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List of works by Eric B. Ford

1.3-mm ALMA observations of the Fomalhaut debris system

scientific article published in January 2017

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

A Harsh Test of Far-field Scrambling with the Habitable-zone Planet Finder and the Hobby–Eberly Telescope

scientific article published on 30 April 2021

A High-Eccentricity Warm Jupiter Orbiting TOI-4127

scientific article published in 2023

A Mini-Neptune and a Radius Valley Planet Orbiting the Nearby M2 Dwarf TOI-1266 in Its Venus Zone: Validation with the Habitable-zone Planet Finder

scientific article published on 13 November 2020

A Stellar Activity F-statistic for Exoplanet Surveys (SAFE)

scientific article published on 19 May 2021

A Sub-Neptune-sized Planet Transiting the M2.5 Dwarf G 9-40: Validation with the Habitable-zone Planet Finder

A Warm Jupiter Transiting an M Dwarf: A TESS Single-transit Event Confirmed with the Habitable-zone Planet Finder

A closely packed system of low-mass, low-density planets transiting Kepler-11

scientific article (publication date: 3 February 2011)

A dynamical analysis of the Kepler-80 system of five transiting planets

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

A first comparison of Kepler planet candidates in single and multiple systems

article

A hot Mars-sized exoplanet transiting an M dwarf

scientific article published in 2022

A model of the temporal variability of optical light from extrasolar terrestrial planets

scientific article published in January 2003

A resonant chain of four transiting, sub-Neptune planets

scientific article

A search for exozodiacal clouds with Kepler

scientific article published in January 2013

A search for methane in the atmosphere of GJ 1214b via GTC narrow-band transmission spectrophotometry★

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A sub-Mercury-sized exoplanet

scientific article

A third giant planet orbiting HIP 14810

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Adaptive scheduling algorithms for planet searches

scholarly article by Ford E. B. published 2008 in The Astronomical Journal

Alignment of the stellar spin with the orbits of a three-planet system

scientific article published in Nature

Almost all of Kepler's multiple-planet candidates are planets

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

An Earth-sized planet in the habitable zone of a cool star

scientific article published in April 2014

An abundance of small exoplanets around stars with a wide range of metallicities

scientific article

An analysis of jitter and transit timing variations in the HAT-P-13 system

scientific article published in January 2011

An automated method to detect transiting circumbinary planets

scientific article published on 21 September 2019

An empirically derived three-dimensional Laplace resonance in the Gliese 876 planetary system

scientific article published on 23 November 2015

An extreme test case for planet formation: a close-in Neptune orbiting an ultracool star

scientific article published in December 2023

Architecture and dynamics of Kepler's candidate multiple transiting planet systems

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Architecture of Kepler's multi-transiting systems. II. New investigations with twice as many candidates

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Architectures of Exoplanetary Systems. II. An Increase in Inner Planetary System Occurrence toward Later Spectral Types for Kepler’s FGK Dwarfs

article published in 2020

Architectures of Exoplanetary Systems. III. Eccentricity and Mutual Inclination Distributions of AMD-stable Planetary Systems

Architectures of exoplanetary systems – I. A clustered forward model for exoplanetary systems around Kepler’s FGK stars

scientific article

Architectures of planetary systems and implications for their formation

scientific article

Atmosphere Origins for Exoplanet Sub-Neptunes

Benefits of ground-based photometric follow-up for transiting extrasolar planets discovered with Kepler and CoRoT

scientific article published in January 2009

Characteristics of Kepler planetary candidates based on the first data set

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Characteristics of planetary candidates observed by Kepler. II. Analysis of the first four months of data

scientific article published in January 2011

Characterizing the orbital and dynamical state of the HD 82943 planetary system with Keck radial velocity data

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Characterizing the orbital eccentricities of transiting extrasolar planets with photometric observations

scientific article

Characterizing transiting extrasolar planets with narrow-band photometry and GTC/OSIRIS

scientific article published in January 2010

Choice of observing schedules for astrometric planet searches

scientific article

Constraining the false positive rate for Kepler planet candidates with multicolour photometry from the GTC

scientific article published in January 2012

Constraining the planetary system of Fomalhaut using high-resolution ALMA observations

scholarly article

Debiasing the Minimum-mass Extrasolar Nebula: On the Diversity of Solid Disk Profiles

scientific article published on 21 October 2022

Detectability of Earth-like Planets in Multi-Planet Systems: Preliminary Report

scientific article published in 2010

Detection of p-mode Oscillations in HD 35833 with NEID and TESS

scientific article published on 16 November 2022

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

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Discovery of a Third Transiting Planet in the Kepler-47 Circumbinary System

