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92
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34158
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2095
National Ranking
1072

Overview

Stephen R. Kane is affiliated with the University of California, Riverside in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Physics and Astronomy, with a substantial number of publications totaling 670 in this domain. Within this broad area, they have significant contributions in subfields including Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Aerospace Engineering, Computational Mechanics, and General Health Professions.

The scientist's main research topics revolve around 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.

They have published frequently in several key scientific venues, notably The Astronomical Journal with 88 publications, arXiv (Cornell University) with 86, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society with 17, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series with 11, and UNC Libraries with 9.

Some of their recent research papers include:

  • A giant planet candidate transiting a white dwarf, 2020, Nature
  • Revealing the Mysteries of Venus: The DAVINCI Mission, 2022, The Planetary Science Journal
  • The First Habitable-zone Earth-sized Planet from TESS. I. Validation of the TOI-700 System, 2020, DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
  • A super-Earth and a sub-Neptune orbiting the bright, quiet M3 dwarf TOI-1266, 2020, Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • TESS Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets (THYME). III. A Two-planet System in the 400 Myr Ursa Major Group, 2020, DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Stephen R. Kane has collaborated extensively with several frequent co-authors, including Andrew W. Howard, Jon M. Jenkins, Howard Isaacson, Ian J. M. Crossfield, and Courtney D. Dressing. The numbers of collaborative works with these colleagues range from 75 to 84.

Best Publications

  • The WASP project and the superWASP cameras

    Don Pollacco;I. Skillen;A. Collier Cameron;D. J. Christian

  • The Revised TESS Input Catalog and Candidate Target List.

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

  • Stellar Diameters and Temperatures II. Main Sequence K & M Stars

    Tabetha S. Boyajian;Kaspar von Braun;Gerard van Belle;Harold A. McAlister

  • Discovery of a cool planet of 5.5 Earth masses through gravitational microlensing

    J.-P. Beaulieu;D. P. Bennett;P. Fouqué;A. Williams

  • The NASA exoplanet archive: data and tools for exoplanet research

    R. L. Akeson;X. Chen;D. Ciardi;M. Crane

  • One or more bound planets per Milky Way star from microlensing observations

    A. Cassan;A. Cassan;D. Kubas;D. Kubas;J.-P. Beaulieu;J.-P. Beaulieu;M. Dominik;M. Dominik

  • Stellar Diameters and Temperatures. II. Main-sequence K- and M-stars

    Tabetha S. Boyajian;Kaspar Von Braun;Gerard Van Belle;Harold A. McAlister

  • The TESS Input Catalog and Candidate Target List

    Keivan G. Stassun;Ryan J. Oelkers;Joshua Pepper;Martin Paegert

  • Solar hard x-ray microflares

    R. P. Lin;R. A. Schwartz;S. R. Kane;R. M. Pelling

  • KEPLER ECLIPSING BINARY STARS. VII. THE CATALOG OF ECLIPSING BINARIES FOUND IN THE ENTIRE KEPLER DATA SET

    Brian Kirk;Brian Kirk;Kyle Conroy;Kyle Conroy;Andrej Prša;Michael Abdul-Masih;Michael Abdul-Masih

  • A Framework for Prioritizing the TESS Planetary Candidates Most Amenable to Atmospheric Characterization

    Eliza M.-R. Kempton;Eliza M.-R. Kempton;Jacob L. Bean;Dana R. Louie;Drake Deming

  • Efficient identification of exoplanetary transit candidates from SuperWASP light curves

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

  • The first WASP public data release

    O. W. Butters;Richard G. West;D. R. Anderson;A. Collier Cameron

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

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

  • FREQUENCY OF SOLAR-LIKE SYSTEMS AND OF ICE AND GAS GIANTS BEYOND THE SNOW LINE FROM HIGH-MAGNIFICATION MICROLENSING EVENTS IN 2005-2008

    A. Gould;Subo Dong;B. S. Gaudi;A. Udalski

  • The TESS Input Catalog and Candidate Target List

    Keivan G. Stassun;Keivan G. Stassun;Ryan J. Oelkers;Joshua Pepper;Joshua Pepper;Martin Paegert;Martin Paegert

  • A Cold Neptune-Mass Planet OGLE-2007-BLG-368Lb: Cold Neptunes Are Common

    T. Sumi;D.P. Bennett;I.A. Bond;A. Udalski

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

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

  • An Earth-Sized Planet in the Habitable Zone of a Cool Star

    Elisa V. Quintana;Elisa V. Quintana;Thomas Barclay;Sean N. Raymond;Sean N. Raymond;Jason F. Rowe;Jason F. Rowe

  • OGLE-2005-BLG-071Lb, THE MOST MASSIVE M DWARF PLANETARY COMPANION?

    Subo Dong;Andrew Gould;Andrzej Udalski;Jay Anderson

Frequent Co-Authors

David R. Ciardi
David R. Ciardi California Institute of Technology
Keivan G. Stassun
Keivan G. Stassun Vanderbilt University
David W. Latham
David W. Latham Harvard University
Joshua N. Winn
Joshua N. Winn Princeton University
Jon M. Jenkins
Jon M. Jenkins Ames Research Center
Daniel Huber
Daniel Huber University of Hawaii at Manoa
Keith Horne
Keith Horne University of St Andrews
Joshua Pepper
Joshua Pepper Lehigh University
Andrew W. Howard
Andrew W. Howard California Institute of Technology

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