Selected Scientific Publications

A complete and continuously updated list of my astrophysics publications is available through NASA ADS. Selected work is listed below.

Observation of undepleted phosphine in the atmosphere of a low-temperature brown dwarf. Science 390, 697 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adu0401

Discovery of a hypervelocity L subdwarf at the star/brown dwarf mass limit. ApJ Letters 971, L25 (2024). https://doi,org/10.3847/2041-8213/ad6607

An eclipsing substellar binary in a young triple system discovered by SPECULOOS. Nature Astronomy 4, 650 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-020-1018-2

Seven temperate terrestrial planets around the nearby ultracool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1. Nature 542, 456 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature21360

FIRE: a facility class near-infrared echelle spectrometer for the Magellan telescopes. PASP 125, 270 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1086/670241

A unified near-infrared spectral classification scheme for T dwarfs. ApJ 637, 1067 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1086/498563

Binarity in brown dwarfs: T dwarf binaries discovered with the Hubble Space Telescope WFPC2. ApJ 586, 512 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1086/346263

Reading research for writing: co-constructing core skills using primary literature. Impacting Education 7, 47 (2022). https://doi.org/10.5195/ie.2022.237

Interdisciplinary conversations in STEM education: can faculty understand each other better than their students do? International Journal of STEM Education 8, 11 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40594-021-00290-3

Let's get physical: teaching physics through gymnastics. The Physics Teacher 56, 43 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1119/1.5018692

Towards inclusive practices with indigenous knowledge. Nature Astronomy 3, 1035 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-019-0953-2

Why I teach growth mindset. Nature Astronomy 3, 1038 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-019-0949-y

Perspectives on the Indigenous Worldviews in Informal Science Education Conference. The Physics Teacher 55, 456 (2017).   https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1160689.pdf

High-resolution spectroscopic surveys of ultracool dwarf stars and brown dwarfs. Astro2020 Decadal Survey white paper, BAAS 51, 547 (2019). https://doi.org/https://baas.aas.org/pub/2020n3i547/release/1

Fundamental physics with brown dwarfs: the mass-radius relation. Astro2020 Decadal Survey white paper, BAAS 51, 214 (2019). https://baas.aas.org/pub/2020n3i214/release/1

It's time to eliminate the GRE and PGRE in all astronomy and astrophysics PhD programs. Astro2020 Decadal Survey, BAAS 51, 38 (2019). https://baas.aas.org/pub/2020n3i38/release/1

Toward the end of stars: discovering the galaxy's coldest brown dwarfs. Astro2010 Decadal Survey white paper (2009). https://arxiv.org/abs/0902.1527