Postdoctoral Researcher
at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
SSP Division
Research emphasis: Circumstellar disk evolution, debris disks, planet formation
Research Supervisor:
Scott Kenyon
email: tcurrie(at)cfa(dot)harvard(dot)edu
My research focuses on two main areas:
1. Circumstellar Disk Evolution from broadband near-to-mid IR photometry
2. Optical/Near-to-mid IR spectroscopy of Circumstellar Disks
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 a la Kenyon & Bromley (2006); Wetherill and Stewart (1993)
More info coming soon!
13. Currie, T. ,
Irwin, J., Hernandez, J., et al., (Abridged Title) "The Stellar Population of
h and chi Persei" , 2008, ApJ, in prep.
12. Currie, T. ,
Lada, C. J., Plavchan, P., Irwin, J., Kenyon, S. J.,
"The Last Gasp of Gas Giant Planet Formation: A Spitzer Study of the 5 Myr-old Cluster NGC 2362", 2008, ApJ submitted
11. Currie, T. ,
Evans, N., et al. "The X-Ray Environment During the
Epoch of Terrestrial Planet Formation: Chandra Observations of h Persei", 2008, AJ, submitted
10. Currie, T. ,
Plavchan, P., Kenyon, S. J., "A Spitzer Study of Debris Disks in the Young Open Cluster NGC 2232:
Icy Planets are Common around 1.5--3 Solar-Mass Stars" , 2008, ApJ accepted (November 1, 2008 issue),
ads
astro-ph
9. Currie, T. ,
"Observational Constraints on Circumstellar Disk Evolution
and Terrestrial Planet Formation" , 2008, PhD Thesis,
ads
8. Currie, T. , Kenyon, S.J.,
"The Evolutionary State of Anemic Circumstellar Disks in IC 348 and the Primordial
to Debris Disk Transition" , 2008, submitted, astro-ph
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,
669L, 33, 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, 663L, 105 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. Moussis, O., Currie, T., Wurm, G., and Hansen, B., title TBA
4. Hansen, B., Shih, H-Y, Currie, T.,
"The Pulsar Planets: A Test Case of Terrestrial Planet Assembly", 2008, ApJ, submitted
3. 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", 2008, ApJ submitted
2. Bitner, M., Richter, M., Lacy, J., ....,Currie , T. , "The Gemini/TEXES Survey for H2 in Disks" ,
2008, ApJ accepted 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
Home Research Publications CV Links and Etc. Schedule Contact