Publications

 

First-author papers (5):


Thermal Emission and Reflected Light Spectra of Super Earths with Flat Transmission Spectra.

Caroline V. Morley, Jonathan J. Fortney, Mark S. Marley, Kevin Zahnle, Michael Line, Eliza Kempton, Nikole Lewis, Kerri Cahoy. Submitted to ApJ.


Spectral Variability from the Patchy Atmospheres of T and Y Dwarfs

Caroline V. Morley, Mark S. Marley, Jonathan J. Fortney, Roxana Lupu. ApJL, Volume 789, Issue 1.

Water Clouds in Y Dwarfs and Exoplanets

Caroline V. Morley, Mark S. Marley, Jonathan J. Fortney, Roxana Lupu, Didier Saumon, Tom Greene, Katharina Lodders. ApJ, Volume 787, Issue 1.


Quantitatively Assessing the Role of Clouds in the Transmission Spectrum of GJ 1214b

Caroline V. Morley, Jonathan J. Fortney, Eliza M-R. Kempton, Mark S. Marley, Channon Visscher, Kevin Zahnle. ApJ, Volume 775, Issue 1.


Neglected Clouds in T and Y Dwarf Atmospheres

Caroline V. Morley, Jonathan J. Fortney, M. S. Marley, Channon Visscher, D. Saumon, S. K. Leggett

ApJ, Volume 756, Issue 2.



Co-authored papers (24):


Macintosh, B.; Graham, J. R.; Barman, T.; De Rosa, R. J.; Konopacky, Q.; Marley, M. S.; Marois, C.; Nielsen, E. L.; Pueyo, L.; Rajan, A.; Rameau, J.; Saumon, D.; Wang, J. J.; Ammons, M.; Arriaga, P.; Artigau, E.; Beckwith, S.; Brewster, J.; Bruzzone, S.; Bulger, J.; Burningham, B.; Burrows, A. S.; Chen, C.; Chiang, E.; Chilcote, J. K.; Dawson, R. I.; Dong, R.; Doyon, R.; Draper, Z. H.; Duchêne, G.; Esposito, T. M.; Fabrycky, D.; Fitzgerald, M. P.; Follette, K. B.; Fortney, J. J.; Gerard, B.; Goodsell, S.; Greenbaum, A. Z.; Hibon, P.; Hinkley, S.; Hufford, T.; Hung, L.-W.; Ingraham, P.; Johnson-Groh, M.; Kalas, P.; Lafreniere, D.; Larkin, J. E.; Lee, J.; Line, M.; Long, D.; Maire, J.; Marchis, F.; Matthews, B. C.; Max, C. E.; Metchev, S.; Millar-Blanchaer, M. A.; Mittal, T.; Morley, C. V.; and 30 additional authors. Discovery and spectroscopy of the young Jovian planet 51 Eri b with the Gemini Planet Imager. Science Express, Aug 13 2015.


Kammer, Joshua A.; Knutson, Heather A.; Line, Michael R.; Fortney, Jonathan J.; Deming, Drake; Burrows, Adam; Cowan, Nicolas B.; Triaud, Amaury H. M. J.; Agol, Eric; Desert, Jean-Michel; Fulton, Benjamin J.; Howard, Andrew W.; Laughlin, Gregory P.; Lewis, Nikole K.; Morley, Caroline V.; Moses, Julianne I.; Showman, Adam P.; Todorov, Kamen O.. Spitzer Secondary Eclipse Observations of Five Cool Gas Giant Planets and Empirical Trends in Cool Planet Emission Spectra. Accepted for publication in ApJ.


Deming, Drake; Knutson, Heather; Kammer, Joshua; Fulton, Benjamin J.; Ingalls, James; Carey, Sean; Burrows, Adam; Fortney, Jonathan J.; Todorov, Kamen; Agol, Eric; Cowan, Nicolas; Desert, Jean-Michel; Fraine, Jonathan; Langton, Jonathan; Morley, Caroline; Showman, Adam P. Spitzer Secondary Eclipses of the Dense, Modestly-irradiated, Giant Exoplanet HAT-P-20b Using Pixel-Level Decorrelation. The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 805, Issue 2, article id. 132, 19 pp. (2015).


Rajan, A.; Patience, J.; Wilson, P. A.; Bulger, J.; De Rosa, R. J.; Ward-Duong, K.; Morley, C.; Pont, F.; Windhorst, R. The brown dwarf atmosphere monitoring (BAM) project - II. Multi-epoch monitoring of extremely cool brown dwarfs. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 448, Issue 4, p.3775-3783.


Webber, Matthew W.; Lewis, Nikole K.; Marley, Mark; Morley, Caroline; Fortney, Jonathan; Cahoy, Kerri. Effect of Longitudinally Varying Cloud Coverage on Visible Wavelength Reflected-Light Exoplanet Phase Curves. The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 804, Issue 2, article id. 94, 12 pp. (2015).


Yang, Hao; Apai, Daniel; Marley, Mark S.; Saumon, Didier; Morley, Caroline V.; Buenzli, Esther; Artigau, Etienne; Radigan, Jacqueline; Metchev, Stanimir; Burgasser, Adam J.; Mohanty, Subhanjoy; Lowrance, Patrick L.; Showman, Adam P.; Karalidi, Theodora; Flateau, Davin; Heinze, Aren N. HST Rotational Spectral Mapping of Two L-Type Brown Dwarfs: Variability In and Out of Water Bands Indicates High-Altitude Haze Layers. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 798, Issue 1, article id. L13, 5 pp. (2015).


