Kenyon, Scott
Senior Astrophysicist
Numerical calculations of planet formation; structure of debris disks; the formation and evolution of single and multiple stars; accretion disks.
Background And Education
Education And Training
- B.S., Arizona State University
- M.S., University of Illinois
- Ph.D., University of Illinois
Publications
Selected Publications
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Article
- Whiting, Marc L., Hill, Joshua B., Bromley, Benjamin C., and Kenyon, Scott J. 2023. "A Catalog of Nearby Accelerating Star Candidates in Gaia DR3." The Astronomical Journal, 165 193. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/acc526. 2023
- Pizzardo, Michele, Geller, Margaret J., Kenyon, Scott J., Damjanov, Ivana, and Diaferio, Antonaldo. 2023. "An IllustrisTNG view of the caustic technique for galaxy cluster mass estimation." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 675. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202346545. 2023
- Pizzardo, Michele, Geller, Margaret J., Kenyon, Scott J., Damjanov, Ivana, and Diaferio, Antonaldo. 2023. "Galaxy cluster mass accretion rates from IllustrisTNG." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 680. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202347470. 2023
- Veras, Dimitri, Ida, Shigeru, Grishin, Evgeni, Kenyon, Scott J., and Bromley, Benjamin C. 2023. "Planetesimals drifting through dusty and gaseous white dwarf debris discs: Types I, II and III-like migration." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 524 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad1790. 2023
- O'Brien, Rosalia, Carleton, Timothy, Windhorst, Rogier A., Jansen, Rolf A., Carter, Delondrae, Tompkins, Scott, Caddy, Sarah, Cohen, Seth H., Abate, Haley, Arendt, Richard G., Berkheimer, Jessica, Calamida, Annalisa, Casertano, Stefano, Driver, Simon P., Gelb, Connor, Goisman, Zak, Grogin, Norman, Henningsen, Daniel, Huckabee, Isabela, Kenyon, Scott J., Koekemoer, Anton M., Kramer, Darby, MacKenty, John, Robotham, Aaron, and Sherman, Steven. 2023. "SKYSURF-4: Panchromatic Hubble Space Telescope All-Sky Surface-brightness Measurement Methods and Results." The Astronomical Journal, 165 237. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/acccee. 2023
- Najita, Joan R. and Kenyon, Scott J. 2023. "Takeout and Delivery: Erasing the Dusty Signature of Late-stage Terrestrial Planet Formation." The Astrophysical Journal, 944 125. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acac8f. 2023
- Kenyon, Scott J. and Bromley, Benjamin C. 2022. "A Pluto-Charon Sonata IV. Improved Constraints on the Dynamical Behavior and Masses of the Small Satellites." The Astronomical Journal, 163 238. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ac6188. 2022
- Najita, Joan R., Kenyon, Scott J., and Bromley, Benjamin C. 2022. "From Pebbles and Planetesimals to Planets and Dust: The Protoplanetary Disk-Debris Disk Connection." The Astrophysical Journal, 925 45. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac37b6. 2022
- Bromley, Benjamin C. and Kenyon, Scott J. 2022. "Magnetic Interactions in Orbital Dynamics." The Astronomical Journal, 164 229. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ac9301. 2022
- Windhorst, Rogier A., Carleton, Timothy, O'Brien, Rosalia, Cohen, Seth H., Carter, Delondrae, Jansen, Rolf, Tompkins, Scott, Arendt, Richard G., Caddy, Sarah, Grogin, Norman, Koekemoer, Anton, MacKenty, John, Casertano, Stefano, Davies, Luke J. M., Driver, Simon P., Dwek, Eli, Kashlinsky, Alexander, Kenyon, Scott J., Miles, Nathan, Pirzkal, Nor, Robotham, Aaron, Ryan, Russell, Abate, Haley, Andras-Letanovszky, Hanga, Berkheimer, Jessica et al. 2022. "SKYSURF: Constraints on Zodiacal Light and Extragalactic Background Light through Panchromatic HST All-sky Surface-brightness Measurements. I. Survey Overview and Methods." The Astronomical Journal, 164 141. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ac82af. 2022
