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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For helping to substantially increase PhD attainment in physics and astronomy for underrepresented minorities, and for fundamental contributions to the astrophysics of young stars and brown dwarfs
  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Keivan G. Stassun is affiliated with Vanderbilt University in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on the field of Physics and Astronomy, with significant work in the subfields of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Computational Mechanics, Aerospace Engineering, and Atmospheric Science.

The scientist's main topics of research revolve around Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research, Astro and Planetary Science, Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies, Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae, Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation, and Space Exploration and Technology.

Keivan G. Stassun has published extensively in scientific venues including arXiv (Cornell University), The Astronomical Journal, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, and The Astrophysical Journal.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Identification of carbon dioxide in an exoplanet atmosphere, 2022, Nature
  • A giant planet candidate transiting a white dwarf, 2020, Nature
  • TESS Eclipsing Binary Stars. I. Short-cadence Observations of 4584 Eclipsing Binaries in Sectors 1-26, 2022, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
  • Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE), 2022, Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • A reflective, metal-rich atmosphere for GJ 1214b from its JWST phase curve, 2023, Nature

Frequent collaborators in their work include Jon M. Jenkins, Sara Seager, Karen A. Collins, David W. Latham, and Joshua N. Winn.

Keivan G. Stassun has published books through WS EDUCATION eBooks, with titles including:

  • I'm a Biomedical Informatics Expert Now! (2021)
  • I'm an Astronomer Now! (2021)
  • I'm a Bioarchaeologist Now! (2021)
  • Who Me? (Set 1) (2022)

Awards in their career include recognition as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2016, awarded for contributions to increasing PhD attainment in physics and astronomy among underrepresented minorities as well as foundational work in the astrophysics of young stars and brown dwarfs. They were also named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2012.

Best Publications

  • The Eleventh and Twelfth Data Releases of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Final Data from SDSS-III

    Shadab Alam;Franco D. Albareti;Carlos Allende Prieto;F. Anders

  • SDSS-III: Massive Spectroscopic Surveys of the Distant Universe, the Milky Way Galaxy, and Extra-Solar Planetary Systems

    Daniel J. Eisenstein;David H. Weinberg;Eric Agol;Hiroaki Aihara

  • The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite

    George R. Ricker;Joshua N. Winn;Roland Vanderspek;David W. Latham

  • SDSS-III: MASSIVE SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEYS OF THE DISTANT UNIVERSE, THE MILKY WAY, AND EXTRA-SOLAR PLANETARY SYSTEMS

    Daniel J. Eisenstein;Daniel J. Eisenstein;David H. Weinberg;Eric Agol;Hiroaki Aihara

  • The eleventh and twelfth data releases of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: final data from SDSS-III

    Shadab Alam;Franco D. Albareti;Carlos Allende Prieto;Carlos Allende Prieto;F. Anders

  • Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite

    George R. Ricker;Joshua N. Winn;Roland Vanderspek;David Winslow Latham

  • The Tenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-III Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment

    Christopher P. Ahn;Rachael Alexandroff;Carlos Allende Prieto;Friedrich Anders

  • The ninth data release of the sloan digital sky survey: First spectroscopic data from the sdss-iii baryon oscillation spectroscopic survey

    Christopher P. Ahn;Rachael Alexandroff;Carlos Allende Prieto;Scott F. Anderson

  • Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV: Mapping the Milky Way, Nearby Galaxies and the Distant Universe

    Michael R. Blanton;Matthew A. Bershady;Bela Abolfathi;Franco D. Albareti;Franco D. Albareti

  • The Ninth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey

    Christopher P. Ahn;Rachael Alexandroff;Carlos Allende Prieto

  • The Fourteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey and from the second phase of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment

    Bela Abolfathi;D. S. Aguado;Gabriela Aguilar;Carlos Allende Prieto

  • The Fourteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic data from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey and from the second phase of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment

    Bela Abolfathi;D. S. Aguado;Gabriela Aguilar;Carlos Allende Prieto

  • Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)

    George R. Ricker;Joshua N. Winn;Roland Vanderspek;David W. Latham

  • Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV: Mapping the Milky Way, Nearby Galaxies, and the Distant Universe

    Michael R. Blanton;Matthew A. Bershady;Bela Abolfathi;Franco D. Albareti

  • LSST Science Book, Version 2.0

    Paul A. Abell;Julius Allison;Scott F. Anderson

  • The tenth data release of the Sloan digital sky survey: First spectroscopic data from the SDSS-iii apache point observatory galactic evolution experiment

    Christopher P. Ahn;Rachael Alexandroff;Carlos Allende Prieto;Carlos Allende Prieto;Friedrich Anders;Friedrich Anders

  • The Revised TESS Input Catalog and Candidate Target List.

    Keivan G. Stassun;Ryan J. Oelkers;Martin Paegert;Guillermo Torres

  • The Thirteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-IV Survey MApping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory

    Franco D. Albareti;Carlos Allende Prieto;Andres Almeida

  • The 16th Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: First Release from the APOGEE-2 Southern Survey and Full Release of eBOSS Spectra

    Romina Ahumada;Carlos Allende Prieto;Carlos Allende Prieto;Andrés Almeida;Friedrich Anders;Friedrich Anders

  • The Sixteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: First Release from the APOGEE-2 Southern Survey and Full Release of eBOSS Spectra

    Romina Ahumada;Carlos Allende Prieto;Andres Almeida;Friedrich Anders

Frequent Co-Authors

Joshua Pepper
Joshua Pepper Lehigh University
David W. Latham
David W. Latham Harvard University
Joshua N. Winn
Joshua N. Winn Princeton University
Jon M. Jenkins
Jon M. Jenkins Ames Research Center
David J. James
David J. James Smithsonian Institution
Stephen R. Kane
Stephen R. Kane University of California, Riverside
Dmitry Bizyaev
Dmitry Bizyaev New Mexico State University
David R. Ciardi
David R. Ciardi California Institute of Technology
Carlos Allende Prieto
Carlos Allende Prieto University of La Laguna

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