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Kelly Kosmo O'Neil

Teaching Assistant Professor She/her/hers

Education

  • Ph.D. in Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Los Angeles, 2023
  • M.S. in Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Los Angeles, 2019
  • B.S. in Astrophysics, University of California, Los Angeles, 2015

Selected publications

  • "Improving Orbit Estimates for Incomplete Orbits with a New Approach to Priors - with Applications from Black Holes to Planets", O'Neil, K. Kosmo, et al., 2019, AJ, 158, 1
  • "The Swansong of the Galactic Center Source X7: An Extreme Example of Tidal Evolution near the Supermassive Black Hole", A. Ciurlo, R.C. Campbell, M.R. Morris, T. Do, A.M. Ghez, A. Hees, R. Schodel, K. Kosmo O’Neil, et al., 2023, ApJ, 944, 2
  • "Evidence of a decreased binary fraction for massive stars within 20 milliparsecs of the supermassive black hole at the Galactic center", D. S. Chu, T. Do, A.M. Ghez, A. Hees, A.K. Gautam, A. Ciurlo, S. Naoz, S. Sakai, K. Kosmo O’neil, et al., 2023, ApJ, 948, 2
  • "Stellar Populations in the Central 0.5 pc of Our Galaxy III: The Dynamical Sub-structures", S. Jia, N. Xu, J.R. Lu, D.S. Chu, K. Kosmo O’Neil, et al., 2023, ApJ, 949, 1
  • "A Population of Dust-Enshrouded Objects Orbiting the Galactic Black Hole", Ciurlo A., Campbell R. N., Morris M. R., Do T., Ghez A. M., Hees A., Sitarski B., O'Neil, K. Kosmo, et al., 2020, Nature, 577, 337-340
  • "Relativistic redshift of the star S0-2 orbiting the Galactic center supermassive black hole", Do T., Hees A., Ghez A., Martinez G., Chu D. S., Jia S., Sakai S., Lu J. R., Gautam A. K., O'Neil, K. Kosmo, et al., 2019, Science, 365, 6454
  • "Testing General Relativity with Stellar Orbits around the Supermassive Black Hole in Our Galactic Center", Hees A., Do T., Ghez A. M., Martinez G. D., Naoz S., Becklin E. E., Boehle A., Chappell S., Chu D., Dehghanfar A., Kosmo, K., et al., 2017, Physical Review Letters, 118, 211101

Courses taught

  • PHYS 453/653 - Special and General Relativity

Professional certifications

  • Center for Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning - Associate Level Certificate, 2022