Kirk, James
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory staff
Selected Publications
Article
Allen, Natalie H., Espinoza, Néstor, Jordán, Andrés, López-Morales, Mercedes, Apai, Dániel, Rackham, Benjamin V., Kirk, James, Osip, David J., Weaver, Ian C., McGruder, Chima, Ceballos, Kevin Ortiz, Reggiani, Henrique, Brahm, Rafael, Rodler, Florian, Lewis, Nikole K., and Fraine, Jonathan. 2022. "ACCESS: Tentative Detection of H2 O in the Ground-based Optical Transmission Spectrum of the Low-density Hot Saturn HATS-5b ." The Astronomical Journal , 164 153. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ac8b74 .
2022
Kirk, James, dos Santos, Leonardo A., López-Morales, Mercedes, Alam, Munazza K., Oklopčić, Antonija, MacLeod, Morgan, Zeng, Li, and Zhou, George. 2022. "Keck/NIRSPEC Studies of He I in the Atmospheres of Two Inflated Hot Gas Giants Orbiting K Dwarfs: WASP-52b and WASP-177b ." The Astronomical Journal , 164 24. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ac722f .
2022
dos Santos, Leonardo A., Vidotto, Aline A., Vissapragada, Shreyas, Alam, Munazza K., Allart, Romain, Bourrier, Vincent, Kirk, James, Seidel, Julia V., and Ehrenreich, David. 2022. "p-winds: An open-source Python code to model planetary outflows and upper atmospheres ." Astronomy and Astrophysics , 659 A62. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202142038 .
2022
Kirk, James, Rackham, Benjamin V., MacDonald, Ryan J., López-Morales, Mercedes, Espinoza, Néstor, Lendl, Monika, Wilson, Jamie, Osip, David J., Wheatley, Peter J., Skillen, Ian, Apai, Dániel, Bixel, Alex, Gibson, Neale P., Jordán, Andrés, Lewis, Nikole K., Louden, Tom, McGruder, Chima D., Nikolov, Nikolay, Rodler, Florian, and Weaver, Ian C. 2021. "ACCESS and LRG-BEASTS: A Precise New Optical Transmission Spectrum of the Ultrahot Jupiter WASP-103b ." The Astronomical Journal , 162 34. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/abfcd2 .
2021
Weaver, Ian C., López-Morales, Mercedes, Alam, Munazza K., Espinoza, Néstor, Rackham, Benjamin V., Goyal, Jayesh M., MacDonald, Ryan J., Lewis, Nikole K., Apai, Dániel, Bixel, Alex, Jordán, Andrés, Kirk, James, McGruder, Chima, and Osip, David J. 2021. "ACCESS: An Optical Transmission Spectrum of the High-gravity Hot Jupiter HAT-P-23b ." The Astronomical Journal , 161 278. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/abf652 .
2021
Zeng, Li, Jacobsen, Stein B., Hyung, Eugenia, Levi, Amit, Nava, Chantanelle, Kirk, James, Piaulet, Caroline, Lacedelli, Gaia, Sasselov, Dimitar D., Petaev, Michail I., Stewart, Sarah T., Alam, Munazza K., Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Damasso, Mario, and Latham, David W. 2021. "New Perspectives on the Exoplanet Radius Gap from a Mathematica Tool and Visualized Water Equation of State ." The Astrophysical Journal , 923 247. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac3137 .
2021
Weaver, Ian C., López-Morales, Mercedes, Espinoza, Néstor, Rackham, Benjamin V., Osip, David J., Apai, Dániel, Jordán, Andrés, Bixel, Alex, Lewis, Nikole K., Alam, Munazza K., Kirk, James, McGruder, Chima, Rodler, Florian, and Fienco, Jennifer. 2020. "ACCESS: A Visual to Near-infrared Spectrum of the Hot Jupiter WASP-43b with Evidence of H2 O, but No Evidence of Na or K ." The Astronomical Journal , 159 13. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ab55da .
2020
McGruder, Chima D., López-Morales, Mercedes, Espinoza, Néstor, Rackham, Benjamin V., Apai, Dániel, Jordán, Andrés, Osip, David J., Alam, Munazza K., Bixel, Alex, Fortney, Jonathan J., Henry, Gregory W., Kirk, James, Lewis, Nikole K., Rodler, Florian, and Weaver, Ian C. 2020. "ACCESS: Confirmation of No Potassium in the Atmosphere of WASP-31b ." The Astronomical Journal , 160 230. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/abb806 .
2020
Kirk, James, Alam, Munazza K., López-Morales, Mercedes, and Zeng, Li. 2020. "Confirmation of WASP-107b's Extended Helium Atmosphere with Keck II/NIRSPEC ." The Astronomical Journal , 159 115. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ab6e66 .
2020
Alderson, L., Kirk, James, López-Morales, Mercedes, Wheatley, P. J., Skillen, I., Henry, G. W., McGruder, Chima, Brogi, M., Louden, T., and King, G. 2020. "LRG-BEASTS: ground-based detection of sodium and a steep optical slope in the atmosphere of the highly inflated hot-saturn WASP-21b ." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 497 5182–5202. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa2315 .
2020
Lopez, T. A., Barros, S. C. C., Santerne, A., Deleuil, M., Adibekyan, V., Almenara, J. -M, Armstrong, D. J., Brugger, B., Barrado, D., Bayliss, D., Boisse, I., Bonomo, A. S., Bouchy, F., Brown, D. J. A., Carli, E., Demangeon, O., Dumusque, X., Díaz, R. F., Faria, J. P., Figueira, P., Foxell, E., Giles, H., Hébrard, G., Hojjatpanah, S., Kirk, James et al. 2019. "Exoplanet characterisation in the longest known resonant chain: the K2-138 system seen by HARPS ." Astronomy and Astrophysics , 631 A90. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936267 .
2019
Kirk, James, López-Morales, Mercedes, Wheatley, Peter J., Weaver, Ian C., Skillen, Ian, Louden, Tom, McCormac, James, and Espinoza, Néstor. 2019. "LRG-BEASTS: Transmission Spectroscopy and Retrieval Analysis of the Highly Inflated Saturn-mass Planet WASP-39b ." The Astronomical Journal , 158 144. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ab397d .
2019
