Brown, Warren
Dr.
0000-0002-4462-2341
Brown, Warren
Dr.
Hypervelocity stars; Merging white dwarf binaries; Stellar halo of the Milky Way; Optical and infrared instruments for ground-based telescopes.
Positions
- Astrophysicist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory 2006 -
Background And Education
Education And Training
- B.S., University of Arizona
- Ph.D., Harvard University
Research And Grants
Co-principal Investigator On
Investigator On
Publications
Selected Publications
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Article
- Moss, Adam, Bergeron, P., Kilic, Mukremin, Jewett, Gracyn, Brown, Warren R., Kosakowski, Alekzander, and Vincent, Olivier. 2024. "Discovery of a magnetic double-faced DBA white dwarf." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 527 10111–10122. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad3825. 2024
- Moss, Adam, Kilic, Mukremin, Bergeron, P., Firgard, Megan, and Brown, Warren. 2023. "Signs of binary evolution in seven magnetic DA white dwarfs." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 523 5598–5609. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad1835. 2023
- Kosakowski, Alekzander, Brown, Warren R., Kilic, Mukremin, Kupfer, Thomas, Bédard, Antoine, Gianninas, A., Agüeros, Marcel A., and Barrientos, Manuel. 2023. "The ELM Survey South. II. Two Dozen New Low-mass White Dwarf Binaries." The Astrophysical Journal, 950 141. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acd187. 2023
- Kilic, Mukremin, Moss, Adam G., Kosakowski, Alekzander, Bergeron, P., Conly, Annamarie A., Brown, Warren R., Toonen, Silvia, Williams, Kurtis A., and Dufour, P. 2023. "The merger fraction of ultramassive white dwarfs." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 518 2341–2353. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac3182. 2023
- Kosakowski, A., Kilic, M., Brown, Warren R., Bergeron, P., and Kupfer, T. 2022. "Four new deeply eclipsing white dwarfs in Zwicky Transient Facility." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 516 720–730. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac1146. 2022
- Bergeron, P., Kilic, Mukremin, Blouin, Simon, Bédard, A., Leggett, S. K., and Brown, Warren R. 2022. "On the Nature of Ultracool White Dwarfs: Not so Cool after All." The Astrophysical Journal, 934 36. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac76c7. 2022
- Brown, Warren R., Kilic, Mukremin, Kosakowski, Alekzander, and Gianninas, A. 2022. "The ELM Survey. IX. A Complete Sample of Low-mass White Dwarf Binaries in the SDSS Footprint." The Astrophysical Journal, 933 94. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac72ac. 2022
- Chandra, Vedant, Hwang, Hsiang-Chih, Zakamska, Nadia L., Gänsicke, Boris T., Hermes, J. J., Schwope, Axel, Badenes, Carles, Tovmassian, Gagik, Bauer, Evan B., Maoz, Dan, Schreiber, Matthias R., Toloza, Odette F., Inight, Keith P., Rix, Hans-Walter, and Brown, Warren R. 2021. "A 99 minute Double-lined White Dwarf Binary from SDSS-V." The Astrophysical Journal, 921 160. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac2145. 2021
- Malbet, Fabien, Boehm, Céline, Krone-Martins, Alberto, Amorim, Antonio, Anglada-Escudé, Guillem, Brandeker, Alexis, Courbin, Frédéric, Enßlin, Torsten, Falcão, Antonio, Freese, Katherine, Holl, Berry, Labadie, Lucas, Léger, Alain, Mamon, Gary A., McArthur, Barbara, Mora, Alcione, Shao, Mike, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Spolyar, Douglas, Villaver, Eva, Abbas, Ummi, Albertus, Conrado, Alves, João, Barnes, Rory, Bonomo, Aldo Stefano et al. 2021. "Faint objects in motion: the new frontier of high precision astrometry." Experimental Astronomy, 51 845–886. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10686-021-09781-1. 2021
- Kilic, Mukremin, Brown, Warren R., Bédard, A., and Kosakowski, Alekzander. 2021. "The Discovery of Two LISA Sources within 0.5 kpc." The Astrophysical Journal, 918 L14. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ac1e2b. 2021
- Gentile Fusillo, N. P., Manser, C. J., Gänsicke, Boris T., Toloza, O., Koester, D., Dennihy, E., Brown, Warren R., Farihi, J., Hollands, M. A., Hoskin, M. J., Izquierdo, P., Kinnear, T., Marsh, T. R., Santamaría-Miranda, A., Pala, A. F., Redfield, S., Rodríguez-Gil, P., Schreiber, M. R., Veras, Dimitri, and Wilson, D. J. 2021. "White dwarfs with planetary remnants in the era of Gaia - I. Six emission line systems." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 504 2707–2726. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab992. 2021
