EMILY M.LEVESQUE

EMILY M. LEVESQUE
[email protected]
http://www.emlevesque.com
EMPLOYMENT
PRESENT
2013-2015
2010-2013
Assistant Professor, Astronomy Department (University of Washington)
Hubble Postdoctoral Fellow (University of Colorado)
Einstein Postdoctoral Fellow (University of Colorado)
EDUCATION
2010
2008-2009
2008
2006
PhD, Astronomy (University of Hawaii)
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Predoctoral Fellow (Harvard University)
MS, Astronomy (University of Hawaii)
SB, Physics (MIT)
SELECTED PRIZES AND AWARDS
2015-2016
2014
2012
2009
2008
2008
2006
2006
Scialog Fellow (Time Domain Astrophysics), Research Corporation for Science Advancement
Annie Jump Cannon Award, American Astronomical Society
Robert J. Trumpler Award for outstanding PhD thesis, Astronomical Society of the Pacific
Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Scholar of the Year, University of Hawaii
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Predoctoral Fellowship, Harvard University
Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship
MIT Alan H. Barrett Prize in Astrophysics
MIT Joel Matthew Orloff Research Award for most outstanding senior thesis
SELECTED RESEARCH GRANTS AS PI
2013-2015
Hubble Space Telescope GO-13481 (31 orbits, $77K)
Calibrating Multi-Wavelength Metallicity Diagnostics for Star-Forming Galaxies
2013-2015
2010-2013
Hubble Postdoctoral Fellowship ($233K + pending)
Einstein Postdoctoral Fellowship ($305K)
SELECTED TEACHING AND ADVISING EXPERIENCE
STUDENTS
2015
2015
2014
2014
2014
2013
Jeffrey Jennings (undergraduate research adviser)
Jack Hallowell, John Noonan, Allyssa Riley (Project mentor, ASTR 3520)
Erika Zetterlund (graduate research adviser)
Michelle Villeneuve (undergraduate research adviser)
Michael Topping (undergraduate honors thesis committee member)
Rebecca Phillipson, Rachel Plesha, Brandon Poulliot (Project mentor, ASTR 3520)
COURSES/GUEST LECTURES
2013
2013
2012
2011
2010
2006
2005
2004
Co-instructor, ASTR 6000: Seminar in Astrophysics - Supernovae (CU Boulder)
Guest Lecturer, Astro 115: Introduction to Astronomy (San Francisco State University)
Guest Lecturer (5 classes), ASTR 5700: Stellar Structure and Evolution (CU Boulder)
Recitation Instructor, ASTR 5120: Radiative and Dynamical Processes (CU Boulder)
Guest Lecturer, ASTR 110: Survey of Astronomy (University of Hawaii)
Teaching Assistant, 12.409: Hands-On Astronomy Seminar (MIT)
Teaching Assistant, 8.287: Observational Techniques of Optical Astronomy (MIT)
Teaching Assistant, 12.409: Hands-On Astronomy Seminar (MIT)
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RECENT TELESCOPE TIME AS PI/LEAD
TELESCOPE
HUBBLE
KECK
GEMINI
SUBARU
MAGELLAN
APO 3.5M
INSTRUMENTS
COS
ALLOCATION
31 orbits (SNAP)
LRIS
NIRSPEC
5 nights
5 nights
GMOS (S)
NIRC (N)
MOIRCS
IMACS
MIKE
MagE
DIS
ARCES
TAC
Hubble
DATES
Hawaii
Hawaii, Caltech
2 nights (classical)
3 hours
4 nights
6 nights
1.5 nights
1 night
11 half-nights
5 half-nights
NOAO
Hawaii
Hawaii
NOAO, Harvard
Steward
Steward
Colorado
Colorado
2013-2014
2008-2009
2008-2013
2011
2008
2008-2009
2008-2010
2011
2011
2011-2013
2011-2015
RECENT COMMITTEES AND SERVICE
MEETING ORGANIZING COMMITTEES
SOC, Understanding Nebular Emission in High Redshift Galaxies, Pasadena, CA
SOC, IAU GA FM 10: Stellar explosions in an ever-changing environment, Honolulu, HI
SOC, IAU 307: New Windows on Massive Stars, Geneva CH
SOC, Massive Stars: Alpha to Omega, Rhodes, GR
Chair, SOC, The Evolution of Massive Stars and Progenitors of GRBs, Aspen, CO
