First-Author Publications and Theses
Directly Measuring White Dwarf Rotation With High-Resolution Spectroscopy
Joshua S. Reding, J. J. Hermes, J. C. Clemens, B. T. Gänsicke
2024 ApJ, in prep
Two New White Dwarfs With Variable Magnetic Balmer Emission Lines
Joshua S. Reding, J. J. Hermes, J. C. Clemens, R. J. Hegedus, B. C. Kaiser
2023 MNRAS, 522, 693
An Isolated White Dwarf with 317 s Rotation and Magnetic Emission
Joshua S. Reding, J. J. Hermes, Z. Vanderbosch, E. Dennihy, B. C. Kaiser, C. B. Mace, B. H. Dunlap, J. C. Clemens
2020 ApJ, 894, 19
The Menagerie of “Failed” Type Ia Supernovae
Joshua S. J. Reding
Doctoral Dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, October 2022
The Standard Candle: Distance Determination of Type Ia Supernova SN 1991M in IC 1151
Joshua S. Reding
Undergraduate Thesis, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, December 2015
Co-Authored Publications
MAUVE: An Ultraviolet Astrophyiscs Probe Mission Concept
M. Balakrishnan, R. Bowens, F. Cruz Aguirre, K. Hughes, R. Jayaraman, E. Kuhn, E. Louden, D. R. Louie, K. McBride, C. McGrath, J. Payne, T. Presser, Joshua S. Reding, E. Rickman, R. Scrandis, T. Symons, L. Wiser, A. Nash, NASA Team X
2024 JATIS, near submission
A Test of Spectroscopic Age Estimates of White Dwarfs using Wide WD+WD Binaries
T. M . Heintz, J. J. Hermes, P.-E. Tremblay, L. B. O. Rouis, Joshua S. Reding, B. C. Kaiser, J. L. van Saders
2024 ApJ, submitted
Discovery of 74 new bright ZZ Ceti stars in the first three years of TESS
A. D. Romero, S. O. Kepler, J. J. Hermes, L. A. Amaral, M. Uzundag, Z. Bognár, K. J. Bell, M. VanWyngarden, A. Baran, I. Pelisoli, G. Oliveira, D. Koester, T. S. Klippel, L. Fraga, P. A. Bradley, M. Vučković, T. M . Heintz, Joshua S. Reding, B. C. Kaiser, S. Charpinet
2022 MNRAS, 511, 1574
Velocity-imaging the rapidly precessing planetary disc around the white dwarf HE 1349-2305 using Doppler tomography
C. J. Manser, E. Dennihy, B. T. Gänsicke, J. H. Debes, N. P. Gentile Fusillo, J. J. Hermes, M. Hollands, P. Izquierdo, B. C. Kaiser, T. R. Marsh, Joshua S. Reding, P. Rodríguez-Gil, D. Veras, D. J. Wilson
2021 MNRAS, 508, 5657
Looking into the cradle of the grave: J22564-5910, a young post-merger hot subdwarf?
J. Vos, I. Pelisoli, J. Budaj, N. Reindl, V. Schaffenroth, A. Bobrick, S. Geier, J. J. Hermes, P. Nemeth, R. Østensen, Joshua S. Reding, M. Uzundag, M. Vuckovic
2021 A&A, 655, A43
I Spy Transits and Pulsations: Empirical Variability in White Dwarfs Using Gaia and the Zwicky Transient Facility
J. A. Guidry, Z. P. Vanderbosch, J. J. Hermes, B. N. Barlow, I. D. Lopez, T. M. Boudreaux, K. A. Corcoran, K. J. Bell, M. H. Montgomery, T. M. Heintz, B. G. Castanheira, Joshua S. Reding, B. H. Dunlap, D. E. Winget, K. I. Winget, J. W. Kuehne
2021 ApJ, 912, 125
Lithium Pollution of a White Dwarf Records the Accretion of an Extrasolar Planetesimal
B. C. Kaiser, J. C. Clemens, S. Blouin, P. Dufour, R. J. Hegedus, Joshua S. Reding, A. Bédard
2021 Science, 371, 168
Five New Post-Main-Sequence Debris Disks with Gaseous Emission
E. Dennihy, S. Xu, S. Lai, A. Bonsor, J. C. Clemens, P. Dufour, B. T. Gänsicke, N. P. Gentile Fusillo, F. Hardy, R. J. Hegedus, B. C. Kaiser, M. Kissler-Patig, B. Klein, C. J. Manser, Joshua S. Reding
2020 ApJ, 905, 5
Partly burnt runaway stellar remnants from peculiar thermonuclear supernovae
