Kevin Heng

Employment

• University of Bern Professor and CSH Director
  2015 - Present

Education

• University of Colorado Ph.D
  2007 - Present
• Institute for Advanced Study Member (postdoctoral fellowship), Frank & Peggy Taplin Member
  2007 - 2010

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (106)

• Reconciliation of M Dwarf and FGK Stellar Abundances with Galactic Chemical Evolution
  The Astrophysical Journal 2026 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae77e0
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• The effect of atmospheric chemistry on the optical geometric albedos of hot Jupiters
  Astronomy & Astrophysics 2026 DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202452666
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• Dynamics of Y dwarf atmospheres
  Astronomy & Astrophysics 2026 DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202556972
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• Clouds and chemistry across the brown dwarf T-Y sequence: Insights from JWST atmospheric retrievals
  Astronomy & Astrophysics 2026 DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202556207
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• The Albedo Problem and Cloud Cover on Hot Jupiters
  The Astrophysical Journal Letters 2026 DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ae2a1f
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• The Gradient of Mean Molecular Weight across the Radius Valley
  The Astrophysical Journal 2025 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae0acc
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• Near-instantaneous Atmospheric Retrievals and Model Comparison with FASTER
  The Astrophysical Journal Letters 2025 DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/adc7aa
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• Galaxy Spectroscopy without Spectra: Galaxy Properties from Photometric Images with Conditional Diffusion Models
  The Astrophysical Journal 2024 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad8bbe
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• The quantum yield of O(1S) in CO2 photolysis retrieved from the Martian atmosphere
  Astronomy & Astrophysics 2024 DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202450588
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• Information content of JWST spectra of WASP-39b
  Astronomy & Astrophysics 2024 DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202348802
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• Atmospheric Chemistry of Secondary and Hybrid Atmospheres of Super Earths and Sub-Neptunes
  The Astrophysical Journal 2024 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad217c
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• Diverse Carbonates in Exoplanet Oceans Promote the Carbon Cycle
  2023 DOI: 10.31223/X59M4X
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• The Transient Outgassed Atmosphere of 55 Cancri e
  The Astrophysical Journal Letters 2023 DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/acfe05
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• Intercomparison of Brown Dwarf Model Grids and Atmospheric Retrieval Using Machine Learning
  The Astrophysical Journal 2023 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ace530
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• Astrometric Accelerations as Dynamical Beacons: Discovery and Characterization of HIP 21152 B, the First T-dwarf Companion in the Hyades*
  The Astronomical Journal 2023 DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/aca408
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• Diverse Carbonates in Exoplanet Oceans Promote the Carbon Cycle
  The Astrophysical Journal Letters 2023 DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/aca90c
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• The stable climate of KELT-9b
  Astronomy & Astrophysics 2022 DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202243823
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• How Do We Optimally Sample Model Grids of Exoplanet Spectra?
  The Astrophysical Journal 2022 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac7801
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• Retrieval Study of Brown Dwarfs across the L-T Sequence
  The Astrophysical Journal 2022 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac63b9
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• CHEOPS geometric albedo of the hot Jupiter HD 209458 b
  Astronomy & Astrophysics 2022 DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202243082
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