By Dr Ben Montet

Journal articles

Feinstein AD; Montet BT; Foreman-Mackey D; Bedell ME; Saunders N; Bean JL; Christiansen JL; Hedges C; Luger R; Scolnic D; Cardoso JVDM, 2019, 'Eleanor: An open-source tool for extracting light curves from the TESS full-frame images', Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 131, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1538-3873/ab291c

Ghezzi L; Montet BT; Johnson JA, 2019, 'Erratum: Retired a stars revisited: an updated giant planet occurrence rate as a function of stellar metallicity and mass (Astrophysical Journal (2018) 860 (109) DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aac37c)', Astrophysical Journal, 878, http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab2644

Martin DV; Fabrycky DC; Montet BT, 2019, 'Transits of Inclined Exomoons - Hide and Seek and an Application to Kepler-1625', Astrophysical Journal Letters, 875, http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ab0aea

Karoff C; Metcalfe TS; Montet BT; Jannsen NE; Santos ARG; Nielsen MB; Chaplin WJ, 2019, 'Sounding stellar cycles with Kepler - III. Comparative analysis of chromospheric, photometric, and asteroseismic variability', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 485, pp. 5096 - 5104, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz782

Martínez RR; Ballard S; Mayo A; Vanderburg A; Montet BT; Christiansen JL, 2019, 'Characterization of Low-mass K2 Planet Hosts Using Near-infrared Spectroscopy', Astronomical Journal, 158, http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ab3347

Hamann A; Montet BT; Fabrycky DC; Agol E; Kruse E, 2019, 'K2-146: Discovery of Planet c, Precise Masses from Transit Timing, and Observed Precession', Astronomical Journal, 158, http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ab32e3

Christ CN; Montet BT; Fabrycky DC, 2019, 'Observations of the Kepler Field with TESS: Predictions for Planet Yield and Observable Features', Astronomical Journal, 157, http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ab1aae

Kostov VB; Schlieder JE; Barclay T; Quintana EV; Colón KD; Brande J; Collins KA; Feinstein AD; Hadden S; Kane SR; Kreidberg L; Kruse E; Lam C; Matthews E; Montet BT; Pozuelos FJ; Stassun KG; Winters JG; Ricker G; Vanderspek R; Latham D; Seager S; Winn J; Jenkins JM; Afanasev D; Armstrong JJD; Arney G; Boyd P; Barentsen G; Barkaoui K; Batalha NE; Beichman C; Bayliss D; Burke C; Burdanov A; Cacciapuoti L; Carson A; Charbonneau D; Christiansen J; Ciardi D; Clampin M; Collins KI; Conti DM; Coughlin J; Covone G; Crossfield I; Delrez L; Domagal-Goldman S; Dressing C; Ducrot E; Essack Z; Everett ME; Fauchez T; Foreman-Mackey D; Gan T; Gilbert E; Gillon M; Gonzales E; Hamann A; Hedges C; Hocutt H; Hoffman K; Horch EP; Horne K; Howell S; Hynes S; Ireland M; Irwin JM; Isopi G; Jensen ELN; Jehin E; Kaltenegger L; Kielkopf JF; Kopparapu R; Lewis N; Lopez E; Lissauer JJ; Mann AW; Mallia F; Mandell A; Matson RA; Mazeh T; Monsue T; Moran SE; Moran V; Morley CV; Morris B; Muirhead P; Mukai K; Mullally S; Mullally F; Murray C; Narita N; Palle E; Pidhorodetska D; Quinn D; Relles H; Rinehart S; Ritsko M; Rodriguez JE, 2019, 'The L 98-59 System: Three Transiting, Terrestrial-size Planets Orbiting a Nearby M Dwarf', Astronomical Journal, 158, http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ab2459

Bedell M; Hogg DW; Foreman-Mackey D; Montet BT; Luger R, 2019, 'WOBBLE: A Data-driven Analysis Technique for Time-series Stellar Spectra', Astronomical Journal, 158, http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ab40a7

Beatty TG; Morley CV; Curtis JL; Burrows A; Davenport JRA; Montet BT, 2018, 'A Significant Overluminosity in the Transiting Brown Dwarf CWW 89Ab', Astronomical Journal, 156, http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/aad697