- Brown, Warren R., Kilic, Mukremin, Bédard, A., Kosakowski, Alekzander, and Bergeron, P. 2020. "A 1201 s Orbital Period Detached Binary: The First Double Helium Core White Dwarf LISA Verification Binary." The Astrophysical Journal, 892 L35. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ab8228. 2020
- Vanderburg, Andrew, Rappaport, Saul A., Xu, Siyi, Crossfield, Ian J. M., Becker, Juliette C., Gary, Bruce, Murgas, Felipe, Blouin, Simon, Kaye, Thomas G., Palle, Enric, Melis, Carl, Morris, Brett M., Kreidberg, Laura, Gorjian, Varoujan, Morley, Caroline V., Mann, Andrew W., Parviainen, Hannu, Pearce, Logan A., Newton, Elisabeth R., Carrillo, Andreia, Zuckerman, Ben, Nelson, Lorne, Zeimann, Greg, Brown, Warren R., Tronsgaard, René et al. 2020. "A giant planet candidate transiting a white dwarf." Nature, 585, (7825) 363–367. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2713-y. 2020
- Tremblay, P. -E, Hollands, M. A., Gentile Fusillo, N. P., McCleery, J., Izquierdo, P., Gänsicke, B. T., Cukanovaite, E., Koester, D., Brown, Warren R., Charpinet, S., Cunningham, T., Farihi, J., Giammichele, N., Van Grootel, V., Hermes, J. J., Hoskin, M. J., Jordan, S., Kepler, S. O., Kleinman, S. J., Manser, C. J., Marsh, T. R., De Martino, D., Nitta, A., Parsons, S. G., Pelisoli, I. et al. 2020. "Gaia white dwarfs within 40 pc - I. Spectroscopic observations of new candidates." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 497 130–145. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa1892. 2020
- Kilic, Mukremin, Bergeron, P., Kosakowski, Alekzander, Brown, Warren R., Agüeros, Marcel A., and Blouin, Simon. 2020. "The 100 pc White Dwarf Sample in the SDSS Footprint." The Astrophysical Journal, 898 84. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab9b8d. 2020
- Kosakowski, Alekzander, Kilic, Mukremin, Brown, Warren R., and Gianninas, Alexandros. 2020. "The ELM Survey South. I. An Effective Search for Extremely Low Mass White Dwarfs." The Astrophysical Journal, 894 53. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab8300. 2020
- Brown, Warren R., Kilic, Mukremin, Kosakowski, Alekzander, Andrews, Jeff J., Heinke, Craig O., Agüeros, Marcel A., Camilo, Fernando, Gianninas, A., Hermes, J. J., and Kenyon, Scott J. 2020. "The ELM Survey. VIII. Ninety-eight Double White Dwarf Binaries." The Astrophysical Journal, 889 49. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab63cd. 2020
- Fabricant, Daniel, Fata, Robert, Epps, Harland, Gauron, Thomas, Mueller, Mark, Zajac, Joseph, Amato, Stephen, Barberis, Jack, Bergner, Henry, Brennan, Patricia, Brown, Warren, Chilingarian, Igor, Geary, John, Kradinov, Vladimir, McLeod, Brian, Smith, Matthew C., and Woods, Deborah. 2019. "Binospec: A Wide-field Imaging Spectrograph for the MMT." Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 131 075004. https://doi.org/10.1088/1538-3873/ab1d78. 2019
- Dame, Kyra, Belardi, Claudia, Kilic, Mukremin, Rest, Armin, Gianninas, A., Barber, Sara, and Brown, Warren R. 2019. "The DECam minute cadence survey - II. 49 variables but no planetary transits of a white dwarf." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 490 1066–1075. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz398. 2019
- Irrgang, A., Kreuzer, S., Heber, U., and Brown, Warren R. 2018. "A quantitative spectral analysis of 14 hypervelocity stars from the MMT survey." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 615 L5. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201833315. 2018
- Kilic, Mukremin, Hermes, J. J., Córsico, A. H., Kosakowski, Alekzander, Brown, Warren R., Antoniadis, John, Calcaferro, Leila M., Gianninas, A., Althaus, Leandro G., and Green, M. J. 2018. "A refined search for pulsations in white dwarf companions to millisecond pulsars." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 479 1267–1272. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty1546. 2018
- Brown, Warren R., Lattanzi, Mario G., Kenyon, Scott J., and Geller, Margaret J. 2018. "Gaia and the Galactic Center Origin of Hypervelocity Stars." The Astrophysical Journal, 866 39. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aadb8e. 2018
