SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Kim Griest


Cosmic Asymmetry, Neutrinos, and the Sun, With D. Seckel, Nucl. Phys. B283, 681 (1987); B296, 1034 (E) (1988).

Invisible Decays of Higgs Bosons in Supersymmetric Models, With H. E. Haber, Phys. Rev. D37, 719 (1988).

Effect of the Sun's Gravity on the Distribution and Detection of Dark Matter near the Earth, Phys. Rev. D37, 2703 (1988).

Calculations of Rates for Direct Detection of Neutralino Dark Matter, Phys. Rev. Lett. 61, 666 (1988).

Cross Sections, Relic Abundance, and Detection Rates for Neutralino Dark Matter, Phys. Rev. D38, 2357 (1988).

Solitosynthesis: Cosmological Evolution of Non-topological Solitons, With E. W. Kolb, Phys. Rev. D40, 3231 (1989).

Rate for Annihilation of Galactic Dark Matter into Two Photons, With G. F. Giudice, Phys. Rev. D40 2549 (1989).

Unitarity Limits on the Mass and Radius of Dark Matter Particles, With M. Kamionkowski, Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 615 (1990).

Prospects Fade for Neutrino Cold Dark Matter, With J. Silk, Nature 343, 26 (1990).

Supersymmetric Dark Matter Above the W Mass, With M. Kamionkowski and M. S. Turner, Phys. Rev. D41, 3565 (1990).

Galactic Microlensing as a Method of Detecting Massive Compact Halo Objects, Astrophysical J. 366, 412 (1991).

Three Exceptions in the Calculation of Relic Abundances, With D. Seckel, Phys. Rev. D43, 3191 (1991).

Gravitational Microlensing as a Method of Detecting Disk Dark Matter and Faint Disk Stars, ApJ Lett. 372, L79 (1991).

Effect of Relaxing Grand Unification Assumptions on Neutralinos in the Minimal Supersymmetric Model, With L. Roszkowski, Phys. Rev. D46, 3309 (1992).

Effect of Binary Star Sources on Microlensing Searches for Baryonic Dark Matter, With W. Hu, Astrophysical Journal, 397, 362 (1992).

Nuclear Shell Model Calculations of Neutralino-Nucleus Cross Sections for 29Si and 73Ge, With M.T.Ressell, et al., Phys. Rev. D 48, 5519, 1993.

Possible Gravitational Microlensing of a Star in the Large Magellanic Cloud, With C.Alcock, et al., Nature 365, 621, 1993.

Theory of Exploring the Dark Halo with Microlensing I: Power-Law Models, With C.Alcock, et al. Astrophysical Journal 449, 28 (1995).

Model-Independent Comparison of Direct vs. Indirect Detection of Supersymmetric Dark Matter, With M.Kamionkowski, G.Jungman, and B.Sadoulet, Phys. Rev. Lett, 74, 5174 (1995).

Experimental Limits on the Dark Matter Halo of the Galaxy from Gravitational Microlensing, With C.Alcock, et al., Phys. Rev. Lett, 74, 2867 (1995).

Supersymmetric Dark Matter, With G.Jungman, and M.Kamionkowski, Physics Reports, 267, 195, 1996.

The MACHO Project First Year LMC Results: The Microlensing Rate and the Nature of the Dark Halo, With C. Alcock, et al., ApJ, 461, 84 (1996).

First Observation of Parallax in a Gravitational Microlensing Event, With C.Alcock, et al., ApJ Lett. 454, L125 1995.

The MACHO Project: 45 Candidate Microlensing Events from the First Year Galactic Bulge Data: With C.Alcock, et al., ApJ 479, 119, 1997; erratum ApJ 500, 522, 1998.

Real-Time Detection and Multi-Site Observations of Gravitational Microlensing, With C. Alcock, et al., ApJ Lett. 463, L67, 1996.

The MACHO Project LMC Variable Star Inventory: IV. New R Coronae Borealis Stars, With C. Alcock, et al., 1996, ApJ 470, 583.

