Earlier Work

The following publications are from my undergraduate research in physics at Texas A&M University, where I contributed to collaborative projects on the Exoplanet Transmission Spectroscopy Imager (ETSI) for characterizing exoplanet atmospheres.

Luke Schmidt, Ryan Oelkers, Erika Cook, Mary Limbach, Darren DePoy, J. Marshall, Landon Holcomb, Willians Pena, Jacob Purcell, Enrique Vega (2025). Rapid characterization of exoplanet atmospheres with the Exoplanet Transmission Spectroscopy Imager (ETSI). arXiv preprint.
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Ryan Oelkers, Luke Schmidt, Erika Cook, Mary Limbach, D. DePoy, J. Marshall, Jimmy Ardoin, Mitchell Barry, Evan Batteas, Alexandra Boone, Brant Conway, Silvana Adrande, John Dixon, Enrique Gonzalez-Vega, Alexandra Guajardo, Landon Holcomb, Christian Lambert, Shravan Menon, Divya Mishra, Kaitlin Webber (2025). Ground-Based Reconnaissance Observations of 21 Exoplanet Atmospheres with the Exoplanet Transmission Spectroscopy Imager. arXiv preprint.
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Ryan Oelkers, Luke Schmidt, Erika Cook, Mary Limbach, D. DePoy, J. Marshall, Jimmy Ardoin, Mitchell Barry, Evan Batteas, Alexandra Boone, Brant Conway, Silvana Adrande, John Dixon, Enrique Gonzalez-Vega, Alexandra Guajardo, Landon Holcomb, Christian Lambert, Shravan Menon, Divya Mishra, Kaitlin Webber (2025). Ground-based Reconnaissance Observations of 21 Exoplanet Atmospheres with the Exoplanet Transmission Spectroscopy Imager. The Astronomical Journal.
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Luke Schmidt, Ryan Oelkers, Erika Cook, Mary Limbach, Darren DePoy, J. Marshall, Landon Holcomb, Willians Pena, Jacob Purcell, Enrique Vega (2024). Rapid characterization of exoplanet atmospheres with the Exoplanet Transmission Spectroscopy Imager. Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems.
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Luke Schmidt, Mary Limbach, Erika Cook, Darren DePoy, Ryan Oelkers, J. Marshall, Landon Holcomb, Willians Pena, Jacob Purcell, Enrique Vega (2022). The Exoplanet Transmission Spectroscopy Imager (ETSI), a new instrument for rapid characterization of exoplanet atmospheres. Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX.
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