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Keaton J. Bell Curriculum Vitae E-Mail: Bell@Mps.Mpg.De Web: Www2.Mps.Mpg.De/Homes/Bell Citizenship: United States Keaton J. Bell Curriculum Vitae E-mail: [email protected] Web: www2.mps.mpg.de/homes/bell Citizenship: United States Research Interests Time domain astronomy; stellar astrophysics; asteroseismology; exoplanets; white dwarf stars Postdoctoral Research Positions Max Planck Institute of Solar System Research, G¨ottingen,Germany August 2017{present Education University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas July 2017 Ph.D., Astronomy Thesis Title: \Pulsational Oddities at the Extremes of the DA White Dwarf Instability Strip" Supervisors: D. E. Winget and M. H. Montgomery University of Washington, Seattle, Washington December 2010 B.S., Astronomy (with honors), Physics Research Adviser: Suzanne L. Hawley Awards and Honors NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowship, $300,000 Awarded February 2019 Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award, 230th AAS Meeting June 2017 Publication Summary Refereed Publications: 34 total; 9 first-author; h-index: 14 Press Coverage Rapid rotation from asteroseismology of a hot, massive ZZ Ceti with K2 (Hermes et al. 2017) { AAS Nova: \Rapid Rotation of a Heavy White Dwarf" Discovery of pulsation-related outbursts in cool ZZ Ceti variables (Bell et al. 2015, 2016; Hermes et al. 2015) { Sky and Telescope: \White Dwarf Stars with Hiccups" { Daily Mail: \Dying Stars Suffer `Irregular Heartbeats' " { Texas Standard: \Texas Astronomers Discover Massive Outbursts in Dying Stars" { astrobites: \White Dwarf Surprise" and \White Dwarf Surprise { Again!" (also featured on AAS Nova) Discovery of a massive white dwarf with deep starspot modulation (Kilic et al. 2015) { AAS Nova: \Mystery of a Dimming White Dwarf" Identifying the progenitors of AM CVn systems and type .Ia supernovae (Kilic et al. 2014) { astrobites: \Progenitors of AM CVn systems" { Chandra: \J075141 and J174140: Doubling Down With Rare White Dwarf Systems" Observing Summary TESS Mission Cycle 1 & 2 White Dwarf Variability in the Ecliptic North & South, 2163 targets (Co-I) Kepler K2 Mission Campaigns 4, 5, 8, 10{19 K2 Observations of Variable White Dwarfs, 2510 targets (Co-I) 2.1m Otto Struve Telescope, McDonald Observatory 2013{2017 Time Series Photometry of Variable White Dwarfs, 372 nights (PI 256 nights) Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network 2014{2017 Multi-Site Multi-Color Time Series Photometry, 69 hours (PI 37 hours) Hubble Space Telescope Cycle 24 Connecting Variability and Metals in White Dwarfs, 4 orbits (Co-I) 1 of7 Conferences and Workshops IAU Symposium 357: White Dwarfs as Probes of Fundamental Physics October 2019 TASC5/KASC12 Workshop, Cambridge, MA July 2019 7th TESS Data for Asteroseismology Workshop, Aarhus, Denmark January 2019 6th TESS Data for Asteroseismology Workshop, Leuven, Belgium November 2018 21st European White Dwarf Workshop, Austin, TX July 2018 TASC4/KASC11: First Light in a new Era of Astrophysics, Aarhus, Denmark July 2018 Kepler & K2 Science Conference IV, Moffet Field, CA June 2017 AAS 230th Meeting, Austin, TX June 2017 Zwicky Transient Facility Galactic Science Workshop, Pasadena, CA March 2017 AAS 229th Meeting, Grapevine, TX January 2017 Hot-wiring the Transient Universe 5, Villanova, PA October 2016 20th European Workshop