- Kenyon, Scott J., Bromley, Benjamin C., Brown, Warren R., and Geller, Margaret J. 2018. "Impact of the Galactic Disk and Large Magellanic Cloud on the Trajectories of Hypervelocity Stars Ejected from the Galactic Center." The Astrophysical Journal, 864 130. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aada04. 2018
- Bell, K. J., Pelisoli, I., Kepler, S. O., Brown, Warren R., Winget, D. E., Winget, K. I., Vanderbosch, Z., Castanheira, B. G., Hermes, J. J., Montgomery, M. H., and Koester, D. 2018. "The McDonald Observatory search for pulsating sdA stars. Asteroseismic support for multiple populations." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 617 A6. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201833279. 2018
- Munn, Jeffrey A., Harris, Hugh C., von Hippel, Ted, Kilic, Mukremin, Liebert, James W., Williams, Kurtis A., DeGennaro, Steven, Jeffery, Elizabeth, Dame, Kyra, Gianninas, A., and Brown, Warren R. 2017. "A Deep Proper Motion Catalog Within the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Footprint. II. The White Dwarf Luminosity Function." The Astronomical Journal, 153 10. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/153/1/10. 2017
- Kilic, Mukremin, Brown, Warren R., Gianninas, A., Curd, Brandon, Bell, Keaton J., and Allende Prieto, Carlos. 2017. "A Gemini snapshot survey for double degenerates." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 471 4218–4227. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx1886. 2017
- Brown, Warren R., Kilic, Mukremin, Kosakowski, Alekzander, and Gianninas, A. 2017. "Discovery of a Detached, Eclipsing 40 Minute Period Double White Dwarf Binary and a Friend: Implications for He CO White Dwarf Mergers." The Astrophysical Journal, 847 10. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa8724. 2017
- Bell, Keaton J., Gianninas, A., Hermes, J. J., Winget, D. E., Kilic, Mukremin, Montgomery, M. H., Castanheira, B. G., Vanderbosch, Z., Winget, K. I., and Brown, Warren R. 2017. "Pruning The ELM Survey: Characterizing Candidate Low-mass White Dwarfs through Photometric Variability." The Astrophysical Journal, 835 180. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/835/2/180. 2017
- Nicholl, M., Berger, E., Kasen, D., Metzger, B. D., Elias, J., Briceño, C., Alexander, K. D., Blanchard, P. K., Chornock, R., Cowperthwaite, P. S., Eftekhari, T., Fong, W., Margutti, R., Villar, V. A., Williams, P. K. G., Brown, Warren R., Annis, J., Bahramian, A., Brout, D., Brown, D. A., Chen, H. -Y, Clemens, J. C., Dennihy, E., Dunlap, B., Holz, D. E. et al. 2017. "The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. III. Optical and UV Spectra of a Blue Kilonova from Fast Polar Ejecta." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 848 L18. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aa9029. 2017
- Brown, Warren R., Kilic, Mukremin, and Gianninas, A. 2017. "The Physical Nature of Subdwarf A Stars: White Dwarf Impostors." The Astrophysical Journal, 839 23. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa67e4. 2017
- Gianninas, A., Curd, Brandon, Fontaine, G., Brown, Warren R., and Kilic, Mukremin. 2016. "Discovery of Three Pulsating, Mixed-atmosphere, Extremely Low-mass White Dwarf Precursors." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 822 L27. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8205/822/2/L27. 2016
- Kilic, Mukremin, Brown, Warren R., Heinke, Craig O., Gianninas, A., Benni, P., and Agüeros, M. A. 2016. "Massive double white dwarfs and the AM CVn birthrate." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 460 4176–4181. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw1277. 2016
- Dame, Kyra, Gianninas, A., Kilic, Mukremin, Munn, Jeffrey A., Brown, Warren R., Williams, Kurtis A., von Hippel, Ted, and Harris, Hugh C. 2016. "New halo white dwarf candidates in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 463 2453–2464. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw2146. 2016
- Marion, G. H., Brown, Peter J., Vinkó, Jozsef, Silverman, Jeffrey M., Sand, David J., Challis, Peter, Kirshner, Robert P., Wheeler, J. Craig, Berlind, Perry, Brown, Warren R., Calkins, Michael L., Camacho, Yssavo, Dhungana, Govinda, Foley, Ryan J., Friedman, Andrew S., Graham, Melissa L., Howell, D. Andrew, Hsiao, Eric Y., Irwin, Jonathan M., Jha, Saurabh W., Kehoe, Robert, Macri, Lucas M., Maeda, Keiichi, Mandel, Kaisey, McCully, Curtis et al. 2016. "SN~2012cg: Evidence for Interaction Between a Normal Type Ia Supernova and a Non-degenerate Binary Companion." The Astrophysical Journal, 820 92. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/820/2/92. 2016
