Kristo Ment
CEHW Postdoctoral Fellow
Penn State University
Interests
Terrestrial Planets around M Dwarfs
Fast Transit Search Algorithms
Data-driven Stellar & Telluric Modeling
Kristo works on terrestrial planets transiting M dwarfs and constraints on the occurrence of such worlds. He develops fast algorithms for transit searches and data-driven methods for simultaneously modeling stellar and telluric variability.
Selected Publications
Ment, K. & Charbonneau, D. (2023). AJ, 165, 265. "The Occurrence Rate of Terrestrial Planets Orbiting Nearby Mid-to-late M Dwarfs from TESS Sectors 1-42."