A Jovian analogue orbiting a white dwarf star

JW Blackman, JP Beaulieu, DP Bennett, C Danielski… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Studies, have shown that the remnants of destroyed planets and debris-disk planetesimals
can survive the volatile evolution of their host stars into white dwarfs,, but few intact planetary …

RV-detected planets around M dwarfs: Challenges for core accretion models

M Schlecker, R Burn, S Sabotta, A Seifert… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Context. Planet formation is sensitive to the conditions in protoplanetary disks, for which
scaling laws as a function of stellar mass are known. Aims. We aim to test whether the …

TOI-530b: a giant planet transiting an M-dwarf detected by TESS

T Gan, Z Lin, SX Wang, S Mao, P Fouqué… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We report the discovery of TOI-530b, a transiting Saturn-like planet around an M0. 5V dwarf,
delivered by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). The host star is located at a …

Systematic KMTNet Planetary Anomaly Search. II. Six New q< 2× 10− 4 Mass-ratio Planets

KH Hwang, W Zang, A Gould, A Udalski… - The Astronomical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We apply the automated AnomalyFinder algorithm of Paper I to 2018–2019 light curves from
the≃ 13 deg 2 covered by the six KMTNet prime fields, with cadences Γ≥ 2 hr− 1. We find a …

KMT-2017-BLG-2820 and the Nature of the Free-floating Planet Population

YH Ryu, P Mróz, A Gould, KH Hwang… - The Astronomical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We report a new free-floating planet (FFP) candidate, KMT-2017-BLG-2820, with Einstein
radius θ E≃ 6 μas, lens-source relative proper motion μ rel≃ 8 mas yr− 1, and Einstein …

Mass Production of 2021 KMTNet Microlensing Planets. I

YH Ryu, YK Jung, H Yang, A Gould… - The Astronomical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We inaugurate a program of" mass production" of microlensing planets discovered in 2021
KMTNet data, with the aim of laying the basis for future statistical studies. While we ultimately …

Orbital elements and individual component masses from joint spectroscopic and astrometric data of double-line spectroscopic binaries

J Anguita-Aguero, RA Mendez… - The Astronomical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present orbital elements, orbital parallaxes, and individual component masses for 14
spatially resolved double-line spectroscopic binaries derived doing a simultaneous fit of …

TESS discovery of a sub-Neptune orbiting a mid-M dwarf TOI-2136

T Gan, A Soubkiou, SX Wang… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We present the discovery of TOI-2136 b, a sub-Neptune planet transiting a nearby M4. 5V-
type star every 7.85 d, identified through photometric measurements from the Transiting …

Revisiting MOA 2013-BLG-220L: a solar-type star with a cold super-Jupiter companion

A Vandorou, DP Bennett, JP Beaulieu… - The Astronomical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the analysis of high-resolution images of MOA-2013-BLG-220, taken with the
Keck adaptive optics system six years after the initial observation, identifying the lens as a …

KMT-2019-BLG-2073: Fourth Free-floating Planet Candidate with θ E< 10 μas

HW Kim, KH Hwang, A Gould, JC Yee… - The Astronomical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We analyze the very short Einstein timescale (t E≃ 7 hr) event KMT-2019-BLG-2073. Making
use of the pronounced finite-source effects generated by the clump giant source, we …