S.M.
in Planetary Science,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Department of Earth and Planetary Science,
Determination of Martian Surface Reflectivity from 0.4 to 1.1 Micron using a Vidicon Spectrometer 1973 - 1974
Jessica Mink is a positional astronomer and software developer at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. After getting Bachelors and Masters degrees from MIT, she worked in the Laboratory for Planetary Science at Cornell where she co-discovered the rings of Uranus. When her research group moved back to MIT, she contributed to the discovery of Neptune's rings and detection of the extent of Pluto's atmosphere. Moving to SAO, she developed some key workstation and mapping software to reduce and analyze data from the Space Shuttle Spacelab 2 Infrared Telescope and data reduction and analysis data pipelines for ground-based spectrographs used to study everything from exoplanets to Large Scale Structure. Along the way, she wrote the astronomical software packages WCSTools and RVSAO,which have been widely-used to work with spatial positions on scales from the solar system to nearby stars to the Milky Way galaxy to the positions of other galaxies in space.
Rodriguez, Joseph E., Quinn, Samuel N., Vanderburg, Andrew, Zhou, George, Eastman, Jason D., Thygesen, Erica, Cale, Bryson, Ciardi, David R., Reed, Phillip A., Oelkers, Ryan J., Collins, Karen A., Bieryla, Allyson, Latham, David W., Gonzales, Erica J., Scott Gaudi, B., Hellier, Coel, Jones, Matías I., Brahm, Rafael, Sokolovsky, Kirill, Schulte, Jack, Srdoc, Gregor, Kielkopf, John, Grau Horta, Ferran, Massey, Bob, Evans, Phil et al. 2023. "Another shipment of six short-period giant planets from TESS." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 521 2765–2785. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad595.
2023
French, Richard G., McGhee-French, Colleen A., Gordon, Mitchell, Baron, Richard L., Bosh, Amanda S., Buie, Marc W., Chanover, Nancy, Clark, Mary Ann, Dunham, Edward W., French, Linda M., Glass, Ian S., Goguen, Jay D., Gregory, Brooke, Hock, Rachel A., Kangas, Julie A., Levine, Stephen E., Matthews, Keith Y., McMason, Emily C., Meech, Karen J., Mink, Jessica, Nicholson, Philip D., Person, Michael J., Roques, Françoise, Sicardy, Bruno, Stecklum, Bringfried et al. 2023. "Uranus ring occultation observations: 1977-2006." Icarus, 395 115474. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2023.115474.
2023
Ikwut-Ukwa, Mma, Rodriguez, Joseph E., Quinn, Samuel N., Zhou, George, Vanderburg, Andrew, Ali, Asma, Bunten, Katya, Gaudi, B. Scott, Latham, David W., Howell, Steve B., Huang, Chelsea X., Bieryla, Allyson, Collins, Karen A., Carmichael, Theron W., Rabus, Markus, Eastman, Jason D., Collins, Kevin I., Tan, Thiam-Guan, Schwarz, Richard P., Myers, Gordon, Stockdale, Chris, Kielkopf, John F., Radford, Don J., Oelkers, Ryan J., Jenkins, Jon M. et al. 2022. "Two Massive Jupiters in Eccentric Orbits from the TESS Full-frame Images." The Astronomical Journal, 163 9. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ac2ee1.
2022
Rodriguez, Joseph E., Quinn, Samuel N., Zhou, George, Vanderburg, Andrew, Nielsen, Louise D., Wittenmyer, Robert A., Brahm, Rafael, Reed, Phillip A., Huang, Chelsea X., Vach, Sydney, Ciardi, David R., Oelkers, Ryan J., Stassun, Keivan G., Hellier, Coel, Gaudi, B. Scott, Eastman, Jason D., Collins, Karen A., Bieryla, Allyson, Christian, Sam, Latham, David W., Carleo, Ilaria, Wright, Duncan J., Matthews, Elisabeth, Gonzales, Erica J., Ziegler, Carl et al. 2021. "TESS Delivers Five New Hot Giant Planets Orbiting Bright Stars from the Full-frame Images." The Astronomical Journal, 161 194. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/abe38a.
2021
Winters, Jennifer G., Medina, Amber A., Irwin, Jonathan M., Charbonneau, David, Astudillo-Defru, Nicola, Horch, Elliott P., Eastman, Jason D., Halley Vrijmoet, Eliot, Henry, Todd J., Diamond-Lowe, Hannah, Winston, Elaine, Barclay, Thomas, Bonfils, Xavier, Ricker, George R., Vanderspek, Roland, Latham, David W., Seager, Sara, Winn, Joshua N., Jenkins, Jon M., Udry, Stéphane, Twicken, Joseph D., Teske, Johanna K., Tenenbaum, Peter, Pepe, Francesco, Murgas, Felipe et al. 2019. "Three Red Suns in the Sky: A Transiting, Terrestrial Planet in a Triple M-dwarf System at 6.9 pc." The Astronomical Journal, 158 152. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ab364d.
2019
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
Mink, Jessica, Mann, Robert G., Hanisch, Robert, Rots, Arnold H., Seaman, Rob, Jenness, Tim, Thomas, Brian, and O'Mullane, William. 2015. "The Past, Present, and Future of Astronomical Data Formats." In Astronomical Data Analysis Software an Systems XXIV, Proceedings of a conference held 5-9 October 2014 at Calgary, Alberta Canada. Taylor, A. R. and Rosolowsky, E., editors. 11–18. San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific. In Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series.
2015
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