Caroline Morley

7.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
97 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Caroline Morley is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Caroline Morley has authored 97 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 94 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 27 papers in Instrumentation and 21 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Caroline Morley's work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (86 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (56 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (53 papers). Caroline Morley is often cited by papers focused on Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (86 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (56 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (53 papers). Caroline Morley collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and United Kingdom. Caroline Morley's co-authors include Jonathan J. Fortney, Mark S. Marley, Eliza M.-R. Kempton, Roxana Lupu, Nikole K. Lewis, Michael R. Line, Kevin Zahnle, Adam P. Showman, Richard Freedman and Channon Visscher and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

Caroline Morley

94 papers receiving 2.1k citations

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

No thick carbon dioxide atmosphere on the rocky exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 c

2023 108 citations Sebastian Zieba, Laura Kreidberg et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Caroline Morley United States	30	2.3k	648	579	260	105	97	2.5k
Björn Benneke United States	23	2.1k 0.9×	594 0.9×	494 0.9×	289 1.1×	121 1.2×	62	2.3k
Laura Kreidberg United States	23	2.3k 1.0×	597 0.9×	492 0.8×	263 1.0×	131 1.2×	75	2.5k
Hannah R. Wakeford United States	27	1.9k 0.9×	661 1.0×	437 0.8×	255 1.0×	116 1.1×	79	2.1k
Eliza M.-R. Kempton United States	28	2.1k 0.9×	517 0.8×	555 1.0×	254 1.0×	75 0.7×	82	2.3k
Michael R. Line United States	31	2.4k 1.0×	596 0.9×	708 1.2×	410 1.6×	131 1.2×	80	2.6k
Joseph Harrington United States	28	2.5k 1.1×	599 0.9×	462 0.8×	227 0.9×	127 1.2×	74	2.7k
P. Mollière Germany	25	1.8k 0.8×	375 0.6×	434 0.7×	300 1.2×	82 0.8×	68	2.0k
Ian J. M. Crossfield United States	27	2.5k 1.1×	739 1.1×	364 0.6×	192 0.7×	184 1.8×	82	2.7k
Brice-Olivier Demory Switzerland	35	3.2k 1.4×	931 1.4×	442 0.8×	225 0.9×	115 1.1×	84	3.4k
Ernst de Mooij United Kingdom	26	2.1k 0.9×	704 1.1×	405 0.7×	391 1.5×	163 1.6×	63	2.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Caroline Morley

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Fields of papers citing papers by Caroline Morley

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Caroline Morley

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Caroline Morley. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Caroline Morley based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Caroline Morley. Caroline Morley is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

MacLeod, Morgan, et al.. (2025). Cold dayside winds shape large leading streams in evaporating exoplanet atmospheres. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 695. A186–A186. 1 indexed citations

Suárez, Genaro, Jacqueline K. Faherty, Ben Burningham, et al.. (2025). Diversity of Cold Worlds: Predicted Near-to-mid-infrared Spectral Signatures of a Cold Brown Dwarf with Potential Auroral Heating. The Astrophysical Journal. 993(2). 165–165.

Berta-Thompson, Zachory K., Hannah Diamond-Lowe, Jennifer G. Winters, et al.. (2025). The Thermal Emission Spectrum of the Nearby Rocky Exoplanet LTT 1445A b from JWST MIRI/LRS. The Astronomical Journal. 169(6). 311–311. 10 indexed citations

Gully-Santiago, Michael, Caroline Morley, Morgan MacLeod, et al.. (2024). A Large and Variable Leading Tail of Helium in a Hot Saturn Undergoing Runaway Inflation. The Astronomical Journal. 167(4). 142–142. 15 indexed citations

Limbach, Mary Anne, Andrew Vanderburg, Simon Blouin, et al.. (2024). The MIRI Exoplanets Orbiting White dwarfs (MEOW) Survey: Mid-infrared Excess Reveals a Giant Planet Candidate around a Nearby White Dwarf. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 973(1). L11–L11. 11 indexed citations

Brande, Jonathan, Ian J. M. Crossfield, Laura Kreidberg, et al.. (2024). Clouds and Clarity: Revisiting Atmospheric Feature Trends in Neptune-size Exoplanets. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 961(1). L23–L23. 22 indexed citations

Morley, Caroline, et al.. (2024). Microphysical Prescriptions for Parameterized Water Cloud Formation on Ultra-cool Substellar Objects. The Astrophysical Journal. 974(2). 190–190. 2 indexed citations

Zieba, Sebastian, Laura Kreidberg, Elsa Ducrot, et al.. (2023). No thick carbon dioxide atmosphere on the rocky exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 c. Nature. 620(7975). 746–749. 108 indexed citations breakdown →

Désert, Jean-Michel, Peter Gao, Caroline Morley, et al.. (2023). Probing Reflection from Aerosols with the Near-infrared Dayside Spectrum of WASP-80b. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 956(2). L43–L43. 3 indexed citations

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Vos, Johanna M., Ben Burningham, Jacqueline K. Faherty, et al.. (2023). Patchy Forsterite Clouds in the Atmospheres of Two Highly Variable Exoplanet Analogs. The Astrophysical Journal. 944(2). 138–138. 25 indexed citations

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Morley, Caroline, et al.. (2023). Toward Robust Atmospheric Retrieval on Cloudy L Dwarfs: the Impact of Thermal and Abundance Profile Assumptions. The Astrophysical Journal. 947(1). 6–6. 10 indexed citations

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Libby-Roberts, Jessica E., Zachory K. Berta-Thompson, Hannah Diamond-Lowe, et al.. (2022). . CU Scholar (University of Colorado Boulder). 36 indexed citations

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Brande, Jonathan, Ian J. M. Crossfield, Laura Kreidberg, et al.. (2022). A Mirage or an Oasis? Water Vapor in the Atmosphere of the Warm Neptune TOI-674 b. The Astronomical Journal. 164(5). 197–197. 7 indexed citations

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Gully-Santiago, Michael, et al.. (2022). Astronomical échelle spectroscopy data analysis withmuler. The Journal of Open Source Software. 7(73). 4302–4302. 3 indexed citations

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May, Erin, Thaddeus D. Komacek, Kevin B. Stevenson, et al.. (2021). . arXiv (Cornell University). 35 indexed citations

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Cushing, Michael C., Adam C. Schneider, J. Davy Kirkpatrick, et al.. (2021). An Improved Near-infrared Spectrum of the Archetype Y Dwarf WISEP J182831.08+265037.8. The Astrophysical Journal. 920(1). 20–20. 13 indexed citations

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Hood, Callie E., Jonathan J. Fortney, Michael R. Line, et al.. (2020). Prospects for Characterizing the Haziest Sub-Neptune Exoplanets with High-resolution Spectroscopy. The Astronomical Journal. 160(5). 198–198. 32 indexed citations

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Libby-Roberts, Jessica E., Zachory K. Berta-Thompson, Jean-Michel Désert, et al.. (2020). The Featureless Transmission Spectra of Two Super-puff Planets. The Astronomical Journal. 159(2). 57–57. 52 indexed citations

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Lothringer, Joshua D., Björn Benneke, Ian J. M. Crossfield, et al.. (2018). An HST/STIS Optical Transmission Spectrum of Warm Neptune GJ 436b. The Astronomical Journal. 155(2). 66–66. 26 indexed citations

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Morley, Caroline, Jonathan J. Fortney, Mark S. Marley, et al.. (2015). THERMAL EMISSION and REFLECTED LIGHT SPECTRA of SUPER EARTHS with FLAT TRANSMISSION SPECTRA. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 118 indexed citations

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