During the first two years of our Ph.D. program, students work on a series of research projects on different topics and with different advisors.  Listed below are some publications that have emerged from these “rotations” as well as publications by students working on their dissertations:

• Philippe Yao, Eliot Quataert (2025),  Mass Transfer in Tidally Heated Stars Orbiting Massive Black Holes and Implications for Repeating Nuclear Transients
• Philippe Yao, Eliot Quataert, Yan-Fei Jiang, Wenbin Lu, Christopher White (2025), Star‑Disk Collisions: Implications for Quasi-periodic Eruptions and Other Transients near Supermassive Black Holes
• Sampson, M. L., et al., (2025) “Two-moment cosmic ray fluid - plasma coupling in isothermal, supersonic,
  magnetized turbulence relevant to the interstellar medium" The Astrophysical Journal
• Sampson, M. L., Melchior, P., (2025). “Path-minimised latent ODEs as inference models" Machine Learning:
  Science and Technology, 6, 025047
• Sampson, M. L., Melchior, P., Ward, C., & Birmingham, S. (2024). “Score-matching neural networks for
  improved multi-band source separation" Astronomy and Computing, 49, 100875
• Jespersen, C. K., Melchior, P., Spergel, D. N., et al. (2025), The optical and infrared are connected
• Jespersen, C. K., Lupton, R. H., Gunn, J. E., et al. (2024), Airglow and the Subaru Night Sky Spectrograph (SuNSS)  
• Yilun Ma, Jenny Greene, David Setton, Andy Goulding, et al. (2025) Counting Little Red Dots at z<4 with Ground-based Surveys and Spectroscopic Follow-up
• Caleb Lammers, Josh Winn (2025), The Gap-Giant Association: Are Planets Hiding in the Gaps?
• Caleb Lammers, Josh Winn (2025), Discovery and Dynamics of the Nontransiting Planet Kepler-139f
• Eritas Yang, Yubo Su, Josh Winn (2025), A Third Star in the HAT-P-7 System and a New Dynamical Pathway to Misaligned Hot Jupiters
• Sihao Cheng, Jiaxuan Li, Eritas Yang (2025), Discovery of a dwarf planet candidate in an extremely wide orbit: 2017 OF201
• Jiaxuan Li, Jenny Greene, Shany Danieli, et al. (2025), ELVES-Dwarf I: Satellite Systems of Eight Isolated Dwarf Galaxies in the Local Volume-
• Jiaxuan Li, Jenny Greene, Scott Carlsten, Shany Danieli (2024), Hedgehog: An Isolated Quiescent Dwarf Galaxy at 2.4 Mpc Sunseri, Adrian E. Bayer, Jia Liu (2025), The Power of the Cosmic Web
• James Sunseri, Alexandra Amon, Jo Dunkley, et al. (2025) Disentangling the Halo: Joint Model for Measurements of the Kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect and Galaxy-Galaxy Lensing
• Jacob Nibauer, Ana Bonaca (2025), Galactic Accelerations from the GD-1 Stream Suggest a Tilted Dark Matter Halo
• Jacob Nibauer, Ana Bonaca, David Spergel, et al. (2025) 𝚂𝚝𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚖s𝚌𝚞𝚕𝚙𝚝𝚘𝚛: Hamiltonian Perturbation Theory for Stellar Streams in Flexible Potentials with Differentiable Simulations
• Jacob Nibauer, Ana Bonaca, Mariangela Listanti et al. (2024), Slant, Fan, and Narrow: the Response of Stellar Streams to a Tilting Galactic Disk
• Nathaniel Starkman, Jacob Nibauer et al. (2024), Stream Members Only: Data-Driven Characterization of Stellar Streams with Mixture Density NetworksMinghao Guo, James M. Stone, Eliot Quataert, Volker Springel (2025), Cyclic Zoom: Multiscale GRMHD Modeling of Black Hole Accretion and Feedback
• Minghao Guo, Eliot Quataert, Jonathan Squire, Philip F. Hopkins, James M. Stone (2025), Idealized Global Models of Accretion Disks with Strong Toroidal Magnetic FieldsNick Loudas, Dongzi Li, Michael Strauss, Joel Leja (2025), Unveiling the origin of fast radio bursts by modeling the stellar mass and star formation distributions of their host galaxies
• Zack Andalman, Romain Teyssier, Avishai Dekel (2025), On the Origin of the High Star-Formation Efficiency in Massive Galaxies at Cosmic Dawn https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024arXiv241020530A/abstract
• Caleb Lammers, Miles Cranmer, Shirley Ho, Daniel Tamayo, et al (2024), Accelerating Giant-impact Simulations with Machine Learning
• Caleb Lammers, Josh Winn (2024), Slow Rotation for the Super-puff Planet Kepler-51d
