Mario Damiano

Mario Damiano

Ph.D. in Astrophysics

Publications

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First author peer-reviewed papers

  1. Damiano, M., Burr, Z., Hu, R., Burt, J., Kataria, T.,
    “Effects of planetary mass uncertainties on the interpretation of the reflectance spectra of Earth-like exoplanets”,
    AJ, 169, 97, Feb 2025.

  2. Damiano, M., Shaklan, S., Hu, R., Dunne, B., Tanner, A., Nida, A., Carson, J.C., Hildebrandt, S.R., Lisman, D.,
    “Starshade Exoplanet Data Challenge: what we learned”,
    JATIS, Vol. 10, Issue 4, 048001, Oct 2024.

  3. Damiano, M., Bello-Arufe, A., Yang, J., Hu, R.,
    “LHS 1140 b is a potentially habitable water world”,
    ApJL, 968, L22, Jun 2024.

  4. Damiano, M., Hu, R., Mennesson, B.,
    “Reflected spectroscopy of small exoplanets III: probing the UV band to measure biosignature gasses”,
    AJ, 166, 157, Sep 2023.

  5. Damiano, M., Hu, R., Barclay, T., Zieba, S., Kreidberg, L., Brande, J., Colón, K. D., Covone, G., Crossfield, I. J. M., Domagal-Goldman, S. D., Fauchez, T. J., Fiscale, S., Gallo, F., Gilbert, E., Hedges, C. L., Kite, E. S., Kopparapu, R. K., Kostov, V. B., Morley, C., Mullally, S. E., Pidhorodetska, D., Schlieder, J. E., Quintana, E. V.,
    “A transmission spectrum of the sub-Earth planet L98-59b in 1.1-1.7 μm”,
    AJ, 164, 225, Oct 2022.

  6. Damiano, M., Hu, R.,
    “Reflected spectroscopy of small exoplanets II: characterization of terrestrial exoplanets”,
    AJ, 163, 299, May 2022.

  7. Damiano, M., Hu, R.,
    “Reflected spectroscopy of small exoplanets I: determining the atmospheric composition of sub-Neptunes planets”,
    AJ, 162, 200, Oct 2021.

  8. Damiano, M., Hu, R., Hildebrandt, S.R.,
    "Multi-orbital-phase and multi-band characterization of exoplanetary atmospheres with reflected light spectra",
    AJ, 160, 206, Nov 2020.

  9. Damiano, M., Hu, R.,
    "ExoReLR: a Bayesian inverse retrieval framework for exoplanetary reflected light spectra",
    AJ, 159, 175, Mar 2020.

  10. Damiano, M., Micela, G., Tinetti, G.,
    "A principal component analysis-based method to analyze high-resolution spectroscopic data on exoplanets”,
    ApJ, 878, 153, June 2019.

  11. Damiano, M., Morello, G., Tsiaras, A., Zingales, T., Tinetti, G.,
    “Near-IR transmission spectrum of HAT-P-32 b using HST/WFC3”,
    AJ, 154, 39, July 2017.

Co-author

  1. Bello-Arufe, A., Damiano, M., Bennett, K.A., Hu, R., Welbanks, L., MacDonald, R.J., Seligman, D.Z., Sing, D.K., Tokadjian, A., Oza, A.V., Yang, J.,
    "Evidence for a Volcanic Atmosphere on the Sub-Earth L 98-59 b",
    ApJ, 980L, 26, Feb 2025.

  2. Tokadjian, A., Hu, R., Damiano, M.,
    "The Detectability of CH4/CO2/CO and N2O Biosignatures through Reflection Spectroscopy of Terrestrial Exoplanets",
    AJ, 168, 292, Dec 2024.

  3. Morgan, R., Savransky, D., Turmon, M., Damiano, M., Hu, R., Mennesson, B., Mamajek, E.E., Robinson, T.D., Tokadjian, A.,
    "HWO yield sensitivities in the NIR and NUV",
    SPIE 130925M, Aug 2024.

  4. The JWST Transiting Exoplanet Community Early Release Science Team, 80 co-authors,
    "A Benchmark JWST Near-Infrared Spectrum for the Exoplanet WASP-39b",
    Nature, Jul 2024.

