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Sara Seager

Sara Seager

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2025

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Overview

Sara Seager is affiliated with MIT in the United States and specializes in Physics and Astronomy. Their research primarily focuses on Astronomy and Astrophysics with contributions also in Instrumentation, Aerospace Engineering, Computational Mechanics, and Atmospheric Science.

The scientist's work covers main topics including Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, Astro and Planetary Science, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research, Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies, Planetary Science and Exploration, Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae, and Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation.

Some of the recent papers published by Sara Seager include:

  • A giant planet candidate transiting a white dwarf, 2020, Nature
  • TESS Eclipsing Binary Stars. I. Short-cadence Observations of 4584 Eclipsing Binaries in Sectors 1-26, 2022, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
  • The Habitable Exoplanet Observatory (HabEx) Mission Concept Study Final Report, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Vetting of 384 TESS Objects of Interest with TRICERATOPS and Statistical Validation of 12 Planet Candidates, 2020, The Astronomical Journal
  • A remnant planetary core in the hot-Neptune desert, 2020, Nature

Frequent co-authors include Jon M. Jenkins, Joshua N. Winn, G. Ricker, David W. Latham, and Karen A. Collins.

Sara Seager's publications are often found in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The Astronomical Journal
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • The Astrophysical Journal Letters

Best Publications

  • Kepler Planet-Detection Mission: Introduction and First Results

    William J. Borucki;David Koch;Gibor Basri;Natalie Batalha

  • The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite

    George R. Ricker;Joshua N. Winn;Roland Vanderspek;David W. Latham

  • GLIMPSE: I. A SIRTF Legacy Project to Map the Inner Galaxy

    Robert A. Benjamin;E. Churchwell;Brian L. Babler;T. M. Bania

  • Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite

    George R. Ricker;Joshua N. Winn;Roland Vanderspek;David Winslow Latham

  • Characteristics of planetary candidates observed by Kepler, II: Analysis of the first four months of data

    William J. Borucki;David G. Koch;Gibor Basri;Natalie Batalha

  • Planet Occurrence within 0.25 AU of Solar-type Stars from Kepler

    Andrew W. Howard;Geoffrey W. Marcy;Stephen T. Bryson;Jon M. Jenkins

  • GLIMPSE. I. An SIRTF Legacy Project to Map the Inner Galaxy

    Robert A. Benjamin;E. Churchwell;Brian L. Babler;T. M. Bania

  • Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)

    George R. Ricker;Joshua N. Winn;Roland Vanderspek;David W. Latham

  • A Unique Solution of Planet and Star Parameters from an Extrasolar Planet Transit Light Curve

    Sara Seager;Sara Seager;Gabriela Mallen-Ornelas;Gabriela Mallen-Ornelas;Gabriela Mallen-Ornelas

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

    William J. Borucki;David G. Koch;Gibor Basri;Natalie Batalha

  • On the Unique Solution of Planet and Star Parameters from an Extrasolar Planet Transit Light Curve

    S. Seager;G. Mallén-Ornelas

  • Planet Occurrence within 0.25 AU of Solar-Type Stars from Kepler

    Andrew W. Howard;Geoffrey W. Marcy;Stephen T. Bryson;Jon M. Jenkins

  • Clouds in the atmosphere of the super-Earth exoplanet GJ 1214b

    Laura Kreidberg;Jacob L. Bean;Jean-Michel Désert;Björn Benneke

  • The Revised TESS Input Catalog and Candidate Target List.

    Keivan G. Stassun;Ryan J. Oelkers;Martin Paegert;Guillermo Torres

  • Theoretical Transmission Spectra during Extrasolar Giant Planet Transits

    S. Seager;Dimitar D. Sasselov

  • Mass-Radius Relationships for Solid Exoplanets

    S. Seager;S. Seager;M. Kuchner;C. A. Hier-Majumder;B. Militzer

  • Infrared radiation from an extrasolar planet

    Drake Deming;Sara Seager;L. Jeremy Richardson;Joseph Harrington

  • Masses, Radii, and Orbits of Small Kepler Planets: The Transition from Gaseous to Rocky Planets

    Geoffrey W. Marcy;Howard Isaacson;Andrew W. Howard;Jason F. Rowe

  • Infrared Transmission Spectroscopy of the Exoplanets HD209458b and XO-1b Using the Wide Field Camera-3 on the Hubble Space Telescope

    Drake Deming;Ashlee Wilkins;Peter McCullough;Adam Burrows

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

    Andrew W. Howard;Geoffrey W. Marcy;Stephen T. Bryson;Jon M. Jenkins

Frequent Co-Authors

Jon M. Jenkins
Jon M. Jenkins Ames Research Center
David W. Latham
David W. Latham Harvard University
Joshua N. Winn
Joshua N. Winn Princeton University
Keivan G. Stassun
Keivan G. Stassun Vanderbilt University
Drake Deming
Drake Deming University of Maryland, College Park
David Charbonneau
David Charbonneau Harvard University
Joseph D. Twicken
Joseph D. Twicken Ames Research Center
David R. Ciardi
David R. Ciardi California Institute of Technology
Stephen R. Kane
Stephen R. Kane University of California, Riverside
Michaël Gillon
Michaël Gillon University of Liège

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