The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs-Two planets on opposite sides of the radius gap transiting the nearby M dwarf LTT 3780

G Nowak, R Luque, H Parviainen, E Pallé… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
We present the discovery and characterisation of two transiting planets observed by the
Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) orbiting the nearby (d⋆≈ 22 pc), bright (J≈ 9 …

The CARMENES M-dwarf planet survey

A Quirrenbach… - Ground-based and …, 2020 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The CARMENES instrument consists of two cross-dispersed´ echelle spectrographs, which
together cover the wavelength range from 5,200 to 17,100˚ A. During its first five years of …

Caught in the act: core-powered mass-loss predictions for observing atmospheric escape

A Gupta, HE Schlichting - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Past studies have demonstrated that atmospheric escape by the core-powered mass-loss
mechanism can explain a multitude of observations associated with the radius valley that …

The TESS-Keck Survey. XI. Mass Measurements for Four Transiting Sub-Neptunes Orbiting K Dwarf TOI–1246

EV Turtelboom, LM Weiss, CD Dressing… - The Astronomical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Multiplanet systems are valuable arenas for investigating exoplanet architectures and
comparing planetary siblings. TOI-1246 is one such system, with a moderately bright K dwarf …

Resonant sub-Neptunes are puffier

A Leleu, JB Delisle, R Burn, A Izidoro, S Udry… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
A systematic, population-level discrepancy exists between the densities of exoplanets
whose masses have been measured with transit timing variations (TTVs) versus those …

The GAPS programme at TNG-XLIV. Projected rotational velocities of 273 exoplanet-host stars observed with HARPS-N

M Rainer, S Desidera, F Borsa, D Barbato… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. The leading spectrographs used for exoplanets' search and characterization offer
online data reduction softwares (DRS) that yield, as an ancillary result, the full-width at half …

The HD 137496 system: A dense, hot super-Mercury and a cold Jupiter

TA Silva, ODS Demangeon, SCC Barros… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Context. Most of the currently known planets are small worlds with radii between that of the
Earth and that of Neptune. The characterization of planets in this regime shows a large …

Exoplanet atmosphere evolution: emulation with neural networks

JG Rogers, C Janó Muñoz, JE Owen… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Atmospheric mass-loss is known to play a leading role in sculpting the demographics of
small, close-in exoplanets. Knowledge of how such planets evolve allows one to 'rewind the …

Precise mass determination for the keystone sub-Neptune planet transiting the mid-type M dwarf G 9-40

R Luque, G Nowak, T Hirano, D Kossakowski… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Context. Despite being a prominent subset of the exoplanet population discovered in the
past three decades, the nature and provenance of sub-Neptune-sized planets is still one of …

Friends Not Foes: Strong Correlation between Inner Super-Earths and Outer Gas Giants

ML Bryan, EJ Lee - The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
The connection between outer gas giants and inner super-Earths reflects their formation and
evolutionary histories. Past work exploring this link has suggested a tentative positive …