Courses: Astro 1: Astronomical Universe (Spring 2021), Astro 5: The Sky and Planets (Fall 2017), Astro 420W: Planets and Planetary System Formation (Fall 2022), Astro 475: Stars and Galaxies (Fall 2019; Fall 2021), Astro 577: Exoplanets (Spring 2018; Spring 2020; Spring 2022), Astro 585: Exoplanets (Spring 2016), Astro 589 (Fall 2016)
Current group members: Emily Safsten (G6), Phoebe Sandhaus (G4), Lucas Brefka (G1)
Former group members: Andrew Shannon (senior analyst, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation), Sarah Morrison (assistant professor at Missouri State), Mariah MacDonald (assistant professor, The College of New Jersey), Jonathan Jackson (teaching postdoctoral fellow, Wesleyan University), Jiayin Dong (postdoctoral fellow, CCA Flatiron), 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), Claire DiPerna (Aerospace Engineering, Class of 2024), Jonathon Hope (Aerospace Engineering, Class of 2024), Julietta Lucca (Mechanical Engineering, Class of 2025)
Selected 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:
- Longterm Stability of Planetary Systems formed from a Transitional Disk, Bowens, Shannon, Dawson, and Dong, ApJ, accepted/in press
- Statistical Analysis of the Dearth of Super-eccentric Jupiters in the Kepler Sample, Jackson, Dawson, Quarles, and Dong, AJ, accepted/in press
- Nature versus Nurture: Investigating the Effects of Measurement Uncertainties in the Assessment of Potential Trends between Planetary and Stellar Properties, Safsten and Dawson, AJ, 163, 188
- NEID Rossiter-McLaughlin Measurement of TOI-1268b: A Young Warm Saturn Aligned with Its Cool Host Star , Dong, Huang, Zhou, Dawson, et al. 2021, ApJL, 926, 7
- TOI-3362b: A Proto Hot Jupiter Undergoing High-eccentricity Tidal Migration , Dong, Huang, Zhou, Dawson, et al. 2021, ApJL, 920, 16
- Warm Jupiters in TESS Full-Frame Images: A Catalog and Observed Eccentricity Distribution for Year 1 , Dong, Huang, Dawson, et al. 2021, ApJS, 255, 6
- 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
Other (selected):
- Millimeter Dust Emission and Planetary Dynamics in the HD 106906 System Fehr, Hughes, Dawson, Marinom et al. 2022, ApJ, 939, 56
- Stellar obliquities in exoplanetary systems (review article), Albrecht, Dawson, and Winn, PASP, 134, 1038, id.082001
- A Preponderance of Perpendicular Planets Albrecht, Marcussen, Winn, Dawson and Knudstrup 2021, ApJL, 916, 1
- 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
- Stability and Occurrence Rate Constraints on the Planetary Sculpting Hypothesis for ``Transitional'' Disks, Dong, R. and Dawson R. 2016, ApJ, 1, 77
- 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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