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John Barnes

John Barnes

Research Fellow

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Exoplanets

Astronomy

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  • 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/.
  • 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/.
  • 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/.
  • 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/.
  • Xiang, Y., Gu, S., Cameron, A. C., Barnes, J. and Cao, D., 2026, ‘Starspot Activity and Surface Differential Rotation on UX Arietis’, Astrophysical Journal, 1005, https://oro.open.ac.uk/110650/.
  • 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/.
  • 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/.
  • Jeffers, S. V., Barnes, J. R., Schöfer, P., Reffert, S., Béjar, V. J. S., Quirrenbach, A., Reiners, A., Shan, Y., Zapatero Osorio, M. R., Fuhrmeister, B., Amado, P. J., Caballero, J. A., Ribas, I., Guillén, C. C., Del Sordo, F., Fernández, M., García-López, A., Guijarro, A., Hatzes, A. P., Lafarga, M., Lodieu, N., Kürster, M., Molaverdikhani, K., Montes, D. and Morales, J. C., 2025, ‘The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs: Understanding the wavelength dependence of radial velocity measurements’, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 696, https://oro.open.ac.uk/103939/.
  • Xiang, Y., Gu, S., Collier Cameron, A., Barnes, J. and Cao, D., 2024, ‘Further Study of Starspot Activity and Measurement of Differential Rotation for SZ Piscium’, The Astrophysical Journal, 976(2), https://oro.open.ac.uk/101245/.
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