LOC, IAU 250: Massive Stars as Cosmic Engines, Kauai, HI
LOC, Metals 2007, Honolulu, HI
2015
2015
2014
2013
2012
2007
2007
RECENT GRANT, FELLOWSHIP, AND TIME ALLOCATION COMMITTEES
Hubble Fellowship Selection Committee Panel Member
Apache Point Observatory Time Allocation Committee (University of Colorado)
HST Panel Member (Cycles 19, 20)
ESO Observing Programmes Committee Panel Member (P94, P95)
NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship reviewer
Fermi Panel Member (Cycles 6, 7)
NASA Astrophysics Theory Program Panel Member
2015
2012-2015
2011 -2015
2014
2014
2013-2014
2013
SELECTED PUBLIC LECTURES/INTERVIEWS
2015
2015
2015
2014
2014
2014
2013
2012
2012
2012
2011
2011
Public Lecture
Public Lecture
Public Lecture
Radio interview
Radio interview
Live Planetarium Shows
Invited Speaker
Guest Speaker
Live Planetarium Show
Keynote speaker
Guest Speaker
Public Lecture
STScI Public Lecture Series (Baltimore, MD) (watch)
Longmont Astronomical Society (Longmont, CO)
Northern Colorado Astronomical Society (Fort Collins, CO)
Quirks and Quarks (Canadian Broadcasting Co.) (listen)
How On Earth (KGNU Community Radio) (listen)
Fiske Planetarium (Boulder, CO)
Peak to Peak Charter School (Lafayette, CO)
“Sky Stories”, Aspen Center for Physics (Aspen, CO)
Fiske Planetarium (Boulder, CO)
Nat’l Honor Soc. induction, Boulder High School (Boulder, CO)
Winter Park Star Safari (Winter Park, CO)
Astronomy Day, Fiske Planetarium (Boulder, CO)
OTHER PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
2014-PRESENT
2011-2015 2013
REFEREE
AAS Committee on Employment
Coordinator, “Beyond Boulder” career seminars for physics/astronomy undergraduates
AAS Communicating With Washington representative
ApJ, ApJL, AJ, MNRAS, A&A, Advances in Space Research
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SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
INVITED COLLOQUIA/SEMINARS
2015
2015
2015
2015
2015
2015
2015
2014
2014
2014
2014
2014
2014
2014
2013
2013
2013
2013
MEETINGS
2016
2015
2015
2015
2014
2014
2014
2014
2014
2013
2012
2012
2012
2012
2012
2011
2011
2010
2010
2009
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2007
Texas A&M University
University of Hawaii
University of California Berkeley
Columbia University
Princeton University
University of Washington
University of Chicago
University of Michigan
Michigan State University
Southwest Research Institute
Columbia University
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Virtual Institute of Astroparticle Physics
University of California Santa Cruz
Lowell Observatory
University of Toronto
Ohio State University
California Institute of Technology
Invited talk
Invited review
Invited talk
Plenary talk
Contributed talk
Invited talk
Invited talk
Contributed talk
Contributed talk
Contributed talks
Invited review
Contributed talk
Invited review
Invited talk
Contributed talk
Invited talk
Invited talk
Contributed talk
Dissertation talk
Contributed talk
Contributed talk
Contributed talk
Invited review
Invited review
Contributed talk
Contributed talk
Keynote talk
Invited talk
2013
2013
2012
2012
2012
2012
2012
2012
2012
2011
2011
2011
2011
2010
2009
2009
2008
2008
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
San Francisco State University
Space Telescope Science Institute
New York University
Harvard University
Lowell Observatory
Denver University
Arizona State University
University of Colorado at Boulder
University of Wyoming
Oxford University
Geneva Observatory
University of Washington
University of Colorado at Boulder