• Yilun Ma, Jenny Greene, David Setton, et al. (2025), UNCOVER: 404 Error -- Models Not Found for the Triply Imaged Little Red Dot A2744-QSO1
  Roberto Tejada Arevalo, Ankan Sur, Yubo Su, Adam Burrows (2024a) Equations of State, Thermodynamics, and Miscibility Curves for Jovian Planet and Giant Exoplanet Evolutionary Models
• Roberto Tejada Arevalo, Ankan Sur, Yubo Su, Adam Burrows (2024b)  Jupiter Evolutionary Models Incorporating Stably Stratified Regions
• Ankan Sur, Roberto Tejada Arevalo, Yubo Su, Adam Burrows (2024) Simultaneous Evolutionary Fits for Jupiter and Saturn Incorporating Fuzzy Cores
• Yilun Ma, Andy Goulding, Jenny Greene, et al. (2024), Evidence for Intrinsic X-ray Weakness among Red Quasars at Cosmic Noon
• Minghao Guo, James M. Stone, Eliot Quataert, Chang-Goo Kim (2024), Magnetized Accretion onto and Feedback from Supermassive Black Holes in Elliptical Galaxies
• Minghao Guo, Chang-Goo Kim, James M. Stone (2024), Evolution of Supernova Remnants in a Cloudy Multiphase Interstellar Medium
• Amir Siraj, Christopher F. Chyba, Scott Tremaine (2025), Orbit of a Possible Planet X
• Caleb Lammers, Josh Winn (2024), The Six-planet Resonant Chain of HD 110067
• Christian Kragh Jespersen, Charles L. Steinhardt, Rachel S. Somerville and Christopher C. Lovell (2024), On the Significance of Rare Objects at High Redshift: The Impact of Cosmic Variance
• Minghao Guo, James M. Stone, Chang-Goo Kim, Eliot Quataert (2023), Toward Horizon-scale Accretion onto Supermassive Black Holes in Elliptical Galaxies
• Philippe Yao, Eliot Quataert (2023), The Origin of the Consistent Planetary Nebula Luminosity Function Bright-end Cutoff
• Chris Bambic, Russell, Reynolds et al., (2023), AGN feeding and feedback in M84: from kiloparsec scales to the Bondi radius
• Chris Bambic, Bai & Ostriker (2021), MHD-PIC Simulations of Cosmic-Ray Scattering and Transport in Inhomogeneously Ionized Plasma
• Yi-Xian Chen, Adam Burrows et al. (2023), Jupiter Atmospheric Models and Outer Boundary Conditions for Giant Planet Evolutionary Calculations
• Yi-Xian Chen, Yan-Fei Jiang, Jeremy Goodman & Eve Ostriker (2023), 3D Radiation Hydrodynamic Simulations of Gravitational Instability in AGN Accretion Disks: Effects of Radiation Pressure
• Jiaxuan Li, Peter Melchior, et al., (2023), PopSED: Population-Level Inference for Galaxy Properties from Broadband Photometry with Neural Density Estimation
• Jiaxuan Li, Jenny E. Greene, et al., (2023),  Beyond Ultra-Diffuse Galaxies I: Mass-Size Outliers Among the Satellites of Milky Way Analogs
• Jiaxuan Li, Jenny E. Greene, et al.., (2023), Beyond Ultra-Diffuse Galaxies II. Environmental Quenching of Mass-Size Outliers Among the Satellites of Milky Way Analogs
• Shaunak Modak, Chris Hamilton (2023), Eccentricity dynamics of wide binaries - I. The effect of Galactic tides
• Shaunak Modak, Shany Danieli, Jenny E. Greene (2023), Distinguishing Dark Matter Cusps from Cores Using Globular Clusters
• Shaunak Modak, Eliot Quataert, Yan-Fei Jiang, Todd A. Thompson (2023), Cosmic-ray driven galactic winds from the warm interstellar medium
• Matt Sampson, Peter Melchior (2023), Spotting Hallucinations in Inverse Problems with Data-driven Priors
• Jacob Nibauer, Ana Bonaca, Kathryn V. Johnston (2023),  Constraining the Gravitational Potential from the Projected Morphology of Extragalactic Tidal Streams  
• Philippe Yao, Eliot Quataert, Andy Goulding (2023),  Observational Signatures of Carbon-Oxygen White Dwarf Merger Remnants
• Yi-Xian Chen, Avery Bailey, James Stone et al. (2022), Prograde and Retrograde Gas Flow around Disk-embedded Companions: Dependence on Eccentricity, Mass, and Disk Properties
• Philippe Yao, Amy Secunda, Jenny Greene, Yan-Fei Jiang (2022),  A Negative Long Lag from the Optical to the UV Continuum in Fairall 9
• Christian Kragh Jespersen, Peter Melchior, Shirley Ho (2022), Mangrove: Learning Galaxy Properties from Merger Trees
• Roberto Tejada Arevalo, Daniel Tamayo, and Miles Cranmer (2022). Stability Constrained Characterization of the 23 Myr Old V1298 Tau System: Do Young Planets Form in Mean Motion Resonance Chains?
