Publications

If you are a citizen scientist participating in Exoplanet Watch, you will be listed as a co-author on scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals if they use your light curve in their research. You don't have to write your own scientific paper in order to contribute to the global body of scientific knowledge about transiting exoplanets.

Exoplanet HD 80606 b was the topic of Kyle Pearson's 2022 publication featuring the work of Exoplanet Watch citizen scientists. You can see an artist's concept of this exoplanet in NASA's Eyes on Exoplanets. Click and drag the planet to move it around, or click the "+" to see more information about this exoplanet. Credit: NASA's Eyes on Exoplanets

Below are publications that use data and/or products of Exoplanet Watch. View on SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS).

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14 New Light Curves and an Updated Ephemeris for the Hot Jupiter HAT-P-54 b

Heather B. Hewitt, Bradley Hutson, Michael Brockman, Elizabeth Catogni, Rosemary Ferreira, Gary Fussell, Atea Johnson, Chris Kight, Ryan A. Kilinski, Khatu Nguyen, Ty Perry, Elizabeth Quinlan, Eva Randazzo, Kellan Reagan, Kinley Subers, Federico R. Noguer, Molly N. Simon, and Robert T. Zellem, JAAVSO Volume 52, 2024

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A hot-Jupiter progenitor on a super-eccentric retrograde orbit

Arvind F. Gupta, Sarah C. Millholland, Haedam Im, Jiayin Dong, Jonathan M. Jackson, Ilaria Carleo, Jessica Libby-Roberts, Megan Delamer, Mark R. Giovinazzi, Andrea S. J. Lin, Shubham Kanodia, Xian-Yu Wang, Keivan Stassun, Thomas Masseron, Diana Dragomir, Suvrath Mahadevan, Jason Wright, Jaime A. Alvarado-Montes, Chad Bender, Cullen H. Blake, Douglas Caldwell, Caleb I. Cañas, William D. Cochran, Paul Dalba, Mark E. Everett, Pipa Fernandez, Eli Golub, Bruno Guillet, Samuel Halverson, Leslie Hebb, Jesus Higuera, Chelsea X. Huang, Jessica Klusmeyer, Rachel Knight, Liouba Leroux, Sarah E. Logsdon, Margaret Loose, Michael W. McElwain, Andrew Monson, Joe P. Ninan, Grzegorz Nowak, Enric Palle, Yatrik Patel, Joshua Pepper, Michael Primm, Jayadev Rajagopal, Paul Robertson, Arpita Roy, Donald P. Schneider, Christian Schwab, Heidi Schweiker, Lauren Sgro, Masao Shimizu (清水正雄), Georges Simard, Guðmundur Stefánsson, Daniel J. Stevens, Steven Villanueva, John Wisniewski, Stefan Will & Carl Ziegler, Nature (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07688-3

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Confirmation and Characterization of the Eccentric, Warm Jupiter TIC 393818343 b with a Network of Citizen Scientists

Lauren A. Sgro, Paul A. Dalba, Thomas M. Esposito, Franck Marchis, Diana Dragomir, Steven Villanueva Jr., Benjamin Fulton, Mario Billiani, Margaret Loose, Nicola Meneghelli1, Darren Rivett, Fadi Saibi, Sophie Saibi, Bryan Martin, Georgios Lekkas, Daniel Zaharevitz, Robert T. Zellem, Ivan A. Terentev, Robert Gagliano, Thomas Lee Jacobs, Martti H. Kristiansen, Daryll M. LaCourse, Mark Omohundro, Hans M. Schwengeler. 2024 AJ 168 26

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Enhancing Exoplanet Ephemerides by Leveraging Professional and Citizen Science Data: A Test Case with WASP-77 A b