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Dynamical Outcomes of Planet‐Planet Scattering

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Dynamical Simulations of HD 69830

scientific article

Dynamical Simulations of the Planetary System HD 69830

scientific article

Dynamical constraints on nontransiting planets orbiting TRAPPIST-1

scientific article

Dynamical instabilities in extrasolar planetary systems

scientific article published in January 2003

Dynamical simulations of the planetary system HD69830

scientific article published in January 2009

Early-type stars: most favorable targets for astrometrically detectable planets in the habitable zone

scientific article published in January 2003

Empirically Derived Dynamical Models for the 55 Cancri and GJ 876 Planetary Systems

Erratum: A sub-Mercury-sized exoplanet

scientific article published in Nature

Erratum: “Secular Evolution of Hierarchical Triple Star Systems” (ApJ, 535, 385 [2000])

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Erratum: “Secure Mass Measurements from Transit Timing: 10 Kepler Exoplanets between 3 and 8 M ⊕ with Diverse Densities and Incident Fluxes” (2016, ApJ, 820, 39)”

scientific article published in April 2021

Erratum: “Secure TTV Mass Measurements: Ten Kepler Exoplanets between 3 and 8 M⊕ with Diverse Densities and Incident Fluxes” (2016, ApJ, 820, 39)

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Evidence for He i 10830 Å Absorption during the Transit of a Warm Neptune around the M-dwarf GJ 3470 with the Habitable-zone Planet Finder

scientific article published on 11 May 2020

Evidence for Two Hot-Jupiter Formation Paths

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Evidence for a Nondichotomous Solution to the Kepler Dichotomy: Mutual Inclinations of Kepler Planetary Systems from Transit Duration Variations

scientific article published on 27 September 2021

Evolution of the cluster mass function: Gpc^3^ dark matter simulations

scientific article published in January 2001

FIESTA II. Disentangling Stellar and Instrumental Variability from Exoplanetary Doppler Shifts in the Fourier Domain

scientific article published in August 2022

Five Kepler target stars that show multiple transiting exoplanet candidates

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Following Up the Kepler Field: Masses of Targets for Transit Timing and Atmospheric Characterization

scientific article published on 29 April 2021

Formation of short-period planets by disc migration

scientific article

Formation, survival, and detectability of planets beyond 100 AU

scholarly article

Friends and Foes: Conditional Occurrence Rates of Exoplanet Companions and Their Impact on Radial Velocity Follow-up Surveys

scientific article published on 27 October 2021

Future of High-Dimensional Data-Driven Exoplanet Science

scientific article published in March 2016

GJ 3929: High Precision Photometric and Doppler Characterization of an Exo-Venus and its Hot, Mini-Neptune-mass Companion

GRASS. II. Simulations of Potential Granulation Noise Mitigation Methods

scientific article published in 2024

GRASS: Distinguishing Planet-induced Doppler Signatures from Granulation with a Synthetic Spectra Generator

scientific article published on 14 December 2021

Ground-based multisite observations of two transits of HD 80606b

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Habitability of Exoplanet Waterworlds

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

How planet–planet scattering can create high-inclination as well as long-period orbits

scientific article published in October 2010

Identifying Inflated Super-Earths and Photo-evaporated Cores

scientific article published on 17 October 2018

Identifying non-resonant Kepler planetary systems

scientific article published in January 2012

Identifying the rotation rate and the presence of dynamic weather on extrasolar Earth-like planets from photometric observations

scientific article published in January 2008

Impact of Correlated Noise on the Mass Precision of Earth-analog Planets in Radial Velocity Surveys

scholarly article

Improving exoplanet detection power: Multivariate Gaussian process models for stellar activity

scientific article published in 2022

Improving the Accuracy of Planet Occurrence Rates from Kepler Using Approximate Bayesian Computation

