Kevin Luhman

Biographical Information

I obtained B.A. and B.S. degrees in astronomy and physics at the University of Texas at Austin (1993) and obtained a PhD in astronomy at the University of Arizona (1998).

Research Interests

I use ground- and space-based telescopes operating at optical and infrared wavelengths to study the birth of stars, brown dwarfs, and planets. My recent research has focused on the following:

Using data from the Gaia mission to identify new stars and brown dwarfs and their circumstellar disks in the nearest young associations and star-forming regions:

The Membership and Age of the Planet-hosting Young Star IRAS 04125+2902 (2025)

A Census of the Beta Pic Moving Group and Other Nearby Associations with Gaia (2024)

A Census of the TW Hya Association with Gaia (2023)

A Census of the Taurus Star-forming Region and Neighboring Associations with Gaia (2023)

Spectroscopy of Candidate Members of the Sco-Cen Complex (2022)

A Census of the Circumstellar Disk Populations in the Sco-Cen Complex (2022)

A Census of the Stellar Populations in the Sco-Cen Complex (2022)

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to search for the least massive brown dwarfs in nearby star-forming regions:

Candidates for Substellar Members of the Orion Nebula Cluster from JWST/NIRCam (2024)

JWST/NIRSpec Observations of Brown Dwarfs in the Orion Nebula Cluster (2024)

A JWST Survey for Planetary Mass Brown Dwarfs in IC 348 (2024)

Using JWST to study the first directly imaged planetary mass companion and the coldest known brown dwarf:

JWST/NIRSpec Observations of the Coldest Known Brown Dwarf (2024)

JWST/NIRSpec Observations of the Planetary Mass Companion TWA 27B (2023)