Adam J. Burgasser, Ph.D.

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Peer-Reviewed Research Publications (88)

    Submitted

  1. "A New SDSS L Dwarf Within 10 pc of the Sun" 2009, Astron. J., submitted
    Schmidt, SJ, Hawley, SH, West, AA, Burgasser, AJ, & Bochanski, JJ

  2. "SpeX Spectroscopy of Unresolved Very Low-Mass Binaries. I. Identification of Seventeen Candidate Binaries Straddling the L Dwarf/T Dwarf Transition" 2009, Astrophys. J., submitted
    Burgasser, AJ, Cruz, KL, Cushing, MC, Gelino, CR, Looper, DL, Faherty, JK, Kirkpatrick, JD & Reid, IN

  3. "The Brown Dwarf Kinematics Project (BDKP). II. Identification of Nine Wide Common Proper Motion Very low-mass Companions to Nearby Stars" 2009, Astron. J., submitted
    Faherty, JK, Burgasser, AJ, West, AA, Bochanski, JJ, Cruz, KL, Shara, MM, & Walter, FM

    2009

  4. "MASE: A New DataĐReduction Pipeline for the Magellan Echellete Spectrograph" 2009, PASP, in press
    Bochanski, JJ, Hennawi, JF, Simcoe, RA, Prochaska, JX, Burgasser, AJ, West, AA, Burles, S, Schlegal, D, Bernstein, RA, Williams, CL, & Murphy, MT

  5. "Resolved Spectroscopy of M Dwarf/L Dwarf Binaries. III. The "Wide" L3.5/L4 Dwarf Binary 2MASS J15500845+1455180AB" 2009, Astron. J., in press
    Burgasser, AJ, Dhital, S, & West, A
    [    astro-ph]

  6. "An Age Constraint for the Very Low-Mass Stellar/Brown Dwarf Binary 2MASS J03202839-0446358AB" 2009, Astron. J., 137, 4621-4626
    Burgasser, AJ, & Blake, CH
    [ADS] [AJ] [astro-ph]

  7. "Optical and Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of the L Subdwarf SDSS J125637.13-022452.4" 2009 Astrophys. J., 697, 148-159
    Burgasser, AJ, Witte, S, Helling, Ch, & Hauschildt, PH
    [ADS] [ApJ] [astro-ph]

  8. "2MASS J06164006-6407194: The First Outer Halo L Subdwarf" 2009, Astrophys. J., 696, 986-993
    Cushing, MC, Looper, D, Burgasser, AJ, Kirkpatrick, JD, Faherty, J, Cruz, K, Sweet, A, & Sanderson, RE
    [ADS] [ApJ] [astro-ph]

  9. "Spectrophotometrically Identified stars in the PEARS-N and PEARS-S fields" 2009, Astrophys. J., 695, 1591-1603
    Pirzkal, N, Burgasser, AJ, Malhotra, S, Holwerda, BW, Sahu, KC, Rhoads, JW, Xu, C, Bochanski, JJ, Walsh, JR, Windhorst, RA, Hathi, NP, & Cohen, SH
    [ADS] [ApJ] [astro-ph]

  10. "SPACE: The SPectroscopic All-sky Cosmic Explorer" 2009, Experimental Astronomy, 23, 39-66
    Cimatti, A, Robberto, M, Baugh, C, Beckwith, S V W, Content, R, Daddi, E, De Lucia, G, Garilli, B, Guzzo, L, Kauffmann, G, Lehnert, M, Maccagni, D, Martinez-Sansigre, A, Pasian, F, Reid, I N, Rosati, P, Salvaterra, R, Stiavelli, M, Wang, Y, Osorio, M Zapatero, Balcells, M, Bersanelli, M, Bertoldi, F, Blaizot, J, Bottini, D, Bower, R, Bulgarelli, A, Burgasser, A, Burigana, C, Butler, R C, Casertano, S, Ciardi, B, Cirasuolo, M, Clampin, M, Cole, S, Comastri, A, Cristiani, S, Cuby, J-G, Cuttaia, F, de Rosa, A, Sanchez, A Diaz, di Capua, M, Dunlop, J, Fan, X, Ferrara, A, Finelli, F, Franceschini, A, Franx, M, Franzetti, P, Frenk, C, Gardner, Jonathan P, Gianotti, F, Grange, R, Gruppioni, C, Gruppuso, A, Hammer, F, Hillenbrand, L, Jacobsen, A, Jarvis, M, Kennicutt, R, Kimble, R, Kriek, M, Kurk, J, Kneib, J-P, Le Fevre, O, Macchetto, D, MacKenty, J, Madau, P, Magliocchetti, M, Maino, D, Mandolesi, N, Masetti, N, McLure, R, Mennella, A, Meyer, M, Mignoli, M, Mobasher, B, Molinari, E, Morgante, G, Morris, S, Nicastro, L, Oliva, E, Padovani, P, Palazzi, E, Paresce, F, Garrido, A Perez, Pian, E, Popa, L, Postman, M, Pozzetti, L, Rayner, J, Rebolo, R, Renzini, A, Rottgering, H, Schinnerer, E, Scodeggio, M, Saisse, M, Shanks, T, Shapley, A, Sharples, R, Shea, H, Silk, J, Smail, I, Spano, P, Steinacker, J, Stringhetti, L, Szalay, A, Tresse, L, Trifoglio, M, Urry, M, Valenziano, L, Villa, F, Perez, I Villo, Walter, F, Ward, M, White, R, White, S, Wright, E, Wyse, R, Zamorani, G, Zacchei, A, Zeilinger, W W, Zerbi, F
    [ExA] [astro-ph]

  11. "Young L Dwarfs Identified in the Field: A Preliminary Low-Gravity, Optical Spectral Sequence from L0 to L5" 2009, Astron. J., 137, 3345-3357
    Cruz, KL, Kirkpatrick, JD, & Burgasser, AJ
    [ADS] [AJ] [astro-ph]