- Brown, Warren R., Gianninas, A., Kilic, Mukremin, Kenyon, Scott J., and Allende Prieto, Carlos. 2016. "The ELM Survey. VII. Orbital Properties of Low-Mass White Dwarf Binaries." The Astrophysical Journal, 818 155. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/818/2/155. 2016
- Andrews, Jeff J., Agüeros, Marcel, Brown, Warren R., Gosnell, Natalie M., Gianninas, A., Kilic, Mukremin, and Koester, Detlev. 2016. "Today a Duo, but Once a Trio? The Double White Dwarf HS 2220 2146 May Be a Post-blue Straggler Binary." The Astrophysical Journal, 828 38. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/828/1/38. 2016
- Kilic, Mukremin, Gianninas, Alexandros, Bell, Keaton J., Curd, Brandon, Brown, Warren R., Hermes, J. J., Dufour, Patrick, Wisniewski, John P., Winget, D. E., and Winget, K. I. 2015. "A Dark Spot on a Massive White Dwarf." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 814 L31. https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/814/2/L31. 2015
- Vanderburg, Andrew, Johnson, John Asher, Rappaport, Saul, Bieryla, Allyson, Irwin, Jonathan, Lewis, John Arban, Kipping, David, Brown, Warren R., Dufour, Patrick, Ciardi, David R., Angus, Ruth, Schaefer, Laura, Latham, David W., Charbonneau, David, Beichman, Charles, Eastman, Jason, McCrady, Nate, Wittenmyer, Robert A., and Wright, Jason T. 2015. "A disintegrating minor planet transiting a white dwarf." Nature, 526 546–549. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature15527. 2015
- Chilingarian, Igor, Beletsky, Yuri, Moran, Sean, Brown, Warren, McLeod, Brian A., and Fabricant, Daniel. 2015. "Data Reduction Pipeline for the MMT and Magellan Infrared Spectrograph." Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 127 406–420. https://doi.org/10.1086/680598. 2015
- Kilic, Mukremin, Hermes, J. J., Gianninas, A., and Brown, Warren R. 2015. "PSR J1738 0333: the first millisecond pulsar pulsating white dwarf binary*." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 446 L26–L30. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slu152. 2015
- Brown, Warren R., Anderson, Jay, Gnedin, Oleg Y., Bond, Howard E., Geller, Margaret J., and Kenyon, Scott J. 2015. "Proper Motions and Trajectories for 16 Extreme Runaway and Hypervelocity Stars." The Astrophysical Journal, 804 49. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/804/1/49. 2015
- King, Charles, III, Brown, Warren R., Geller, Margaret J., and Kenyon, Scott J. 2015. "Stellar Velocity Dispersion and Anisotropy of the Milky Way Inner Halo." The Astrophysical Journal, 813 89. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/813/2/89. 2015
- Gianninas, A., Kilic, Mukremin, Brown, Warren R., Canton, Paul, and Kenyon, Scott J. 2015. "The ELM Survey. VI. Eleven New Double Degenerates." The Astrophysical Journal, 812 167. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/812/2/167. 2015
- Shah, Sweta, Larson, Shane L., and Brown, Warren. 2015. "Ultra-compact binaries as gravitational wave sources." Journal of Physics Conference Series, 610 012003. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/610/1/012003. 2015
- Kilic, Mukremin, Brown, Warren R., Gianninas, A., Hermes, J. J., Allende Prieto, Carlos, and Kenyon, Scott J. 2014. "A new gravitational wave verification source." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 444 L1–L5. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slu093. 2014
- Barber, Sara D., Kilic, Mukremin, Brown, Warren R., and Gianninas, A. 2014. "Dusty WDs in the WISE All Sky Survey n SDSS." The Astrophysical Journal, 786 77. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/786/2/77. 2014
- Bryan, Marta L., Alsubai, Khalid A., Latham, David W., Parley, Neil R., Collier Cameron, Andrew, Quinn, Samuel N., Carter, Joshua A., Fulton, Benjamin J., Berlind, Perry, Brown, Warren R., Buchhave, Lars A., Calkins, Michael L., Esquerdo, Gilbert A., Furész, Gábor, Gråe Jørgensen, Uffe, Horne, Keith D., Stefanik, Robert P., Street, Rachel A., Torres, Guillermo, West, Richard G., Dominik, Martin, Harpsøe, Kennet B. W., Liebig, Christine, Calchi Novati, Sebastiano, Ricci, Davide et al. 2014. "Erratum: "Qatar-2: A K Dwarf Orbited by a Transiting Hot Jupiter and a More Massive Companion in an Outer Orbit" (2012, ApJ, 750,1)." The Astrophysical Journal, 782 121. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/782/2/121. 2014
