Talks and Posters
Time Is On My Side: The Efficiency of Random Forest Retrieval vs. Direct Model Fitting
JWST Spectra
Emma Softich, Adam Burgasser, Anna Lueber, et al.
Plenary: COOLSTARS 23 Conference, Tokyo, Japan
June 2026
Should I Stay or Should I Go: Comparing Bayesian vs. Machine Learning Techniques for Modeling Low Temperature Brown Dwarf Spectra from JWST
Talk: Observers Meeting - Northwestern, Evanston, IL
May 8th, 2026
Should I Stay or Should I Go:
Comparing Bayesian vs. Machine Learning Techniques for
Modeling Low Temperature Brown Dwarf Spectra from JWST
Emma Softich, Adam Burgasser, Anna Lueber, et al.
Poster: 247th AAS Meeting, Phoenix, AZ
January 2026
We Didn't Start the FIRE: A T-Dwarf Kinematics Survey
Talk: University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK
October 11th, 2025
We Didn't Start the FIRE: A T-Dwarf Kinematics Survey
Poster: 246th AAS Meeting, Anchorage, AK
June 2025
We Didn't Start the FIRE: A T-Dwarf Kinematics Survey
Emma Softich, Adam Burgasser, Chris Theissen, et al.
Poster: COOLSTARS 22 Conference, La Jolla CA, United States
June 2024
Comparing the precision of NIRSPEC, FIRE, and IGRINS in Measuring T Dwarf Properties
Emma Softich, Adam Burgasser, Chris Theissen, et al.
Poster: Keck Science Meeting 2023, Berkeley, CA, United States
September 8th, 2023
CWISE J0146AB: Widest Separation Amongst Known Brown Dwarf Binaries
Keck Science Meeting 2022, Pasadena, CA, United States
September 20th, 2022
CWISE J0146AB: Widest Separation Amongst Known Brown Dwarf Binaries
Emma Softich, Adam C. Schneider, Jennifer Patience, et al.
COOLSTARS 21 Conference, Toulouse, France
July 7th, 2022
Discovery of the Widest Known Brown Dwarf Binary
Emma Softich, Adam C. Schneider, Jennifer Patience, et al.
AAS 239 Press Conference: Intriguing Stars & Citizen Discoveries - Virtual
January 13th, 2022
Projects
Discovery of CWISE-J0146:
Working in collaboration with the Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 Citizen Science Project team my project consisted of finding and confirming brown dwarf binary systems by comparing images from a variety of surveys. My work resulted in the discovery of the widest separated brown dwarf binary currently known.
Publication on the discovery:
Articles published on the discovery:
This survey of brown dwarf companions used two direct imaging techniques to discover them in different environments. The first part of the project used high resolution imaging to search for brown dwarf companions to B and A type stars. An analysis of one night of Keck observations (2014 June 4) using a custom data reduction pipeline and pyKLIP allowed us to estimate the separation, magnitude, mass and age of all candidate companions. The second part of the project employs wide field imaging to look for brown dwarf-brown dwarf binaries. Using brown dwarfs discovered with data from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) via the Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 citizen science project, I inspected other higher resolution sky surveys for previously unidentified co-moving cold companions. During this process, the binary system CWISE J0146-0508AB composed of two substellar objects was discovered.
My Presentations*
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