Dr. Franck Marchis is a planetary astronomer, science entrepreneur, and co-founder and CEO of SkyMapper, a company building a global network of connected telescopes and intelligent all-sky sensors. SkyMapper’s mission is to observe “All the Sky, All the Time,” creating a distributed optical network for astronomy, satellite tracking, transient-event detection, airspace monitoring, and scientific research.

He is also a Senior Astronomer and Director of Citizen Science at the Carl Sagan Center of the SETI Institute. After earning his Ph.D. in planetary science from the University of Toulouse, France, he moved to the United States in 2000. For more than two decades, his research has focused on small bodies in the solar system, particularly asteroids with moons, using ground-based telescopes equipped with adaptive optics. He has also contributed to the development of advanced adaptive-optics systems for 8–10-meter telescopes and future Extremely Large Telescopes, as well as to research on directly imaged exoplanets, optical technosignatures, and time-domain astronomy.

Dr. Marchis has played a leading role in expanding public participation in scientific discovery. He is a co-founder and former Chief Scientific Officer of Unistellar, where he helped create a global community of thousands of citizen astronomers using connected digital telescopes. His current work at SkyMapper builds on that experience by combining distributed observing networks, edge artificial intelligence, autonomous telescope operations, and verifiable scientific data. He is also involved in LaserSETI, a global project designed to search the entire sky for brief optical signals that could indicate extraterrestrial technology.

He has served on numerous scientific and advisory bodies, including the Gemini Planet Imager Steering Committee, the Thirty Meter Telescope Science Definition Team, the Project Blue Advisory Board, and the International Academy of Astronautics SETI Permanent Committee. He is also an affiliated astronomer at the Observatoire de Paris and an associate researcher at the Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille.

An author or co-author of more than 200 peer-reviewed scientific publications, Dr. Marchis has mentored numerous students and regularly contributes to documentaries, films, and public programs in English, French, and Spanish. In recognition of his discovery of the first known triple-asteroid system in 2005, asteroid (6639) was named “Marchis.” He was elected a Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences in 2023 and received the Carl Sagan Center Director’s Award in 2024.

• Recipient of one of the 2004 Grants in Honor of Professor Henri Chretien (AAS, September 2004)
• In April 2007, the asteroid numbered 1989SO8 was named “(6639) Marchis” in honor of his work in the field of multiple asteroids.

• Personal website
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• Monitoring Io’s Insane Volcanic Activity from the Comfort of Earth
• The Secrets of Asteroid Minerva and its Two Moons
• Telescopes Large and Small Team Up to Study Triple Asteroid
• Novel instrument able to probe close binary stars may one day image exoplanets
• El Espectrógrafo y Captador de Imágenes más poderoso del Mundo mira al cielo: la Primera Luz del Captador de Imágenes de Planetas de Gemini