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Improving the efficiency of Markov chain Monte Carlo for analyzing the orbits of extrasolar planets

scientific article

Insights on the Spectral Signatures of Stellar Activity and Planets from PCA

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Interactions between moderate- and long-period giant planets: scattering experiments for systems in isolation and with stellar flybys

scientific article published in January 2012

KEPLER 'S FIRST ROCKY PLANET: KEPLER-10b

scientific article (publication date: 7 February 2011)

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

scientific article

KEPLER-15b: A HOT JUPITER ENRICHED IN HEAVY ELEMENTS AND THE FIRST KEPLER MISSION PLANET CONFIRMED WITH THE HOBBY-EBERLY TELESCOPE

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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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KOI-126: a triply eclipsing hierarchical triple with two low-mass stars

scientific article

Kepler constraints on planets near hot Jupiters

scientific article

Kepler planet-detection mission: introduction and first results

scientific article

Kepler-1647b: the largest and longest-period Kepler transiting circumbinary planet

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Kepler-16: a transiting circumbinary planet

scientific article

Kepler-20: a sun-like star with three Sub-Neptune exoplanets and two earth-size candidates

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Kepler-22b: A 2.4 EARTH-RADIUS PLANET IN THE HABITABLE ZONE OF A SUN-LIKE STAR

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Kepler-36: a pair of planets with neighboring orbits and dissimilar densities

scientific article

Kepler-47: a transiting circumbinary multiplanet system

scientific article

Kepler-62: a five-planet system with planets of 1.4 and 1.6 Earth radii in the habitable zone

scientific article

Kepler-68: three planets, one with a density between that of earth and ice giants

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Kepler-9: a system of multiple planets transiting a Sun-like star, confirmed by timing variations

scientific article

Low false positive rate of Kepler candidates estimated from a combination of Spitzer and follow-up observations

scientific article published in January 2015

MARVELS-1: a face-on double-lined binary star masquerading as a resonant planetary system and consideration of rare false positives in radial velocity planet searches

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

MARVELS-1b: A SHORT-PERIOD, BROWN DWARF DESERT CANDIDATE FROM THE SDSS-III MARVELS PLANET SEARCH

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Masses, radii, and orbits of small Kepler planets: the transition from gaseous to rocky planets

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Measuring transit signal recovery in the Kepler pipeline. I. Individual events

Migration Traps as the Root Cause of the Kepler Dichotomy

scientific article published on 27 September 2022

Modeling Kepler transit light curves as false positives: rejection of blend scenarios for Kepler-9, and validation of Kepler-9 d, a super-earth-size planet in a multiple system

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Observational biases in determining extrasolar planet eccentricities in single-planet systems

scholarly article

Observational constraints on Trojans of transiting extrasolar planets

scientific article published in January 2006

Observing the Sun as a Star: Design and Early Results from the NEID Solar Feed

scientific article published on 22 March 2022

Occurrence Rates of Planets Orbiting FGK Stars: Combining Kepler DR25, Gaia DR2, and Bayesian Inference

scientific article published on 14 August 2019

Occurrence rates of planets orbiting M Stars: applying ABC to Kepler DR25, Gaia DR2, and 2MASS data

scientific article

On the Relation between Hot Jupiters and the Roche Limit

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

On the eccentricity distribution of short-period single-planet systems

scholarly article

On the relative sizes of planets within Kepler multiple-candidate systems

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Origins of Eccentric Extrasolar Planets: Testing the Planet‐Planet Scattering Model

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Outer architecture of Kepler-11: constraints from coplanarity

Overcoming the meter barrier and the formation of systems with tightly packed inner planets (STIPs)

scientific article published in January 2014

Period Ratio Distribution of Near-Resonant Planets Indicates Planetesimal Scattering

scientific article published in August 2015

Persistent Starspot Signals on M Dwarfs: Multiwavelength Doppler Observations with the Habitable-zone Planet Finder and Keck/HIRES

scientific article published on 9 July 2020

Planet occurrence within 0.25 AU of solar-type stars from Kepler

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Planet-finding prospects for the space interferometry mission

scientific article

Planetary Candidates Observed by Kepler. VIII. A Fully Automated Catalog with Measured Completeness and Reliability Based on Data Release 25

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Planetary candidates observed by Kepler. III. Analysis of the first 16 months of data

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Planetesimal interactions can explain the mysterious period ratios of small near-resonant planets