Ghezzi L; Montet BT; Johnson JA, 2018, 'Retired A Stars Revisited: An Updated Giant Planet Occurrence Rate as a Function of Stellar Metallicity and Mass', Astrophysical Journal, 860, http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aac37c

Montet BT, 2018, 'Unbiased Inference of the Masses of Transiting Planets from Radial Velocity Follow-up', Research Notes of the AAS, 2, pp. 28 - 28, http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/2515-5172/aac2c1

Davenport JRA; Covey KR; Clarke RW; Laycock Z; Fleming SW; Boyajian TS; Montet BT; Shiao B; Million CC; Wilson DJ; Olmedo M; Mamajek EE; Olmedo D; Chávez M; Bertone E, 2018, 'The GALEX View of "boyajian's Star" (KIC 8462852)', Astrophysical Journal, 853, http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aaa413

Simon JD; Shappee BJ; Pojmański G; Montet BT; Kochanek CS; Van Saders J; Holoien TWS; Henden AA, 2018, 'Where Is the Flux Going? the Long-term Photometric Variability of Boyajian's Star', Astrophysical Journal, 853, http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aaa0c1

Karoff C; Metcalfe TS; Santos ÂRG; Montet BT; Isaacson H; Witzke V; Shapiro AI; Mathur S; Davies GR; Lund MN; Garcia RA; Brun AS; Salabert D; Avelino PP; Saders JV; Egeland R; Cunha MS; Campante TL; Chaplin WJ; Krivova N; Solanki SK; Stritzinger M; Knudsen MF, 2018, 'The Influence of Metallicity on Stellar Differential Rotation and Magnetic Activity', Astrophysical Journal, 852, http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aaa026

Montet BT; Tovar G; Foreman-Mackey D, 2017, 'Long-term Photometric Variability in Kepler Full-frame Images: Magnetic Cycles of Sun-like Stars', Astrophysical Journal, 851, http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa9e00

Morris BM; Hawley SL; Hebb L; Sakari C; Davenport JRA; Isaacson H; Howard AW; Montet BT; Agol E, 2017, 'Chromospheric Activity of HAT-P-11: An Unusually Active Planet-hosting K Star', Astrophysical Journal, 848, http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa8cca

Shan Y; Yee JC; Bowler BP; Cieza LA; Montet BT; Cánovas H; Liu MC; Close LM; Hinz PM; Males JR; Morzinski KM; Vaz A; Bailey VP; Follette KB, 2017, 'The Multiplicity of M Dwarfs in Young Moving Groups', Astrophysical Journal, 846, http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa859d

Czekala I; Mandel KS; Andrews SM; Dittmann JA; Ghosh SK; Montet BT; Newton ER, 2017, 'Disentangling Time-series Spectra with Gaussian Processes: Applications to Radial Velocity Analysis', Astrophysical Journal, 840, http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa6aab

Montet BT; Yee JC; Penny MT, 2017, 'Measuring the galactic distribution of transiting planets with WFIRST', Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 129, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1538-3873/aa57fb

Otor OJ; Montet BT; Johnson JA; Charbonneau D; Collier-Cameron A; Howard AW; Isaacson H; Latham DW; Lopez-Morales M; Lovis C; Mayor M; Micela G; Molinari E; Pepe F; Piotto G; Phillips DF; Queloz D; Rice K; Sasselov D; Ségransan D; Sozzetti A; Udry S; Watson C, 2016, 'THE ORBIT and MASS of the THIRD PLANET in the KEPLER-56 SYSTEM', Astronomical Journal, 152, http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/0004-6256/152/6/165

Crepp JR; Gonzales EJ; Bechter EB; Montet BT; Johnson JA; Piskorz D; Howard AW; Isaacson H, 2016, 'THE TRENDS HIGH-CONTRAST IMAGING SURVEY. VI. DISCOVERY of A MASS, AGE, and METALLICITY BENCHMARK BROWN DWARF', Astrophysical Journal, 831, http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/831/2/136

