Refereed Publications

23 total, 8 first author, 4 second or third author, 11 nth author.
326 citations. Mean citations per paper = 14.2. h-index (all) = 10. h-index (1st author only) = 7 (11/28/2016)
* indicates paper lead by student
  1. Leroy, Adam; Usero, Antonio; Schruba, Andreas; Bigiel, Frank; Kruijssen, Diederik; Kepley, Amanda; Blanc, Guillermo; Bolatto, Alberto; Cormier, Diane; Gallagher, Molly; Hughes, Annie; Jimenez-Donaire, Maria; Rosolowsky, Erik W.; and Schinnerer, Eva. “Millimeter-Wave Line Ratios and Sub-beam Volume Density Distributions”, AAS Journals, accepted.
  2. Basu, Aritra; Mao, S.A.; Kepley, Amanda A.; Robishaw, Timothy; Zweibel, Ellen G.; and Gallagher III, John S. 2016, “Detection of a ∼20 kpc coherent magnetic field in the outskirt of merging spirals: the Antennae galaxies”, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 464, 1003.
  3. Kepley, Amanda A.; Leroy, Adam K.; Johnson, Kelsey E.; Sandstrom, Karin; C.-H. Rosie Chen. 2016, “The Molecular Clouds Fueling a 1/5 Solar Metallicity Starburst”, Astrophysical Journal, 828, 50.
  4. Bigiel, Frank; Leroy, Adam K.; Jiménez-Donaire, Maria J.; Pety, Jérôme; Usero, Antonio; Cormier, Diane; Bolatto, Alberto; Garcia-Burillo, Santiago; Colombo, Dario; González-García, Manuel; Hughes, Annie; Kepley, Amanda A.; Kramer, Carsten; Sandstrom, Karin; Schinnerer, Eva; Schruba, Andreas; Schuster, Karl; Tomicic, Neven; Zschaechner, Laura. 2016, “The EMPIRE Survey: Systematic Variations in the Dense Gas Fraction and Star Formation Efficiency from Full-disk Mapping of M51”, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 822, 26.
  5. Li, Jiang-Tao; Beck, Rainer; Dettmar, Ralf-Jurgen; Heald, George; Irwin, Judith A.; Johnson, Megan; Kepley, Amanda; Krause, Marita; Murphy, Eric; Orlando, Elena; Rand, Richard; Strong, Andrew; Vargas, Carlos; Walterbos, René; Wang, Daniell; Wiegert, Theresa. 2015, "CHANG-ES VI: Probing Supernova Energy Deposition in Spiral Galaxies Through Multi-Wavelength Relationships", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 456, 1723
  6. ​* Walker, Lisa May; Johnson, Kelsey E.; Gallagher, Sarah C.; Privon, George C.;  Kepley, Amanda A.; Whelan, David G.; Desjardins, Tyler D.; Zabludoff, Ann I. 2015, "Global Properties of Neutral Hydrogen in Compact Groups", Astronomical Journal, 151, 30.
  7. Wiegert, T., Irwin, J., Miskolczi, A., and 21 co-authors including Kepley, Amanda. 2015, "CHANG-ES. IV. Radio Continuum Emission of 35 Edge-on Galaxies Observed with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array in D Configuration—Data Release 1", Astronomical Journal, 150, 81.
  8. ALMA Partnership, Fomalont, E.B., Vlahakis, C., and 246 co-authors including Kepley, Amanda. 2015, "The 2014 ALMA Long Baseline Campaign: An Overview", Astrophysical Journal Letters, 808, L1.
  9. Chennamangalam, Jayanth; Scott, Simon; Jones, Glenn; Chen, Hong; Ford, John; Kepley, Amanda; Lorimer, D. R.; Nie, Jun; Prestage, Richard; Anish Roshi, D.;  Wagner, Mark; Werhimer, Dan. 2014, "A GPU-Based Wide-Band Radio Spectrometer", Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 31, e048.
  10.  Salas, Pedro; Galaz, Gaspar; Salter, Demerese; Herrera-Camus, Rodrigo; Bolatto, Alberto D.; Kepley, Amanda. 2014, "Extended HCN and HCO+ emission in the starburst galaxy M82", Astrophysical Journal, 797, 134.
