Publications

Scientific papers in refereed journals since 2000 are listed below. For a full listing of my papers, conference proceedings, and other scientific publications, please see HERE.

  • “Perspectives on the Indigenous Worldviews in Informal Science Education Conference”, A. Venkatesan & A. Burgasser 2017, The Physics Teacher, 55, 456. Featured part of “Race and Physics Teaching” special collection.
  • “The Lyα-LyC Connection: Evidence for an Enhanced Contribution of UV-faint Galaxies to Cosmic Reionization”, M. Dijkstra, M. Gronke & A. Venkatesan 2016, Ap.J. , 828, 71
  • “Discovery of a Gas-rich Companion to the Extremely Metal-poor Galaxy DDO 68”, J. M. Cannon et al. 2014, ApJ Letters, 787, L1
  • “The Escape Fraction of Ionizing Radiation from Galaxies”, A. J. Benson, A. Venkatesan & J. M. Shull 2013, ApJ, 770, 76
  • “Impacts of Dark Stars on Reionization and Signatures in the Cosmic Microwave Background”, P. Scott, A. Venkatesan et al. 2011, ApJ, 742, 129
  • “X-rays and hard ultraviolet radiation from the first galaxies: ionization bubbles and 21-cm observations”, A. Venkatesan & A. J. Benson 2011, MNRAS, 417, 2264
  • “Constraints on First-Light Ionizing Sources from Optical Depth of the Cosmic Microwave Background”, J. M. Shull & A. Venkatesan 2008, ApJ, 685, 1
  •  “A Cosmic Milestone: Constraints from Metal-Poor Halo Stars on the Cosmological Reionization Epoch”, A. Venkatesan 2006, ApJ Letters, 641, L81
  •  “Detecting the transition from Pop III to Pop II stars”, A. Venkatesan 2006, New Astronomy Reviews, 50, 108
  •  “The Radiative Transport of Dust in Primordial Galaxies and Second-Generation Star Formation”, A. Venkatesan, B. B. Nath & J. M. Shull 2006, ApJ, 640, 31
  •  “Nucleosynthesis, Reionization, and the Mass Function of the First Stars”, J. Tumlinson, A. Venkatesan & J. M. Shull 2004, ApJ, 612, 602
  • “Early Enrichment of Quasars by First Stars”, A. Venkatesan, R. Schneider & A. Ferrara 2004, MNRAS Letters, 349, L43
  •  “The Ionizing Efficiency of the First Stars”, A. Venkatesan & J. W. Truran 2003, ApJL, 594, L1
  •  “Feedback From the First Supernovae in Protogalaxies: The Fate of the Generated Metals”, K. Wada & A. Venkatesan 2003, Ap.J., 591, 38
  •  “Evolving Spectra of Pop III Stars: Consequences for Cosmological Reionization”, A. Venkatesan, J. Tumlinson, & J. M. Shull 2003, Ap.J., 584, 621
  •  “Cosmological Effects of the First Stars: Evolving Spectra of Population III”, J. Tumlinson, J. M. Shull, & A. Venkatesan 2003, Ap.J., 584, 608
  •  “Mutual Constraints Between Reionization Models and Parameter Extraction From Cosmic Microwave Background Data”, A. Venkatesan 2002, Ap.J., 572, 15
  •  “Heating and Ionization of the Intergalactic Medium by an Early X-Ray Background”, A. Venkatesan, M. L. Giroux, & J. M. Shull 2001, Ap.J., 563, 1
  •  “The Optical Depth to Reionization as a Probe of Cosmological and Astrophysical Parameters”, A. Venkatesan 2000, Ap.J., 537, 55