- Carleton, Timothy, Windhorst, Rogier A., O'Brien, Rosalia, Cohen, Seth H., Carter, Delondrae, Jansen, Rolf, Tompkins, Scott, Arendt, Richard G., Caddy, Sarah, Grogin, Norman, Kenyon, Scott J., Koekemoer, Anton, MacKenty, John, Casertano, Stefano, Davies, Luke J. M., Driver, Simon P., Dwek, Eli, Kashlinsky, Alexander, Miles, Nathan, Pirzkal, Nor, Robotham, Aaron, Ryan, Russell, Abate, Haley, Andras-Letanovszky, Hanga, Berkheimer, Jessica et al. 2022. "SKYSURF: Constraints on Zodiacal Light and Extragalactic Background Light through Panchromatic HST All-sky Surface-brightness Measurements: II. First Limits on Diffuse Light at 1.25, 1.4, and 1.6 μm." The Astronomical Journal, 164 170. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ac8d02. 2022
- Kenyon, Scott J. and Bromley, Benjamin C. 2021. "A Pluto-Charon Concerto. II. Formation of a Circumbinary Disk of Debris after the Giant Impact." The Astronomical Journal, 161 211. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/abe858. 2021
- Swan, Andrew, Kenyon, Scott J., Farihi, Jay, Dennihy, Erik, Gänsicke, Boris T., Hermes, J. J., Melis, Carl, and von Hippel, Ted. 2021. "Collisions in a gas-rich white dwarf planetary debris disc." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 506 432–440. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab1738. 2021
- Flagg, Laura, Johns-Krull, Christopher M., France, Kevin, Herczeg, Gregory, Najita, Joan, Carpenter, John M., and Kenyon, Scott J. 2021. "Detection of H2 in the TWA 7 System: A Probable Circumstellar Origin." The Astrophysical Journal, 921 86. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac1d4c. 2021
- Bromley, Benjamin C., Leonard, Austin, Quintanilla, Amanda, King, Austin J., Mann, Chris, and Kenyon, Scott J. 2021. "Seeking Echoes of Circumstellar Disks in Kepler Light Curves." The Astronomical Journal, 162 98. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ac05be. 2021
- Bromley, Benjamin C. and Kenyon, Scott J. 2020. "A Pluto-Charon Concerto: An Impact on Charon as the Origin of the Small Satellites." The Astronomical Journal, 160 85. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ab9e6c. 2020
- Kenyon, Scott J. and Bromley, Benjamin C. 2020. "Craters on Charon: Impactors from a Collisional Cascade Among Trans-Neptunian Objects." The Planetary Science Journal, 1 40. https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/aba8a9. 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
- Kenyon, Scott J. and Bromley, Benjamin C. 2019. "A Pluto-Charon Sonata. III. Growth of Charon from a Circum-Pluto Ring of Debris." The Astronomical Journal, 158 142. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ab38b7. 2019
- Kenyon, Scott J. and Bromley, Benjamin C. 2019. "A Pluto-Charon Sonata: Dynamical Limits on the Masses of the Small Satellites." The Astronomical Journal, 158 69. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ab2890. 2019
- Kenyon, Scott J. and Bromley, Benjamin C. 2019. "A Pluto–Charon Sonata: The Dynamical Architecture of the Circumbinary Satellite System." The Astronomical Journal, 157 79. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/aafa72. 2019
- Bromley, Benjamin C. and Kenyon, Scott J. 2019. "Ohmic Heating of Asteroids around Magnetic Stars." The Astrophysical Journal, 876 17. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab12e9. 2019
- Mann, Chris, Tellesbo, Christopher A., Bromley, Benjamin C., and Kenyon, Scott J. 2018. "A Framework for Planet Detection with Faint Light-curve Echoes." The Astronomical Journal, 156 200. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/aadc5e. 2018
- Cúneo, Virginia A., Kenyon, Scott J., Gómez, Mercedes N., Chochol, Drahomir, Shugarov, Sergey Y., and Kolotilov, Eugeni A. 2018. "An illumination effect and an eccentric orbit for the symbiotic binary PU Vul revealed by 32 yr of optical spectroscopy." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 479 2728–2742. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty1686. 2018
