Keivan Guadalupe-Stassun
Keivan Guadalupe-Stassun
Professor of Physics, Vanderbilt University
Adjunct Professor of Physics, Fisk University
Visiting Professor 2011-2012
Hosted by Profs. Ed Berstchinger and Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano, Department of Physics
Bio
Keivan Guadalupe-Stassun is a Professor of Physics at Vanderbilt University and an Adjunct Professor of Physics at Fisk University. He is well known for his research on star and planet formation, and leadership of the Fisk-Vanderbilt Masters-to-Ph.D. Bridge Program.
Prof. Guadalupe-Stassun earned his Ph.D. in Astronomy as a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He was a postdoctoral research fellow with the NASA Hubble Space Telescope Program before joining the faculty at Vanderbilt. His research on the birth of stars, eclipsing binary stars, exoplanetary systems, and the sun has appeared in Nature, has been featured on NPR’s Earth & Sky, and has been published in more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles. He is a host for Tennessee Explorers, a television show highlighting the work of scientists and engineers to inspire the next generation of scientific explorers, and has served as an expert witness to Congress in its review of approaches for increasing American competitiveness in these fields.
As an MLK Visiting Professor, Prof. Prof. Guadalupe-Stassun was hosted by Professors Ed Berstchinger and Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano in the Department of Physics. During his stay at MIT, he concentrated his efforts on increasing the number of underrepresented minority students in the physics graduate programs. Prof. Guadalupe-Stassun and his MIT colleagues also collaborated on a project to measure trace chemical species in supernova remnants via x-ray and infrared spectroscopy.
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Publications
Refereed, 2011-2014
Stassun, K.G., Feiden, G., Torres, G. 2014, New Astronomy Reviews, Empirical Tests of Pre-Main-Sequence Stellar Evolution Models with Eclipsing Binaries, in press
D. Kipping, G. Torres, L. Buchhave, S. Kenyon, C. Henze, H. Isaacson, R. Kolbl, G. Marcy, S. Bryson, K.G. Stassun, F. Bastien, 2014, ApJ, Discovery of a Transiting Planet Near the Snow-Line, in press
Bastien, F.A., Stassun, K.G., Pepper, J.A. 2014, ApJ, Larger Planet Radii Inferred from Stellar "Flicker" Brightness Variations of Bright Planet Host Stars
Mack, C.E., Schuler, S., Stassun, K.G., Pepper, J., Norris, J. 2014, ApJ, Detailed Abundances of Planet-Hosting Wide Binaries. I. Did Planet Formation Imprint Chemical Signatures in the Atmospheres of HD 20782/81?
M. Paegert, K. G. Stassun, D. M. Burger, 2014, AJ, The EB Factory Project I. A Fast, Neural Net Based, General Purpose Light Curve Classifier Optimized for Eclipsing Binaries
B.L. Kamai, F.J. Vrba, J.R. Stauffer, K.G. Stassun, 2014, AJ, New BVIc Photometry of Low-mass Pleiades Stars: Exploring the Effects of Rotation on Broadband Colors
Ghezzi, L., et al. 2014, AJ, Accurate Atmospheric Parameters at Moderate Resolution Using Spectral Indices: Preliminary Application to the MARVELS Survey, in press
E.V. Garcia, K.G. Stassun, K. Pavlovski, H. Hensberge, Y. Gomez Maqueo Chew, A. Claret, 2014, AJ, A Strict Test of Stellar Evolution Models: The Absolute Dimensions of Massive Benchmark Eclipsing Binary V578 Mon, in press
Kipping, D.M., Bastien, F.A., Stassun, K.G., Chaplin, W.J., Huber, D., Bucchave, L.A. 2014, ApJ, Flicker as a tool for characterizing planets through Asterodensity Profiling
