The Queens College White Dwarf Research Group

Welcome to the home page for Keaton Bell’s astronomy research group headquartered at Queens College of the City University of New York. Together, we work on problems relating to white dwarf stars, especially focusing on their pulsations and exoplanets, as well as more general problems in time domain astronomy and stellar astrophysics.

Current Group Members

Recent Group Publications

• “White Dwarf Variability,” Bell, K. J. 2025, Encyclopedia of Astrophysics, First Edition, Elsevier, Eds: Ilya Mandel
• “APOKASC-3: The Third Joint Spectroscopic and Asteroseismic Catalog for Evolved Stars in the Kepler Fields,” Pinsonneault, M. H., Zinn, J. C., Tayar, J., et al. (incl. Bell, K. J.) 2024, ApJS, 276, 69
• “Photometric White Dwarf Rotation,” Oliveira da Rosa, G., Kepler, S. O., Soethe, L. T. T., Romero, A. D., and Bell, K. J. 2024, ApJ, 974, 314
• “Following the Pulsations in the Long Term Cooling of GW Librae and V386 Serpentis“, Szkody, P., van Roestel, J., Bell, K. J., et al. 2024, AJ, 168, 114