• World’s Most Powerful Planet Finder Turns its Eye to the Sky - Gemini Planet Imager Obtains First Light Images -
• Scientist Interview - Franck Marchis
• Scientist Interview - Franck Marchis - Life at the SETI Institute

• The First H-band Spectrum of the Massive Gas Giant Planet beta Pictoris b with the Gemini Planet Imager
  Chilcote, J. et al., submitted to ApJL, 2014
• Polarimetry with the Gemini Planet Imager: Methods, Performance at First Light, and the Circumstellar Ring around HR 4796A
  Perrin, M. D et al., submitted to ApJL, 2014
• Gemini Planet Imager Spectroscopy of the HR 8799 planets c and d
  Ingraham, P. et al., accepted for publication in ApJ, Sep 2014
• Composition, Mineralogy, and Porosity of Multiple Asteroid Systems from Visible and Near-infrared Spectral Data
  Lindsay, S.S, F. Marchis,J.P. Emery, J.E. Enriquez, M. Assafin, accepted for publication in Icarus, July 2014
• Multiple asteroid systems (45) Eugenia and (87) Sylvia: sensitivity to external and internal perturbations
  Beauvalet, L. & Marchis, F., Icarus 241, 13-25, 2014
• The Gemini Planet Imager: First Light
  Macintosh, B. et al., PNAS 111, 35, 12661-12666, 2014
• CSI 2264: Simultaneous Optical and Infrared Light Curves of Young Disk-bearing Stars in NGC 2264 with CoRoT and Spitzer—Evidence for Multiple Origins of Variability
  Cody, A.M., et al., Astronomical Journal, 147, 4, 82, 47, 2014
• The puzzling mutual orbit of the binary trojan asteroid (624) Hektor
  F. Marchis, J. Durech, J. Castillo-Rogez, F. Vachier, M. Cuk, J. Berthier, M.H. Wong, P. Kalas, G. Duchene, and M. van Dam, ApJL, 783, 2, L37, 2014
• New insights on the main belt triple asteroid (87) Sylvia
  J. Berthier, F. Vachier, F. Marchis, J. Durech, P. Descamps, B. Carry, Icarus 239, 118-130, 2014
• The hierarchical stability of the seven known large size ratio triple asteroids using the empirical stability parameters
  Liu, X., Baoyin, H., Marchis, F., Astrophysics and Space Science, 349, 2, 677-680, 2013
• FIRST, a fibered aperture masking instrument II. Spectroscopy of the Capella binary system at the diffraction limit
  E. Huby, G. Duchene, F. Marchis, S. Lacour, G. Perrin, T. Kotani, E. Choquet, E. L. Gates, O. Lai, A&A, 506, A113, 2013
• Sizes of main-belt asteroids by combining shape models and Keck Adaptive Optics observations
  J. Hanuš, F. Marchis, J. Ďurech, Icarus, 226, 1, 1045-1057, 2013
• Occultation Evidence for a Satellite of the Trojan Asteroid (911) Agamemnon
  B. Timerson, J. Brooks, S. Conard, D. W. Dunham, D. Herald, A. Tolea, F. Marchis, PSS, 87, 78-84, Oct. 2013
• Characteristics and large bulk density of the C-type main-belt triple asteroid (93) Minerva
  F. Marchis, Vachier, F., Ďurech, J., Enriquez, J.E, Harris, A.W., Dalba, P.A., Berthier, J., Emery, J.P., Bouy, H., Melbourne, J., Stockton, A., Fassnacht, C.D., Dupuy, T.J., Strajnic, J., Icarus 224, 1, 178-191, 2013
• High surface porosity as the origin of emissivity features in asteroid spectra
  P. Vernazza, M. Delbo, P.L. King, M.R.M. Izawa, J. Olofsson, R. P. Binzel, F. Marchis, P. Lamy, F. Cipriani, B. Merin, A. Tamanai. Icarus 221, 2, 1162-1172, Dec. 2012
• Multiple Asteroid Systems: Dimensions and Thermal Properties from Spitzer Space Telescope and Ground-Based Observations
