First Author Publications

E. Whittaker and J.-L. Margot, "Discovery of Thousands of Main-Belt Asteroids with Synthetic Tracking of WISE Data." 2026, PSJ, 7 (6), 148.

E. A. Whittaker, J. L. Margot, A. L. H. Lam, N. Myhrvold, "Thermal Models of Asteroids with Two-band Combinations of Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer Cryogenic Data." 2023, PSJ, 4, 64.

E. A. Whittaker, M. Malik, J. Ih, E. M.-R. Kempton, M. Mansfield, J. L. Bean, E. S. Kite, D. D. B. Koll, T. W. Cronin, R. Hu, "The Detectability of Rocky Planet Surface and Atmosphere Composition with JWST: The Case of LHS 3844b." 2022, PSJ, 164, 258.

Other Publications

S. Zieba, L. Kreidberg, B. Coy, A. Bello-Arufe, K. Paragas, X. Lyu, R. Hu, A. Yer, E. Kite, D. Koll, K. Wohlfarth, E. Whittaker, H. Knutson, R. Wordsworth, C. Morley, and L. Schaefer, "JWST mid-infrared spectroscopy of the bare rock LHS 3844 b reveals a dark, featureless surface." 2026, Nat. Astron.

C. O. Chandler, P. H. Bernardinelli, M. Jurić, ... E. Whittaker, ..., and J. Zhang, "NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Observations of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS (C/2025 N1)." 2026, ApJL, 1001 (2), L35,

J. Ih, E. M.-R. Kempton, E. A. Whittaker, M. Lessard, "Constraining the Thickness of TRAPPIST-1 b's Atmosphere from Its JWST Secondary Eclipse Observation at 15 μm." 2023, ApJL, 952, L4.

A. L. H. Lam, J. L. Margot, E. Whittaker, N. Myhrvold, "Determination of 1929 Asteroid Rotation Periods from WISE Data." 2023, PSJ, 4, 61.

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