Upcoming Publications

  • Lisse, C., Desch, S., Unterborn, C. et al., Procedure For Observing Rocky Exoplanets To Maximize the Likelihood of Atmospheric Oxygen Biosignatures: A roadmap for the next 30 years, in publication ApJ Letters

  • Unterborn, C.T., Desch, S.D., Young, P., Vance, G., Chieffle, L. and Foley, B. The Coupled Role of Host Star Age, Exoplanet Radionuclide Budget and Climate Evolution. In Review

  • Unterborn, C.T., Hull, S.D., Stixrude, L., Teske, J.K., Johnson, J.A., Panero, W. R, Stellar Chemical Clues As To the Rarity of Exoplanetary Tectonics. In Review arXiv

  • Kane, S., Roettenbacher, R., Unterborn, C. T., Foley, B. and Hill, M., A Volatile-Poor Formation of LHS 3844b based on its Lack of Significant Atmosphere, in review

First Author Publications

  • Unterborn, C.T. and Panero, W.R. 2019, The Pressure and Temperature Limits of Likely Rocky Exoplanets. JGR Planets, doi:10.1029/2018JE005844

  • Unterborn, C.T., Desch, S.J., Hinkel, N., Lorenzo, A. 2018, Constraining the Compositions of the TRAPPIST-1 Planets to Trace Snow Lines and Migration in M Dwarf Disks. Nature Astronomy  doi:10.1038/s41550-018-0411-6

  • Unterborn, C.T. & Panero, W.R. 2017, The Effects of Mg/Si on the Exoplanetary Refractory Oxygen Budget, The Astrophysical Journal, 845, 1. doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa7f79

  • Unterborn, C.T., Dismukes E.E., Panero, W.R. 2016, Scaling the Earth: A Sensitivity Analysis of Terrestrial Exoplanetary Interior Models, The Astrophysical Journal, 819, 32. doi: 10.3847/0004-637X/819/1/32

  • Unterborn, C.T., Johnson, J.A., Panero, W.R. 2015, Thorium Abundances in Solar Twins and Analogues: Implications for the Habitability of Extrasolar Planetary Systems. The Astrophysical Journal, 806, 139. doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/806/1/139

  • Unterborn, C.T., Kabbes, J.E., Pigott, J.S., Reaman, D.M., Panero, W.R. 2014, The Role of Carbon in Extrasolar Planetary Geodynamics and Habitability. The Astrophysical Journal 793, 2. doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/793/2/124

  • Unterborn, C.T. & Ryden, B. 2008, Inclination Dependent Extinction Effects in Spi- ral Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The Astrophysical Journal, 687, 976. doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/702/2/1353

Contributed Publications

  • Glaser, D. et al., (15 co-authors, including Unterborn, C.T.). Detectability of Life on Pelagic Planets and Water Worlds, The Astrophysical Journal, 892, 2. doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab822d

  • Kane, S. et al., (11 co-authors, including Unterborn, C.T.) 2019. Venus as a Laboratory for Exoplanetary Science, JGR Planets, 8, 2015-2028. doi.org/10.1029/2019JE005939

  • Hinkel, N.R. & Unterborn, C.T. 2018, The Star–Planet Connection. I. Using Stellar Composition to Observationally Constrain Planetary Mineralogy for the 10 Closest Stars, The Astrophysical Journal, 853, 1. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aaa5b4

  • Cottarr, S., Heister, T., Rose, I., and Unterborn, C. 2014, Burnman: A Lower Mantle Toolkit. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 15, 4. doi: 10.1002/2013GC005122

  • Ye., Y, Smyth, J.R., Jacobsen, S.D., Panero, W.R., Brown, D.A., Katsura, T., Chang, Y.Y., Townsend, J.P., Dera, P., Tkachev, S., Unterborn, C., Liu, Z.X. and Goujon, C. 2013, Crystal Structure, Raman and FTIR Spectroscopy, and Equations of State of OH-bearing MgSiO3 Akimotoite. Contributions to Mineralogy And Petrology, 166, 5. doi: 10.1007/s00410-013- 0933-y

  • Denney, K.D., et al. (43 co-authors, including Unterborn, C.T.) 2010, Reverberation Map- ping Measurements of Black Hole Masses in Six Local Seyfert Galaxies The Astrophysical Journal, 721, 715. doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/721/1/715

  • Denney, K.D., et al. (42 co-authors, including Unterborn, C.T.) 2009, Diverse Kinematic Signatures from Reverberation Mapping of the Broad-Line Region in AGNs. The Astro- physical Journal, 704, 80. doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/704/2/L80

  • Denney, K.D., et al. (32 co-authors, including Unterborn, C.T.) 2009, A Revised Broad- line Region Radius and Black Hole Mass for the Narrow-line Seyfert 1 NGC 4051. The Astrophysical Journal, 702, 1353.  doi: 10.1086/591898

  • Reed, M.D., Terndrup, D.M., Zhou, A.Y., Unterborn, C.T., An, D. and Eggen, J.R. 2007, Resolving the Pulsations of Subdwarf B Stars: HS 0039+4302, HS 0444+0458 and an Examination of the Group Properties of Resolved Pulsators. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 378, 3. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11839.x