

Payne, Matthew
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory staff
Background And Education
Research And Grants
co-principal investigator on
- Observational Constraints on Planet Nine awarded by Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Awards
- Panic Survey: The Pan-STARRS Isotropic Centaur Survey awarded by Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Awards
- Discovering and Characterizing Circumbinary Planets and Their Satellites awarded by Competitive Grants Program for Science
investigator on
Publications
selected publications
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- Dalba, Paul A., Kane, Stephen R., Li, Zhexing, MacDougall, Mason G., Rosenthal, Lee J., Cherubim, Collin, Isaacson, Howard, Thorngren, Daniel P., Fulton, Benjamin, Howard, Andrew W., Petigura, Erik A., Schwieterman, Edward W., Peluso, Dan O., Esposito, Thomas M., Marchis, Franck, and Payne, Matthew J. 2021. "Giant Outer Transiting Exoplanet Mass (GOT 'EM) Survey. II. Discovery of a Failed Hot Jupiter on a 2.7 Yr, Highly Eccentric Orbit." The Astronomical Journal, 154. 162, https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ac134b. 2021
- Hadden, Sam and Payne, Matthew J. 2020. "Modeling Radial Velocity Data of Resonant Planets to Infer Migration Histories." The Astronomical Journal 160:106. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/aba751 2020
- Goldberg, Max, Hadden, Sam, Payne, Matthew J., and Holman, Matthew J. 2019. "Prospects for Refining Kepler TTV Masses Using TESS Observations." The Astronomical Journal 157:142. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ab06c9 2019
- Hadden, Sam, Barclay, Thomas, Payne, Matthew J., and Holman, Matthew J. 2019. "Prospects for TTV Detection and Dynamical Constraints with TESS." The Astronomical Journal 158:146. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ab384c 2019
- Winters, Jennifer G., Henry, Todd J., Jao, Wei-Chun, Subasavage, John P., Chatelain, Joseph P., Slatten, Ken, Riedel, Adric R., Silverstein, Michele L., and Payne, Matthew J. 2019. "The Solar Neighborhood. XLV. The Stellar Multiplicity Rate of M Dwarfs Within 25 pc." The Astronomical Journal 157:216. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ab05dc 2019
- Keys, Sonia, Vereš, Peter, Payne, Matthew J., Holman, Matthew J., Jedicke, Robert, Williams, Gareth V., Spahr, Tim, Asher, David J., and Hergenrother, Carl. 2019. "The digest2 NEO Classification Code." Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 131:064501. https://doi.org/10.1088/1538-3873/ab1157 2019
- Holman, Matthew J., Payne, Matthew J., Fraser, Wesley, Lacerda, Pedro, Bannister, Michele T., Lackner, Michael, Chen, Ying-Tung, Lin, Hsing Wen, Smith, Kenneth W., Kokotanekova, Rosita, Young, David, Chambers, K., Chastel, S., Denneau, L., Fitzsimmons, A., Flewelling, H., Grav, Tommy, Huber, M., Induni, Nick, Kudritzki, Rolf-Peter, Krolewski, Alex, Jedicke, R., Kaiser, N., Lilly, E., Magnier, E. et al. 2018. "A Dwarf Planet Class Object in the 21:5 Resonance with Neptune." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 855, L6. , https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aaadb3. 2018
- Holman, Matthew J., Payne, Matthew J., Blankley, Paul, Janssen, Ryan, and Kuindersma, Scott. 2018. "HelioLinC: A Novel Approach to the Minor Planet Linking Problem." The Astronomical Journal 156:135. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/aad69a 2018
- Li, Gongjie, Hadden, Samuel, Payne, Matthew, and Holman, Matthew J. 2018. "The Secular Dynamics of TNOs and Planet Nine Interactions." The Astronomical Journal 156:263. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/aae83b 2018
- Veres, Peter, Payne, Matthew J., Holman, Matthew J., Farnocchia, Davide, Williams, Gareth V., Keys, Sonia, and Boardman, Ian. 2018. "Unconfirmed Near-Earth Objects." The Astronomical Journal 156:5. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/aac37d 2018
- Payne, Matthew J., Veras, Dimitri, Gansicke, Boris T., and Holman, Matthew J. 2017. "The fate of exomoons in white dwarf planetary systems." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 464:2557-2564. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw2585 2017
- Nelson, Benjamin E., Robertson, Paul M., Payne, Matthew J., Pritchard, Seth M., Deck, Katherine M., Ford, Eric B., Wright, Jason T., and Isaacson, Howard T. 2016. "An empirically derived three-dimensional Laplace resonance in the Gliese 876 planetary system." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 455:2484-2499. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2367 2016
