Search Results - "Morris, Brett M."
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A Relationship between Stellar Age and Spot Coverage
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-04-2020)“…We investigate starspot distributions consistent with space-based photometry of F, G, and K stars in six stellar associations ranging in age from 10 Myr to 4…”
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The Starspots of HAT-P-11: Evidence for a Solar-like Dynamo
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-09-2017)“…We measure the starspot radii and latitude distribution on the K4 dwarf HAT-P-11 from Kepler short-cadence photometry. We take advantage of starspot…”
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Possible Bright Starspots on TRAPPIST-1
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-04-2018)“…The M8V star TRAPPIST-1 hosts seven roughly Earth-sized planets and is a promising target for exoplanet characterization. Kepler/K2 Campaign 12 observations of…”
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Temporal Evolution of Spatially Resolved Individual Star Spots on a Planet-hosting Solar-type Star: Kepler-17
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-03-2020)“…Star spot evolution is visible evidence of the emergence/decay of the magnetic field on a stellar surface, and it is therefore important for the understanding…”
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Chromospheric Activity of HAT-P-11: An Unusually Active Planet-hosting K Star
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-10-2017)“…Kepler photometry of the hot Neptune host star HAT-P-11 suggests that its spot latitude distribution is comparable to the Sun's near solar maximum. We search…”
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Closed-form ab initio solutions of geometric albedos and reflected light phase curves of exoplanets
Published in Nature astronomy (01-10-2021)“…Studying the albedos of the planets and moons of the Solar System dates back at least a century 1 – 4 . Of particular interest is the relationship between the…”
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The THOR + HELIOS general circulation model: multiwavelength radiative transfer with accurate scattering by clouds/hazes
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-05-2022)“…ABSTRACT General circulation models (GCMs) provide context for interpreting multiwavelength, multiphase data of the atmospheres of tidally locked exoplanets…”
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Interior Heating of Rocky Exoplanets from Stellar Flares with Application to TRAPPIST-1
Published in Astrophysical journal. Letters (01-12-2022)“…Abstract Many stars of different spectral types with planets in the habitable zone are known to emit flares. Until now, studies that address the long-term…”
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Flaring latitudes in ensembles of low-mass stars
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (08-06-2023)“…ABSTRACT The distribution of small-scale magnetic fields in stellar photospheres is an important ingredient in our understanding of the magnetism of low-mass…”
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Short-term Variability of Evolved Massive Stars with TESS. II. A New Class of Cool, Pulsating Supergiants
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-10-2020)“…Massive stars briefly pass through the yellow supergiant (YSG) phase as they evolve redward across the H-R diagram and expand into red supergiants (RSGs)…”
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Early Spectroscopy and Dense Circumstellar Medium Interaction in SN 2023ixf
Published in Astrophysical journal. Letters (01-10-2023)“…Abstract We present the optical spectroscopic evolution of SN 2023ixf seen in subnight cadence spectra from 1.18 to 15 days after explosion. We identify…”
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The stellar variability noise floor for transiting exoplanet photometry with PLATO
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (21-04-2020)“…ABSTRACT One of the main science motivations for the ESA PLAnetary Transit and Oscillations (PLATO) mission is to measure exoplanet transit radii with…”
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Modeling Stellar Surface Features on a Subgiant Star with an M-dwarf Companion
Published in The Astronomical journal (01-07-2022)“…Abstract Understanding magnetic activity on the surface of stars other than the Sun is important for exoplanet analyses to properly characterize an exoplanet’s…”
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Spotting stellar activity cycles in Gaia astrometry
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The Properties of Fast Yellow Pulsating Supergiants: FYPS Point the Way to Missing Red Supergiants
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-11-2022)“…Abstract Fast yellow pulsating supergiants (FYPS) are a recently discovered class of evolved massive pulsators. As candidate supergiant objects, and one of the…”
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Pushing Automated Abundance Derivations into the Cool Dwarf Regime: A Test Using Three G and Two K Stars in Praesepe
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-02-2019)“…Abstract We present the results of an abundance analysis of three G and two K dwarfs in the Praesepe open cluster based on high-resolution, moderate…”
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Titanium oxide and chemical inhomogeneity in the atmosphere of the exoplanet WASP-189 b
Published in Nature astronomy (01-04-2022)“…The temperature of an atmosphere decreases with increasing altitude, unless a shortwave absorber that causes a temperature inversion exists 1 . Ozone plays…”
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The solar benchmark: rotational modulation of the Sun reconstructed from archival sunspot records
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-04-2019)“…ABSTRACT We use archival daily spot coverage measurements from Howard et al. to study the rotational modulation of the Sun as though it were a distant star. A…”
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Titanium oxide and chemical inhomogeneity in the atmosphere of the exoplanet WASP-189 b
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A roadmap for the atmospheric characterization of terrestrial exoplanets with JWST
Published in Nature astronomy (15-07-2024)“…Ultracool dwarf stars are abundant, long-lived and uniquely suited to enable the atmospheric study of transiting terrestrial companions with the JWST. Among…”
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