Courses: Astro 585: Exoplanets (Spring 2016), Astro 589 (Fall 2016), Astro 5: The Sky and Planets (Fall 2017), Astro 577: Exoplanets (Spring 2018; Spring 2020), Astro 475: Stars and Galaxies (Fall 2019; Fall 2021), Astro 1: Astronomical Universe (Spring 2021)
Current group members: Jonathan Jackson (G6), Mariah MacDonald (G5), Jiayin Dong (G4), Emily Safsten (G4), Phoebe Sandhaus (G2), Claire DiPerna (first year undergraduate), Jonathon Hope (first year undergraduate)
Former group members: Andrew Shannon (postdoctoral researcher at Observatoire de Paris), Sarah Morrison (assistant professor at Missouri State), Luis Nunez (teacher, Teach for America), Rory Bowens (Astronomy and Astrophysics, Class 2018; graduate student at University of Michigan), Paige Campbell (Meteorology, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Class of 2018; owner and founder of Quasar Creations), Michael Penwarden (Aerospace Engineering, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Class 2020; graduate student at University of Utah), Shirin Zaidi (Planetary Science, Class of 2020), Cody Shakespeare (Astronomy and Astrophysics, Class of 2020; graduate student at UNLV)
Publications
First-author:
- Precise Transit and Radial-velocity Characterization of a Resonant Pair: The Warm Jupiter TOI-216c and Eccentric Warm Neptune TOI-216b, Dawson, Huang, Brahm, Collins, et al. 2021, AJ, 159, 223
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Robustly Detecting Changes in Warm Jupiters' Transit Impact Parameters, Dawson 2020, AJ, 159, 223
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TOI-216b and TOI-216 c: Two Warm, Large Exoplanets in or Slightly Wide of the 2:1 Orbital Resonance, Dawson, Huang, Lissauer, Collins, Sha, et al. 2019, AJ, 158, 65
- Origins of Hot Jupiters, Dawson, R. and Johnson, J. 2018, ARAA, 56, 175
- 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.
With group members:
- Warm Jupiters in TESS Full-Frame Images: A Catalog and Observed Eccentricity Distribution for Year 1
, Dong, Huang, Dawson, et al., submitted to ApJS
- Observable Predictions from Perturber-coupled High-eccentricity Tidal Migration of Warm Jupiters
, Jackson, Dawson, Shannon, and Petrovich 2021, AJ, 161, 200
- Chains of Planets in Mean Motion Resonances Arising from Oligarchic Growth
, Morrison, Dawson, and MacDonald 2020, ApJ, 904, 157
- Nature vs. nurture: a Bayesian framework for assessing apparent correlations between planetary orbital properties and stellar ages
, Safsten, Dawson, and Wolfgang 2020, AJ, 140, 214
- Forming Diverse Super-Earth Systems In Situ, MacDonald, Dawson, Morrison, Lee, and Khandelwal 2020, ApJ, 891, 20
- Debris Disks in Multi-Planet Systems: Are Our Inferences Compromised by Unseen Planets?, Dong, D., Dawson, R., Shannon, A., and Morrison, S. 2020, ApJ, 889, 47
- The Origin of Kepler-419b: A Path to Tidal Migration Via Four-body Secular Interactions, Jackson, J., Dawson R., and Zalesky, J. 2019, AJ, 157, 166
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Three Pathways for Observed Resonant Chains, MacDonald, M. and Dawson R. 2018, AJ, 5, 228
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Limits on the number of primordial Scattered disc objects at Pluto mass and higher from the absence of their dynamical signatures on the present-day trans-Neptunian Populations, Shannon, S. and Dawson R. 2016, MNRAS, 480, 1870
- Stability and Occurrence Rate Constraints on the Planetary Sculpting Hypothesis for ``Transitional'' Disks, Dong, R. and Dawson R. 2016, ApJ, 1, 77
Other (selected):
- Hot Jupiters: Origins, Structure, Atmospheres
(review article), Fortney, Dawson, and Komacek 2021, JGRE, 126, e06629
- A backward-spinning star with two coplanar planets
Hjorth, Albrecht, Hirano, Winn, Dawson, Zanazzi, Knudstrup, and Sato 2021, PNAS, 118, 2017418118
- A significant mutual inclination between the planets within the pi Mensae system, de Rosa, Dawson, and Nielsen 2020, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 640, A73
- 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
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