Federico R. Noguer, Suber Corley, Kyle A. Pearson, Robert T. Zellem, Molly N. Simon, Jennifer A. Burt, Isabela Huckabee, Prune C. August, Megan Weiner Mansfield, Paul A. Dalba, Peter C. B. Smith, Timothy Banks, Ira Bell, Dominique Daniel, Lindsay Dawson, Jesús De Mula, Marc Deldem, Dimitrios Deligeorgopoulos, Romina P. Di Sisto, Roger Dymock, Phil Evans, Giulio Follero, Martin J. F. Fowler, Eduardo Fernández-Lajús, Alex Hamrick, Nicoletta Iannascoli, Andre O. Kovacs, Denis Henrique Kulh, Claudio Lopresti, Antonio Marino, Bryan E. Martin, Paolo Arcangelo Matassa, Tasso Augusto Napoleão, Alessandro Nastasi, Anthony Norris, Alessandro Odasso, Nikolaos I. Paschalis, Pavel Pintr, Jake Postiglione, Justus Randolph, François Regembal, Lionel Rousselot, Sergio José Gonçalves da Silva, Andrew Smith, Andrea Tomacelli, 2024 PASP 136 064401

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13 New Light Curves and Updated Mid-Transit Time and Period for Hot Jupiter WASP-104 b with EXOTIC

Hewitt HB, Noguer F, Corley S, Ball J, Chastain C, Cochran-White R, Collins K, Ganzel K, Gray KM, Logan M, Marquez-Perez S. 13 New Light Curves and Updated Mid-Transit Time and Period for Hot Jupiter WASP-104 b with EXOTIC. arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.17251. 2023 Jun 29.

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An Orbital Solution for WASP-12 b: Updated Ephemeris and Evidence for Decay Leveraging Citizen Science Data

Avinash S. Nediyedath, Martin J. Fowler, Anthony Norris, Shivaraj R. Maidur, Kyle A. Pearson, Scott Dixon, Andre O. Kovacs, Ken Davis, Prithwis Das, Douglas Lalla, Pablo Lewin, Alessandro Odasso, Michael Primm, and Bryan E. Martin

Bringing Exoplanet Research to the Online Astronomy Classroom

Hewitt H, Simon M, Mead C, Haverstock G, Anbar A. Bringing Exoplanet Research to the Online Astronomy Classroom. American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts 2023 Jan (Vol. 55, No. 2, pp. 246-01).

Constraining the Orbital Parameters of Wasp-104b: Results from the First Fully Online Research Course for Astronomy Majors

Noguer FR, Corley S, Hewitt HB, Simon MN, Ball J, Chastain C, Cochran-White R, Collins K, Ganzel K, Logan M, Marquez-Perez S. Constraining the Orbital Parameters of Wasp-104b: Results from the First Fully Online Research Course for Astronomy Majors. American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts 2023 Jan (Vol. 55, No. 2, pp. 171-04).

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Development and assessment of a course-based undergraduate research experience for online astronomy majors

Heather B. Hewitt, Molly N. Simon, Chris Mead, Skylar Grayson, Grace L. Beall, Robert T. Zellem, Kalee Tock, and Kyle A. Pearson

Exoplanet Watch: A community resource for ephemeris maintenance and stellar variability monitoring

May K, Watch E, Zellem R, Pearson K, Engelke J, Zimmerman-Brachman R, Bailey N, Fatahi T, Huckabee I. Exoplanet Watch: A community resource for ephemeris maintenance and stellar variability monitoring. American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts 2023 Jan (Vol. 55, No. 2, pp. 177-23).

Exoplanet Watch: Inviting Citizen Scientists to Observe Transiting Exoplanets

Zellem, R. Exoplanet Watch: Inviting Citizen Scientists to Observe Transiting Exoplanets. American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts 2023 Jan (Vol. 55, No. 2, pp. 126-01).

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Photometry and Transit Modeling of Exoplanet XO-1b

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The Unistellar Exoplanet Campaign: Citizen Science Results and Inherent Education Opportunities

Peluso DO, Esposito TM, Marchis F, Dalba PA, Sgro L, Megowan-Romanowicz C, Pennypacker C, Carter B, Wright D, Avsar AM, Perrocheau A. The Unistellar Exoplanet Campaign: Citizen Science Results and Inherent Education Opportunities. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 2023 Feb 6;135(1043):015001.

A Comparison of EXOTIC and PyRaf in Analyzing Exoplanet Transits

Gallup, Kailei A. "A Comparison of EXOTIC and PyRaf in Analyzing Exoplanet Transits." CalPoly-SLO Senior Thesis (2022).

