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, a member of the Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds, affiliate of the Center for Astrostatistics, and associate of the Institute for Computational and Data Sciences. 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; 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 Robustly Detecting Changes in Warm Jupiters' Transit Impact Parameters, Dawson 2020, AJ, 159, 223 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 Three Pathways for Observed Resonant Chains, MacDonald, M. and Dawson R. 2018, AJ, 5, 228 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