Dr Melissa Ness
Areas of expertise
- Astronomical Sciences 5101
- Electrical Engineering 4008
Research interests
-Milky Way formation: stellar spectroscopy, surveys, data-driven models, bulge, disk and halo
-Chemical evolution and nucleosyntheis: element abundance distributions and dimensionality
-Galaxy formation: constraints from stellar age, element abundances and orbital properties
Publications
- Sharma, S, Stello, D, Buder, S et al. 2018, 'The TESS-HERMES survey data release 1: High-resolution spectroscopy of the TESS southern continuous viewing zone', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 473, no. 2, pp. 2004-2019pp.
- Wittenmyer, R, Sharma, S, Stello, D et al. 2018, 'The K2-HERMES Survey. I. Planet-candidate Properties from K2 Campaigns 1-3', The Astronomical Journal, vol. 155, no. 84, pp. 10pp.
- Buder, S, Asplund, M, Duong, L et al. 2018, 'The GALAH Survey: Second data release', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 478, no. 4, pp. 4513-4552.
- Buder, S, Asplund, M, Duong, L et al. 2018, 'The GALAH Survey: Second data release', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 478, no. 4, pp. 4513-4552.
- Ness, M, Ting, Y, Rix, H et al. 2017, 'Masses and Ages for 230,000 LAMOST Giants, via Their Carbon and Nitrogen Abundances', The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 841, no. 1, pp. -.
- Casey , A, Hawkins, K, Hogg, D et al. 2017, 'The RAVE-on Catalog of Stellar Atmospheric Parameters and Chemical Abundances for Chemo-dynamic Studies in the Gaia Era', The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 840, no. 1, pp. -.
- Vogt, F, Ness, M & Freeman, K 2015, 'Galactic bulges: The importance of early formation scenarios vs. secular evolution', International Astronomical Union. Proceedings, vol. 10, pp. 163-164.
- Howes, L, Casey , A, Asplund, M et al. 2015, 'Extremely metal-poor stars from the cosmic dawn in the bulge of the Milky Way', Nature, vol. 527, no. 7579, pp. 484-487.
- Freeman, K, Ness, M, Wylie, E et al. 2013, 'ARGOS - II. The Galactic bulge survey', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 428, no. 4, pp. 3660-3670.
- Ness, M, Freeman, K, Athanassoula, E et al. 2013, 'ARGOS - IV. The kinematics of the Milky Way bulge', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 432, no. 3, pp. 2092-2103.
- Ness, M, Freeman, K, Athanassoula, E et al. 2013, 'Argos - III. Stellar populations in the galactic bulge of the milky way', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 430, no. 2, pp. 836-857.
- Ness, M & Freeman, K 2012, 'The formation of the Galactic bulge of the Milky Way', International Conference on Assembling the Puzzle of the Milky Way, ed. Céline Reylé, Annie Robin and Mathias Schultheis, EPJ Web of Conferences , France, pp. 1-5.
- Ness, M, Freeman, K, Athanassoula, E et al 2012, 'The origin of the split red clump in the galactic bulge of the milky way', Astrophysical Journal, The, vol. 756, no. 1, pp. 22.
