Publications

Tam Nguyen (2025). Rapid Pre-discovery of Near-Earth Objects. The 9th IAA Planetary Defense Conference 2025.

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Tam Nguyen, Deborah Woods, Jessica Ruprecht, Jonathan Birge (2024). Efficient search and detection of faint moving objects in image data. The Astronomical Journal.

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Tam Nguyen, Kerri L Cahoy, Meghan K Quadrino (2019). Attitude determination using earth horizon sensors.

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Tam Nguyen, Edward Morgan, Roland Vanderspek, Alan Levine, Miranda Kephart, James Francis, Joseph Zapetis, Kerri Cahoy, George Ricker (2018). Fine-pointing performance and corresponding photometric precision of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems.

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Tam Nguyen, Kerri Cahoy, Anne Marinan (2018). Attitude determination for small satellites with infrared Earth horizon sensors". Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets.

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Chelsea X Huang, Jennifer Burt, Andrew Vanderburg, Maximilian N Günther, Avi Shporer, Jason a Dittmann, Joshua N Winn, Rob Wittenmyer, Lizhou Sha, Stephen R Kane, Others (2018). TESS discovery of a transiting super-Earth in the pi Mensae System. The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

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Chelsea X Huang, Avi Shporer, Diana Dragomir, Michael Fausnaugh, Alan M Levine, Edward H Morgan, Tam Nguyen, George R Ricker, Matt Wall, Deborah F Woods, Others (2018). Expected yields of planet discoveries from the TESS primary and extended missions. arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.11129.

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Tam Nguyen, Victor Pankratius, Laura Eckman, Sara Seager (2018). Computer-aided discovery of debris disk candidates: A case study using the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) catalog. Astronomy and computing.

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Ryan Wallace Kingsbury, Kathleen Michelle Riesing, Kerri Lynn Cahoy, Tam Nguyen, David O Caplan (2017). Free-space optical communication module for small satellites.

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Ryan W Kingsbury, Tam Nguyen, Kathleen Riesing, Kerri Cahoy (2017). Fast-steering solutions for cubesat-scale optical communications. International Conference on Space Optics—ICSO 2014.

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Deborah F Woods, Roland Vanderspek, Robert MacDonald, Edward Morgan, Joel Villasenor, Carolyn Thayer, Barry Burke, Christian Chesbrough, Michael Chrisp, Kristin Clark, Others (2016). The TESS camera: modeling and measurements with deep depletion devices. Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave.

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Tam Nguyen (2015). Laser beacon tracking for high-accuracy attitude determination.

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Tam Nguyen, Kathleen Riesing, Ryan Kingsbury, Kerri Cahoy (2015). Development of a pointing, acquisition, and tracking system for a CubeSat optical communication module. Free-Space Laser Communication and Atmospheric Propagation XXVII.

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Kerri L Cahoy, Anne D Marinan, Benjamin Novak, Caitlin Kerr, Tam Nguyen, Matthew Webber, Grant Falkenburg, Andrew Barg (2014). Wavefront control in space with MEMS deformable mirrors for exoplanet direct imaging. Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS.

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Ryan W Kingsbury, Kathleen Riesing, Tam Nguyen, Kerri Cahoy (2014). Two-stage control for CubeSat optical communications. CalPoly CubeSat Developers Workshop.

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Tam Nguyen (2014). Attitude determination using infrared Earth horizon sensors. Small Satellite Conference 2014.

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Kerri L Cahoy, Anne D Marinan, Benjamin Novak, Caitlin Kerr, Tam Nguyen, Matthew Webber, Grant Falkenburg, Andrew Barg, Kristen Berry, Ashley Carlton, Others (2013). MEMS deformable mirror CubeSat testbed. Techniques and Instrumentation for Detection of Exoplanets VI.

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Evan D Wise, Christopher M Pong, David Miller, Kerri Cahoy, Tam Nguyen (2013). A dual-spinning, three-axis-stabilized cubesat for earth observations. AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) Conference.

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