Cirriculum Vitae
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(Updated Jul. 2024)
Education
PhD Astronomy (expected) -- Interdisciplinary Data Science Track
MS Astronomy (2021)
BS Physics
Awards/Honors
Research Experience
Advisor : James Davenport (UW/DIRAC), Rory Barnes (UW/VPL)
Topic : tidal evolution of eclipsing binaries in K2/TESS
Advisor : David Hogg (NYU/MPIA/Flatiron)
Topic : data-driven models of M dwarfs
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)