  12. "The Brown Dwarf Kinematics Project (BDKP) I. Proper Motions and Tangential Velocities for a Large Sample of Late-type M, L and T Dwarfs" 2009, Astron. J.,137, 1-18
    Faherty, JK, Burgasser, AJ, Cruz, KL, Shara, MM, Walter, FM, & Gelino, CR
    [ADS] [AJ] [astro-ph]

    2008

  13. "2MASS J09393548-2448279: The Coldest and Least Luminous Brown Dwarf Binary Known?" 2008, Astrophys. J. Letters., 689, L53-L56
    Burgasser, AJ, Tinney, CG, Cushing, MC, Saumon, D, Marley, MS, Bennett, C, & Kirkpatrick, JD
    [    ADS] [ApJ] [PDF] [Press]

  14. "A Sample of Very Young Field L Dwarfs and Implications for the Brown Dwarf "Lithium Test" at Early Ages" 2008, Astrophys. J., 689, 1259-1326
    Kirkpatrick, JD, Cruz, KL, Barman, TS, Burgasser, AJ, Looper, DL, Tinney, CG, Gelino, CR, Lowrance, PJ, Liebert, J, Carpenter, JM, Hillenbrand, LA, & Stauffer, JR.
    [ADS] [ApJ] [astro-ph]

  15. "Discovery of Two Nearby, Peculiar L Dwarfs from the 2MASS Proper Motion Survey: Young or Metal-Rich?" 2008, Astrophys. J., in press
    Looper, DL, Kirkpatrick, JD, Cutri, RM, Barman, T, Burgasser, AJ, Cushing, MC, Roellig, T, McGovern, MR, McLean, IS, Rice, E, Swift, BJ, & Schurr, SD
    [ADS] [ApJ] [astro-ph]

  16. "FIRE: A near infrared cross-dispersed echellette spectrometer for the Magellan telescopes." 2008, SPIE, 7014, in press
    Simcoe, R, Burgasser, AJ, Bernstein, R, Bigelow, BC, Fishner, J, Forrest, W, McMurtry, C, Pipher, J, & Schechter, P.

  17. "Discovery of a T Dwarf Binary with the Largest Known J-Band Flux Reversal" 2008, Astrophys. J., 685, 1183-1192
    Looper, DL, Gelino, CR, Burgasser, AJ, & Kirkpatrick, JD
    [ADS] [ApJ] [astro-ph] [Press]

  18. "Contamination by field late-M, L and T dwarfs in deep surveys" 2008, Astron. & Astroph., 488, 181-190
    Caballero, JA, Burgasser, AJ, & Klement, R.
    [ADS] [A&A] [astro-ph]

  19. "Subtle Signatures of Multiplicity in Late-type Dwarf Spectra: The Unresolved M8.5+T5 Binary 2MASS J03202839-0446358" 2008, Astrophys. J., 681, 579-593
    Burgasser, AJ, Liu, MC, Ireland, MJ, Cruz, KL, & Dupuy, TJ
    [ADS] [ApJ] [astro-ph]

  20. "Follow-up observations of binary ultra-cool dwarfs" 2008, Astron. & Astroph., 481, 757-767
    Bouy, H, Martin, EL, Brandner, W, Forveille, T, Delfosse, X, Huelamo, N, Basri, G, Girard, J, Zapatero Osorio, M-R, Stumpf, M, Ghez, A, Valdivielso, L, Marchis, F, Burgasser, AJ, & Cruz, KL
    [ADS] [A&A] [astro-ph]

  21. "L Dwarf Binaries in the 20-parsec Sample" 2008, Astron. J., 135, 580-587
    Reid, IN, Cruz, KL, Burgasser, AJ, & Liu, MC
    [ADS] [AJ]

  22. "Clouds, Gravity and Metallicity in Blue L Dwarfs: The Case of 2MASS J11263991-5003550." 2008, Astrophys. J., 674, 451-465
    Burgasser, AJ, Looper, DL, Kirkpatrick, JD, Cruz, KL, & Swift, BJ
    [ADS] [ApJ] [astro-ph]

  23. "Parallax and Luminosity Measurements of an L Subdwarf." 2008, Astrophys. J., 672, 1159-1166
    Burgasser, AJ, Vrba, FJ, Lepine, S, Munn, JA, Luginbuhl, CB, Henden, AA, Guetter, HH, & Canzian, BC
    [ADS] [ApJ] [astro-ph]

    2007

  24. "Discovery of an M9.5 Candidate Brown Dwarf in the TW Hydrae Association - DENIS J124514.1-442907." 2007, Astrophy. J. Letters, 669, L97-L100
    Looper, DL, Burgasser, AJ, Kirkpatrick, JD, & Swift, BJ
    [    ADS] [ApJ] [astro-ph] [PDF]

  25. "SDSS J080531.84+481233.0: An Unresolved L Dwarf/T Dwarf Binary." 2007, Astron. J., 134, 1330-1336
    Burgasser, AJ
    [ADS] [AJ] [astro-ph] [PDF]

  26. "Discovery of 11 New T Dwarfs in the Two Micron All-Sky Survey, Including a Possible L/T Transition Binary." 2007, Astron. J., 134, 1162-1182
    Looper, DL, Kirkpatrick, JD, & Burgasser, AJ
    [ADS] [AJ] [astro-ph] [PDF]

  27. "Discovery of a 66 mas Ultracool Binary with Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics." 2007, Astron. J., 133, 2320-2326
    Siegler, N, Close, LM, Burgasser, AJ, Cruz, KL, Marois, C, Macintosh, B, & Barman, T
    [ADS] [AJ] [astro-ph] [PDF]

  28. "Binaries and the L Dwarf/T Dwarf Transition." 2007, Astrophys. J., 659, 655-674
    Burgasser, AJ
    [ADS] [ApJ] [astro-ph] [PDF]

