AdamKowalski
In August 2016, I joined the National Solar Observatory and the Department ofAstrophysical and Planetary Sciences as Assistant Professor. My researchinterests are solar and stellar astrophysics with a specialization inspectroscopy of optical and ultraviolet emission in stellar flares. I usestate-of-the-art modeling codes combined with analysis of data from groundand space-based observatories (such as Hubble, IRIS, and the APO ARC 3.5m) tounderstand how the lower, dense stellar atmosphere (chromosphere andphotosphere) is heated in response to the sudden release of magnetic energyduring flares. I am also interested in developing new media for thedissemination of scientific results to the public and in establishingcollaborations across disciplines.
Publications:
Kowalski, A. F., Allred, J. C., Daw, A. N., Cauzzi, G., Carlsson, M. 2016,“The Atmospheric Response to High Nonthermal Electron Beam Fluxes in SolarFlares I: Modeling the Brightest NUV Footpoints in the X1 Solar Flare of2014 March 29”, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal;
Kowalski, A.F., Mathioudakis, M., Hawley, S. L., Wisniewski, J. P., Dhillon,V. , Marsh, T. R., Hilton, E. J., Brown, B. P. 2016, “M Dwarf FlareContinuum Variations on One-Second Timescales: Calibrating and Modeling ofULTRACAM Flare Color Indices”The Astrophysical Journal, ApJ 820, 95, DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/820/2/95
Osten, R. A., Kowalski, A. F., Drake, S., Krimm, H., Page, K., Gazeas, K.,Kennea, J., Oates, S., Page, M., de Miguel, E., Novak, R., Apeltauer, T.,Gehrels, N., 2016, “A Very Bright, Very Hot, and Very Long Flaring Eventfrom the M Dwarf Binary System DG CVn”, Astrophysical Journal in press,arxiv:1609.04674