Hot Jupiters were the first exoplanets to be discovered around main sequence stars and
astonished us with their close-in orbits. They are a prime example of how exoplanets have …

The basic geometry of the Solar System—the shapes, spacings, and orientations of the
planetary orbits—has long been a subject of fascination as well as inspiration for planet …

Constraining planet formation based on the atmospheric composition of exoplanets is a
fundamental goal of the exoplanet community. Existing studies commonly try to constrain …

Abstract The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is finding transiting planet
candidates around bright, nearby stars across the entire sky. The large field of view …

Our understanding of planet formation has been rapidly evolving in recent years. The
classical planet formation theory, developed when the only known planetary system was our …

The composition of giant planets is imprinted by their migration history and the
compositional structure of their hosting disks. Studies in recent literature have investigated …

Building on the legacy of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-I and II), SDSS-III is a program
of four spectroscopic surveys on three scientific themes: dark energy and cosmological …

We determine the orbital eccentricities of individual small Kepler planets, through a
combination of asteroseismology and transit light-curve analysis. We are able to constrain …

Context. The explosion of observational data on exoplanets gives many constraints on
theoretical models of planet formation and evolution. Observational data probe very large …

The nature and origin of free-floating planets (FFPs) are still largely unconstrained because
of a lack of large homogeneous samples to enable a statistical analysis of their properties …