Montet BT; Simon JD, 2016, 'KIC 8462852 FADED THROUGHOUT the KEPLER MISSION', Astrophysical Journal Letters, 830, http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/2041-8205/830/2/L39

Montet BT; Johnson JA; Fortney JJ; Desert JM, 2016, 'BENCHMARK TRANSITING BROWN DWARF LHS 6343 C: SPITZER SECONDARY ECLIPSE OBSERVATIONS YIELD BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE and MID-T SPECTRAL CLASS', Astrophysical Journal Letters, 822, http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/2041-8205/822/1/L6

Balser DS; Roshi DA; Jeyakumar S; Bania TM; Montet BT; Shitanishi JA, 2016, 'Magnetic field strengths in photodissociation regions', Astrophysical Journal, 816, http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/816/1/22

Montet BT; Bowler BP; Shkolnik EL; Deck KM; Wang J; Horch EP; Liu MC; Hillenbrand LA; Kraus AL; Charbonneau D, 2015, 'Dynamical masses of young m dwarfs: Masses and orbital parameters of GJ 3305 AB, the wide binary companion to the imaged exoplanet host 51 ERI', Astrophysical Journal Letters, 813, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/813/1/L11

Yu L; Winn JN; Gillon M; Albrecht S; Rappaport S; Bieryla A; Dai F; Delrez L; Hillenbrand L; Holman MJ; Howard AW; Huang CX; Isaacson H; Jehin E; Lendl M; Montet BT; Muirhead P; Sanchis-Ojeda R; Triaud AHMJ, 2015, 'Tests of the planetary hypothesis for PTFO 8-8695b', Astrophysical Journal, 812, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/812/1/48

Montet BT; Morton TD; Foreman-Mackey D; Johnson JA; Hogg DW; Bowler BP; Latham DW; Bieryla A; Mann AW, 2015, 'Stellar and planetary properties of K2 campaign 1 candidates and validation of 17 planets, including a planet receiving Earth-like insolation', Astrophysical Journal, 809, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/809/1/25

Barclay T; Quintana EV; Adams FC; Ciardi DR; Huber D; Foreman-Mackey D; Montet BT; Caldwell D, 2015, 'The five planets in the Kepler-296 binary system all orbit the primary: A statistical and analytical analysis', Astrophysical Journal, 809, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/809/1/7

Swift JJ; Montet BT; Vanderburg A; Morton T; Muirhead PS; Johnson JA, 2015, 'CHARACTERIZING the COOL KOIs. VIII. PARAMETERS of the PLANETS ORBITING KEPLER'S COOLEST DWARFS', Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 218, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0067-0049/218/2/26

Foreman-Mackey D; Montet BT; Hogg DW; Morton TD; Wang D; Schölkopf B, 2015, 'A SYSTEMATIC SEARCH FOR TRANSITING PLANETS IN THE K2 DATA', Astrophysical Journal, 806, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/806/2/215

Bowler BP; Shkolnik EL; Liu MC; Schlieder JE; Mann AW; Dupuy TJ; Hinkley S; Crepp JR; Johnson JA; Howard AW; Flagg L; Weinberger AJ; Aller KM; Allers KN; Best WMJ; Kotson MC; Montet BT; Herczeg GJ; Baranec C; Riddle R; Law NM; Nielsen EL; Wahhaj Z; Biller BA; Hayward TL, 2015, 'PLANETS AROUND LOW-MASS STARS (PALMS). V. AGE-DATING LOW-MASS COMPANIONS to MEMBERS and INTERLOPERS of YOUNG MOVING GROUPS', Astrophysical Journal, 806, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/806/1/62

Montet BT; Johnson JA; Muirhead PS; Villar A; Vassallo C; Baranec C; Law NM; Riddle R; Marcy GW; Howard AW; Isaacson H, 2015, 'Characterizing the cool KOIs. VII. Refined physical properties of the transiting brown dwarf LHS 6343 C', Astrophysical Journal, 800, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/800/2/134

