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Peer-Reviewed Publications (* indicates authors who were supervised; scroll down for other publications)

2013:

71. Mann, A. W.*, Gaidos, E., Kraus, A. and E. J. Hilton*, Testing the metal of late-type Kepler planet hosts with iron-clad methods, submitted to The Astrophysical Journal Letters

70. Sinukoff, E.*, Fulton, B.*, Scuderi, L.*, and E. Gaidos, Below One Earth: Detection, formation, and properties of subterrestrial worlds, submitted to Space Science Reviews

69. Rusch, A.*, Gaidos, E., Nitrogen-cycling bacteria and archaea in the carbonate sediment of a coral reef, submitted to Geobiology

68. Gaidos, E., Candidate planets in the habitable zones of Kepler stars, submitted to The Astrophysical Journal

67. van Summeren, J.*, Gaidos, E., and C. P. Conrad, Magnetodynamo lifetimes for rocky, Earth-mass exoplanets with contrasting mantle convection regimes, submitted to the Journal of Geophysical Research Planets

66. Lepine, S., Hilton, E. J.*, Mann, A. W.*, Wilde, M., Rojas-Ayala, B., Cruz, K. L., and E. Gaidos, A spectroscopic catalog of the brightest (J<9) M dwarfs in the northern sky, The Astronomical Journal, in press (arXiv:1206.5991)

65. Mann, A. W.*, Brewer, J., Gaidos, E., Hilton, E. J., Lepine, S., Prospecting in late-type dwarfs: Techniques to determine metallicities of late-K to mid-M dwarfs using infrared and optical spectra, The Astronomical Journal, 145, article id. 52

64. Gaidos, E., and A. W. Mann*, Objects in Kepler's mirror may be larger than they appear: bias and selection effects in transiting planet surveys, The Astrophysical Journal, 761, 41

2012:

63. Krot, A.N., Makide, K., Nagashima, K., Huss, G.R., Ogliore, R.C., Ciesla, F.J., Yang, L., Hellebrand, E., Gaidos, E., Heterogeneous distribution of Al-26 at the birth of the solar system: evidence from refractory grains and inclusions, Meteoritics and Planetary Science, Online Early.

62. Johnson, B. C., Lisse, C. M., Chen, C. H., Melosh, H. J., Wyatt, M. C., Thebault, P., Henning, W. G., Gaidos, E. J., Elkins-Tanton, L. T., Bridges, J. C., Morlok, A., A self-consistent model of the circumstellar debris created by a giant hypervelocity impact in the HD172555 system, The Astrophysical Journal, 761, 45.

61. Nittler, L., Gaidos, E. Galactic chemical evolution and the oxygen isotopic composition of the Solar System, Meteoritics & Planetary Science, Online Early

60. Mann, A. W.*, Gaidos, E., Lepine, S., Hilton, E.*, They might be giants: luminosity class, planet occurrence, and planet-metallicity relation of the coolest Kepler target stars, The Astrophysical Journal, 753, article id. 90

59. Marteinsson, V., Runarsson, A., Stefansson, A., Thorsteinsson, T., Johannesson, T., Magnusson, S., Reynisson, E., Einarsson, B., Wade, N.*, Morrison, H. and E. Gaidos [corresponding author], A pervasive microbial community in waters under the Vatnajokull ice cap, Iceland, The International Society for Microbial Ecology Journal, doi:10.1038/ismej.2012.97

58. Gaidos, E., Fischer, D. A., Mann, A. W.*, Lepine, S., On the nature of small planets around the coolest Kepler stars, The Astrophysical Journal, 746, article id. 36

2011:

57. Fischer, D. A., Gaidos, E., Howard, A., Giguere, M., Johnson, J.A., Marcy, G. W., Wright, J. T., Clubb, K. I., Isaccson, H., Apps, K., Lepine, S., Mann, A.*, Moriarty, J., Brewer, J., Spronck, J., Schwab, C., Szymkowiak, A., M2K: II. A triple-planet system orbiting HIP 57274, The Astrophysical Journal, 745, article id. 21

56. Kite, E. S.*, Gaidos, E., Manga, M., Climate instability on tidally-locked exoplanets, The Astrophysical Journal 743, article id. 41

55. Lepine, S., Gaidos, E., An all-sky catalog of bright M dwarfs, The Astronomical Journal 142, article id. 138

54. van Summeren, J.*, Conrad, C. P., Gaidos, E., Mantle convection, plate tectonics, and volcanism on hot exo-Earths,The Astrophysical Journal, 736, L15