Reipurth, B., Clarke, C.J., Boss, A.P., Goodwin, S.P., Rodriguez, L., Stassun, K.G., Tokovinin, A., Zinnecker, H. 2014, Protostars & Planets VI, Multiplicity in Early Stellar Evolution, in press
Bastien, F., Stassun, K.G., Pepper, J., Wright, J.T., Aigrain, S., Basri, G., Johnson, J.A., Howard, A.W., Walkowicz, L.M. 2014, AJ, Radial Velocity Variations of Photometrically Quiet, Chromospherically Inactive Kepler Stars: A Link Between RV Jitter and Photometric Flicker
Epstein, C., et al. 2014, ApJ, Testing the Asteroseismic Mass Scale Using Metal-Poor Stars Characterized with APOGEE and Kepler
Hayden, M., et al. 2014, AJ, Chemical Cartography with APOGEE: Large-scale Mean Metallicity Maps of the Milky Way Disk
Brothwell, R., et al. 2014, MNRAS, A Window on Exoplanet Dynamical Histories: Rossiter-McLaughlin observations of WASP-13b and WASP-32b
Ahn, C., et al. 2014, ApJS, The Tenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-III Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment
Cranmer, S.R., Bastien, F.A., Stassun, K.G., Saar, S.H. 2014, ApJ, Stellar Granulation as the Source of High-Frequency Flicker in Kepler Light Curves
H. M. Cegla, K. G. Stassun, C. A. Watson, F. A. Bastien, J. Pepper, 2014, ApJ, Estimating Stellar Radial Velocity Variability from Kepler and GALEX: Implications for the Radial Velocity Confirmation of Exoplanets
Beatty, T., Collins, K., Fortney, J., Knutson, H., Gaudi, B.S., Bruns, J., Showman, A., Eastman, J., Pepper, J., Siverd, R., Stassun, K.G., Kielkopf, J. 2014, ApJ, Spitzer and z' Secondary Eclipse Observations of the Highly Irradiated Transiting Brown Dwarf KELT-1b
Collins, K., et al. 2014, AJ, KELT-6b: A P~7.9 d Hot Saturn Transiting a Metal-Poor Star with a Long-Period Companion
Anders, F., et al. 2014, A&A, Chemodynamics of the Milky Way. I. The first year of APOGEE data, in press
Terrien, R., et al. 2014, ApJ, New Red Jewels in Coma Berenices
Cargile, P.A.; James, D.J.; Pepper, J.; Kuhn, R.B.; Siverd, R.; Stassun, K.G. 2014, ApJ,Evaluating Gyrochronology on the Zero-Age-Main-Sequence: Rotation Periods in the Southern Open Cluster Blanco 1 from the KELT-South Survey
Conroy, K.E., Prsa, A., Stassun, K.G., Orosz, J.A., Fabrycky, D.A., Welsh, W.F. 2014, AJ,Kepler Eclipsing Binary Stars. IV. Precise Eclipse Times for Close Binaries and Identification of Candidate Three-Body Systems
Bastien, F., Stassun, K.G., Basri, G., Pepper, J. 2013, Nature, An observational correlation between stellar brightness variations and surface gravity
Bouvier, J., Matt, S., Mohanty, S., Scholz, A., Stassun, K.G., Zanni, C. 2013, Protostars & Planets VI, Angular momentum evolution of young low-mass stars and brown dwarfs: observations and theory, in press
Deshpande, R., et al. 2013, AJ, The SDSS-III APOGEE Radial Velocity Survey of M Dwarfs. I. Description of the Survey and Science Goals
Gomez, Y. et al. 2013, A&A, Discovery of WASP-65b and WASP-75b: Two Hot Jupiters Without Highly Inflated Radii
Burger, D., Stassun, K.G., Pepper, J., Siverd, R.J., Paegert, M., De Lee, N.M., Robinson, W. 2013, Astronomy & Computing, Filtergraph: An Interactive Web Application for Visualization of Astronomy Datasets - There are also audio slides available
J.E. Rodriguez, J. Pepper, K.G. Stassun, R.J. Siverd, P. Cargile, T.G. Beatty, B.S. Gaudi. 2013, AJ, Occultation of the T Tauri Star RW Aurigae A by its Tidally Disrupted Disk
Garcia, E.V., Stassun, K.G., Torres, G. 2013, ApJ, Reanalysis of the Radii of the Benchmark Eclipsing Binary V578 Mon
Pepper, J.A., Siverd, R.J., Beatty, T.G., Gaudi, B.S., Stassun, K.G., et al. 2013, ApJ, KELT-3b: A Hot Jupiter Transiting a V=9.8 Late-F Star
