We provide a brief review of many aspects of the planetary physics of hot Jupiters. Our aim is
to cover most of the major areas of current study while providing the reader with additional …

We provide evidence that the obliquities of stars with close-in giant planets were initially
nearly random, and that the low obliquities that are often observed are a consequence of …

We present empirical measurements of the radii of 116 stars that host transiting planets.
These radii are determined using only direct observables—the bolometric flux at Earth, the …

We carried out a Bayesian homogeneous determination of the orbital parameters of 231
transiting giant planets (TGPs) that are alone or have distant companions; we employed …

We substantially update the capabilities of the open source software package Modules for
Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA), and its one-dimensional stellar evolution …

We present EXOFAST, a fast, robust suite of routines written in IDL that is designed to fit
exoplanetary transits and radial velocity variations simultaneously or separately and …

We report the distribution of planets as a function of planet radius, orbital period, and stellar
effective temperature for orbital periods less than 50 days around solar-type (GK) stars …

We report on the orbital architectures of Kepler systems having multiple-planet candidates
identified in the analysis of data from the first six quarters of Kepler data and reported by …

Hot Jupiters, giant extrasolar planets with orbital periods shorter than∼ 10 days, have long
been thought to form at large radial distances, only to subsequently experience long-range …

Correlations between stellar properties and the occurrence rate of exoplanets can be used
to inform the target selection of future planet-search efforts and provide valuable clues about …