David Charbonneau

38.8k citations

142 papers · 9.0k indexed · 5 hit papers · h-index 46

Impact in

Instrumentation top 0.1%
- Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
Astronomy and Astrophysics top 0.1%
- Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
- Astro and Planetary Science
- Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies
- Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
- Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics

Papers in

Instrumentation 70
- Astronomy and Astrophysical Research 70
Astronomy and Astrophysics 137
- Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies 134
- Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies 86
- Astro and Planetary Science 64
- Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae 7

Co-authors: Ronald L. Gilliland Timothy M. Brown Heather A. Knutson R. W. Noyes Courtney D. Dressing Adam Burrows Eric Agol David W. Latham
Journals: The Astrophysical Journal (57 papers)The Astronomical Journal (20 papers)Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (7 papers)Astronomy and Astrophysics (6 papers)The Astrophysical Journal Letters (5 papers)
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom France

In The Last Decade

David Charbonneau

126 papers receiving 8.5k citations

Hit Papers

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THE OCCURRENCE OF POTENTIALLY HABITABLE PLANETS ORBITING M DWARFS ESTIMATED FROM THE FULLKEPLERDATASET AND AN EMPIRICAL MEASUREMENT OF THE DETECTION SENSITIVITY 2015 · 468 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2015 The Astrophysical Journal
2015 Nature
2009 Nature
2007 Nature
2002 The Astrophysical Journal

