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Carole Haswell

Carole Haswell

Professor Of Astrophysics

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Professional biography

Professor of Astrophysics at the Open University.

Publications from NASA ADS

Author of "Transiting Exoplanets" 2010 CUP 335pp, ISBN 978-0-521-19183-8

2010 Royal Astronomical Society Group Achievement Award, as a core and pioneering member of the SuperWASP team

One of 21 Women selected by the Royal Astronomical Society to appear in a portrait gallery celebrating a century of female fellows.

PhD Astronomy 1992 The University of Texas at Austin
Thesis Title: The Black Hole Candidate Binary A0620-00

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Research interests

Short period exoplanets, particularly transiting systems and ultra-short-period planets. These planets  offer a unique opportunity to empirically determine the chemical composition and thus place our own Solar System in context. The Dispersed Matter Planet Project (DMPP, PI Haswell) exploits clues in the spectra of bright, nearby stars to identify those which host close-in mass-losing planets. These carefully selected targets are then studied with innovative high-precision, high cadence radial velocity measurements. 

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Displaying 10 of 129 publications

  • McDonald, I., Srinivasan, S., Scicluna, P., Jones, O. C., Zijlstra, A. A., Wallström, S. H. J., Danilovich, T., He, J. H., Marshall, J. P., van Loon, J. T., Wesson, R., Kemper, F., Trejo-Cruz, A., Greaves, J., Dharmawardena, T., Cami, J., Kim, H., Kraemer, K. E., Clark, C. J. R., Shinnaga, H., Haswell, C., Imai, H., Wouterloot, J. G. A., Vidal, A. J. P. and Rau, G., 2025, ‘The Nearby Evolved Stars Survey (NESS) V: properties of volume-limited samples of Galactic evolved stars’, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 541(1), pp. 516–552., https://oro.open.ac.uk/104776/.
  • Cubillos, P. E., Fossati, L., Koskinen, T., Huang, C., Sreejith, A. G., France, K., Wilson Cauley, P. and Haswell, C. A., 2023, ‘The Hubble/STIS near-ultraviolet transmission spectrum of HD 189733 b’, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 671, https://oro.open.ac.uk/88607/.
  • Rossi, L., Berzosa-Molina, J., Desert, J., Fossati, L., Muñoz, A. G., Haswell, C., Kabath, P., Kislyakova, K., Stam, D. and Vidotto, A., 2022, ‘Spectropolarimetry as a tool for understanding the diversity of planetary atmospheres’, Experimental Astronomy, 54 pp. 1187–1196., https://oro.open.ac.uk/81305/.
  • Scicluna, P., Kemper, F., McDonald, I., Srinivasan, S., Trejo, A., Wallström, S. H. J., Wouterloot, J. G. A., Cami, J., Greaves, J., He, J., Hoai, D. T., Kim, H., Jones, O. C., Shinnaga, H., Clark, C. J. R., Dharmawardena, T., Holland, W., Imai, H., van Loon, J. T., Menten, K. M., Wesson, R., Chawner, H., Feng, S., Goldman, S., Liu, F. C., MacIsaac, H., Tang, J., Zeegers, S., Amada, K., Antoniou, V., Bemis, A., Boyer, M. L., Chapman, S., Chen, X., Cho, S., Cui, L., Dell’Agli, F., Friberg, P., Fukaya, S., Gomez, H., Gong, Y., Hadjara, M., Haswell, C., Hirano, N., Hony, S., Izumiura, H., Jeste, M., Jiang, X., Kaminski, T., Keaveney, N., Kim, J., Kraemer, K. E., Kuan, Y., Lagadec, E., Lee, C. F., Li, D., Liu, S., Liu, T., de Looze, I., Lykou, F., Maraston, C., Marshall, J. P., Matsuura, M., Min, C., Otsuka, M., Oyadomari, M., Parsons, H., Patel, N. A., Peeters, E., Pham, T. A., Qiu, J., Randall, S., Rau, G., Redman, M. P., Richards, A. M. S., Serjeant, S., Shi, C. and Sloan, G. C., 2022, ‘The Nearby Evolved Stars Survey II: Constructing a volume-limited sample and first results from the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope’, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 512(1), pp. 1091–1110., https://oro.open.ac.uk/82557/.
  • Haswell, C. A., 2022, ‘Extended use of the Ariel Core Survey Data’, Experimental Astronomy, 53 pp. 749–757., https://oro.open.ac.uk/81446/.
  • Charnay, B., Mendonça, J. M., Kreidberg, L., Cowan, N. B., Taylor, J., Bell, T. J., Demangeon, O., Edwards, B., Haswell, C., Morello, G., Mugnai, L. V., Pascale, E., Tinetti, G., Tremblin, P. and Zellem, R. T., 2022, ‘A survey of exoplanet phase curves with Ariel’, Experimental Astronomy, 53 pp. 417–446., https://oro.open.ac.uk/75990/.
  • Cubillos, P. E., Fossati, L., Koskinen, T., Young, M. E., Salz, M., France, K., Sreejith, A. G. and Haswell, C. A., 2020, ‘Near-ultraviolet Transmission Spectroscopy of HD 209458b: Evidence of Ionized Iron Beyond the Planetary Roche Lobe’, The Astronomical Journal, 159(3), https://oro.open.ac.uk/77138/.
  • Fossati, L., Koskinen, T., France, K., Cubillos, P., Haswell, C., Lanza, A. and Pillitteri, I., 2018, ‘Suppressed Far-UV stellar activity and low planetary mass-loss in the WASP-18 system’, The Astronomical Journal, 155(3), https://oro.open.ac.uk/53115/.
  • Demangeon, O. D. S., Faedi, F., Hébrard, G., Brown, D. J. A., Barros, S. C. C., Doyle, A. P., Maxted, P. F. L., Collier Cameron, A., Hay, K. L., Alikakos, J., Anderson, D. R., Armstrong, D. J., Boumis, P., Bonomo, A. S., Bouchy, F., Delrez, L., Gillon, M., Haswell, C. A., Hellier, C., Jehin, E., Kiefer, F., Lam, K. W. F., Lendl, M., Mancini, L., McCormac, J., Norton, A. J., Osborn, H. P., Palle, E., Pepe, F., Pollacco, D., Prieto-Arranz, J., Queloz, D., Ségransan, D., Smalley, B., Triaud, A. H. M. J., Udry, S., West, R. and Wheatley, P. J., 2018, ‘The discovery of WASP-151b, WASP-153b, WASP-156b: Insights on giant planet migration and the upper boundary of the Neptunian desert’, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 610, https://oro.open.ac.uk/53116/.
  • Haswell, C. A., 2017, ‘WASP-12b: A Mass-Losing Extremely Hot Jupiter’, in Deeg, H. and Belmonte, J. eds. Handbook of Exoplanets. Springer., https://oro.open.ac.uk/50396/.
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