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PUBLICATIONS

First Author

 

Welcome to the Machine: Evaluating the Efficiency and Accuracy of Random Forest Retrieval and Direct Model Fitting for JWST Brown Dwarf Spectra

Emma Softich, Adam Burgasser, Anna Lueber, et al.        

In Prep 2026

CWISE J014611.20-050850.0AB: The Widest Known Brown Dwarf Binary in the Field

Softich, Emma; Schneider, Adam C.; Patience, Jennifer and 17 more

2022/02

Co-Author Refereed

MANGOS ─ II. Five new giant planets orbiting low-mass stars

Dransfield, G.; Timmermans, M.; Sebastian, D. (incl. Softich, E.)

2026/04

Spectropolarimetric Evolution of SN 2023ixf: An Asymmetric Explosion in a Confined Aspherical Circumstellar Medium

Vasylyev, Sergiy S.; Dessart, Luc; Yang, Yi (incl. Softich, E.)

2026/03

TOI-7166 b: a habitable zone mini-Neptune planet around a nearby low-mass star

Barkaoui, Khalid; Pozuelos, Francisco J.; Rackham, Benjamin V. (incl. Softich, E.)

2025/12

High Proper Motion Discoveries from the UKIRT Hemisphere Survey

Zhang, Wings; Schneider, Adam C.; Bickle, Thomas P.; Burgasser, Adam J.; Softich, Emma; Marocco, Federico; Bardalez Gagliuffi, Daniella; Faherty, Jacqueline K.; Meisner, Aaron M.; and 29 more

2025/11

 

TOI-1743 b, TOI-5799 b, TOI-5799 c, and TOI-6223 b: TESS discovery and validation of four super-Earth to Neptune-sized planets around M dwarfs

Yalçinkaya, S.; Barkaoui, K.; Baștürk, Ö. (incl. Softich, E.)

2025/10

 

TOI-1846 b: a super-Earth in the radius valley orbiting a nearby M dwarf

Soubkiou, Abderahmane; Barkaoui, Khalid; Benkhaldoun, Zouhair (incl. Softich, Emma.)

2025/08

SN 2023ixf in the Pinwheel Galaxy M101: From Shock Breakout to the Nebular Phase

Zheng, WeiKang; Dessart, Luc; Filippenko, Alexei V. (incl. Softich, Emma.)

2025/07

TOI-6478 b: a cold underdense Neptune transiting a fully convective M dwarf from the thick disc

Scott, Madison G.; Triaud, Amaury H. M. J.; Barkaoui, Khalid (incl. Softich, Emma.)

2025/06

New Cold Subdwarf Discoveries from Backyard Worlds and a Metallicity Classification System for T Subdwarfs

Burgasser, Adam J.; Schneider, Adam C.; Meisner, Aaron M.; Caselden, Dan; Hsu, Chih-Chun; Gerasimov, Roman; Aganze, Christian; Softich, Emma and 29 more

2025/04

TOI-6508 b: A massive transiting brown dwarf orbiting a low-mass star

Barkaoui, K.; Sebastian, D.; Zúñiga-Fernández, S. (incl. Softich, E.)

2025/04

 

The Companions to B and A Stars Snapshot (CBASS) Survey: The Search for Comoving Substellar Companions

Brinjikji, Marah; Smith, Adam J. R. W.; Nielsen, Eric L. (incl. Softich, Emma.)

2025/01

TESS discovery of two super-Earths orbiting the M-dwarf stars TOI-6002 and TOI-5713 near the radius valley

Ghachoui, M.; Rackham, B. V.; Dévora-Pajares, M. (incl. Softich, E.)

2024/10

Discovery of a Hypervelocity L Subdwarf at the Star/Brown Dwarf Mass Limit

Burgasser, Adam J.; Gerasimov, Roman; Kremer, Kyle; Brooks, Hunter; Alvarado, Efrain; Schneider, Adam C.; Meisner, Aaron M.; Theissen, Christopher A.; Softich, Emma; Karpoor, Preethi; Bickle, Thomas P.; Kabatnik, Martin; Rothermich, Austin; Caselden, Dan; Kirkpatrick, J. Davy; Faherty, Jacqueline K.; Casewell, Sarah L.; Kuchner, Marc J.; The Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 Collaboration

2024/08

 

89 New Ultracool Dwarf Comoving Companions Identified with the Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 Citizen Science Project

Rothermich, Austin; Faherty, Jacqueline K.; Bardalez-Gagliuffi, Daniella (incl. Softich, Emma.)

2024/06

 

Early Time Spectropolarimetry of the Aspherical Type II Supernova SN 2023ixf

Vasylyev, Sergiy S.; Yang, Yi; Filippenko, Alexei V. (incl. Softich, E.)

2023/10

 

SN 2023ixf in Messier 101: Photo-ionization of Dense, Close-in Circumstellar Material in a Nearby Type II Supernova

Jacobson-Galán, W. V.; Dessart, L.; Margutti, R. (incl. Softich, E.)

2023/09

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

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