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List of works by Heather A. Knutson

197 candidates and 104 validated planets in K2's first five fields

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3.6 AND 4.5 μm PHASE CURVES AND EVIDENCE FOR NON-EQUILIBRIUM CHEMISTRY IN THE ATMOSPHERE OF EXTRASOLAR PLANET HD 189733b

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

3.6 AND 4.5μm PHASE CURVES OF THE HIGHLY IRRADIATED ECCENTRIC HOT JUPITER WASP-14b

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

3.6 AND 4.5μmSPITZERPHASE CURVES OF THE HIGHLY IRRADIATED HOT JUPITERS WASP-19b AND HAT-P-7b

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

A Featureless Infrared Transmission Spectrum for the Super-puff Planet Kepler-79d

A Ground‐based Search for Thermal Emission from the Exoplanet TrES‐1

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A Precise Estimate of the Radius of HD 149026b

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A Search for a Sub-Earth-Sized Companion to GJ 436 and a Novel Method to Calibrate WarmSpitzerIRAC Observations

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A Spitzer transmission spectrum for the exoplanet GJ 436b, evidence for stellar variability, and constraints on dayside flux variations

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

A broadband thermal emission spectrum of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-18b

A continuum from clear to cloudy hot-Jupiter exoplanets without primordial water depletion

scientific article published on 14 December 2015

A correlation between stellar activity and hot Jupiter emission spectra

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

A featureless transmission spectrum for the Neptune-mass exoplanet GJ 436b

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A map of the day-night contrast of the extrasolar planet HD 189733b

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A precise estimate of the radius of the exoplanet HD 149026b from Spitzer photometry

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

A sub-Neptune exoplanet with a low-metallicity methane-depleted atmosphere and Mie-scattering clouds

scientific article published in July 2019

A systematic retrieval analysis of secondary eclipse spectra. I. A comparison of atmospheric retrieval techniques

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

An Improved Transit Measurement for a 2.4 R ⊕ Planet Orbiting A Bright Mid-M Dwarf K2–28

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

An ultrahot gas-giant exoplanet with a stratosphere

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Atmospheric characterization of the hot Jupiter Kepler-13Ab

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Atmospheric circulation of eccentric hot Jupiter HAT-P-2b

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Atmospheric circulation of hot jupiters: coupled radiative-dynamical general circulation model simulations of HD 189733b and HD 209458b

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Characterization of the atmosphere of the hot Jupiter HAT-P-32Ab and the M-dwarf companion HAT-P-32B

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Characterizing K2 Candidate Planetary Systems Orbiting Low-mass Stars. I. Classifying Low-mass Host Stars Observed during Campaigns 1–7

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Characterizing K2 Candidate Planetary Systems Orbiting Low-mass Stars. II. Planetary Systems Observed During Campaigns 1-7

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Characterizing K2 Candidate Planetary Systems Orbiting Low-mass Stars. III. A High Mass and Low Envelope Fraction for the Warm Neptune K2-55b

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Characterizing the Performance of the NIRC2 Vortex Coronagraph at W. M. Keck Observatory

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Constraints on the atmospheric circulation and variability of the eccentric hot Jupiter XO-3b

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Detection of a westward hotspot offset in the atmosphere of hot gas giant CoRoT-2b

scientific article published in January 2018

Diffuser-assisted Infrared Transit Photometry for Four Dynamically Interacting Kepler Systems

scientific article published on 13 February 2020

Discovery and atmospheric characterization of giant planet Kepler-12b: an inflated radius outlier

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Dynamical constraints on the core mass of hot Jupiter HAT-P-13b

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Early Release Science of the Exoplanet WASP-39b with JWST NIRSpec G395H

scientific article published in February 2023

Early Release Science of the exoplanet WASP-39b with JWST NIRCam

scientific article published on 9 January 2023

Early Release Science of the exoplanet WASP-39b with JWST NIRISS

scientific article published on 9 January 2023

Eleven multiplanet systems from K2 campaigns 1 and 2 and the masses of two hot super-earths

