Scott Kenyon

Seeing another Earth: Detecting and Characterizing Rocky Planets with Extremely Large Telescopes (2009)

Hinz, Philip M., Kenyon, Scott, Meyer, Michael R., Boss, Alan, Angel, Roger

The detection of lower mass planets now being reported via radial velocity and microlensing surveys suggests that they may be ubiquitous. If missions such as Kepler are able to confirm this, the...

The Rise and Fall of Debris Disks: MIPS Observations of h and chi Persei and the Evolution of Mid-IR Emission from Planet Formation (2007)

Currie, Thayne, Kenyon, Scott, Balog, Zoltan, Rieke, George, Bragg, Ann, Bromley, Ben

We describe Spitzer/MIPS observations of the double cluster, h and $\chi$ Persei, covering a $\sim$ 0.6 square-degree area surrounding the cores of both clusters. The data are combined with IRAC and...

Discovery of Gas Accretion Onto Stars in 13 Myr old h and chi Persei (2007)

Currie, Thayne, Kenyon, Scott, Balog, Zoltan, Bragg, Ann, Tokarz, Susan

We report the discovery of accretion disks associated with ~ 13 Myr-old intermediate/low-mass stars in h and chi Persei. Optical spectroscopy of ~ 5000 stars in these clusters and a surrounding halo...

A Spectroscopic Survey of Subarcsecond Binaries in the Taurus-Auriga Dark Cloud with the Hubble Space Telescope (2002)

Hartigan, Patrick, Kenyon, Scott

We report the results of a spectroscopic survey of 20 close T Tauri binaries in the Taurus-Auriga dark cloud where the separations between primaries and their secondaries are less than the typical...

Spectra and Line Profiles of FU Orionis Objects: Comparisons Between Boundary Layer Models and Observations (1996)

Popham, Robert, Kenyon, Scott, Hartmann, Lee, Narayan, Ramesh

We present solutions for the accretion disks and boundary layers in pre-main-sequence stars undergoing FU Orionis outbursts. These solutions differ from earlier disk solutions in that they include a...