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