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 …

Quasi-periodic pulsations in solar and stellar flares: a review of underpinning physical mechanisms and their predicted observational signatures

IV Zimovets, JA McLaughlin, AK Srivastava… - Space Science …, 2021 - Springer
The phenomenon of quasi-periodic pulsations (QPPs) in solar and stellar flares has been
known for over 50 years and significant progress has been made in this research area. It has …

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 …

Images of embedded Jovian planet formation at a wide separation around AB Aurigae

T Currie, K Lawson, G Schneider, W Lyra… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Direct images of protoplanets embedded in disks around infant stars provide the key to
understanding the formation of gas giant planets such as Jupiter. Using the Subaru …

The California-Kepler survey. VII. Precise planet radii leveraging Gaia DR2 reveal the stellar mass dependence of the planet radius gap

BJ Fulton, EA Petigura - The Astronomical Journal, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The distribution of planet sizes encodes details of planet formation and evolution. We
present the most precise planet size distribution to date based on Gaia parallaxes, Kepler …

Fast and scalable Gaussian process modeling with applications to astronomical time series

D Foreman-Mackey, E Agol… - The Astronomical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The growing field of large-scale time domain astronomy requires methods for probabilistic
data analysis that are computationally tractable, even with large data sets. Gaussian …

Sculpting the valley in the radius distribution of small exoplanets as a by-product of planet formation: the core-powered mass-loss mechanism

A Gupta, HE Schlichting - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Recent observations revealed a bimodal radius distribution of small, short-period exoplanets
with a paucity in their occurrence, a radius 'valley', around 1.5–2.0 R⊕. In this work, we …

RadVel: the radial velocity modeling toolkit

BJ Fulton, EA Petigura, S Blunt… - Publications of the …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
RadVel is an open-source Python package for modeling Keplerian orbits in radial velocity
(RV) timeseries. RadVel provides a convenient framework to fit RVs using maximum a …

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs-Planet occurrence rates from a subsample of 71 stars

S Sabotta, M Schlecker, P Chaturvedi… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
Context. The CARMENES exoplanet survey of M dwarfs has obtained more than 18 000
spectra of 329 nearby M dwarfs over the past five years as part of its guaranteed time …

Modules for experiments in stellar astrophysics (MESA): binaries, pulsations, and explosions

B Paxton, P Marchant, J Schwab… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We substantially update the capabilities of the open-source software instrument Modules for
Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA). MESA can now simultaneously evolve an …