Gaussian process regression for astronomical time series

S Aigrain, D Foreman-Mackey - Annual Review of Astronomy …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
The past two decades have seen a major expansion in the availability, size, and precision of
time-domain data sets in astronomy. Owing to their unique combination of flexibility …

Streams, substructures, and the early history of the Milky Way

A Helmi - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The advent of the second data release of the Gaia mission, in combination with data from
large spectroscopic surveys, is revolutionizing our understanding of the Galaxy. Thanks to …

Density, not radius, separates rocky and water-rich small planets orbiting M dwarf stars

R Luque, E Pallé - Science, 2022 - science.org
Exoplanets smaller than Neptune are common around red dwarf stars (M dwarfs), with those
that transit their host star constituting the bulk of known temperate worlds amenable for …

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 …

Gaia Data Release 3-Stellar multiplicity, a teaser for the hidden treasure

F Arenou, C Babusiaux, MA Barstow, S Faigler… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. The Gaia DR3 catalogue contains, for the first time, about 800 000 solutions with
either orbital elements or trend parameters for astrometric, spectroscopic, and eclipsing …

ESPRESSO at VLT-On-sky performance and first results

F Pepe, S Cristiani, R Rebolo, NC Santos… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
Context. ESPRESSO is the new high-resolution spectrograph of ESO's Very Large
Telescope (VLT). It was designed for ultra-high radial-velocity (RV) precision and extreme …

A red giant orbiting a black hole

K El-Badry, HW Rix, Y Cendes… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We report spectroscopic and photometric follow-up of a dormant black hole (BH) candidate
from Gaia DR3. The system, which we call Gaia BH2, contains a∼ 1 M⊙ red giant and a …

The revised TESS input catalog and candidate target list

KG Stassun, RJ Oelkers, M Paegert… - The Astronomical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We describe the catalogs assembled and the algorithms used to populate the revised TESS
Input Catalog (TIC), based on the incorporation of the Gaia second data release. We also …

Parallax systematics and photocenter motions of benchmark eclipsing binaries in Gaia EDR3

KG Stassun, G Torres - The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Previous analyses of various standard candles observed by the Gaia satellite have reported
statistically significant systematics in the parallaxes that have improved from∼ 250 μas in …

Photometry of 10 million stars from the first two years of TESS full frame images: part I

CX Huang, A Vanderburg, A Pál, L Sha… - Research Notes of …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is the first high-precision full-sky
photometric survey in space. We extracted light curves from a magnitude limited set of stars …