Exoplanet biosignatures: a review of remotely detectable signs of life

EW Schwieterman, NY Kiang, MN Parenteau… - Astrobiology, 2018 - liebertpub.com
In the coming years and decades, advanced space-and ground-based observatories will
allow an unprecedented opportunity to probe the atmospheres and surfaces of potentially …

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 …

The TESS objects of interest catalog from the TESS prime mission

NM Guerrero, S Seager, CX Huang… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present 2241 exoplanet candidates identified with data from the Transiting Exoplanet
Survey Satellite (TESS) during its 2 yr Prime Mission. We list these candidates in the TESS …

Improving the open cluster census-III. Using cluster masses, radii, and dynamics to create a cleaned open cluster catalogue

EL Hunt, S Reffert - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2024 - aanda.org
Context. The census of open clusters has exploded in size thanks to data from the Gaia
satellite. However, it is likely that many of these reported clusters are not gravitationally …

The revised TESS input catalog and candidate target list

KG Stassun, RJ Oelkers, M Paegert… - The Astronomical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We describe the catalogs assembled and the algorithms used to populate the revised TESS
Input Catalog (TIC), based on the incorporation of the Gaia second data release. We also …

Refining the transit-timing and photometric analysis of TRAPPIST-1: masses, radii, densities, dynamics, and ephemerides

E Agol, C Dorn, SL Grimm, M Turbet… - The planetary …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We have collected transit times for the TRAPPIST-1 system with the Spitzer Space
Telescope over four years. We add to these ground-based, HST, and K2 transit-time …

Growth model interpretation of planet size distribution

L Zeng, SB Jacobsen, DD Sasselov, MI Petaev… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - pnas.org
The radii and orbital periods of 4,000+ confirmed/candidate exoplanets have been precisely
measured by the Kepler mission. The radii show a bimodal distribution, with two peaks …

The TESS input catalog and candidate target list

KG Stassun, RJ Oelkers, J Pepper… - The Astronomical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will be conducting a nearly all-sky
photometric survey over two years, with a core mission goal to discover small transiting …

RadVel: the radial velocity modeling toolkit

BJ Fulton, EA Petigura, S Blunt… - Publications of the …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
RadVel is an open-source Python package for modeling Keplerian orbits in radial velocity
(RV) timeseries. RadVel provides a convenient framework to fit RVs using maximum a …

A giant planet candidate transiting a white dwarf

A Vanderburg, SA Rappaport, S Xu, IJM Crossfield… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Astronomers have discovered thousands of planets outside the Solar System, most of which
orbit stars that will eventually evolve into red giants and then into white dwarfs. During the …