Research Interests

My Reseach Interests and Publications

(last updated: 2007)

Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems (FEPS):
A Spitzer Legacy Program

  • Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems: Cold Outer Disks Associated with Sun-Like Stars
    Kim et al. 2005, ApJ , 632, 659
  • Spitzer Observations of Gas in Circumstellar Disks: Upper Limits to the Gas Mass in HD 105
    Hollenbach et al. 2005, ApJ, 631, 1180
  • Spitzer Observations of G Dwarfs in the Pleiades: Circumstellar Debris Disks at 100 Myr Age
    Stauffer et al. 2005, AJ, 130, 1834
  • The Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems (FEPS): Discovery of an Unusual Debris System Associated with HD 12039
    Hines et al. 2006, ApJ, ApJ, 638, 1070
  • Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems (FEPS): Primordial Warm Dust Evolution from 3-30 MYR and Sun-Like Stars
    Silverstone et al. 2006, ApJ, ApJ, 639, 1138
  • Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems: Upper Limits to the Gas Mass in Disks Around Sun-like Stars
    Pascucci et al. 2007, ApJ, 651, 1177
  • Detection of [Ne II] Emission from Young Circumstellar Disks
    Pascucci et al. 2007, ApJ, 663, 383
  • The Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems: Placing Our Solar System in Context with Spitzer
    Meyer et al. 2006, PASP, 118, 1690
  • Are Debris Disks and Massive Planets Correlated?
    Moro-Martin et al. 2007, ApJ, 658, 1312
  • The Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems: First Results from a Spitzer Legacy Science Program
    Meyer et al. 2004, ApJS, 154, 422

  • Bouwman et al. 2007, submitted to ApJ
  • The Moth: An Unusual Circumstellar Structure Associated with HD 61005
    Hines et al., 2007, submitted to ApJL
  • Apai et al. 2007, ApJ, in press
  • Meyer et al. 2007, submitted to ApJ
  • Hillenbrand, Carpenter, Kim et al. 2007, submitted to ApJ
  • Carpenter et al. 2008, in preparation
  • Backman et al. 2008, in preparation
  • Kim et al. 2008, in preparation

    Star Formation, Triggered Star Formation

  • Low Mass Star Formation in the Gum Nebula: CG30/31/38
    Kim,J.S., Walter,F.M., Wolk,S.J. 2005, AJ, 129, 1564

  • Low Mass Star Formation in RCW27 & RCW33

    • Kim,J.S., Walter,F.M., & Wolk,S.J. 2007 -- paper in preparation

  • Low Mass Star Formation in the Gum Nebula: CG4/6/SA101

    • Kim,J.S., Walter,F.M., Wolk,S.J., & Sherry, W. H. 2007 -- paper in preparation

  • Low mass star formation in the Gum Nebula:

    • Kim,J.S., Walter,F.M., & Wolk,S.J. 2003, in the IAOC Workshop on "Galactic Star Formation Across the Stellar Mass Spectrum" held in La Serena, Chile, March 2002; in the ASP Conference Series, edited by J. M. De Buizer

  • Triggered low mass star formation in the Gum Nebula: CG30/31/38 and CG4/6/SA101

    • J.S. Kim, F.M. Walter, & S.J. Wolk 2001, in the proceedings of the 12th Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun

  • My Ph.D. Thesis (2002) -- Low Mass Star Formation in the Gum Nebula


    • Ph.D. Thesis advisor: Prof. Frederick M. Walter

  • Jan, 2003 AAS dissertation talk (html version)

  • Poster presented at Gordon Research Conference (related to Thesis)

  • Press Release at 199th AAS meeting THE LIVES OF YOUNG STARS UNDER HARSH ENVIRONMENTS


    • Other projects


  • The Disk and Environment of a Young Altair Analog: HD 135344
    Grady et al. 2007, submitted to ApJ

  • The Disk and Environment of a Young Vega Analog: HD 169142
    Grady et al. 2007, ApJ, 665, 1391

  • Medium-separation binaries do not affect the first steps of planet formation
    Pascucci et al. 2007, ApJ, in press

  • A Survey of z > 5.7 Quasars in the Sload Digital Sky Survey IV: Discovery of Seven Additional Quasars
    Fan X. et al. 2006, AJ, 131, 1203

    Pre-cataclysmic binary system V471 Tauri.


  • The Chromosphere of V471 Tauri Resolved. F.M. Walter & J.S. Kim 2000, to appear in the proceedings of Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun 11.

  • Probing the Extended Atmosphere of V471 Tauri. J.S. Kim & F.M. Walter, in Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun 10, eds. R. Donahue and J. Bookbinder, (ASP: San Francisco), CD-1431 (1998).

    Clusters of Galaxies.


    For about a semeseter from late 1995 to early 1996 I worked with Neta Bahcall at Princeton University Observatory. We used published velocity dispersion data together with X-ray temperature profiles (mainly ROSAT and ASCA) of a number of clusters of galaxies. We used N-body and Hydro simulations by F. Summers and R. Cen (CDM, Open CDM, lambda CDM, and HDM models) to test cosmological models.

    Binary stars - my research in Korea


    Unique Solution of R Canis Majoris, Kang, Y.W., Kim, J., and Zhai, D.S. 1998, Astrophysics and Space Science 259, 403.

    Spectroscopic Observations of R CMa
    Kang, Y.W., Kim, J., Kim, K.J.,and Zhai, D.S. 1996, the procedeeings of the Third Pacific Rim Conference on Recent Developments on Binary Star Research.

    Spectroscopic Observations of R Canis Majoris.
    Kang, Y.W., Kim, J., Kim, K.J., and Zhai, D.S. 1995, Bulletin of the Korean Space Science Society, 4(2), 23.

    Kim, Jin-young 1994, Photoelectric Observations of Close Binary BF Aurigae and its Multiple Reflection Effect, M. S. thesis.

    Photoelectric Observations of BF Aurigae
    Zhang, R., Kim, J., Zhang, J., Zhang, X.B., Kang, Y.W., and Zhai, D.S., 1993, IBVS, 3941.

    UBV Observations of BF Aur
    Kim J.,Kang, Y.W., Zhang, R.,Zhang, J., Zhang, X.B.,and Zhai, D.S. 1993, The Bulletiln of Korean Space Sience Society, 2(1), 9.

    On other topics


    Photoelectric Monitoring of Sky Brightness in Seoul
    Nha. S., and Kim, J., 1996, the procedeeings of East Asian Meeting on Astronomy.


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