• Roberto Tejada Arevalo, Josh Winn, and Kassandra Anderson (2021).  Further Evidence for Tidal Spin-up of Hot Jupiter Host Stars
• He Jia et al. (2022), Observational Signatures of Black Hole Accretion: Rotating vs. Spherical Flows with Tilted Magnetic Fields (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022MNRAS.515.1392J/abstract)
  Yan Liang et al. (2022), DI Herculis revisited: Starspots, Gravity Darkening, and 3D Obliquities (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022ApJ...927..114L/abstract)
• Nora Linzer et al. (2022), Spectropolarimetric measurements of hidden broad lines in nearby megamaser galaxies: a lack of clear evidence for a correlation between black hole masses and virial products  https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022arXiv220801669L/abstract
• Alisa Galishnikova, Matthew Kunz, and Alexander Schekochihin (2022). Tearing instability and current-sheet disruption in the turbulent dynamo https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022arXiv220107757G/abstract
• Tianshu Wang & Peter Melchior (2022),  Graph Neural Network-based Resource Allocation Strategies for Multi-Object Spectroscopy (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022MLS%26T...3a5023W/abstract)
• Roohi Dalal et al. (2021), Brightest Cluster Galaxies are Statistically Special from z=0.3 to z=1.0
• Amy Secunda, Betsy Hernandez, Jeremy Goodman (2020), Evolution of Retrograde Orbiters in an AGN Disk
• Miles Cranmer et al. (2020), Discovering Symbolic Models from Deep Learning with Inductive Biases
• Lachlan Lancaster, Jenny Greene et al. (2020), A Mystery in Chamaeleon: Serendipitous Discovery of a Galactic Symbiotic Nova
• Eric Moseley, Bruce Draine, Kengo Tomida, Jim Stone (2020), Turbulent dissipation, CH+ abundance, H2 line luminosities, and polarization in the cold neutral medium
• Amy Secunda, Renyue Cen, et al. (2020), Delayed Photons from Binary Evolution Help Reionize the Universe
• Oliver Philcox, Elena Massara, David Spergel (2020), What does the marked power spectrum measure? Insights from perturbation theory
• Lachlan Lancaster et al. (2020), Dynamical friction in a Fuzzy Dark Matter universe
• Tianshu Wang, Adam Burrows (2020), Generalized Kompaneets formalism for inelastic neutrino-nucleon scattering in supernova simulations
• Zack Li and Renyue Cen (2020), Assembly Conformity of Structure Growth: Fossil versus Normal Groups of Galaxies
• Erin Kado-Fong et al. (2020), Diffuse Ionized Gas in Simulations of Multiphase, Star-forming Galactic Disks
• Oliver Philcox, David Spergel, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro (2020), Effective halo model: Creating a physical and accurate model of the matter power spectrum and cluster counts
• Vassilis Tsiolis et al. (2020), Structure formation in turbulence as an instability of effective quantum plasma
• Oliver Philcox et al. (2020), Combining full-shape and BAO analyses of galaxy power spectra: a 1.6% CMB-independent constraint on the Hubble constant
• Goni Halevi, Andy Goulding, Jenny Greene, et al. (2020), HSC-XD 52: An X-Ray Detected AGN in a Low-mass Galaxy at z ∼ 0.56
• Wenrui Xu, Jim Stone (2019), Bondi-Hoyle-Lyttleton accretion in supergiant X-ray binaries: stability and disc formation
• Zack Li, Jia Liu, et al. (2019), Constraining neutrino mass with tomographic weak lensing peak counts
• Avery Bailey, Jeremy Goodman (2019), Understanding WASP-12b
• Zack Li, Vera Glusevic et al. (2019), Disentangling dark physics with cosmic microwave background experiments
• Wenrui Xu, Jeremy Goodman (2019), The linear theory of tidally excited spiral density waves: application to CV and circumplanetary discs
