Research Interests
- Pre-main sequence stars
- Star-disk interaction
- Large scale magnetic field structures
- Solar and stellar flares, coronal mass ejections
- Stellar angular momentum evolution
- Solar-stellar connection
- Stellar kinematics: moving groups and associations
Education
- Smith College, BA, 2005
- Vanderbilt University, PhD, 2010
Selected Publications
- Mass Loss in Pre-Main Sequence Stars via Coronal Mass Ejections and Implications for Angular Momentum Loss
- Aarnio, Matt, and Stassun; ApJ, 2012
- Mechanical Equilibrium of Hot, Large-Scale Magnetic Loops on T Tauri Stars
- Aarnio, Llama, Jardine, and Gregory; MNRAS, 2012
- Solar Flares and Coronal Mass Ejections: A Statistically Determined Flare Flux-CME Mass Correlation
- Aarnio, Stassun, Hughes, and McGregor; Solar Physics, 2011
- A Search for Star-Disk Interaction among the Strongest X-ray Flaring Stars in the Orion Nebula Cluster
- Aarnio, Stassun, and Matt; ApJ, 2010
- T Tauri Angular Momentum Loss via Large Scale Eruptive Flaring Events
- Aarnio, Stassun, and Matt; AIPC, 2009
- Surprising dissimilarities in a newly formed pair of `identical twin' stars
- Stassun, Mathieu, Cargile, Aarnio, Stempels, and Geller; Nature, 2008
- A Survey for A Coeval, Comoving Group Associated with HD 141569
- Aarnio, Weinberger, Stassun, Mamajek, and James; AJ, 2008
Presentations
- The Sun as a Star. (15Mb .pdf file)
- Talk given for Saturday Morning Physics, 10 November, 2012