  11.  Kepley, Amanda A.; Reines, Amy E.; Johnson, Kelsey E.; and Walker, Lisa May. 2014, "High Resolution Radio and Optical Observations of the Central Starburst in the Low Metallicity Dwarf Galaxy Merger II Zw 40", Astronomical Journal, 147, 43.
  12. Kepley, Amanda A.; Leroy, Adam, K.; Frayer, David; Marvil, Josh; Walter, Fabian. 2014, "The Green Bank Telescope Maps the Dense, Star-Forming Gas in the Nearby Starburst Galaxy M82", Astrophysical Journal Letters, 780, L13.
  13. *Rabidoux, Katie; Pisano, D.J.; Kepley, Amanda A.; Johnson, Kelsey E.; Balser, Dana S. 2014. "Radio Continuum Observations of Local Star-forming Galaxies Using the Caltech Continuum Backend on the Green Bank Telescope", Astrophysical Journal, 780, 19.
  14. Indebetouw, Remy; Brogan, Crystal; Chen, C.-H. Rosie; Leroy, Adam; Johnson, Kelsey; Muller, Erik; Madden, Suzanne; Cormier, Diane; Galliano, Frederic; Hughes, Annie; Hunter, Todd; Kawamura, Akiko; Kepley, Amanda; Lebouteiller, Vianney; Meixner, Margaret; Oliveira, Joana M.; Onishi, Toshikazu; Vasyunina, Tatiana. 2013, "ALMA Resolves 30 Doradus: Sub-parsec Molecular Cloud Structure Near the Closest Super-Star Cluster", Astrophysical Journal,   774, 73. 
  15. *Mullan, B.; Kepley, A.A.; Maybhate, A.; English, J.; Knierman, K.; Hibbard, J.E.; Bastian, N.; Charlton, J.C.; Durrell, P.R.; Gronwall, C.; Elmegreen, D.;  Konstantopoulos. 2013, "Under Pressure: Star Clusters and the Neutral Hydrogen Medium of Tidal Tails", Astrophysical Journal, 768, 194.
  16. Hunter, Deidre A.; Fakhri, Zahedy; Bowsher, Emily C.; Wilcots, Eric M.; Kepley, Amanda A.; and Gaal, Veronika. 2011, "Mapping the Extended HI Distribution of Three Dwarf Galaxies", Astronomical Journal, 142, 173.
  17. Kepley, Amanda A.; Chomiuk, Laura; Johnson, Kelsey E.; Goss, W.M.; Balser, Dana S.; and Pisano, D.J. 2011, "Unveiling Extragalactic Star Formation Using Radio Recombination Lines: An Expanded Very Large Array Pilot Study with NGC 253", Astrophysical Journal Letters, 739, L24.
  18. Kepley, Amanda A.; Zweibel, Ellen G.; Wilcots, Eric M.; Johnson, Kelsey E.; Robishaw, Timothy. 2011. "The Magnetic Field of the Irregular Galaxy NGC 4214”, Astrophysical Journal, 736, 139.
  19. *Mullan, B.; Konstantopoulos, I.S.; Kepley, A.; Lee, K.H.; Charlton, J.C.; Knierman, K.; Bastian, N.; Chandar, R.; Durrell, P.R.; Elmegreen, D.; English, J.;  Gallagher, S.C.; Gronwall, C.; Hibbard, J.E.; Hunsberger, S.; Johnson, K.E.; Maybhate, A.; Palma, C.; Trancho, G.; and Vacca, W.D. 2011, “, G.; and Vacca, W.D. 2011, “Star Clusters in the Tidal Tails of Interacting Galaxies: Photometric Properties and the Tail EnvironmentAstrophysical Journal, 731, 93.
  20. Kepley, Amanda A.; Mühle, Stefanie; Wilcots, Eric M.; Zweibel, Ellen G.; and Klein, Uli. 2010, “The Role of the Magnetic Field in the Interstellar Medium of the Post-Starburst Dwarf Irregular Galaxy NGC 1569“, Astrophysical Journal, 712, 536-557.