The MACHO Project: Limits on Planetary Mass Dark Matter in the Galactic Halo from Gravitational Microlensing, With C. Alcock, et al., ApJ 471, 774, 1996

The MACHO Project LMC Microlensing Results from the First Two Years and the Nature of the Galactic Dark Halo, With C. Alcock, et al., ApJ 486, 697, 1997

The MACHO Project LMC Variable Star Inventory 3: Multimode RR Lyrae Stars, Distance to the LMC and Age of the Oldest Stars, With C. Alcock, et al., ApJ 482, 89, 1997

MACHO Alert 95-30 : First Real-Time Observation of Extended Source Effects in Gravitational Microlensing, With C. Alcock, et al., ApJ 491, 436, 1997.

Is the LMC Microlensing Due to an Intervening Dwarf Galaxy?, with C.Alcock, et al., ApJ Lett. 490, L59, 1997.

First Detection of a Gravitational Microlensing Candidate towards the Small Magellanic Cloud, With C. Alcock, et al., ApJ Lett. 491, L11, 1997.

Detection of Lithium in a Main Sequence Bulge Star Using Keck I as a 15m Diameter Telescope, With D. Minniti, T. Vandehei, K.H. Cook, and C. Alcock, ApJ Lett 494, L175, 1998.

The Use of High Magnification Microlensing Events in Discovering Extra-Solar Planets, With N.Safizadeh, ApJ 500, 37, 1998.

EROS and MACHO Limits on Planetary Mass Dark Matter in the Galactic Halo, With C. Alcock, et al.(MACHO + EROS collaboration), ApJ Lett. 499, L9 (1998).

Discovery and Characterization of a Caustic Crossing Microlensing Event in the Small Magellanic Cloud, with C.Alcock, et al. ApJ 518, 44, 1999.

The MACHO Project LMC Variable Star Inventory. VI. The Second-overtone Mode of Cepheid Pulsation From First/Second Overtone (FO/SO) Beat Cepheids, with C. Alcock, et al., ApJ 511, 185, 1999

The DRIFT Project: Searching for WIMPs with a Directional Detector, with M.J.Lehner, et al., proceedings of DARK98, the Second International Workshop on Dark Matter in Astrophysics and Particle Physics, Heidelberg July, 1998, p. 767, (eds. H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus and L. Baudis, Institute of Physics Publishing, Bristol, p. 767, 1999). (astro-ph/9905074).

The MACHO Project Large Magellanic Cloud Variable Star Inventory. VIII. The Recent Star Formation History of the LMC from the Cepheid Period Distribution, with C.Alcock, et al., AJ 117, 920 (1999)

Astrometric Microlensing as a Method of Discovering and Characterizing Extra-Solar Planets, with Neda Safizadeh and Neal Dalal, ApJ, 522, 512, 1999.

WIMPs and MACHOs, Article, Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, IOP Publislhing and Macmillan, P. Murdin, ed., 1999

Difference Image Analysis of Galactic Microlensing I. Data Analysis, with C. Alcock, et al., ApJ 521, 602, 1999

Supersymmetric Dark Matter, with M. Kamionkowski, David Schramm's Universe: Special Physics Reports Volume, Physics Reports, 333, 167 (2000)

Binary Microlensing Events from the MACHO Project, with C.Alcock, et al., (MACHO and GMAN collaborations), ApJ 541, 270, 2000

Combined Analysis of the Binary-Lens Cautic-Crossing Event MACHO 98-SMC-1, with C. Afonso, et al. (EROS, MACHO/GMAN, MPS, OGLE, and PLANET collaborations), ApJ, 532, 340 (2000)

Self-Lensing Models of the LMC, with G.Gyuk, and N.Dalal, ApJ 535, 90 (2000)

The MACHO Project 9 Million Star Color-Magnitude Diagram of the Large Magellanic Cloud, with C.Alcock, et al., Astronomical Journal, 119, 2194 (2000)

The MACHO Project: Microlensing Optical Depth towards the Galactic Bulge from Difference Imaging Analysis, with C. Alcock, et al. ApJ, 541, 734 (2000)

The MACHO Project Variable Star Inventory IX: Frequency Analysis of the First Overtone RR Lyrae Stars and the Indication for Non-Radial Pulsations, with C.Alcock, et al., ApJ, 542, 257 (2000)

The MACHO Project: Microlensing Results from 5.7 Years of LMC Observations, with C.Alcock, et al., ApJ, 542, 281 (2000)

Searching for periodicities in MACHO monitoring of LMC X-2, with C.Alcock, et al., MNRAS, 316, 729 (2000)

All About MACHOs, SLAC Beamline, 30, 8, Spring 2000.

The MACHO Project: Microlensing Detection Efficiency, with C.Alcock, et al., ApJS, 136, 439 (2001)

Black Holes Must Die, with Neal Dalal, Physics Letters B, 490, 1 (2000)

The MACHO Project Hubble Space Telescope Follow-up: Preliminary Results on the Location of the Large Magellanic Cloud Microlensing Source Stars, with C.Alcock, et al., ApJ, 552, 582 (2001)

MACHO Project Limits on Black Hole Dark Matter in the 1-30 Solar Mass Range, with C.Alcock, et al., ApJ Letters, 550, L169 (2001)

Current Status of the DRIFT Project and UKDMC Dark Matter Search, with M.J.Lehner, et al., to appear in proceedings of DARK 2000, Heidelberg, 2000.

MACHO 96-LMC-2: Lensing of a Binary Source in the LMC and Constraints on the Lensing Object, with C.Alcock, et al. ApJ 552, 259 (2001).

The Difficulty in Using Orphan Afterglows to Measure Gamma-ray Burst Beaming, with Neal Dalal, and and Jason Pruet, ApJ 564, 209 (2002)

Astrometry with the Macho Data Archive I. High Proper Motion Stars towards the Galactic Bulge and Magellanic Clouds, with C.Alcock, et al., ApJ 562, 337 (2001)

Astrometric imaging of crowded stellar fields with only two SIM pointings, with Neal Dalal, ApJ, 561, 481 (2001)

Direct Detection of a Microlens in the Milky Way with C.Alcock, et al., Nature, 414, 617 (2001)

Toward a Possible Solution to the Cosmic Coincidence Problem, Physical Review D 66 123501 (2002)

Gravitational Microlensing Events Due to Stellar Mass Black Holes, D.P.Bennett, et al. (MACHO and MPS collaborations) ApJ 579, 639, (2002)

The MACHO Project LMC Variable Star Inventory XI. Frequency Analysis of the Fundamental Mode RR Lyrae Stars, C.Alcock, et.al., (MACHO Collaboration) ApJ, 598, 597 (2003)

Variability Selected Quasars in MACHO Project Magenllanic Cloud Fields M.Geha, et al. (MACHO Collaboration), AJ 125, 1, 2003

Geometry of the LMC Disk: Results from MACHO and 2MASS, S.Nikolaev, A.J.Drake, S.C.Keller, K.H.Cook, N.Dalal, K.Griest, D.L.Welch, and S.M.Kanbur, ApJ, 601, 260 (2004)

The MACHO Project Large Magellanic Cloud Variable Star Inventory. XIII. Fourier Parameters for the First Overtone RR Lyrae Variables and the LMC Distance, C.Alcock, et al., AJ, 127, 334 (2004)

Microlensing Optical Depth towards the Galactic Bulge Using Clump Giants from the MACHO Survey, P. Popowski, K. Griest, C.L. Thomas, \etal, (MACHO collaboration) ApJ 631, 879 (2005)

Galactic Bulge Microlensing Events from the MACHO Collaboration, C.L. Thomas, K. Griest, P. Popowski, \etal, (MACHO collaboration) ApJ, 631, 906 (2005)

Fitting Photometry of Blended Microlensing Events, C.L.Thomas and K.Griest, ApJ, 640, 299 (2006)