- Farihi, J., van Lieshout, R., Cauley, P. W., Dennihy, E., Su, K. Y. L., Kenyon, Scott J., Wilson, T. G., Toloza, O., Gänsicke, B. T., von Hippel, T., Redfield, S., Debes, J. H., Xu, S., Rogers, L., Bonsor, A., Swan, A., Pala, A. F., and Reach, W. T. 2018. "Dust production and depletion in evolved planetary systems." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 481 2601–2611. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty2331. 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
- Levi, Amit, Kenyon, Scott J., Podolak, M., and Prialnik, D. 2017. "H-atmospheres of Icy Super-Earths Formed In Situ in the Outer Solar System: An Application to a Possible Planet Nine." The Astrophysical Journal, 839 111. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa6ba6. 2017
- Dall'Asén, Analía G., Dimas, Sophia I., Tyler, Sarah, Johnston, Jessica F., Anderton, Timothy R., Ivans, Inese I., Gerton, Jordan M., Bromley, Benjamin C., and Kenyon, Scott J. 2017. "Mapping the composition of chondritic meteorite Northwest Africa 3118 with micro-Raman spectroscopy." Spectroscopy Letters, 50 417–425. https://doi.org/10.1080/00387010.2017.1346689. 2017
- Kenyon, Scott J. and Bromley, Benjamin C. 2017. "Numerical Simulations of Collisional Cascades at the Roche Limits of White Dwarf Stars." The Astrophysical Journal, 844 116. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa7b85. 2017
- Kenyon, Scott J. and Bromley, Benjamin C. 2017. "Numerical Simulations of Gaseous Disks Generated from Collisional Cascades at the Roche Limits of White Dwarf Stars." The Astrophysical Journal, 850 50. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa9570. 2017
- Meisner, Aaron M., Bromley, Benjamin C., Nugent, Peter E., Schlegel, David J., Kenyon, Scott J., Schlafly, Edward F., and Dawson, Kyle S. 2017. "Searching for Planet Nine with Coadded WISE and NEOWISE-Reactivation Images." The Astronomical Journal, 153 65. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/153/2/65. 2017
- Bromley, Benjamin C. and Kenyon, Scott J. 2017. "Terrestrial Planet Formation: Dynamical Shake-up and the Low Mass of Mars." The Astronomical Journal, 153 216. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/aa6aaa. 2017
- Kenyon, Scott J. and Bromley, Benjamin C. 2017. "Variations on Debris Disks. IV. An Improved Analytical Model for Collisional Cascades." The Astrophysical Journal, 839 38. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa6982. 2017
- Kuchner, Marc J., Silverberg, Steven M., Bans, Alissa S., Bhattacharjee, Shambo, Kenyon, Scott J., Debes, John H., Currie, Thayne, García, Luciano, Jung, Dawoon, Lintott, Chris, McElwain, Michael, Padgett, Deborah L., Rebull, Luisa M., Wisniewski, John P., Nesvold, Erika, Schawinski, Kevin, Thaller, Michelle L., Grady, Carol A., Biggs, Joseph, Bosch, Milton, C̆ernohous, Tadeás̆, Durantini Luca, Hugo A., Hyogo, Michiharu, Wah, Lily Lau Wan, Piipuu, Art et al. 2016. "Disk Detective: Discovery of New Circumstellar Disk Candidates through Citizen Science." The Astrophysical Journal, 830 84. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/830/2/84. 2016
- Kenyon, Scott J. and Garcia, Michael R. 2016. "EG Andromedae: A New Orbit and Additional Evidence for a Photoionized Wind." The Astronomical Journal, 152 1. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-6256/152/1/1. 2016
- EG Andromedae: A New Orbit and Additional Evidence for a Photoionized Wind. The Astronomical Journal. 152:1. 2016
- Bromley, Benjamin C. and Kenyon, Scott J. 2016. "Making Planet Nine: A Scattered Giant in the Outer Solar System." The Astrophysical Journal, 826 64. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/826/1/64. 2016
- Kenyon, Scott J. and Bromley, Benjamin C. 2016. "Making Planet Nine: Pebble Accretion at 250–750 AU in a Gravitationally Unstable Ring." The Astrophysical Journal, 825 33. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/825/1/33. 2016
- Making Planet Nine: Pebble Accretion at 250–750 AU in a Gravitationally Unstable Ring. Astrophysical Journal. 825:33. 2016
- Kenyon, Scott J., Najita, Joan R., and Bromley, Benjamin C. 2016. "Rocky Planet Formation: Quick and Neat." The Astrophysical Journal, 831 8. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/831/1/8. 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