53. Mann, A.*, Gaidos, E., Sub-millimagnitude photometry with ground-based, snapshot observations of bright stars, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 123, 1273-1289

52. Moskovitz, N.*, Gaidos, E., Differentiation of planetesimals and the thermal consequences of melt migrations in the early Solar System, Meteoritics and Planetary Science 46, 903-918

51. Pierrehumbert, R., Gaidos, E., Hydrogen greenhouse planets beyond the habitable zone, The Astrophysical Journal 734, L13

50. Makide, K, Nagashima, K., Krot, A. N., Huss, G. R., Cisela, F. J., Hellebrand, E., Gaidos, E., Yang, L. Heterogeneous distribution of Al-26 at the birth of the Solar System, The Astrophysical Journal 733, L31

49. Gaidos, E., Rusch, A.*, Ilardo, M.*, Ribosomal tag pyrosequencing of DNA and RNA from benthic coral reef microbiota: community spatial structure, rare members, and nitrogen-cycling guilds, Environmental Microbiology 13, 1138-1152

2010:

48. Mann, A. W.*, Gaidos, E., Gaudi, B. S., The invisible majority? Evolution and detection of outer planetary systems without gas giants, The Astrophysical Journal 719, 1454-1469

47. Gaidos, E., Conrad, C. P., Manga, M., Hernlund, J. Thermodynamic constraints on rocky exoplanet dynamos, The Astrophysical Journal 718, 596-609

46. Apps, K., Clubb, K., Fischer, D., Gaidos, E., Johnson, J. A., Howard, A., Marcy, G. W., Isaacson, H., Giguere, M., Valenti, J. A., Rodriguez, V., Chubak, C., Lepine, S., M2K: I. A Jupiter-mass planet orbiting the M3V star HIP 79431, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 122, 156-161

2009:

45. Gaidos, E., Krot, A. N., Huss, G. R. On the oxygen isotopic composition of the Solar System, The Astrophysical Journal 705, L163-L167

44. Kite E. S.*, Manga, M.,Gaidos, E., Geodynamics and rate of volcanism on massive Earth-like planets, The Astrophysical Journal, 700, 1732-1749

43. Grand, M.*, Gaidos, E. Patterns of methane emission from a tropical wetland in Ka'au Crater, O'ahu, Hawai'i, Pacific Science 64, 57

42. Moskovitz, N. A.*, Gaidos, E., Williams, D. M., The effects of lunar-like satellites on the orbital infrared light curves of Earth-analog planets, Astrobiology 9, 269-277

41. Gaidos, E., Krot, A. N., Williams, J. P., Raymond, S. N. Al-26 and the formation of the Solar System from a molecular cloud contaminated by Wolf-Rayet winds, The Astrophysical Journal 696, 1854-1863

40. Gaidos, E., Marteinsson, V., Thorsteinsson, T., Johannesson, T., Rafnsson, A. R., Stefansson, A., Glazer, B.*, Lanoil, B., Skidmore, M., Han, S., Miller, M.*, Rusch, A.*, Foo, W., An oligarchic microbial assemblage in the anoxic bottom waters of a volcanic subglacial lake, The International Society for Microbial Ecology Journal 3, 486-497

2008:

39. Rusch, A.*, Hannides, A. K.*, Gaidos, E., Diverse communities of active Bacteria and Archaea along oxygen gradients in coral reefs sediments, Coral Reefs 28, 15-26

38. Moskovitz, N. A.*, Jedicke, R., Gaidos, E., The distribution of basaltic asteroids in the main belt Icarus 198, 77-

37. Thorsteinsson, T., Elefsen, S. O., Gaidos, E., Lanoil, B., Johannesson, T., Kjartansson, V., Marteinsson, V. Th., Stefansson, A., Thorsteinsson, T., A hot water drill with built-in sterilization: design, testing and performance, Jokull 57, 71-82

36. Moskovitz, N. A.*, Lawrence, S., Jedicke, R., Willman, M., Haghighipour, N., Bus, Schelte, J., Gaidos, E., A spectroscopically unique Main Belt asteroid: 10537 (1991 RY16), The Astrophysical Journal 682, L57-L60

35. Williams, D. M., Gaidos, E., Detecting the glint of starlight on the oceans of distant planets, Icarus 195, 927-937

2007:

34. Sorensen, K. B.*, Glazer, B.*, Hannides, A.*, and Gaidos, E., Spatial structure of the microbial community in sandy carbonate sediment, Marine Ecology Progress Series 346, 61-74