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Planets in open clusters detectable by Kepler

scholarly article

Probabilistic mass-radius relationship for sub-Neptune-sized planets

scholarly article

Probing potassium in the atmosphere of HD 80606b with tunable filter transit spectrophotometry from the Gran Telescopio Canarias

scientific article

Quantifying the Bayesian Evidence for a Planet in Radial Velocity Data

Quantifying the challenges of detecting unseen planetary companions with transit timing variations

scientific article published in January 2011

Quantifying the uncertainty in the orbits of extrasolar planets

scientific article

RUN DMC: an efficient, parallel code for analyzing radial velocity observations using N-body integrations and differential evolution Markov Chain Monte Carlo

scholarly article

Radio interferometric planet search. I. First constraints on planetary companions for nearby, low-mass stars from radio astrometry

scholarly article

Radio interferometric planet search. II. Constraints on sub-jupiter-mass companions to GJ 896A

scientific article published in January 2011

Rapid formation of super-Earths around low-mass stars

scientific article published on 4 March 2021

Realizing the potential of astrostatistics and astroinformatics

Retired A stars and their companions. VI. A pair of interacting exoplanet pairs around the subgiants 24 sextanis and HD 200964

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

SDSS-III: massive spectroscopic surveys of the distant universe, the Milky Way, and extra-solar planetary systems

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Scattered light and polarized light in models of KH 15D

scholarly article

Secular Evolution of Hierarchical Triple Star Systems

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Secular evolution of HD 12661: a system caught at an unlikely time

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Secular orbital dynamics of hierarchical two-planet systems

scientific article published in January 2010

Secure mass measurements from transit timing: 10 Kepler exoplanets between 3 and 8 M ⊕ with Diverse Densities and Incident Fluxes

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Sensitivity Analyses of Exoplanet Occurrence Rates from Kepler and Gaia

State of the Field: Extreme Precision Radial Velocities

scientific article

Stellar Activity Manifesting at a One-year Alias Explains Barnard b as a False Positive

scientific article published on 15 July 2021

Stellar spin-orbit misalignment in a multiplanet system

scientific article

Structure and Evolution of Nearby Stars with Planets. I. Short‐Period Systems

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Structure and Evolution of Nearby Stars with Planets. II. Physical Properties of ∼1000 Cool Stars from the SPOCS Catalog

scientific article

Superabundance of Exoplanet Sub-Neptunes Explained by Fugacity Crisis

Swarm-NG: a CUDA library for parallel n-body Integrations with focus on simulations of planetary systems

scientific article published in January 2013

TOI-1728b: The Habitable-zone Planet Finder Confirms a Warm Super-Neptune Orbiting an M-dwarf Host

scientific article published on 10 August 2020

Ten new and updated multiplanet systems and a survey of exoplanetary systems

scientific article (publication date: 5 March 2009)

The 55 Cancri planetary system: fully self-consistent N-body constraints and a dynamical analysis

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The APOGEE spectroscopic survey of Kepler planet hosts: feasibility, efficiency, and first results

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

The California planet survey IV: a planet orbiting the giant star HD 145934 and updates to seven systems with long-period planets

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Death of Vulcan: NEID Reveals That the Planet Candidate Orbiting HD 26965 Is Stellar Activity

journal article from 'The Astronomical Journal' published in 2024

The Diversity of Low-mass Exoplanets Characterized via Transit Timing

The EXPRES Stellar Signals Project II. State of the Field in Disentangling Photospheric Velocities

scientific article published on 15 March 2022

The EXPRES Stellar-signals Project. I. Description of Data

The Extreme Stellar-signals Project. III. Combining Solar Data from HARPS, HARPS-N, EXPRES, and NEID

scientific article published on 27 September 2023

The First Extrasolar Planet Discovered with a New‐Generation High‐Throughput Doppler Instrument

scientific article (publication date: September 2006)

The First Kepler Mission Planet Confirmed With The Hobby-Eberly Telescope: Kepler-15b, a Hot Jupiter Enriched In Heavy Elements

The Formation of Ice Giants in a Packed Oligarchy: Instability and Aftermath

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Habitable Zone Planet Finder Reveals a High Mass and Low Obliquity for the Young Neptune K2-25b