Peng, J., et al. 2013, AJ, Very Low Mass Stellar and Substellar Companions to Solar-like Stars From MARVELS IV: A Candidate Brown Dwarf or Low-Mass Stellar Companion to HIP 67526
Aarnio, A.N.; Matt, S.P.; Stassun, K.G. 2013, Astron. Nach., Angular momentum evolution of low-mass pre-main sequence stars via extreme coronal mass ejections
Dhital, S.; West, A.A.; Stassun, K.G.; Law, N.M. 2013, Astron. Nach., The SLoWPoKES catalog of low-mass ultra-wide binaries: A cool stars resource for testing fundamental properties and for constraining binary formation theory
Peters, C., Lopez, L., Ramirez-Ruiz, E., Stassun, K.G., Figueroa-Feliciano, E. 2013, ApJ,Constraining Explosion Type of Young Supernova Remnants Using 24 Micron Emission Morphology
Wright, J., et al. 2013, ApJ, MARVELS-1: A face-on double-lined binary star masquerading as a resonant planetary system; and consideration of rare false positives in radial velocity planet searches
Mack, C.E., Ge, J., Deshpande, R., Wisniewski, J., Stassun, K.G., et al. 2013, AJ, A Cautionary Tale: MARVELS Brown Dwarf Candidate Reveals Itself to be a Very Long Period, Highly Eccentric Spectroscopic Stellar Binary
De Lee, N., et al. 2013, ApJ, Very Low Mass Stellar and Substellar Companions to Solar-Like Stars From MARVELS V: A Low Eccentricity Brown Dwarf from the Driest Part of the Desert, MARVELS-6b
Robberto, M., et al. 2013, ApJS, The Hubble Space Telescope Treasury Program on the Orion Nebula Cluster
D.L. Foster, P.A. Charles, D.A. Swartz, R. Misra, K.G. Stassun, 2013, MNRAS, Monitoring the Very-Long-Term Variability of X-ray Sources in the Giant Elliptical Galaxy M87
Y. Gomez Maqueo Chew, F. Faedi, P. Cargile, A. P. Doyle, L. Ghezzi, S. Sousa, S.C. C. Barros, L. Hebb, K. Cunha, S.C. Schuler, V. V. Smith, A. Collier Cameron, D. Pollacco, N. C. Santos, B. Smalley, K. G. Stassun, 2013, Astrophysical Journal, The Homogeneous Study of Transiting Systems (HoSTS) I. The Pilot Study of WASP-13
J.G. Bodnarik, D.M. Burger, A. Burger, L.G. Evans, A.M. Parsons, J.S. Schweitzer, R.D. Starr, K.G. Stassun, 2013, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Time-resolved neutron/gamma-ray data acquisition for in situ subsurface planetary geochemistry
Triaud, A. H. M. J.; Hebb, L.; Anderson, D. R.; Cargile, P.; Collier Cameron, A.; Doyle, A. P.; Faedi, F.; Gillon, M.; Gomez Maqueo Chew, Y.; Hellier, C.; Jehin, E.; Maxted, P.; Naef, D.; Pepe, F.; Pollacco, D.; Queloz, D.; Ségransan, D.; Smalley, B.; Stassun, K.; Udry, S.; West, R. G. 2013, Astronomy & Astrophysics, The EBLM project. I. Physical and orbital parameters, including spin-orbit angles, of two low-mass eclipsing binaries on opposite sides of the brown dwarf limit
Ma, B., et al. 2013, Astrophysical Journal, Very Low-mass Stellar and Substellar Companions to Solar-like Stars from Marvels III: A Short-Period Brown Dwarf Candidate Around An Active G0Iv Subgiant
Stassun, K.G., Kratter, K.M., Scholz, A., Dupuy, T.J. 2012, Astrophysical Journal, An Empirical Correction for Activity Effects on the Temperatures, Radii, and Estimated Masses of Low-Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs
Aarnio, A., Matt. S., & Stassun, K.G. 2012, Astrophysical Journal, Mass loss in pre-main sequence stars via coronal mass ejections and implications for angular momentum loss
Mohanty, S., & Stassun, K.G. 2012, Astrophysical Journal, High-Resolution Spectroscopy during Eclipse of the Young Substellar Eclipsing Binary 2MASS 0535-0546. II. Secondary Spectrum: No Evidence that Spots Cause the Temperature Reversal