Vanderburg A; Montet BT; Johnson JA; Buchhave LA; Zeng L; Pepe F; Cameron AC; Latham DW; Molinari E; Udry S; Lovis C; Matthews JM; Cameron C; Law N; Bowler BP; Angus R; Baranec C; Bieryla A; Boschin W; Charbonneau D; Cosentino R; Dumusque X; Figueira P; Guenther DB; Harutyunyan A; Hellier C; Kuschnig R; Lopez-Morales M; Mayor M; Micela G; Moffat AFJ; Pedani M; Phillips DF; Piotto G; Pollacco D; Queloz D; Rice K; Riddle R; Rowe JF; Rucinski SM; Sasselov D; Ségransan D; Sozzetti A; Szentgyorgyi A; Watson C; Weiss WW, 2015, 'Characterizing K2 planet discoveries: A super-earth transiting the bright K dwarf HIP 116454', Astrophysical Journal, 800, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/800/1/59

Bechter EB; Crepp JR; Ngo H; Knutson HA; Batygin K; Hinkley S; Muirhead PS; Johnson JA; Howard AW; Montet BT; Matthews CT; Morton TD, 2014, 'WASP-12b and HAT-P-8b are members of triple star systems', Astrophysical Journal, 788, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/788/1/2

Knutson HA; Fulton BJ; Montet BT; Kao M; Ngo H; Howard AW; Crepp JR; Hinkley S; Bakos GA; Batygin K; Johnson JA; Morton TD; Muirhead PS, 2014, 'Friends of hot jupiters. I. A radial velocity search for massive, long-period companions to close-in gas giant planets', Astrophysical Journal, 785, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/785/2/126

Montet BT; Crepp JR; Johnson JA; Howard AW; Marcy GW, 2014, 'The trends high-contrast imaging survey. iv. the occurrence rate of giant planets around m dwarfs', Astrophysical Journal, 781, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/781/1/28

Swift JJ; Johnson JA; Morton TD; Crepp JR; Montet BT; Fabrycky DC; Muirhead PS, 2013, 'Characterizing the cool kois. IV. Kepler-32 as a prototype for the formation of compact planetary systems throughout the galaxy', Astrophysical Journal, 764, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/764/1/105

Montet BT; Johnson JA, 2013, 'Model-independent stellar and planetary masses from multi-transiting exoplanetary systems', Astrophysical Journal, 762, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/762/2/112

Huber D; Carter JA; Barbieri M; Miglio A; Deck KM; Fabrycky DC; Montet BT; Buchhave LA; Chaplin WJ; Hekker S; Montalbán J; Sanchis-Ojeda R; Basu S; Bedding TR; Campante TL; Christensen-Dalsgaard J; Elsworth YP; Stello D; Arentoft T; Ford EB; Gilliland RL; Handberg R; Howard AW; Isaacson H; Johnson JA; Karoff C; Kawaler SD; Kjeldsen H; Latham DW; Lund MN; Lundkvist M; Marcy GW; Metcalfe TS; Aguirre VS; Winn JN, 2013, 'Stellar spin-orbit misalignment in a multiplanet system', Science, 342, pp. 331 - 334, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1242066

Crepp JR; Johnson JA; Howard AW; Marcy GW; Fischer DA; Hillenbrand LA; Yantek SM; Delaney CR; Wright JT; Isaacson HT; Montet BT, 2012, 'The trends high-contrast imaging survey. I. Three benchmark M dwarfs orbiting solar-type stars', Astrophysical Journal, 761, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/761/1/39

Conference Papers

Tuthill P; Betters C; Charles M; Crous F; Deagan C; Desdoigts L; Doelman D; George M; Grattan K; Guyon O; Holland T; Klupar P; Langford C; Larkin K; Luk C; Montet B; Nelson J; Pope B; Piroscia G; Snik F; Taras A; Wong A; Worden SP, 2024, 'Getting to know the neighbours: Earth analogues in Alpha Centauri with the TOLIMAN space telescope', in Proceedings of SPIE the International Society for Optical Engineering, http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.3019256