  29. "The NIRSPEC Brown Dwarf Spectroscopic Survey II: High-Resolution J-Band Spectra of M, L and T Dwarfs." 2007, Astrophys. J., 658, 1217-1235
    Mclean, IS, Prato, L, Mcgovern, MR, Burgasser, AJ, Kirkpatrick, JD, Rice, EL & Kim, SS
    [ADS] [ApJ] [astro-ph] [PDF]

  30. "The Physical Properties of HD 3651B: An Extrasolar Nemesis?" 2007, Astrophys. J., 658, 617-621
    Burgasser, AJ
    [ADS] [ApJ] [astro-ph] [PDF]

  31. "Discovery of a High Proper Motion L Dwarf Binary: 2MASS J15200224-4422419AB." 2007, Astrophys. J., 658, 557-568
    Burgasser, AJ, Looper, DL, Kirkpatrick, JD, & Liu, MC
    [ADS] [ApJ] [astro-ph] [PDF]

  32. "Optical Spectroscopy of 2MASS Color-Selected Ultracool Subdwarfs." 2007, Astrophys. J., 657, 494-510
    Burgasser, AJ, Cruz, KL, & Kirkpatrick, JD
    [ADS] [ApJ] [astro-ph] [PDF]

  33. "Meeting the Cool Neighbors. IX. The Luminosity Function of M7-L8 Ultracool Dwarfs in the Field" 2007, Astron. J., 133, 439-467
    Cruz, KL, Reid, IN, Kirkpatrick, JD, Burgasser, AJ, Liebert, J, Solomon, AR, Schmidt, SJ, Allen, PR, Hawley, SL, & Covey, KR
    [ADS] [AJ] [astro-ph] [PDF]

  34. "On the Nature of the Unique H alpha-Emitting T Dwarf 2MASS J12373919+6526148" 2007, Astrophys. J., 655, 522-527
    Liebert, J, & Burgasser, AJ
    [ADS] [ApJ] [astro-ph] [PDF]

    2006

  35. "On the CO Near-IR Band and the Line Splitting Phenomenon in the Yellow Hypergiant Rho Cassiopeiae." 2006, Astrophys. J., 651, 1130-1150
    Gorlova, N, Lobel, A, Burgasser, AJ, Rieke, GH, Ilyin, I, & Stauffer, JR
    [    ADS] [ApJ] [astro-ph] [PDF]

  36. "Resolved Spectroscopy of M Dwarf/L Dwarf Binaries. II. 2MASS J17072343-0558249AB" 2006, Astronom. J., 132, 2074-2081
    McElwain, MW & Burgasser, AJ
    [ADS] [AJ] [astro-ph] [PDF]

  37. "Hubble Space Telescope NICMOS Observations of T Dwarfs: Brown Dwarf Multiplicity and New Probes of the L/T Transition." 2006, Astrophys. J. Supp., 166, 585-612
    Burgasser, AJ, Kirkpatrick, JD, Cruz, KL, Reid, IN, Leggett, SK, Liebert, J, Burrows, A & Brown, ME
    [ADS] [ApJS] [astro-ph] [PDF]

  38. "A Search for Binary Systems among the Nearest L Dwarfs." 2006, Astronom. J., 132, 891-901
    Reid, IN, Lewitus, E, Allen, PR, Cruz, KL, & Burgasser, AJ
    [ADS] [AJ] [astro-ph] [PDF]

  39. "Discovery of the Coolest Extreme Subdwarf." 2006, Astrophys. J., 645, 1485-1497
    Burgasser, AJ & Kirkpatrick, JD
    [ADS] [ApJ] [astro-ph] [PDF]

  40. "Discovery of a Very Young Field L Dwarf, 2MASS J01415823-4633574." 2006, Astrophys. J., 639, 1120-1128
    Kirkpatrick, JD, Barman, TS, Burgasser, AJ, McGovern, MR, McLean, IS, Tinney, CG, & Lowrance, PJ
    [ADS] [ApJ] [astro-ph] [PDF]

  41. "2MASS J22521073-1730134: A Resolved L/T Binary at 14 Parsecs." 2006, Astrophys. J., 639, 1114-1119
    Reid, IN, Lewitus, E, Burgasser, AJ & Cruz, KL
    [ADS] [ApJ] [PDF]

  42. "A Method for Determining the Physical Properties of the Coldest Known Brown Dwarfs." 2006, Astrophys. J., 639, 1095-1113
    Burgasser, AJ, Burrows, A, & Kirkpatrick, JD
    [ADS] [ApJ] [astro-ph] [PDF]

  43. "Isolated Massive Supergiants Near the Galactic Center." 2006, Astrophys. J., 638, 183-190
    Muno, MP, Bower, GC, Burgasser, AJ, Baganoff, FK, Morris, MR, & Brandt, WN
    [ADS] [ApJ] [astro-ph] [PDF]

  44. "A Unified Near Infrared Spectral Classification Scheme for T Dwarfs." 2006, Astrophys. J., 637, 1067-1093
    Burgasser, AJ, Geballe, TR, Leggett, SK, Kirkpatrick, JD & Golimowski, DA
    [ADS] [ApJ] [astro-ph] [PDF]

  45. "Resolved Spectroscopy of M Dwarf/L Dwarf Binaries. I. DENIS J220002.05-303832.9AB." 2006, Astronom. J., 131, 1007-1014
    Burgasser, AJ & McElwain, MW
    [ADS] [AJ] [astro-ph] [PDF]

    2005

  46. "SDSS J042348.57-041403.5AB: A Brown Dwarf Binary Straddling the L/T Transition." 2005, Astrophys. J. Letters, 634, L177-L180
    Burgasser, AJ, Reid, IN, Kirkpatrick, JD, Leggett, SK, Liebert, J & Burrows, A
    [    ADS] [ApJ] [astro-ph] [PDF]