- Kenyon, Scott J. and Bromley, Benjamin C. 2016. "Variations on Debris Disks III. Collisional Cascades and Giant Impacts in the Terrestrial Zones of Solar-type Stars." The Astrophysical Journal, 817 51. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/817/1/51. 2016
- Kenyon, Scott J. 2015. "Astronomy: Pluto leads the way in planet formation." Nature, 522 40–41. https://doi.org/10.1038/522040a. 2015
- Kenyon, Scott J. and Bromley, Benjamin C. 2015. "Collisional Cascade Caclulations for Irregular Satellite Swarms in Fomalhaut b." The Astrophysical Journal, 811 60. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/811/1/60. 2015
- Currie, Thayne, Lisse, Carey M., Kuchner, Marc, Madhusudhan, Nikku, Kenyon, Scott J., Thalmann, Christian, Carson, Joseph, and Debes, John. 2015. "Direct Imaging and Spectroscopy of a Young Extrasolar Kuiper Belt in the Nearest OB Association." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 807 L7. https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/807/1/L7. 2015
- Bromley, Benjamin C. and Kenyon, Scott J. 2015. "Evolution of a Ring around the Pluto–Charon Binary." The Astrophysical Journal, 809 88. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/809/1/88. 2015
- Kenyon, Scott J. and Bromley, Benjamin C. 2015. "Formation of Super-Earth Mass Planets at 125–250 AU from a Solar-type Star." The Astrophysical Journal, 806 42. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/806/1/42. 2015
- Bromley, Benjamin C. and Kenyon, Scott J. 2015. "Planet Formation around Binary Stars: Tatooine Made Easy." The Astrophysical Journal, 806 98. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/806/1/98. 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
- Currie, Thayne, Cloutier, Ryan, Brittain, Sean, Grady, Carol, Burrows, Adam, Muto, Takayuki, Kenyon, Scott J., and Kuchner, Marc J. 2015. "Resolving the HD 100546 Protoplanetary System with the Gemini Planet Imager: Evidence for Multiple Forming, Accreting Planets." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 814 L27. https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/814/2/L27. 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
- Cloutier, Ryan, Currie, Thayne, Rieke, George H., Kenyon, Scott J., Balog, Zoltan, and Jayawardhana, Ray. 2014. "A Deep Spitzer Survey of Circumstellar Disks in the Young Double Cluster, h and ? Persei." The Astrophysical Journal, 796 127. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/796/2/127. 2014
- 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
- Kenyon, Scott J. and Bromley, Benjamin C. 2014. "Coagulation Calculations of Icy Planet Formation around 0.1-0.5 M ? Stars: Super-Earths from Large Planetestimals." The Astrophysical Journal, 780 4. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/780/1/4. 2014
- Kenyon, Scott J., Currie, Thayne, and Bromley, Benjamin C. 2014. "Fomalhaut b as A Cloud of Dust: Testing Aspects of Planet Formation Theory." The Astrophysical Journal, 786 70. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/786/1/70. 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
- 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
- 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
- Bromley, Benjamin C. and Kenyon, Scott J. 2014. "The Fate of Scattered Planets." The Astrophysical Journal, 796 141. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/796/2/141. 2014
- Kenyon, Scott J. and Bromley, Benjamin C. 2014. "The Formation of Pluto's Low-mass Satellites." The Astronomical Journal, 147 8. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-6256/147/1/8. 2014
- Najita, J. R. and Kenyon, Scott J. 2014. "The mass budget of planet-forming discs: isolating the epoch of planetesimal formation." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 445 3315–3329. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu1994. 2014
