List of works by Nicolas B Cowan

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 Framework for Prioritizing the TESS Planetary Candidates Most Amenable to Atmospheric Characterization

scholarly article

A More Informative Map: Inverting Thermal Orbital Phase and Eclipse Light Curves of Exoplanets

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

A New Analysis of Eight Spitzer Phase Curves and Hot Jupiter Population Trends: Qatar-1b, Qatar-2b, WASP-52b, WASP-34b, and WASP-140b

scientific article published on 10 May 2022

A Search for Refraction in Kepler Photometry of Gas Giants

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 comprehensive reanalysis of Spitzer ’s 4.5 μm phase curves, and the phase variations of the ultra-hot Jupiters MASCARA-1b and KELT-16b

scientific article published on 15 April 2021

A false positive for ocean glint on exoplanets: the latitude-albedo effect

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

scientific article

A model for thermal phase variations of circular and eccentric exoplanets

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

A survey of exoplanet phase curves with Ariel

scientific article published on 23 March 2021

A two-dimensional infrared map of the extrasolar planet HD 189733b

article by Carl Majeau et al published 16 February 2012 in Letters of the Astrophysical Journal

Alien maps of an ocean-bearing world

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

An empirical infrared transit spectrum of Earth: opacity windows and biosignatures

scientific article published on 28 August 2019

Analytic reflected light curves for exoplanets

scientific article

Atmospheric Gravitational Tides of Earth-like Planets Orbiting Low-mass Stars

scientific article published in 2022

Atmospheric Reconnaissance of TRAPPIST-1 b with JWST/NIRISS: Evidence for Strong Stellar Contamination in the Transmission Spectra

Atmospheric characterization of hot Jupiters using hierarchical models of Spitzer observations

Atmospheric characterization of the hot Jupiter Kepler-13Ab

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Awesome SOSS: transmission spectroscopy of WASP-96b with NIRISS/SOSS

scientific article published on 14 June 2023

Brief follow-up on recent studies of Theia’s accretion

Characterizing the Near-infrared Spectra of Flares from TRAPPIST-1 During JWST Transit Spectroscopy Observations

scientific article published in December 2023

Cloud Atlas: Discovery of Rotational Spectral Modulations in a Low-mass, L-type Brown Dwarf Companion to a Star

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Cloud Atlas: High-precision HST /WFC3/IR Time-resolved Observations of Directly Imaged Exoplanet HD 106906b

scientific article published on 3 March 2020

Cloud Atlas: Hubble Space Telescope Near-infrared Spectral Library of Brown Dwarfs, Planetary-mass Companions, and Hot Jupiters

Cloud Atlas: Rotational Modulations in the L/T Transition Brown Dwarf Companion HN Peg B

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Cloud Atlas: Unraveling the vertical cloud structure with the time-series spectrophotometry of an unusually red brown dwarf

Cloud Atlas: Variability in and out of the Water Band in the Planetary-mass HD 203030B Points to Cloud Sedimentation in Low-gravity L Dwarfs

scientific article published on 03 October 2019

Cloud Atlas: Weak Color Modulations Due to Rotation in the Planetary-mass Companion GU Psc b and 11 Other Brown Dwarfs

scientific article published on 25 February 2020

Cloud Atlas: discovery of patchy clouds and high-amplitude rotational modulations in a young, extremely red L-type brown dwarf

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

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Cosmologists in search of Planet Nine: the case for CMB experiments

scholarly article

Deep Two-phase, Hemispherical Magma Oceans on Lava Planets

scientific article published in 2022

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

scientific article published in January 2018

Determining reflectance spectra of surfaces and clouds on exoplanets

scientific article

ERRATUM: “A TWO-DIMENSIONAL MAP OF THE EXTRASOLAR PLANET HD 189733b” (2012, ApJ, 747, L20)

scholarly article published in Letters of the Astrophysical Journal

Eccentricity is Not Responsible for Odd Harmonics in HAT-P-7 and Kepler-13A

Estimating dayside effective temperatures of hot Jupiters and associated uncertainties through Gaussian process regression

scientific article published on 12 August 2019

Evaluating Climate Variability of the Canonical Hot-Jupiters HD 189733b and HD 209458b through Multi-epoch Eclipse Observations

scientific article

Evidence for H2 Dissociation and Recombination Heat Transport in the Atmosphere of KELT-9b

scientific article published on 7 January 2020

Features in the broad-band eclipse spectra of exoplanets: signal or noise?