  F. Marchis, J.E. Enriquez, J. P. Emery, M. Mueller, M. Baek ,J. Pollock, M. Assafin, R. Vieira Martins, J. Berthier, F. Vachier, D. P. Cruikshank, L. Lim, D. Reichart, K. Ivarsen, J. Haislip, A. LaCluyze, Icarus 221, 2, 1130-1161, Dec. 2012
• Analysis of the rotation period of asteroids (1865) Cerberus, (2100) Ra-Shalom, and (3103) Eger - search for the YORP effect
  J. Ďurech, D. Vokrouhlický, A.R. Baransky, S. Breiter, O.A. Burkhonov, W. Cooney, V. Fuller, N.M. Gaftonyuk, J. Gross, R. Ya Inasaridze, M. Kaasalainen, Yu. N. Krugly, O.I. Kvaratshelia, E.A. Litvinenko, B. Macomber, F. Marchis, I.E. Molotov, J. Oey, D. Polishook, J. Pollock, P. Pravec, K. Sárneczky, V.G. Shevchenko, I. Slyusarev, R. Stephens, Gy. Szabó, D. Terrell, F.Vachier, Z. Vanderplate,M. Viikinkoski, B.D. Warner, B. D., A&A 547, A10 9, Nov 2012
• YSOVAR: Six Pre-main-sequence Eclipsing Binaries in the Orion Nebula Cluster
  M. Morales-Calderón, J.R. Stauffer, K.G. Stassun, F.J. Vrba, L. Prato, L.A. Hillenbrand, S. Terebey, K.R. Covey, L.M. Rebull, D.M. Terndrup, R. Gutermuth, I. Song, P. Plavchan, J.M. Carpenter, F. Marchis, E.V. García, S. Margheim, K.L. Luhman, J. Angione, J.M. Irwin, J. M. , ApJ 753, 2, 149, 17, Jul 2012
• Volcanic Activity of Io with Keck-10m AO in 2003-2004
  F. Marchis, A. Davies, Hom, E.Y., I. de Pater, Icarus, in preparation, Feb. 2012
• Bulk density of the Triple Main-Belt Asteroid System (93) Minerva
  F. Marchis, P. Descamps, J. Berthier et al. Icarus, about to be submitted, Dec. 2011
• High surface porosity as the origin of emissivity features in asteroid spectra
  P. Vernazza, M. Delbo, P.L. King, M.R.M. Izawa, J. Olofsson, R. P. Binzel, F. Marchis, P. Lamy, F. Cipriani, B. Merin. Icarus, about to be submitted, Dec. 2011
• Multiple Asteroid Systems: Dimensions and Thermal Properties from Spitzer Space Telescope and Ground-Based Observations
  F. Marchis, J.E. Enriquez, J. P. Emery, M. Mueller, J. Pollock, M. Baek, M. Assafin, R. Vieira Martins, J. Berthier, F. Vachier, D. P. Cruikshank, L. Lim, D. Reichart, K. Ivarsen, J. Haislip, A. LaCluyze, submitted to Icarus, Dec. 2011
• On-sky test results with the fibered aperture masking instrument FIRST
  E. Huby, G. Perrin, F. Marchis, S. Lacour, T. Kotani, G. Duchene, E. Choquet, E. L. Gates, J. M. Woillez, O. Lai, P. Fedou, C. Collin, and F. Chapron, submitted to A&A, Nov 2011
• Determination of Binary Asteroid Orbits with a Genetic-based Algorithm
  F. Vachier, J. Berthier, F. Marchis, submitted to A&A, Nov 2011
• Constraining multiple systems with GAIA
  L. Beauvalet, V. Lainey, J.-E. Arlot, D. Bancelin, R.P. Binzel, F. Marchis, PSS, Proceeding on GAIA, in revision, Dec 2011
• Binary Asteroid Population. 2. Anisotropic distribution of orbit poles
  P. Pravec, P. Scheirich, D. Vokrouhlicky et al., in press Icarus, 2011
• Asteroid (21) Lutetia as a remnant of Earth’s precursor planetesimals
  P. Vernazza, P. Lamy, O. Groussin, T. Hiroi, L. Jorda, P.L. King, M.R.M. Izawa, F. Marchis, M. Birlan, R. Brunetto, Icarus 216, 2, 650-659, 2011
• YSOVAR: the first sensitive, wide-area, mid-IR photometric monitoring of the ONC
  M. Moralez-Calderon, J. R. Stauffer, L. A. Hillenbrand, R. Gutermuth, I. Song, L. M. Rebull, P. Plavchan, J. M. Carpenter, B. A. Whitney, K. Covey, C. Alves de Oliveira, E. Winston, M. J. McCaughrean, J. Bouvier, S. Guieu, F. J. Vrba, J. Holtzman, F. Marchis, J. L. Hora, L. H. Wasserman, S. Terebey, T. Megeath, E. Guinan, J. Forbrich, N. Huélamo, P. Riviere-Marichalar, D. Barrado, K. Stapelfeldt, J. Hernández, L. E. Allen, D. R. Ardila, A. Bayo, F. Favata, D. James, M. Werner, K. Wood. The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 733, Issue 1, 2011
• High spatial resolution imaging of WASP-33
  A. Moya, H. Bouy, F. Marchis, B. Vincente, D. Barrado, A&A 535, A110, 2011
• Absolute photometry of small main-belt asteroids in 2007-2009
  Chiorny, V., Galád, A., Pravec, P., Kušnirák, P., Hornoch, K., Gajdoš, Š., Kornoš, L., Világi, J., Husárik, M., Kaňuchová, Z., Krišandová, Z., Higgins, D., Pray, D. P., Durkee, R., Dyvig, R., Reddy, V., Oey, J., Marchis, F., Stephens, R. D., PSS, Volume 59, Issue 13, p. 1482-1489, 2011
• Long-Term Evolution of the Aerosol Debris Cloud Produced by the 2009 Impact on Jupiter
  A. Sanchez-Lavega et al., Icarus, 214, 2, 462-476, 2011
• Spectral properties of small bodies (854) Frostia, (1333) Cevenola, and (3632) Chaplin
  M. Birlan, D.A. Nedelcu, P. Descamps, J. Berthier, F. Marchis, S. Merouane, MNRAS, 415, 1, 587-595, 2011
• The Origin of (90) Antiope From Component-Resolved Near-Infrared Spectroscopy
  F. Marchis, J.E. Enriquez, J.P. Emery, J. Berthier, P. Descamps, F. Vachier, Icarus 213, 1, 252-264, 2011
• A spectral comparison of (379) Huenna and its satellite
  F. E. DeMeo B. Carry, F. Marchis, M. Birlan, R.P. Binzel, S.J. Bus, P. Descamps, A. Nedelcu, M. Busch, H. Bouy, Icarus 212, 2, 677-681, 2011
• Triplicity and Physical Characteristics of Asteroid (216) Kleopatra
  P. Descamps, Marchis, F., J. Berthuer, J.P. Emery, G. Duchene, I. de Pater, M.H. Wong, H.B. Hammel, F. Vachier, P. Wiggins, J.-P. Teng-Chuen-Yu, A. Peyrot, J. Pollock, M. Assafin, R. Vieira-Martins, J.I.B Camargo, F. Braga-Ribas, B. Macomber, Icarus, 211, 2, 1022-1033, 2011
• The atmospheric influence, size and asteroidal nature of the July 2009 Jupiter Impact.
  G.S. Orton, L.N. Fletcher, C.M. Lisse et al. Icarus, 211, 1, 587-602, 2011
• Almahata Sitta (=asteroid 2008TC3) and the search for the ureilite parent body
  P. Jennisken, J. Vaubaillon, R.P. Binzel, F.E. deMeo, D. Nesvorny, W. F. Bottke, A. Fitzsimmons, T. Hiroi, F. Marchis, J.L. Bishop, P. Vernazza, M.E. Zolensky, J.S. Herrin, K.C. Welten, M.M. Meier, M.H. Shaddad, M&PS, 45, 1590-1671, 2010
• Asteroid pairs formed by rotational fission
  P. Pravec, D. Vokrouhlický, D. Polishook, D. J. Scheeres, A. W. Harris, A. Galád, O. Vaduvescu, F. Pozo, A. Barr, P. Longa, F. Vachier, F. Colas, D. P. Pray, J. Pollock, D. Reichart, K. Ivarsen, J. Haislip, A. LaCluyze, P. Kušnirák, T. Henych, F. Marchis, B. Macomber, S.A. Jacobson, Yu. N. Krugly, A. Sergeev & A. Leroy, Nature 466, 1085-1088, 2010
• Dynamical Model of (45) Eugenia Triple Asteroid System
  F. Marchis, V. Lainey, P. Descamps, J. Berthier, M. Van Dam, I. de Pater, B. Macomber, M. Baek, D. Le Mignant, H.B. Hammel, M. Showalter, F. Vachier, Icarus, 210, 2, 635-643, 2010
• Eclipsing Binary Trojan Asteroid Patroclus: Thermal Inertia from Spitzer Observations
  M. Mueller, F. Marchis, J. Emery, A.W. Harris, S. Mottola, D. Hestroffer, J. Berthier, M. di Martino, Icarus, 205, 2, 505-515, 2010
• Component-resolved Near-infrared Spectra of the (22) Kalliope System
  C. Laver, I. de Pater, F. Marchis, M. Adamkovics, M. H. Wong, Icarus, 204, 2, 574-579, 2009
• A giant Crater on 90 Antiope?
