Erin May

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
25 papers, 308 citations indexed

About

Erin May is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Erin May has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 308 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 7 papers in Instrumentation and 5 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Erin May's work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (21 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (13 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (7 papers). Erin May is often cited by papers focused on Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (21 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (13 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (7 papers). Erin May collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. Erin May's co-authors include Kevin B. Stevenson, Emily Rauscher, Megan Mansfield, Thaddeus D. Komacek, John D. Monnier, Taylor J. Bell, Peter Gao, Eliza M.-R. Kempton, Jacob L. Bean and Eva-Maria Ahrer and has published in prestigious journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and The Astronomical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Erin May

19 papers receiving 231 citations

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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.

TOI-421 b: A Hot Sub-Neptune with a Haze-free, Low Mean Molecular Weight Atmosphere

2025 17 citations Eliza M.-R. Kempton, Matthew C. Nixon et al. The Astrophysical Journal Letters profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Erin May United States	12	285	100	61	22	21	25	308
Aurora Y. Kesseli United States	12	323 1.1×	100 1.0×	48 0.8×	34 1.5×	26 1.2×	23	364
Aishwarya Iyer United States	6	176 0.6×	64 0.6×	40 0.7×	26 1.2×	16 0.8×	9	194
R. Luque Spain	9	338 1.2×	89 0.9×	30 0.5×	16 0.7×	13 0.6×	31	356
Audrey Lanotte United Kingdom	7	410 1.4×	150 1.5×	52 0.9×	25 1.1×	13 0.6×	10	417
Jegug Ih United States	12	381 1.3×	79 0.8×	52 0.9×	58 2.6×	14 0.7×	15	413
Hannah Diamond-Lowe United States	9	247 0.9×	87 0.9×	48 0.8×	39 1.8×	14 0.7×	15	265
Achrène Dyrek France	5	196 0.7×	49 0.5×	52 0.9×	24 1.1×	13 0.6×	8	218
J. Budaj Slovakia	13	584 2.0×	168 1.7×	63 1.0×	28 1.3×	22 1.0×	36	605
Nicole L. Wallack United States	10	270 0.9×	99 1.0×	28 0.5×	20 0.9×	15 0.7×	25	296
R. Karjalainen Spain	13	384 1.3×	78 0.8×	50 0.8×	11 0.5×	12 0.6×	23	398

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Erin May

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Bennett, Katherine A., Ryan J. MacDonald, Sarah Peacock, et al.. (2025). Additional JWST/NIRSpec Transits of the Rocky M Dwarf Exoplanet GJ 1132 b Reveal a Featureless Spectrum. The Astronomical Journal. 170(4). 205–205.

Kempton, Eliza M.-R., Matthew C. Nixon, Jegug Ih, et al.. (2025). TOI-421 b: A Hot Sub-Neptune with a Haze-free, Low Mean Molecular Weight Atmosphere. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 984(2). L44–L44. 17 indexed citations breakdown →

MacDonald, Ryan J., Shang‐Min Tsai, Michael Radica, et al.. (2025). A Comprehensive Reanalysis of K2-18 b’s JWST NIRISS+NIRSpec Transmission Spectrum. The Astronomical Journal. 170(6). 298–298. 6 indexed citations

Allen, Natalie H., David K. Sing, Néstor Espinoza, et al.. (2024). HST SHEL: Enabling Comparative Exoplanetology with HST/STIS. The Astronomical Journal. 168(3). 111–111. 2 indexed citations

Kirk, James, Kevin B. Stevenson, Guangwei Fu, et al.. (2024). JWST/NIRCam Transmission Spectroscopy of the Nearby Sub-Earth GJ 341b. The Astronomical Journal. 167(3). 90–90. 27 indexed citations

McGruder, Chima, Mercedes López‐Morales, James Kirk, et al.. (2023). ACCESS, LRG-BEASTS, and MOPSS: Featureless Optical Transmission Spectra of WASP-25b and WASP-124b. The Astronomical Journal. 166(3). 120–120. 1 indexed citations

Lustig‐Yaeger, Jacob, N. R. Izenberg, M. S. Gilmore, et al.. (2023). A WISPR of the Venus Surface: Analysis of the Venus Nightside Thermal Emission at Optical Wavelengths. The Planetary Science Journal. 4(11). 207–207. 1 indexed citations

Bell, Taylor J., Eva-Maria Ahrer, Jonathan Brande, et al.. (2022). Eureka!: An End-to-End Pipeline for JWST Time-SeriesObservations. The Journal of Open Source Software. 7(79). 4503–4503. 67 indexed citations

Lustig‐Yaeger, Jacob, Kristin S. Sotzen, Kevin B. Stevenson, et al.. (2022). Hierarchical Bayesian Atmospheric Retrieval Modeling for Population Studies of Exoplanet Atmospheres: A Case Study on the Habitable Zone. The Astronomical Journal. 163(3). 140–140. 11 indexed citations

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May, Erin, Kevin B. Stevenson, Jacob L. Bean, et al.. (2022). A New Analysis of Eight Spitzer Phase Curves and Hot Jupiter Population Trends: Qatar-1b, Qatar-2b, WASP-52b, WASP-34b, and WASP-140b. The Astronomical Journal. 163(6). 256–256. 23 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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Mayorga, L. C., Jacob Lustig‐Yaeger, Erin May, et al.. (2021). Transmission Spectroscopy of the Earth–Sun System to Inform the Search for Extrasolar Life. The Planetary Science Journal. 2(4). 140–140. 6 indexed citations

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Fu, Guangwei, Drake Deming, Erin May, et al.. (2021). The Hubble PanCET program: Transit and Eclipse Spectroscopy of the Hot Jupiter WASP-74b. arXiv (Cornell University). 6 indexed citations

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Sotzen, Kristin S., Kevin B. Stevenson, Erin May, et al.. (2021). On the Utility of Transmission Color Analysis i: Differentiating Super-Earths and Sub-Neptunes. The Astronomical Journal. 162(4). 168–168. 1 indexed citations

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May, Erin & Kevin B. Stevenson. (2020). Introducing a New Spitzer Master BLISS Map to Remove the Instrument Systematic Phase-curve-parameter Degeneracy, as Demonstrated by a Reanalysis of the 4.5 μm WASP-43b Phase Curve. The Astronomical Journal. 160(3). 140–140. 22 indexed citations

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Colón, Knicole D., Daniel Angerhausen, Thomas Barclay, et al.. (2019). Testing the Hypothesis of a Low Metallicity Atmosphere for the Extremely Inflated Sub-Saturn-Mass Planet KELT-11b. 15926. 2 indexed citations

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May, Erin, Tyler Gardner, Emily Rauscher, & John D. Monnier. (2019). MOPSS. II. Extreme Optical Scattering Slope for the Inflated Super-Neptune HATS-8b. The Astronomical Journal. 159(1). 7–7. 11 indexed citations

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Bucher, B., et al.. (2019). Revision of forensics-relevant nuclear data in Sb127 β decay. Physical review. C. 99(3).

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May, Erin, et al.. (2018). MOPSS. I. Flat Optical Spectra for the Hot Jupiters WASP-4 b and WASP-52b. The Astronomical Journal. 156(3). 122–122. 14 indexed citations

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May, Erin & Emily Rauscher. (2016). EXAMINING TATOOINE: ATMOSPHERIC MODELS OF NEPTUNE-LIKE CIRCUMBINARY PLANETS. The Astrophysical Journal. 826(2). 225–225. 11 indexed citations

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