

Falco-Acosta, Emilio
Fellowship Advisor
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory staff
Observational cosmology; estimation of cosmological parameters and studies of galaxy evolution; searches for and studies of gravitational lenses in all-sky surveys; searches for extrasolar planets.
Background And Education
Publications
selected publications
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- Wilson, Maurice L., Eastman, Jason D., Cornachione, Matthew A., Wang, Sharon X., Johnson, Samson A., Sliski, David H., Schap, William J.,III, Morton, Timothy D., Johnson, John Asher, McCrady, Nate, Wright, Jason T., Wittenmyer, Robert A., Plavchan, Peter, Blake, Cullen H., Swift, Jonathan J., Bottom, Michael, Baker, Ashley D., Barnes, Stuart I., Berlind, Perry, Blackhurst, Eric, Beatty, Thomas G., Bolton, Adam S., Cale, Bryson, Calkins, Michael L., Colón, Ana et al. 2019. "First Radial Velocity Results From the MINiature Exoplanet Radial Velocity Array (MINERVA)." Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 131:115001. https://doi.org/10.1088/1538-3873/ab33c5 2019
- Measuring Supermassive Black Hole Masses: Correlation between the Redshifts of the Fe III UV Lines and the Widths of Broad Emission Lines. Astrophysical Journal. 880:96. 2019
- Macri, Lucas M., Kraan-Korteweg, Renée C., Lambert, Trystan, Alonso, María Victoria, Berlind, Perry, Calkins, Michael, Erdoğdu, Pirin, Falco, Emilio E., Jarrett, Thomas H., and Mink, Jessica D. 2019. "The 2MASS Redshift Survey in the Zone of Avoidance." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 245:6. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/ab465a 2019
- The ASAS-SN bright supernova catalogue - IV. 2017. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 484:1899-1911. 2019
- The extraplanar type II supernova ASASSN-14jb in the nearby edge-on galaxy ESO 467-G051. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 629:A57. 2019
- The highly luminous Type Ibn supernova ASASSN-14ms. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 475:2344-2354. 2018
- The ultraviolet spectroscopic evolution of the low-luminosity tidal disruption event iPTF16fnl. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 473:1130-1144. 2018
- Zhou, George, Bakos, G. Á., Hartman, J. D., Latham, D. W., Torres, G., Bhatti, W., Penev, K., Buchhave, L., Kovács, G., Bieryla, A., Quinn, S., Isaacson, H., Fulton, B. J., Falco, E., Csubry, Z., Everett, M., Szklenar, T., Esquerdo, G., Berlind, P., Calkins, Michael L., Béky, B., Knox, R. P., Hinz, P., Horch, E. P., Hirsch, L. et al. 2017. "HAT-P-67b: An Extremely Low Density Saturn Transiting an F-subgiant Confirmed via Doppler Tomography." The Astronomical Journal 153:211. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/aa674a 2017
- Hartman, J. D., Bakos, G. Á., Bhatti, W., Penev, K., Bieryla, A., Latham, D. W., Kovács, G., Torres, G., Csubry, Z., de Val-Borro, M., Buchhave, L., Kovács, T., Quinn, Samuel N., Howard, A. W., Isaacson, H., Fulton, B. J., Everett, M. E., Esquerdo, G., Béky, B., Szklenar, T., Falco, E., Santerne, A., Boisse, I., Hébrard, G., Burrows, A. et al. 2016. "HAT-P-65b and HAT-P-66b: Two Transiting Inflated Hot Jupiters and Observational Evidence for the Reinflation of Close-in Giant Planets." The Astronomical Journal 152:182. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-6256/152/6/182 2016
- McHardy, I. M., Connolly, S. D., Peterson, B. M., Bieryla, A., Chand, H., Elvis, M. S., Emmanoulopoulos, D., Falco, E., Gandhi, P., Kaspi, S., Latham, D., Lira, P., McCully, C., Netzer, H., and Uemura, M. 2016. "The origin of UV-optical variability in AGN and test of disc models: XMM-Newton and ground-based observations of NGC 4395." Astronomische Nachrichten 337:500. https://doi.org/10.1002/asna.201612337 2016
- Friedman, Andrew S., Wood-Vasey, W. M., Marion, G. H., Challis, Peter, Mandel, Kaisey S., Bloom, Joshua S., Modjaz, Maryam, Narayan, Gautham, Hicken, Malcolm, Foley, Ryan J., Klein, Christopher R., Starr, Dan L., Morgan, Adam, Rest, Armin, Blake, Cullen H., Miller, Adam A., Falco, Emilio E., Wyatt, William F., Mink, Jessica, Skrutskie, Michael F., and Kirshner, Robert P. 2015. "CfAIR2: Near-infrared Light Curves of 94 Type Ia Supernovae." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 220:9. https://doi.org/10.1088/0067-0049/220/1/9 2015
- Hartman, J. D., Bhatti, W., Bakos, G. Á., Bieryla, A., Kovács, G., Latham, D. W., Csubry, Z., de Val-Borro, M., Penev, K., Buchhave, L. A., Torres, G., Howard, A. W., Marcy, G. W., Johnson, J. A., Isaacson, H., Sato, B., Boisse, I., Falco, E., Everett, M. E., Szklenar, T., Fulton, B. J., Shporer, A., Kovács, T., Hansen, T., Béky, B. et al. 2015. "HAT-P-50b, HAT-P-51b, HAT-P-52b, and HAT-P-53b: Three Transiting Hot Jupiters and a Transiting Hot Saturn From the HATNet Survey." The Astronomical Journal 150:168. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-6256/150/6/168 2015
- Bakos, G. Á., Hartman, J. D., Bhatti, W., Bieryla, A., de Val-Borro, M., Latham, D. W., Buchhave, L. A., Csubry, Z., Penev, K., Kovács, G., Béky, B., Falco, E., Kovács, T., Howard, A. W., Johnson, J. A., Isaacson, H., Marcy, G. W., Torres, G., Noyes, R. W., Berlind, P., Calkins, Michael L., Esquerdo, Gilbert A., Lázár, J., Papp, I., and Sári, P. 2015. "HAT-P-54b: A Hot Jupiter Transiting a 0.6 M? Star in Field 0 of the K2 Mission." The Astronomical Journal 149:149. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-6256/149/4/149 2015
- Huang, C. X., Hartman, J. D., Bakos, G. Á., Penev, K., Bhatti, W., Bieryla, A., de Val-Borro, M., Latham, D. W., Buchhave, L. A., Csubry, Z., Kovács, G., Béky, B., Falco, E., Berlind, P., Calkins, Michael L., Esquerdo, Gilbert A., Lázár, J., Papp, I., and Sári, P. 2015. "HAT-P-56b: An Inflated Massive Hot Jupiter Transiting a Bright F Star Followed Up with K2 Campaign 0 Observations." The Astronomical Journal 150:85. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-6256/150/3/85 2015
- Hartman, J. D., Bakos, G. Á., Buchhave, L. A., Torres, G., Latham, D. W., Kovács, G., Bhatti, W., Csubry, Z., de Val-Borro, M., Penev, K., Huang, C. X., Béky, B., Bieryla, A., Quinn, Samuel N., Howard, A. W., Marcy, G. W., Johnson, J. A., Isaacson, H., Fischer, D. A., Noyes, R. W., Falco, E., Esquerdo, Gilbert A., Knox, R. P., Hinz, P., Lázár, J. et al. 2015. "HAT-P-57b: A Short-period Giant Planet Transiting a Bright Rapidly Rotating A8V Star Confirmed Via Doppler Tomography." The Astronomical Journal 150:197. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-6256/150/6/197 2015
- Hartman, J. D., Bakos, G. Á., Torres, G., Kovács, G., Johnson, J. A., Howard, A. W., Marcy, G. W., Latham, D. W., Bieryla, A., Buchhave, L. A., Bhatti, W., Béky, B., Csubry, Z., Penev, K., de Val-Borro, M., Noyes, R. W., Fischer, D. A., Esquerdo, Gilbert A., Everett, M., Szklenár, T., Zhou, George, Bayliss, D., Shporer, A., Fulton, B. J., Sanchis-Ojeda, R. et al. 2014. "HAT-P-44b, HAT-P-45b, and HAT-P-46b: Three Transiting Hot Jupiters in Possible Multi-planet Systems." The Astronomical Journal 147:128. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-6256/147/6/128 2014
- Bieryla, A., Hartman, J. D., Bakos, G. Á., Bhatti, W., Kovács, G., Boisse, I., Latham, D. W., Buchhave, L. A., Csubry, Z., Penev, K., de Val-Borro, M., Béky, B., Falco, E., Torres, G., Noyes, R. W., Berlind, P., Calkins, M. C., Esquerdo, Gilbert A., Lázár, J., Papp, I., and Sári, P. 2014. "HAT-P-49b: A 1.7 M J Planet Transiting a Bright 1.5 M ? F-star." The Astronomical Journal 147:84. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-6256/147/4/84 2014
- Marion, G. H., Vinko, Jozsef, Kirshner, Robert P., Foley, Ryan J., Berlind, Perry, Bieryla, Allyson, Bloom, Joshua S., Calkins, Michael L., Challis, Peter, Chevalier, Roger A., Chornock, Ryan, Culliton, Chris, Curtis, Jason L., Esquerdo, Gilbert A., Everett, Mark E., Falco, Emilio E., France, Kevin, Fransson, Claes, Friedman, Andrew S., Garnavich, Peter, Leibundgut, Bruno, Meyer, Samuel, Smith, Nathan, Soderberg, Alicia M., Sollerman, Jesper et al. 2014. "Type IIb Supernova SN 2011dh: Spectra and Photometry from the Ultraviolet to the Near-infrared." The Astrophysical Journal 781:69. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/781/2/69 2014
- Boisse, I., Hartman, J. D., Bakos, G. Á., Penev, K., Csubry, Z., Béky, B., Latham, D. W., Bieryla, A., Torres, G., Kovács, G., Buchhave, L. A., Hansen, T., Everett, M., Esquerdo, Gilbert A., Szklenár, T., Falco, E., Shporer, A., Fulton, B. J., Noyes, R. W., Stefanik, R. P., Lázár, J., Papp, I., and Sári, P. 2013. "HAT-P-42b and HAT-P-43b. Two inflated transiting hot Jupiters from the HATNet Survey." Astronomy and Astrophysics 558:86. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201220993 2013
- 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/10.1088/00670049/200/2/12 2012
- Blake, Cullen H., Bloom, Joshua S., Latham, David W., Szentgyorgyi, Andrew H., Skrutskie, Michael F., Falco, Emilio E., and Starr, Dan S. 2008. "Near-Infrared Monitoring of Ultracool Dwarfs: Prospects for Searching for Transiting Companions." Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 120:860-871. https://doi.org/10.1086/590506 2008
- Observations of the 599 Hz Accreting X-Ray Pulsar IGR J00291 5934 during the 2004 Outburst and in Quiescence. Astrophysical Journal. 672:1079-1090. 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
- Perley, D. A., Bloom, J. S., Butler, N. R., Pollack, L. K., Holtzman, J., Blake, C. H., Kocevski, D., Vestrand, W. T., Li, W., Foley, R. J., Bellm, E., Chen, H. W., Prochaska, J. X., Starr, D., Filippenko, A. V., Falco, E. E., Szentgyorgyi, Andrew H., Wren, J., Wozniak, P. R., White, R., and Pergande, J. 2008. "The Troublesome Broadband Evolution of GRB 061126: Does a Gray Burst Imply Gray Dust?." The Astrophysical Journal 672:449-464. 2008
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- Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Academic Department