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Analyzing Transit Timing Variations of Qatar-1b

Elise Yang, Daniel Mendoza, Pablo A. Mendoza, Vani Pandian, Kaushik Tota, Paige Yeung. "Analyzing Transit Timing Variations of Qatar-1b." Journal of the American Association of Variable Star Observers (JAAVSO) 50.1 (2022): 20.

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Observation and Analysis of Qatar-1b Transit Timing Variations: No Evidence for Additional Bodies in Qatar-1

Paloma Lenz, Lindsay Koo, Vincent Tran, Iván Álvarez. "Observation and Analysis of Qatar-1b Transit Timing Variations: No Evidence for Additional Bodies in Qatar-1." Journal of the American Association of Variable Star Observers (JAAVSO) 50.1 (2022): 102.

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Photometry and Transit Modeling of Exoplanet WASP-140b

North, Allen, and Timothy Banks. "Photometry and transit modelling of exoplanet WASP-140b." (2022) JAAVSO, 50

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pterodactyls: A Tool to Uniformly Search and Vet for Young Transiting Planets in TESS Primary Mission Photometry

Fernandes, Rachel B., Mulders, Gijs D., Pascucci, Ilaria, Bergsten, Galen J., Koskinen, Tommi T., Hardegree-Ullman, Kevin K., Pearson, Kyle A., Giacalone, Steven,Zink, Jon,Ciardi, David R.,O'Brien, Patrick. "pterodactyls: A Tool to Uniformly Search and Vet for Young Transiting Planets in TESS Primary Mission Photometry." The Astronomical Journal 164.3 (2022): 78.

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Searching for Transit Timing Variations and Fitting a New Ephemeris to Transits of TrES-1 b

Paige Yeung, Quinn Perian, Peyton Robertson, Michael Fitzgerald, Martin Fowler, Frank Sienkiewicz, Kalée Tock. 2022, JKAS, 55, 4

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Toward the Confirmation of an Ultra-Short Period Hot Jupiter Puffy Planet with a Near Grazing Transit, TOI-2341.01

Darcy Wenn, Oscar Geerts, Derrick Liu, Michael Fitzgerald, Saeed Salimpour, Andrew Yen. "Toward the Confirmation of an Ultra-Short Period Hot Jupiter Puffy Planet with a Near Grazing Transit, TOI-2341.01." Journal of the American Association of Variable Star Observers (JAAVSO) 50.1 (2022): 20.

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Updating Exoplanet TRES-1b Mid-Transit Time for Optimal Observation by James Webb Space Telescope

Nair, S. (2022). Updating Exoplanet TRES-1b Mid-Transit Time for Optimal Observation by James Webb Space Telescope. Bulletin of the AAS, 54(6). https://baas.aas.org/pub/2022n6i403p01

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Utilizing a Global Network of Telescopes to Update the Ephemeris for the Highly Eccentric Planet HD 80606 b and to Ensure the Efficient Scheduling of JWST

Kyle A. Pearson and Charles Beichman and B. J. Fulton and Thomas M. Esposito and Robert T. Zellem and David R. Ciardi and Jonah Rolfness and John Engelke and Tamim Fatahi and Rachel Zimmerman-Brachman and Arin Avsar and Varun Bhalerao and Pat Boyce and Marc Bretton and Alexandra D. Burnett and Jennifer Burt and Charles H. Cynamon and Martin Fowler and Daniel Gallego and Edward Gomez and Bruno Guillet and Jerry Hilburn and Yves Jongen and Tiffany Kataria and Anastasia Kokori and Harsh Kumar and Petri Kuossari and Georgios Lekkas and Alessandro Marchini and Nicola Meneghelli and Chow-Choong Ngeow and Michael Primm and Subham Samantaray and Masao Shimizu and George Silvis and Frank Sienkiewicz and Vishwajeet Swain and Joshua Tan and Kalée Tock and Kevin Wagner and Anaël Wünsche. (2022) AJ, 164, 178

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25 New Light Curves and Updated Ephemeris through Analysis of Exoplanet WASP-50 b with EXOTIC