on White Dwarfs, Coventry, UK July 2016 LSST TVS Road-mapping Workshop, Argonne National Laboratory, IL March 2016 Frank N. Bash Symposium (Bash Fest), Austin, TX October 2015 LSST2015 Project and Community Workshop, Bremerton, WA August 2015 AAS 225th Meeting, Seattle, WA January 2015 AAS Astronomy Ambassadors Workshop, Seattle, WA January 2015 19th European White Dwarf Workshop, Montr´eal,Canada August 2014 CoRoT Symposium 3, Kepler KASC-7 Joint Meeting, Toulouse, France July 2014 Frank N. Bash Symposium (Bash Fest), Austin, TX October 2013 MESA Summer School, Santa Barbara, CA August 2012 AAS 219th Meeting, Austin, TX January 2012 AAS 218th Meeting, Boston, MA May 2011 AAS 217th Meeting, Seattle, WA January 2011 Teaching Experience University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas USA Freshman Research Initiative Graduate Mentor January 2012{August 2017 TAURUS Seminar July 2017 Texas Astronomy Undergraduate Research experience for Under-represented Students Teaching Assistant September 2011{May 2017 • AST 301, Introduction to Astronomy, Prof. Don Winget Fall 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011 • AST 210K, Freshman Research Initiative: White Dwarfs, Dr. Mike Montgomery Spring 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012 Professional Service and Experience Zwicky Transient Facility Independent Collaborator 2018{present Stellar Astrophysics Centre, Aarhus University, International Node Member 2017{present TESS Asteroseismic Science Consortium 2017{present American Astronomical Society Astronomy Ambassador 2015{present LSST Transients and Variable Stars Science Collaboration 2014{present Kepler Asteroseismic Science Consortium 2013{present American Astronomical Society Junior Member 2011{2017 219th, 230th AAS Meeting Conference Volunteer January 2012, June 2017 Westlake High School Independent Study Mentor September{December 2013 NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates, Indiana University June{September 2010 2 of7 Refereed Publications (34 total; 9 first-author; h-index: 14) 34. Bell, K. J., Hekker, S., and Kuszlewicz, J. 2019, High-Confidence Detections of Solar-like Oscillations from 30,000 K2 Red Giants with the Coefficient of Variation Method, MNRAS, in prep. 33. Althaus, L. G., C´orsico,A. H., Uzundag, M., et al. 2019, On the Existence of Warm H-rich Pulsating White Dwarfs, A&A, submitted 32. Bell, K. J., C´orsico,A. H., Bischoff-Kim, A., et al. 2019, TESS First Look at Evolved Compact Pulsators: Asteroseismology of the Pulsating Helium-Atmosphere White Dwarf TIC 257459955, A&A, submitted 31. Chaplin, W. J., Seremelli, A. M., Miglio, A., et al. 2019, Age Dating of an Early Milky Way Merger via Asteroseismology of the Naked-eye Star ν Indi, Nature, submitted 30. Charpinet, S., Brassard, P., Fontaine, G., et al. 2019, TESS First Look at Evolved Compact Pulsators: Discovery and Asteroseismic Probing of the G-mode Hot B Subdwarf Pulsator TIC 278659026, A&A, submitted 29. Kuszlewicz, J. S., Chaplin, W. J., North, T. S. H., Farr, W. M., Bell, K. J., et al. 2019, Bayesian Hierarchical Inference of Asteroseismic Inclination Angles, MNRAS, 488, 572 28. Kuszlewicz, J. S., North, T. S. H., Chaplin, W. J., et al. 2019, KOI-3890: A High Mass-ratio Asteroseismic Red-Giant+M-Dwarf Eclipsing Binary Undergoing Heartbeat Tidal Interactions, MNRAS, 487, 14 27. Huber, D., Chaplin, W. J., Chontos, A., et al. 2019, A Hot Saturn