- Kilic, Mukremin, Hermes, J. J., Gianninas, A., Brown, Warren R., Heinke, Craig O., Agüeros, M. A., Chote, Paul, Sullivan, Denis J., Bell, Keaton J., and Harrold, Samuel T. 2014. "Found: the progenitors of AM CVn and supernovae .Ia." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 438 L26–L30. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slt151. 2014
- Brown, Warren R., Geller, Margaret J., and Kenyon, Scott J. 2014. "MMT Hypervelocity Star Survey. III. The Complete Survey." The Astrophysical Journal, 787 89. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/787/1/89. 2014
- Gianninas, A., Dufour, P., Kilic, Mukremin, Brown, Warren R., Bergeron, P., and Hermes, J. J. 2014. "Precise Atmospheric Parameters for the Shortest-period Binary White Dwarfs: Gravitational Waves, Metals, and Pulsations." The Astrophysical Journal, 794 35. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/794/1/35. 2014
- Kenyon, Scott J., Bromley, Benjamin C., Brown, Warren R., and Geller, Margaret J. 2014. "Predicted Space Motions for Hypervelocity and Runaway Stars: Proper Motions and Radial Velocities for the Gaia Era." The Astrophysical Journal, 793 122. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/793/2/122. 2014
- Hermes, J. J., Brown, Warren R., Kilic, Mukremin, Gianninas, A., Chote, Paul, Sullivan, D. J., Winget, D. E., Bell, Keaton J., Falcon, R. E., Winget, K. I., Mason, Paul A., Harrold, Samuel T., and Montgomery, M. H. 2014. "Radius Constraints from High-speed Photometry of 20 Low-mass White Dwarf Binaries." The Astrophysical Journal, 792 39. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/792/1/39. 2014
- Gianninas, A., Hermes, J. J., Brown, Warren R., Dufour, P., Barber, Sara D., Kilic, Mukremin, Kenyon, Scott J., and Harrold, Samuel T. 2014. "SDSS J074511.56 194926.5: Discovery of a Metal-rich and Tidally Distorted Extremely Low Mass White Dwarf." The Astrophysical Journal, 781 104. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/781/2/104. 2014
- Kinman, T. D. and Brown, Warren R. 2014. "The Identification of RR Lyrae and d Scutti Stars from Variable Galaxy Evolution Explorer Ultraviolet Sources." The Astronomical Journal, 148 121. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-6256/148/6/121. 2014
- Bochanski, John J., Willman, Beth, Caldwell, Nelson, Sanderson, Robyn, West, Andrew A., Strader, Jay, and Brown, Warren. 2014. "The Most Distant Stars in the Milky Way." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 790 L5. https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/790/1/L5. 2014
- Hermes, J. J., Montgomery, M. H., Gianninas, A., Winget, D. E., Brown, Warren R., Harrold, Samuel T., Bell, Keaton J., Kenyon, Scott J., Kilic, Mukremin, and Castanheira, Barbara G. 2013. "A new class of pulsating white dwarf of extremely low mass: the fourth and fifth members." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 436 3573–3580. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt1835. 2013
- Hermes, J. J., Montgomery, M. H., Winget, D. E., Brown, Warren R., Gianninas, A., Kilic, Mukremin, Kenyon, Scott J., Bell, Keaton J., and Harrold, Samuel T. 2013. "Discovery of Pulsations, Including Possible Pressure Modes, in Two New Extremely Low Mass, He-core White Dwarfs." The Astrophysical Journal, 765 102. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/765/2/102. 2013
- Hermes, J. J., Kepler, S. O., Castanheira, Barbara G., Gianninas, A., Winget, D. E., Montgomery, M. H., Brown, Warren R., and Harrold, Samuel T. 2013. "Discovery of an Ultramassive Pulsating White Dwarf." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 771 L2. https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/771/1/L2. 2013
- Brown, Warren R., Kilic, Mukremin, Allende Prieto, Carlos, Gianninas, A., and Kenyon, Scott J. 2013. "The ELM Survey. V. Merging Massive White Dwarf Binaries." The Astrophysical Journal, 769 66. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/769/1/66. 2013
- Brown, Warren R., Cohen, Judith G., Geller, Margaret J., and Kenyon, Scott J. 2013. "The Origin of HVS17, an Unbound Main Sequence B Star at 50 kpc." The Astrophysical Journal, 775 32. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/775/1/32. 2013