scientific article

GJ 1252b: A Hot Terrestrial Super-Earth With No Atmosphere

Identification of the Top TESS Objects of Interest for Atmospheric Characterization of Transiting Exoplanets with JWST

scientific article published in May 2024

Increased Heat Transport in Ultra-hot Jupiter Atmospheres through H2 Dissociation and Recombination

scholarly article

Indication of insensitivity of planetary weathering behavior and habitable zone to surface land fraction

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Inference of inhomogeneous clouds in an exoplanet atmosphere

scientific article

Inverting Phase Curves to Map Exoplanets

Inverting Phase Functions to Map Exoplanets

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Light curves of stars and exoplanets: estimating inclination, obliquity and albedo

article

Longitudinally Resolved Spectral Retrieval (ReSpect) of WASP-43b

scientific article published in July 2021

Mapping Exoplanets

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

scientific article published on 25 July 2019

Measures of galaxy environment - I. What is ‘environment’?

scientific article

Modelling the atmosphere of lava planet K2-141b: implications for low- and high-resolution spectroscopy

scientific article published on 4 November 2020

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

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Muted Features in the JWST NIRISS Transmission Spectrum of Hot-Neptune LTT 9779 b

scientific article published in February 2024

Near-Infrared Transmission Spectroscopy of HAT-P-18 b with NIRISS: Disentangling Planetary and Stellar Features in the Era of JWST

New Mass and Radius Constraints on the LHS 1140 Planets -- LHS 1140 b is Either a Temperate Mini-Neptune or a Water World

scientific article published in January 2024

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

article published in 2007

Odd Harmonics in Exoplanet Photometry: Weather or Artifact?

scholarly article

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

scientific article (publication date: 13 March 2013)

Phase Curves of Hot Neptune LTT 9779b Suggest a High-metallicity Atmosphere

scientific article

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

Phase Offsets and the Energy Budgets of Hot Jupiters

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

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

scholarly article

Quantifying the Impact of Spectral Coverage on the Retrieval of Molecular Abundances from Exoplanet Transmission Spectra

article

Revisiting the Energy Budget of WASP-43b: Enhanced Day–Night Heat Transport

scientific article

Revisiting the Iconic Spitzer Phase Curve of 55 Cancri e: Hotter Dayside, Cooler Nightside and Smaller Phase Offset

Rotational Spectral Unmixing of Exoplanets: Degeneracies between Surface Colors and Geography

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Rotational variability of earth's polar regions: implications for detecting snowball planets

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

Smaller than Expected Bright-spot Offsets in Spitzer Phase Curves of the Hot Jupiter Qatar-1b

scientific article published on 21 April 2020

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/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

Stabilizing cloud feedback dramatically expands the habitable zone of tidally locked planets

scientific article

Stratospheric clouds do not impede JWST transit spectroscopy for exoplanets with Earth-like atmospheres

scientific article published on 6 July 2022

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-1452 b: SPIRou and TESS Reveal a Super-Earth in a Temperate Orbit Transiting an M4 Dwarf

scientific article published on 12 August 2022

Taking the Temperature of a Lava Planet

scientific article published in January 2019

The Direct Imaging Search for Earth 2.0: Quantifying Biases and Planetary False Positives

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

The Environment of Galaxies at Low Redshift

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Exoplanet Opportunity: Top-Down Planetary Science

The Roasting Marshmallows Program with IGRINS on Gemini South I: Composition and Climate of the Ultra Hot Jupiter WASP-18 b

The Science Case for an Extended Spitzer Mission

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

scholarly article

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

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The feeding zones of terrestrial planets and insights into Moon formation

The mass-metallicity relation in galaxy clusters: the relative importance of cluster membership versus local environment

scientific article

The statistics of albedo and heat recirculation on hot exoplanets

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Thermal Phase Curves of XO-3b: An Eccentric Hot Jupiter at the Deuterium Burning Limit

scientific article published on 22 December 2021

Thermal phase variations of WASP-12b: defying predictions

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Thermal phases of earth-like planets: estimating thermal inertia from eccentricity, obliquity, and diurnal forcing

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Three Direct Imaging Epochs Could Constrain the Orbit of Earth 2.0 inside the Habitable Zone

scientific article

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)

Uniformly hot nightside temperatures on short-period gas giants

Using the Climate App to learn about Planetary Habitability and Climate Change

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 three hot jupiters: HAT-P-3b, HAT-P-4b and HAT-P-12b

scientific article (publication date: 30 May 2013)

Water cycling between ocean and mantle: super-earths need not be waterworlds

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Wavelength Does Not Equal Pressure: Vertical Contribution Functions and Their Implications for Mapping Hot Jupiters

Zones, spots, and planetary-scale waves beating in brown dwarf atmospheres

scientific article published on August 2017

exocartographer: A Bayesian Framework for Mapping Exoplanets in Reflected Light

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal