Dotter, Aaron
Dr.
Stellar astrophysics, stellar evolution, astronomy
Positions
- Astrophysicist, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian 2018 -
Background And Education
Education And Training
- Ph.D. in Physics & Astronomy, Dartmouth College , Physics & Astronomy, Self-consistent stellar evolution models with application to galactic globular clusters 2001 - 2007
Publications
Selected Publications
-
Article
- Jermyn, Adam S., Bauer, Evan B., Schwab, Josiah, Farmer, R., Ball, Warrick H., Bellinger, Earl P., Dotter, Aaron, Joyce, Meridith, Marchant, Pablo, Mombarg, Joey S. G., Wolf, William M., Sunny Wong, Tin Long, Cinquegrana, Giulia C., Farrell, Eoin, Smolec, R., Thoul, Anne, Cantiello, Matteo, Herwig, Falk, Toloza, Odette, Bildsten, Lars, Townsend, Richard H. D., and Timmes, F. X. 2023. "Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA): Time-dependent Convection, Energy Conservation, Automatic Differentiation, and Infrastructure." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 265 15. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/acae8d. 2023
- Lagioia, E. P., Milone, A. P., Marino, A. F., Tailo, M., Renzini, A., Carlos, M., Cordoni, G., Dondoglio, E., Jang, S., Karakas, A., and Dotter, Aaron. 2021. "Multiple Stellar Populations in Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars of Galactic Globular Clusters." The Astrophysical Journal 910:6. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/abdfcf 2021
- Mombarg, Joey S. G., Dotter, Aaron, van Reeth, Timothy, Tkachenko, Andrew, Gebruers, Sarah, and Aerts, Conny. 2020. "Asteroseismic Modeling of Gravity Modes in Slowly Rotating A/F Stars with Radiative Levitation." The Astrophysical Journal 895:51. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab8d36 2020
- Conroy, Charlie, Strader, Jay, van Dokkum, Pieter, Dolphin, Andrew E., Weisz, Daniel R., Murphy, Jeremiah W., Dotter, Aaron, Johnson, Benjamin D., and Cargile, Phillip. 2020. "Erratum: "A Complete Census of Luminous Stellar Variability on Day to Decade Timescales" (2018, ApJ, 864, 111)." The Astrophysical Journal 891:102. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab75f1 2020
- Thompson, I. B., Udalski, A., Dotter, Aaron, Rozyczka, M., Schwarzenberg-Czerny, A., Pych, W., Beletsky, Y., Burley, G. S., Marshall, J. L., McWilliam, A., Morrell, N., Osip, D., Monson, A., Persson, S. E., Szymański, M. K., Soszyński, I., Poleski, R., Ulaczyk, K., Wyrzykowski, Ł., Kozłowski, S., Mróz, P., Pietrukowicz, P., and Skowron, J. 2020. "Erratum: The Cluster Ages Experiment (CASE) - VIII. Age and distance of the Globular Cluster 47 Tuc from the analysis of two detached eclipsing binaries." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 494:846-849. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa686 2020
- de Juan Ovelar, M., Gossage, Seth, Kamann, S., Bastian, N., Usher, C., Cabrera-Ziri, Ivan, Dotter, Aaron, Conroy, Charlie, and Lardo, C. 2020. "Extended main sequence turnoffs in open clusters as seen by Gaia - II. The enigma of NGC 2509." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 491:2129-2136. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz3128 2020
- Cargile, Phillip A., Conroy, Charlie, Johnson, Benjamin D., Ting, Yuan-Sen, Bonaca, Ana, Dotter, Aaron, and Speagle, Joshua S. 2020. "MINESweeper: Spectrophotometric Modeling of Stars in the Gaia Era." The Astrophysical Journal 900:28. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aba43b 2020
- Thompson, I. B., Udalski, A., Dotter, Aaron, Rozyczka, M., Schwarzenberg-Czerny, A., Pych, W., Beletsky, Y., Burley, G. S., Marshall, J. L., McWilliam, A., Morrell, N., Osip, D., Monson, A., Persson, S. E., Szymański, M. K., Soszyński, I., Poleski, R., Ulaczyk, K., Wyrzykowski, Ł., Kozłowski, S., Mróz, P., Pietrukowicz, P., and Skowron, J. 2020. "The Cluster AgeS Experiment (CASE) - VIII. Age and distance of the Globular Cluster 47 Tuc from the analysis of two detached eclipsing binaries." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 492:4254-4267. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa032 2020