- Currie, Thayne, Burrows, Adam, Madhusudhan, Nikku, Fukagawa, Misato, Girard, Julien H., Dawson, Rebekah, Murray-Clay, Ruth, Kenyon, Scott, Kuchner, Marc, Matsumura, Soko, Jayawardhana, Ray, Chambers, John, and Bromley, Ben. 2013. "A Combined Very Large Telescope and Gemini Study of the Atmosphere of the Directly Imaged Planet, ß Pictoris b." The Astrophysical Journal, 776 15. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/776/1/15. 2013
- Currie, Thayne, Cloutier, Ryan, Debes, John H., Kenyon, Scott J., and Kaisler, Denise. 2013. "A Deep Keck/NIRC2 Search for Thermal Emission from Planetary Companions Orbiting Fomalhaut." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 777 L6. https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/777/1/L6. 2013
- 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
- Bromley, Benjamin C. and Kenyon, Scott J. 2013. "Migration of Small Moons in Saturn's Rings." The Astrophysical Journal, 764 192. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/764/2/192. 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
- Perets, Hagai B. and Kenyon, Scott J. 2013. "Wind-accretion Disks in Wide Binaries, Second-generation Protoplanetary Disks, and Accretion onto White Dwarfs." The Astrophysical Journal, 764 169. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/764/2/169. 2013
- Youdin, Andrew N., Kratter, Kaitlin M., and Kenyon, Scott J. 2012. "Circumbinary Chaos: Using Pluto's Newest Moon to Constrain the Masses of Nix and Hydra." The Astrophysical Journal, 755 17. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/755/1/17. 2012
- Kenyon, Scott J. and Bromley, Benjamin C. 2012. "Coagulation Calculations of Icy Planet Formation at 15-150 AU: A Correlation between the Maximum Radius and the Slope of the Size Distribution for Trans-Neptunian Objects." The Astronomical Journal, 143 63. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-6256/143/3/63. 2012
- Kenyon, Scott J. and Bromley, Benjamin C. 2012. "Erratum: "Coagulation Calculations of Icy Planet Formation at 15-150 AU: A Correlation between the Maximum Radius and the Slope of the Size Distribution for Trans-Neptunian Objects" (2012, AJ, 143, 63)." The Astronomical Journal, 144 29. https://doi.org/10.1088/00046256/144/1/29. 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
- 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
- Mink, D. J., Kenyon, Scott J., Carter, B. J., Ballester, P., Egret, D., and Lorente, N. P. F. 2012. "The Center for Astrophysics Web-Based Telescope Time Proposal System." Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XXI, 461 197. 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
- 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
- Bromley, Benjamin C. and Kenyon, Scott J. 2011. "A New Hybrid N-body-coagulation Code for the Formation of Gas Giant Planets." The Astrophysical Journal, 731, (2) 101. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/731/2/101. 2011
- Bromley, Benjamin C. and Kenyon, Scott J. 2011. "Migration of Planets Embedded in a Circumstellar Disk." The Astrophysical Journal, 735 29. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/735/1/29. 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
- 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
- Caldwell, Nelson, Morrison, Heather, Kenyon, Scott J., Schiavon, Ricardo, Harding, Paul, and Rose, James A. 2010. "A Star in the M31 Giant Stream: The Highest Negative Stellar Velocity Known." The Astronomical Journal, 139 372–377. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-6256/139/2/372. 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
- 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
- Currie, Thayne, Hernandez, Jesus, Irwin, Jonathan, Kenyon, Scott J., Tokarz, Susan, Balog, Zoltan, Bragg, Ann, Berlind, Perry, and Calkins, Mike. 2010. "The Stellar Population of h and ? Persei: Cluster Properties, Membership, and the Intrinsic Colors and Temperatures of Stars." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 186 191–221. https://doi.org/10.1088/0067-0049/186/2/191. 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
- Heng, Kevin and Kenyon, Scott J. 2010. "Vortices as nurseries for planetesimal formation in protoplanetary discs." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 408 1476–1493. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.17208.x. 2010
