Refereed Papers:

Dinescu, D. I., Martínez-Delgado, D., Girard, T. M., Peñarrubia, J., Rix, H.-W., Butler, D., and van Altena, W. F. 2005, "Absolute Proper Motion of the Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy Candidate", Astrophys. J. Lett. 631, L49.

Carraro, G., Dinescu, D. I., Girard, T. M., and van Altena, W. F. 2005, "Probing the nature of possible open cluster remnants with the Southern Proper Motion Program", Astron. & Astrophys.  433, 143.

Dinescu, D. I., Girard, T. M., van Altena, W. F., and López, C. E. 2005, "Absolute Proper Motion of the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy and of the Outer Regions of the Milky Way Bulge", Astrophys. J. Lett. 618, L25.

Girard, T. M., Dinescu, D. I., van Altena, W. F., Platais, I., Monet, D. G., and López, C. E. 2004, "The Southern Proper Motion Program. III. A Near-Complete Catalog to V=17.5", Astron. J. 127, 3060.

Korchagin, V. I., Girard, T. M., Borkova, T. V., Dinescu, D. I., and van Altena, W. F. 2003, "Local Surface Density of the Galactic Disk from a Three-Dimensional Stellar Velocity Sample", Astron. J. 126, 2896.

Dinescu, D. I., Girard, T. M., van Altena, W. F., and López, C. E. 2003, "Space Velocities of Southern Globular Clusters. IV. First Results for Inner Galaxy Clusters", Astron. J. 125, 1373.

Dinescu, D. I., Majewski, S. R., Girard, T. M., Méndez, R. A., Sandage, A., Siegel, M. H., Kunkel, W. E., Subasavage, J. P., and Ostheimer, J. 2002, "Absolute Proper Motions to B ~ 22.5. V. Detection of Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Debris in the Direction of the Galactic Anticenter", Astrophys. J. Lett. 575, L67.

Platais, I, Kozhurina-Platais, V, Girard, T. M., van Altena, W. F., Klemola, A. R., et al. 2002, "WIYN Open Cluster Study. VIII. The Geometry and Stability of the NOAO CCD Mosaic Image", Astron. J. 124, 601.

Dinescu, D. I., Majewski, S. R., Girard, T. M., and Cudworth, K. M. 2001, "Orbits of Globular Clusters in the Outer Galaxy: NGC 7006", Astron. J. 122, 1916.

Horch, E., van Altena, W. F., Girard, T. M., Franz, O. G., López, C. E., and Timothy, J. G. 2001, "Speckle Interferometry of Southern Double Stars. II. Measures from the CASLEO 2.15 Meter Telescope, 1995-1996", Astron. J. 121, 159.

Dinescu, D. I., Majewski, S. R., Girard, T. M., and Cudworth, K. M., 2000, "The Absolute Proper Motion of Palomar 12: A Case for Tidal Capture from the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy", Astron. J. 120, 1892.

Girard, T. M., Wu, H., Lee, J. T., Dyson, S. E., van Altena, W. F., Horch, E. P., Gilliland, R. L., Schaefer, K. G., Bond, H. E., Ftaclas, C., Brown, R. H., Toomey, D. W., Shipman, H. L., Provencal, J. L., and Pourbaix, D.  2000, "A Redetermination of the Mass of Procyon", Astron. J. 119, 2428.

Dinescu, D. I., Girard, T. M., van Altena, W. F.  1999, "Space Velocities of Globular Clusters.  III.  Cluster Orbits and Halo Substructure", Astron. J. 117, 1792.

Platais, I., Girard, T. M., Kozhurina-Platais, V., van Altena, W. F., Jain, R. K., and Lopez, C. E.  1999, "Nova Velorum 1999=V382 Vel: Astrometry and Photometry", Publ. Astron. Soc. Pacific, 112, 224.

Mendez, R. A., Platais, I., Girard, T. M., Kozhurina-Platais, V., and van Altena, W. F.  1999, "A Large Local Rotational Speed for the Galaxy Found from Proper Motions: Implications for the Mass of the Milky Way", Astrophys. J. Lett. 524, L39.

Mendez, R. A., Platais, I., Girard, T. M., Kozhurina-Platais, V., and van Altena, W. F.  1999, "Galactic Kinematics toward the South Galactic Pole: First Results from the Yale-San Juan Southern Proper Motion Program", Astron. J. 119, 813.

Horch, E. Ninkov, Z., van Altena, W. F., Meyer, R. D., Girard, T. M., Timothy, J. G.  1999, "Speckle Observations of Binary Stars with the WIYN Telescope.  I.  Measurements During 1997", Astron. J. 117, 548.