- Kilic, Mukremin, Gianninas, A., Brown, Warren R., Harris, Hugh C., Dahn, Conard C., Agüeros, M. A., Heinke, Craig O., Kenyon, Scott J., Panei, J. A., and Camilo, Fernando. 2013. "The runaway binary LP 400-22 is leaving the Galaxy." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 434 3582–3589. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt1282. 2013
- Kinman, T. D., Aoki, Wako, Beers, Timothy C., and Brown, Warren R. 2012. "A New CEMP-s RR Lyrae Star." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 755 18. https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/755/1/L18. 2012
- Hicken, Malcolm, Challis, Peter, Kirshner, Robert P., Rest, Armin, Cramer, Claire E., Wood-Vasey, W., Bakos, Gaspar, Berlind, Perry, Brown, Warren R., Caldwell, Nelson, Calkins, Mike, Currie, Thayne, de Kleer, Kathy, Esquerdo, Gilbert, Everett, Mark, Falco, Emilio, Fernandez, Jose, Friedman, Andrew S., Groner, Ted, Hartman, Joel, Holman, Matthew J., Hutchins, Robert, Keys, Sonia, Kipping, David, Latham, Dave et al. 2012. "CfA4: Light Curves for 94 Type Ia Supernovae." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 200 12. https://doi.org/10.1088/0067-0049/200/2/12. 2012
- King, Charles, III, Brown, Warren R., Geller, Margaret J., and Kenyon, Scott J. 2012. "Identifying Star Streams in the Milky Way Halo." The Astrophysical Journal, 750 81. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/750/1/81. 2012
- Brown, Warren R., Geller, Margaret J., and Kenyon, Scott J. 2012. "MMT Hypervelocity Star Survey. II. Five New Unbound Stars." The Astrophysical Journal, 751 55. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/751/1/55. 2012
- McLeod, Brian A., Fabricant, Daniel, Nystrom, George, McCracken, Ken, Amato, Stephen, Bergner, Henry, Brown, Warren, Burke, Michael, Chilingarian, Igor, Conroy, Maureen, Curley, Dylan, Furesz, Gabor, Geary, John, Hertz, Edward, Holwell, Justin, Matthews, Anne, Norton, Tim, Park, Sang, Roll, John, Zajac, Joseph, Epps, Harland, and Martini, Paul. 2012. "MMT and Magellan Infrared Spectrograph." Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 124 1318–1335. https://doi.org/10.1086/669044. 2012
- Fabricant, Daniel, Fata, Robert, Brown, Warren R., McLeod, Brian A., Mueller, Mark, Gauron, Thomas, Roll, John, Bergner, Henry, Geary, John, Kradinov, Vladimir, Norton, Tim, Smith, Matt, and Zajac, Joseph. 2012. "NIRMOS: a wide-field near-infrared spectrograph for the Giant Magellan Telescope." Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series, 8446. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.926262. 2012
- Bryan, Marta L., Alsubai, Khalid A., Latham, David W., Parley, Neil R., Collier Cameron, Andrew, Quinn, Samuel N., Carter, Joshua A., Fulton, Benjamin J., Berlind, Perry, Brown, Warren R., Buchhave, Lars A., Calkins, Michael L., Esquerdo, Gilbert A., Furész, Gábor, Gråe Jørgensen, Uffe, Horne, Keith D., Stefanik, Robert P., Street, Rachel A., Torres, Guillermo, West, Richard G., Dominik, Martin, Harpsøe, Kennet B. W., Liebig, Christine, Calchi Novati, Sebastiano, Ricci, Davide et al. 2012. "Qatar-2: A K Dwarf Orbited by a Transiting Hot Jupiter and a More Massive Companion in an Outer Orbit." The Astrophysical Journal, 750 84. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/750/1/84. 2012
- Hermes, J. J., Montgomery, M. H., Winget, D. E., Brown, Warren R., Kilic, Mukremin, and Kenyon, Scott J. 2012. "SDSS J184037.78 642312.3: The First Pulsating Extremely Low Mass White Dwarf." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 750 L28. https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/750/2/L28. 2012
- Brown, Warren R., Kilic, Mukremin, Allende Prieto, Carlos, and Kenyon, Scott J. 2012. "The ELM Survey. III. A Successful Targeted Survey for Extremely Low Mass White Dwarfs." The Astrophysical Journal, 744, (2). https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/744/2/142. 2012
- Kilic, Mukremin, Brown, Warren R., Allende Prieto, Carlos, Kenyon, Scott J., Heinke, Craig O., Agüeros, M. A., and Kleinman, S. J. 2012. "The ELM Survey. IV. 24 White Dwarf Merger Systems." The Astrophysical Journal, 751 141. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/751/2/141. 2012
- Brown, Warren R., Cohen, Judith G., Geller, Margaret J., and Kenyon, Scott J. 2012. "The Nature of Hypervelocity Stars and the Time between Their Formation and Ejection." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 754 L2. https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/754/1/L2. 2012
