The AAS journals are supported by a diverse and international team of editors. These scientists — all active members of the astronomy, planetary sciences, solar physics, and laboratory astrophysics community — are here to help you improve your articles and make sure the best version of your work is published. You can find more information about the team below.
 | Ethan VishniacJohns Hopkins University, Maryland, US Ethan is a theoretical astrophysicist who conducts research on the dynamics of magnetic fields in accretion disks, stars and galaxies. Since 2006, Ethan has served as Editor in Chief of the Astrophysical Journal. He is now Editor in Chief of all AAS publications. |
All AAS Journals | Editor in Chief | Ethan Vishniac |
| Associate Editor in Chief | Frank Timmes | |
ApJ Letters | Editor | Frederic Rasio |
| Deputy Editor | Luis C. Ho | |
| Associate Editor | Rekha Jain | |
Planetary Science Journal | Editor | Faith Vilas |
Research Notes of the AAS | Editor | Chris Lintott |
Planetary | Brian Jackson | Boise State University |
| Edgard G. Rivera-Valentin | Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab | |
| Faith Vilas | Planetary Science Institute | |
| Maria Womack | University of Central Florida | |
AJ | Lee Armus | California Institute of Technology |
| Giovanni Carraro | University of Padova, Italy | |
| Christopher Conselice | University of Manchester, UK | |
| Tiziana Di Matteo | Carnegie Mellon University | |
| Michael Endl | University of Texas at Austin | |
| Eric Feigelson | Pennsylvania State University | |
| Manolis K. Georgoulis | Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab | |
| Brad Gibson | University of Hull, UK | |
| Shadia Habbal | University of Hawaii | |
| Dieter Hartmann | Clemson University | |
| Greg Herczeg | KIAA/Peking University, China | |
| Luis C. Ho | Peking University, China | |
| Rekha Jain | University of Sheffield, UK | |
| Steve Kawaler | Iowa State University | |
| Enrico Landi | University of Michigan | |
| Chris Lintott | University of Oxford, UK | |
| Ilya Mandel | Monash University, Australia | |
| Smadar Naoz | University of California, Los Angeles | |
| Priya Natarajan | Yale University | |
| Darin Ragozzine | Brigham Young University | |
| Mubdi Rahman | Sidrat Research, Canada | |
| Frederic Rasio | Northwestern University | |
| Claudio Ricci | Universidad Diego Portales, Chile | |
| Ata Sarajedini | Florida Atlantic University | |
| Daniel Savin | Columbia University | |
| Daniel Scheeres | University of Colorado | |
| Allen Shafter | San Diego State University | |
| Steinn Sigurdsson | Pennsylvania State University | |
| Luigi Stella | INAF – Astronomical Observatory of Rome, Italy | |
| Frank Timmes | Arizona State University | |
| Ethan Vishniac | Johns Hopkins University | |
| Fabian Walter | Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Germany | |
| Jing Wang | Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, China | |
| Joan Wrobel | National Radio Astronomy Observatory | |
| Gary Zank | University of Alabama |
| Data Editors | Greg Schwarz |
| August Muench | |
| Katie Merrell | |
| AAS Nova Editors | Kerry Hensley |
| Susanna Kohler |
Our team of 39 science editors and 6 supporting staff editors represent a broad cross section of astronomy, astrophysics, and planetary science and are located at universities and research institutions around the globe.
Explore the geographic distribution of AAS journal editors by hovering your cursor over the different blocks in the interactive infographic below. To explore any region in more detail — and to see the editors’ names and institutions in that region — click on the blocks.
The American Astronomical Society (AAS) have partnered with IOP Publishing to create an exciting new collection of astronomy and astrophysics ebooks to further the AAS mission: "to enhance and share humanity's scientific understanding of the universe."
In keeping with our mission, the entire AAS journals portfolio was made freely accessible as of 1 January 2022. Read more.