  47. "The 2MASS Wide-Field T Dwarf Search. V. Discovery of a T Dwarf via Methane Imaging." 2005, Astronom. J., 130, 2347-2351
    Ellis, SC, Tinney, CG, Burgasser, AJ, Kirkpatrick, JD, & McElwain, MW
    [ADS] [AJ] [astro-ph] [PDF]

  48. "The 2MASS Wide-Field T Dwarf Search. IV. Hunting out T dwarfs with Methane Imaging." 2005, Astronom. J., 130, 2326-2346
    Tinney, CG, Burgasser, AJ, Kirkpatrick, JD, & McElwain, MW
    [ADS] [AJ] [astro-ph] [PDF]

  49. "Quiescent Radio Emission from Southern Late-type M Dwarfs and a Spectacular Radio Flare from the M8 Dwarf DENIS 1048-3956." 2005, Astrophys. J., 626, 486-497
    Burgasser, AJ & Putman, ME
    [ADS] [ApJ] [astro-ph] [PDF]

  50. "Multiplicity among Widely Separated Brown Dwarf Companions to Nearby Stars: Gliese 337CD." 2005, Astronom. J., 129, 2849-2855
    Burgasser, AJ, Kirkpatrick, JD, & Lowrance, PJ
    [ADS] [AJ] [astro-ph] [PDF]

  51. "Stars in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field." 2005, Astrophys. J., 622, 319-332
    Pirzkal, N, Sahu, KC, Burgasser, AJ, Moustakas, LA, Xu, C, Malhotra, S, Rhoads, JE, Koekemoer, AM, Nelan, EP, Windhorst, RA, Panagia, N, Gronwall, C, Pasquali, A, & Walsh, JR
    [ADS] [ApJ] [astro-ph] [PDF]

    2004

  52. "T Dwarfs and the Substellar Mass Function. I. Monte Carlo Simulations." 2004, Astrophys. J. Supp., 155, 191-207
    Burgasser, AJ
    [    ADS] [ApJS] [astro-ph] [PDF]

  53. "Discovery of a Second L Subdwarf in the Two Micron All Sky Survey." 2004, Astrophys. J. Letters, 614, L73-L76
    Burgasser, AJ
    [ADS] [ApJ] [astro-ph] [PDF]

  54. "Meeting the Cool Neighbors. VIII. A Preliminary 20 Parsec Census from the NLTT Catalogue." 2004, Astron. J., 128, 463-483
    Reid, IN, Cruz, KL, Allen, P, Mungall, F, Kilkenny, D, Liebert, J, Hawley, SL, Fraser, OJ, Covey, KR, Lowrance, P, Kirkpatrick, JD & Burgasser, AJ
    [ADS] [AJ] [astro-ph] [PDF]

  55. "Preliminary Parallaxes of 40 L and T Dwarfs from the U.S. Naval Observatory Infrared Astrometry Program." 2004, Astron. J., 127, 2948-2968
    Vrba, FJ, Henden, AA, Luginbuhl, CB, Guetter, HH, Munn, JA, Canzian, B, Burgasser, AJ, Kirkpatrick, JD, Fan, X, Geballe, TR, Golimowski, DA, Knapp, GR, Leggett, SK, Schneider, DP, & Brinkman, J
    [ADS] [AJ] [astro-ph] [PDF]

  56. "The 2MASS Wide-Field T Dwarf Search. III. Seven New T Dwarfs and Other Cool Dwarf Discoveries." 2004, Astron. J., 127, 2856-2870
    Burgasser, AJ, McElwain, MW, Kirkpatrick, JD, Cruz, KL, Tinney, CG, & Reid, IN
    [ADS] [AJ] [astro-ph] [PDF]

  57. "S Orionis 70: Just a Foreground Field Brown Dwarf?" 2004, Astrophys. J., 604, 827-831
    Burgasser, AJ, Kirkpatrick, JD, McGovern, MR, McLean, IS, Prato, L, & Reid, IN
    [ADS] [ApJ] [astro-ph] [PDF]

  58. "2MASS J05185995-2828372: Discovery of an Unresolved L/T Binary." 2004, Astrophys. J. Letters, 604, L61-L64
    Cruz, KL, Burgasser, AJ, Reid, IN, & Liebert, J
    [ADS] [ApJ] [astro-ph] [PDF]

  59. "Identifying Young Brown Dwarfs Using Gravity-Sensitive Spectral Features." 2004, Astrophys. J., 600, 1020-1024
    McGovern, MR, Kirkpatrick, JD, McLean, IS, Burgasser, AJ, Prato, L, & Lowrance, PJ
    [ADS] [ApJ] [astro-ph] [PDF]

    2003

  60. "The 2MASS Wide-Field T Dwarf Search. II. Discovery of Three T Dwarfs in the Southern Hemisphere." 2003, Astron. J., 126, 2487
    Burgasser, AJ, McElwain, MW, & Kirkpatrick, JD
    [    ADS] [AJ] [astro-ph]

  61. "The NIRSPEC Brown Dwarf Spectroscopic Survey I. Low Resolution Near-Infrared Spectra." 2003, Astrophys. J., 596, 561
    McLean, IS, McGovern, MR, Burgasser, AJ, Kirkpatrick, JD, Prato, L, & Kim, SS
    [ADS] [ApJ] [astro-ph] [Press]

  62. "The Spectra of T Dwarfs. II. Red Optical Data." 2003, Astrophys. J., 594, 510
    Burgasser, AJ, Kirkpatrick, JD, Liebert, J, & Burrows, A
    [ADS] [ApJ] [astro-ph]

