Limbach, M. A.; Soares-Furtado, M.; Vanderburg, A.; Best, W. M. J.; Cody, A. M.; D'Onghia, E.; Heller, R.; Hensley, B. S.; Kounkel, M.; Kraus, A.et al.; Mann, A. W.; Robberto, M.; Rosen, A. L.; Townsend, R.; Vos, J. M.: The TEMPO Survey. I. Predicting Yields of Transiting Exosatellites, Moons, and Planets from a 30 days Survey of Orion with the Roman Space Telescope. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 135, p. 014401 (2023)
Vilović, I.; Schulze-Makuch, D.; Heller, R.: Variations in climate habitability parameters and their effect on Earth's biosphere during the Phanerozoic Eon. Scientific Reports 13, p. 12663 (2023)
Heller, R.; Harre, J.-V.; Samadi, R.: Transit least-squares survey. IV. Earth-like transiting planets expected from the PLATO mission. Astronomy and Astrophysics 665, p. A11 (2022)
Heller, R.; Duda, J.-P.; Winkler, M.; Reitner, J.; Gizon, L.: Habitability of the early Earth: liquid water under a faint young Sun facilitated by strong tidal heating due to a closer Moon. Paläontologische Zeitschrift (2021)
Limbach, M. A.; Vos, J. M.; Winn, J. N.; Heller, R.; Mason, J. C.; Schneider, A. C.; Dai, F.: On the Detection of Exomoons Transiting Isolated Planetary-mass Objects. The Astrophysical Journal Letters 918, L25 (2021)
Heller, R.; Hippke, M.; Freudenthal, J.; Rodenbeck, K.; Batalha, N. M.; Bryson, S.: Transit least-squares survey: III. A 1.9 R⊕ transit candidate in the habitable zone of Kepler-160 and a nontransiting planet characterized by transit-timing variations. Astronomy and Astrophysics 638, A10 (2020)
Jones, M. H.; Haswell, C. A.; Barnes, J. R.; Staab, D.; Heller, R.: A Possible Transit of a Disintegrating Exoplanet in the Nearby Multiplanet System DMPP-1. Astrophysical Journal, Letters 895 (1), L17 (2020)
Schulze-Makuch, D.; Heller, R.; Guinan, E.: In Search for a Planet Better than Earth: Top Contenders for a Superhabitable World. Astrobiology 20 (12) (2020)
Heller, R.: Analytic solutions to the maximum and average exoplanet transit depth for common stellar limb darkening laws. Astronomy and Astrophysics 623, A137 (2019)
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