Space Telescope Science Institute
St. Mary’s University
Oxford University
Geneva Observatory
227th AAS, JWST Science Session (Kissimmee, FL)
IAU XXIX GA, Division G meeting (Honolulu, HI)
IAU XXIX GA, Focus Meeting 10 (Honolulu, HI)
225th AAS, Cannon Award Lecture (Seattle, WA) (watch)
Swift: 10 Years of Discovery (Rome, IT)
2nd GMT Science Meeting on Time-Domain Astrophysics (Washington, DC)
SNe in the Local Universe: 10,000 Days of SN 1987A (Coffs Harbour, AUS)
IAU 307: New Windows on Massive Stars (Geneva, CN)
223rd AAS, Session #113 (National Harbor, MD)
221st AAS, Session #414 (Long Beach, CA)
Betelgeuse Workshop 2012: The Physics of Red Supergiants (Paris, FR)
IAU XXVIII GA (Special Session #8) (Beijing, CN)
Gamma-Ray Bursts 2012 (Munich, DE)
IAU 279: Death of Massive Stars: Supernovae and GRBs (Nikko, JAP)
219th AAS, Session #310 (Austin, TX)
The Future of Astronomy: Fellows at the Frontiers of Science (Evanston, IL)
Supernovae and their Host Galaxies (Sydney, AUS)
Gamma-Ray Bursts 2010 (Annapolis, MD)
215th AAS, Session #368 (Washington, DC)
The Shocking Universe (Venice, IT)
Galaxy Metabolism (Sydney, AUS)
Intermediate Mass Stars to Massive Stars (Strasbourg, FR)
Hot and Cool: Bridging Gaps in Massive Star Formation (Pasadena, CA)
Hot Massive Stars: A Lifetime of Influence (Flagstaff, AZ)
IAU 255: Low-Metallicity Star Formation (Rapallo, IT)
IAU 250: Massive Stars as Cosmic Engines (Kauai, HI)
The Biggest, Baddest, Coolest Stars (Johnson City, TN)
210th AAS, Special Session #40 (Honolulu, HI)
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PUBLICATIONS
REFEREED: 22 LEAD-AUTHOR (H-INDEX: 15)
51 TOTAL (H-INDEX: 26)
* = SUPERVISED STUDENT
INVITED REVIEWS (REFEREED)
2) Levesque, E. M. 2014, PASP, 126, 1; The Host Galaxies of Gamma-Ray Bursts
1) Levesque, E. M. 2010, New Astronomy Reviews, 54, 1; The Physical Properties of Red Supergiants
LEAD-AUTHOR REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
20) Levesque, E. M., Massey, P., Żytkow, A., & Morrell, N. 2014, MNRAS Letters, 443, L94
Discovery of a Thorne-Żytkow object candidate in the Small Magellanic Cloud
19) Levesque, E. M. & Richardson, M. L. A.* 2014, ApJ, 780, 100
[NeIII]/[OII] as an Ionization Parameter Diagnostic in Star-Forming Galaxies
18) Levesque, E. M., Stringfellow, G. S., Ginsburg, A. G., Bally, J., & Keeney, B. A. 2014, AJ, 147, 23
The Peculiar Balmer Decrement of SN 2009ip: Constraints on Circumstellar Geometry
17) Levesque, E. M. & Leitherer, C. 2013, ApJ, 779, 170
Modeling Tracers of Young Stellar Population Age in Star-Forming Galaxies
16) Levesque, E. M., Chornock, R., Soderberg, A. M., Berger, E., & Lunnan, R. 2012, ApJ, 758, 92
Host Galaxy Properties of the Subluminous GRB 120422A/SN 2012bz
15) Levesque, E. M. & Massey, P. 2012, AJ, 144, 2
Spectral Types of Red Supergiants in NGC 6822 and the Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte Galaxy
14) Levesque, E. M., Leitherer, C., Ekstrom, S., Meynet, G., & Schaerer, D. 2012, ApJ, 751, 67
The Effects of Stellar Rotation. I. Impact on the Ionizing Spectra and Integrated Properties of Stellar
Populations
13) Levesque, E. M., Berger, E., Soderberg, A. M., & Chornock, R. 2011, ApJ, 739, 23
Metallicity in the GRB 100316D/SN 2010bh Host Complex
12) Levesque, E. M., Soderberg, A. M., Berger, E., & Kewley, L. J. 2010, ApJ, 725, 1337
No Correlation Between Host Galaxy Metallicity and Gamma-ray Energy Release for Long-duration
Gamma-ray Bursts
11) Levesque, E. M., Kewley, L. J., Berger, E., & Zahid, H. J. 2010, AJ, 140, 1557