Siverd, R., et al. 2012, Astrophysical Journal, KELT-1b: A Strongly Irradiated, Highly Inflated, Short Period, 27 Jupiter-mass Companion Transiting a Mid-F Star
Beatty, T., et al. 2012, Astrophysical Journal, KELT-2Ab: A Hot Jupiter Transiting the Bright (V=8.77) Primary Star of a Binary System
Ahn, C., et al. 2012, Astrophysical journal, THE NINTH DATA RELEASE OF THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY: FIRST SPECTROSCOPIC DATA FROM THE SDSS-III BARYON OSCILLATION SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEY
Scandariato, G., Da Rio, N., Robberto, M., Pagano, I., Stassun, K. 2012, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Empirical Near Infrared colors for low-mass stars and brown dwarfs in the Orion Nebula Cluster
Richardson, M., Hill, F., Stassun, K.G. 2012, Solar Physics, No Evidence Supporting Flare Driven High-Frequency Global Oscillations
Miller, A. A.; Richards, J. W.; Bloom, J. S.; Cenko, S. B.; Silverman, J. M.; Starr, D. L.;Stassun, K. G. 2012, Astrophysical Journal, Discovery of Bright Galactic R Coronae Borealis and DY Persei Variables: Rare Gems Mined from ACVS
M. Morales-Calderon, J. R. Stauffer, K. G. Stassun, F. J. Vrba, L. Prato, L. A. Hillenbrand, S. Terebey, K. R. Covey, L. M. Rebull, D. M. Terndrup, R. Gutermuth, I. Song, P. Plavchan, J. M. Carpenter, F. Marchis, E. V. Garc'ia, S. Margheim, K. L. Luhman, J. Angione, and J.M. Irwin. 2012, Astrophysical Journal, YSOVAR: Six pre-main-sequence eclipsing binaries in the Orion Nebula Cluster
C.F. Manara, M. Robberto, N. Da Rio, G. Lodato, L. A. Hillenbrand, K. G. Stassun, D.R. Soderblom, 2012, Astrophysical Journal, HST measures of Mass Accretion Rates in the Orion Nebula Cluster
Fleming, S. et al. 2012, Astrophysical Journal, Very Low-mass Stellar and Substellar Companions to Solar-like Stars from MARVELS II: A Short-period Companion Orbiting an F Star with Evidence of a Stellar Tertiary And Significant Mutual Inclination
Wisniewski, J. et al. 2012, Astrophysical Journal, Very Low-Mass Stellar and Substellar Companions to Solar-Like Stars from MARVELS I: A Low Mass Ratio Stellar Companion to TYC 4110-01037-1 in a 79-day Orbit
J. Pepper, R. Kuhn, R. Siverd, D. James, K.G. Stassun, 2012, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, The KELT-South Telescope
P. Muirhead, J. Johnson, K. Apps, J. Carter, T. Morton, D. Fabrycky, J. Pineda, M. Bottom, B. Rojas-Ayala, E. Schlawin, K. Hamren, K. Covey, J. Crepp, K.G. Stassun, J. Pepper, L. Hebb, E. Kirby, A. Howard, H. Isaacson, G. Marcy, D. Levitan, T. Diaz-Santos, L. Armus, J. Lloyd, 2012, Astrophysical Journal, Characterizing the Cool KOIs III. KOI-961: A Small Star with Large Proper Motion and Three Small Planets
Henderson, C., Stassun, K.G. 2012, Astrophysical Journal, Time-Series Photometry of Stars in and around the Lagoon Nebula. I. Rotation Periods of 290 Low-Mass Pre-Main-Sequence Stars in NGC 6530
N. Da Rio, M. Robberto, L. Hillenbrand, T. Henning, K.G. Stassun, 2012, Astrophysical Journal,The Initial Mass Function of the Orion Nebula Cluster across the H-burning limit
S. Dhital, A.A. West, K.G. Stassun, J.J. Bochanski, A.P. Massey, F.A. Bastien, 2012, Astronomical Journal, Refined Metallicity Indices for M Dwarfs Using the SLoWPoKES Catalog of Wide, Low-mass Binaries
Gomez Maqueo Chew, Y., Stassun, K.G., Prsa, A., Stempels, E., Hebb, L., Barnes, R., Heller, R., Mathieu, R.D. 2012, Astrophysical Journal, Luminosity Discrepancy in the Equal-Mass, Pre-Main-Sequence Eclipsing Binary Par 1802: Non-Coevality or Tidal Heating?