- Hermes, J. J., Kilic, Mukremin, Brown, Warren R., Montgomery, M. H., and Winget, D. E. 2012. "Two New Tidally Distorted White Dwarfs." The Astrophysical Journal, 749 42. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/749/1/42. 2012
- Brown, Warren R., Kilic, Mukremin, Hermes, J. J., Allende Prieto, Carlos, Kenyon, Scott J., and Winget, D. E. 2011. "A 12 Minute Orbital Period Detached White Dwarf Eclipsing Binary." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 737, (1) L23. https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/737/1/L23. 2011
- Kilic, Mukremin, Brown, Warren R., Hermes, J. J., Allende Prieto, Carlos, Kenyon, Scott J., Winget, D. E., and Winget, K. I. 2011. "SDSS J163030.58 423305.8: a 40-min orbital period detached white dwarf binary." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 418, (1) L157–L161. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-3933.2011.01165.x .1745-3933. 2011
- Kinman, T. D. and Brown, Warren R. 2011. "The BHB Stars in the Survey Fields of Rodgers et al. (1993): New Observations and Comparisons with Other Recent Surveys." The Astronomical Journal, 141 168. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-6256/141/5/168. 2011
- Brown, Justin M., Kilic, Mukremin, Brown, Warren R., and Kenyon, Scott J. 2011. "The Binary Fraction of Low-mass White Dwarfs." The Astrophysical Journal, 730, (2) 67. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/730/2/67. 2011
- Kilic, Mukremin, Brown, Warren R., Allende Prieto, Carlos, Agüeros, M. A., Heinke, Craig, and Kenyon, Scott J. 2011. "The ELM Survey. II. Twelve Binary White Dwarf Merger Systems." The Astrophysical Journal, 727 3. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/727/1/3. 2011
- Brown, Warren R., Kilic, Mukremin, Allende Prieto, Carlos, and Kenyon, Scott J. 2011. "The merger rate of extremely low mass white dwarf binaries: links to the formation of AM CVn stars and underluminous supernovae." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters, 411, (1) L31–L35. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-3933.2010.00986.x. 2011
- Kilic, Mukremin, Brown, Warren R., Kenyon, Scott J., Allende Prieto, Carlos, Andrews, J., Kleinman, S. J., Winget, K. I., Winget, D. E., and Hermes, J. J. 2011. "The shortest period detached binary white dwarf system." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 413 L101–L105. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-3933.2011.01044.x. 2011
- Brown, Warren R., Anderson, Jay, Gnedin, Oleg Y., Bond, Howard E., Geller, Margaret J., Kenyon, Scott J., and Livio, Mario. 2010. "A Galactic Origin for HE 0437–5439, The Hypervelocity Star Near the Large Magellanic Cloud." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 719 L23–L27. https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/719/1/L23. 2010
- Kilic, Mukremin, Brown, Warren R., and McLeod, Brian A. 2010. "A Spitzer Search for Substellar Companions to Low-Mass White Dwarfs." The Astrophysical Journal, 708 411–418. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/708/1/411. 2010
- Kilic, Mukremin, Allende Prieto, Carlos, Brown, Warren R., Agüeros, M. A., Kenyon, Scott J., and Camilo, Fernando. 2010. "Accurate Masses for the Primary and Secondary in the Eclipsing White Dwarf Binary NLTT 11748." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 721 L158–L162. https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/721/2/L158. 2010
- Kinman, T. D. and Brown, Warren R. 2010. "Low-amplitude Variables: Distinguishing RR Lyrae Stars from Eclipsing Binaries." The Astronomical Journal, 139 2014–2025. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-6256/139/5/2014. 2010
- Kilic, Mukremin, Brown, Warren R., Allende Prieto, Carlos, Kenyon, Scott J., and Panei, J. A. 2010. "The Discovery of Binary White Dwarfs that will Merge Within 500 Myr." The Astrophysical Journal, 716 122–130. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/716/1/122. 2010
- Brown, Warren R., Kilic, Mukremin, Allende Prieto, Carlos, and Kenyon, Scott J. 2010. "The ELM Survey. I. A Complete Sample of Extremely Low-mass White Dwarfs." The Astrophysical Journal, 723 1072–1081. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/723/2/1072. 2010
- Gnedin, Oleg Y., Brown, Warren R., Geller, Margaret J., and Kenyon, Scott J. 2010. "The Mass Profile of the Galaxy to 80 kpc." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 720 L108–L112. https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/720/1/L108. 2010