  63. "The First Substellar Subdwarf? Discovery of a Metal-poor L Dwarf with Halo Kinematics." 2003, Astrophys. J., 592, 1186
    Burgasser, AJ, Kirkpatrick, JD, Burrows, A, Liebert, J, Reid, IN, Gizis, JE, McGovern, MR, Prato, L, & McLean, IS.
    [ADS] [ApJ] [astro-ph] [PDF]

  64. "Photometric Variability at the L/T Dwarf Boundary." 2003, Astron. J., 126, 1006
    Enoch, ML, Brown, ME, & Burgasser, AJ
    [ADS] [AJ] [astro-ph]

  65. "Infrared Parallaxes for Methane T dwarfs." 2003, Astron. J., 126, 975
    Tinney, CG, Burgasser, AJ, & Kirkpatrick, JD
    [ADS] [AJ] [astro-ph]

  66. "Hubble Space Telescope Observations of Binary Very Low Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs." 2003, Astron. J., 125, 3302
    Gizis, JE, Reid, IN, Knapp, GR, Liebert, J, Kirkpatrick, JD, Koerner, DW, & Burgasser, AJ
    [ADS] [AJ] [astro-ph]

  67. "Binarity in Brown Dwarfs: T Dwarf Binaries Discovered with the Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Planetary Camera 2." 2003, Astrophys. J., 586, 512
    Burgasser, AJ, Kirkpatrick, JD, Reid, IN, Brown, ME, Miskey, CL, & Gizis, JE.
    [ADS] [ApJ] [astro-ph] [PDF]

  68. "The 2MASS Wide-Field T Dwarf Search. I. Discovery of a Bright T Dwarf within 10 Parsecs of the Sun." 2003, Astron. J., 125, 850
    Burgasser, AJ, Kirkpatrick, JD, McElwain, MW, Cutri, RM, Burgasser, AJ, & Skrutskie, MF
    [ADS] [AJ] [astro-ph]

  69. "A Flaring L5 Dwarf: The Nature of H alpha Emission in Very Low Mass (Sub)Stellar Objects." 2003, Astron. J., 125, 343
    Liebert, J, Kirkpatrick, JD, Cruz, KL, Reid, IN, Burgasser, AJ, Tinney, CG, & Gizis, JE
    [ADS] [AJ] [astro-ph]

    2002

  70. "Astrometry and Photometry for Cool Dwarfs and Brown Dwarfs." 2002, Astron. J., 124, 1170
    Dahn, CC, Harris, HC, Vrba, FJ, Guetter, HH, Canzian, B, Henden, AA, Levine, SE, Luginbuhl, CB, Monet, AKB, Monet, DG, Pier, JR, Stone, RC, Walker, RL, Burgasser, AJ, Gizis, JE, Kirkpatrick, JD, Liebert, J, & Reid, IN
    [    ADS] [AJ] [astro-ph]

  71. "Theoretical Spectral Models of T Dwarfs at Short Wavelengths and Their Comparison with Data." 2002, Astrophys. J., 573, 394
    Burrows, A, Burgasser, AJ, Kirkpatrick, JD, Liebert, J, Milsom, JA, Sudarsky, D, & Hubeny, I
    [ADS] [ApJ] [astro-ph]

  72. "Evidence of Cloud Disruption in the L/T Dwarf Transition." 2002, Astrophys. J. Letters, 571, L151
    Burgasser, AJ, Marley, MS, Ackerman, AS, Saumon, D, Lodders, K, Dahn, CC, Harris, HC, & Kirkpatrick, JD.
    [ADS] [ApJ] [astro-ph] [PDF] [Press]

  73. "A Search for Variability in the Active T Dwarf 2MASS 1237+6526." 2002, Astron. J., 123, 2744
    Burgasser, AJ, Liebert, J, Kirkpatrick, JD, & Gizis, JE.
    [ADS] [AJ] [astro-ph]

  74. "The Spectra of T Dwarfs. I. Near-Infrared Data and Spectral Classification." 2002, Astrophys. J., 564, 421
    Burgasser, AJ, Kirkpatrick, JD, Brown, ME, Reid, IN, Burrows, A, Liebert, J, Matthews, K, Gizis, JE, Dahn, CC, Monet, DG, Cutri, RM, & Skrutskie, MF
    [ADS] [ApJ] [astro-ph] [PDF] [html]

    2001

  75. "Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of Brown Dwarfs: Methane and the Transition between the L and T Spectral Types." 2001, Astrophys. J. Letters, 561, L115
    McLean, IS, Prato, L, Kim, SS, Wilcox, MK, Kirkpatrick, JD, & Burgasser, AJ
    [    ADS] [ApJ] [astro-ph]

  76. "Brown Dwarf Companions to G-Type Stars. I. Gliese 417B and Gliese 584C." 2001, Astron. J., 121, 3235
    Kirkpatrick, JD, Dahn, CC, Monet, DG, Reid, IN, Gizis, JE, Liebert, J, & Burgasser, AJ
    [ADS] [AJ] [astro-ph]

  77. "Substellar Companions to Main-Sequence Stars: No Brown Dwarf Desert at Wide Separations." 2001, Astrophys. J. Letters, 551, L163
    Gizis, JE, Kirkpatrick, JD, Burgasser, AJ, Reid, IN, Monet, DG, Liebert, J, & Wilson, JC
    [ADS] [ApJ] [astro-ph]

  78. "Near-Infrared Spectral Classification of Late M and L Dwarfs." 2001, Astron. J., 121, 1710
    Reid, IN, Burgasser, AJ, Cruz, KL, Kirkpatrick, JD, & Gizis, JE
    [ADS] [AJ] [astro-ph]

    2000

  79. "Discovery of a Bright Field Methane (T-Type) Brown Dwarf by 2MASS." 2000, Astron. J., 120, 1100
    Burgasser, AJ, Wilson, JC, Kirkpatrick, JD, Skrutskie, MF, Colonno, MR, Enos, AT, Smith, JD, Henderson, CP, Gizis, JE, Brown, ME, & Houck, JR
    [    ADS] [AJ] [astro-ph]

