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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 187 publications

  • Brown, E. L., Jeffers, S., Marsden, S., Liebing, F., Bellotti, S., Barnes, J., Haswell, C. A. and Koseleva, V., 2026, ‘RedDots: Magnetic field of the nearby active M dwarf GJ 729, and a search for companions’, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 550(3), https://oro.open.ac.uk/111640/.
  • Barnes, J., Haswell, C., Ross, Z., Rutherford, E., Standing, M., Stevenson, A., Staab, D., Fossati, L., Jenkins, J. S. and Alves, D., 2026, ‘Three new exoplanet systems from the Dispersed Matter Planet Project’, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 551(3), https://oro.open.ac.uk/111641/.
  • Hartogh, C., Jeffers, S. V., Dreizler, S., Barnes, J., Haswell, C. A., Liebing, F., Collier Cameron, A., Gorrini, P., Del Sordo, F. and Cortés-Zuleta, P., 2026, ‘RedDots: Multiplanet system around M dwarf GJ 887 in the solar neighborhood’, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 707, https://oro.open.ac.uk/109190/.
  • Standing, M. R., Barnes, J. R., Haswell, C. A., Stevenson, A. T., Faria, J. P., Quintin, E., Ross, Z. O. B., Fossati, L., Jenkins, J. S., Alves, D. and Staab, D., 2026, ‘The Dispersed Matter Planet Project Sample - Detection limits, Occurrence Rates and New Planets’, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 547(3), https://oro.open.ac.uk/109093/.
  • Stevenson, A., Haswell, C., Barnes, J., Standing, M., Barstow, J., Ross, Z., Freckelton, A. and Staab, D., 2025, ‘HD 28471: a near-resonant compact multiplanet system with a possible cold giant planet’, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 543(1), pp. 28–50., https://oro.open.ac.uk/105968/.
  • Dreizler, S., Jeffers, S. V., Liebing, F., Gorrini, P., Haswell, C. A., Gaidos, E., Barnes, J. R., Del Sordo, F., Jones, H. R. A., Rodríguez, E. and Tsapras, Y., 2025, ‘RedDots: Panetary masses in the GJ 1061 system from planet-planet interaction’, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 698, https://oro.open.ac.uk/104922/.
  • 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/.
  • Rauer, H., Aerts, C., Cabrera, J., Deleuil, M., Erikson, A., Gizon, L., Goupil, M., Heras, A., Walloschek, T., Lorenzo-Alvarez, J., Marliani, F., Martin-Garcia, C., Mas-Hesse, J. M., O’Rourke, L., Osborn, H., Pagano, I., Piotto, G., Pollacco, D., Ragazzoni, R., Ramsay, G., Udry, S., Appourchaux, T., Benz, W., Brandeker, A., Güdel, M., Janot-Pacheco, E., Kabath, P., Kjeldsen, H., Min, M., Santos, N., Smith, A., Suarez, J., Werner, S. C., Aboudan, A., Abreu, M., Acuña, L., Adams, M., Adibekyan, V., Affer, L., Agneray, F., Agnor, C., Aguirre Børsen-Koch, V., Ahmed, S., Aigrain, S., Al-Bahlawan, A., Alcacera Gil, M. d. l. A., Alei, E., Alencar, S., Alexander, R., Alfonso-Garzón, J., Alibert, Y., Allende Prieto, C., Almeida, L., Alonso Sobrino, R., Altavilla, G., Althaus, C., Alvarez Trujillo, L. A., Amarsi, A., Ammler-von