R. Raddi, M. A. Hollands, D. Koester, J. J. Hermes, B. T. Gänsicke, U. Heber, K. J. Shen, D. M. Townsley, A. F. Pala, Joshua S. Reding, O. F. Toloza, I. Pelisoli, S. Geier, N. P. Gentile-Fusillo, U. Munari, J. Strader
2019 MNRAS, 489, 1489
Photometric and Spectroscopic Properties of Type Ia Supernova 2018oh with Early Excess Emission from the Kepler 2 Observations
W. Li, X. Wang, J. Vinkó, et al. (inter-collaboration paper)
2019 ApJ, 870, 12
A 15.7-min AM CVn Binary Discovered in K2
Matthew J. Green, J. J. Hermes, T. R. Marsh, D. T. H. Steegs, K. J. Bell, S. P. Littlefair, S. G. Parsons, E. Dennihy, J. T. Fuchs, Joshua S. Reding, B. C. Kaiser, R. P. Ashley, E. Breedt, V. S. Dhillon, N. P. Gentile-Fusillo, P. Kerry, D. I. Sahman
2018 MNRAS, 477, 5646
Proceedings, Presentations, and Posters
Directly Measuring White Dwarf Rotation with High-Resolution Spectroscopy
Joshua S. Reding
2021 North Carolina Space Symposium, April 2021
The Menagerie of “Failed” Type Ia Supernovae
Joshua S. Reding
Invited Talk, Symposium on Horizons in Astronomy and Physics Education (SHAPE), March 2021
It’s Alive! Electric Generators in Space
Joshua S. Reding
Featured Talk, Astronomy on Tap in the Triangle, October 2020
White Dwarf Planets as Unipolar Generators
Joshua S. Reding, J. J. Hermes, J. C. Clemens
236th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, id. 235.02, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 52, No. 3, June 2020
The Confluence of Hardware Failures that Led to the Discovery of the Most Rapidly Rotating Isolated White Dwarf
Joshua S. Reding, J. J. Hermes, J. C. Clemens
Kepler SciCon V, Glendale, CA, March 2019
Measuring the Universe with Stars that Explode
Joshua S. Reding
Featured Talk, Astronomy on Tap in the Triangle, October 2018
An Exploration of Spotted White Dwarfs from K2
Joshua S. Reding, J. J. Hermes, J. C. Clemens
Proceedings of the 21st European White Dwarf Workshop, Austin, TX, July 2018
A Method to Select Variable White Dwarfs from Gaia DR2
J. J. Hermes, K. A. Corcoran, T. M. Boudreaux, B. Barlow, J. Kuehne, Z. Vanderbosch, Joshua S. Reding, B. H. Dunlap, A. Aungwerojwit, B. T. Gänsicke
21st European White Dwarf Workshop, Austin, TX, July 2018
The Optical Variability of the Blazar 3C 454.3 over Three Decades from the Colgate University Foggy Bottom Observatory
T. J. Balonek, Z. R. Weaver, N. Didio, L. Jenks, C. Morris, R. Stahlin, J. Zagorac, K. Chapman, B. D’Auteuil, K. L. Karnes, Joshua S. Reding, A. Sabyr, S. Zhang, S. Boni, C. Rose, A. Rilinger
229th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Grapevine, TX, January, 2017
The 2013-2015 Optical Outburst and Historic Light Curve of the Blazar 3C 454.3
Thomas J. Balonek, Zachary Weaver, Nicholas Didio, Leah Jenks, Carolyn Morris, Jovana Zagorac, Brian D’Auteuil, Katherine L. Karnes, Joshua S. Reding, Caitlin Rose, Anneliese M. Rilinger, Michael T. Lam
227th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Kissimmee, FL, January, 2016
An Exploration of Supernova Light Curve Production Methods: Application to SN 1991M in IC 1151
Joshua S. Reding
2014 Keck Northeast Astronomy Consortium Undergraduate Research Symposium, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, 8 November, 2014
The Effect of High Energy Photons on Planet-Forming Disks in the Orion Nebula
Lauren Bearden, Daniel DeLuzio, Joshua S. Reding, Brandon Zaccardo
2013 Keck Northeast Astronomy Consortium Undergraduate Research Symposium, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 26 October, 2013