Reed Riddle
Papers
16
Total Citations
1,656
H-Index
9
About
Reed Riddle is an observational astronomer whose work spans time-domain surveys, adaptive optics instrumentation, and exoplanet discovery. He has made significant contributions to some of the most ambitious astronomical infrastructure projects of the past decade, most notably the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), a robotic sky survey capable of scanning the entire northern sky nightly — a paper describing its data systems has accumulated over 1,170 citations, reflecting ZTF's foundational role in modern transient astronomy. Riddle has also been a key figure in the development of Robo-AO, the world's first robotic laser-guide-star adaptive optics system, enabling high-angular-resolution imaging at unprecedented scale. This technology underpinned major stellar multiplicity surveys, including a census of over 1,000 nearby stars and a landmark study of solar-type binary systems (276 citations) that deepened understanding of hierarchical multiple star formation. His involvement in the MINERVA and MINERVA-Australis telescope arrays further demonstrates his commitment to exoplanet characterization, particularly in support of TESS follow-up observations. Across his career, Riddle has consistently pushed the boundaries of robotic, automated astronomy, enabling large-scale science that would be impractical with traditional observing approaches.
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Top Papers
- 1The Zwicky Transient Facility: Data Processing, Products, and Archive1,173 citations · 2018
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- 4Miniature Exoplanet Radial Velocity Array I: design, commissioning, and early photometric results37 citations · 2015
- 5MINERVA-Australis. I. Design, Commissioning, and First Photometric Results21 citations · 2019
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- 9PLATO–a robotic observatory for the Antarctic plateau12 citations · 2009
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