Bacon R; Maineiri V; Randich S; Cimatti A; Kneib JP; Brinchmann J; Ellis R; Tolstoy E; Smiljanic R; Hill V; Anderson RI; Sanchez Saez P; Opitom C; Bryson I; Dierickx P; Garilli B; Gonzalez O; de Jong R; Lee D; Mieske S; Otarola A; Schipani P; Travouillon T; Vernet J; Bryant J; Casali M; Colless M; Couch W; Driver S; Fontana A; Lehnert M; Magrini L; Montet B; Pasquini L; Roth M; Sanchez-Janssen R; Steinmetz M; Tresse L; Yeche C; Ziegler B, 2024, 'WST - Widefield Spectroscopic Telescope: Motivation, science drivers and top-level requirements for a new dedicated facility', in Proceedings of SPIE the International Society for Optical Engineering, http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.3018093

Seifahrt A; Bean JL; Kasper D; Stürmer J; Brady M; Liu R; Zechmeister M; Stefánsson G; Montet B; White J; Tapia E; Mocnik T; Xu S; Schwab C, 2022, 'MAROON-X: The first two years of EPRVs from Gemini North', in Proceedings of SPIE the International Society for Optical Engineering, http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2629428

Seifahrt A; Bean JL; Stürmer J; Kasper D; Gers L; Schwab C; Zechmeister M; Stefánsson G; Montet B; Dos Santos LA; Peck A; White J; Tapia E, 2020, 'On-sky commissioning of MAROON-X: A new precision radial velocity spectrograph for Gemini North', in Proceedings of SPIE the International Society for Optical Engineering, http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2561564

Working Papers

Gaudi BS; Akeson R; Anderson J; Bachelet E; Bennett DP; Bhattacharya A; Bozza V; Novati SC; Henderson CB; Johnson SA; Kruk J; Lu JR; Mao S; Montet BT; Nataf DM; Penny MT; Poleski R; Ranc C; Sahu K; Shvartzvald Y; Spergel DN; Suzuki D; Stassun KG; Street RA, 2019, "Auxiliary" Science with the WFIRST Microlensing Survey, http://dx.doi.org, http://arxiv.org/abs/1903.08986v1

Checlair JH; Abbot DS; Webber RJ; Feng YK; Bean JL; Schwieterman EW; Stark CC; Robinson TD; Kempton E; Alcabes ODN; Apai D; Arney G; Cowan N; Domagal-Goldman S; Dong C; Fleming DP; Fujii Y; Graham RJ; Guzewich SD; Hasegawa Y; Hayworth BPC; Kane SR; Kite ES; Komacek TD; Kopparapu RK; Mansfield M; Marounina N; Montet BT; Olson SL; Paradise A; Popovic P; Rackham BV; Ramirez RM; Rau G; Reinhard C; Renaud J; Rogers L; Walkowicz LM; Warren A; Wolf ET, 2019, A Statistical Comparative Planetology Approach to Maximize the Scientific Return of Future Exoplanet Characterization Efforts, http://dx.doi.org, http://arxiv.org/abs/1903.05211v1

Montet BT; Angus R; Barclay T; Dawson R; Fergus R; Foreman-Mackey D; Harmeling S; Hirsch M; Hogg DW; Lang D; Schiminovich D; Scholkopf B, 2013, Maximizing Kepler science return per telemetered pixel: Searching the habitable zones of the brightest stars, http://dx.doi.org, http://arxiv.org/abs/1309.0654v1

Preprints

Buder S; Kos J; Wang EX; McKenzie M; Howell M; Martell SL; Hayden MR; Zucker DB; Nordlander T; Montet BT; Traven G; Bland-Hawthorn J; Silva GMD; Freeman KC; Lewis GF; Lind K; Sharma S; Simpson JD; Stello D; Zwitter T; Amarsi AM; Armstrong JJ; Banks K; Beavis MA; Beeson K; Chen B; Ciucă I; Costa GSD; Grijs RD; Martin B; Nataf DM; Ness MK; Rains AD; Scarr T; Vogrinčič R; Wang Z; Wittenmyer RA; Xie Y; Collaboration TGALAH, 2024, The GALAH Survey: Data Release 4, http://arxiv.org/abs/2409.19858v2

Malla SP; Stello D; Monet BT; Huber D; Hon M; Bedding TR; Reyes C; Hey DR, 2024, Benchmarking the spectroscopic masses of 249 evolved stars using asteroseismology with TESS, http://arxiv.org/abs/2409.11736v1

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