Publications (72)
The Transition Zone in Balmer-Dominated Shocks
Kevin Heng, Matthew van Adelsberg, Richard McCray +1
The reverse shock of SNR1987A at 18 years after outburst
Nathan Smith, Svetozar A. Zhekov, Kevin Heng +3
Debris discs around M stars: non-existence versus non-detection
Kevin Heng, Matej Malik
Atmospheric Dynamics of Hot Exoplanets
Kevin Heng, Adam P. Showman
Mapping High-velocity H-alpha and Lyman-alpha Emission from Supernova 1987A
Kevin France, Richard McCray, Claes Fransson +12
Transiting Exoplanet Studies and Community Targets for JWST's Early Release Science Program
Kevin B. Stevenson, Nikole K. Lewis, Jacob L. Bean +49
The Destruction of the Circumstellar Ring of SN 1987A
Claes Fransson, Josefin Larsson, Katia Migotto +23
Estimating the mass of the debris disc in HD 69830
Kevin Heng
Balmer filaments in Tycho's supernova remnant: an interplay between cosmic-ray and broad-neutral precursors
Sladjana KneževiÄ, Ronald Läsker, Glenn van de Ven +8
Can we constrain interior structure of rocky exoplanets from mass and radius measurements?
Caroline Dorn, Amir Khan, Kevin Heng +4
An Integral View of Fast Shocks around Supernova 1006
Sladjana NikoliÄ, Glenn van de Ven, Kevin Heng +5
The Study of Climate on Alien Worlds
Kevin Heng
Constraining the Porosities of Interstellar Dust Grains
Kevin Heng, Bruce T. Draine
HELIOS: An Open-source, GPU-accelerated Radiative Transfer Code For Self-consistent Exoplanetary Atmospheres
Matej Malik, Luc Grosheintz, João M. Mendonça +10
The Effects of Irradiation on Hot Jovian Atmospheres: Heat Redistribution and Energy Dissipation
Rosalba Perna, Kevin Heng, Frederic Pont
The Imprecise Search for Habitability
Kevin Heng
Constraining the Atmospheric Composition of the Day-Night Terminators of HD 189733b : Atmospheric Retrieval with Aerosols
Jae-Min Lee, Patrick G. J. Irwin, Leigh N. Fletcher +2
On the effects of clouds and hazes in the atmospheres of hot Jupiters: semi-analytical temperature-pressure profiles
Kevin Heng, Wolfgang Hayek, Frédéric Pont +1
Planetesimal Disk Microlensing
Kevin Heng, Charles R. Keeton
A seven-planet resonant chain in TRAPPIST-1
Rodrigo Luger, Marko Sestovic, Ethan Kruse +30
Gliese 581g as a scaled-up version of Earth: atmospheric circulation simulations
Kevin Heng, Steven S. Vogt
Raman Scattering by Molecular Hydrogen and Nitrogen in Exoplanetary Atmospheres
Antonija OklopÄiÄ, Christopher M. Hirata, Kevin Heng
The Reverse Shock of SNR 1987A
Kevin Heng
A Non-isothermal Theory for Interpreting Sodium Lines in Transmission Spectra of Exoplanets
Kevin Heng, Aurélien Wyttenbach, Baptiste Lavie +3
THOR: A New and Flexible Global Circulation Model to Explore Planetary Atmospheres
João M. Mendonça, Simon L. Grimm, Luc Grosheintz +1
HELIOS-Retrieval: An Open-source, Nested Sampling Atmospheric Retrieval Code, Application to the HR 8799 Exoplanets and Inferred Constraints for Planet Formation
Baptiste Lavie, João M. Mendonça, Christoph Mordasini +7
Analytical Models of Exoplanetary Atmospheres. I. Atmospheric Dynamics via the Shallow Water System
Kevin Heng, Jared Workman
Understanding Trends Associated with Clouds in Irradiated Exoplanets
Kevin Heng, Brice-Olivier Demory
Atmospheric Chemistry for Astrophysicists: A Self-consistent Formalism and Analytical Solutions for Arbitrary C/O
Kevin Heng, James R. Lyons, Shang-Min Tsai
The language of exoplanet ranking metrics needs to change
Elizabeth Tasker, Joshua Tan, Kevin Heng +14
Broad Lyman-Alpha Emission from Supernova Remnants in Young Galaxies
Kevin Heng, Rashid Sunyaev
Retrieval Analysis of the Emission Spectrum of WASP-12b: Sensitivity of Outcomes to Prior Assumptions and Implications for Formation History
Maria Oreshenko, Baptiste Lavie, Simon L. Grimm +9
Balmer-Dominated Shocks Revisited
Kevin Heng, Richard McCray
Long-lived planetesimal discs
Kevin Heng, Scott Tremaine
Balmer-Dominated Shocks: A Concise Review
Kevin Heng
A Cloudiness Index for Transiting Exoplanets Based on the Sodium and Potassium Lines: Tentative Evidence for Hotter Atmospheres Being Less Cloudy at Visible Wavelengths
Kevin Heng
Analytical Models of Exoplanetary Atmospheres. II. Radiative Transfer via the Two-stream Approximation
Kevin Heng, João M. Mendonça, Jae-Min Lee
Evolution of the Reverse Shock Emission from SNR 1987A
Kevin Heng, Richard McCray, Svetozar A. Zhekov +13
Vortices as nurseries for planetesimal formation in protoplanetary discs
Kevin Heng, Scott J. Kenyon
Observing Supernova 1987A with the Refurbished Hubble Space Telescope
Kevin France, Richard McCray, Kevin Heng +18
VULCAN: an Open-Source, Validated Chemical Kinetics Python Code for Exoplanetary Atmospheres
Shang-Min Tsai, James R. Lyons, Luc Grosheintz +3
The Next Great Exoplanet Hunt
Kevin Heng, Joshua Winn
Carbon Dioxide in Exoplanetary Atmospheres: Rarely Dominant Compared to Carbon Monoxide and Water in Hot, Hydrogen-dominated Atmospheres
Kevin Heng, James R. Lyons
The Dependence of Brown Dwarf Radii on Atmospheric Metallicity and Clouds: Theory and Comparison with Observations
Adam Burrows, Kevin Heng, Thane Nampaisarn
Why Does Nature Form Exoplanets Easily?