  P. Descamps, F. Marchis, T. Michalowski, J. Berthier, J. Pollock, P. Wiggins, M. Birlan, F. Colas, F. Vachier, S. Fauvaud, J.-P. Sareyan, F. Pilcher, D.A. Klinglesmith, Icarus 203, 1, 102-111, 2009
• A deep look into the core of young clusters. II. λ-Orionis
  J. Bouy, N. Huélamo, N., Barrado Y Navascués, D., Martín, E. L., Petr-Gotzens, M. G., Kolb, J., Marchetti, E., Morales-Calderón, M., Bayo, A., Artigau, E., Hartung, M., Marchis, F., Tamura, M., Sterzik, M., et al. A&A 504, 1, 199-209, 2009
• On the stability of the satellites of Asteroid 87 Sylvia
  O. Winter, L.A.G. Augusto, E. Viera Neto, R.V. Martins, S.M. Giulutti Winter, R. S. Gomes, F. Marchis, P. Descamps, MNRAS, 395, 1, 218-227, 2009
• A deep look into the cores of young clusters I. s-Orionis
  H. Bouy, Huélamo, N., Martín, E. L., Marchis, F., Barrado Y Navascués, D., Kolb, J., Marchetti, E., Petr-Gotzens, M. G., Sterzik, M., Ivanov, V. D., Köhler, R., Nürnberger, D, A&A, 493, 3, 931-946, 2009
• New insights on the binary system of 121 Hermione
  P. Descamps, F. Marchis, J. Durech, J. Emery, A.W. Harris, M. Kaasalainen, J. Berthier, J.-P. Teng-Chuen-Yu, A. Peyrot, L. Hutton, J. Greene, J. Pollock, M. Assafin, R. Vieira-Martins, J.I.B. Camargo, F. Braga-Ribas, F. Vachier, D.E. Reichart, K.M. Ivarsen, J.A. Crain, M.C. Nysewander, A.P. Lacluyze, J.B. Haislip, R. Behrend, F. Colas, J. Lecacheux, L. Bernasconi, R. Roy, P. Baudouin, L. Brunetto, S. Sposetti, F. Manzini Icarus, 203, 1, 88-101, 2009.
• Structural and compositional properties of brown dwarf disks: the case of 2MASS J04442713+2512164
  H. Bouy et al. A&A 486, 3, 877-890, 2008
• Follow-up observations of binary ultra-cool dwarfs
  H. Bouy, E.L. Martin, W. Brander, T. Forveille, X. Delfosse, N. Huelamo, G. Basri, J. Girard,M.-R. Zapatero Osori, M. Stumpf, A. Ghez, L. Valdivielso, F. Marchis, A.J. Burgasser, K.Cruz, A&A, 481, 3, 757-767, 2008
• Main belt binary asteroidal systems with circular mutual orbits
  F. Marchis, P. Descamps, Baek, M., Harris, A.W., Kaasalaneien, M., Berthier, J., Hestroffer, D., Vachier, F., Icarus 196, 1, 97-118, 2008.