  80. "Detection of Halpha Emission in a Methane (T Type) Brown Dwarf." 2000, Astron. J., 120, 473
    Burgasser, AJ, Kirkpatrick, JD, Reid, IN, Liebert, J, Gizis, JE, & Brown, ME
    [ADS] [AJ] [astro-ph]

  81. "67 Additional L Dwarfs Discovered by the Two Micron All Sky Survey." 2000, Astron. J., 120, 447
    Kirkpatrick, JD, Reid, IN, Liebert, J, Gizis, JE, Burgasser, AJ, Monet, DG, Dahn, CC, Nelson, B, & Williams, RJ
    [ADS] [AJ] [astro-ph]

  82. "NIRSPEC Brown Dwarf Spectroscopic Survey." 2000, SPIE, 4005, 296
    Wilcox, MK, McLean, IS, Becklin, EE, Figer, DF, Gilbert, AM, Graham, JR, Larkin, JE, Levenson, NA, Teplitz, HI, Kirkpatrick, JD, & Burgasser, AJ
    [ADS] [abstract]

  83. "An Improved Red Spectrum of the Methane or T Dwarf SDSS 1624+0029: The Role of the Alkali Metals." 2000, Astrophys. J. Letters, 533, L155
    Liebert, J, Reid, IN, Burrows, A, Burgasser, AJ, Kirkpatrick, JD, & Gizis, JE
    [ADS] [ApJ] [astro-ph]

  84. "Discovery of a Brown Dwarf Companion to Gliese 570ABC: A 2MASS T Dwarf Significantly Cooler than Gliese 229B." 2000, Astrophys. J. Letters, 531, L57
    Burgasser, AJ, Kirkpatrick, JD, Cutri, RM, McCallon, H, Kopan, G, Gizis, JE, Liebert, J, Reid, IN, Brown, ME, Monet, DG, Dahn, CC, Beichman, CA, & Skrutskie, MF.
    [ADS] [ApJ] [astro-ph] [PDF] [Press]

  85. "Two nearby M dwarf binaries from the Two Micron All Sky Survey." 2000, Mon. Not. Royal Astron. Soc., 311, 385
    Gizis, JE, Monet, DG, Reid, IN, Kirkpatrick, JD, & Burgasser, AJ
    [ADS] [MNRAS] [astro-ph]

  86. "Four Nearby L Dwarfs." 2000, Astron. J., 119, 369
    Reid, IN, Kirkpatrick, JD, Gizis, JE, Dahn, CC, Monet, DG, Williams, RJ, Liebert, J, & Burgasser, AJ
    [ADS] [AJ] [astro-ph]

    1999

  87. "Discovery of Four Field Methane (T-Type) Dwarfs with the Two Micron All-Sky Survey." 1999, Astrophys. J. Letters, 522, L65
    Burgasser, AJ, Kirkpatrick, JD, Brown, ME, Reid, IN, Gizis, JE, Dahn, CC, Monet, DG, Beichman, CA, Liebert, J, Cutri, RM, & Skrutskie, MF.
    [    ADS] [ApJ] [astro-ph] [PDF] [Press]

  88. "L Dwarfs and the Substellar Mass Function." 1999, Astrophys. J., 521, 613
    Reid, IN, Kirkpatrick, JD, Liebert, J, Burrows, A, Gizis, JE, Burgasser, AJ, Dahn, CC, Monet, DG, Cutri, RM, Beichman, CA, & Skrutskie, MF
    [ADS] [ApJ] [astro-ph] [PDF]



Conference Proceedings (27)

    2009

  1. "The Brown Dwarf-Exoplanet Connection." 2009
    Burgasser, AJ
    in Molecules in the Atmospheres of Extrasolar Planets, eds. J-P Beaulieu, G Tinetti, & I Ribas (in prep.)
    [    astro-ph]

  2. "Using Magnetic Activity and Galactic Dynamics to Constrain the Ages of M Dwarfs." 2009
    West, AA, Hawley, SL, Bochanski, JJ, Covey, KR & Burgasser, AJ
    in The Ages of Stars, Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, IAU Symposium, Volume 258, eds. E. Mamajek, D. Soderblom & J. Valenti, p. 327-336
    [ADS] [PIAU] [astro-ph]

  3. "Brown Dwarfs as Galactic Chronometers." 2009
    Burgasser, AJ
    in The Ages of Stars, Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, IAU Symposium, Volume 258, eds. E. Mamajek, D. Soderblom & J. Valenti, p. 317-326

    [ADS] [PIAU] [astro-ph]

    2008

  4. "Observation and modelling of dusty, low gravity L, and M dwarfs." 2008
    Seifahrt, A, Helling, Ch, Burgasser, AJ, Allers, KN, Cruz, KL, Cushing, MC, Heiter, U, Looper, DL, & Witte, S
    in Proceedings of the 15h Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems and the Sun (in prep.)
    [    astro-ph]

  5. "Clouds, Brightening and Multiplicity Across the L Dwarf/T Dwarf Transition." 2008
    Burgasser, AJ
    in Proceedings of the 15h Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems and the Sun (in prep.)
    [astro-ph]

  6. "Ultracool Subdwarfs: The Halo Population Down to the Substellar Limit." 2008
    Burgasser, AJ, Lepine, S, Lodieu, N, Scholz, R-D, Delorme, P, Jao, W-C, Swift, BJ. & Cushing, MC
    in Proceedings of the 15h Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems and the Sun (in prep.)
    [astro-ph]

  7. "Ultracool Subdwarfs: Subsolar Metallicity Objects Down to Substellar Masses." 2008
    Burgasser, AJ
    in Proceedings of the 14th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems and the Sun, ed. G van Belle (San Francisco: ASP), p. 126.
    [ADS] [astro-ph] [ASP]

