Unveiling the planet population at birth

JG Rogers, JE Owen - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The radius distribution of small, close-in exoplanets has recently been shown to be bimodal.
The photoevaporation model predicted this bimodality. In the photoevaporation scenario …

A remnant planetary core in the hot-Neptune desert

DJ Armstrong, TA Lopez, V Adibekyan, RA Booth… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The interiors of giant planets remain poorly understood. Even for the planets in the Solar
System, difficulties in observation lead to large uncertainties in the properties of planetary …

An ultrahot Neptune in the Neptune desert

JS Jenkins, MR Díaz, NT Kurtovic, N Espinoza… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
About 1 out of 200 Sun-like stars has a planet with an orbital period shorter than one day: an
ultrashort-period planet,. All of the previously known ultrashort-period planets are either hot …

Mass loss by atmospheric escape from extremely close-in planets

TT Koskinen, P Lavvas, C Huang… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We explore atmospheric escape from close-in exoplanets with the highest mass-loss rates.
First, we locate the transition from stellar X-ray and UV-driven escape to rapid Roche lobe …

Homogeneous analysis of hot earths: Masses, sizes, and compositions

F Dai, K Masuda, JN Winn, L Zeng - The Astrophysical Journal, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Terrestrial planets have been found orbiting Sun-like stars with extremely short periods—
some as short as 4 hr. These" ultra-short-period planets" or" hot Earths" are so strongly …

Radial velocity confirmation of K2-100b: a young, highly irradiated, and low-density transiting hot Neptune

O Barragán, S Aigrain, D Kubyshkina… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We present a detailed analysis of HARPS-N radial velocity observations of K2-100, a young
and active star in the Praesepe cluster, which hosts a transiting planet with a period of 1.7 d …

TOI-824 b: a new planet on the lower edge of the hot Neptune desert

JA Burt, LD Nielsen, SN Quinn… - The Astronomical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
TOI-824 b: A New Planet on the Lower Edge of the Hot Neptune Desert - IOPscience This
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The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs-LP 714-47 b (TOI 442.01): populating the Neptune desert

S Dreizler, IJM Crossfield, D Kossakowski… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
We report the discovery of a Neptune-like planet (LP 714-47 b, P= 4.05204 d, mb=
30.8±1.5M⊕, R b= 4.7±0.3 R⊕) located in the “hot Neptune desert”. Confirmation of the …

TOI-674b: An oasis in the desert of exo-Neptunes transiting a nearby M dwarf

F Murgas, N Astudillo-Defru, X Bonfils… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
Context. The NASA mission TESS is currently doing an all-sky survey from space to detect
transiting planets around bright stars. As part of the validation process, the most promising …

A hot mini-Neptune and a temperate, highly eccentric sub-Saturn around the bright K-dwarf TOI-2134

F Rescigno, G Hébrard, A Vanderburg… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We present the characterization of an inner mini-Neptune in a 9.2292005±0.0000063 d orbit
and an outer mono-transiting sub-Saturn planet in a 95.50 d orbit around the moderately …