World's Best Scientists 2026 revealed!

D-Index & Metrics

Physics

D-Index
94
Citations
33479
World Ranking
1979
National Ranking
1020

Overview

S. K. Leggett is affiliated with the University of Hawaii at Manoa in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on physics and astronomy, with a significant emphasis on astronomy and astrophysics. They have published extensively in related subfields including instrumentation, computational mechanics, atmospheric science, and spectroscopy.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics within the broader fields of stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, astronomy and astrophysical research, and astrophysics and star formation studies. Additional areas of interest include astro and planetary science, astronomical observations and instrumentation, gamma-ray bursts and supernovae, and solar and space plasma dynamics.

Leggett has contributed to numerous scientific articles published in various venues. Among the most frequent publication outlets are:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The Astrophysical Journal
  • The Astronomical Journal
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • Research Notes of the AAS

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Leggett include:

  • "A spectrophotometric analysis of cool white dwarfs in the Gaia and pan-STARRS footprint", 2022, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • "Measuring and Replicating the 1-20 μm Energy Distributions of the Coldest Brown Dwarfs: Rotating, Turbulent, and Nonadiabatic Atmospheres", 2021, The Astrophysical Journal
  • "Infrared Excesses Around Bright White Dwarfs from Gaia and unWISE. II", 2021, The Astrophysical Journal
  • "Exploring the Extremes: Characterizing a New Population of Old and Cold Brown Dwarfs", 2023, The Astronomical Journal
  • "On the Nature of Ultracool White Dwarfs: Not so Cool after All", 2022, The Astrophysical Journal

Leggett has collaborated frequently with several fellow researchers, including:

  • Pascal Tremblin
  • M. W. Phillips
  • Mark S. Marley
  • Caroline Morley
  • Adam C. Schneider

Their work contributes particularly to understanding white dwarfs and brown dwarfs, as well as advancing observational techniques and atmospheric modeling in astrophysics. The diversity in publication venues and topics illustrates the broad scope of their scientific activities across multiple related disciplines.

Best Publications

  • THE USNO-B CATALOG

    David G. Monet;Stephen E. Levine;Blaise Canzian;Harold D. Ables

  • A Survey of z>5.8 Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey I: Discovery of Three New Quasars and the Spatial Density of Luminous Quasars at z~6

    Xiaohui Fan;Vijay K. Narayanan;Robert H. Lupton;Michael A. Strauss

  • A Survey of z > 5.8 quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey I: Discovery of three new quasars and the spatial density of luminous quasars at z ~ 6

    Xiaohui Fan;Vijay K. Narayanan;Robert H. Lupton;Michael Abram Strauss

  • The UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey ZYJHK Photometric System: Passbands and Synthetic Colours

    Paul C. Hewett;Stephen J. Warren;Sandy K. Leggett;Simon T. Hodgkin

  • Infrared Colors of Low-Mass Stars

    S. K. Leggett

  • The UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey ZY JHK photometric system: passbands and synthetic colours

    P. C. Hewett;S. J. Warren;S. K. Leggett;S. T. Hodgkin

  • Near-Infrared Photometry and Spectroscopy of L and T Dwarfs: the Effects of Temperature, Clouds, and Gravity

    G. R. Knapp;S. K. Leggett;X. Fan;M. S. Marley

  • Towards Spectral Classification of L and T Dwarfs: Infrared and Optical Spectroscopy and Analysis

    T. R. Geballe;G. R. Knapp;S. K. Leggett;X. Fan

  • Preliminary Parallaxes of 40 L and T Dwarfs from the U.S. Naval Observatory Infrared Astrometry Program

    F. J. Vrba;A. A. Henden;C. B. Luginbuhl;H. H. Guetter

  • Near - infrared photometry and spectroscopy of L and T dwarfs: The Effects of temperature, clouds, and gravity

    Gillian R. Knapp;Sandy K. Leggett;Xiaohui Fan;Mark S. Marley

  • Photometric and Spectroscopic Analysis of Cool White Dwarfs with Trigonometric Parallax Measurements

    P. Bergeron;P. Bergeron;P. Bergeron;S. K. Leggett;S. K. Leggett;María Teresa Ruiz

  • L' AND M' Photometry Of Ultracool Dwarfs

    David A. Golimowski;Sandy K. Leggett;Mark S. Marley;Xiaohui Fan

  • The 0.8-14.5 micron Spectra of Mid-L to Mid-T Dwarfs: Diagnostics of Effective Temperature, Grain Sedimentation, Gas Transport, and Surface Gravity

    D. C. Stephens;S. K. Leggett;Michael C. Cushing;Mark S. Marley

  • Solar System Objects Observed in the SDSS Commissioning Data

    Z. Ivezic;S. Tabachnik;R. Rafikov;R. H. Lupton

  • A Unified Near-Infrared Spectral Classification Scheme for T Dwarfs

    Adam J. Burgasser;T. R. Geballe;S. K. Leggett;J. Davy Kirkpatrick

  • Toward Spectral Classification of L and T Dwarfs: Infrared and Optical Spectroscopy and Analysis

    T. R. Geballe;G. R. Knapp;S. K. Leggett;X. Fan

  • Solar system objects observed in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey commissioning data

    Željko Ivezić;Serge Tabachnik;Roman Rafikov;Robert H. Lupton

  • Seventy-One New L and T Dwarfs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    K. Chiu;X. Fan;S. K. Leggett;D. A. Golimowski

  • Preliminary Parallaxes of 40 L and T Dwarfs from the US Naval Observatory Infrared Astrometry Program

    F. J. Vrba;A. A. Henden;A. A. Henden;C. B. Luginbuhl;H. H. Guetter

  • Infrared Photometry of Late-M, L, and T Dwarfs

    S. K. Leggett;David A. Golimowski;Xiaohui Fan;T. R. Geballe

Frequent Co-Authors

Didier Saumon
Didier Saumon Los Alamos National Laboratory
Mark S. Marley
Mark S. Marley University of Arizona
Hugh R. A. Jones
Hugh R. A. Jones University of Hertfordshire
Thomas R. Geballe
Thomas R. Geballe University of Hawaii at Manoa
Motohide Tamura
Motohide Tamura University of Tokyo
C. G. Tinney
C. G. Tinney University of New South Wales
Xiaohui Fan
Xiaohui Fan University of Arizona
Michael C. Liu
Michael C. Liu University of Hawaii at Manoa
Michael C. Cushing
Michael C. Cushing University of Toledo
J. Davy Kirkpatrick
J. Davy Kirkpatrick California Institute of Technology

If you think any of the details on this page are incorrect, let us know.

Report an issue

We appreciate your kind effort to assist us to improve this page, it would be helpful providing us with as much detail as possible in the text box below:

Best Scientists Citing S. K. Leggett

Trending Scientists