Kevin Heng
Dust Echoes from the Ambient Medium of Gamma-Ray Bursts
Kevin Heng, Davide Lazzati, Rosalba Perna
Analytical Models of Exoplanetary Atmospheres. III. Gaseous C-H-O-N Chemistry with 9 Molecules
Kevin Heng, Shang-Min Tsai
Inference of Inhomogeneous Clouds in an Exoplanet Atmosphere
Brice-Olivier Demory, Julien de Wit, Nikole Lewis +11
The Deep Blue Color of HD189733b: Albedo Measurements with Hubble Space Telescope/Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph at Visible Wavelengths
Thomas M. Evans, Frédéric Pont, David K. Sing +7
Atmospheric circulation of tidally locked exoplanets: a suite of benchmark tests for dynamical solvers
Kevin Heng, Kristen Menou, Peter J. Phillipps
Habitable Moist Atmospheres On Terrestrial Planets Near the Inner Edge Of the Habitable Zone Around M-dwarfs
Ravi kumar Kopparapu, Eric T. Wolf, Giada Arney +4
Shear-driven instabilities and shocks in the atmospheres of hot Jupiters
Sébastien Fromang, Jérémy Leconte, Kevin Heng
Atmospheric circulation of tidally locked exoplanets: II. Dual-band radiative transfer and convective adjustment
Kevin Heng, Dargan M. W. Frierson, Peter J. Phillipps
The Influence of Atmospheric Scattering and Absorption on Ohmic Dissipation in Hot Jupiters
Kevin Heng
Spatial Structure and Collisionless Electron Heating in Balmer-dominated Shocks
Matthew van Adelsberg, Kevin Heng, Richard McCray +1
HELIOS-K: An Ultrafast, Open-source Opacity Calculator for Radiative Transfer
Simon L. Grimm, Kevin Heng
The Need for Laboratory Work to Aid in The Understanding of Exoplanetary Atmospheres
Jonathan J. Fortney, Tyler D. Robinson, Shawn Domagal-Goldman +31
Magnetohydrodynamic Shallow Water Waves: Linear Analysis
Kevin Heng, Anatoly Spitkovsky
On the Stability of Super-Earth Atmospheres
Kevin Heng, Pushkar Kopparla
A Direct Measurement of the Dust Extinction Curve in an Intermediate-Redshift Galaxy
Kevin Heng, Davide Lazzati, Rosalba Perna +5
Optical phase curves as diagnostics for aerosol composition in exoplanetary atmospheres
Maria Oreshenko, Kevin Heng, Brice-Olivier Demory
HST-COS Observations of Hydrogen, Helium, Carbon and Nitrogen Emission from the SN 1987A Reverse Shock
Kevin France, Richard McCray, Steven V. Penton +18
Probing Elemental Abundances in SNR 1987A Using XMM-Newton
Kevin Heng, Frank Haberl, Bernd Aschenbach +1
Excitation and charge transfer in hydrogen-proton collisions at 5--80 keV and application to astrophysical shocks
Dmitriy Tseliakhovich, Christopher M. Hirata, Kevin Heng
A map of the large day-night temperature gradient of a super-Earth exoplanet
Brice-Olivier Demory, Michael Gillon, Julien de Wit +11
The theory of transmission spectra revisited: a semi-analytical method for interpreting WFC3 data and an unresolved challenge
Kevin Heng, Daniel Kitzmann
The Nature of Scientific Proof in the Age of Simulations
Kevin Heng
Atmospheric Retrieval Analysis of the Directly Imaged Exoplanet HR 8799b
Jae-Min Lee, Kevin Heng, Patrick G. J. Irwin
An Integral View of Balmer-dominated Shocks in Supernova Remnants
Sladjana NikoliÄ, Glenn van de Ven, Kevin Heng +5
On the Existence of Shocks in Irradiated Exoplanetary Atmospheres
Kevin Heng
How does the shape of the stellar spectrum affect the Raman scattering features in the albedo of exoplanets?
Antonija OklopÄiÄ, Christopher M. Hirata, Kevin Heng
High Resolution Transmission Spectroscopy as a Diagnostic for Jovian Exoplanet Atmospheres: Constraints from Theoretical Models
Eliza M. -R. Kempton, Rosalba Perna, Kevin Heng