Dinescu, D. I., Girard, T. M., van Altena, W. F., Lopez, C. E.  1999, "Space Velocities of Southern Globular Clusters.  II.  New Results for 10 Clusters", Astron. J. 117, 277.

Platais, I., Girard, T. M., Kozhurina-Platais, V., van Altena, W. F., Lopez, C. E., Mendez, R. A., Ma, W.-Z., Yang, T.-G., MacGillivray, H. T., Yentis, D. J.  1998, "The Southern Proper Motion Program. II. A Catalog at the South Galactic Pole", Astron. J. 116, 2556.

Girard, T. M., Platais, I., Kozhurina-Platais, V., van Altena, W. F., Lopez, C. E. 1998, "The Southern Proper Motion Program. I.  Magnitude-Equation Correction", Astron. J. 115, 855.

Platais, I., Kozhurina-Platais, V., Girard, T. M., van Altena, W. F., Lopez, C. E., Hanson, R. B., Klemola, A. R., Jones, B. F., MacGillivray, H. T., Yentis, D. J., Kovalevsky, J., and Lindegren, L. 1998, "The Hipparcos proper motion link to the extragalactic reference system using NPM and SPM", Astron. & Astrophys. 331, 1119.

Dinescu, D. I., Girard, T. M., van Altena, W. F., Mendez, R. A., Lopez, C. E. 1997, "Space Velocities of Southern Globular Clusters I.  Astrometric Techniques and First Results", Astron. J. 114, 1014.

van Altena, W. F., Lu, C.-L., Lee, J. T., Girard, T. M., Guo, X., Deliyannis, C. P., Platais, I., Kozhurina-Platais, V., et al., 1997, "The Distance to the Hyades Cluster Based on Hubble Space Telescope Fine Guidance Sensor Parallaxes", Astrophys. J. Lett. 486, L123.

Dinescu, D. I., Girard, T. M., van Altena, W. F. and Yang, T-gao 1996, "A proper-motion Membership Study of the Old Open Cluster NGC 188", Astron. J. 111, 1205.

Horch, E. P., Dinescu, D. I., Girard, T. M., van Altena, W. F., Lopez, C. E., & Franz, O. G. 1996, "Speckle interferometry of southern double stars. I. First results of the Yale-San Juan speckle interferometry program", Astron. J. 111, 1681.

Bailyn, C. D., Orosz, J. A., Girard, T. M., Jogee, S., della Valle, M., Begam, M. C., Fruchter, A. S., Gonzalez, R., Ianna, P. A., Layden, A. C., Martins, D. H., and Smith, M. 1995, "The optical counterpart of the superluminal source GRO J1655-40", Nature, Vol. 374, 701.

Girard, T. M., Li, Y., van Altena, W. F., Nunez, J., and Prades, A. 1995, "Astrometry with Reconstructed HST Planetary Camera (WF/PC 1) Images", International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology, Vol. 6, No. 4, 395.

Kozhurina-Platais, V., Girard, T. M., Platais, I., van Altena, W.F., Ianna, P.A., Cannon, R.D. 1995, "A proper-motion study of the open cluster NGC 3680", Astron. J. 109, 672.

Platais, I., Girard, T. M., van Altena, W. F., Ma, W. Z., Lindegren, L., Crifo, F., and Jahreiss, H. 1995, "A study of systematic positional errors in the SPM plates", Astron. & Astrophys. 304, 141.

Bailyn, C. D., Rubenstein, E. P., Girard, T. M., Dinescu, D. I., Rasio, F. A., and Yanny, B. 1994, "A Possible Optical Counterpart for the Triple Pulsar System PSR B1620-26", Astrophys. J. Lett. 433, L89.

Guo, X., Girard, T. M., van Altena, W. F., and Lopez, C. E. 1993, "Space Velocity of the Globular Cluster NGC 288 and Astrometry with the CTIO 4-Meter Telescope", Astron. J. 105, 2182.

Lopez, C. E. and Girard, T. M, 1990, "Accurate positions for variable and suspected variable stars south of -67 deg", Publ. Astron. Soc. Pac. 102, 1018.

Girard, T., van Altena, W. F., and Lopez, C. E., 1988, "Astrometry of SN 1987A and SK -69.202 deg", Astron. J. 95, 58.

Girard, T. and Willson, L. A., 1987, "Winds in collision. III - Modeling the interaction nebulae of eruptive symbiotics", Astron. & Astrophys. 183, 247.

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