Bastien, F., Stassun, K.G., Weintraub, D. 2011, Astronomical Journal, High Cadence Time-Series Photometry of V1647 Orionis
LeBlanc, T., Covey, K., Stassun, K.G. 2011, Astronomical Journal, Spectral Energy Distributions of Young Stars in IC 348: The Role of Disks in Angular Momentum Evolution of Young, Low-Mass Stars
Prsa, A., Pepper, J., Stassun, K.G. 2011, Astronomical Journal, Expected Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) Yield of Eclipsing Binary Stars
Garcia, E.V., Stassun, K.G., Hebb, L., Gomez Maqueo Chew, Y., Heiser, A. 2011, Astronomical Journal, Apsidal Motion of the Massive, Benchmark Eclipsing Binary V578 Mon
Hebb, L., Cegla, H.M., Stassun, K.G., Stempels, H.C., Cargile, P.A., Palladino, L.E. 2011, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Precise Orbit Solution of MML 53, a Low-Mass, Pre-Main Sequence Eclipsing Binary in Upper Centaurus Lupus
Meibom, S., Mathieu, R.D., Stassun, K.G., Liebesny, P., & Saar, S. 2011, Astrophysical Journal,The Color-Period Diagram and Stellar Rotational Evolution -- New Rotation Period Measurements in the Open Cluster M34
Eisenstein et al. 2011, Astronomical Journal, SDSS-III: Massive Spectroscopic Surveys of the Distant Universe, the Milky Way, and Extra-Solar Planetary Systems
Fleming, S., Maxted, P., Hebb, L., Stassun, K.G., Ge, J., Cargile, P., Ghezzi, L., De Lee, N., Wisniewski, J., Gary, B., Porto de Mello, G., Ferreira, L., Zhao, B., Anderson, D., Wan, X., Hellier, C., Guo, P., West, R., Mahadevan, S., Pollacco, D., Lee, B., Collier Cameron, A., van Eyken, J., Skillen, I., Crepp, J., Nguyen, D., Kane, S., Paegert, M., da Costa, L., Maia, M., Santiago, B. 2011, Astronomical Journal, Eclipsing Binary Science Via the Merging of Transit and Doppler Exoplanet Survey Data -- A Case Study With the MARVELS Pilot Project and SuperWASP
M. Povich, N. Smith, S. Majewski, K. Getman, L. Townsley, B. Babler, P. Broos, R. Indebetouw, M. Meade, T. Robitaille, K.G. Stassun, B. Whitney, Y. Yonekura, Y. Fukui 2011, Astrophysical Journal, A Pan-Carina YSO Catalog: Intermediate-Mass Young Stellar Objects in the Carina Nebula Identified Via Mid-Infrared Excess Emission
Wolk, S., Broos, P., Getman, K., Feigelson, E., Preibisch, T., Townsley, L., Wang, J., Stassun, K.G., King, R., McCaughrean, M., Moffat, A., Zinnecker, H., 2011, Astrophysical Journal, The Chandra Carina Complex Project View of Trumpler 16
Feigelson, E., Getman, K., Townsley, L., Broos, P., Povich, M., Garmire, G., King, R., Montmerle, T., Preibisch, T., Smith, N., Stassun, K.G., Wang, J., Wolk, S., Zinnecker, H. 2011, Astrophysical Journal, X-ray Star Clusters in the Carina Complex
Wang, J., Feigelson, E., Townsley, L., Broos, P., Getman, K., Wolk, S., Preibisch, T., Stassun, K.G., Moffat, A., Garmire, G., King, R., McCaughrean, M., Zinnecker, H. 2011, Astrophysical Journal, A Chandra ACIS Study of the Young Star Cluster Trumpler 15 in Carina and Correlation with Near-infrared Sources
Townsley, L., et al. 2011, Astrophysical Journal, An Introduction to the Chandra Carina Complex Project
Stassun, K.G., Sturm, S., Holley-Bockelmann, K., Burger, A., Ernst, D., & Webb, D. 2011, American Journal of Physics, The Fisk-Vanderbilt Master’s-to-Ph.D. Bridge Program: Recognizing, enlisting, and cultivating unrealized or unrecognized potential in underrepresented minority students
Lee, B., Ge, J., Fleming, S.W., Stassun, K.G., et al. 2011, Astrophysical Journal, MARVELS-1b: A Short-Period, Brown Dwarf Desert Candidate from the SDSS-III MARVELS Planet Search
Aarnio, A.N., Stassun, K.G., Hughes, W.J., McGregor, S.L. 2011, Solar Physics, Solar Flares and Coronal Mass Ejections: A Statistically Determined Flare Flux-CME Mass Correlation
Dhital, S., Burgasser, A., Looper D., Stassun, K.G. 2011, Astronomical Journal, Resolved Spectroscopy of M Dwarf/L Dwarf Binaries. IV. Discovery of an M9 + L6 BInary Separated by Over 100 AU
Course
The Life and Death of Stars introduces you to this spectacular story in 24 beautifully illustrated half-hour lectures that lead you through the essential ideas of astrophysics—the science of stars. Your guide is Professor Keivan G. Stassun of Vanderbilt University, an award-winning teacher and noted astrophysicist. Professor Stassun provides lively, eloquent, and authoritative explanations at a level suitable for science novices as well as for those who already know their way around the starry sky.