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13 refereed papers from January 2016 to November 2023
Five 1st and 2nd authorships
Contributor to the NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program Study Analysis Group 21.
264 citations and a h-index of 9
First and Second Authorships:
Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. May 2023
Dr. Chima McGruder
Thesis committee: Prof. Dimitar Sasselov (chair), Dr. Mercedes Lopez-Morales, Prof. David Charbonneau, Dr. Jennifer Yee, Prof. Peter Gao
C. McGruder, M. López-Morales, J. Kirk, B. Rackham, E. May, E. Ahrer, G. King, M. Alam, N. Allen, K. O. Ceballos, N. Espinoza, T. Gardner, A. Jordán, K. Meyer, J. Monnier, D. Osip, P. Wheatley
"ACCESS, LRG-BEAST, & MOPSS: Featureless Optical Transmission Spectra of WASP-25b and WASP-124b"
The Astronomical Journal, 166, 120. September 2023
C. McGruder, M. López-Morales, R. Brahm, A. Jordán
"The Similar Seven: A set of very-alike exoplanets to test correlations between system parameters and atmospheric properties"
The Astronomical Journal Letters, 944, L56. November 2023
C. McGruder, M. López-Morales, J. Kirk, N. Espinoza, B. Rackham, M. Alam, N. Allen, N. Nikolov, I. Weaver, K. O. Ceballos, D. Osip, D. Apai, A. Jordán, J. Fortney
"ACCESS: Confirmation of a Clear Atmosphere for WASP-96b and a Comparison of Light Curve Detrending Techniques"
The Astronomical Journal, 164, 134. October. 2022
C. McGruder, M. López-Morales, N. Espinoza, B. Rackham, D. Apai, A. Jordán, D. Osip, M. Alam, A. Bixel, J. Fortney, G. Henry, J. Kirk, N. Lewis, F. Rodler, I. Weaver,
"ACCESS: Confirmation of No Potassium in the Atmosphere of WASP-31b"
The Astronomical Journal, 160, 230. November 2020
G. Torres, C. McGruder, R. Siverd, J. Rodriguez, J. Pepper, D. Stevens, K. Stassun, M. Lund, and D. James
"Absolute Dimensions of the Eccentric Eclipsing Binary V541 Cygni"
The Astronomical Journal, 836, 177. February 2017
Additional Contributed Authorships:
N. Allen, N. Espinoza, A. Jordán, M. López-Morales, D. Apai, B. Rackham, D. Osip, I. Weaver, C. McGruder, H. Reggiani, R. Brahm, F. Rodler, N. Lewis, J. Fortney, J. Fraine, J. Kirk
"ACCESS: Tentative detection of H2O in the ground-based optical transmission spectrum of the low density hot-Saturn HATS-5b"
The Astronomical Journal, 164, 153. October 2022
I. Weaver, D. Osip, M. López-Morales, H. Diamond-Lowe, N. Espinoza, B. Rackham, M. Alam, N. Allen, D. Apai, Z. Berta-Thompron, K. O. Ceballos, A. Jordán, J. Kirk, N. Lewis, C. McGruder
"ACCESS: An optical transmission spectrum of the high-gravity, hot Jupiter WASP-50b"
The Astronomical Journal, in Review. Submitted March 2022
B. Rackham, N.Espinoza S. V. Berdyugina, H. Korhonen, R. MacDonald, B. Montet, B. Morris, M. Oshagh, A. Shapiro, Y. C. Unruh, E. V. Quintana, R. T. Zellem, D. Apai, T. Barclay, J. K. Barstow, G. Bruno, L. Carone, S. L. Casewell, H. M. Cegla, S. Criscuoli, C. Fischer, D. Fournier, M. S. Giampapa, H. Giles, A. Iyer, G. Kopp, N. M. Kostogryz, N. Krivova, M. Mallonn, C. McGruder, K. Molaverdikhani, E. Newton, M. Panja, S. Peacock, K. Reardon, R. M. Roettenbacher, G. Scandariato, S. Solanki, K. G. Stassun, O. Steiner, K. B. Stevenson, J. Tregloan-Reed, A. Valio, S. Wedemeyer, L. Welbanks, J. Yu, M. K. Alam, J. R. Davenport, D. Deming, C. Dong, E. Ducrot, C. Fisher, E. Gilbert, V. Kostov, M. López-Morales, M. Line, T. Močnik, S. Mullally, R. R. Paudel, I. Ribas, J. A. Valenti,
"The Effect of Stellar Contamination on Space-based Transmission Spectroscopy"
arXiv e-prints. January 2022
J. Kirk, B. Rackham, R. MacDonald, M. López-Morales, N. Espinoza, M. Lendl, J. Wilson, D. Osip, P. Wheatley, I. Skillen, D. Apai, A. Bixel, N. Gibson, A. Jordán, N. Lewis, T. Louden, C. McGruder, N. Nikolov, F. Rodler, I. Weaver
"ACCESS & LRG-BEASTS: a precise new optical transmission spectrum of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-103b"
The Astronomical Journal, 162, 34. July 2021
I. Weaver, M. López-Morales, M. Alam, N. Espinoza, B. Rackham, J. Goyal, R. MacDonald, N. Lewis, D. Apai, A. Bixel, A. Jordán, J. Kirk, C. McGruder, D. Osip
"ACCESS: An optical transmission spectrum of the high- gravity, hot Jupiter HAT-P-23b"
The Astronomical Journal, 161, 278. June 2021
A. Bixel, B. Rackham, D. Apai, N. Espinoza, M. López- Morales, D. Osip, A. Jordán, C. McGruder, I. Weaver
"ACCESS: Ground-based Optical Transmission Spectroscopy of the Hot Jupiter WASP-4b"
The Astronomical Journal, 157, 68. February 2019
N. Espinoza, B. Rackham, A. Jordán, D. Apai, M. López-Morales, D. Osip, S. Grimm, J. Hoeijmakers, P. Wilson, A. Bixel, C. McGruder, F. Rodler, I. Weaver, N. Lewis, J. Fortney, J. Fraine
"ACCESS: a featureless optical transmission spectrum for WASP- 19b from Magellan/IMACS"
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 482, 2065. January 2019
L. Keszthelyi, W. Grundy, J. Stansberry, A. Sivaramakrishnan, D. Thatte, M. Gudipati, C. Tsang, A. Greenbaum, and C. McGruder
"Observing Outer Planet Satellites (Except Titan) with the James Webb Space Telescope: Science Justification and Observational Requirements"
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 128, 959. January 2016
Background: "Earth From Space A Pale Blue Dot" from pixsavor.com
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