• New determination of the size and bulk density of the binary asteroid 22 Kalliope from observations of mutual eclipses
  P. Descamps, F. Marchis, J. Pollock, J. Berthier, F. Vachier, M. Birlan, M. Kaasalainen, A.W. Harris, M. Wong, W. Romanishin, E.M. Cooper, K.A. Kettner, P. Wiggins, A. Kryszczynska, M. Polinska, J.-F. Colliac, A. Devyatkin, I. Verestchagina, D. Gorshanov, Icarus 196, 2, 578-600, 2008.
• Main belt binary asteroidal systems with eccentric mutual orbits
  F. Marchis, P. Descamps, J. Berthier, D. Hestroffer, F. Vachier, M. Baek, Harris, A.W., Nesvorny, D, Icarus, 195, 1, 295-316, 2008.
• 2007 Mutual Events within the Binary System of (22) Kalliope
  P. Descamps, F. Marchis, J. Pollock, J. Berthier, M. Birlan, F. Vachier, F. Colas, P&SS, 56, 14, 1851-1856, 2008.
• Specific Angular Momentum of Binary Asteroids
  P. Descamps, F. Marchis, Icarus 193, 1, 74-84, 2008.
• Tvashtar awakening detected in April 2006 with OSIRIS at the W.M. Keck Observatory
  C. Laver, I. de Pater, and F. Marchis, Icarus 191, 2, 749-754, 2007.
• Spatially resolved observations of the forbidden SO rovibronic transition on Io during an eclipse and a volcanic eruption at Ra Patera
  I. de Pater, C. Laver, F. Marchis, H.G. Roe, B.A. Macintosh, Icarus 191, 1, 172-182, 2007.
• Io Volcanism seen by New Horizons: a major eruption of the Tvashtar volcano
  J.R Spencer, S.A. Stern, A.F. Cheng, H.A. Weaver, D.C. Reuter, K. Retherford, A. Lunsford, J.M. Moore, O. Abramov, R.M.C. Lopes, J.E. Perry, L. Kamp, M. Showalter, K.L. Jessup, F. Marchis, P.M Schenk, C. Dumas, Science, 318, 5848, 240, 2007.
• Nature of the small main belt asteroid 3169 Ostro
  P. Descamps, F. Marchis, T. Michalowski, F. Vachier, F. Colas, J. Berthier, J.-P. Teng-Chuen-Yu, A. Peyrot, B. Payet, J. Dorseuil, Y.Léonie, T. Dijoux, H.Berrouachdi, C. Chion Hock, F. Benard, Icarus, 189, 2, 362-369, 2007.
• Figure of the double asteroid 90 Antiope from AO and lightcurves observations
  P. Descamps, F. Marchis, T. Michalowski, F. Vachier, F. Colas, J. Berthier, D. Hestroffer, M. Assafin, P. Dunckel, K. Miller, M. Polinska, J.-P. Teng-Chuen-Yu, A. Peyrot, R. Vieira-Martins, M. Birlan, Icarus, 187, 2, 482-499, 2007.
• AIDA: an adaptive image deconvolution algorithm with application to multi-frame and 3D data
  Hom, E.F.Y., F. Marchis, T.K. Lee, S. Haase, D. A. Agards, J.W. Sedat, JOSA A, 24, 6, 1580-1600, 2007
• Io’s Hot Spots, locations and detections
  R.M.C. Lopes, J. Radebaugh, M. Meiner, J. Perry, F. Marchis, in Io After Galileo, Eds R.M.C. Lopes & J.R. Spencer, Praxis, Chichester, UK, 307-323, ISBN 3-540-34681-3, 2007.
• Outstanding Questions and Future Explorations
  F. Marchis, J.R. Spencer, and R.M.C. Lopes, in Io After Galileo, Eds R.M.C. Lopes & J.R. Spencer, Praxis, Chichester, UK, ISBN 3-540-34681-3, 2007.