  5. Hu, R., Bello-Arufe, A., Zhang, M., Paragas, K., Zilinskas, M., van Buchem, C., Bess, M., Patel, J., Ito, Y., Damiano, M., Scheucher, M., Oza, A.V., Knutson, H.A., Miguel, Y., Dragomir, D., Brandeker, A., Demory, B.O.,
    "A secondary atmosphere on the rocky exoplanet 55 Cancri e",
    Nature, May 2024.

  6. Savransky, D., Knight, R., Turmon, M., Spohn, C., Morgan, R., Damiano, M., Genszler, G., Kulik, J.,
    "Quantifying the impacts of schedulability on science yield of exoplanet imaging missions",
    SPIE 126801K, Oct 2023.

  7. Morgan, R., Savransky, D., Damiano, M., Lisman, D., Mennesson, B., Mamajek, E. E., Robinson, T. D., Turmon, M.,
    "Exo-Earth yield of a 6m space telescope in the near-infrared",
    SPIE 126801L, Oct 2023.

  8. Ahmed, Z., D'Amico, S., Hu, R., Damiano, M.,
    "Exoplanet Detection from Starshade Images using Convolutional Neural Networks",
    SPIE 1268028, Oct 2023.

  9. Barclay, T., Sheppard, K. B., Latouf, N., Mandell, A. M., Quintana, E. V., Gilbert, E. A., Liuzzi, G., Villanueva, G. L., Arney, G., Brande, J., Colón, K. D., Covone, G., Crossfield, I. J. M., Damiano, M. Domagal-Goldman, S. D., Fauchez, T. J., Fiscale, S., Gallo, F., Hedges, C. L., Hu, R., Kite, E. S., Koll, D., Kopparapu, R. K., Kostov, V. B., Kreidberg, L., Lopez, E. D., Mang, J., Morley, C. V., Mullally, F., Mullally, S. E., Pidhorodetska, D., Schlieder, J. E., Vega, L. D., Youngblood, A., Zieba, S.,
    "The transmission spectrum of the potentially rocky planet L 98-59 c",
    arXiv:2301.10866, Jan 2023.

  10. The JWST Transiting Exoplanet Community Early Release Science Team, 92 co-authors,
    "Early Release Science of the Exoplanet WASP-39b with JWST NIRSpec G395H",
    Nature, Jan 2023.

  11. The JWST Transiting Exoplanet Community Early Release Science Team, 99 co-authors,
    "Early Release Science of the exoplanet WASP-39b with JWST NIRCam",
    Nature, Jan 2023.

  12. The JWST Transiting Exoplanet Community Early Release Science Team, 131 co-authors,
    "Identification of carbon dioxide in an exoplanet atmosphere",
    Nature, Sep 2022.

  13. Hu, R., Damiano, M., Scheucher, M., Kite, E., Seager, S., Rauer, H.,
    “Unveiling shrouded oceans on temperate sub-Neptunes via transit signatures of solubility equilibria vs. gas thermochemistry”,
    ApJL, 921, L8, Oct 2021.

  14. Hu, R., Hildebrandt, S. R., Damiano, M., Shaklan, S., Martin, S., Lisman, D.,
    “Starshade Exoplanet Data Challenge”,
    JATIS, 7(2), 021216, Mar 2021.

  15. Bean, J. L., plus 96 co-authors,
    "The Transiting Exoplanet Community Early Release Science Program for JWST",
    PASP 130k4402, Nov 2018.

  16. Tinetti, G., plus 242 co-authors,
    "A chemical survey of exoplanets with ARIEL",
    Exp Astron 46, 135, Sep 2018.

  17. Tsiaras, A., Waldmann, I. P., Zingales, T., Rocchetto, M., Morello, G., Damiano, M., Karpouzas, K., Tinetti, G., McKemmish, L. K., Tennyson, J., and Yurchenko, S. N.,
    “A Population Study of Gaseous Exoplanets”,
    AJ, 155, 156, Mar 2018.

  18. Tsiaras, A., Rocchetto, M., Waldmann, I. P., Venot, O., Varley, R., Morello, G., Damiano, M., Tinetti, G., Barton, E. J., Yurchenko, S. N., Tennyson, J.,
    “Detection of an Atmosphere Around the Super-Earth 55 Cancri e”,
    ApJ, 820, 99, Apr 2016.

  19. Tsiaras, A., Waldmann, I. P., Rocchetto, M., Varley, R., Morello, G., Damiano, M., Tinetti, G.,
    “A New Approach to Analyzing HST Spatial Scans: The Transmission Spectrum of HD 209458 b”,
    ApJ, 832, 202, Dec 2016.

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