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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

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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

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Co-Author Refereed

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

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

2026/04

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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

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​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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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​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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