Joseph R. Schmitt

Publications (ADS)

  • Schmitt, J. R., Jenkins, J. M., & Fischer, D. A. 2017, "A Search for Lost Planets in the Kepler Multi-planet Systems and the Discovery of the Long-period, Neptune-sized Exoplanet Kepler-150 f", The Astronomical Journal, 153, 180
  • Schmitt, J. R., Tokovinin, A., Wang, J., et al. 2016, "Planet Hunters. X. Searching for Nearby Neighbors of 75 Planet and Eclipsing Binary Candidates from the K2 Kepler Extended Mission", The Astronomical Journal, 151, 159
  • Schmitt, J. R., Basu, S. 2015, "Modeling the Asteroseismic Surface Term Across the HR Diagram", The Astrophysical Journal, 808, 123
  • Schmitt, J. R., Agol, E., Deck, K. M., et al. 2014, "Planet Hunters. VII. Discovery of a New Low-mass, Low-density Planet (PH3 c) Orbiting Kepler-289 with Mass Measurements of Two Additional Planets (PH3 b and d)", ApJ, 795, 167
  • Schmitt, J. R., Wang, J., Fischer, D. A., et al. 2014, "Planet Hunters. VI. An Independent Characterization of KOI-351 and Several Long Period Planet Candidates from the Kepler Archival Data", The Astronomical Journal, 148, 28
  • Boyajian, T. S., et al. including Schmitt, J. R., 2016, "Planet Hunters IX. KIC 8462852 – where's the flux?", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 457, 3988
  • Wang, J., Fischer, D. A., Barclay, T., Picard, A., Ma, B., Bowler, B. P., Schmitt, J. R., et al. 2015, "Planet Hunters. VIII. Characterization of 41 Long-period Exoplanet Candidates from Kepler Archival Data", The Astrophysical Journal, 815, 127
  • LaCourse, D. M., et al., including Schmitt, J. R., 2015, "Kepler eclipsing binary stars - VI. Identification of eclipsing binaries in the K2 Campaign 0 data set", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 452, 3561
  • Wang, J., et al., including Schmitt, J. R., 2014, "Planet Hunters. V. A Confirmed Jupiter-Size Planet in the Habitable Zone and 42 Planet Candidates from the Kepler Archive Data", The Astrophysical Journal, 776, 10
  • Kaaret, P., Schmitt, J., and Gorski, M. 2011, "X-rays from Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies", The Astrophysical Journal, 741, 10-13.

Current Research

I am currently working on finding the long-period occurrence rate of planets orbiting M-dwarfs using Planet Huntersand finding single transiting systems in the new K2 data also using Planet Hunters.