (.ps), ~135 KB )
  13. Probing the Magnetic Field with Molecular Ion Spectra, Houde, M., Peng, R., Phillips, T. G., Bastien, P. and Yoshida, H. 2001, in "Tetons 4: Galactic Structures, Stars and the Interstellar Medium", eds. Woodward, C. E., Bicay, M. D., Shull, J. M., Chelsea: ASP Conference Series, 231, 357

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