e Joshua Bennett Lovell: Research \& Publications

RESEARCH

I enjoy advising students in research projects on debris disks, protoplanetary disks, and circumstellar matter in general. Current/past projects include:

Primary Supervisor:
Tristan King, MSci student, CfA--Southampton University Research Program, 2025--
Measuring for circumstellar material and winds around Massive Stars in Westerlund 1

Oto Ulrich, MSci student, CfA/SAO--Trinity College Dublin Research Project, 2025--
ALMA modelling of the Debris Ring around the Sun's Nearest Disk-Bearing Neighbour: Eps Eri

Chloe Xu, BSc student, CfA-MIT Undergraduate Research Project, 2025--
Developing FLARE: The Feedback Loop for stellar Activity and Radio Emission

Ramisa Rahman, CfA SAO Research Project (see also Rahman & Lovell et al. 2025), 2023--2025
RADIOHEAD: The RADIO wavelength Hunt for Exoplanetary systems and Disks

Primary Supervisor, 3x high--school students (anon.), CfA Science Research Mentoring Program, 2023--2024
Investigation of an unknown protostar and outflow

Primary Supervisor, Niamh Sweeney, IoA (Cambridge, UK) Summer Research Project, 2021
Measuring disk dispersal rates in the Taurus-Aurigae Star Forming Region


Co-Supervisor:
Joshua Earley, MSci student, CfA--Southampton University Research Program, 2024--2025
Modelling the Giant Protoplanetary Disk Dracula's Chivito

Ellis Jones, MSci student, CfA--Southampton University Research Program, 2024--2025
YSO Hunting in the Massive Star Clusters, Westerlund 1 and 2

PUBLICATIONS

Selected First and Second Author Publications

  1. ALMA reveals an Eccentricity Gradient in the Fomalhaut Debris Disk
    Lovell J. B. et al. 2025, ApJ, in press

  2. SMA and NOEMA reveal asymmetric sub-structure in the protoplanetary disk of IRAS 23077+6707
    Lovell J. B. et al. 2025, ApJ 989 69

  3. The Radiowave Hunt for Young Stellar Object Emission and Demographics (RADIOHEAD): A Radio Luminosity−Spectral Type Dependence in Taurus−Auriga YSOs
    Rahman, R. A & Lovell J. B. et al. 2025, ApJ 981 68

  4. DECaPS and SMA discovery of a large, highly– inclined, class I YSO with an outflow: IRAS 08235–4316
    Lovell J. B. et al. 2025, AJ 169 51

  5. High-resolution Pan-STARRS and SMA observations of IRAS 23077+6707: A giant edge-on protoplanetary disk
    Monsch K. & Lovell J. B. et al. 2024, ApJL 967, L2

  6. SMA detection of an extreme millimeter flare from the young class III star HD 283572
    Lovell J. B. et al. 2024, ApJL 962 L12

  7. Why dust pressure matters in debris discs
    Lynch E. M., Lovell J. B. & Sefilian A. A., 2024, MNRASL 529 L147

  8. Eccentric debris disc morphologies II. Surface brightness variations from overlapping orbits in narrow eccentric discs
    Lovell J. B. & Lynch E. M., 2023, MNRASL 525 L36

  9. ALMA and Keck analysis of Fomalhaut field sources: JWST's Great Dust Cloud is a background object
    Kennedy G. M. & Lovell J. B. et al. 2023, MNRAS 524 2698

  10. High resolution ALMA and HST imaging of kappa CrB: a broad debris disc around a post-main sequence star with low-mass companions
    Lovell J. B. et al. 2022, MNRAS 517 2546

  11. Eccentric debris disc morphologies I: exploring the origin of apocentre and pericentre glows in face-on debris discs
    Lynch E. M. & Lovell J. B. 2021, MNRAS: in press

  12. High-resolution ALMA and HST images of q1 Eri: an asymmetric debris disc with an eccentric Jupiter
    Lovell J. B., Marino, S., Wyatt, M. C., Kennedy, G. M., MacGregor, M. A., Stapelfeldt, K., Dent, B., Krist, J., Matrà, L., Kral, Q., Panić, O., Pearce, T. D., Wilner, D. 2021c, MNRAS, 506, 1978

  13. Rapid CO gas dispersal from NO Lup's class III circumstellar disc
    Lovell J. B., Wyatt, M. C., Ansdell, M., Kama, M., Kennedy, G. M., Manara, C. F., Marino, S., Matrà, L., Rosotti, G., Tazzari, M., Testi, L., Williams, J. P. 2021b, MNRAS, 502, L66

  14. ALMA survey of Lupus class III stars: Early planetesimal belt formation and rapid disc dispersal
    Lovell J. B., Wyatt, M. C., Ansdell, M., Kama, M., Kennedy, G. M., Manara, C. F., Marino, S., Matrà, L., Rosotti, G., Tazzari, M., Testi, L., Williams, J. P. 2021a, MNRAS, 500, 4878

All of my publications can be found on either ADS, Google Scholar, or arXiv.