Exoplanet statistics and theoretical implications

W Zhu, S Dong - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2021 - annualreviews.org
In the past few years, significant advances have been made in understanding the
distributions of exoplanet populations and the architecture of planetary systems. We review …

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 …

The Ophiuchus DIsc Survey Employing ALMA (ODISEA)–I: project description and continuum images at 28 au resolution

LA Cieza, D Ruíz-Rodríguez, A Hales… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Abstract We introduce the Ophiuchus DIsc Survey Employing ALMA (ODISEA), a project
aiming to study the entire population of Spitzer-selected protoplanetary discs in the …

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 …

Prediction of Planet Yields by the PRime-focus Infrared Microlensing Experiment Microlensing Survey

I Kondo, T Sumi, N Koshimoto… - The Astronomical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The PRime-focus Infrared Microlensing Experiment (PRIME) will be the first to
conduct a dedicated near-infrared microlensing survey by using a 1.8 m telescope with a …

Unstable low-mass planetary systems as drivers of white dwarf pollution

AJ Mustill, E Villaver, D Veras… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
At least of white dwarfs show atmospheric pollution by metals, sometimes accompanied by
detectable circumstellar dust/gas discs or (in the case of WD 1145+ 017) transiting …

JWST/NIRCam Coronagraphy of the Young Planet-hosting Debris Disk AU Microscopii

K Lawson, JE Schlieder, JM Leisenring… - The Astronomical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
High-contrast imaging of debris disk systems permits us to assess the composition and size
distribution of circumstellar dust, to probe recent dynamical histories, and to directly detect …

The Large Array Survey Telescope—Science Goals

S Ben-Ami, EO Ofek, D Polishook… - Publications of the …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Large Array Survey Telescope (LAST) is designed to survey the variable and
transient sky at high temporal cadence. The array is comprised of 48 F/2.2 telescopes of …

Systematic KMTNet planetary anomaly search. IV. Complete sample of 2019 prime-field

W Zang, H Yang, C Han, CU Lee… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We report the complete statistical planetary sample from the prime fields (Γ≥ 2 h− 1) of the
2019 Korea Microlensing Telescope Network (KMTNet) microlensing survey. We develop …