Orbiting An Oscillating Late Subgiant Discovered by TESS, AJ, 157, 245 26. Pelisoli, I., Bell, K. J., Kepler, S. O., and Koester, D. 2019, The sdA Problem - III. New Extremely Low-mass White Dwarfs and their Precursors from Gaia Astrometry, MNRAS, 482, 3831 25. Bell, K. J., Hekker, S., and Kuszlewicz, J. 2019, Coefficients of Variation for Detecting Solar-like Oscil- lations, MNRAS, 482, 616 24. Reinhold, T., Bell, K. J., Kuszlewicz, J., Hekker, S., and Shapiro, A. 2019, Transition from Spot to Faculae Domination: An Alternate Explanation for the Dearth of Intermediate Kepler Rotation Periods, A&A, 621, A21 23. Bell, K. J., Pelisoli, I., Kepler, S. O., et al. 2018, The McDonald Observatory Search for Pulsating sdA Stars: Asteroseismic Support for Multiple Populations, A&A, 617, A6 22. Green, M. J., Hermes, J. J., Marsh, T. R., Steeghs, D. T. H., Bell, K. J., et al. 2018, A 15.7-Minute AM CVn Binary Discovered in K2 , MNRAS, 477, 5646 21. Tucker, M. A., Fleming, S. W., Pelisoli, I., Romero, A., Bell, K. J., et al. 2018, White Dwarf Variability with gPhoton: Pulsators, MNRAS, 475, 4768 20. Bell, K. J., Hermes, J. J., Vanderbosch, Z., et al. 2017, Destroying Aliases from the Ground and Space: Super-Nyquist ZZ Cetis in K2 Long Cadence Data, ApJ, 851, 24 19. Hermes, J. J., G¨ansicke, B. T., Kawaler, S. D., et al. 2017, White Dwarf Rotation as a Function of Mass and a Dichotomy of Mode Line Widths: Kepler Observations of 27 Pulsating DA White Dwarfs through K2 Campaign 8 , ApJS, 232, 23 18. Kilic, M., Brown, W. R., Gianninas, A., Curd, B., Bell, K. J., & Allende Prieto, C. 2017, A Gemini Snapshot Survey for Double Degenerates, MNRAS, 471, 4218 17. Parsons, S .G, Hermes, J. J., Marsh, T. R., et al. 2017, Two White Dwarfs in Ultrashort Binaries with Detached, Eclipsing, Likely Substellar Companions Detected by K2 , MNRAS, 471, 976 16. Hermes, J. J., Kawaler, S. D., Romero, A. D., et al. 2017, Evidence from K2 for Rapid Rotation in the Descendant of an Intermediate-mass Star, ApJ, 841, L2 15. Curd, B., Gianninas, A., Bell, K. J., et al. 2017, Four New Massive Pulsating White Dwarfs Including an Ultramassive DAV , MNRAS, 468, 239 14. Bell, K. J., Gianninas, A., Hermes, J. J., et al. 2017, Pruning The ELM Survey: Characterizing Candidate Low-Mass White Dwarfs Through Photometric Variability, ApJ, 835, 180 13. Bell, K. J., Hermes, J. J., Montgomery, M. H., et al. 2016, Outbursts in Two New Cool Pulsating DA White Dwarfs, ApJ, 829, 82 12. Hallakoun, N., Maoz, D., Kilic, M., et al. 2016, SDSS J1152+0248: An Eclipsing Double White Dwarf from the Kepler K2 Campaign, MNRAS, 458, 845 3 of7 11. Greiss, S., Hermes, J. J., G¨ansicke, B. T., Steeghs, D. T. H., Bell, K. J., et al. 2016, The Search for ZZ Ceti Stars in the Original Kepler Mission, MNRAS, 457, 2855 10. Kilic, M., Gianninas, A., Bell, K. J., et al. 2015, A Dark Spot on a Massive White Dwarf , ApJ, 814, L31 9. Hermes, J. J., Montgomery, M. H., Bell, K. J., et al. 2015, A Second Case of Outbursts in a Pulsating White Dwarf Observed by Kepler, ApJ, 810, L5 8. Bell, K. J., Hermes, J. J., Bischoff-Kim, A., et al. 2015, KIC 4552982: Outbursts and Asteroseismology from the Longest Pseudo-continuous Light Curve of a ZZ Ceti, ApJ, 809, 14 7. Hermes, J. J., Brown, W, R., Kilic, M., et al. 2014, Radius Constraints from High-speed Photometry of 20 Low-mass White Dwarf Binaries, ApJ, 792, 39 6.
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