Leggett, S. K.; Morley, Caroline V.; Marley, M. S.; Saumon, D. Near-infrared photometry of Y dwarfs: low ammonia abundance and the onset of water clouds. The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 799, Issue 1, article id. 37, 16 pp. (2015).


Buenzli, Esther; Saumon, Didier; Marley, Mark. S.; Apai, Daniel; Radigan, Jacqueline; Bedin, Luigi R.; Reid, I. Neill; Morley, Caroline V. Cloud structure of the nearest brown dwarfs: Spectroscopic variability of Luhman 16AB from the Hubble Space Telescope. The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 798, Issue 2, article id. 127, 13 pp. (2015).


Pinfield, D. J.; Gromadzki, M.; Leggett, S. K.; Gomes, J.; Lodieu, N.; Kurtev, R.; Day-Jones, A. C.; Ruiz, M. T.; Cook, N. J.; Morley, C. V.; Marley, M. S.; Marocco, F.; Smart, R. L.; Jones, H. R. A.; Lucas, P. W.; Beletsky, Y.; Ivanov, V. D.; Burningham, B.; Jenkins, J. S.; Cardoso, C.; Frith, J.; Clarke, J. R. A.; Gálvez-Ortiz, M. C.; Zhang, Z. Discovery of a new Y dwarf: WISE J030449.03-270508.3. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 444, Issue 2


Tinney, C. G.; Faherty, Jacqueline K.; Kirkpatrick, J. Davy; Cushing, Mike; Morley, Caroline V.; Wright, Edward L. The Luminosities of the Coldest Brown Dwarfs. The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 796, Issue 1, article id. 39, 13 pp. (2014).


Luhman, K. L.; Morley, C. V.; Burgasser, A. J.; Esplin, T. L.; Bochanski, J. J. Near-infrared Detection of WD 0806-661 B with the Hubble Space Telescope. ApJL 794, 16.


Naud, Marie-Eve; Artigau, Étienne; Malo, Lison; Albert, Loïc; Doyon, René; Lafrenière, David; Gagné, Jonathan; Saumon, Didier; Morley, Caroline V.; Allard, France; Homeier, Derek; Beichman, Charles A.; Gelino, Christopher R.; Boucher, Anne. Discovery of a Wide Planetary-mass Companion to the Young M3 Star GU Psc. ApJ, 787, 5.


Wilson, P. A., Colón, K. D., Sing, D. K., Ballester, G. E., Désert, J.-M., Ehrenreich, D., Ford, E. B., Fortney, J. J., Lecavelier des Etangs, A., Lopez-Morales, M., Morley, C. V., Pettitt, A. R., Pont, F., & Vidal-Madjar, A.,  2014.  A search for methane in the atmosphere of GJ 1214b via GTC narrow-band transmission spectrophotometry, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 438, 2395


Lupu, R. E., Zahnle, K., Marley, M. S., Schaefer, L., Fegley, B., Morley, C., Cahoy, K., Freedman, R.,

& Fortney, J. J.,  2014.  The Atmospheres of Earthlike Planets after Giant Impact Events, The Astrophysical Journal, 784, 27


Beichman, C., Gelino, C. R., Kirkpatrick, J. D., Cushing, M. C., Dodson-Robinson, S., Marley, M. S., Morley, C. V., & Wright, E. L.,  2014.  WISE Y Dwarfs as Probes of the Brown Dwarf-Exoplanet Connection, The Astrophysical Journal, 783, 68


Leggett, S. K., Liu, M. C., Dupuy, T. J., Morley, C. V., Marley, M. S.,& Saumon, D.,  2014.  Resolved Spectroscopy of the T8.5 and Y0-0.5 Binary WISEPC J121756.91+162640.2AB, The Astrophysical Journal, 780, 62


Burningham, B., et al.,  2013.  76 T dwarfs from the UKIDSS LAS: benchmarks, kinematics and an updated space density, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 433, 457


Mace, G. N., et al.,  2013.  A Study of the Diverse T Dwarf Population Revealed by WISE, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 205, 6


Mancini, L., Southworth, J., Ciceri, S., Fortney, J. J., Morley, C. V., Dittmann, J. A., Tregloan-Reed, J., Bruni, I., Barbieri, M., Evans, D. F., D'Ago, G., Nikolov, N.,& Henning, T.,  2013.  A lower radius and mass for the transiting extrasolar planet HAT-P-8 b, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 551, A11


Leggett, S. K., Morley, C. V., Marley, M. S., Saumon, D., Fortney, J. J.,& Visscher, C.,  2013.  A Comparison of Near-infrared Photometry and Spectra for Y Dwarfs with a New Generation of Cool Cloudy Models, The Astrophysical Journal, 763, 130


Metchev, S., Apai, D., Radigan, J., Artigau, É., Heinze, A., Helling, C., Homeier, D., Littlefair, S., Morley, C., Skemer, A., & Stark, C.,  2013.  Clouds in brown dwarfs and giant planets, Astronomische Nachrichten, 334, 40


Barclay, T., et al.,  2012.  Photometrically Derived Masses and Radii of the Planet and Star in the TrES-2 System, The Astrophysical Journal, 761, 53


Buenzli, E., Apai, D., Morley, C. V., Flateau, D., Showman, A. P., Burrows, A., Marley, M. S., Lewis, N. K., & Reid, I. N.,  2012.  Vertical Atmospheric Structure in a Variable Brown Dwarf: Pressure-dependent Phase Shifts in Simultaneous Hubble Space Telescope-Spitzer Light Curves, The Astrophysical Journal, 760, L31


Shporer, A., et al.,  2010.  Ground-based Multisite Observations of Two Transits of HD 80606b, The Astrophysical Journal, 722, 880