  8. "A New Population of Young Brown Dwarfs." 2008
    Cruz, KL, Kirkpatrick, JD, Burgasser, AJ, Looper, D, Mohanty, S, Prato, L, Faherty, J, & Solomon A
    in Proceedings of the 14th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems and the Sun, ed. G van Belle (San Francisco: ASP), p. 119.
    [ADS] [astro-ph] [ASP]

  9. "Brown Dwarf Kinematics Project (BDKP)." 2008
    Faherty, J, Cruz, K, Burgasser, AJ, Walter, F, & Shara, M
    in A Giant Step: from Milli- to Micro-arcsecond Astrometry, Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, IAU Symposium, Volume 248, p. 102-103.
    [Cambridge Journals]

    2007

  10. "Not Alone: Tracing the Origins of Very Low Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs Through Multiplicity Studies." 2007
    Burgasser, AJ, Reid, IN, Siegler, N, Close, L, Allen, P, Lowrance, PJ, & Gizis, JE
    in Planets and Protostars V, October 2005, eds. B Reipurth, D Jewitt and K Keil (Tucson: University of Arizona Press), pp 427-441
    [    ADS] [astro-ph] [html] [Binary Archive]

    2006

  11. "Spitzer Studies of Ultracool Subdwarfs: Metal-poor Late-type M, L and T Dwarfs." 2006
    Burgasser, AJ
    in The Spitzer Space Telescope: New Views of the Cosmos, November 2004, ed. L Armus & WT Reach (San Francisco: ASP), p. 62.
    [    ADS] [astro-ph] [ASP]

    2005

  12. "Discovery of a Very Young Field L Dwarf." 2005
    Kirkpatrick, JD, Tinney, CG, Burgasser, AJ, McGovern, MR, McLean, IS, & Lowrance, PJ
    in Planets and Protostars V, October 2005, eds. B Reipurth, D Jewitt and K Keil (Tucson: University of Arizona Press), p. 8443
    [    ADS] [LPI]

  13. "Ultracool Subdwarfs: Metal-poor Stars and Brown Dwarfs Extending into the Late-type M, L and T Dwarf Regimes." 2005
    Burgasser, AJ, Kirkpatrick, JD, & Lepine, S
    in The 13th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun, Hamburg, Germany, July 2004, ed. F Favata et al. ESA SP-560 (ESA), p. 237.
    [ADS] [astro-ph] [html]

  14. "Spectral Classification Beyond M." 2005
    Leggett, SK, Allard, F, Burgasser, AJ, Jones, HRA, Marley, MS, & Tsuji, T
    in The 13th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun, Hamburg, Germany, July 2004, ed. F Favata et al. ESA SP-560 (ESA), p. 143.
    [ADS] [astro-ph] [html]

    2003

  15. "Classification of L and T Dwarfs." 2003
    Burgasser, AJ, & Kirkpatrick, JD
    in The Garrison Festschrift, eds. R Gray, CJ Corbally, & AG Davis Philip (Schnectady: L. Davis Press), p. 3.
    [    html]

  16. "New M and L Dwarfs Confirmed with CorMASS." 2003
    Wilson, JC, Miller, NA, Gizis, JE, Skrutskie, MF, Houck, JR, Kirkpatrick, JD, Burgasser, AJ, & Monet, DG
    in IAU Symposium 211: Brown Dwarfs, ed. EL Martin (San Francisco: ASP), p. 197.
    [html]

  17. "The Classification of T Dwarfs." 2003
    Burgasser, AJ, Golimowski, DA, Geballe, TR, Leggett, SK, & Kirkpatrick, JD
    in IAU Symposium 211: Brown Dwarfs, ed. EL Martin (San Francisco: ASP), p. 377.
    [html]

  18. "The NIRSPEC Brown Dwarf Spectroscopic Survey." 2003
    McLean, IS, McGovern, MR, Prato, L, Burgasser, AJ, & Kirkpatrick, JD
    in IAU Symposium 211: Brown Dwarfs, ed. EL Martin (San Francisco: ASP), p. 385.
    [html]

  19. "The First Infrared Parallaxes for T-Dwarfs." 2003
    Tinney, CG, Burgasser, AJ, & Kirkpatrick, JD
    in IAU Symposium 211: Brown Dwarfs, ed. EL Martin (San Francisco: ASP), p. 405.
    [html]

  20. "Testing for Photometric Variability at the L/T Boundary." 2003
    Enoch, ML, Borwn, ME, & Burgasser, AJ
    in IAU Symposium 211: Brown Dwarfs, ed. EL Martin (San Francisco: ASP), p. 459.
    [html]

  21. "The Spectra and Classification of L and T Dwarfs." 2003
    Burgasser, AJ
    in Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun: 12th Cambridge Workshop, eds. A Brown, GM Harper, & TR Ayres.
    [html] [PDF]

    2001

  22. "T Dwarf Discoveries by 2MASS." 2001
    Burgasser, AJ
    in Tetons 4: Galactic Structure, Stars, and the Interstellar Medium, ASP Conf. Series 231, eds. CE Woodward, MD Bicay, & JM Shull (San Francisco: ASP), p. 411.

  23. "Low Luminosity Companions to Nearby Stars: Status of the 2MASS Data Search." 2001
    Kirkpatrick, JD, Gizis, JE, Burgasser, AJ, Wilson, JC, Dahn, CC, Monet, DG, Reid, IN, & Liebert, J
    in Ultracool Dwarfs: New Spectral Types L and T, eds. HRA Jones & IA Steele (Berlin: Springer-Verlag), p. 125.

  24. "The Classification of T Dwarfs." 2001
    Burgasser, AJ, Kirkpatrick, JD, & Brown, ME
    in Ultracool Dwarfs: New Spectral Types L and T, eds. HRA Jones & IA Steele (Berlin: Springer-Verlag), p. 169.