33. Gaidos, E., Dubuc, T.*, Dunford, M.*, McAndrew, P.*, Padilla-Gamino, J.*, Studer, B.*, Stanley, S., The Precambrian emergence of animal life: a geobiological perspective, Geobiology 5, 351-

32. Johannesson, T., Thorsteinsson, T., Stefansson, A., Gaidos, E. J., Einarsson, B., Circulation and thermodynamics in a subglacial geothermal lake under the Western Skafta cauldron of the Vatnajokull ice cap, Iceland, Geophysical Research Letters 34, L19502

31. Gaidos, E., Glazer, B.*, Harris, D., Heshiki, Z., Jeppsson, N., Miller, M.*, Thorsteinsson, T., Bergur, E., Kjartansson, V., Stefansson, A., Quinn de Camargo, L. G., Johannesson, T., Roberts, M., Skidmore, M., Lanoil, B., A simple sampler for subglacial water bodies, Journal of Glaciology 53, 157

30. Gaidos, E., Haghighipour, N., Agol, E., Latham, D., Raymond, S., Rayner, J., New worlds on the horizon: Earth-sized planets close to other stars, Science 318, 210-212

29. Williams, J. P., Gaidos, E., On the likelihood of supernova enrichment of protoplanetary disks, The Astrophysical Journal 663, L33-L36

28. Bertaux, J.-L., Carr, M., Des Marais, D., Gaidos, E. Conversations on the habitability of worlds: the importance of volatiles, Space Science Reviews 129, 123-165

27. Gaidos, E., Selsis, F. From protostars to protolife: the emergence and maintenance of life, in Protostars and Protoplanets V, B. Reipurth, D. Jewitt, K. Keil (eds.), University of Arizona Press, Tucson

2006:

26. Shkolnik, E.*, Gaidos, E., Moskovitz, N.*, No detectable H3+ emission from the atmospheres of hot Jupiters, The Astronomical Journal 132, 1267-1274

2005

25. Gaidos, E., Deschenes, B.8, Dundon, L.*, Fagan, K.*, McNaughton, C.*, Menviel-Hessler, L.*, Moskovitz, N.*, Workman, M.*, Beyond the principle of plenitude: a review of terrestrial planet habitability Astrobiology 5, 100

2004:

24. Gaidos, E., Williams, D. M., Seasonality on terrestrial extrasolar planets: inferring obliquity and surface conditions from infrared light curves, New Astronomy 10, 67-77

23. Gaidos, E., Lanoil, B., Thorsteinsson, Th., Graham, A., Skidmore, M., Han, S.-K., Rust, T., Popp, B., A viable microbial community in a subglacial volcanic crater lake, Iceland, Astrobiology 4, 327-344

22. Gaidos, E., Koresko, C., A survey of 10-micron silicate emission from dust around young Sun-like stars, New Astronomy 9, 33-42

2003:

21. Gaidos, E., Marion, G., Geological and geochemical legacy of a cold early Mars, Journal of Geophysical Research (Planets) 108, CiteID 5055

2002:

20. Heidelberg, J. F., Paulsen, I. T., Nelson, K. E., Gaidos, E., et al., Genome sequence of the dissimilatory metal ion-reducing bacteriium Shewanella oneidensis, Nature Biotechnology 20, 1118-1123

19. Gaidos, E. J., Gonzalez, G., Stellar atmospheres of nearby young solar analogs, New Astronomy 7, 211-226

18. Nimmo, F., Gaidos, E., Strike-slip motion and double ridge formation on Europa, Journal of Geophysical Research (Planets) 107, CiteID 5021

17. Lewis, A. D., Stocke, J. T., Ellingson, E., Gaidos, E. J., New X-ray clusters in the Einstein Extended Medium-Sensitivity Survey. I. Modifications to the X-ray luminosity function, The Astrophysical Journal 566, 744-770

2001:

16. Gaidos, E. J., Cryovolcanism and the recent flow of liquid water on Mars, Icarus 153, 218-223

2000:

15. Gaidos, E. J., Henry, G. W., Henry, S. M., Spectroscopy and photometry of nearby young solar analogs, The Astronomical Journal 120, 1006-1013

14. Gaidos, E. J., Nimmo, F., Planetary science: tectonics and water on Europa, Nature 405, 637-638

13. Gaidos, E. J., A cosmochemical determinism in the formation of Earth-like planets, Icarus 145, 637-640

12. White, S. N., Chave, A. D., Reynolds, G. T., Gaidos, E. J., Tyson, J. A., van Dover, C. L., Variations in ambient light emission from black smokers and flange pools on the Juan de Fuca Ridge, Geophysical Research Letters 27, 1151

