WillWaalkes

  • NSF Graduate Research Fellow
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Duane D241

I work withZach Berta-Thompsonstudying exoplanets. Currently I am working with ground-based observations to validate and characterize planet candidates discovered by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS).

Publications:

Crossfield, I., Waalkes, W., et al., "A super-Earth and sub-Neptune transiting the late-type M dwarf LP 791-18”(submitted)

Waalkes, W. et al., "Lyman-alpha in the GJ 1132 System: Stellar Emission and Planetary Atmospheric Evolution"(2019), Astronomical Journal.

Vanderspek, R. et al., "TESS Discovery of an Ultra-short-period Planet around the Nearby M Dwarf LHS 3844"(2019), ApJ.

Bean, J. et al., "The Transiting Exoplanet Community Early Release Science Program for JWST”(2018), PASP.

Tucker, O., Waalkes, W.C., et al., "Examining the Exobase Approximation: DSMC Models of Titan’s Upper Atmosphere." (2016), Icarus.