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most citedShort Term Variability of Evolved Massive Stars with TESS II: A New Class of Cool, Pulsating Supergiants

27 citations · 37 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

astro-ph.HE2025

Efficient Particle Acceleration in 2.5-Dimensional, Hybrid-Kinetic Simulations of Decaying, Supersonic, Plasma Turbulence

Keyan Gootkin, Colby Haggerty, Damiano Caprioli +1

Collisionless, turbulent plasmas surround the Earth, from the magnetosphere to the intergalactic medium, and the fluctuations within them affect nearly every field in the space sci…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 2 cited

Plasma Instabilities Dominate Radioactive Transients Magnetic Fields: The self-confinement of leptons in Type Ia and Core-Collapse Supernovae, and Kilonovae

Dhvanil D. Desai, Colby C. Haggerty, Benjamin J. Shappee +8

The light curves of radioactive transients, such as supernovae and kilonovae, are powered by the decay of radioisotopes, which release high-energy leptons through and d…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 1 cited

A New Catalog of 100,000 Variable \emph{TESS} A-F Stars Reveals a Correlation Between Scuti Pulsator Fraction and Stellar Rotation

Keyan Gootkin, Marc Hon, Daniel Huber +3

δ Scuti variables are found at the intersection of the classical instability strip and the main sequence on the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram. With space-based photometry providing m…

astro-ph.EP2023

MO0NFALL: The Great Filter and Exo-Moon Occurrence

Casey Brinkman, Keyan Gootkin, Rena A. Lee +3

We observe neither life beyond Earth, nor moons around exoplanets, despite the prevalence of Earth-like planets across the galaxy. We suggest Moonfall as a possible mechanism to ex…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 27 cited

Short Term Variability of Evolved Massive Stars with TESS II: A New Class of Cool, Pulsating Supergiants

Trevor Z. Dorn-Wallenstein, Emily M. Levesque, Kathryn F. Neugent +3

Massive stars briefly pass through the yellow supergiant (YSG) phase as they evolve redward across the HR diagram and expand into red supergiants (RSGs). Higher-mass stars pass thr…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 7 cited

13 Years of P Cygni Spectropolarimetry: Investigating Mass-loss Through H, Periodicity, and Ellipticity

Keyan Gootkin, Trevor Dorn-Wallenstein, Jamie R. Lomax +7

We report on over 13 years of optical and near-ultraviolet spectropolarimetric observations of the famous Luminous Blue Variable (LBV), P Cygni. LBVs are a critical transitional ph…