• Titan Imagery with Keck AO during and after Probe Entry
  I. de Pater, M. Ádámkovics, A. H. Bouchez, M. E. Brown, S. G. Gibbard, F. Marchis, H. G. Roe, E. L. Schaller, and E. F. Young, Journal of Geophysical Research, 11107, S05, 2006
• The PHEMU97 catalogue of observations of the mutual phenomena of the Galilean satellites of Jupiter
  J.E. Arlot, W.Thuillot, C. Ruatti, and 61 coauthors, A&A, 451, 733, 2006
• Photometric survey of binary near-Earth asteroids
  P. Pravec, P. Scheirich, P. Kusnirak, and 51 coauthors, Icarus, 181, 63, 2006
• A low density of 0.8 g cm-3 for the Trojan binary asteroid 617 Patroclus
  F. Marchis, D. Hestroffer, P. Descamps, J. Berthier, A. H. Bouchez, R. D. Campbell, J. C. Y. Chin, M. A. van Dam, S. K. Hartman, E. M. Johansson, R. E. Lafon, D. Le Mignant, I. de Pater, P. J. Stomski, D. M. Summers, F. Vachier, P. L. Wizinovich & M. H. Wong, Nature, 439, 7076, 565-567, 2006
• Shape, size, and multiplicity of main-belt asteroids. I. Keck Adaptive Optics Survey
  F. Marchis, M., Kaasalainen, E.F.Y. Hom, J. Berthier, J. Enriquez, D. Hestroffer, D. Le Mignant, I. de Pater, Icarus, 185, 39, 2006
• Discovery of the Triple Asteroidal System: 87 Sylvia
  F. Marchis, P. Descamps, D. Hestroffer, J. Berthier, Nature, 436, 822-824, Aug. 2005
• Mass and Density of Asteroid 121 Hermione from an Analysis of its Companion Orbit (available)
  F. Marchis, D. Hestroffer, P. Descamps, J. Berthier, C. Laver, I. de Pater, Icarus 178, 2, 450-464, 2005
• Keck AO survey of Io Global volcanic activity between 2 and 5 microns (available)
  F. Marchis, Le Mignant, D., F. Chaffee, R. Prange, T. Fusco, S. Kwok, P. Amico, R. Campbell, F. Chaffee, A. Conrad, A. Contos, R. Goodrich, and I. de Pater, Icarus, 176, 96-122, 2005.
• Near-IR Imaging of Asteroid 4 Vesta (available)
  Zellner, N. E. B., S. Gibbard, I. de Pater, F. Marchis, and M. J. Gaffey, Icarus, 177, 1, 190-195, 2005
• The dynamic neptunian ring arcs: evidence for a gradual disappearance of Liberté and resonant jump of courage
  I. de Pater, S.G. Gibbard, E. Chiang, H.B. Hammel, B. Macintosh, F. Marchis, S. Martin, H.G. Roe, and M. Showalter, Icarus, 174, 1, 263-272, 2005.
• Keck AO observations of Io in and out of eclipse
  I. de Pater, F. Marchis, B. Macintosh, H.G. Roe, D. Le Mignant, J.R. Graham, and A. Davies, Icarus, 169, Io Special Issue, 1, 250-263, 2004.
• Extreme Volcanism on Io: Latest Insights at the End of the Galileo Era (available)
  J.S. Kargel, R.W. Carlson, A.G. Davies, B. Fegley, A. Gillespie, R. Greeley, R.R. Howell, K. Lea Jessup, L. Kamp, L. P. Keszthelyi, R. M. Lopes, T. J. MacIntyre, F. Marchis, A. S. McEwen, M. Millazzo, J. Perry, J. Radebaugh, L. Schaefer, N. Schmerr, W.D. Smythe, J.R. Spencer, D.A. Williams, J. Zhang and M. Yu. Zolotoz, EOS Journal, 84, 33, p. 313-318, Aug. 2003.
• A three-dimensional solution for the orbit of the asteroidal satellite of 22 Kalliope (available)
  F. Marchis, P. Descamps, D. Hestroffer, J. Berthier, A. Boccaletti, D. Gavel, and I. de Pater, Icarus, 165, 112-120, 2003.
