Adrian Price-Whelan

Employment

• Simons Foundation Research Scientist
  2025 - Present
• Simons Foundation Associate Research Scientist
  2021 - 2025
• Simons Foundation Flatiron Research Fellow
  2019 - 2021
• Princeton University Lyman J. Spitzer, Jr. fellow
  2016 - 2019

Education

• Columbia University PhD
  2011 - 2016

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (134)

• Phase Spirals across Galactic Disks. II. Using Large-scale “Macrospirals” in Phase-spiral Amplitude to Derive Perturbation Times
  The Astrophysical Journal 2026 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aea6b1
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• No Stream Left Unscathed: The Imprint of a Host Galaxy
  The Astrophysical Journal 2026 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae89af
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• Evidence for the first globular cluster stellar stream beyond the Milky Way
  Nature 2026 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-026-10878-w
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• The Milky Way–Large Magellanic Cloud interaction with simulation-based inference
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2026 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stag1254
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• The Orbital Eccentricities of Planets in the Kinematic Thin and Thick Galactic Disks
  The Astronomical Journal 2026 DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/ae71bf
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• Quantifying the Milky Way, LMC and their interaction using all-sky kinematics of outer halo stars
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2026 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stag926
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• Measurement of Substructure from the Kinematics of the GD-1 Stellar Stream
  The Astrophysical Journal 2026 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae6776
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• Inferring Stellar Densities with Flexible Models. I. The Distribution of RR Lyrae in the Milky Way with Gaia DR3
  The Astronomical Journal 2026 DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/ae4aaa
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• StarStream on Gaia: Stream Discovery and Mass-loss Rate of Globular Clusters
  The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 2026 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/ae471f
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• The Milky Way’s Circular Velocity Curve Measured Using Element Abundance Gradients
  The Astrophysical Journal 2026 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae43de
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• The Astrometric Resoeccentric Degeneracy: Eccentric Single Planets Mimic 2:1 Resonant Planet Pairs in Astrometry
  The Astrophysical Journal Letters 2026 DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ae42cd
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• A simulation-based inference approach to the dynamics of the MW–LMC system - validation
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2025 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staf2111
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• StarStream: Automatic Detection Algorithm for Stellar Streams
  The Astrophysical Journal 2025 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae1610
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• nwb4edu: an Online Textbook for Teaching and Learning with NWB Datasets
  Journal of Open Source Education 2025 DOI: 10.21105/jose.00309
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• OTI on FIRE: Testing the Efficacy of Orbital Torus Imaging to Recover the Galactic Potential
  The Astrophysical Journal 2025 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae0584
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• paired: A Statistical Framework for Detecting Stellar Binarity with Gaia RVs. I. Sensitivity to Unresolved Binaries
  The Astrophysical Journal 2025 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/adfb68
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• Semianalytic Modeling of Dark Matter Subhalo Encounters with Thin Stellar Streams: Statistical Predictions for GD-1-like Streams in Cold Dark Matter
  The Astrophysical Journal 2025 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/adf740
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• Tracing Red Giant Members of the Globular Cluster Palomar 5 with APOGEE and Gaia
  The Astrophysical Journal 2025 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/adf645
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• Delayed and Displaced: The Impact of Binary Interactions on Core-collapse SN Feedback
  The Astronomical Journal 2025 DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/adf55e
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• Counterculture Stars: Slow and Retrograde Stars with Low-alpha Disk Abundances
  The Astrophysical Journal 2025 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ade2d2
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