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Co-authorship network

The 25 scholars most cited alongside David Charbonneau, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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1	Metallicities from High-resolution TRES Spectra with `uberMS` : Performance Benchmarks and Literature Comparison The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series ·Annelotte Vos, Phillip A. Cargile, Jiesong Gao, Stephenie Droll, David Charbonneau, David W. Latham, Andrew Vanderburg, Allyson Bieryla, Samuel N. Quinn, Lars A. Buchhave	2025	0
2	The True Stellar Obliquity of a Sub-Saturn Planet from the Tierras Observatory and the Keck Planet Finder The Astronomical Journal ·Barry J. Baker, Samuel W. Yee, G Thomas, Guđmundur Stefánsson, David Charbonneau, Allyson Bieryla, Andrew W. Howard, Howard Isaacson, Benjamin J. Fulton, Jana Bergholtz	2025	1
3	The Receding Cosmic Shoreline of Mid-to-late M Dwarfs: Measurements of Active Lifetimes Worsen Challenges for Atmosphere Retention by Rocky Exoplanets The Astrophysical Journal Letters ·Annelotte Vos, David Charbonneau, Andrew Vanderburg	2025	4
4	The Mass Dependence of Hα Emission and Stellar Spindown for Fully Convective M Dwarfs The Astrophysical Journal ·Annelotte Vos, David Charbonneau, David W. Latham, P. Berlind, M. Calkins, Gilbert A. Esquerdo, Jessica Mink	2024	5
5	LHS 475 b: A Potential Venus Analog Orbiting a Nearby M Dwarf The Astronomical Journal ·Oscar Carreras, David Charbonneau, Jonathan Irwin, Jennifer G. Winters, Annelotte Vos, Avi Shporer, Karen A. Collins, Kevin I. Collins, Eric L. N. Jensen, Richard P. Schwarz, K. Horne, Zahra Essack, Veselin B. Kostov, Michelle Kunimoto, Alan M. Levine, Sara Seager, R. Vanderspek, Joshua N. Winn	2024	0
6	The K2 and TESS Synergy. III. Search and Rescue of the Lost Ephemeris for K2's First Planet The Astronomical Journal ·Van TH Hoang, Joseph E. Rodriguez, Guilbert Stephane, Andrew Vanderburg, John H. Livingston, Mahsa Shojaei Yeganeh, M. Shafiy Widi Kresno Wibisono, M. Cretignier, Karen A. Collins, Allyson Bieryla, David Charbonneau, Ian J. M. Crossfield, X. Dumusque, John F. Kielkopf, David W. Latham, 美琪范	2024	0
7	First on-sky results of a Fabry–Perot Instrument for Oxygen Searches (FIOS) prototype Astronomy and Astrophysics ·董定龙, Sagi Ben-Ami, Mercedes López‐Morales, Andrew Szentgyorgyi, David Charbonneau, G Thomas, Johannes Büchner	2023	1
8	Measuring the variability of directly imaged exoplanets using vector Apodizing Phase Plates combined with ground-based differential spectrophotometry Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Andrea Luna, Jayne Birkby, Jordan Stone, David Doelman, Matthew D. Kenworthy, Gerald Hou, A. J. Bohn, Steve Ertel, Frans Snik, C. E. Woodward, Andrew Skemer, Jarron Leisenring, K. G. Strassmeier, David Charbonneau	2023	6
9	The Occurrence Rate of Terrestrial Planets Orbiting Nearby Mid-to-late M Dwarfs from TESS Sectors 1–42 The Astronomical Journal ·Oscar Carreras, David Charbonneau	2023	26
10	Ground-based Optical Transmission Spectroscopy of the Nearby Terrestrial Exoplanet LTT 1445Ab The Astronomical Journal ·Hannah Diamond-Lowe, João M. Mendonça, David Charbonneau, Lars A. Buchhave	2023	13
11	CU Scholar (University of Colorado Boulder) ·Jessica E. Libby-Roberts, Zachory K. Berta-Thompson, Hannah Diamond-Lowe, Michael Gully-Santiago, Jonathan Irwin, Eliza M.-R. Kempton, Benjamin V. Rackham, David Charbonneau, Jean-Michel Désert, Jason Dittmann, R. Hofmann, Caroline Morley, Elisabeth Newton	2022	36
12	Galactic Kinematics and Observed Flare Rates of a Volume-complete Sample of Mid-to-late M Dwarfs: Constraints on the History of the Stellar Radiation Environment of Planets Orbiting Low-mass Stars The Astrophysical Journal ·N. Monios, Jennifer G. Winters, Jonathan Irwin, David Charbonneau	2022	20
13	Hazy with a Chance of Star Spots: Constraining the Atmosphere of Young Planet K2-33b The Astronomical Journal ·Pa Chia Thao, Andrew W. Mann, Peter Gao, S Iştoan, Andrew Vanderburg, Elisabeth Newton, Абеуов Роман Ринатович, Chandra Shekhar Prajapati, Trevor J. David, Jonathan Irwin, Tim-Oliver Husser, David Charbonneau, Sarah Ballard	2022	5
14	High-contrast observations of brown dwarf companion HR 2562 B with the vector Apodizing Phase Plate coronagraph Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Andrea Luna, A. J. Bohn, Jayne Birkby, Matthew D. Kenworthy, Katie M. Morzinski, David Doelman, Jared R. Males, Frans Snik, Laird M. Close, Philip M. Hinz, David Charbonneau	2021	8
15	A Lyα Transit Left Undetected: the Environment and Atmospheric Behavior of K2-25b The Astronomical Journal ·Seong‐Yeol Park∥, Elisabeth Newton, Allison Youngblood, V. Bourrier, Andrew W. Mann, Zachory K. Berta-Thompson, Marcel A. Agüeros, Zihao Dan, David Charbonneau	2021	15
16	Ground-based Optical Transmission Spectroscopy of the Small, Rocky Exoplanet GJ 1132b The Astronomical Journal ·Hannah Diamond-Lowe, Zachory K. Berta-Thompson, David Charbonneau, Eliza M.-R. Kempton	2018	43
17	THE OCCURRENCE OF POTENTIALLY HABITABLE PLANETS ORBITING M DWARFS ESTIMATED FROM THE FULLKEPLERDATASET AND AN EMPIRICAL MEASUREMENT OF THE DETECTION SENSITIVITY The Astrophysical Journal ·Courtney D. Dressing, David Charbonneau Hit paper breakdown →	2015	468
18	DYNAMICAL MASSES OF YOUNG M DWARFS: MASSES AND ORBITAL PARAMETERS OF GJ 3305 AB, THE WIDE BINARY COMPANION TO THE IMAGED EXOPLANET HOST 51 ERI The Astrophysical Journal Letters ·Benjamin T. Montet, Brendan P. Bowler, Evgenya L. Shkolnik, Katherine M. Deck, Ji Wang, Elliott P. Horch, Michael C. Liu, Lynne A. Hillenbrand, Adam L. Kraus, David Charbonneau	2015	21
19	A cool starspot or a second transiting planet in the TrES-1 system? Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology) ·M. Rabus, R. Alonso, Juan Antonio Belmonte, H. J. Deeg, Ronald L. Gilliland, J. M. Almenara, Timothy M. Brown, David Charbonneau, Georgi Mandushev	2008	33
20	A Review of the Current Status of Follow-Up Techniques to Study Known\n Extrasolar Planets arXiv (Cornell University) ·David Charbonneau	2003	1

About David Charbonneau

David Charbonneau is a scholar working on Instrumentation, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Computational Mechanics, having authored 142 papers that have together received 9.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (134 papers), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (86 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (70 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (64 papers), Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing (14 papers), Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (10 papers), Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (7 papers) and Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation (7 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Instrumentation (3.2k citations), Astronomy and Astrophysics (8.6k citations), Atmospheric Science (1.0k citations), Spectroscopy (558 citations) and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (494 citations). David Charbonneau has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. Frequent co-authors include Ronald L. Gilliland, Timothy M. Brown, Heather A. Knutson, R. W. Noyes, Courtney D. Dressing, Adam Burrows, Eric Agol, David W. Latham, Nicolas B. Cowan and Jonathan Irwin. Their work appears in journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, The Astronomical Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Astronomy and Astrophysics and The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

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