Papers and Abstracts
First Author:
“Exploring Systematic Errors in the Inferred Parameters of the Transiting Planet KELT-15b and its Host Star” MNRAS (submitted), Alison Duck, B. Scott Gaudi, Jason D. Eastman, Joseph E. Rodriguez, 2024
“The EBLM project X. Benchmark masses, radii and temperatures for two fully convective M-dwarfs using K2” MNRAS (accepted), Alison Duck, David V. Martin, Sam Gill, Tayt Armitage, Romy Rodríguez Martínez, et. al, 2023
“K2 and Spitzer Joint Analysis of 4 Transiting Exoplanets” The Astronomical Journal, Duck, Alison; Harada, Caleb K. ; Harrell, Justin; Morris, Ryan R. A.; Williams, Edward ; Crossfield, Ian ; Werner, Michael; Deming, Drake, 2021
Co-author:
“PEPSI Investigation, Retrieval, and Atlas of Numerous Giant Atmospheres (PIRANGA). I. The Ubiquity of Fe I Emission and Inversions in Ultra Hot Jupiter Atmospheres” AAS Journals (submitted) Syndey Petz, incl. Alison Duck, 2024
“Revised Temperatures For Two Benchmark M-dwarfs — Outliers No More” MNRAS (submitted), David V. Martin, Tayt Armitage, Alison Duck et al. 2024
“Fundamental effective temperature measurements for eclipsing binary stars – V. The circumbinary planet system EBLM J0608-59” MNRAS, P. F. L. Maxted incl. Alison Duck, 2024
“BEBOP V. Homogeneous stellar analysis of potential circumbinary planet hosts” MNRAS, Freckelton, Alix V., incl. Alison Duck, 2024
“The EBLM Project XII. An eccentric, long-period eclipsing binary with a companion near the hydrogen-burning limit” MNRAS Davis, Yasmin T, incl. Alison Duck, 2024
“The EBLM Project XI. Mass, radius and effective temperature measurements for 23 M-dwarf companions to solar-type stars observed with CHEOPS” MNRAS, Swayne, M. I., incl. Alison Duck, 2024
Presentations
NASA ExoExplorer Series, Virtual, Feb 2023
AAS 241 iPoster, Seattle, Jan 2023
2 Minute Paper – Episode 4 – Alison Duck
Poster ”An Exploration of Systematic Errors in Transiting Planets and Their Host Stars” Duck,
A., Gaudi, B. S., Eastman, J D., Rodriguez, J E., Exoplanets V, June 2024, Leiden, The Netherlands
Poster ”An Exploration of Systematic Errors in Transiting Planets and Their Host Stars” Duck, A.,
Gaudi, B. S., Eastman, J D., Rodriguez, J E., Extreme Solar Systems V, March 2024, Christchurch, NZ
Planet Lunch Seminar – University of California, Santa Cruz, April 2024
Tufts Special Colloquium – Tufts University, Feb 2024
Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Planet Lunch – Harvard University, Feb 2024
Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Seminar – Harvard University, Feb 2024
Abstract ”Key features of a long-standing student-led women in physics mentoring program” Chessey,
Mary K., Negussie, Sara D., Smith, Megan D. Marshal, Chmielewski, Mika A., Burson, Kristen M.,
Duck, Alison, Hamilton-Campos, Kathleen A., Banerjee, Amitava. AIP Conference Proceedings,
November 2023, Volume 3040
Great Lakes Exoplanet Area Meeting “Systematic Uncertainties in the Physical Parameters of Tran-
siting Planet Systems” Indiana University, Nov 2023
Great Lakes Exoplanet Area Meeting “Systematic Uncertainties in the Physical Parameters of Transiting Planet Systems” The Ohio State University, Nov 2022
Invited Seminar “Systematic Uncertainties in the Physical Parameters of Transiting Planet Systems” Michigan State University, Nov 2022
Great Lakes Exoplanet Area Meeting “Systematic Uncertainties in the Physical Parameters of Transiting Planet Systems” University of Michigan, Nov 2021
“Systematic Uncertainties in the Physical Parameters of Transiting Planet Systems” OSU Astronomy Society, The Ohio State University, Nov 2021
“Systematic Uncertainties in the Physical Parameters of Transiting Planet Systems” JPL Planet Lunch, virtual, Oct. 2021
Imposter Syndrome Presentation for AdoptionsTogether of Washington DC, Spring 2021
Super Computing Tutorial at the OSU Planet Group Meeting, Jan 2021
Poster “K2 and Spitzer Joint Analysis of 4 Transiting Exoplanets”
233rd AAS, Seattle, January 2019
Video presentation of results from summer GROWTH internship in 2018 GROWTH winter meeting, India, December 2018
Presented workshop “Supporting students from diverse backgrounds” for the Access Network University of Colorado Boulder, Spring 2018
Presented “Observing NGC 7635 in H-𝜶 and OIII”at UMD Observatory Open House Dec 2017
Presented workshop “Impostor Syndrome” for the Access Network Rochester Institute of Technology, Spring 2017
Presented Poster “Transit Method of Exoplanet Detections in Light Polluted Areas” at Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics
Princeton University, Winter 2017
Public Outreach
Guest speaker for NexGen Scholars at Salisbury Middle School, Salisbury, MD, Summer 2024
Guest speaker for the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Virtual, Spring 2024
Guest speaker for NASA’s Universe of Learning, Virtual, Winter 2024
Two Minute Paper — Episode 4 with Alison Duck, Virtual, Nov 2022
Guest speaker for Modern Physics at the University of Maryland, Virtual, Spring 2022
Guest speaker for First Light – Science class for under-served Washington DC middle-schoolers, Carnegie Academy for Science Education, Virtual, Spring 2022
Guest speaker for rural Mardela High School AP and Honors Chemistry, Virtual, September 2021