A hot-Jupiter progenitor on a super-eccentric retrograde orbit

AF Gupta, SC Millholland, H Im, J Dong, JM Jackson… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Giant exoplanets orbiting close to their host stars are unlikely to have formed in their present
configurations. These 'hot Jupiter'planets are instead thought to have migrated inward from …

Photometry of Type II Supernova SN 2023ixf with a Worldwide Citizen Science Network

LA Sgro, TM Esposito, G Blaclard… - Research Notes of …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present highly sampled photometry of the supernova (SN) 2023ixf, a Type II SN in M101,
beginning 2 days before its first known detection. To gather these data, we enlisted the …

Confirmation and Characterization of the Eccentric, Warm Jupiter TIC 393818343 b with a Network of Citizen Scientists

LA Sgro, PA Dalba, TM Esposito… - The Astronomical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has identified over 7000
candidate exoplanets via the transit method, with gas giants among the most readily …

Confirming the Warm and Dense Sub-Saturn TIC 139270665 b with the Automated Planet Finder and Unistellar Citizen Science Network

DOC Peluso, PA Dalba, D Wright… - The Astronomical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the discovery and confirmation of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
single-transit, warm and dense sub-Saturn, TIC 139270665 b. This planet is unusually …

DeepSpaceYoloDataset: Annotated Astronomical Images Captured with Smart Telescopes

O Parisot - Data, 2024 - mdpi.com
Recent smart telescopes allow the automatic collection of a large quantity of data for specific
portions of the night sky—with the goal of capturing images of deep sky objects (nebula …

Doomed Worlds I: No new evidence for orbital decay in a long-term survey of 43 ultra-hot Jupiters

ER Adams, B Jackson, AA Sickafoose… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Ultra-hot Jupiters are likely doomed by tidal forces to undergo orbital decay and eventual
disruption by their stars, but the timescale over which this process unfolds is unknown. We …

Enhancing Exoplanet Ephemerides by Leveraging Professional and Citizen Science Data: A Test Case with WASP-77A b

FR Noguer, S Corley, KA Pearson, RT Zellem… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
We present an updated ephemeris and physical parameters for the exoplanet WASP-77 A b.
In this effort, we combine 64 ground-and space-based transit observations, 6 space-based …

Impact of Exoplanet Science on Society: Professional Contributions, Citizen Science Engagement and Public Perception

HJ Deeg - arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.07285, 2024 - arxiv.org
The impact of exoplanet science on both the scientific community and on the general public
is presented through various indicators and examples. It is estimated that about 3-4% of all …

Discovery of a Candidate Young Stellar Object in a Citizen Science Search for Compact Nebulae

P Bresseler, B Stecklum - Research Notes of the AAS, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the serendipitous discovery of a bipolar nebula in a citizen science search for non-
stellar emission line objects using online sky surveys. It is associated with an infrared (IR) …

Faint Comet Detection with Unistellar eVscopes

A Graykowski, S Hemmelgarn… - Research Notes of …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We present eVscope observations of comets 12P/Pons-Brooks and C/2023 A3
(Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) when their magnitudes were greater than 16th magnitude. From a set …