- Chen, Ying-Tung, Lin, Hsing Wen, Holman, Matthew J., Payne, Matthew J., Fraser, Wesley C., Lacerda, Pedro, Ip, Wing-Huen, Chen, Wen-Ping, Kudritzki, Rolf-Peter, Jedicke, Robert, Wainscoat, Richard J., Tonry, John L., Magnier, Eugene A., Waters, Christopher, Kaiser, Nick, Wang, Shiang-Yu, and Lehner, Matthew J. 2016. "Discovery of a New Retrograde Trans-Neptunian Object: Hint of a Common Orbital Plane for Low Semimajor Axis, High-inclination TNOs and Centaurs." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 827, L24. , https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8205/827/2/L24. 2016
- Payne, Matthew J., Veras, Dimitri, Holman, Matthew J., and Gänsicke, Boris T. 2016. "Liberating exomoons in white dwarf planetary systems." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 457:217-231. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2966 2016
- Holman, Matthew J. and Payne, Matthew J. 2016. "Observational Constraints on Planet Nine: Astrometry of Pluto and Other Trans-Neptunian Objects." The Astronomical Journal 152:80. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-6256/152/4/80 2016
- Holman, Matthew J. and Payne, Matthew J. 2016. "Observational Constraints on Planet Nine: Cassini Range Observations." The Astronomical Journal 152:94. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-6256/152/4/94 2016
- Lin, Hsing Wen, Chen, Ying-Tung, Holman, Matthew J., Ip, Wing-Huen, Payne, M. J., Lacerda, P., Fraser, W. C., Gerdes, D. W., Bieryla, A., Sie, Z. -F, Chen, W. -P, Burgett, W. S., Denneau, L., Jedicke, R., Kaiser, N., Magnier, E. A., Tonry, J. L., Wainscoat, R. J., and Waters, C. 2016. "The Pan-STARRS 1 Discoveries of Five New Neptune Trojans." The Astronomical Journal 152:147. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-6256/152/5/147 2016
- Quinn, Samuel N., White, Timothy R., Latham, David W., Chaplin, William J., Handberg, Rasmus, Huber, Daniel, Kipping, David M., Payne, Matthew J., Jiang, Chen, Silva Aguirre, Victor, Stello, Dennis, Sliski, David H., Ciardi, David R., Buchhave, Lars A., Bedding, Timothy R., Davies, Guy R., Hekker, Saskia, Kjeldsen, Hans, Kuszlewicz, James S., Everett, Mark E., Howell, Steve B., Basu, Sarbani, Campante, Tiago L., Christensen-Dalsgaard, Jørgen, Elsworth, Yvonne P. et al. 2015. "Kepler-432: A Red Giant Interacting with One of its Two Long-period Giant Planets." The Astrophysical Journal 803:49. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/803/2/49 2015
- Giguere, Matthew J., Fischer, Debra A., Payne, Matthew J., Brewer, John M., Johnson, John Asher, Howard, Andrew W., and Isaacson, Howard T. 2015. "Newly Discovered Planets Orbiting HD 5319, HD 11506, HD 75784 and HD 10442 from the N2K Consortium." The Astrophysical Journal 799:89. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/799/1/89 2015
- Nelson, Benjamin, Ford, Eric B., and Payne, Matthew J. 2014. "RUN DMC: An Efficient, Parallel Code for Analyzing Radial Velocity Observations Using N-body Integrations and Differential Evolution Markov Chain Monte Carlo." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 210:11. https://doi.org/10.1088/0067-0049/210/1/11 2014
- Nelson, Benjamin E., Ford, Eric B., Wright, Jason T., Fischer, Debra A., von Braun, Kaspar, Howard, Andrew W., Payne, Matthew J., and Dindar, Saleh. 2014. "The 55 Cancri planetary system: fully self-consistent N-body constraints and a dynamical analysis." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 441:442-451. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu450 2014
- Tan, Xianyu, Payne, Matthew J., Lee, Man Hoi, Ford, Eric B., Howard, Andrew W., Johnson, John A., Marcy, Geoff W., and Wright, Jason T. 2013. "Characterizing the Orbital and Dynamical State of the HD 82943 Planetary System with Keck Radial Velocity Data." The Astrophysical Journal 777:101. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/777/2/101 2013
- Deck, Katherine M., Payne, Matthew, and Holman, Matthew J. 2013. "First-order Resonance Overlap and the Stability of Close Two-planet Systems." The Astrophysical Journal 774:129. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/774/2/129 2013
- Payne, Matthew J., Deck, Katherine M., Holman, Matthew J., and Perets, Hagai B. 2013. "Stability of Satellites in Closely Packed Planetary Systems." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 775, L44. IOP Publishing, https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/775/2/L44. 2013
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