Justin Hom is a PhD in Astrophysics at the School of Earth and Space Exploration. He studies direct imaging of circumstellar dusty disks around other stars, similar to the Kuiper Belt in the Solar System. He has experience using and observing with many ground-based observatories around the world.
Education
PhD, Astrophysics, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University
B. A., Astrophysics, University of California, Berkeley
B. A., Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Gemini Planet Imager - Large and Long Program Disk Team (GPI-LLP)
Publications
Hom, J., Patience, J., Chen, C. et al., A Uniform Analysis of Debris Disk Morphology with the Gemini Planet Imager, In Prep
Hom, J., Patience, J., Knierman, K. et al., A Pilot Study of the First Online Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience for Online Degree-Seeking Astronomy Students, In Prep
Hom, J., Patience, J., Esposito, T. et al., First Scattered-Light Images of Four Debris Disks in Scorpius-Centaurus with the Gemini Planet Imager, 2020, AJ, 159, 31H
Duchêne, G., Hom, J., Rice, M. et al., The Gemini Planet Imager View of the HD 32297 Debris Disk, 2020, AJ, 159, 251D
Crotts, K. A., Matthews, B., and 17 co-authors including Hom, J.,A Deep Polarimetric Study of the Asymmetrical Debris Disk HD 106906, 2021, ApJ, 915, 58C
Ward-Duong, K., Patience, J., and 56 co-authors including Hom, J.,Gemini Planet Imager Spectroscopy of the Dusty Substellar Companion HD 206893 B, 2021, AJ, 161, 5W
Mazoyer, J., Arriaga, P., Hom, J., et al., DiskFM: A forward modeling tool for disk analysis with coronagraphic instruments, 2020, SPIE, 11447E, 59M
Arriaga, P., Fitzgerald, M., and co-authors including Hom, J., Multiband Polarimetric Imaging of HR 4796A with the Gemini Planet Imager, 2020, AJ, 160, 79A
Bruzzone, S., Metchev, S., and 54 co-authors including Hom, J., Imaging the 44 AU Kuiper Belt-analogue Debris Ring around HD 141569A with GPI Polarimetry, 2020, AJ, 159, 53S
Chen, C., Mazoyer, J., and 33 co-authors including Hom, J.,Multiband GPI Imaging of the HR 4796A Debris Disk, 2020, ApJ, 898, 55C
De Rosa, R., Nielsen, E., and 52 co-authors including Hom, J.,An Updated Visual Orbit of the Directly-Imaged Exoplanet 51 Eridani b and Prospects for a Dynamical Mass Measurement with GAIA, 2020, AJ, 159, 1D
Esposito, T., Kalas, P., and 61 co-authors including Hom., J.,Debris Disk Results from the Gemini Planet Imager Exoplanet Survey's Polarimetric Imaging Campaign, 2020, AJ, 160, 24E
Nguyen, M., De Rosa, R., and 52 co-authors including Hom, J.,HD 165054: An Astrometric Calibration Field for High-Contrast Imagers in Baade's Window, 2020, AJ, 159, 244N
Nielsen, E., De Rosa, R., and 62 co-authors including Hom, J.,The Gemini Planet Imager Exoplanet Survey: Giant Planet and Brown Dwarf Demographics From 10–100 AU, 2019, AJ, 158, 13N
De Rosa, R., Nielsen, E., and 52 co-authors including Hom, J.,Detection of a Low-Mass Stellar Companion to the Accelerating A2IV Star HR 1645, 2019, AJ, 158, 226D
Honors / Awards
ASU Graduate Completion Fellow, 2022-2023
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program, Honorable Mention 2019
Graduate Faculties / Mentoring History
Sundial Mentoring Program, 2018-2019
SESE Graduate Council, 2019-2021, Advocate of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Work History
Graduate Teaching Associate, 2019-2022
Service
Astronomy Graduate Student Journal Club Facilitator, 2019-2021