Rebekah (Bekki) Dawson

Rebekah (Bekki) Dawson
rdawson at psu dot edu
525 Davey Lab
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802

I am an assistant professor in the Penn State Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics. I received my PhD from the Harvard University Astronomy Department in May 2013, supervised by Ruth Murray-Clay and was a Miller Fellow in the Berkeley Astronomy Department.

CV: rdawson_cv.pdf

Research interests: Extra-solar planets, debris disks, dynamics of planetary and satellite systems, the Kuiper Belt, planet formation, signal processing

Courses: Astro 585: Exoplanets (Spring 2016), Astro 589 (Fall 2016), Astro 5: The Sky and Planets (Fall 2017), Astro 577: Exoplanets (Spring 2018)

Current group members: Andrew Shannon, Sarah Morrison, Jonathan Jackson (G4), Mariah MacDonald (G3), Jiayin Dong (G2), Emily Safsten (G2), Rory Bowens (senior), Shirin Zaidi (junior), Michael Penwarden (senior)

Publications

First-author:

Origins of Hot Jupiters, Dawson, R. and Johnson, J., ARAA, in press
Tightly Packed Planetary Systems, Dawson, R. 2017, Handbook of Exoplanets
Correlations between compositions and orbits established by the giant impact era of planet formation, Dawson, R., Lee, E.J., and Chiang, E. 2016, ApJ, 822, 54
A metallicity recipe for rocky planets, Dawson, R., Chiang, E., and Lee, E. J., 2015, MNRAS, 453, 1571
A paucity of proto-hot Jupiters on supereccentric orbits, Dawson, R., Murray-Clay, R.A, and Johnson, J.A. 2015, ApJ, 798, 66
A class of warm Jupiters with mutually inclined, apsidally misaligned close friends, Dawson, R. and Chiang, E. 2014, Science, 346, 212
Large eccentricity, low mutual inclination: the three-dimensional architecture of a hierarchical system of giant planets, Dawson, R, Johnson, J.A., Fabrycky, D.C., Foreman-Mackey, D., Murray-Clay, R.A., Buchhave, L.A., Cargile, P.A., Clubb, K.I., Fulton, B.J., Hebb, L., Howard, A. W., Huber, D., Shporer, A., and Valenti, J.A. 2014, ApJ, 791, 89
On the tidal origin of hot Jupiter stellar obliquity trends, Dawson, R. 2014, ApJL, 790, 31
Giant planets orbiting metal-rich stars show signatures of planet-planet interactions, Dawson, R. and Murray-Clay, R.A, ApJL, 767, L24
The Photoeccentric Effect and Proto-Hot Jupiters II. KOI-1474.01, a candidate eccentric planet perturbed by an unseen companion, Dawson, R., Johnson, J.A., Morton, T.D., Crepp, J., Fabrycky, D.C., Murray-Clay, R.A., and Howard, A. 2012, ApJ, 761, 163
The Photoeccentric Effect and Proto-Hot Jupiters I. Measuring photometric eccentricities of individual transiting planets, Dawson, R.. and Johnson, J.A. 2012, ApJ, 756, 122
Neptune's wild days: constraints from the eccentricity distribution of the classical Kuiper belt, Dawson, R. and Murray-Clay, R. 2012, ApJ, 750, 43
On the misalignment of the directly imaged planet Beta Pictoris b with the system's warped inner disk, Dawson, R.., Murray-Clay, R., and Fabrycky, D., 2011, ApJL, 743, L17
Radial velocity planets de-aliased. A new, short period for Super-Earth 55 Cnc e, Dawson, R. and Fabrycky, D., 2010, ApJ, 722, 937.

Other (selected):

Stability and Occurrence Rate Constraints on the Planetary Sculpting Hypothesis for ``Transitional'' Disks, Dong, R. and Dawson R. 2016, ApJ, in press
Resonances, chaos, and short-term interactions among the inner Uranian satellites, French, R., Dawson, R., and Showalter, M. 2015, AJ, 149,4
Advances in exoplanet science from Kepler (review article), Lissauer, J., Dawson, R., and Tremaine, S. 2014, Nature, 513, 336
Neptune on tiptoes: dynamical histories that preserve the cold classical Kuiper belt, Wolff, S., Dawson, R. and Murray-Clay R. 2012, ApJ, 746, 171
A Super-Earth transiting a naked eye star, Winn, J., Matthews, J., Dawson, R., Fabrycky, D., and 12 others, 2011, ApJL, 737, L18