Stellar obliquities in exoplanetary systems

SH Albrecht, RI Dawson, JN Winn - Publications of the …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The rotation of a star and the revolutions of its planets are not necessarily aligned. This
article reviews the measurement techniques, key findings, and theoretical interpretations …

The Nature and Origins of Sub‐Neptune Size Planets

JL Bean, SN Raymond, JE Owen - Journal of Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Planets intermediate in size between the Earth and Neptune, and orbiting closer to their host
stars than Mercury does the Sun, are the most common type of planet revealed by exoplanet …

The TESS objects of interest catalog from the TESS prime mission

NM Guerrero, S Seager, CX Huang… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present 2241 exoplanet candidates identified with data from the Transiting Exoplanet
Survey Satellite (TESS) during its 2 yr Prime Mission. We list these candidates in the TESS …

Overfitting affects the reliability of radial velocity mass estimates of the V1298 Tau planets

S Blunt, A Carvalho, TJ David, C Beichman… - The Astronomical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Mass, radius, and age measurements of young (≲ 100 Myr) planets have the power to
shape our understanding of planet formation. However, young stars tend to be extremely …

Photoevaporation versus core-powered mass-loss: model comparison with the 3D radius gap

JG Rogers, A Gupta, JE Owen… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The extreme ultraviolet (EUV)/X-ray photoevaporation and core-powered mass-loss models
are both capable of reproducing the bimodality in the sizes of small, close-in exoplanets …

TESS Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets (THYME). VI. An 11 Myr giant planet transiting a very-low-mass star in Lower Centaurus Crux

AW Mann, ML Wood, SP Schmidt… - The Astronomical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Mature super-Earths and sub-Neptunes are predicted to be≃ Jovian radius when younger
than 10 Myr. Thus, we expect to find 5–15 R⊕ planets around young stars even if their older …

One year of AU Mic with HARPS–I. Measuring the masses of the two transiting planets

N Zicher, O Barragán, B Klein, S Aigrain… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The system of two transiting Neptune-sized planets around the bright, young M-dwarf AU
Mic provides a unique opportunity to test models of planet formation, early evolution, and …

Two New HATNet Hot Jupiters around A Stars and the First Glimpse at the Occurrence Rate of Hot Jupiters from TESS∗

G Zhou, CX Huang, GÁ Bakos… - The Astronomical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Wide-field surveys for transiting planets are well suited to searching diverse stellar
populations, enabling a better understanding of the link between the properties of planets …

Flare statistics for young stars from a convolutional neural network analysis of TESS data

AD Feinstein, BT Montet, M Ansdell… - The Astronomical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
All-sky photometric time-series missions have allowed for the monitoring of thousands of
young (t age< 800 Myr) stars in order to understand the evolution of stellar activity. Here, we …

TESS hunt for young and maturing exoplanets (THYME). III. A two-planet system in the 400 Myr Ursa major group

AW Mann, MC Johnson, A Vanderburg… - The Astronomical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Exoplanets can evolve significantly between birth and maturity, as their atmospheres, orbits,
and structures are shaped by their environment. Young planets (< 1 Gyr) offer an opportunity …