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Nic Scott
Researcher at Ames Research Center
Publications - 10
Citations - 547
Nic Scott is an academic researcher from Ames Research Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: Planet & Exoplanet. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 10 publications receiving 483 citations. Previous affiliations of Nic Scott include Georgia State University & University of Sydney.
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197 candidates and 104 validated planets in K2's first five fields
Ian J. M. Crossfield,Ian J. M. Crossfield,David R. Ciardi,Erik A. Petigura,Evan Sinukoff,Joshua E. Schlieder,Joshua E. Schlieder,Andrew W. Howard,Charles A. Beichman,Howard Isaacson,Courtney D. Dressing,Jessie L. Christiansen,Benjamin J. Fulton,Sébastien Lépine,Lauren M. Weiss,Lea A. Hirsch,John H. Livingston,Christoph Baranec,Nicholas M. Law,Reed Riddle,Carl Ziegler,Steve B. Howell,Elliott P. Horch,Mark E. Everett,Johanna Teske,Arturo O. Martinez,Arturo O. Martinez,Christian Obermeier,Björn Benneke,Nic Scott,Niall R. Deacon,Kimberly M. Aller,Brad M. S. Hansen,Luigi Mancini,S. Ciceri,S. Ciceri,Rafael Brahm,Rafael Brahm,Andrés Jordán,Andrés Jordán,Heather A. Knutson,Thomas Henning,M. Bonnefoy,M. Bonnefoy,Michael C. Liu,Justin R. Crepp,Joshua D. Lothringer,Phil Hinz,Vanessa P. Bailey,Vanessa P. Bailey,Andrew J. Skemer,Andrew J. Skemer,Denis Defrere +52 more
TL;DR: In this article, the first year of the NASA K2 mission (Campaigns 0-4) was used to discover 197 candidates for Earth-like planets, with the results of an intensive program of photometric analyses, stellar spectroscopy, high-resolution imaging and statistical validation.
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Stellar diameters and temperatures - V. 11 newly characterized exoplanet host stars
Kaspar von Braun,Tabetha S. Boyajian,Gerard T. van Belle,Stephen R. Kane,Jeremy Jones,Chris Farrington,Gail H. Schaefer,Norm Vargas,Nic Scott,T. ten Brummelaar,Miranda Kephart,Douglas R. Gies,David R. Ciardi,Mercedes Lopez-Morales,Cassidy Mazingue,Harold A. McAlister,Stephen T. Ridgway,P. J. Goldfinger,Nils H. Turner,Laszlo Sturmann +19 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used near-infrared interferometric data coupled with trigonometric parallax values and spectral energy distribution fitting to directly determine stellar radii, effective temperatures and luminosities for the exoplanet host stars 61 Vir, ρ CrB, GJ 176 and GJ 614.
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197 Candidates and 104 Validated Planets in K2's First Five Fields
Ian J. M. Crossfield,Ian J. M. Crossfield,David R. Ciardi,Erik A. Petigura,Evan Sinukoff,Joshua E. Schlieder,Joshua E. Schlieder,Andrew W. Howard,Charles A. Beichman,Howard Isaacson,Courtney D. Dressing,Jessie L. Christiansen,Benjamin J. Fulton,Sébastien Lépine,Lauren M. Weiss,Lea A. Hirsch,John H. Livingston,Christoph Baranec,Nicholas M. Law,Reed Riddle,Carl Ziegler,Steve B. Howell,Elliott P. Horch,Mark E. Everett,Johanna Teske,Arturo O. Martinez,Arturo O. Martinez,Christian Obermeier,Björn Benneke,Nic Scott,Niall R. Deacon,Kimberly M. Aller,Brad M. S. Hansen,Luigi Mancini,S. Ciceri,S. Ciceri,Rafael Brahm,Rafael Brahm,Andrés Jordán,Andrés Jordán,Heather A. Knutson,Thomas Henning,M. Bonnefoy,M. Bonnefoy,Michael C. Liu,Justin R. Crepp,Joshua D. Lothringer,Phil Hinz,Vanessa P. Bailey,Vanessa P. Bailey,Andrew J. Skemer,Andrew J. Skemer,Denis Defrere +52 more
TL;DR: In this article, the first year of the NASA K2 mission (Campaigns 0-4) was used to discover 197 candidates for Earth-like terrestrial worlds, with median values of R_P = 2.3 R_E, P=8.6 d, Tef = 5300 K, and Kp=12.7 mag.