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Evidence for Atmospheric Cold-trap Processes in the Noninverted Emission Spectrum of Kepler-13Ab Using HST/WFC3

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Forward and inverse modeling of the emission and transmission spectrum of GJ 436b: investigating metal enrichment, tidal heating, and clouds

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Friends of hot Jupiters. I. A radial velocity search for massive, long-period companions to close-in gas giant planets

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Friends of hot jupiters. II. No correspondence between Hot-Jupiter spin-orbit misalignment and the incidence of directly imaged stellar companions

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Friends of hot jupiters. III. An infrared spectroscopic search for low-mass stellar companions

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Friends of hot jupiters. IV. Stellar companions beyond 50 au might facilitate giant planet formation, but most are unlikely to cause Kozai-Lidov migration

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Ground- and space-based detection of the thermal emission spectrum of the transiting hot Jupiter KELT-2Ab

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HAT-P-11: Discovery of a Second Planet and a Clue to Understanding Exoplanet Obliquities

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

HAT-P-26b: A Neptune-mass exoplanet with a well-constrained heavy element abundance.

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HST hot-Jupiter transmission spectral survey: clear skies for cool Saturn WASP-39b

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Hubble Space Telescope Near-IR transmission spectroscopy of the super-earth HD 97658b

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Identification of carbon dioxide in an exoplanet atmosphere

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Infrared eclipses of the strongly irradiated planet WASP-33b, and oscillations of its host star

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Infrared transmission spectroscopy of the exoplanets HD 209458b and XO-1b using the wide field Camera-3 on the Hubble space telescope

scientific article (publication date: 20 August 2013)

Investigating Trends in Atmospheric Compositions of Cool Gas Giant Planets Using Spitzer Secondary Eclipses

scientific article published on 6 November 2019

K2-66b and K2-106b: Two Extremely Hot Sub-Neptune-size Planets with High Densities

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

KEPLER-10 c: A 2.2 EARTH RADIUS TRANSITING PLANET IN A MULTIPLE SYSTEM

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KEPLER-14b: A MASSIVE HOT JUPITER TRANSITING AN F STAR IN A CLOSE VISUAL BINARY

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KEPLER-18b, c, AND d: A SYSTEM OF THREE PLANETS CONFIRMED BY TRANSIT TIMING VARIATIONS, LIGHT CURVE VALIDATION,WARM-SPITZERPHOTOMETRY, AND RADIAL VELOCITY MEASUREMENTS

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Kepler-1656b: A Dense Sub-Saturn with an Extreme Eccentricity

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Mass constraints of the WASP-47 planetary system from radial velocities

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Mass loss from the exoplanet WASP-12b inferred from Spitzer phase curves

scientific article published on 25 July 2019

Multiwavelength constraints on the day-night circulation patterns of HD 189733b

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Near-infrared emission spectrum of WASP-103b using Hubble Space Telescope/Wide Field Camera 3

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

No Difference in Orbital Parameters of RV-detected Giant Planets between 0.1 and 5 au in Single versus Multi-stellar Systems

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Observations of Extrasolar Planets During the non-Cryogenic Spitzer Space Telescope Mission

article published in 2007

Observations of Transiting Exoplanets with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

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Orbital phase variations of the eccentric giant planet HAT-P-2b

scientific article (publication date: 13 March 2013)

Phase Curves of WASP-33b and HD 149026b and a New Correlation between Phase Curve Offset and Irradiation Temperature

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Planet-induced Stellar Pulsations in HAT-P-2's Eccentric System

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Searching for scatterers: high-contrast imaging of young stars hosting wide-separation planetary-mass companions

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Secondary eclipse photometry of WASP-4b with warm Spitzer

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Secondary eclipse photometry of the exoplanet WASP-5b with warm Spitzer

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Spectroscopic evidence for a temperature inversion in the dayside atmosphere of hot Jupiter WASP-33b

scientific article (publication date: 12 June 2015)

