Kurucz, Robert
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory staffRadiative transfer; stellar atmospheres; solar physics; atomic and molecular spectroscopy
Background And Education
Education And Training
- A.B., Harvard University
- Ph.D., Harvard University
Publications
Selected Publications
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Article
- Peterson, Ruth C. and Kurucz, Robert L. 2022. "New Fe I Level Energies and Line Identifications from Stellar Spectra. III. Initial Results from UV, Optical, and Infrared Spectra." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 260 28. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/ac596b. 2022
- Kostogryz, N. M., Witzke, V., Shapiro, A. I., Solanki, S. K., Maxted, P. F. L., Kurucz, R. L., and Gizon, L. 2022. "Stellar limb darkening. A new MPS-ATLAS library for Kepler, TESS, CHEOPS, and PLATO passbands." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 666 A60. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202243722. 2022
- Grimm, Simon L., Malik, Matej, Kitzmann, Daniel, Guzmán-Mesa, Andrea, Hoeijmakers, H. Jens, Fisher, Chloe, Mendonça, João M., Yurchenko, Sergey N., Tennyson, Jonathan, Alesina, Fabien, Buchschacher, Nicolas, Burnier, Julien, Segransan, Damien, Kurucz, Robert L., and Heng, Kevin. 2021. "HELIOS-K 2.0 Opacity Calculator and Open-source Opacity Database for Exoplanetary Atmospheres." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 253 30. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/abd773. 2021
- Witzke, V., Shapiro, A. I., Cernetic, M., Tagirov, R. V., Kostogryz, N. M., Anusha, L. S., Unruh, Y. C., Solanki, S. K., and Kurucz, R. L. 2021. "MPS-ATLAS: A fast all-in-one code for synthesising stellar spectra." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 653 A65. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202140275. 2021
- Hema, B. P., Pandey, Gajendra, Kurucz, Robert L., and Allende Prieto, C. 2020. "Helium Enhancement in the Metal-rich Red Giants of ω Centauri." The Astrophysical Journal, 897 32. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab93bd. 2020
- Karman, Tijs, Gordon, Iouli E., van der Avoird, Ad, Baranov, Yury I., Boulet, Christian, Drouin, Brian J., Groenenboom, Gerrit C., Gustafsson, Magnus, Hartmann, Jean-Michel, Kurucz, Robert L., Rothman, Laurence S., Sun, Kang, Sung, Keeyoon, Thalman, Ryan, Tran, Ha, Wishnow, Edward H., Wordsworth, Robin, Vigasin, Andrey A., Volkamer, Rainer, and van der Zande, Wim J. 2019. "Update of the HITRAN collision-induced absorption section." Icarus, 328 160–175. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2019.02.034. 2019
- Kurucz, Robert L. 2017. "Including all the lines: data releases for spectra and opacities." Canadian Journal of Physics, 95 825–827. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjp-2016-0794. 2017
- Peterson, Ruth C., Kurucz, Robert L., and Ayres, Thomas R. 2017. "New Fe i Level Energies and Line Identifications from Stellar Spectra. II. Initial Results from New Ultraviolet Spectra of Metal-poor Stars." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 229 23. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/aa6253. 2017
- Dupree, A. K., Avrett, E. H., and Kurucz, R. L. 2016. "Chromospheric Models and the Oxygen Abundance in Giant Stars." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 821 L7. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8205/821/1/L7. 2016
- Ryabchikova, T., Piskunov, N., Kurucz, R. L., Stempels, H. C., Heiter, U., Pakhomov, Yu, and Barklem, P. S. 2015. "A major upgrade of the VALD database." Physica Scripta, 90 054005. https://doi.org/10.1088/0031-8949/90/5/054005. 2015
- Peterson, Ruth C. and Kurucz, Robert L. 2015. "New Fe I Level Energies and Line Identifications from Stellar Spectra." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 216 1. https://doi.org/10.1088/0067-0049/216/1/1. 2015
- Castelli, F., Kurucz, R. L., and Cowley, C. R. 2015. "New Mn II energy levels from the STIS-HST spectrum of the HgMn star HD 175640." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 580 A10. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201525903. 2015
- Tang, Sumin, Grindlay, Jonathan E., Moe, Maxwell, Orosz, Jerome A., Kurucz, Robert L., Quinn, Samuel N., and Servillat, Mathieu. 2012. "DASCH Discovery of a Possible Nova-like Outburst in a Peculiar Symbiotic Binary." The Astrophysical Journal, 751 99. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/751/2/99. 2012
- Werner, K., Rauch, T., Kruk, J. W., and Kurucz, R. L. 2011. "Iron abundance in the prototype PG 1159 star, GW Vir pulsator PG 1159 - 035, and related objects." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 531 146. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201116992. 2011
- Chance, Kelly V. and Kurucz, R. L. 2010. "An improved high-resolution solar reference spectrum for earth's atmosphere measurements." Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, 111 1289–1295. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jqsrt.2010.01.036. 2010
- Grupp, F., Kurucz, R. L., and Tan, K. 2009. "New extended atomic data in cool star model atmospheres. Using Kurucz's new iron data in MAFAGS-OS models." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 503 177–181. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200912302. 2009
- Castelli, F., Kurucz, Robert, and Hubrig, S. 2009. "New identified (^3H)4d-(^3H)4f transitions of Fe II from UVES spectra of HR 6000 and 46 Aquilae." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 508 401–408. 2009
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- Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Academic Department