- Liu, F., Asplund, M., Yong, D., Feltzing, S., Dotter, Aaron, Meléndez, J., and Ramírez, I. 2019. "Chemical (in)homogeneity and atomic diffusion in the open cluster M 67." Astronomy and Astrophysics 627:A117. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201935306 2019
- Gossage, Seth, Conroy, Charlie, Dotter, Aaron, Cabrera-Ziri, Ivan, Dolphin, Andrew E., Bastian, Nate, Dalcanton, Julianne J., Goudfrooij, Paul, Johnson, L. Clifton, Williams, Benjamin F., Rosenfield, Philip, Kalirai, Jason, and Fouesneau, Morgan. 2019. "Combined Effects of Rotation and Age Spreads on Extended Main-Sequence Turn Offs." The Astrophysical Journal 887:199. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab5717 2019
- Lagioia, Edoardo P., Milone, Antonino P., Marino, Anna F., and Dotter, Aaron. 2019. "Helium Variation in Four Small Magellanic Cloud Globular Clusters." The Astrophysical Journal 871:140. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aaf729 2019
- Dieball, A., Bedin, L. R., Knigge, C., Geffert, M., Rich, R. M., Dotter, Aaron, Richer, H., and Zurek, D. 2019. "Hunting for brown dwarfs in the globular cluster M4: second epoch HST NIR observations." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 486:2254-2264. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz996 2019
- Paxton, Bill, Smolec, R., Schwab, Josiah, Gautschy, A., Bildsten, Lars, Cantiello, Matteo, Dotter, Aaron, Farmer, R., Goldberg, Jared A., Jermyn, Adam S., Kanbur, S. M., Marchant, Pablo, Thoul, Anne, Townsend, Richard H. D., Wolf, William M., Zhang, Michael, and Timmes, F. X. 2019. "Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA): Pulsating Variable Stars, Rotation, Convective Boundaries, and Energy Conservation." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 243:10. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/ab2241 2019
- Buder, S., Lind, K., Ness, M. K., Asplund, M., Duong, L., Lin, J., Kos, J., Casagrande, L., Casey, A. R., Bland-Hawthorn, J., de Silva, G. M., D'Orazi, V., Freeman, K. C., Martell, S. L., Schlesinger, K. J., Sharma, S., Simpson, J. D., Zucker, D. B., Zwitter, T., Čotar, K., Dotter, Aaron, Hayden, M. R., Hyde, E. A., Kafle, P. R., Lewis, G. F. et al. 2019. "The GALAH survey: An abundance, age, and kinematic inventory of the solar neighbourhood made with TGAS." Astronomy and Astrophysics 624:A19. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201833218 2019
- Marino, A. F., Przybilla, N., Milone, A. P., Da Costa, G., D'Antona, F., Dotter, Aaron, and Dupree, A. 2018. "Different Stellar Rotations in the Two Main Sequences of the Young Globular Cluster NGC 1818: The First Direct Spectroscopic Evidence." The Astronomical Journal, 156 116. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/aad3cd. 2018
- Lin, Jane, Dotter, Aaron, Ting, Yuan-Sen, and Asplund, Martin. 2018. "Stellar ages and masses in the solar neighbourhood: Bayesian analysis using spectroscopy and Gaia DR1 parallaxes." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 477:2966-2975. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty709 2018
- Conroy, Charlie, Bonaca, Ana, Naidu, Rohan P., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Johnson, Benjamin D., Dotter, Aaron, and Finkbeiner, Douglas P. 2018. "They Might Be Giants: An Efficient Color-based Selection of Red Giant Stars." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 861, L16. , https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aacdf1. 2018
- Dupree, A. K., Dotter, Aaron, Johnson, C. I., Marino, A. F., Milone, A. P., Bailey, J. I., III, Crane, J. D., Mateo, M., and Olszewski, E. W. 2017. "NGC 1866: First Spectroscopic Detection of Fast-rotating Stars in a Young LMC Cluster." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 846 L1. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aa85dd. 2017
- Torres, Guillermo, Claret, Antonio, Pavlovski, Krešimir, and Dotter, Aaron. 2015. "Capella (a Aurigae) Revisited: New Binary Orbit, Physical Properties, and Evolutionary State." The Astrophysical Journal, 807 26. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/807/1/26. 2015
Contact
Location
- Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Academic Department