• Near-IR coronagraphic imaging of the companion to HR7672 (available)
  A. Boccaletti, G. Chauvin, A.-M. Lagrange, F. Marchis, A&A, v.410, p.283-288, 2003.
• High-resolution Keck Adaptive Optics Imaging of Violent Volcanic Activity on Io (web page and preprint)
  F. Marchis, I. de Pater, A. Davies, H. Roe, P. Descamps, D. Le Mignant, B. Macintosh, R. Prangé Icarus, 160, 124-131, 2002.
• Ground-based imaging of the HD141569 circumstellar disk
  A. Boccaletti, J.-C. Augereau, F. Marchis, J. Hahn, Letter to ApJ, 585, 1, 494-501, 2003.
• No disk needed around HD 199143B (available)
  G. Chauvin, T. Fusco, A.-M. Lagrange, D. Mouillet, J.-L. Beuzit, M. Thomson , J.-C. Augereau, F. Marchis, C. Dumas and P. Lowrance A&A, 394, 219-223, 2002.
• Adaptive Optics Observations of asteroid (216) Kleopatra (available)
  D. Hestroffer, F. Marchis, T. Fusco, J. Berthier Research Note, A&A, 394, 339-343, 2002.
• A second substellar companion in the Gliese 86 system. A brown dwarf in an extrasolar planetary system. (available)
  S.G. Els, M.F. Sterzik, F. Marchis, E. Pantin, M. Endl, M. Kurster A&AL, 370, p. L1-L4, 2001
• First ground-based Astrometric Observations of Puck
  P. Descamps, F. Marchis, J. Berthier, R. Prangé, T. Fusco and C. Le Guyader CRAS, Physique 3, p121-128, 2002.
• Split Comet C/2001 A2 (LINEAR)
  E. Jehin, H. Boehnhardt, Z. Sekanina, X. Bonfils, O. Schutz, J.L. Beuzit, M. Billeres, G.J. Garradd, P. Leisy, F. Marchis, A. Mas, L. Origlia, D. Scarpa, D. Thomas, G P Tozzi Earth, Moon, and Planets, 90, 1, 147-151, 2002.
• A survey of Io's volcanism by adaptive optics observations in the 3.8 micron thermal band (1996-1999)
  F. Marchis, R. Prangé, T. Fusco (ONERA). J.Geophys. Res., Io Special Issue, 106, E12, p. 33 141 , 2001.
• Ground-based Observations of Volcanism on Io in 1999 (reprint available)
  R.R. Howell, J.R. Spencer, J.D. Goguen, F. Marchis, R. Prangé, T. Fusco, D. L. Blaney, G. L. Veeder, J. A. Rathbun, G. S. Orton, A. J. Grocholski, J.A. Stansberry. J. Geophys. Res., Io Special Issue, 106, E12, p. 33 129, 2001.v
• Adaptive Optics mapping of Io's volcanism in the thermal IR (3.8\mum). (reprint available)
  F. Marchis, R. Prangé, J.C. Christou Icarus, 148, 384-396, 2000.
• Adaptive optics observations of the innermost coma of comet C/1995 O1.Is there a "Hale" and a "Bopp" in comet Hale-Bopp?
  F. Marchis, H. Boehnhardt, O. Hainaut, D. Le Mignant A&A, volume 349, issue 3, September 1999
• Optical tolerances of active telescope architectures for Adaptive Optics (availablehere)
  F. Marchis, S. Cuevas Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica, vol. 35, No. 1, 31-44, 1999

Popular Publications

• Binary and Multiple Asteroids (invited encyclopedia contribution)
  F. Marchis, McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, 11th Edition, in press, 2011.
• Our Solar System through the eyes of Adaptive Optics
• F. Marchis, Chapter for “Postcards from the Edge of the Universe” book, Editors: L. Pullen & M. Barrosa, 2010
• Binary and Multiple Asteroids (invited encyclopedia contribution)
  F. Marchis, McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, 12th Edition, 2013.