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Kirk T. Korista is affiliated with Western Michigan University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on fields within physics and astronomy, with a particular emphasis on astronomy and astrophysics. Their work spans several subfields including Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Instrumentation, Computational Mechanics, and Oceanography.

The scientist's research topics include:

  • Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations
  • Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena
  • Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
  • Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
  • Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
  • Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies
  • Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation

Kirk T. Korista has published extensively in several scholarly venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • The Astrophysical Journal
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • St Andrews Research Repository

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Korista include:

  • Intensive disc-reverberation mapping of Fairall 9: first year of Swift and LCO monitoring, 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • On the multiwavelength variability of Mrk 110: two components acting at different time-scales, 2021, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • AGN STORM 2. IV. Swift X-Ray and Ultraviolet/Optical Monitoring of Mrk 817, 2023, The Astrophysical Journal
  • Space Telescope and Optical Reverberation Mapping Project. XI. Disk-wind Characteristics and Contributions to the Very Broad Emission Lines of NGC 5548, 2020, The Astrophysical Journal
  • AGN STORM 2. III. A NICER View of the Variable X-Ray Obscurer in Mrk 817, 2023, The Astrophysical Journal

Korista frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • M. R. Goad
  • Aaron J. Barth
  • Edward M. Cackett
  • K. Horne
  • G. A. Kriss

Best Publications

  • CLOUDY 90: Numerical Simulation of Plasmas and Their Spectra

    G. J. Ferland;K. T. Korista;D. A. Verner;J. W. Ferguson

  • Atomic data for astrophysics. II. New analytic fits for photoionization cross sections of atoms and ions

    D. A. Verner;Gary J. Ferland;K. T. Korista;D. G. Yakovlev

  • Steps toward determination of the size and structure of the broad-line region in active galactic nuclei. I, an 8 month campaign of monitoring NGC 5548 with IUE

    J. Clavel;G. A. Reichert;D. Alloin;D. M. Crenshaw

  • Locally Optimally Emitting Clouds and the Origin of Quasar Emission Lines

    Jack Baldwin;Gary J. Ferland;Kirk Korista;Dima Verner

  • Steps toward determination of the size and structure of the broad-line region in active galatic nuclei. 8: an intensive HST, IUE, and ground-based study of NGC 5548

    K. T. Korista;A. Laor

  • Steps toward determination of the size and structure of the broad-line region in active galactic nuclei. II - An intensive study of NGC 5548 at optical wavelengths

    B. M. Peterson;B. M. Peterson;T. J. Balonek;E. S. Barker;J. Bechtold

  • Low-ionization broad absorption lines in quasars

    G. M. Voit;Ray J. Weymann;Kirk T. Korista;Kirk T. Korista

  • Space Telescope and Optical Reverberation Mapping Project. III. Optical Continuum Emission and Broad-Band Time Delays in NGC 5548

    M. M. Fausnaugh;K. D. Denney;A. J. Barth;M. C. Bentz

  • An Atlas of Computed Equivalent Widths of Quasar Broad Emission Lines

    Kirk Korista;Jack Baldwin;Gary J. Ferland;Dima Verner

  • Multiwavelength Observations of Short-Timescale Variability in NGC 4151. IV. Analysis of Multiwavelength Continuum Variability

    RA Edelson;T Alexander;DM Crenshaw;S Kaspi

  • Quasar Outflow Contribution to AGN Feedback: Observations of QSO SDSS J0838+2955

    Maxwell Moe;Nahum Arav;Manuel A. Bautista;Kirk T. Korista

  • THE QUASAR OUTFLOW CONTRIBUTION TO AGN FEEDBACK: VLT MEASUREMENTS OF SDSS J0318-0600*

    Jay P. Dunn;Manuel Bautista;Manuel Bautista;Nahum Arav;Max Moe;Max Moe

  • Steps toward Determination of the Size and Structure of the Broad-Line Region in Active Galactic Nuclei. XI. Intensive Monitoring of the Ultraviolet Spectrum of NGC 7469

    I. Wanders;I. Wanders;B. M. Peterson;D. Alloin;T. R. Ayres

  • The Origin of Fe II Emission in Active Galactic Nuclei

    J. A. Baldwin;Gary J. Ferland;K. T. Korista;F. Hamann

  • Space telescope and optical reverberation mapping project. II. Swift and HST reverberation mapping of the accretion disk of NGC 5548

    R. Edelson;J.M. Gelbord;K. Horne;I.M. McHardy

  • SPACE TELESCOPE AND OPTICAL REVERBERATION MAPPING PROJECT. I. ULTRAVIOLET OBSERVATIONS OF THE SEYFERT 1 GALAXY NGC 5548 WITH THE COSMIC ORIGINS SPECTROGRAPH ON HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE

    G. De Rosa;G. De Rosa;B. M. Peterson;J. Ely;G. A. Kriss;G. A. Kriss

  • Steps toward determination of the size and structure of the broad-line region in active galactic nuclei. 5: Variability of the ultraviolet continuum and emission lines of NGC 3783

    G. A. Reichert;P. M. Rodriquez-Pascual;D. Alloin;J. Clavel

  • Metallicities and Abundance Ratios from Quasar Broad Emission Lines

    Fred Hamann;K. T. Korista;Gary J. Ferland;Craig Warner

  • Steps toward Determination of the Size and Structure of the Broad-Line Region in Active Galactic Nuclei. IX. Ultraviolet Observations of Fairall 9

    P. M. Rodriguez‐Pascual;D. Alloin;J. Clavel;D. M. Crenshaw

  • Cloudy: Numerical simulation of plasmas and their spectra

    Gary Ferland;Peter van Hoof;Dima Verner;Katya Verner

Frequent Co-Authors

Gary J. Ferland
Gary J. Ferland University of Kentucky
Jelle Kaastra
Jelle Kaastra Leiden University
Marianne Vestergaard
Marianne Vestergaard University of Copenhagen
Keith Horne
Keith Horne University of St Andrews
Misty C. Bentz
Misty C. Bentz Georgia State University
Aaron J. Barth
Aaron J. Barth University of California, Irvine
Hagai Netzer
Hagai Netzer Tel Aviv University
G. A. Kriss
G. A. Kriss Space Telescope Science Institute
Tommaso Treu
Tommaso Treu University of California, Los Angeles
Richard W. Pogge
Richard W. Pogge The Ohio State University

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