Stellar obliquities in exoplanetary systems

SH Albrecht, RI Dawson, JN Winn - Publications of the …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The rotation of a star and the revolutions of its planets are not necessarily aligned. This
article reviews the measurement techniques, key findings, and theoretical interpretations …

The occurrence rate of giant planets orbiting low-mass stars with TESS

EM Bryant, D Bayliss, V Van Eylen - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We present a systematic search for transiting giant planets () orbiting nearby low-mass stars
(). The formation of giant planets around low-mass stars is predicted to be rare by the core …

Five key exoplanet questions answered via the analysis of 25 hot-Jupiter atmospheres in eclipse

Q Changeat, B Edwards, AF Al-Refaie… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Population studies of exoplanets are key to unlocking their statistical properties. So far, the
inferred properties have been mostly limited to planetary, orbital, and stellar parameters …

Solar system physics for exoplanet research

J Horner, SR Kane, JP Marshall… - Publications of the …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Over the past three decades, we have witnessed one of the great revolutions in our
understanding of the cosmos—the dawn of the Exoplanet Era. Where once we knew of just …

Retrieval survey of metals in six ultrahot Jupiters: trends in chemistry, rain-out, ionization, and atmospheric dynamics

S Gandhi, A Kesseli, Y Zhang, A Louca… - The Astronomical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Ground-based high-resolution spectroscopy (HRS) has detected numerous chemical
species and atmospheric dynamics in exoplanets, most notably ultrahot Jupiters (UHJs) …

TESS transit timing of hundreds of hot Jupiters

ES Ivshina, JN Winn - The Astrophysical Journal Supplement …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We provide a database of transit times and updated ephemerides for 382 planets based on
data from the NASA Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and previously reported …

Exploring the dependence of hot Jupiter occurrence rates on stellar mass with TESS

M Beleznay, M Kunimoto - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We present estimates for the occurrence rates of hot Jupiters around dwarf stars based on
data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) Prime Mission. We take 97 hot …

Impact of binary stars on planet statistics–I. Planet occurrence rates and trends with stellar mass

M Moe, KM Kratter - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Close binaries suppress the formation of circumstellar (S-type) planets and therefore
significantly bias the inferred planet occurrence rates and statistical trends. After compiling …

Assessing the C/O Ratio Formation Diagnostic: A Potential Trend with Companion Mass

KKW Hoch, QM Konopacky, CA Theissen… - The Astronomical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The carbon-to-oxygen (C/O) ratio in an exoplanet atmosphere has been suggested as a
potential diagnostic of planet formation. Now that a number of exoplanets have measured …

Hot Jupiters are destroyed by tides while their host stars are on the main sequence

JH Hamer, KC Schlaufman - The Astronomical Journal, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
While cooler giant planets are often observed with nonzero eccentricities, the short-period
circular orbits of hot Jupiters suggest that they lose orbital energy and angular momentum …