- Brown, Warren R., Geller, Margaret J., Kenyon, Scott J., and Diaferio, Antonaldo. 2010. "Velocity Dispersion Profile of the Milky Way Halo." The Astronomical Journal, 139 59–67. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-6256/139/1/59. 2010
- Kilic, Mukremin, Munn, Jeffrey A., Williams, Kurtis A., Kowalski, P. M., von Hippel, Ted, Harris, Hugh C., Jeffery, Elizabeth J., DeGennaro, Steven, Brown, Warren R., and McLeod, Brian A. 2010. "Visitors from the Halo: 11 Gyr Old White Dwarfs in the Solar Neighborhood." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 715 L21–L25. https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/715/1/L21. 2010
- Kinman, T. D., Morrison, Heather L., and Brown, Warren R. 2009. "Do the Nearby Blue Horizontal Branch Stars Belong to the Thick Disk or the Halo?" The Astronomical Journal, 137 3198–3209. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-6256/137/2/3198. 2009
- Brown, Warren R., Geller, Margaret J., and Kenyon, Scott J. 2009. "MMT Hypervelocity Star Survey." The Astrophysical Journal, 690 1639–1647. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/690/2/1639. 2009
- Bromley, Benjamin C., Kenyon, Scott J., Brown, Warren R., and Geller, Margaret J. 2009. "Runaway Stars, Hypervelocity Stars, and Radial Velocity Surveys." The Astrophysical Journal, 706 925–940. 2009
- Brown, Warren R., Geller, Margaret J., Kenyon, Scott J., and Bromley, Benjamin C. 2009. "The Anisotropic Spatial Distribution of Hypervelocity Stars." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 690 L69–L71. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/690/1/L69. 2009
- Kilic, Mukremin, Brown, Warren R., Allende Prieto, Carlos, Swift, B., Kenyon, Scott J., Liebert, J., and Agüeros, M. A. 2009. "The Runaway White Dwarf LP400–22 has a Companion." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 695 L92–L96. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/695/1/L92. 2009
- Przybilla, N., Nieva, M. F., Tillich, A., Heber, U., Butler, K., and Brown, Warren R. 2008. "HVS 7: a chemically peculiar hyper-velocity star." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 488 L51–L54. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200810455. 2008
- Kenyon, Scott J., Bromley, Benjamin C., Geller, Margaret J., and Brown, Warren R. 2008. "Hypervelocity Stars: From the Galactic Center to the Halo." The Astrophysical Journal, 680 312–327. 2008
- Brown, Warren R., Kewley, Lisa J., and Geller, Margaret J. 2008. "MMT Extremely Metal-Poor Galaxy Survey. I. An Efficient Technique for Identifying Metal-Poor Galaxies." The Astronomical Journal, 135 92–98. 2008
- Brown, Warren R., Beers, Timothy C., Wilhelm, Ronald, Allende Prieto, Carlos, Geller, Margaret J., Kenyon, Scott J., and Kurtz, Michael J. 2008. "The Century Survey Galactic Halo Project. III. a Complete 4300 DEG2 Survey of Blue Horizontal Branch Stars in the Metal-Weak Thick Disk and Inner Halo." The Astronomical Journal, 135 564–574. 2008
- Updike, Adria C., Haislip, Josh B., Nysewander, Melissa C., Fruchter, Andrew S., Kann, D. Alexander, Klose, Sylvio, Milne, Peter A., Williams, G. Grant, Zheng, WeiKang, Hergenrother, Carl W., Prochaska, Jason X., Halpern, Jules P., Mirabal, Nestor, Thorstensen, John R., van der Horst, Alexander J., Starling, Rhaana L. C., Racusin, Judith L., Burrows, David N., Kuin, N. P. M., Roming, Peter W. A., Bellm, Eric, Hurley, Kevin, Li, Weidong, Filippenko, Alexei V., Blake, Cullen et al. 2008. "The Rapidly Flaring Afterglow of the Very Bright and Energetic GRB 070125." The Astrophysical Journal, 685 361–375. https://doi.org/10.1086/590236. 2008
- Brown, Warren R., Geller, Margaret J., Kenyon, Scott J., Kurtz, Michael J., and Bromley, Benjamin C. 2007. "Hypervelocity Stars. III. The Space Density and Ejection History of Main-Sequence Stars from the Galactic Center." The Astrophysical Journal, 671 1708–1716. 2007
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Conference Paper
- Chilingarian, Igor, Brown, Warren, Fabricant, Daniel, McLeod, Brian A., Roll, John, Szentgyorgyi, Andrew H., and Friedel, D. N. 2013. "Data Reduction Pipeline for the MMT Magellan Infrared Spectrograph." from Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XXII. 475, 189. 2013
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