Education Background

  • Ph.D. - Astronomy, 2022 Boston University
  • M.A. - Astronomy, 2018 Boston University
  • B.S. - Physics, 2016 Clarkson University

Experience

Assistant Professor Department of Physics, Clarkson University, 2023-present

Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, 2022-2023

Predoctoral Fellow, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, 2017-2022

Courses Taught

  • PH131 - Physics I
  • PH132 - Physics II
  • PH131/PH132 Team Design Labs
  • PH157 - Elementary Astronomy

Grants

Principle Investigator, Chandra/SAO/NASA, Spin Me Right Round: Testing Accretion Spin-up in Wide Binary Main-Sequence Carbon Stars, $71,486

Principle Investigator, Hubble/STScI/NASA, Spin Me Right Round: Testing Accretion Spin-up in Wide Binary Main-Sequence Carbon Stars, $48,975

Publications

Nagarajan, P., El-Badry, K., Rodriguez, A. C., van Roestel, J., & Roulston, B. (2023), Spectroscopic follow-up of black hole and neutron star candidates in ellipsoidal variables from Gaia DR3, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 524, 4367.

Yamaguchi, N., El-Badry, K., Rodriguez, A. C., Gull, M., Roulston, B. R., & Vanderbosch, Z. P. (2023), Sodium enhancement in evolved cataclysmic variables, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 524, 740.

El-Badry, K., Shen, K. J., Chandra, V., Bauer, E. B., Fuller, J., Strader, J., Chomiuk, L., Naidu, R. P., Caiazzo, I., Rodriguez, A. C., Nagarajan, P., Yamaguchi, N., Vanderbosch, Z. P., Roulston, B. R., Gänsicke, B., Han, J. J., Burdge, K. B., Filippenko, A. V., Brink, T. G., & Zheng, W. (2023), The fastest stars in the Galaxy, The Open Journal of Astrophysics, 6, 28.

Astropy Collaboration, including Roulston, B. R., (2022), The Astropy Project: Sustaining and Growing a Community-oriented Open-source Project and the Latest Major Release (v5.0) of the Core Package, The Astrophysical Journal, 935, 167.

Green, P. J., Pulgarin-Duque, L., Anderson, S. F., MacLeod, C. L., Eracleous, M., Ruan, J. J., Runnoe, J., Graham, M., Roulston, B. R., Schneider, D. P., Ahlf, A., Bizyaev, D., Brownstein, J. R., del Casal, S. J., Dodd, S. A., Hoover, D., Matt, C., Merloni, A., Pan, K., Ramirez, A., Ridder, M., & Moseley, S. (2022), The Time Domain Spectroscopic Survey: Changing-look Quasar Candidates from Multi-epoch Spectroscopy in SDSS-IV, The Astrophysical Journal, 933, 180.

Roulston, B. R., Green, P. J., Montez, R., Filippazzo, J., Drake, J. J., Toonen, S., Anderson, S. F., Eracleous, M., & Frank, A. (2022), New Clues to the Evolution of Dwarf Carbon Stars From Their Variability and X-Ray Emission, The Astrophysical Journal, 926, 210.

Roulston, B. R., Green, P. J., Toonen, S., & Hermes, J. J. (2021), Unexpected Short-period Variability in Dwarf Carbon Stars from the Zwicky Transient Facility, The Astrophysical Journal, 922, 33.

Roulston, B. R., Green, P. J., & Kesseli, A. Y. (2020), Classifying Single Stars and Spectroscopic Binaries Using Optical Stellar Templates, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 249, 34.

Green, P. J., Montez, R., Mazzoni, F., Filippazzo, J., Anderson, S. F., De Marco, O., Drake, J. J., Farihi, J., Frank, A., Kastner, J. H., Miszalski, B., & Roulston, B. R. (2019), A Chandra Study: Are Dwarf Carbon Stars Spun Up and Rejuvenated by Mass Transfer?, The Astrophysical Journal, 881, 49.

Roulston, B. R., Green, P. J., Ruan, J. J., MacLeod, C. L., Anderson, S. F., Badenes, C., Brownstein, J. R., Schneider, D. P., & Stassun, K. G. (2019), The Time-domain Spectroscopic Survey: Radial Velocity Variability in Dwarf Carbon Stars, The Astrophysical Journal, 877, 44.

Contact

Email:
broulsto@clarkson.edu

Office Phone Number: 315/268-2349

Office Location: 251 Science Center

Clarkson Box Number: CU Box 5820