Publications

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By Year: 2026 | 2025

2026

• Distler, A.; Becker, J. Peas and USPs: Can Stellar Spindown and Peas in a Pod Replicate Ultra-Short-Period Planet Characteristics? The Astrophysical Journal 2026, 1005 (2), 136. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ae7a3a.
• Narayan, R. S.; Soares-Furtado, M.; Townsend, R. H. D. The Tale of a Hungry Subgiant and Its Brown Dwarf: Interior Radiative Damping Dominates the Tidal Evolution of TOI-5882. The Astrophysical Journal Letters 2026, 1005 (2), L35. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ae7e89.
• Lane, K. T.; Stephan, A. P.; Soares-Furtado, M.; Stassun, K. G.; Yarza, R. Observable Metal Pollution in Main-Sequence Stars: Simulations of Rocky Planets Engulfed by Stars in the 0.5 to 1.4 M⊙ Range. The Astrophysical Journal 2026, 1003 (1), 67. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ae5b9a.
• Narayan, R. S.; Soares-Furtado, M.; Limbach, M. A.; Ramanujam, N.; Vanderburg, A.; Vos, J. M. Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Roman Sees Where You Are: Predicting Exoplanet Transit Yields in the Rosette Nebula with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The Astronomical Journal 2026, 171 (5), 282. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ae547d.
• Distler, A.; Soares-Furtado, M.; Mann, A. W.; Kraus, A. L.; Gagné, J.; Becker, J.; Narayan, R. S.; Clark, M.; Vanderburg, A.; Rodriguez, J. E.; Rogers, L. K.; Kerr, R. TESS Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets (THYME). XIV. A Comoving-Based Age Constraint for KELT-20. The Astronomical Journal 2026, 171 (4), 248. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ae4c48.
• Sheffler, J.; Clark, M.; Soares-Furtado, M.; Distler, A.; Narayan, R. S.; Karcheski, J.; Nordsieck, K. A Multimethod Age Determination for the Ursa Major Moving Group. The Astronomical Journal 2026, 171 (3), 143. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ae38be.

2025

• Livesey, J. R.; Becker, J.; Widicus Weaver, S. L. Tides Tighten the Hycean Habitable Zone. The Astrophysical Journal Letters 2025, 987 (1), L8. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ade434.

Acknowledgements

• Livesey, J. R.; Becker, J. Secular Perturbations from Exterior Giants Strongly Influence Gap Complexity in Peas-in-a-Pod Exoplanetary Systems. The Astrophysical Journal 2025, 979 (2), 202. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ada28b.
• Salzer, J.; Cisewski-Kehe, J.; Ford, E. B.; Zhao, L. L. Searching for Low-Mass Exoplanets amid Stellar Variability with a Fixed Effects Linear Model of Line-by-Line Shape Changes. The Astronomical Journal 2025, 170 (3), 179. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/adf29d.