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Overview

Leslie Hebb is affiliated with Hobart and William Smith Colleges in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Physics and Astronomy, with a substantial contribution of 117 publications. Subfields of particular interest include Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, General Health Professions, Aerospace Engineering, and Philosophy.

The main topics of Leslie Hebb's work cover diverse areas such as Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies; Astro and Planetary Science; Astronomy and Astrophysical Research; Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies; Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae; Space Exploration and Technology; and Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity.

Frequent coauthors in their collaborative work include Caleb I. Cañas, Guðmundur Stefánsson, Suvrath Mahadevan, Andrea S. J. Lin, and Paul Robertson. Their publication record spreads over several venues, with the most frequent being arXiv (Cornell University), The Astronomical Journal, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, The Astrophysical Journal, and Astronomy and Astrophysics.

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Leslie Hebb are as follows:

  • Early Spectroscopy and Dense Circumstellar Medium Interaction in SN 2023ixf (2023, The Astrophysical Journal Letters)
  • The Warm Neptune GJ 3470b Has a Polar Orbit (2022, The Astrophysical Journal Letters)
  • TOI-3714 b and TOI-3629 b: Two Gas Giants Transiting M Dwarfs Confirmed with the Habitable-zone Planet Finder and NEID (2022, The Astronomical Journal)
  • A Warm Jupiter Transiting an M Dwarf: A TESS Single-transit Event Confirmed with the Habitable-zone Planet Finder (2020, The Astronomical Journal)
  • A Search for Planetary Metastable Helium Absorption in the V1298 Tau System (2021, arXiv (Cornell University))

Leslie Hebb's research output demonstrates an intersection of observational astrophysics and planetary science, with work spanning detailed spectroscopic studies of supernovae and exoplanetary systems around low-mass stars. The contributions reflect a combination of data analysis, instrumentation, and theoretical interpretation.

Best Publications

  • The California-Kepler Survey. III. A Gap in the Radius Distribution of Small Planets*

    Benjamin J. Fulton;Erik A. Petigura;Andrew W. Howard;Howard Isaacson

  • LSST Science Book, Version 2.0

    Paul A. Abell;Julius Allison;Scott F. Anderson

  • Spin-orbit angle measurements for six southern transiting planets; New insights into the dynamical origins of hot Jupiters

    Amaury H.M.J. Triaud;Andrew Collier Cameron;Didier Queloz;David R. Anderson

  • WASP-12b: The hottest transiting planet yet discovered

    L. Hebb;A. Collier-Cameron;B. Loeillet;D. Pollacco

  • Spin-orbit angle measurements for six southern transiting planets New insights into the dynamical origins of hot Jupiters

    A. H. M. J. Triaud;A. Collier Cameron;D. Queloz;D. R. Anderson

  • WASP-12b: the hottest transiting extrasolar planet yet discovered

    L. Hebb;A. Collier-Cameron;B. Loeillet;Don Pollacco

  • KELT-1b: A Strongly Irradiated, Highly Inflated, Short Period, 27 Jupiter-mass Companion Transiting a mid-F Star

    Robert J. Siverd;Thomas G. Beatty;Joshua Pepper;Jason D. Eastman

  • Efficient identification of exoplanetary transit candidates from SuperWASP light curves

    A. Collier Cameron;D. M. Wilson;Richard G. West;L. Hebb

  • A high C/O ratio and weak thermal inversion in the atmosphere of exoplanet WASP-12b

    Nikku Madhusudhan;Nikku Madhusudhan;Joseph Harrington;Kevin B. Stevenson;Sarah Nymeyer

  • Discovery of an unusual dwarf galaxy in the outskirts of the Milky Way

    M. J. Irwin;V. Belokurov;N. W. Evans;E. V. Ryan-Weber

  • WASP-1b and WASP-2b: Two new transiting exoplanets detected with SuperWASP and SOPHIE

    A. Collier Cameron;F. Bouchy;G. Hebrard;P. Maxted

  • Characterizing the Cool KOIs III. KOI-961: A Small Star with Large Proper Motion and Three Small Planets

    Philip S. Muirhead;John Asher Johnson;Kevin Apps;Joshua A. Carter

  • Metals in the exosphere of the highly irradiated planet WASP-12b

    L. Fossati;C. A. Haswell;C. S. Froning;L. Hebb

  • KELT-1b: A STRONGLY IRRADIATED, HIGHLY INFLATED, SHORT PERIOD, 27 JUPITER-MASS COMPANION TRANSITING A MID-F STAR

    Robert J. Siverd;Thomas G. Beatty;Joshua Pepper;Jason D. Eastman;Jason D. Eastman

  • The California-Kepler Survey. V. Peas in a Pod: Planets in a Kepler Multi-planet System Are Similar in Size and Regularly Spaced*

    Lauren M. Weiss;Geoffrey W. Marcy;Erik A. Petigura;Benjamin J. Fulton;Benjamin J. Fulton

  • WASP-3b: a strongly-irradiated transiting gas-giant planet

    D. Pollacco;I. Skillen;A. Collier Cameron;B. Loeillet

  • Line-profile tomography of exoplanet transits – II. A gas-giant planet transiting a rapidly rotating A5 star

    A. Collier Cameron;E. Guenther;B. Smalley;I. McDonald

  • Stellar rotation in the Hyades and Praesepe: gyrochronology and braking time-scale

    P. Delorme;A. Collier Cameron;L. Hebb;J. W. Rostron

  • Near-UV Absorption, Chromospheric Activity, and Star-Planet Interactions in the WASP-12 system

    C. A. Haswell;L. Fossati;T. Ayres

  • An orbital period of 0.94 days for the hot-Jupiter planet WASP-18b

    Coel Hellier;D. R. Anderson;A. Collier Cameron;M. Gillon;M. Gillon

Frequent Co-Authors

Don Pollacco
Don Pollacco University of Warwick
Keivan G. Stassun
Keivan G. Stassun Vanderbilt University
P. F. L. Maxted
P. F. L. Maxted Keele University
Coel Hellier
Coel Hellier Keele University
David R. Anderson
David R. Anderson Keele University
Barry Smalley
Barry Smalley Keele University
A. Collier Cameron
A. Collier Cameron University of St Andrews
Michaël Gillon
Michaël Gillon University of Liège
Peter J. Wheatley
Peter J. Wheatley University of Warwick
Damien Ségransan
Damien Ségransan University of Geneva

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