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List of works by Kathryn V. Johnston

8 in 10 Stars in the Milky Way Bulge experience stellar encounters within 1000 AU in a gigayear

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A 2MASS all-sky view of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy. VII. Kinematics of the main body of the Sagittarius dSph

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

A Disk Origin for the Monoceros Ring and A13 Stellar Overdensities

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

A Two Micron All Sky Survey View of the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy. II. Swope Telescope Spectroscopy of M Giant Stars in the Dynamically Cold Sagittarius Tidal Stream

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

A dynamical systems description of privilege, power and leadership in academia

scientific article published in December 2019

A group finding algorithm for multidimensional data sets

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

A machine-vision method for automatic classification of stellar halo substructure

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Chemical abundance patterns and the early environment of dwarf galaxies

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Clumpy streams from clumpy halos: detecting missing satellites with cold stellar structures

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

DYNAMICAL EVOLUTION OF ACCRETED DWARF GALAXIES

Detecting Thin Stellar Streams in External Galaxies: Resolved Stars and Integrated Light

scientific article published on 24 September 2019

Discovery of a dynamical cold point in the heart of the Sagittarius dSph galaxy with observations from the APOGEE project

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Disk Heating, Galactoseismology, and the Formation of Stellar Halos

Dynamics and Stellar Content of the Giant Southern Stream in M31. I. Keck Spectroscopy of Red Giant Stars

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Evidence of fanning in the Ophiuchus stream

Exploding satellites-the tidal debris of the ultra-faint dwarf galaxy Hercules

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Exploring Halo Substructure with Giant Stars. II. Mapping the Extended Structure of the Carina Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Exploring Halo Substructure with Giant Stars. X. Extended Dark Matter or Tidal Disruption?: The Case for the Leo I Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Exploring Halo Substructure with Giant Stars. XI. The Tidal Tails of the Carina Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy and the Discovery of Magellanic Cloud Stars in the Carina Foreground

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Exploring Halo Substructure with Giant Stars. XV. Discovery of a Connection between the Monoceros Ring and the Triangulum–Andromeda Overdensity?

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Exploring halo substructure with giant stars. XIV. The nature of the Triangulum-Andromeda stellar features

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Footprints of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy in the Gaia data set

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Fossil Signatures of Ancient Accretion Events in the Halo

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Fossil hunting in the Milky Way.

scientific article published in December 2014

Galaxia: a code to generate a synthetic survey of the Milky Way

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Gaps and length asymmetry in the stellar stream Palomar 5 as effects of Galactic bar rotation

scientific article published in January 2017

Globular cluster streams as galactic high-precision scales--the poster child Palomar 5

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Group finding in the stellar halo using M-giants in the Two Micron All Sky Survey: an extended view of the Pisces overdensity?

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Group finding in the stellar halo using photometric surveys: current sensitivity and future prospects

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

How cosmic microwave background correlations at large angles relate to mass autocorrelations in space

Hunting for the Dark Matter Wake Induced by the Large Magellanic Cloud

scientific article published on 11 October 2019

Identifying contributions to the stellar halo from accreted, kicked-out, and in situ populations

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Inferring the gravitational potential of the Milky Way with a few precisely measured stars

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Metal Mixing and Ejection in Dwarf Galaxies Are Dependent on Nucleosynthetic Source

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Milky Way mass and potential recovery using tidal streams in a realistic halo

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Modeling Complete Distributions with Incomplete Observations: The Velocity Ellipsoid fromHipparcosData

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

New views of the distant stellar halo

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On the Distribution of Orbital Poles of Milky Way Satellites

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Origins and Interpretation of Tidal Debris

Probing the Nature of the G1 Clump Stellar Overdensity in the Outskirts of M31

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Probing the halo from the solar vicinity to the outer galaxy: connecting stars in local velocity structures to large-scale clouds

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Quantifying the Stellar Halo's Response to the LMC's Infall with Spherical Harmonics

scientific article published on 16 July 2020

Response of the Milky Way's disc to the Large Magellanic Cloud in a first infall scenario

scientific article published on 11 September 2017

SMHASH: a new mid-infrared RR Lyrae distance determination for the Local Group dwarf spheroidal galaxy Sculptor

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SMHASH: anatomy of the Orphan Stream using RR Lyrae stars

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Spectroscopic follow-up of the Hercules–Aquila Cloud

scientific article published on 26 February 2018

Spending too much time at the galactic bar: chaotic fanning of the Ophiuchus stream

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Stellar disc streams as probes of the Galactic potential and satellite impacts

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Taking the Measure of the Universe: Precision Astrometry withSIM PlanetQuest

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The Accretion Origin of the Milky Way’s Stellar Halo

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Implications of Local Fluctuations in the Galactic Midplane for Dynamical Analysis in the Gaia Era

scientific article published on 25 September 2019

The Stellar Populations of the M31 Halo Substructure

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The dominance of metal-rich streams in stellar halos: a comparison between substructure in M31 and {Lambda}CDM models

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The effect of feedback and reionization on star formation in low-mass dwarf galaxy haloes

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The power of coordinate transformations in dynamical interpretations of Galactic structure

scientific article published on 9 July 2020

Tidal Debris as a Dark Matter Probe

Tidal Interaction of M32 and NGC 205 with M31: Surface Photometry and Numerical Simulations

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Tidal debris morphology and the orbits of satellite galaxies

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Tidal stream morphology as an indicator of dark matter halo geometry: the case of Palomar 5

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Toward a Direct Measure of the Galactic Acceleration

scientific article published on 13 October 2020

Tracing Galaxy Formation with Stellar Halos. I. Methods

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Tracing Galaxy Formation with Stellar Halos. II. Relating Substructure in Phase and Abundance Space to Accretion Histories

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Tracing the Assembly of the Milky Way’s Disk through Abundance Clustering

scientific article published on 14 September 2020

Two chemically similar stellar overdensities on opposite sides of the plane of the Galactic disk

scientific article published on 26 February 2018

Variations in α-element Ratios Trace the Chemical Evolution of the Disk

scientific article published on 18 September 2019

Walter: A Tool for Predicting Resolved Stellar Population Observations with Applications to the Roman Space Telescope

scientific article published in 2022