• Scott Carlsten, Michael Strauss, et al. (2019), Wavelength-dependent PSFs and their impact on weak lensing measurements

Some additional publications by students working on their dissertations:

• Bambic, Quataert, Kunz & Jiang (2024), Local models of two-temperature accretion disc coronae - II. Ion thermal conduction and the absence of disc evaporation
• Bambic, Quataert & Kunz (2024), Local models of two-temperature accretion disc coronae - I. Structure, outflows, and energetics
• Roohi Dalal et al (2023), Hyper Suprime-Cam Year 3 Results: Cosmology from Cosmic Shear Power Spectra, https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023arXiv230400701D/abstract
• Alisa Galishnikova et al (2023). Collisionless Accretion onto Black Holes: Dynamics and Flares, https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.115201
• Alwin Mao, Eve Ostriker, Chang-Goo Kim (2020), Cloud Properties and Correlations with Star Formation in Self-consistent Simulations of the Multiphase ISM
• Avery Bailey, Jim Stone, Jeffrey Fung (2020), The Three Dimensional Flow Field Around Planets on Eccentric Orbits
• Brianna Lacy, Adam Burrows (2020), JWST Transit Spectra I: Exploring Potential Biases and Opportunities in Retrievals of Tidally-locked Hot Jupiters with Clouds and Hazes
• Scott Carlsten, Jenny Greene, et al. (2020), Radial Distributions of Dwarf Satellite Systems in the Local Volume
• Zack Li, et al. (2020), The cross correlation of the ABS and ACT maps
• Erin Kado-Fong, Jenny Greene, et al. (2020), Tracing the Intrinsic Shapes of Dwarf Galaxies Out to Four Effective Radii: Clues to Low-mass Stellar Halo Formation
• Luke Bouma, Josh Winn, et al. (2020), PTFO 8-8695: Two Stars, Two Signals, No Planet
• Cxvhristina Kreisch et al. (2020), Neutrino puzzle: Anomalies, interactions, and cosmological tensions
• Luke Bouma, Josh Winn, et al. (2020), WASP-4 Is Accelerating toward the Earth
• Brianna Lacy, Adam Burrows (2020), Prospects for Directly Imaging Young Giant Planets at Optical Wavelengths
• Scott Carlsten et al. (2020), Wide-field Survey of Dwarf Satellite Systems around 10 Hosts in the Local Volume
• Erin Kado-Fong, Jenny Greene, et al. (2020), Star Formation in Isolated Dwarf Galaxies Hosting Tidal Debris: Extending the Dwarf-Dwarf Merger Sequence
• Samuel Yee, Josh Winn, et al. (2020), The Orbit of WASP-12b Is Decaying
• Luke Bouma et al. (2019), Cluster Difference Imaging Photometric Survey. I. Light Curves of Stars in Open Clusters from TESS Sectors 6 and 7
• Heather Prince, Jo Dunkley (2019), Data compression in cosmology: A compressed likelihood for Planck data
• Christina Kreisch et al. (2019), Massive neutrinos leave fingerprints on cosmic voids
• Scott Carlsten et al. (2019), Using Surface Brightness Fluctuations to Study Nearby Satellite Galaxy Systems: Calibration and Methodology
• Scott Carlsten et al. (2019), Using Surface Brightness Fluctuations to Study nearby Satellite Galaxy Systems: The Complete Satellite System of M101
• Mackenzie Moody et al. (2019), Hydrodynamic Torques in Circumbinary Accretion Disks
• Luke Bouma, Josh Winn, et al. (2019), WASP-4b Arrived Early for the TESS Mission
• Brianna Lacy et al. (2019), Characterization of Exoplanet Atmospheres with the Optical Coronagraph on WFIRST
• Christina Kreisch, Eiichiro Komatsu (2019), Cosmological constraints on Horndeski gravity in light of GW170817
• Erin Kado-Fong, Jenny Greene, et al. (2019), Tidal Features at 0.05 < z < 0.45 in the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program: Properties and Formation Channels