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Professional Journals

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De Rosa, R. J. & Kalas, P.  2019, A near-coplanar stellar flyby of the planet host star HD 106906, Astronomical Journal, Vol. 157, 125.  Discovered two stars that had a close approach to HD 106906 which may explain the disrupted architecture of the planetary system. — pdf

Kalas, P., Rajan, A., Wang, J.J. et al. 2015, Direct imaging of an asymmetric debris disk in the HD 106906 planetary system, Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 814, pg. 32 (12 pp) This is the first study to directly detect a disrupted dust disk with a misaligned exoplanet exterior to the disk. — pdf

Kalas, P., Graham, J.R., Fitzgerald, M.P. & Clampin, M. 2013, STIS coronagraphic imaging of Fomalhaut:Main belt structure and the orbit of Fomalhaut b, Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 775, 31 pp. The orbital elements of Fomalhaut b were measured for the first time in this paper, finding a highly elliptical orbit. — pdf

Kalas, P., Graham, J.R., Chiang, E., Fitzgerald, M. P., Clampin, M. C., Kite, E. S., Stapelfeldt, K., Marois, C., & Krist, J. 2008, Optical images of an exosolar planet 25 light-years from Earth, Science, Vol. 322, pp. 1345 – 1348. This paper announces the first visible-light detection of an exoplanet directly observed to orbit a star.  It may also represent the first discovery of an exoplanetary ring system in reflected light. — pdf

Kalas, P., Duchene, G., Fitzgerald, M .& Graham, J.R. 2007, Discovery of an extended debris disk around the F2V star HD 15745, Astrophysical Journal Letters, Vol. 671, pp. L161 – L164 —pdf

Kalas, P., Fitzgerald, M. and Graham, J.R. 2007, Discovery of extreme asymmetry in the debris disk in the debris disk surrounding HD 15115, 2007, Astrophysical Journal Letters, Vol 661, pp. L85 – L88 —pdf

Fitzgerald, M., Kalas, P., Duchene, G., Pinte, C., and Graham, J. R. 2007, The AU Microscopii debris disk: Multiwavelength imaging and modeling, Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 670, pp. 536 – 556 —pdf

Graham, J.R., Kalas, P., and Matthews, B. 2007, The signature of primordial grain growth in the polarized light of the AU Microscopii debris disk, Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 654, pp. 595-605. —pdf

Kalas, P., Graham, J.R., Clampin, M. C., and Fitzgerald, M. 2006, First scattered scattered light images of debris disks around HD 53143 and HD 139664, Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 635, pp. L57 – L60. —pdf

Kalas, P., Graham, J.R., and Clampin, M. 2005, A planetary system as the origin of structure in Fomalhaut’s dust belt, Nature, Vol. 435, pp. 1067-1070.  The first paper in astronomy to show a comet belt offset from symmetry around the star.  In The Oneironauts, this discovery is interpreted as scientific evidence for precognitive dreaming. — pdf

Kalas, P., Liu, M. and Matthews, B. 2004, Discovery of a large dust disk around the nearby star AU Microscopii, Science, Vol. 303, pp. 1990-1992. This study provides the first direct image of a dusty debris disk around an M star, the most common type of star in the galaxy —pdf

Perrin, M.D., Graham, J.R., Kalas, P., et al. 2004, Sodium Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics Imaging Polarimetry of Herbig Ae/Be Stars, Science, Vol. 303, pp. 1345-1348. —pdf

Kalas, P., Graham, J.R., Beckwith, S.V.W., Jewitt, D.C. and Lloyd, J.P. 2002, Discovery of Reflection Nebulosity Around Five Vega-like Stars, Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 567, pp. 999-1012 —pdf— postscript

Kalas, P., Deltorn, J.-M. and Larwood 2001, Stellar Encounters with the beta Pictoris Planetesimal System, Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 553, pp. 410-420 — —postscript— pdf

Larwood, J.D. & Kalas, P. 2001, Close Stellar Encounters with Planetesimal Discs: The dynamics of asymmetry in the beta Pictoris system, MNRAS, Vol. 323, pg. 402 — postscript— pdf

Kalas, P., Larwood, J., Smith, B.A. & Schultz, A. 2000, Rings in the planetesimal disk of beta Pic, ApJlett, Vol. 530, pp. 133-137 — postscript— pdf

Kalas, P. 1998, Dusty Disks and Planet Mania, Science, Vol. 281, p. 182 (invited commentary) —link to Science Magazine

Jewitt, D. and Kalas P. 1998, Thermal Observations of Centaur 1997 CU26, ApJLett, Vol. 499, p. L103 — ApJlett link— ADS link

Kalas, P. and Jewitt, D. 1997, A Candidate Dust Disk Surrounding the Binary Stellar System BD +31 643, Nature, Vol. 386, p. 52 — html file

Kalas, P. and Jewitt, D. 1996, The Detectability of beta Pic-like Disks Around Main Sequence Stars, Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 111, p. 1347 — ADS link— pdf

Kalas, P. and Jewitt, D. 1995, Asymmetries in the Beta Pictoris Dust Disk, Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 110, p. 794.  The first paper in observational astronomy to show that an exoplanetary system departs from circular symmetric around its host star. — ADS link— pdf

Books

Crete Swim is a first-of-its-kind tour guide for swimmers visiting the Mediterranean island of Crete.

Kalas, Paul (2021) Crete Swim: An insider’s guide to sightseeing from the water (ISBN 979-8-7484211-7-1, Amazon)

Kalas, Paul (2018), The Oneironauts: Using dreams to engineer our future (ISBN 978-17201-776-1-6, Amazon)

Linda French & Paul Kalas (volume editors) (2013), Solar and Stellar Planetary Systems (Vol. 3), in Planets, Stars and Stellar Systems, T.D. Oswalt (Ed.-in-Chief), Springer, Germany (ISBN 978-94-007-5605-2) 31,000 downloads – link

I am also a co-author for the books:

1. Handbook of Exoplanets, 2018, ed. Hans J Deeg and Juan Antonio Belmonte, Springer Nature, Switzerland, 40,000 downloads (ISBN 978-3-319-55334-4)
2. Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, 2011, 2015, Muriel Gargaud and William M. Irvine (Eds.-in-Chief), Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg (ISBN 978-3-662-44184-8)

Popular Press Articles

Kalas, P. 2022, My swim story: The Galactic Night Swim, in Outdoor Swimmer, June 2022, p. 74 – pdf

Kalas, P. 2011, Planetary systems revealed through direct imaging, in Hipparchos, The Hellenic Astronomical Society Newsletter, Vol. 2, pp. 23-29 – pdf

Kalas, P. 2008, in Hubble 2007: Science Year in Review, Robert Brown, ed. (Baltimore, STScI for NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) – pdf

Graham, J.R. and Kalas, P. 2007, Chips off the planetary block…building planetary debris disks, in State of the Universe 2008, ed. Martin Ratcliffe (Praxis Publishing, Chichester, UK), pp. 116 – 123. –pdf