- Currie, Thayne and Kenyon, Scott J. 2009. "Deep MIPS Observations of the IC 348 Nebula: Constraints on the Evolutionary State of Anemic Circumstellar Disks and the Primordial-to-Debris Disk Transition." The Astronomical Journal, 138 703–726. 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
- Kun, Mária, Balog, Zoltán, Kenyon, Scott J., Mamajek, Eric E., and Gutermuth, Robert A. 2009. "Pre-Main-Sequence Stars in the Cepheus Flare Region." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 185 451–476. 2009
- Kenyon, Scott J. and Bromley, Benjamin C. 2009. "Rapid Formation of Icy Super-Earths and the Cores of Gas Giant Planets." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 690 L140–L143. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/690/2/L140. 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
- Kennedy, Grant M. and Kenyon, Scott J. 2009. "Stellar Mass Dependent Disk Dispersal." The Astrophysical Journal, 695 1210–1226. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/695/2/1210. 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
- Currie, Thayne, Lada, Charles J., Plavchan, Peter, Robitaille, Thomas P., Irwin, Jonathan, and Kenyon, Scott J. 2009. "The Last Gasp of Gas Giant Planet Formation: A Spitzer Study of the 5 Myr Old Cluster NGC 2362." The Astrophysical Journal, 698 1–27. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/698/1/1. 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
- Currie, Thayne, Remage Evans, Nancy, Spitzbart, Brad D., Irwin, Jonathan, Wolk, Scott J., Hernandez, Jesus, Kenyon, Scott J., and Pasachoff, Jay M. 2009. "The X-Ray Environment During the Epoch of Terrestrial Planet Formation: Chandra Observations of h Persei." The Astronomical Journal, 137 3210–3221. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-6256/137/2/3210. 2009
- Currie, Thayne, Plavchan, Peter, and Kenyon, Scott J. 2008. "A Spitzer Study of Debris Disks in the Young Nearby Cluster NGC 2232: Icy Planets Are Common around ~1.5-3 Msolar Stars." The Astrophysical Journal, 688 597–615. 2008
- Koenig, X. P., Allen, L. E., Kenyon, Scott J., Su, K. Y. L., and Balog, Z. 2008. "Dusty Cometary Globules in W5." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 687 L37–L40. 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
- Kun, M., Balog, Z., Mizuno, N., Kawamura, A., Gspr, A., Kenyon, Scott J., and Fukui, Y. 2008. "Lynds 1622: a nearby star-forming cloud projected on Orion B?" Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 391 84–94. 2008
- Kennedy, Grant M. and Kenyon, Scott J. 2008. "Planet Formation around Stars of Various Masses: The Snow Line and the Frequency of Giant Planets." The Astrophysical Journal, 673 502–512. 2008
- Kennedy, Grant M. and Kenyon, Scott J. 2008. "Planet formation around stars of various masses: Hot Super-Earths." The Astrophysical Journal, 682 1264–1276. https://doi.org/10.1086/589436. 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
- Currie, Thayne, Kenyon, Scott J., Balog, Zoltan, Rieke, George, Bragg, Ann, and Bromley, Benjamin C. 2008. "The Rise and Fall of Debris Disks: MIPS Observations of h and chi Persei and the Evolution of Mid-IR Emission from Planet Formation." The Astrophysical Journal, 672 558–574. 2008
- Kenyon, Scott J. and Bromley, Benjamin C. 2008. "Variations on Debris Disks: Icy Planet Formation at 30-150 AU for 1-3 Msolar Main-Sequence Stars." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 179 451–483. 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
- Kennedy, Grant M., Kenyon, Scott J., and Bromley, Benjamin C. 2007. "Planet formation around M-dwarfs: the moving snow line and super-Earths." Astrophysics and Space Science, 311 9–13. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10509-007-9574-9. 2007
- Kennedy, Grant M., Kenyon, Scott J., and Bromley, Benjamin C. 2007. "Planet formation around M-dwarfs: the moving snow line and super-Earths." Astrophysics and Space Science, 311 9–13. 2007
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