The occurrence and architecture of exoplanetary systems

JN Winn, DC Fabrycky - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
The basic geometry of the Solar System—the shapes, spacings, and orientations of the
planetary orbits—has long been a subject of fascination as well as inspiration for planet …

Eclipsing Binaries in Dynamically Interacting Close, Multiple Systems

T Borkovits - Galaxies, 2022 - mdpi.com
Close, compact, hierarchical, and multiple stellar systems, ie, multiples having an outer
orbital period from months to a few years, comprise a small but continuously growing group …

A comprehensive study of the Kepler triples via eclipse timing

T Borkovits, T Hajdu, J Sztakovics… - Monthly Notices of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
We produce and analyse eclipse time variation (ETV) curves for some 2600 Kepler binaries.
We find good to excellent evidence for a third body in 222 systems via either the light-travel …

Evidence for Hidden Nearby Companions to Hot Jupiters

DH Wu, M Rice, S Wang - The Astronomical Journal, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The first discovered extrasolar worlds—giant," hot Jupiter" planets on short-period orbits—
came as a surprise to solar system–centric models of planet formation, prompting the …

The Kepler-19 system: a transiting 2.2 R⊕ planet and a second planet detected via transit timing variations

S Ballard, D Fabrycky, F Fressin… - The Astrophysical …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the discovery of the Kepler-19 planetary system, which we first identified from a
9.3 day periodic transit signal in the Kepler photometry. From high-resolution spectroscopy …

Triple-star candidates among the Kepler binaries

S Rappaport, K Deck, A Levine… - The Astrophysical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the results of a search through the photometric database of Kepler eclipsing
binaries looking for evidence of hierarchical triple-star systems. The presence of a third star …

Kepler eclipsing binary stars. IV. Precise eclipse times for close binaries and identification of candidate three-body systems

KE Conroy, A Prša, KG Stassun, JA Orosz… - The Astronomical …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a catalog of precise eclipse times and analysis of third-body signals among
1279 close binaries in the latest Kepler Eclipsing Binary Catalog. For these short-period …

Eclipse timing variation analyses of eccentric binaries with close tertiaries in the Kepler field

T Borkovits, S Rappaport, T Hajdu… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We report eclipse timing variation analyses of 26 compact hierarchical triple stars comprised
of an eccentric eclipsing ('inner') binary and a relatively close tertiary component found in the …

A study of nine compact triply eclipsing triples

SA Rappaport, T Borkovits, R Gagliano… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
In this work, we report the independent discovery and analysis of nine new compact triply
eclipsing triple star systems found with the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) …

Miniature Exoplanet Radial Velocity Array I: design, commissioning, and early photometric results

JJ Swift, M Bottom, JA Johnson… - Journal of …, 2015 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The Miniature Exoplanet Radial Velocity Array (MINERVA) is a US-based observational
facility dedicated to the discovery and characterization of exoplanets around a nearby …