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 eccentric Kozai-Lidov effect and its applications

S Naoz - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2016 - annualreviews.org
The hierarchical triple-body approximation has useful applications to a variety of systems
from planetary and stellar scales to supermassive black holes. In this approximation, the …

Determining stellar macroturbulence using asteroseismic rotational velocities from Kepler

AP Doyle, GR Davies, B Smalley… - Monthly Notices of …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Rossiter–McLaughlin effect observed for transiting exoplanets often requires
prior knowledge of the stellar projected equatorial rotational velocity (v sin i). This is usually …

Mergers and obliquities in stellar triples

S Naoz, DC Fabrycky - The Astrophysical Journal, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Many close stellar binaries are accompanied by a faraway star. The" eccentric Kozai-
Lidov"(EKL) mechanism can cause dramatic inclination and eccentricity fluctuations …

BANYAN. VII. A new population of young substellar candidate members of nearby moving groups from the BASS survey

J Gagné, JK Faherty, KL Cruz… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the results of a near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopic follow-up survey of 182 M4–L7
low-mass stars and brown dwarfs (BDs) from the BANYAN All-Sky Survey (BASS) for …

The Rossiter-McLaughlin Effect in Exoplanet Research

AHMJ Triaud - arxiv preprint arxiv:1709.06376, 2017 - arxiv.org
The Rossiter-McLaughlin effect occurs during a planet's transit. It provides the main means
of measuring the sky-projected spin-orbit angle between a planet's orbital plane, and its host …

The scatter of the M dwarf mass–radius relationship

SG Parsons, BT Gänsicke, TR Marsh… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT M dwarfs are prime targets in the hunt for habitable worlds around other stars.
This is due to their abundance as well as their small radii and low masses and temperatures …

A definition for giant planets based on the mass–density relationship

AP Hatzes, H Rauer - The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the mass–density relationship (log M− log ρ) for objects with masses ranging
from planets (M≈ 0.01 M Jup) to stars (M> 0.08 M⊙). This relationship shows three distinct …

Evidence of an upper bound on the masses of planets and its implications for giant planet formation

KC Schlaufman - The Astrophysical Journal, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Celestial bodies with a mass of» MM 10 Jup have been found orbiting nearby stars. It is
unknown whether these objects formed like gas-giant planets through core accretion or like …

Systematic phase curve study of known transiting systems from year one of the TESS mission

I Wong, A Shporer, T Daylan, B Benneke… - The Astronomical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a systematic phase curve analysis of known transiting systems observed by the
Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) during year one of the primary mission. Using …