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TOI-1231 b: A Temperate, Neptune-Sized Planet Transiting the Nearby M3 Dwarf NLTT 24399
Jennifer Burt,Diana Dragomir,Paul Mollière,Allison Youngblood,Antonio García Muñoz,John McCann,Laura Kreidberg,Chelsea X. Huang,Karen A. Collins,Jason D. Eastman,Lyu Abe,J. M. Almenara,Ian J. M. Crossfield,Carl Ziegler,Joseph E. Rodriguez,Eric E. Mamajek,Keivan G. Stassun,Keivan G. Stassun,Samuel Halverson,Steven Villanueva,R. Paul Butler,Sharon X. Wang,Sharon X. Wang,Richard P. Schwarz,George R. Ricker,Roland Vanderspek,David W. Latham,Sara Seager,Joshua N. Winn,Jon M. Jenkins,Abdelkrim Agabi,Xavier Bonfils,David R. Ciardi,Marion Cointepas,Marion Cointepas,Jeffrey D. Crane,Nicolas Crouzet,Georgina Dransfield,Fabo Feng,Elise Furlan,Tristan Guillot,Arvind F. Gupta,Steve B. Howell,Eric L. N. Jensen,Nicholas M. Law,Andrew W. Mann,Wenceslas Marie-Sainte,Rachel A. Matson,Elisabeth Matthews,Djamel Mékarnia,Joshua Pepper,Nic Scott,Stephen A. Shectman,Joshua E. Schlieder,François-Xavier Schmider,Daniel J. Stevens,Johanna Teske,Amaury H. M. J. Triaud,David Charbonneau,Zachory K. Berta-Thompson,Christopher J. Burke,Tansu Daylan,Thomas Barclay,Thomas Barclay,Bill Wohler,Bill Wohler,C. E. Brasseur +66 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reported the discovery of a transiting, temperate, Neptune-sized exoplanet orbiting the nearby M3V star TOI-1231 (NLTT 24399, L 248-27, 2MASS J10265947-5228099).
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Spectroscopy, MOST Photometry, and Interferometry of MWC 314: Is it an LBV or an interacting binary?
Noel D. Richardson,Anthony F. J. Moffat,Raphael Maltais-Tariant,Herbert Pablo,Douglas R. Gies,Hideyuki Saio,Nicole St-Louis,Gail Schaefer,Anatoly S. Miroshnichenko,Chris Farrington,Emily J. Aldoretta,Étienne Artigau,Tabetha S. Boyajian,Kathryn Gordon,Jeremy Jones,Rachel A. Matson,Harold A. McAlister,David O'Brien,Deepak Raghavan,Tahina Ramiaramanantsoa,Stephen T. Ridgway,Nic Scott,Judit Sturmann,Laszlo Sturmann,T. ten Brummelaar,Joshua D. Thomas,Nils H. Turner,Norm Vargas,Sergey Zharikov,Jaymie M. Matthews,C. Cameron,David B. Guenther,Rainer Kuschnig,Rainer Kuschnig,Jason F. Rowe,Slavek M. Rucinski,Dimitar Sasselov,Werner W. Weiss +37 more
TL;DR: In this article, a luminous blue variable (LBV) was observed with a combination of optical spectroscopy, broad-band ground and space-based photometry, as well as with long baseline, near-infrared interferometry.