Recent Publications

Magnesium Silicate Clouds in the Atmosphere of HD 209458b from a Rule-based Tree-structured Data Reduction

| The Astronomical Journal
Author(s): Katy L. Chubb, David Grant, Hannah R. Wakeford, et. al
UMD Author(s): Sarah E. Moran


X-Rays Mark the Spot: The Effects of Reduced Metallicity on X-Ray AGN Obscuration at High Redshift

| The Astrophysical Journal
Author(s): Gursahani, Yash A., Reynolds, Christopher S.
UMD Author(s): Yash Arya Gursahani, Christopher S. Reynolds


Shock-heated Away: The Impact of Radiative Cooling on Gas-Phase Transitions in Supernova Remnants

| arXiv e-prints
Author(s): Kocjan, Zuzanna, Diemer, Benedikt, Semenov, Vadim A.
UMD Author(s): Zuzanna Kocjan


EP250827b/SN 2025wkm: An X-Ray Flash-supernova Powered by a Central Engine and Circumstellar Interaction

| The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Author(s): Srinivasaragavan, Gokul P., Li, Dongyue, Hall, Xander J.
UMD Author(s): Michael Coleman Miller, Gokul Prem Srinivasaragavan, Brendan O'Connor


Automatic Detection of Flare Ribbon Fine Structures as Proxies for Plasmoid Dynamics in Flare Reconnection

| The Astrophysical Journal
Author(s): Georgios Chouliaras, Peter F. Wyper, Joel T. Dahlin, et. al
UMD Author(s): Joel Timothy Dahlin


Ad Astra White Paper: A Pitch for the Next 25 Years of NASA's Physics of the Cosmos Program

| arXiv e-prints
Author(s): Burns, Eric, Agullo, Ivan, Andreoni, Igor, et. al
UMD Author(s): Zorawar Wadiasingh, Michael Coleman Miller


TDE 2025abcr: A Tidal Disruption Event in the Outskirts of a Massive Galaxy

| The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Author(s): Robert Stein, Jonathan Carney, Charlotte Ward, et. al
UMD Author(s): Suvi Gezari


Vacuum birefringence and the polarized X-ray emission from a radio magnetar

| Nature
Author(s): Stewart, Rachael E., Dinh Thi, Hoa, Younes, George, et. al
UMD Author(s): Zorawar Wadiasingh


Near‐Earth Solar Wind Speed of Fast Coronal Mass Ejections

| Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics
Author(s): Jeffrey J. Love, Ian G. Richardson, E. Joshua Rigler, et. al
UMD Author(s): Ian G Richardson


GRB 260310A/SN 2026fgk: Photometric and Spectroscopic Evolution of a Nearby Gamma-Ray Burst Supernova and an Exceptionally Bright Afterglow at z = 0.153

| The Astrophysical Journal
Author(s): Brendan O’Connor, Malte Busmann, Xander J. Hall, et. al
UMD Author(s): Brendan O'Connor


2D fluid simulations and characterization of ion acoustic solitons

| Physics of Plasmas
Author(s): A. R. Mansour, C. M. Hartzell, A. Barjatya
UMD Author(s): Christine M Hartzell


Multiyear Ground-based Survey Photometry of Active Comet 103P/Hartley 2 and Centaur (2060) Chiron: A Tale of Two Comets in the Pre-LSST Era

| The Planetary Science Journal
Author(s): Joseph Murtagh, Megan E. Schwamb, Michael S. P. Kelley, et. al
UMD Author(s): Matthew M Knight, Michael S Kelley


GEMS JWST: A Subsolar Metallicity Atmosphere for Giant Planet TOI-5293 A b Orbiting a Rapidly Changing M Dwarf

| The Astrophysical Journal
Author(s): Shubham Kanodia, Caleb I. Cañas, Jacob Lustig-Yaeger, et. al
UMD Author(s): Giannina Guzman Caloca


Density profile of dynamical halos

| Physical Review D
Author(s): Tristen Shields, Edgar M. Salazar, Eduardo Rozo, et. al
UMD Author(s): Calvin Osinga


A Window for Water-hydrogen Demixing on Warm Metal-rich Sub-Neptunes

| The Astrophysical Journal
Author(s): Caroline Piaulet-Ghorayeb, Daniel P. Thorngren, Eliza M.-R. Kempton, et. al
UMD Author(s): Eliza Kempton


Tidal Disruption Event Rates across Cosmic Time: Forecasts for LSST, Roman, and JWST and Their Constraints on the Supermassive Black Hole Mass Function

| The Astrophysical Journal
Author(s): Mitchell Karmen, Suvi Gezari, Colin Norman, et. al
UMD Author(s): Suvi Gezari


JWST Integral Field Unit Observations Uncover Host Galaxy Continua in Extremely Red and Obscured Quasars

| The Astrophysical Journal
Author(s): Yu-Ching Chen, Nadia L. Zakamska, Andrey Vayner, et. al
UMD Author(s): Sylvain Veilleux


EP260321a/SN 2026gzf: The Faintest Shock Breakout Associated with a Broad-lined Supernova

| The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Author(s): Brendan O’Connor, Xander J. Hall, Malte Busmann, et. al
UMD Author(s): Brendan O'Connor


Interplanetary Electric Fields for Extreme Magnetic Storms

| Geophysical Research Letters
Author(s): Jeffrey J. Love, E. Joshua Rigler, Ian G. Richardson, et. al
UMD Author(s): Ian G Richardson


Evidence for an Atmosphere on the Ultra-short-period Super-Earth HD 3167 b

| The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Author(s): Brandon Park Coy, Qiao Xue, Megan Weiner Mansfield, et. al
UMD Author(s): Megan Weiner Mansfield, Cole Michael Smith, Eliza Kempton


Reverberation in the Narrow Fe Kα Line in the Seyfert Galaxy NGC 4151 with XRISM

| The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Author(s): Jon M. Miller, Abderahmen Zoghbi, Xin Xiang, et. al
UMD Author(s): Abderahmen Zoghbi


Glossy Silicate Clouds on the Scorched Dayside of LTT9779b

| The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Author(s): Suman Saha, James S. Jenkins, Jonathan Brande, et. al
UMD Author(s): Jonathan Brande


Impact of Clouds on the Atmosphere–Mantle Interface of Sub-Neptunes

| The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Author(s): Sagnick Mukherjee, Matthew C. Nixon, Luis Welbanks, et. al


High nitrogen and carbon isotopic ratios in the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS

| Nature Astronomy
Author(s): C. Opitom, J. Manfroid, D. Hutsemékers, et. al
UMD Author(s): Matthew M Knight


NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope as a planetary defense asset


Author(s): Bryan Holler, Richard Cosentino, William Schultz, et. al
UMD Author(s): Benjamin Sharkey