The Host Galaxies of Gamma-Ray Bursts II: A Mass-Metallicity Relation for Long-Duration GammaRay Burst Host Galaxies
10) Levesque, E. M., Kewley, L. J., Graham, J. F., & Fruchter, A. S. 2010, ApJL, 712, L26
A High-Metallicity Host Environment for the Long-Duration GRB 020819
9) Levesque, E. M., Kewley, L. J., & Larson, K.* 2010, AJ, 139, 712
Theoretical Modeling of Star-Forming Galaxies I: Emission Line Diagnostics for Local and LowMetallicity Galaxies
8) Levesque, E. M., Berger, E., Kewley, L. J., & Bagley, M.* 2010, AJ, 139, 694
The Host Galaxies of Gamma-Ray Bursts I: ISM Properties of Ten Nearby Long-Duration GRB Hosts
7) Levesque, E. M., Soderberg, A. M., Foley, R. J., Berger, E., Kewley, L. J., Chakraborti, S., Ray, A. K.,
Torres, M. A. P., Challis, P., Kirshner, R. P., Barthelmy, S. D., Bietenholz, M. F., Chandra, P., Chaplin,
V., Chevalier, R. A., Chugai, N., Connaughton, V., Copete, A., Fox, O., Fransson, C., Grindlay, J. E.,
Hamuy, M. A., Milne, P. A., Pignata, G., Stritzinger, M. D., & Wieringa, M. H. 2010, ApJL, 709, L26
The High-Metallicity Explosion Environment of the Relativistic Supernova SN 2009bb
6) Levesque, E. M., Bloom, J. S., Butler, N. R., Perley, D. A., Cenko, S. B., Prochaska, J. X., Kewley, L. J.,
Bunker, A., Chen, H.-W., Chornock, R., Filippenko, A. V., Glazebrook, K., Lopez, S., Masiero, J.,
Modjaz, M., Morgan, A., & Poznanski, D. 2010 MNRAS, 401, 963
GRB 090426: The Environment of a Rest-Frame 0.35-second Gamma-Ray Burst at a Redshift of
2.609
5) Levesque, E. M., Massey, P., Plez, B., & Olsen, K. A. G. 2009, AJ, 137, 4744
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The Physical Properties of the Red Supergiant WOH G64: The Largest Star Known?
4) Levesque, E. M. & Kewley, L. J. 2007, ApJL, 667, L121
The Host Galaxy of GRB 060505: Host ISM Properties
3) Levesque, E. M., Massey, P., Olsen, K. A. G., & Plez, B. 2007, ApJ, 667, 202
Late-Type Supergiants: Too Cool for the Magellanic Clouds?
2) Levesque, E. M., Massey, P., Olsen, K.A.G., Plez, B., Josselin, E., Maeder, A., Meynet, G. 2006, ApJ, 645,
1102
The Effective Temperatures and Physical Properties of Magellanic Cloud Red Supergiants: The Effects
of Metallicity
1) Levesque, E. M., Massey, P., Olsen, K.A.G., Plez, B., Josselin, E., Maeder, A., Meynet, G. 2005, ApJ, 628,
973
The Effective Temperature Scale of Galactic Red Supergiants: Cool, But Not As Cool As We Thought
OTHER REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
29) Richardson, M. L. A.*, Levesque, E. M., McLinden, E. M., Malhotra, S., Rhoads, J. E., & Xia, L. 2015,
AJ, submitted
High Redshift Galaxies with Large Ionization Parameters
28) Chakraborti, S., Soderberg, A., Chomiuk, L., Kamble, A., Yadav, N., Ray, A., Hurley, K. Margutti, R.,
Milisavljevic, D., Chevalier, R., Nakar, E., Bietenholz, M., Brunthaler, A., Pignata, G., Pian, E., Mazzali,
P., Fransson, C., Bartel, N., Hamuy, M., Levesque, E. M., et al. 2015, ApJ, in press
A Missing-Link in the Supernova-GRB Connection
27) Zetterlund, E.*, Levesque, E. M., Leitherer, C., & Danforth, C. W. 2015, ApJ, 805, 151
Ultraviolet ISM Diagnostics for Star-Forming Galaxies I. Tracers of Metallicity and Extinction
26) Meynet, G., Chomienne, V., Ekstrom, S., Georgy, C., Granada, A., Groh, J., Maeder, A., Eggenberger, P.,
Levesque, E. M., et al. 2015, A&A, in press
The impact of mass loss on the evolution and pre-supernova properties of red supergiants
25) Berger, E., Zauderer, B. A., Chary, R.-R., Laskar, T., Chornock, R., Tanvir, N. R., Stanway, E. R., Levan, A.
J., Levesque, E. M., et al. 2014, ApJ, 796, 96
ALMA Observations of the Host Galaxy of GRB 090423 at z=8.23: Deep Limits on Obscured Star
Formation 630 Million Years After the Big Bang
24) Keeney, B. A., Joeris, P., Stocke, J. T., Danforth, C. W., & Levesque, E. M. 2014, AJ, 148, 103
Updated Models for the Creation of a Low-Z QSO Absorber by a Dwarf Galaxy Wind
23) Leitherer, C., Ekstrom, S., Meynet, G., Schaerer, D., Agienko, K. B., & Levesque, E. M. 2014, ApJS, 212
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The Effects of Stellar Rotation II. A Comprehensive Set of Starburst99 Models
22) Margutti, R., Milisavjlevic, D., Soderberg, A. M., Chornock, R., Zauderer, B. A., Murase, K., Guidorzi, C.,
Sanders, N. E., Kuin, P., Fransson, C., Levesque, E. M., et al. 2014, ApJ, 780, 21
A Panchromatic View of the Restless SN 2009ip Reveals the Explosive Ejection of a Massive Star
Envelope
21) Sanders, N. E.*, Levesque, E. M., & Soderberg, A. M. 2013, ApJ, 775, 125
Using Colors to Improve Photometric Metallicity Estimates for Galaxies
20) Milisavljevic, D., Soderberg, A. M., Margutti, R., Drout, M. R., Marion, G. H., Sanders, N. E., Hsiao, E. Y.,
Lunnan, R., Chornock, R., Fesen, R. A., Parrent, J. T., Levesque, E. M., et al. 2013, ApJL, 770, 38
SN 2012au: A Golden Link Between Super-Luminous Supernovae and Their Lower-Luminosity
Counterparts
19) Milisavljevic, D., Margutti, R., Soderberg, A. M., Pignata, G., Chomiuk, L., Fesen, R. A., Bufano, F.,
Sanders, N., Parrent, J. T., Parker, S., Pickering, T., Buckley, D. A. H., Crawford, S. M., Gulbis, A.,
Hettlage, C., Hooper, E., Nordsieck, K. H., O’Donoghue, D., Husser, T.-O., Potter, S., Kniazev, A., Kotze,
P., Romero-Colmenero, E., Vaisanen, P., Wolf, M., Bartel, N., Bietenholz, M. F., Fransson, C., Mazzali,
P., Brunthaler, A., Chakraborti, S., Levesque, E. M., et al. 2013, ApJ, 767, 71
Multi-Wavelength Observations of Supernova 2011ei: Time-Dependent Classification of Type IIb and
Ib Supernovae and Implications for their Progenitors
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18) Sanders, N. E., Soderberg, A. M., Levesque, E. M., et al. 2012, ApJ, 758, 132
A Spectroscopic Study of Type Ibc Supernova Host Galaxies from Untargeted Surveys
17) Sanders, N. E., Soderberg, A. M., Valenti, S., Chomiuk, L., Berger, E., Smartt, S., Hurley, K., Barthelmy, S.
D., Chornock, R., Foley, R. J., Levesque, E. M., et al. 2012, ApJ, 756, 184
SN 2010ay is a Luminous and Broad-Lined Type Ic Supernova Within a Low-Metallicity Host Galaxy
16) Soderberg, A. M., Margutti, R., Zauderer, B. A., Krauss, M., Katz, B., Chomiuk, L., Dittmann, J.,
Sakamoto, T., Kawai, N., Hurley, K., Barthelmy, S., Toizumi, T., Morii, M., Chevalier, R. A., Gurwell,
M., Petitpas, G., Levesque, E. M., et al. 2012, ApJ, 752, 78
Panchromatic Observations of SN 2011dh Point to a Compact Progenitor Star
15) Georgy, C., Ekstrom, S., Meynet, G., Massey, P., Levesque, E. M., et al. 2012, A&A, 542, 29
Grids of stellar models with rotation II. WR populations and supernovae/GRB progenitors at Z =
0.014
14) Trenti, M., Perna, R., Levesque, E. M., Shull, J. M., & Stocke, J. T. 2012, ApJL, 749, L38
Gamma-Ray Burst Host Galaxy Surveys at Redshift z > 4: Probes of Star Formation Rate and Cosmic
Reionization
13) van Dyk, S. D., Davidge, T. J., Elias-Rosa, N., Taubenberger, S., Li, W., Levesque, E. M., et al. 2012, AJ,
143, 19
Supernova 2008bk and its Red Supergiant Progenitor
12) Boesgaard, A. M., Rich, J. A., Levesque, E. M., & Bowler, B. P. 2011, ApJ, 743, 140
Beryllium and Alpha-Element Abundances in a Large Sample of Metal-Poor Stars
11) Thone, C. C., Campana, S., Lazzati, D., Fynbo, J. P. U., de Ugarte Postigo, A., Christensen, L., Levan, A. J.,
Aloy, M. A., Hjorth, J. Jakobsson, P., Levesque, E. M., et al. 2011, MNRAS, 414, 479
Variable Ly alpha sheds light on the environment surrounding GRB 090426
10) Foley, R. J., Berger, E., Fox, O., Levesque, E. M., et al. 2011, ApJ, 732, 32
The Diversity of Massive Star Outbursts I: Observations of SN 2009ip, UGC 2773 OT2009-1, and
Their Progenitors
9) Pignata, G., Stritzinger, M., Soderberg, A., Mazzali, P., Boldt, L., Morrell, N., Salgado, F., Anderson, J.
Contreras, C., Folatelli, G., Forster, F., Gonzalez, S., Hamuy, M., Phillips, M. M., Krzeminski, W.,
Levesque, E. M., et al. 2011, ApJ, 728, 14
SN 2009bb: A Peculiar Broad-lined Type Ic Supernova
8) Soderberg, A. M., Chakraborti, S., Pignata, G., Chevalier, R. A., Chandra, P., Ray, A., Wieringa, M. H.,
Copete, A., Chaplin, V., Connaughton, V., Barthelmy, S. D., Bietenholz, M. F., Chugai, N., Stritzinger, M.
D., Hamuy, M., Fransson, C., Fox, O., Levesque, E. M., et al. 2010, Nature, 463, 513
Discovery of a Relativistic Supernova without a Gamma-ray Trigger
7) Massey, P., Silva, D. R., Levesque, E. M., Plez, B., & Clayton, G. C. 2009, ApJ, 703, 420
Red Supergiants in the Andromeda Galaxy (M31)
6) Graham, J. F., Fruchter, A. S., Melandri, A., Levan, A. J., Kewley, L. J., Levesque, E. M., Nysewander, M.,
Tanvir, N. R., Dahlen, T., & Bersier, D. 2009, ApJ, 698, 1620
GRB 070714B - Discovery of the Highest Spectroscopically Confirmed Short Burst Redshift
5) Oey, M. S., Meurer, G. R., Caballero-Nieves, S. M., Furst, E., Hanish, D. J., Levesque, E. M., et al. 2007,
ApJ, 661, 801
The HII Region Luminosity Function and Diffuse Hα Emission in HI-Selected Galaxies from SINGG
4) Massey, P., Levesque, E. M., Olsen, K. A. G., Plez, B., & Skiff, B. 2007, ApJ, 660, 301
HV 11423: The Coolest Supergiant in the SMC
3) Heinz, S., Bruggen, M., Young, A., & Levesque, E. 2006, MNRAS, 373, 65
The answer is blowing in the wind: simulating the interaction of jets with dynamic cluster
atmospheres
2) Massey, P., Levesque, E. M., Plez, B. 2006, ApJ, 646, 1203
Bringing VY Canis Majoris Down to Size: An Improved Determination of Its Effective Temperature
1) Massey, P., Plez, B., Levesque, E.M., Olsen, K.A.G., Josselin, E., Clayton, G. 2005, ApJ, 634, 1286
The Effective Temperature Scale of Red Supergiants: When Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
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NON-REFEREED
21) Levesque, E. M., Massey, P., Żytkow, A. N., & Morrell, N. 2014, in “Proceedings of the IAU, Symposium
