Overview of the LAMOST survey in the first decade

H Yan, H Li, S Wang, W Zong, H Yuan, M Xiang… - The Innovation, 2022 - cell.com
The Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST), also known as
the Guoshoujing Telescope, is a major national scientific facility for astronomical research …

Exoplanet statistics and theoretical implications

W Zhu, S Dong - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2021 - annualreviews.org
In the past few years, significant advances have been made in understanding the
distributions of exoplanet populations and the architecture of planetary systems. We review …

Impact of binary stars on planet statistics–I. Planet occurrence rates and trends with stellar mass

M Moe, KM Kratter - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Close binaries suppress the formation of circumstellar (S-type) planets and therefore
significantly bias the inferred planet occurrence rates and statistical trends. After compiling …

The Sun is less active than other solar-like stars

T Reinhold, AI Shapiro, SK Solanki, BT Montet… - Science, 2020 - science.org
The magnetic activity of the Sun and other stars causes their brightness to vary. We
investigated how typical the Sun's variability is compared with other solar-like stars, ie, those …

Further Evidence of Modified Spin-down in Sun-like Stars: Pileups in the Temperature–Period Distribution

TJ David, R Angus, JL Curtis… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We combine stellar surface rotation periods determined from NASA's Kepler mission with
spectroscopic temperatures to demonstrate the existence of pileups at the long-period and …

Phase II of the LAMOST-Kepler/K2 survey. I. Time series of medium-resolution spectroscopic observations

W Zong, JN Fu, P De Cat, J Wang, J Shi… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Phase II of the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fibre Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST)-
Kepler/K2 survey (LK–MRS), initiated in 2018, aims at collecting medium-resolution spectra …

Most lithium-rich low-mass evolved stars revealed as red clump stars by asteroseismology and spectroscopy

HL Yan, YT Zhou, X Zhang, Y Li, Q Gao, JR Shi… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Lithium has confused scientists for decades at almost every scale of the universe. Lithium-
rich giants are peculiar stars with lithium abundances greater than model prediction. A large …

A Warm Jupiter Transiting an M Dwarf: A TESS Single-transit Event Confirmed with the Habitable-zone Planet Finder

CI Cañas, G Stefansson, S Kanodia… - The Astronomical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We confirm the planetary nature of a warm Jupiter transiting the early M dwarf TOI-1899
using a combination of available TESS photometry; high-precision, near-infrared …

Ages and masses of 0.64 million red giant branch stars from the LAMOST Galactic Spectroscopic Survey

Y Wu, M Xiang, G Zhao, S Bi, X Liu, J Shi… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We present a catalogue of stellar age and mass estimates for a sample of 640 986 red giant
branch (RGB) stars of the Galactic disk from the LAMOST Galactic Spectroscopic Survey …

Planets across space and time (PAST). II. Catalog and analyses of the LAMOST–Gaia–Kepler stellar kinematic properties

DC Chen, JY Yang, JW Xie, JL Zhou… - The Astronomical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The Kepler telescope has discovered over 4000 planets (candidates) by searching∼
200,000 stars over a wide range of distance (order of kpc) in our Galaxy. Characterizing the …