Kevin Andrew McKinnon

Employment

• University of Toronto Postdoctoral Researcher
  2024 - Present
• Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics Postdoctoral Researcher
  2024 - 2024
• University of California, Santa Cruz PhD Student
  2017 - 2023

Education

• University of California Santa Cruz PhD
  2017 - 2023
• University of California Santa Cruz Masters of Science
  2017 - 2019
• Queen's University Bachelor of Science, Honours
  2013 - 2017

Projects & Funding

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Publications (78)

• Reconstructing the orbits of Milky Way dwarf galaxies: A Large Magellanic Cloud perspective
  Astronomy & Astrophysics 2026 DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202661398
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• The Nineteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
  The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 2026 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/ae4697
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• Dark Matter in Draco and Boötes I: Hints of a Core in an Ultra-Faint Dwarf from Simulation-Based Inference
  arXiv e-prints 2026 DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2606.26218
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• Reconstructing the orbits of Milky Way dwarf galaxies: An LMC perspective
  arXiv e-prints 2026 DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2606.13787
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• Hubble Astrometry for the Local Group and Beyond in the 2030s
  arXiv e-prints 2026
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• Optimal and Unbiased Fluxes from Up-the-ramp Detectors under Variable Illumination
  Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2026 DOI: 10.1088/1538-3873/ae5687
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• Simulating Roman+Gaia Combined Astrometry, Parallaxes, and Proper Motions
  Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2026 DOI: 10.1088/1538-3873/ae5a73
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• A near field guide to Roman's wide-area surveys
  arXiv e-prints 2026 DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2603.12981
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• HSTPROMO Internal Proper-motion Kinematics of Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies. II. Velocity Anisotropy and Dark Matter Cusp Slope of Sculptor
  The Astrophysical Journal 2026 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae1f8a
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• The Proper Motion of Draco II with HST Using Multiple Reference Frames and Methodologies
  Jack T. Warfield, Kevin McKinnon, Sangmo Tony Sohn +13 more
  The Astrophysical Journal 2026 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae29f2
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• A Path to an All-Sky Survey with Roman
  arXiv e-prints 2026 DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2602.21280
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• Optimal and Unbiased Fluxes from Up-the-Ramp Detectors under Variable Illumination
  arXiv e-prints 2026
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• Simulating Roman+Gaia Combined Astrometry, Parallaxes, and Proper Motions
  arXiv e-prints 2026 DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2602.00310
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• Sloan Digital Sky Survey. V. Pioneering Panoptic Spectroscopy
  Juna A. Kollmeier, Hans‐Walter Rix, Conny Aerts

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  • James Aird
  • Pablo Vera Alfaro
  • Andrés Almeida
  • Scott F. Anderson
  • Stefan Arseneau
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  The Astronomical Journal 2026 DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/ae0576
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• The Proper Motion of Draco II with HST using Multiple Reference Frames and Methodologies
  arXiv e-prints 2025 DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2510.24849
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• Constraining the Milky Way Halo Accretion History with Simulated Stellar Halos: Designing the HALO7D-X Survey
  The Astrophysical Journal 2025 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ade43d
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• HSTPROMO Internal Proper Motion Kinematics of Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies: II. Velocity Anisotropy and Dark Matter Cusp Slope of Sculptor
  arXiv e-prints 2025 DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2508.20711
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• Dynamically Mapping the Satellite Galaxies in the Outer Halo of the Milky Way
  HST Proposal 2025
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• Proper Motions of the M31 Satellites: The missing pieces of the 6D puzzle
  HST Proposal 2025
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• Sloan Digital Sky Survey-V: Pioneering Panoptic Spectroscopy
  arXiv e-prints 2025 DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2507.06989
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