307”, in press
Discovery of a Thorne-Zytkow Object in the SMC
20) Levesque, E. M., 2013, in proceedings of “Betelgeuse Workshop 2012: The Physics of Red Supergiants”,
EAS Publications Series, Vol. 60, p. 269
Red Supergiants in the Local Group
19) Levesque, E. M., 2012, in online refereed proceedings of “GRBs 2012”, conf. 152, id. 137
Gamma-ray Burst Host Galaxies as Probes of Galaxy Formation and Evolution
18) Levesque, E. M., 2012, in “Proceedings of the IAU, Symposium 279”, p. 167
Host Galaxies of Gamma-Ray Bursts
17) Levesque, E. M., 2011, in proceedings of “GRBs 2010”, Vol. 1358, p. 271
Exploring the host environments of long-duration gamma-ray bursts
16) Levesque, E. M., 2011, in proceedings of “The Shocking Universe”, Italian Physical Society, Vol. 102
Modeling the host galaxies of long-duration gamma-ray bursts
15) Chornock, R., Berger, E., Levesque, E. M., Foley, R. J., Soderberg, A. M., Frebel, A., Simon, J. D.,
Bochanski, J. J., Challis, P. J., Kirshner, R. P., Sheppard, S. S., & Simcoe, R. A. 2010, arXiv:1004:2262
Spectroscopic Discovery of the Broad-Lined Type Ic Supernova 2010bh Associated with the LowRedshift GRB 100316D
14) Boesgaard, A. M., Rich, J. A., Levesque, E. M., & Bowler, B. P., 2010, in “Proceedings of the IAU,
Symposium 268ʺ″, p. 231
New Beryllium results in halo stars from Keck/HIRES spectra
13) Levesque, E. M. 2010, in “Hot and Cool: Bridging Gaps in Massive Star Evolution”, Vol. 425, p. 103
The Physical Properties of Red Supergiants
12) Levesque, E., Chornock, R., Kewley, L., Bloom, J. S., Prochaska, J. X., Perley, D. A., Cenko, S. B., &
Modjaz, M. 2009, GCN Circular #9264
GRB 090426 Keck LRIS redshift
11) Graham, J. F., Fruchter, A. S., Kewley, L. J., Levesque, E. M., et al. 2009, in “Proceedings of the Sixth
Huntsville Gamma-Ray Burst Symposium”, Vol. 1133, p. 269
Unusually High Metallicity Host Of The Dark LGRB 051022
10) Clayton, Geoffrey C., Freeman, W., Bright, S., Massey, P., Gordon, K. D., Levesque, E., et al. 2009, in
“Proceedings of the IAU, Symposium 256”, p. 411
Dust around red supergiants in the Magellanic Clouds
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Stars”, Vol. 412, p. 33
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Properties of Red Supergiants” 2009, ASPCS, “The Biggest, Baddest, Coolest Stars”, Vol. 412, p. 3
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Galaxies and Gamma-Ray Burst Hosts” 2008, in “Proceedings of the IAU, Symposium 255”, p. 162
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M., Levesque, E. M., & Modjaz, M. 2008, in “Proceedings of the IAU, Symposium 250”, p. 571
Evolution of Massive Stars at Low Metallicity
5) Massey, P., Levesque, E. M., Olsen, K. A. G., & Plez, B. 2008, to appear in “Proceedings of IAU,
Symposium 250”, p. 97
The Physical Properties of Red Supergiants: Comparing Theory and Observations
4) Massey, P., Plez, B., Levesque, E. M., Olsen, K. A. G., Silva, D. R., & Clayton, G. C. 2007, in “Massive
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3) Heinz. S., Bruggen, M., Ruszkowski, M., Young, A., Levesque, E. 2008, in “Extragalactic Jets: Theory and
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Jet Feedback in Clusters: Simulating the Interaction of Jets with Dynamic Cluster Atmospheres
2) Boesgaard, A. M., Levesque, E. M., Rich, J. A. 2008, in “First Stars III” AIP conference proceedings, Vol.
990, p. 164
Beryllium in the Oldest Stars
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Clusters of Galaxies”, Springer-Verlag Berlin, Heidelberg, p. 197
Simulations of Jets in Dynamic Galaxy Cluster Atmospheres
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UV Astronomy with JWST: Star-Forming Galaxies at z~9
1) Levesque, Emily, Lowell Observer (Spring 2005)
Discovering the Largest Stars
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