The Habitable-Zone Planet Finder: improved flux image generation algorithms for H2RG up-the-ramp data

scientific article published on 2 August 2018

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

scholarly article

The Kepler-19 system: a transiting 2.2 r_{oplus}_ planet and a second planet detected via transit timing variations

scientific article (publication date: 6 December 2011)

The N2K Consortium. VI. Doppler Shifts without Templates and Three New Short‐Period Planets

scientific article (publication date: 10 August 2006)

The Occurrence of Rocky Habitable-zone Planets around Solar-like Stars from Kepler Data

scientific article published on 22 December 2020

The Small Exoplanet Mass-Radius Relation: Quantifying the Astrophysical Scatter

scientific article published in August 2015

The Warm Neptune GJ 3470b Has a Polar Orbit

scientific article published on 26 May 2022

The architecture of the hierarchical triple star KOI 928 from eclipse timing variations seen in Kepler photometry

scientific article

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

The california planet survey. III. A possible 2:1 resonance in the exoplanetary triple system HD 37124

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The discovery of HD 37605c and a dispositive null detection of transits of HD 37605b

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The distribution of transit durations for Kepler planet candidates and implications for their orbital eccentricities

scientific article

The diverse origin of exoplanets' eccentricities & inclinations

scientific article published in October 2010

The eccentricity distribution of short-period planet candidates detected by Kepler in occultation

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The effects of multiple companions on the efficiency of Space Interferometry Mission planet searches

The efficiency of geometric samplers for exoplanet transit timing variation models

scientific article

The formation mechanism of gas giants on wide orbits

The mass of the Mars-sized exoplanet Kepler-138 b from transit timing

scientific article

The neptune-sized circumbinary planet Kepler-38b

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The search for extraterrestrial civilizations with large energy supplies. IV. The signatures and information content of transiting megastructures

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Theoretical Implications of the PSR B1620−26 Triple System and Its Planet

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Three Temperate Neptunes Orbiting Nearby Stars

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Time variation of Kepler transits induced by stellar Spots--A way to distinguish between prograde and retrograde motion. II. Application to KOIs

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Toward Extremely Precise Radial Velocities. I. Simulated Solar Spectra for Testing Exoplanet Detection Algorithms

scholarly article

Toward Extremely Precise Radial Velocities. II. A Tool for Using Multivariate Gaussian Processes to Model Stellar Activity

scholarly article

Traditional formation scenarios fail to explain 4:3 mean motion resonances

scientific article published in January 2012

Transit timing observations from Kepler – VII. Confirmation of 27 planets in 13 multiplanet systems via transit timing variations and orbital stability

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Transit timing observations from Kepler. I. Statistical analysis of the first four months

Transit timing observations from Kepler. II. Confirmation of two multiplanet systems via a non-parametric correlation analysis

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Transit timing observations from Kepler. IV. Confirmation of four multiple-planet systems by simple physical models

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Transit timing observations from Kepler. IX. Catalog of the full long-cadence data set

scientific article

Transit timing observations from Kepler. V. Transit timing variation candidates in the first sixteen months from polynomial models

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Transit timing observations from Kepler. VI. Potentially interesting candidate systems from fourier-based statistical tests

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Transit timing observations from Kepler. VIII. Catalog of transit timing measurements of the first twelve quarters

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Transit timing observations from Kepler - III. Confirmation of four multiple planet systems by a Fourier-domain study of anticorrelated transit timing variations

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Transit timing variations for inclined and retrograde exoplanetary systems

scientific article published in January 2010

Transiting circumbinary planets Kepler-34 b and Kepler-35 b.

scientific article

Two Earth-sized planets orbiting Kepler-20.

scientific article

Updated Catalog of Kepler Planet Candidates: Focus on Accuracy and Orbital Periods

Using Transit Timing Observations to Search for Trojans of Transiting Extrasolar Planets

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Validation of Kepler's multiple planet candidates. II. Refined statistical framework and descriptions of systems of special interest

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Validation of Kepler's multiple planet candidates. III. Light curve analysis and announcement of hundreds of new multi-planet systems

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Vetting Kepler planet candidates in the sub-Jovian desert with multiband photometry

scientific article published in January 2015

Vetting Kepler planet candidates with multicolor photometry from the GTC: Identification of an eclipsing binary star near KOI 565

scientific article published in January 2011

What do Multiple Planet Systems Teach us about Planet Formation?