Selected Publications

1.  "Toward the Resolution of the Local Missing Mass Problem," by
K. Krisciunas, Astron. J., 82, No. 3, 195-197 (March 1977).

[This paper showed that approximately 60 percent of the nearby M dwarf
stars had not been identified, but even if we found them it
would not solve Oort's (1960) local missing mass problem.]

2.  The History of Astronomy from Herschel to Hertzsprung,
translation of the German-language book by Dieter B. Herrmann 
(3rd ed., Berlin, 1980).  Cambridge Univ. Press, 1984, x + 220 p.

[This book had 9 reviews, including those in Science and Physics
Today.]
        
3.  "Observations of the Broad Helium and Hydrogen Lines in
the Very Center of the Galaxy," by T. R. Geballe, K. Krisciunas, 
T. J. Lee, I. Gatley, R. Wade, W. D. Duncan, R. Garden, and E. E.
Becklin, Astrophys. J., 284, No. 1, Pt. 1, 118-125 (1 September 1984). 

[This paper, based on near infrared spectra taken
at UKIRT, confirmed the finding of Hall, Kleinman,
and Scoville (1983) that there exists a high velocity wind in the
very center of the Galaxy. This was important evidence for a central
engine, now known to be a massive black hole.]

4.  "Extreme limb profiles of the Sun at far-infrared and submillimeter 
wavelengths," by C. Lindsey, E. E. Becklin, F. Q. Orrall, M. W.
Werner, J. T. Jefferies, and I. Gatley, Astrophys. J., 308, 448-458
(1 September 1986).

[As a NASA contractor, I was forbidden by NASA rules to be coauthor of
this paper, but the acknowledgments clearly indicate that I made a
significant contribution to the paper.  This paper resulted from Kuiper Airborne
Observatory observations of the total solar eclipse of 31 July 1980.  I wrote the
rather extensive real-time data acquisition and analysis package.]

5.  Astronomical Centers of the World, by Kevin Krisciunas, Cambridge Univ. 
Press, 1988, xii + 320 p. 

[This book was reviewed in 28 publications, including Nature and New Scientist.]

6.  "A Model of the Brightness of Moonlight," by K. Krisciunas and B. E.
Schaefer, Publications of the Astr. Soc. of the Pacific, 103, 1033-1039
(September 1991). 

[Our sky brightness model has been implemented at a number of observatories
worldwide, so that observers do not saturate their CCD images.]

7.  "Fundamental Cosmological Parameters,'' in Encyclopedia
of Cosmology, N. Hetherington, ed. (New York and
London: Garland) 1993, pp. 218-244. Errata in astro-ph/930802.

[This is a mathematically verbose basic course in cosmology.]   

8.  "9 Aurigae: strong evidence for non-radial pulsations,"
by K. Krisciunas, R. F. Griffin, E. F. Guinan, K. D.
Luedeke, and G. P. McCook, Monthly Notices of the
Royal Astr. Soc., 273, no. 3, 662-674 (1 April 1995).

[This paper proved that we had discovered a new class of pulsating stars.
They are early F-type stars on or just above the main sequence that
undergo non-radial pulsations with time scales of 0.5 to 3 days. The
original observations suggesting that this star was an unusual variable
(Krisciunas and Guinan 1991) were made in part with a photometer I built
from scratch.]

9.  "The discovery of non-radial gravity-mode pulsations in gamma
Doradus-type stars,'' in F.-L. Deubner et al., eds., New Eyes
to See Inside the Sun and Stars,  Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1998,
IAU Symposium 185 (Kyoto), pp. 339-346. 

[A review about the endeavors of the three groups who discovered a new class of
pulsating stars.]

10. "Optical night-sky brightness at Mauna Kea over the course of a
complete sunspot cycle," by K. Krisciunas, Publications of the
Astr. Soc. of the Pacific, 109, 1181-1188 (October 1997).  

[In this paper I showed that even at a dark sky site the V- and B-band
sky brightness varies 0.6 mag/(square arcsec) over the course of the
sunspot cycle. This has been known for some time, but it's good to
keep in mind when working out your limiting magnitudes at a "dark sky"
site.]

11.  "Uniformity of V minus Near Infrared Color Evolution
of Type Ia Supernovae, and Implications for Host Galaxy
Extinction Determination," by Kevin Krisciunas,
N. C. Hastings, Karen Loomis, Russet McMillan, Armin Rest,
Adam G. Riess, and Christopher Stubbs, Astrophys. J.,
539, no. 2, 658-674 (20 August 2000).  

[In this paper we showed that there exist uniform V minus infrared
loci which can be used to determine the extinction to Type Ia
supernovae of mid-range decline rates.  This allows us to eliminate
one possible source of systematic error in the distance determinations
of these fundamental standardizable candles.]

12.  "Optical and infrared photometry of the nearby Type Ia supernova
2001el," by Krisciunas, K., Suntzeff, N. B., Candia, P., Arenas, J.,
Espinoza, J., Gonzalez, D., Gonzalez, S., Hoeflich, P. A., Landolt, A.
U., Phillips, M. M., and Pizarro, S., Astron. J., 125, 166-180
(January 2003).

[Here we presented the most extensive optical and infrared light curves
obtained to date of a normal Type Ia supernova and correct the BV and
JHK photometry obtained with different telescopes to the systems of
Bessel (1990) and Persson et al. (1998). Since the spectra of
supernovae are unlike stellar spectra, photometry obtained with
different telescopes can show systematic differences of tenths of a
magnitude. This paper was the first to apply spectrally-derived
corrections to the photometry. Modeling by Hoeflich presented in
this paper is consistent with our unreddened V-H and V-K loci for Type
Ia supernovae (see paper number 12 above).]

13."Hubble Diagrams of Type Ia Supernovae in the Near Infrared," by K.
Krisciunas, M. M. Phillips, and N. B. Suntzeff, Astrophys. J., vol. 602,
no. 2, pt. 2, pp. L81-L84 (20 February 2004).

[Using templates to determine the maximum apparent magnitudes in 
the near-infrared JHK bands, we present the first-ever Hubble diagrams
of Type Ia supernovae using the maxima.  If one plots the absolute
magnitudes vs. the decline rate parameter Delta m_15, the slopes
are statistically zero, implying that most Type Ia supernovae are
standard candles in the IR.  Better than standardizable candles
(as Type Ia SNe are at optical wavelengths) are standard candles.]


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