Publications
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First Author Publications
- Searching for Free-Floating Planets with TESS: Results from Sectors 61 - 65.
Kunimoto, M., DeRocco, W., Smyth, N., Bryson, S., & Gaudi, S. 2025, Accepted for publication in AJ. - Fully Automated Flux- and Pixel-Level Vetting of TESS Planet Candidates to Support Occurrence Rates.
Kunimoto, M., Bryson, S., Jaffee, D., et al. 2025, Accepted for publication in AJ. - Two Earth-size Planets and an Earth-size Candidate Transiting the nearby Star HD 101581.
Kunimoto, M., Lin, Z., Millholland, S., et al. 2025, AJ, 169, 47 - TOI-4010: A System of Three Large Short-Period Planets With a Massive Long-Period Companion
Kunimoto, M., Vanderburg, A., Huang, C., et al. 2023, AJ, 166, 7 - Predicting the Exoplanet Yield of the TESS Prime and Extended Missions Through Years 1-7
Kunimoto, M., Winn, J., Ricker, G. Vanderspek, R. 2022, AJ, 163, 290 - The TESS Faint Star Search: 1617 TOIs from the TESS Primary Mission
Kunimoto, M., Daylan, T., Guerrero, N., et al. 2022, ApJS, 259, 33 - Combining Transit and Radial Velocity: A Synthesized Population Model
Kunimoto, M. & Bryson, S. 2021, AJ, 161, 69 - Searching the Entirety of Kepler Data. II. Occurrence Rate Estimates for FGK Stars
Kunimoto, M. & Matthews, J. 2020, AJ, 159, 248 - Searching the Entirety of Kepler Data. I. 17 New Planet Candidates Including One Habitable Zone World
Kunimoto, M., Matthews, J., Ngo, H. 2020, AJ, 159, 124 - Lifting Transit Signals from the Kepler Noise Floor. I. Discovery of a Warm Neptune
Kunimoto, M., Matthews, J., Rowe, J., Hoffman, K. 2018, AJ, 155, 43
Highlighted Co-Author Publications
- Identifying Exoplanets with Deep Learning. V. Improved Light Curve Classification for TESS Full Frame Image Observations
Tey, E., Moldovan, D., Kunimoto, M., et al. 2023, AJ, 165, 95 - Exploring the Dependence of Hot Jupiter Occurrence Rates on Stellar Mass with TESS
Beleznay, M.* & Kunimoto, M. 2022, MNRAS, 516, 75 - The HD 260655 system: Two rocky worlds transiting a bright M dwarf at 10 pc
Luque, R., Fulton, B., Kunimoto, M., et al. 2022, A&A, 664, A199 - The Occurrence of Rocky Habitable-zone Planets around Solar-like Stars from Kepler Data
Bryson, S., Kunimoto, M., Kopparapu, R., et al. 2021, AJ, 161, 36 - Reliability Correction is Key for Robust Kepler Occurrence Rates
Bryson, S., Coughlin, J., Kunimoto, M., Mullaly, S. 2020, AJ, 160, 200