Ramy Mizrachi, Dylan Ly, Leon Bewersdorff, and Kalee Tock. (2021) JAAVSO, 49, 2

Analysis of HAT-P-23 b, Qatar-1 b, WASP-2 b, and WASP-33 b with an Optimized EXOplanet Transit Interpretation Code

Sujay Nair, Jonathan Varghese, Kalée Tock (2020), proceedings of the Society of the Astronomical Sciences

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Looking for Transit Timing Variations in TrES-1

Perian, Q.; Yeung, P.; Robertson, P.; Tock, K.. (2020) JAAVSO, 48, 2, 265

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Observing transiting exoplanets with the MicroObservatory: 43 new transit light curves of the hot Jupiter HAT-P-32b

Fowler, Martin J F; Sienkiewicz, Frank F.; Zellem, Robert T.; Dussault, Mary E. (2021) Journal of the British Astronomical Association, vol.131, no.6, p.359-368

Science Education for Scientific Literacy: Involving Students in Citizen Science Initiatives

Yeung P. Science Education for Scientific Literacy: Involving Students in Citizen Science Initiatives. InAGU Fall Meeting Abstracts 2020 Dec (Vol. 2020, pp. ED045-0005).

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Studies of Exoplanets with Candidate TOI 717.01 and Confirmed HAT-P-3b

Nair, S.; Koodli, K.; Chalcraft, E.; Tock, K. (2020) JAAVSO, 48, 2

Transit Analysis of Exoplanets TrES-5 b and WASP-43 b with the EXOplanet Transit Interpretation Code

Sujay Nair and Jonathan Varghese, 2020, RNAAS, 4, 82

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Utilizing Small Telescopes Operated by Citizen Scientists for Transiting Exoplanet Follow-up

Zellem, Robert T.; Pearson, Kyle A.; Blaser, Ethan; Fowler, Martin; Ciardi, David R.; Biferno, Anya ; Massey, Bob ; Marchis, Franck; Baer, Robert ; Ball, Conley; Chasin, Mike; Conley, Mike; Dixon, Scott; Fletcher, Elizabeth; Hernandez, Saneyda ; Nair, Sujay ; Perian, Quinn ; Sienkiewicz, Frank; Tock, Kalée; Vijayakumar, Vivek; Swain, Mark R.; Roudier, Gael M. Bryden, Geoffrey; Conti, Dennis M.; Hill, Dolores H. ; Hergenrother, Carl W.; Dussault, Mary; Kane, Stephen R.; Fitzgerald, Michael; Boyce, Pat; Peticolas, Laura ; Gee, Wilfred; Cominsky, Lynn; Zimmerman-Brachman, Rachel ; Smith, Denise; Creech-Eakman, Michelle J.; Engelke, John ; Iturralde, Alexandra ; Dragomir, Diana; Jovanovic, Nemanja; Lawton, Brandon; Arbouch, Emmanuel; Kuchner, Marc; Malvache, Arnaud. 2020, PASP, 132, 4401

Engaging Citizen Scientists to Keep Transit Times Fresh and Ensure the Efficient Use of Transiting Exoplanet Characterization Missions

Zellem, Robert; Biferno, Anya; Ciardi, David R.; Dussault, Mary; Peticolas, Laura; Fowler, Martin; Pearson, Kyle A.; Gee, Wilfred; Zimmerman-Brachman, Rachel; Smith, Denise; Cominsky, Lynn; Roudier, Gael M.; Lawton, Brandon; Baer, Robert; Dragomir, Diana; Jovanovic, Nemanja; Kuchner, Marc; Sienkiewicz, Frank; Walawender, Josh. 2019, BAAS, 51:416

Citation and Acknowledgement

If you use any Exoplanet Watch data in your publication, you are required to include the observers of those data as co-authors on your paper. To get in touch with your anonymous observer, contact the AAVSO with their observer code.

Please also cite the paper by Zellem et al. 2020 and include the following statement in the Acknowledgements section of your paper: “This publication makes use of data products from Exoplanet Watch, a citizen science project managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on behalf of NASA's Universe of Learning. This work is supported by NASA under award number NNX16AC65A to the Space Telescope Science Institute, in partnership with Caltech/IPAC, Center for Astrophysics|Harvard & Smithsonian, and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory."

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