NASA Postdoctoral Fellow at
Goddard Space Flight Center
Research emphasis: Protoplanetary and debris disk evolution/planet formation, direct imaging of exoplanets
email: tcurrie(at)cfa(dot)harvard(dot)edu
My research focuses on three main areas:
1. Circumstellar Disk Evolution (Protoplanetary and Debris Disks) from
broadband near-to-mid IR photometry and spectroscopy
2. High-Contrast Near-IR Imaging of Extrasolar Planets
3. Stellar Populations of Open Clusters
I also do some work in:
1. Theoretical Models of Accretion Disk Evolution around Pre-Main Sequence Stars and Pulsars
2. Theoretical Models of Planet Formation/Migration
17. Currie, T. , "The Lifetimes
and Morphologies of Transition Disks" , 2010 in prep, to appear
in the Proceedings of "Reionization to Exoplanets: Spitzer's Growing
Legacy"
16. Currie, T. and Sicilia-Aguilar, A., (Abridged Title) "Transition Disks in the Coronet Cluster" ,2010,
in prep
15. Currie, T. ,
et al., (Abridged Title) "A Deep Spitzer Survey of the Double Cluster
h and chi Persei" , 2010, ApJ, in prep.
14. Currie, T. ,
Hernandez, J., Irwin, J., et al., "The Stellar Population of
h and chi Persei: Cluster Properties, Membership, and the Intrinsic Colors and Temperatures of Stars" ,
2010, ApJS, submitted
13. Currie, T. , Kenyon, S.J.,
"Deep MIPS Observations of the IC 348 Nebula: Constraints on the Evolutionary State of Anemic Circumstellar Disks
and the Primordial to Debris Disk Transition" , 2009, AJ, 138, 703 astro-ph
12. Currie, T. ,
Lada, C. J., Plavchan, P., Robitaille, T., Irwin, J., Kenyon, S. J.,
"The Last Gasp of Gas Giant Planet Formation: A Spitzer Study of the 5 Myr-old Cluster NGC 2362", 2009, ApJ, 698, 1
ads astro-ph
11. Currie, T. ,
"On the Semimajor Axis Distribution of Extrasolar Gas Giant Planets:
Why Hot Jupiters are Rare Around High-Mass Stars" , 2009, ApJ, 694, 171L ads
astro-ph
10. Currie, T. ,
et al., "The X-Ray Environment During the
Epoch of Terrestrial Planet Formation: Chandra Observations of h Persei", 2009, AJ, 137, 3210
ads astro-ph
9. Currie, T. ,
Plavchan, P., Kenyon, S. J., "A Spitzer Study of Debris Disks in the Young Nearby Cluster NGC 2232:
Icy Planets are Common around 1.5--3 Solar-Mass Stars" , 2008, ApJ, 688, 597
ads
astro-ph
8. Currie, T. ,
"Observational Constraints on Circumstellar Disk Evolution
and Terrestrial Planet Formation" , 2008, PhD Thesis,
ads
7. Currie, T. , Kenyon, S.J.,
Balog, Z., Rieke, G., Bragg, A., & Bromley, B.,"The Rise and Fall of Debris Disks:
MIPS Observations of h and chi Persei and the Evolution of Mid-IR Emission from Planet
Formation" , 2008, ApJ, 672, 558, ads
astro-ph
6. Currie, T. , Kenyon, S.J.,
Balog, Z., Bragg, A., & Tokarz, S., "Discovery of Gas Accretion in 13 Myr old h and chi Persei" , 2007, ApJ,
669, 33L, ads astro-ph
5. Currie, T. , Hansen, B.,
"The Evolution Of Protoplanetary Disks Around Millisecond Pulsars:
The PSR 1257+12 System", 2007, ApJ, 666, 1232, ads
astro-ph
4. Currie, T. , Kenyon, S.J.,
Rieke, G., Balog, Z., & Bromley, B., "Terrestrial Zone Debris Disk Candidates in h and chi Persei" , 2007,
ApJ, 663, 105L ads astro-ph
3. Currie, T. ,Balog, Z.,
Kenyon, S.J., Rieke, G., Prato, L., et al.
"Spitzer/IRAC and JHKs Observations
of h and chi Persei: Constraints on Protoplanetary Disk and Massive
Cluster Evolution at 10^7 yr",
2007, ApJ, 659, 599, ads astro-ph
2. Currie, T.
"Hybrid Mechanisms for Gas/Ice Giant Planet Formation"
, 2005, ApJ, 629, 549,
ads astro-ph
1. Currie, T. ,
Semenov, D., Henning, Th., Furlan, E., & Herter, T.,
"Radiative Transfer Modeling of Passive Circumstellar Disks: Application to HR4796A"
,2003, PASP, Scientific Frontiers in Research on Extrasolar Planets,
ASP Conference Series Vol. 294, ads astro-ph
5. Marsh, A., McSwain, M. V.,
Currie, ,T., ,
"Analysis of the B and Be star
population in h and chi Persei", 2010, in prep.
4. Ly, C., Malkan, M., Treu, T., Woo, J-H., Currie ,
T. , Hayashi, M., Kashikawa, N., Motohara, K. Shimasaku, K.,
and Yoshida, M., "Lyman Break Galaxies at Z ~ 1.8-2.8:
GALEX/NUV Imaging of the Subaru Deep Field", 2009, ApJ, 697, 1410,
ads
astro-ph
3. Hansen, B., Shih, H-Y, Currie, T.,
"The Pulsar Planets: A Test Case of Terrestrial Planet Assembly", 2009,
ApJ, 691, 382, ads
2. Bitner, M., Richter, M., Lacy, J., ....,Currie , T. , "The Gemini/TEXES Survey for H2 in Disks" ,
2008, ApJ, 688, 1326 ads astro-ph
1. Hansen B.,
Richer, H., Fahlman, G., Stetson, P., Brewer, J.,
Currie, T. , et al.,
"HST Observations of the White Dwarf Cooling Sequence of M4" ,
2004, ApJS, 155, 551,
ads astro-ph
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