Eiff, M., Amôres, E., Andrade, L., Antoniadis-Karnavas, A., António, C., Aparicio del Moral, B., Appolloni, M., Arena, C., Armstrong, D., Aroca Aliaga, J., Asplund, M., Audenaert, J., Auricchio, N., Avelino, P., Baeke, A., Baillié, K., Balado, A., Ballber Balagueró, P., Balestra, A., Ball, W., Ballans, H., Ballot, J., Barban, C., Barbary, G., Barbieri, M., Barceló Forteza, S., Barker, A., Barklem, P., Barnes, S., Barrado Navascues, D., Barragan, O., Baruteau, C., Basu, S., Baudin, F., Baumeister, P., Bayliss, D., Bazot, M., Beck, P. G., Belkacem, K., Bellinger, E., Benatti, S., Benomar, O., Bérard, D., Bergemann, M., Bergomi, M., Bernardo, P., Biazzo, K., Bignamini, A., Bigot, L., Billot, N., Binet, M., Biondi, D., Biondi, F., Birch, A. C., Bitsch, B., Bluhm Ceballos, P. V., Bódi, A., Bognár, Z., Boisse, I., Bolmont, E., Bonanno, A., Bonavita, M., Bonfanti, A., Bonfils, X., Bonito, R., Bonomo, A. S., Börner, A., Boro Saikia, S., Borreguero Martín, E., Borsa, F., Borsato, L., Bossini, D., Bouchy, F., Boué, G., Boufleur, R., Boumier, P., Bourrier, V., Bowman, D. M., Bozzo, E., Bradley, L., Bray, J., Bressan, A., Breton, S., Brienza, D., Brito, A., Brogi, M., Brown, B., Brown, D. J. A., Brun, A. S., Bruno, G., Bruns, M., Buchhave, L. A., Bugnet, L., Buldgen, G., Burgess, P., Busatta, A., Busso, G., Buzasi, D., Caballero, J. A., Cabral, A., Cabrero Gomez, J., Calderone, F., Cameron, R., Cameron, A., Campante, T., Campos Gestal, N., Canto Martins, B. L., Cara, C., Carone, L., Carrasco, J. M., Casagrande, L., Casewell, S. L., Cassisi, S., Castellani, M., Castro, M., Catala, C., Catalán Fernández, I., Catelan, M., Cegla, H., Cerruti, C., Cessa, V., Chadid, M., Chaplin, W., Charpinet, S., Chiappini, C., Chiarucci, S., Chiavassa, A., Chinellato, S., Chirulli, G., Christensen-Dalsgaard, J., Church, R., Claret, A., Clarke, C., Claudi, R., Clermont, L., Coelho, H., Coelho, J., Cogato, F., Colomé, J., Condamin, M., Conde García, F., Conseil, S., Corbard, T., Correia, A. C. M., Corsaro, E., Cosentino, R., Costes, J., Cottinelli, A., Covone, G., Creevey, O. L., Crida, A., Csizmadia, S., Cunha, M., Curry, P., da Costa, J., da Silva, F., Dalal, S., Damasso, M., Damiani, C., Damiani, F., das Chagas, M. L., Davies, M., Davies, G., Davies, B., Davison, G., de Almeida, L., de Angeli, F., de Barros, S. C. C., de CastroLeão, I., de Freitas, D. B., de Freitas, M. C., De Martino, D., de Medeiros, J. R., de Paula, L. A., de Pedraza Gómez, l., de Plaa, J., De Ridder, J., Deal, M., Decin, L., Deeg, H., Degl'Innocenti, S., Deheuvels, S., del Burgo, C., Del Sordo, F., Delgado-Mena, E., Demangeon, O., Denk, T., Derekas, A., Desert, J., Desidera, S., Dexet, M., Di Criscienczo, M., Di Giorgio, A. M., Di Mauro, M. P., Diaz Rial, F. J., Díaz-García, J., Dima, M., Dinuzzi, G., Dionatos, O., Distefano, E., do Nascimento Jr., J., Domingo, A., D'Orazi, V., Dorn, C., Doyle, L., Duarte, E., Ducellier, F., Dumaye, L., Dumusque, X., Dupret, M., Eggenberger, P., Ehrenreich, D., Eigmüller, P., Eising, J., Emilio, M., Eriksson, K., Ermocida, M., Escate Giribaldi, R. I., Eschen, Y., Espinosa Yáñez, L., Estrela, I., Evans, D. W., Fabbian, D., Fabrizio, M., Faria, J. P., Farina, M., Farinato, J., Feliz, D., Feltzing, S., Fenouillet, T., Fernández, M., Ferrari, L., Ferraz-Mello, S., Fialho, F., Fienga, A., Figueira, P., Fiori, L., Flaccomio, E., Focardi, M., Foley, S., Fontignie, J., Ford, D., Fornazier, K., Forveille, T., Fossati, L., Franca, R. d. M., Franco da Silva, L., Frasca, A., Fridlund, M., Furlan, M., Gabler, S., Gaido, M., Gallagher, A., Gallego Sempere, P. I., Galli, E., García, R. A., García Hernández, A., Garcia Munoz, A., García-Vázquez, H., Garrido Haba, R., Gaulme, P., Gauthier, N., Gehan, C., Gent, M., Georgieva, I., Ghigo, M., Giana, E., Gill, S., Girardi, L., Giuliatti Winter, S., Giusi, G., Gomes da Silva, J., Gómez Zazo, L. J., Gomez-Lopez, J. M., González Hernández, J. I., Gonzalez Murillo, K., Gonzalo Melchor, A., Gorius, N., Gouel, P., Goulty, D., Granata, V., Grenfell, J. L., Grießbach, D., Grolleau, E., Grouffal, S., Grziwa, S., Guarcello, M. G., Gueguen, L., Guenther, E. W., Guilhem, T., Guillerot, L., Guillot, T., Guiot, P., Guterman, P., Gutiérrez, A., Gutiérrez-Canales, F., Hagelberg, J., Haldemann, J., Hall, C., Handberg, R., Harrison, I., Harrison, D. L., Hasiba, J., Haswell, C. A., Hatalova, P., Hatzes, A., Haywood, R., Hébrard, G., Heckes, F., Heiter, U., Hekker, S., Heller, R., Helling, C., Helminiak, K., Hemsley, S., Heng, K., Herbst, K., Hermans, A., Hermes, J., Hidalgo Torres, N., Hinkel, N., Hobbs, D., Hodgkin, S., Hofmann, K., Hojjatpanah, S., Houdek, G., Huber, D., Huesler, J., Hui-Bon-Hoa, A., Huygen, R., Huynh, D., Iro, N., Irwin, J., Irwin, M., Izidoro, A., Jacquinod, S., Jannsen, N. E., Janson, M., Jeszenszky, H., Jiang, C., Jimenez Mancebo, A. J., Jofre, P., Johansen, A., Johnston, C., Jones, G., Kallinger, T., Kálmán, S., Kanitz, T., Karjalainen, M., Karjalainen, R., Karoff, C., Kawaler, S., Kawata, D., Keereman, A., Keiderling, D., Kennedy, T., Kenworthy, M., Kerschbaum, F., Kidger, M., Kiefer, F., Kintziger, C., Kislyakova, K., Kiss, L., Klagyivik, P., Klahr, H., Klevas, J., Kochukhov, O., Köhler, U., Kolb, U., Koncz, A., Korth, J., Kostogryz, N., Kovács, G., Kovács, J., Kozhura, O., Krivova, N., Kuĉinskas, A., Kuhlemann, I., Kupka, F., Laauwen, W., Labiano, A., Lagarde, N., Laget, P., Laky, G., Lam, K. W. F., Lambrechts, M., Lammer, H., Lanza, A. F., Lanzafame, A., Lares Martiz, M., Laskar, J., Latter, H., Lavanant, T., Lawrenson, A., Lazzoni, C., Lebre, A., Lebreton, Y., Lecavelier des Etangs, A., Lee, K., Leinhardt, Z., Leleu, A., Lendl, M., Leto, G., Levillain, Y., Libert, A., Lichtenberg, T., Ligi, R., Lignieres, F., Lillo-Box, J., Linsky, J., Liu, J. S., Loidolt, D., Longval, Y., Lopes, I., Lorenzani, A., Ludwig, H., Lund, M., Lundkvist, M. S., Luri, X., Maceroni, C., Madden, S., Madhusudhan, N., Maggio, A., Magliano, C., Magrin, D., Mahy, L., Maibaum, O., Malac-Allain, L., Malapert, J., Malavolta, L., Maldonado, J., Mamonova, E., Manchon, L., Manjón, A., Mann, A., Mantovan, G., Marafatto, L., Marconi, M., Mardling, R., Marigo, P., Marinoni, S., Marques, R., Marques, J. P., Marrese, P. M., Marshall, D., Martínez Perales, S., Mary, D., Marzari, F., Masana, E., Mascher, A., Mathis, S., Mathur, S., Martín Vodopivec, I., Mattiuci Figueiredo, A. C., Maxted, P. F. L., Mazeh, T., Mazevet, S., Mazzei, F., McCormac, J., McMillan, P., Menou, L., Merle, T., Meru, F., Mesa, D., Messina, S., Mészáros, S., Meunier, N., Meunier, J., Micela, G., Michaelis, H., Michel, E., Michielsen, M., Michtchenko, T., Miglio, A., Miguel, Y., Milligan, D., Mirouh, G., Mitchell, M., Moedas, N., Molendini, F., Molnár, L., Mombarg, J., Montalban, J., Montalto, M., Monteiro, M. J. P. F. G., Montoro Sánchez, F., Morales, J. C., Morales-Calderon, M., Morbidelli, A., Mordasini, C., Moreau, C., Morel, T., Morello, G., Morin, J., Mortier, A., Mosser, B., Mourard, D., Mousis, O., Moutou, C., Mowlavi, N., Moya, A., Muehlmann, P., Muirhead, P., Munari, M., Musella, I., Mustill, A. J., Nardetto, N., Nardiello, D., Narita, N., Nascimbeni, V., Nash, A., Neiner, C., Nelson, R. P., Nettelmann, N., Nicolini, G., Nielsen, M., Niemi, S., Noack, L., Noels-Grotsch, A., Noll, A., Norazman, A., Norton, A. J., Nsamba, B., Ofir, A., Ogilvie, G., Olander, T., Olivetto, C., Olofsson, G., Ong, J., Ortolani, S., Oshagh, M., Ottacher, H., Ottensamer, R., Ouazzani, R., Paardekooper, S., Pace, E., Pajas, M., Palacios, A., Palandri, G., Palle, E., Paproth, C., Parro, V., Parviainen, H., Pascual Granado, J., Passegger, V. M., Pastor-Morales, C., Pätzold, M., Pedersen, M. G., Pena Hidalgo, D., Pepe, F., Pereira, F., Persson, C. M., Pertenais, M., Peter, G., Petit, A. C., Petit, P., Pezzuto, S., Pichierri, G., Pietrinferni, A., Pinheiro, F., Pinsonneault, M., Plachy, E., Plasson, P., Plez, B., Poppenhaeger, K., Poretti, E., Portaluri, E., Portell, J., Porto de Mello, G. F., Poyatos, J., Pozuelos, F. J., Prada Moroni, P. G., Pricopi, D., Prisinzano, L., Quade, M., Quirrenbach, A., Rabanal Reina, J. A., Rabello Soares, M. C., Raimondo, G., Rainer, M., Ramón Rodón, J., Ramón-Ballesta, A., Ramos Zapata, G., Rätz, S., Rauterberg, C., Redman, B., Redmer, R., Reese, D., Regibo, S., Reiners, A., Reinhold, T., Renie, C., Ribas, I., Ribeiro, S., Ricciardi, T. P., Rice, K., Richard, O., Riello, M., Rieutord, M., Ripepi, V., Rixon, G., Rockstein, S., Rodón Ortiz, J. R., Rodrigo Rodríguez, M. T., Rodríguez Amor, A., Rodríguez Díaz, L. F., Rodriguez Garcia, J. P., Rodriguez-Gomez, J., Roehlly, Y., Roig, F., Rojas-Ayala, B., Rolf, T., Rørsted, J. L., Rosado, H., Rosotti, G., Roth, O., Roth, M., Rousseau, A., Roxburgh, I., Roy, F., Royer, P., Ruane, K., Rufini Mastropasqua, S., Ruiz de Galarreta, C., Russi, A., Saar, S., Saillenfest, M., Salaris, M., Salmon, S., Saltas, I., Samadi, R., Samadi, A., Samra, D., Sanches da Silva, T., Sánchez Carrasco, M. A., Santerne, A., Santiago Pé, A., Santoli, F., Santos, n. R. G., Sanz