11. Kirschvink, J. L., Gaidos, E. J., Bertani, L. E., Beukes, N. J., Gutzmer, J., Maepa, L. N., Steinberger, R. E., Paleoproterozoic snowball Earth: extreme climatic and geochemical global change and its biological consequences, Proceedings of the National Academies of Science USA 97, 1400-1405

10. Gaidos, E. J., Gudel, M., Blake, G. A., The faint young Sun paradox: an observational test of an alternative solar model, Geophysical Research Letters 27, 501-504

1999:

9. Gaidos, E. J., Nealson, K. H., Kirschvink, J. L., Life in ice-covered oceans, Science 284, 1631 8. Gaidos, E. J., Observational constraints on late heavy bombardment episodes around young solar analogs, The Astrophysical Journal 510, L131-L134

1998:

7. Gaidos, E. J., Nearby young solar analogs. I. Catalog and stellar characteristics, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 110, 1259-1276

1997:

6. Gaidos, E. J., Photometry of brightest galaxies in twenty Abell clusters, The Astronomical Journal 114, 474-481

5. Oppenheimer, B. R., Helfand, D. J., Gaidos, E. J., A survey of the Einstein IPC database for extended X-ray sources, The Astronomical Journal 113, 2134-2146

4. Gaidos, E. J., The galaxy luminosity function from observations of twenty Abell clusters, The Astronomical Journal 113, 117-129

1995:

3. Gaidos, E. J., Paleodynamics: Solar System formation and the early environment of the Sun, Icarus 114, 258-268

1994:

2. Gaidos, E. J., Light echo detection of circumstellar disks around flaring stars, Icarus 109, 382-392

1993:

1. Gaidos, E. J., Magnier, E. A., Schechter, P. L., A catalog of QSO candidates from a BVRI CCD survey of the North Ecliptic Pole, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 105, 1294-1307

Conference Proceedings and Edited Book Chapters

Lepine, S., Gaidos, E. (2013) The northern census of M dwarfs within 100pc, and its potential for exoplanet surveys, Astronomische Nachrichten, 334, 1-4, Proceedings of the 17th Cool Stars and Stellar Systems Workshop.

Mann, A. W*, Brewer, J. M., Gaidos, E., Lepine, S., Hilton, E. J.* (2012) Full metal bracket: a calibration of infrared and optical spectroscopic metallicities of M dwarfs over 1.5 dex, Astronomische Nachrichten, Proceedings of the 17th Cool Stars and Stellar Systems Workshop.

Rojas-Ayala, B., Hilton, E. J.*, Mann, A. W.*, Lepine, S., Gaidos, E., Bonfils, X., Helling, Ch., Henry, T. J., Rogers, L. A., von Braun, K., Youdin, A. (2012) M Dwarfs in the light of (future) exoplanet searches, Astronomische Nachrichten, Proceedings of the 17th Cool Stars and Stellar Systems Workshop.

Gaidos, E., Knoll, A. H. (2012) Our evolving planet: from the dark ages to an evolutionary renaissance, to appear in Frontiers in Astrobiology, C. Impey, J. Lunine, J. Funes, eds., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

Gaidos, E. (2010) Lost in transition: the biogeochemical context of animal origins, in Key Transitions in Animal Evolution, R. DeSalle and B. Schierwater, eds., Science Publishers and CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, pp. 345-359

Megeath, S. T., Gaidos, E., Hester, J. J., Adams, F. C., Bally, J., Lee, J.-E., Wolk, S. (2008) Cool stars in hot places, in 14th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun, G. T. van Belle, ed., Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series 384, San Francisco, pp. 393-401

Gaidos, E., Moskovitz, N., Williams, D. M. (2006) Terrestrial exoplanet light curves, in Direct Imaging of Exoplanets: Science & Techniques, Proceedings of the IAU Colloquium 200, C. Aime and F. Vakili, eds., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 153-158

Gaidos, E. J., Gonzalez, G., Gudel, M., Heap, S. R., Henry, G. W. (2001) Observations of nearby young solar analogs, in Young Stars Near Earth: Progress and Prospects, R> Jayawardhana and T. P. Greene, eds., Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series, 244, San Francisco, pp. 81-86

Gaidos, E. J. (1995) The edge of darkness: measurements of the CD galaxy in A665, in Dark Matter, AIP Conference Proceedings 336, American Institute of Physics, pp. 194-197

Other

Gaidos, E. J., Richardson, M. (2000) Mars: the next steps, EOS, American Geophysical Union, 81, 302