Cirriculum Vitae



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(Updated Jul. 2024)

Education

University of Washington
2019 - Present

PhD Astronomy (expected) -- Interdisciplinary Data Science Track
MS Astronomy (2021)

University of California, San Diego
2015 - 2019

BS Physics

Awards/Honors

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
2019

MPIA Summer Intern Fellowship
2017, 18

UCSD Provost Honors
2018, 19

Frances Hellman Research Scholarship
2017

Physics Chair Challenge Award
2016, 17, 18

Research Experience

University of Washington
Sept. 2019 - Present

Advisor : James Davenport (UW/DIRAC), Rory Barnes (UW/VPL)
Topic : tidal evolution of eclipsing binaries in K2/TESS

Max Planck Institute für Astronomie
Summer 2017, 2018

Advisor : David Hogg (NYU/MPIA/Flatiron)
Topic : data-driven models of M dwarfs

University of California, San Diego
May 2016 - May 2019

Advisor : Adam Burgasser (UCSD)
Topic : spectroscopic parameters of low-mass stars using atmosphere models

Publications

Lead-author Papers (underlined = undergraduates mentored):

Birky, J., Barnes, R. K., 2023, Prospects of Constraining Tidal Dissipation in Binary Stars (Submitted ApJ)

Birky, J., Barnes, R. K., Davenport, J. R. A., 2023, ALABI: Active Learning for Accelerated Bayesian Inference (In prep)

Hobson-Ritz, M., Birky, J., Peterson, L., Gwartney, P., Delker, J., Wong, R., Gordon, T., Davenport, J. R. A., Barnes, R. K., 2023, Tidal Synchronization of TESS Eclipsing Binaries (In Prep)

Birky, J., Barnes, R. K., Fleming, D. P., 2021, Improved Constraints for Trappist-1 XUV Luminosity Evolution, RNAAS, 5, 122 (arXiv:2105.12562) [paper ] [code ]

Birky, J., Hogg, D. W., Mann, A., Burgasser, A.J., 2020, Temperatures and Metallicities for M dwarfs in the APOGEE Survey, ApJ, 892, 1 (arXiv:2001.04962) [paper ] [code ]

Co-author:

Barnes, R., K., Birky J. et. al 2023, History and Habitability of the LP 791-18 Planetary System (In prep)

Barnes, R. K., Amaral L., Birky J., et al. 2023, History and Habitability of the LP 890-9 Planetary System (Submitted PSJ)

Gialluca, M. T., Barnes, R. K., et. al (incl. Birky, J.) 2023, Bayesian Calculations of Water Inventories and Oxygen Accumulation on the TRAPPIST-1 Planets, PSJ, 5, 137 [paper ]

Hsu, C., Burgasser, A. J., et al. (incl. Birky, J.) 2022, The Brown Dwarf Kinematics Project (BDKP). VI: Ultracool Dwarf Radial and Rotational Velocity Survey with SDSS/APOGEE High-Resolution Spectrometer (Submitted ApJ)

Hsu, C., Burgasser, A. J., et al. (incl. Birky, J.) 2021, The Brown Dwarf Kinematics Project (BDKP). V. Radial and Rotational Velocities of T Dwarfs From Keck/NIRSPEC High-Resolution Spectroscopy (arXiv:2107.01222) [paper ] [code ]

Davenport, J. R. A., Windemuth, D., et al. (incl. Birky, J.) 2021, The Rise and Fall of the Eclipsing Binary, HS Hydra, ApJL (arXiv:2107.10954) [paper ]

Martin, D. V., El-Badry, K., et al. (incl. Birky, J.) 2021, TOI-1259Ab–a gas giant with 2.6% deep transits and a bound white dwarf companion, MNRAS (arXiv:2101.02707) [paper ]

Burgasser, A. J., Splat Development Team (incl. Birky, J.), The SpeX Prism Library Analysis Toolkit (SPLAT): A Data Curation Model, Bull. Astr. Soc. India, 00, 1-6, 2017 (arXiv:1707.00062)