Mesa, R., Sarro, L. M., Scandariato, G., Schäfer, M., Schlafly, E., Schmider, F., Schneider, J., Schou, J., Schunker, H., Schwarzkopf, G. J., Serenelli, A., Seynaeve, D., Shan, Y., Shapiro, A., Shipman, R., Sicilia, D., Sierra sanmartin, M. A., Sigot, A., Silliman, K., Silvotti, R., Simon, A. E., Simoyama Napoli, R., Skarka, M., Smalley, B., Smiljanic, R., Smit, S., Smith, L., Snellen, I., Sódor, d., Sohl, F., Solanki, S. K., Sortino, F., Sousa, S., Southworth, J., Souto, D., Sozzetti, A., Stamatellos, D., Stassun, K., Steller, M., Stello, D., Stelzer, B., Stiebeler, U., Stokholm, A., Storelvmo, T., Strassmeier, K., Strøm, P. A., Strugarek, A., Sulis, S., Švanda, M., Szabados, L., Szabó, R., Szabó, G. M., Szuszkiewicz, E., Talens, G. J., Teti, D., Theisen, T., Thévenin, F., Thoul, A., Tiphene, D., Titz-Weider, R., Tkachenko, A., Tomecki, D., Tonfat, J., Tosi, N., Trampedach, R., Traven, G., Triaud, A., Trønnes, R., Tsantaki, M., Tschentscher, M., Turin, A., Tvaruzka, A., Ulmer, B., Ulmer-Moll, S., Ulusoy, C., Umbriaco, G., Valencia, D., Valentini, M., Valio, A., Valverde Guijarro, n. L., Van Eylen, V., Van Grootel, V., van Kempen, T. A., Van Reeth, T., Van Zelst, I., Vandenbussche, B., Vasiliou, K., Vasilyev, V., Vaz de Mascarenhas, D., Vazan, A., Vela Nunez, M., Velloso, E. N., Ventura, R., Ventura, P., Venturini, J., Vera Trallero, I., Veras, D., Verdugo, E., Verma, K., Vibert, D., Vicanek Martinez, T., Vida, K., Vigan, A., Villacorta, A., Villaver, E., Villaverde Aparicio, M., Viotto, V., Vorobyov, E., Vorontsov, S., Wagner, F. W., Walton, N., Walton, D., Wang, H., Waters, R., Watson, C., Wedemeyer, S., Weeks, A., Weingrill, J., Weiss, A., Wendler, B., West, R., Westerdorff, K., Westphal, P., Wheatley, P., White, T., Whittaker, A., Wickhusen, K., Wilson, T., Windsor, J., Winter, O., Winther, M. L., Winton, A., Witteck, U., Witzke, V., Woitke, P., Wolter, D., Wuchterl, G., Wyatt, M., Yang, D., Yu, J., Zanmar Sanchez, R., Zapatero Osorio, M. R., Zechmeister, M., Zhou, Y., Ziemke, C., Zwintz, K., Böhm, T. and Dansac, L. M., 2025, ‘The PLATO mission’, Experimental Astronomy, 59(3), https://oro.open.ac.uk/103914/.
  • Stevenson, A. T., Haswell, C. A., Faria, J. P., Barnes, J. R., Barstow, J. K., Dickinson, H. and Standing, M. R., 2025, ‘RV-exoplanet eccentricities: Good, Beta, and Best’, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 539(2), pp. 727–754., https://oro.open.ac.uk/103717/.
  • Liebing, F., Jeffers, S. V., Gorrini, P., Haswell, C. A., Dreizler, S., Barnes, J. R., Hartogh, C., Koseleva, V., Del Sordo, F., Amado, P. J., Caballero, J. A., López-González, M. J., Morales, N., Reiners, A., Ribas, I., Quirrenbach, A., Rodríguez, E., Tal-Or, L. and Tsapras, Y., 2024, ‘RedDots: Limits on habitable and undetected planets orbiting nearby stars GJ 832, GJ 674, and Ross 128’, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 690, https://oro.open.ac.uk/101274/.
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