Circumbinary accretion: From binary stars to massive binary black holes

D Lai, DJ Muñoz - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
We review recent works on the dynamics of circumbinary accretion, including time variability,
angular momentum transfer between the disk and the binary, and the secular evolution of …

Microlensing searches for exoplanets

Y Tsapras - Geosciences, 2018 - mdpi.com
Gravitational microlensing finds planets through their gravitational influence on the light
coming from a more distant background star. The presence of the planet is then inferred from …

A Jovian analogue orbiting a white dwarf star

JW Blackman, JP Beaulieu, DP Bennett, C Danielski… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Studies, have shown that the remnants of destroyed planets and debris-disk planetesimals
can survive the volatile evolution of their host stars into white dwarfs,, but few intact planetary …

Predictions of the WFIRST microlensing survey. I. Bound planet detection rates

MT Penny, BS Gaudi, E Kerins… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Wide Field InfraRed Survey Telescope (WFIRST) is the next NASA
astrophysics flagship mission, to follow the James Webb Space Telescope. The WFIRST …

The exoplanet mass-ratio function from the MOA-II survey: discovery of a break and likely peak at a neptune mass

D Suzuki, DP Bennett, T Sumi, IA Bond… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the results of the statistical analysis of planetary signals discovered in MOA-II
microlensing survey alert system events from 2007 to 2012. We determine the survey …

The degree of alignment between circumbinary disks and their binary hosts

I Czekala, E Chiang, SM Andrews… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
All four circumbinary (CB) protoplanetary disks orbiting short-period (P< 20 days) double-
lined spectroscopic binaries (SB2s)—a group that includes UZ Tau E, for which we present …

Systematic KMTNet Planetary Anomaly Search. I. OGLE-2019-BLG-1053Lb, a Buried Terrestrial Planet

W Zang, KH Hwang, A Udalski, T Wang… - The Astronomical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
In order to exhume the buried signatures of" missing planetary caustics" in Korea
Microlensing Telescope Network (KMTNet) data, we conducted a systematic anomaly …

WFIRST Exoplanet Mass-measurement Method Finds a Planetary Mass of 39±8 M⊕ for OGLE-2012-BLG-0950Lb

A Bhattacharya, JP Beaulieu, DP Bennett… - The Astronomical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
WFIRST Exoplanet Mass-measurement Method Finds a Planetary Mass of 39 ± 8 M⊕ for
OGLE-2012-BLG-0950Lb - IOPscience This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this site you …

BEBOP III. Observations and an independent mass measurement of Kepler-16 (AB) b–the first circumbinary planet detected with radial velocities

AHMJ Triaud, MR Standing, N Heidari… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The radial velocity method is amongst the most robust and most established means of
detecting exoplanets. Yet, it has so far failed to detect circumbinary planets despite their …

Demographics of Exoplanets in Binaries. I. Architecture of S-type Planetary Systems Revealed by the Radial-velocity Sample

XN Su, JW Xie, JL Zhou, P Thebault - The Astronomical Journal, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Although the sample of exoplanets in binaries has been greatly expanded, the sample
heterogeneity and observational bias are obstacles toward a clear figure of exoplanet …