  21. Morrison, H.L.; Helmi, A.; Sun, J.; Gu, R.; Norris, J.E.; Harding, P.; Kinman, T.D.; Kepley, A. A.; Freeman, K.C.; Williams, M.; Van Duyne, J. 2009, "Fashionably Late? Building up the Milky Way's Inner Halo", Astrophysical Journal, 694, 130-143.
  22. Kepley, Amanda A.; Morrison, Heather L.; Helmi, Amina; Kinman, T.D.; van Duyne, Jeffrey; Martin, John C.; Harding, Paul; Norris, John E.; and Freeman,  Kenneth C. 2007, “Halo Star Streams in the Solar Neighborhood”, Astronomical Journal, 134, 1579-1595.
  23. Kepley, Amanda A.; Wilcots, Eric M.; Hunter, Deidre A.; Nordgren, Tyler. 2007, “A High-Resolution Study of the HI Content of Local Group Dwarf Irregular Galaxy WLM”, Astronomical Journal, 133, 2242-2257.

Documentation and Technical Memos

  1. Kepley, Amanda A.; Tsutsumi, Takahiro; Indebetouw, Remy; Brogan, Crystal; Mason, Brian; McNichols, Andrew; Harrison, Rachel; Meyer, Jennifer Donovan; Hibbard, John; Yoon, Ilsang. 2016, “Developing a General Automasking Algorithm for the ALMA Imaging Pipeline”, CAS-9090 (internal document).
  2. Kepley, Amanda A.; Meyer, Jennifer Donovan; Brogan, Crystal; Moullet, Arielle; Hibbard, John; Indebetouw, Remy; Mason, Brian. 2016, “Not letting the perfect be the enemy of the good: steps toward science-ready ALMA images”, Proc. SPIE 9910, Observatory Operations: Strategies, Processes, and Systems VI, 99100C (July 15, 2016); doi:10.1117/12.2231737.
  3. Brogan, C., Indebetouw, R., Hunter, T. Hibbard, J., Mason, B., Kepley, A., Donovan Meyer, J., Harrison, R., and McNichols, A. 2016, “Benchmark Imaging and Simulations for Comparison with the C3R4 Pipeline”, CAS-8390 (internal document).
  4. Hibbard, J., Indebetouw, R., and Kepley, Amanda. 2015, “NAASC Test of C3R3 Imaging Pipeline”, SCIREQ-339 (internal document).
  5. R. M. Prestage and 17 co-authors including A. Kepley, 2015, "The versatile GBT astronomical spectrometer (VEGAS): Current status and future plans," Radio Science Meeting (Joint with AP-S Symposium), 2015 USNC-URSI, Vancouver, BC, Canada, pp. 294-294.
  6. Kepley, Amanda A. 2014, edited GBT Proposer's Guide (Section 3.3) and GBT Observer's Guide (Section 6.2) for new spectral line backend (VEGAS).
  7. Kepley, Amanda A.; Maddalena, Ron; and Prestage, Richard. 2014, "Recommended Minimum Switching Periods for VEGAS." GBT Memo 288. (Green Bank, WV: NRAO). https://safe.nrao.edu/wiki/bin/view/GB/Knowledge/GBTMemos
  8. Di Francesco, J., Johnstone, D., Matthews, B.C., et al. (including A. Kepley). 2013, "The Science Cases for Building a Band 1 Receiver Suite for ALMA", arXiv:1310.1604 
  9. Kepley, Amanda A. 2013, "How to Observe" on astrobetter.com, http://www.astrobetter.com/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=How+to+observe
  10. Heiles, Carl; Robishaw, Tim; Kepley, Amanda; and Furea Kiuchi. 2012, "All-Stokes Single Dish Data with the RHSTK (Robishaw/Heiles SToKes) Software Package." (Green Bank, WV: NRAO)
  11. Kepley, Amanda A. 2012, "OPT Quickstart Guide." (Socorro, NM: NRAO). http://evlaguides.nrao.edu/index.php?title=Category:OPT-QuickStart (now depreciated)
  12. Kepley, Amanda A. 2007, AIPS Scripting Guide: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. http://aipsforum.blogspot.com/2007/04/teaching-monkey-to-dance-scripting-aips.html