A full list of my publications is available on Google Scholar (60+ papers). Below are selected first-author works.


First-author papers

Discovery and mass confirmation of a rare short-period gas giant planet transiting a wide M dwarf binary de Leon et al. (in prep)


TOI-179b: A young hot Neptune in a visual binary system de Leon et al. (2023) — The Astronomical Journal
Young Neptune-sized exoplanet with precisely measured mass discovered with TESS. Google Scholar


37 new validated planets in overlapping K2 campaigns de Leon et al. (2021) — Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Includes the exoplanet with the longest known orbital period observed by K2. Google Scholar


Disk structure of the pre-main sequence star SU Aur de Leon et al. (2015) — The Astrophysical Journal Letters
First high-resolution detection of tail structures in the SU Aur protoplanetary disk using Subaru telescope. Google Scholar


Selected co-authored papers

  • Bouma et al. (2020) — Grazing Saturn-sized planet TOI-837 in a young star cluster
  • Barragan et al. (2019) — First mass measurement of young low-density Neptune K2-100
  • Mayama et al. (2019) — Misaligned disks around the SR 24 triple star system
  • Uyama et al. (2018) — Gap and spiral structures in LkHα 330
  • Livingston et al. (2018) — Transiting multi-planet system in the Praesepe open cluster
  • Akiyama et al. (2018) — Radio follow-up of the SU Aur disk tail structure

Full list: Google Scholar