    2000

  25. "Discovering T Dwarfs with 2MASS." 2000
    Burgasser, AJ, Kirkpatrick, JD, Brown, ME, Reid, IN, Beichman, CA, Cutri, RM, Gizis, JE, Skrutskie, MF, Dahn, CC, Monet, DG, & Liebert, J
    in From Giant Planets to Cool Stars, ASP Conf. Series 212, eds. CA Griffith & MS Marley (San Francisco: ASP), p. 65.

  26. "2MASS Brown Dwarfs and a First Estimate of the Substellar Mass Function." 2000
    Liebert, J, Reid, IN, Kirkpatrick, JD, Burrows, A, Gizis, JE, Burgasser, AJ, Dahn, CC, Monet, DG, Cutri, RM, Beichman, C, & Skrutskie, MF.
    in From Extrasolar Planets to Cosmology: The VLT Opening Symposium, eds. J Bergeron & A Renzini (Berlin: Springer-Verlag), p. 505.

    1998

  27. "Reflectance Spectroscopy of the Individual Members of Pluto/Charon System: HST/NICMOS Results." 2000
    Dumas, C, Terrile, RJ, Burgasser, AJ, Brown, R, Rieke, M, Schneider, G, Thompson, R, & Koerner, D
    AAS-DPS, 30, 49.08
    [    ADS]

    AAS abstracts (first author only)

    [214] [210] [205] [203] [200] [199] [198] [197] [196] [195] [193]


Bulletins (4)

  1. "2005 GC187." 2008, Minor Planet Electronic Circular, 2008-G45
    Burgasser, AJ, Kern, SD, Wasserman, LH, & Marsden, BG
    [    MPEC]

  2. "GRB 070508: optical afterglow detection." 2007, GRB Coordinates Network, 6386, 1
    Berger, E, & Burgasser, AJ
    [GCN]

  3. "Minor Planet Observations [304 Las Campanas Observatory]." 2007, Minor Planet Circular, 59863, 11
    Kern, SD, & Burgasser, AJ

  4. "GRB000630, Optical Observations." 2000, GRB Circ. Net, 744, 1
    Yost, S, Harrison, F, & Burgasser, AJ
    [GCN]



Popular Articles, Book Chapters and Other Work (8)

  1. "The Synoptic All-Sky Infrared (SASIR) Survey" 2009, submission to Optical and IR Astronomy from the Ground Program Prioritization Panel for the Astro2010 Decadal Review
    Bloom, JS, Prochaska, JX, Lee, W, JesĪs Gonzālez, J, RamÕrez-Ruiz, E, Bolte, M, Franco, J, Guichard, J, CarramiĐana, A, Avila-Reese, V, Bernstein, R, Bigelow, B, Brodwin, M, Burgasser, A Butler, N, Chāvez, M, Cobb, B, Cook, K, Cruz-Gonzālez, I, de Diego, JA, Farah, A, Georgiev, L, Girard, J, Hernāndez-Toledo, H, Jim?nez-BailŅn, E, Krongold, Y, Mayya, D, Meza, J, Miyaji, T, MĪjica, R, Nugent, P, Porras, A, Poznanski, D, Raga, A, Richer, M, RodrÕguez, L, Rosa, D, Stanford, A, Szentgyorgyi, A, Tenorio-Tagle, G, Thomas, R, Valenzuela, O, & Watson, AM
    [    astro-ph]

  2. "Bridging the Gap Between Stars and Planets: The Formation and Early Evolution of Brown Dwarfs" 2009, Science White Paper for the Astro2010 Decadal Review
    Mohanty, S, Burgasser, AJ, Chabrier, G, Padoan, P, Hennebelle, P, Pascucci, I, Kraus, A, Baraffe, I, Stassun, K, Greaves, J, Reiners, A, Dunham, M, Scholz, A, Oppenheimer, B, Ray, T, Apai, D, Goodman, A, Cruz, K, Rebull, L, & Moraux, E
    [astro-ph]

  3. "Toward the End of Stars: Discovering the Galaxy's Coldest Brown Dwarfs" 2009, Science White Paper for the Astro2010 Decadal Review
    Burgasser, AJ, Bloom, J, Cruz, K, Cushing, M, Leggett, S, Lodders, K, Mainzer, A, Marley, M, Metchev, S, Mohanty, S, Oppenheimer, B, & West, A
    [astro-ph]

  4. "The T-Type Dwarfs" 2009, Chapter 10 in Stellar Spectral Classification by RO Gray & CJ Corbally; published by Princeton University Press
    [Princeton University Press] [Amazon]

  5. "Quick Study: Brown Dwarfs: Failed Stars, Super Jupiters?" 2008, Physics Today, 61, 70-71
    Burgasser, AJ
    [Physics Today] [PDF*]
    *Copyright (2008) American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics.

  6. "Using Methane Imaging to Probe Brown Dwarfs" 2006, Anglo-Australian Observatory Newsletter, 107, p. 3
    Tinnery, C, Ellis, S, Burgasser, AJ, McElwain, M, & Kirkpatrick, JD

  7. "What Is a Planet?" 2001, Science, 291, 1487-1488
    McCaughrean, M, Reid, N, Tinney, C, Kirkpatrick, D, Hillenbrand, L, Burgasser, J, Gizis, J, & Hawley, S.
    [Science]

  8. "Oh Be A Fine Girl Kiss Me (Right Now Sweetheart) Lovingly Tender" 2000
    Jones, HRA, & Burgasser, AJ
    in Northern Lights, newsletter for the XXIVth IAU General Assembly, ed. J Mason (Manchester, U. Manchester), Vol. 6, p. 3



Ph.D. Thesis

"The Discovery and Characterization of Methane-bearing Brown Dwarfs and the Definition of the T Spectral Class."
Burgasser, AJ 2001, PhD Thesis, California Institute of Technology
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