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1206

Overview

Jason T. Wright is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the broad domain of Physics and Astronomy, with a strong emphasis on Astronomy and Astrophysics as a subfield.

Their work encompasses several specialized areas, including Instrumentation, Atmospheric Science, Computational Mechanics, and General Health Professions. The topics they have extensively worked on include stellar, planetary, and galactic studies; astro and planetary science; astronomy and astrophysical research; space science and extraterrestrial life; gamma-ray bursts and supernovae; astrophysics and star formation studies; and planetary science and exploration.

Frequent coauthors associated with their research endeavors are Suvrath Mahadevan, Paul Robertson, Arpita Roy, Samuel Halverson, and Guðmundur Stefánsson.

They have contributed to publications predominantly appearing in the following venues: arXiv (Cornell University), The Astronomical Journal, The Astrophysical Journal, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Selected recent papers written by or involving this scientist include:

  • 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 (2020), published in The Astrophysical Journal
  • The Warm Neptune GJ 3470b Has a Polar Orbit (2022), published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • Diffuser-assisted Infrared Transit Photometry for Four Dynamically Interacting Kepler Systems (2020), published in The Astronomical Journal
  • The California Legacy Survey III. On The Shoulders of (Some) Giants: The Relationship between Inner Small Planets and Outer Massive Planets (2021), published on arXiv (Cornell University)
  • A review of polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) as a versatile lithographic resist - With emphasis on UV exposure (2020), published in Microelectronic Engineering

Best Publications

  • Catalog of nearby exoplanets

    R. P. Butler;J. T. Wright;G. W. Marcy;G. W. Marcy;D. A. Fischer;D. A. Fischer

  • The Keck Planet Search: Detectability and the Minimum Mass and Orbital Period Distribution of Extrasolar Planets

    Andrew Cumming;R. Paul Butler;Geoffrey W. Marcy;Steven S. Vogt

  • Chromospheric CaII Emission in Nearby F, G, K, and M stars

    Jason T. Wright;Geoffrey W. Marcy;R. Paul Butler;Steve S. Vogt

  • The occurrence and mass distribution of close-in super-Earths, Neptunes, and Jupiters.

    Andrew W. Howard;Geoffrey W. Marcy;John Asher Johnson;Debra A. Fischer

  • Chromospheric Ca II Emission in Nearby F, G, K, and M Stars

    J. T. Wright;G. W. Marcy;R. Paul Butler;S. S. Vogt

  • A Neptune-Mass Planet Orbiting the Nearby M Dwarf GJ 436

    R. Paul Butler;Steven S. Vogt;Geoffrey W. Marcy;Debra A. Fischer;Debra A. Fischer

  • Observed Properties of Exoplanets: Masses, Orbits, and Metallicities

    Geoffrey Marcy;R. Paul Butler;Debra Fischer;Steven Vogt

  • The Exoplanet Orbit Database

    J. T. Wright;O. Fakhouri;G. W. Marcy;E. Han

  • Observed Properties of Exoplanets: Masses, Orbits, and Metallicities

    G.Marcy;R.P.Butler;D.A.Fischer;S.S.Vogt

  • The N2K Consortium. II. A Transiting Hot Saturn Around HD 149026 With a Large Dense Core

    B. Sato;D. A. Fischer;G. W. Henry;G. Laughlin

  • Ten New and Updated Multi-planet Systems, and a Survey of Exoplanetary Systems

    J. T. Wright;S. Upadhyay;G. W. Marcy;D. A. Fischer

  • A disintegrating minor planet transiting a white dwarf

    Andrew Michael Vanderburg;John Asher Johnson;Saul Rappaport;Allyson Bieryla

  • The N2K Consortium. II. A Transiting Hot Saturn around HD 149026 with a Large Dense Core

    Bun'ei Sato;Bun'ei Sato;Debra A. Fischer;Gregory W. Henry;Gregory W. Henry;Gregory Laughlin

  • The Exoplanet Orbit Database II: Updates to exoplanets.org

    Eunkyu Han;Sharon X. Wang;Jason T. Wright;Y. Katherina Feng

  • A New Planet around an M Dwarf: Revealing a Correlation between Exoplanets and Stellar Mass

    John Asher Johnson;R. Paul Butler;Geoffrey W. Marcy;Debra A. Fischer

  • Retired A Stars and Their Companions: Exoplanets Orbiting Three Intermediate-Mass Subgiants

    John A. Johnson;Debra A. Fischer;Geoffrey W. Marcy;Jason T. Wright

  • Ten New and Updated Multiplanet Systems and a Survey of Exoplanetary Systems

    J. T. Wright;S. Upadhyay;G. W. Marcy;D. A. Fischer

  • State of the Field: Extreme Precision Radial Velocities

    Debra Fischer;Guillem Anglada-Escude;Pamela Arriagada;Roman V. Baluev

  • Radial velocity jitter in stars from the California and Carnegie Planet Search at Keck Observatory

    Jason T. Wright

  • EFFICIENT FITTING OF MULTIPLANET KEPLERIAN MODELS TO RADIAL VELOCITY AND ASTROMETRY DATA

    J. T. Wright;A. W. Howard;A. W. Howard

Frequent Co-Authors

Debra A. Fischer
Debra A. Fischer Yale University
Andrew W. Howard
Andrew W. Howard California Institute of Technology
Geoffrey W. Marcy
Geoffrey W. Marcy University of California, Berkeley
Howard Isaacson
Howard Isaacson University of California, Berkeley
Gregory W. Henry
Gregory W. Henry Tennessee State University
John Asher Johnson
John Asher Johnson Harvard University
Eric B. Ford
Eric B. Ford Pennsylvania State University
Stephen R. Kane
Stephen R. Kane University of California, Riverside
David R. Ciardi
David R. Ciardi California Institute of Technology
R. Paul Butler
R. Paul Butler Carnegie Institution for Science

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