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Melissa Ness

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Dr Melissa Ness

Professor of Astronomy, RSAA

 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5082-6693
20122025

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PhD

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  

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  • ACACIAS I: element abundance labels for 192 stars in the dwarf galaxy NGC 6822

    Ness, M. K., Mendel, J. T., Buder, S., Wheeler, A., Ji, A. P., Mijnarends, L., Venn, K., Starkenburg, E., Leaman, R., Grasha, K. & Aquilina, S., 14 Feb 2025, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 537, 3, p. 2798-2818 21 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

    Open Access
    1 Citation (Scopus)

  • Evidence of Truly Young High-α Dwarf Stars

    Lu, Y., Colman, I. L., Sayeed, M., Amard, L., Buder, S., Manea, C., Hattori, S., Pinsonneault, M. H., Price-Whelan, A. M., Bedell, M., Nidever, D., Johnson, J. A., Ness, M., Angus, R., Claytor, Z. R., Horta, D. & Behmard, A., 3 Mar 2025, In: Astronomical Journal. 169, 3, 9 p., 168.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

    Open Access
    6 Citations (Scopus)

  • Exoplanet Occurrence Rate with Age for FGK Stars in Kepler

    Sayeed, M., Angus, R., Berger, T. A., Lu, Y., Christiansen, J. L., Foreman-Mackey, D. & Ness, M. K., 3 Feb 2025, In: Astronomical Journal. 169, 2, 10 p., 112.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

    Open Access
    3 Citations (Scopus)

  • Optical spectroscopic signatures of the red giant evolutionary state

    Wang, E. X., Ness, M., Nordlander, T., Casey, A. R., Martell, S., Pinsonneault, M., Fu, X., Stello, D., Reyes, C., Hon, M., McKenzie, M., Jian, M., Yu, J., Buder, S., Lind, K., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Zucker, D. B., Barun Das, P., de Grijs, R. & Hayden, M., Jul 2025, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 540, 4, p. 3919-3933 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

    Open Access

  • 3D NLTE Lithium abundances for late-type stars in GALAH DR3

    Wang, E. X., Nordlander, T., Buder, S., Ciuca, I., Soen, A., Martell, S., Ness, M., Lind, K., McKenzie, M. & Stello, D., 6 Feb 2024, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 528, 3, p. 5394-5411 18 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

    Open Access
    21 Citations (Scopus)
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