Spitzer and z' Secondary Eclipse Observations of the Highly Irradiated Transiting Brown Dwarf KELT-1b

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Spitzer infrared observations and independent validation of the transiting super-earth CoRoT-7 b

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Spitzer observations confirm and rescue the habitable-zone super-Earth K2-18b for future characterization

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Spitzer observations of exoplanets discovered with the Kepler K2 mission

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Spitzer secondary eclipse observations of five cool gas giant planets and empirical trends in cool planet emission spectra

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Spitzer secondary eclipses of the dense, modestly-irradiated, giant exoplanet HAT-P-20b using pixel-level decorrelation

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Spitzer transits of the super-earth GJ1214b and implications for its atmosphere

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Spitzer/MIPS 24 μm OBSERVATIONS OF HD 209458b: THREE ECLIPSES, TWO AND A HALF TRANSITS, AND A PHASE CURVE CORRUPTED BY INSTRUMENTAL SENSITIVITY VARIATIONS

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Statistical Characterization of Hot Jupiter Atmospheres Using Spitzer’s Secondary Eclipses

Statistics of long period gas giant planets in known planetary systems

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

THE 4.5 μm FULL-ORBIT PHASE CURVE OF THE HOT JUPITER HD 209458b

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

THE 8 μm PHASE VARIATION OF THE HOT SATURN HD 149026b

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

TOI-1136 is a Young, Coplanar, Aligned Planetary System in a Pristine Resonant Chain

scientific article published on 5 January 2023

The GJ 436 system: directly determined astrophysical parameters of an M dwarf and implications for the transiting hot Neptune

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Hot-Jupiter Kepler-17b: discovery, obliquity from stroboscopic starspots, and atmospheric characterization

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The N2K Consortium. III. Short‐Period Planets Orbiting HD 149143 and HD 109749

scientific article (publication date: February 2006)

The Orbit of WASP-12b Is Decaying

The Transiting Exoplanet Community Early Release Science Program for JWST

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The Very Low Albedo of WASP-12b from Spectral Eclipse Observations with Hubble

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The Young Substellar Companion ROXs 12 B: Near-infrared Spectrum, System Architecture, and Spin–Orbit Misalignment

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

The atmospheres of the hot-Jupiters Kepler-5b and Kepler-6b observed during occultations with Warm-Spitzer and Kepler

The climate of HD 189733b from fourteen transits and eclipses measured by Spitzer

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The deep blue color of HD 189733b: albedo measurements with Hubble Space Telescope/Space telescope imaging spectrograph at visible wavelengths

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The stellar obliquity and the long-period planet in the HAT-P-17 exoplanetary system

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The thermal emission of the exoplanet WASP-3b

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Three’s Company: An Additional Non-transiting Super-Earth in the Bright HD 3167 System, and Masses for All Three Planets

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Toward Space-like Photometric Precision from the Ground with Beam-shaping Diffusers

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Transiting Exoplanet Studies and Community Targets forJWST's Early Release Science Program

Transits and secondary eclipses of HD 189733 with Spitzer

scientific article (publication date: May 2008)

Two Planets Straddling the Habitable Zone of the Nearby K Dwarf Gl 414A

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Two Small Transiting Planets and a Possible Third Body Orbiting HD 106315

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

WASP-12b and HAT-P-8b are Members of Triple Star Systems

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Warm Spitzer and Palomar Near-IR secondary eclipse photometry of two hot jupiters: WASP-48b and HAT-P-23b

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Warm Spitzer observations of three hot exoplanets: XO-4b, HAT-P-6b, and HAT-P-8b

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Warm Spitzer photometry of the transiting exoplanets CoRoT-1 and CoRoT-2 at secondary eclipse

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Warm Spitzer photometry of three hot jupiters: HAT-P-3b, HAT-P-4b and HAT-P-12b

scientific article (publication date: 30 May 2013)

Water on distant worlds

scientific article published in Nature

Water vapour absorption in the clear atmosphere of a Neptune-sized exoplanet

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