Gaussian process regression for astronomical time series

S Aigrain, D Foreman-Mackey - Annual Review of Astronomy …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
The past two decades have seen a major expansion in the availability, size, and precision of
time-domain data sets in astronomy. Owing to their unique combination of flexibility …

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 …

A resonant sextuplet of sub-Neptunes transiting the bright star HD 110067

R Luque, HP Osborn, A Leleu, E Pallé, A Bonfanti… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Planets with radii between that of the Earth and Neptune (hereafter referred to as 'sub-
Neptunes') are found in close-in orbits around more than half of all Sun-like stars,. However …

Hidden water in magma ocean exoplanets

C Dorn, T Lichtenberg - The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We demonstrate that the deep volatile storage capacity of magma oceans has significant
implications for the bulk composition, interior, and climate state inferred from exoplanet mass …

The nature and origins of sub‐Neptune size planets

JL Bean, SN Raymond, JE Owen - Journal of Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Planets intermediate in size between the Earth and Neptune, and orbiting closer to their host
stars than Mercury does the Sun, are the most common type of planet revealed by exoplanet …

A fading radius valley towards M dwarfs, a persistent density valley across stellar types

J Venturini, MP Ronco, OM Guilera… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
The radius valley separating super-Earths from mini-Neptunes is a fundamental benchmark
for theories of planet formation and evolution. Observations show that the location of the …

Transit detection of the long-period volatile-rich super-Earth ν2 Lupi d with CHEOPS

L Delrez, D Ehrenreich, Y Alibert, A Bonfanti… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Exoplanets transiting bright nearby stars are key objects for advancing our knowledge of
planetary formation and evolution. The wealth of photons from the host star gives detailed …

SWEET-Cat 2.0: The Cat just got SWEETer-Higher quality spectra and precise parallaxes from Gaia eDR3

SG Sousa, V Adibekyan, E Delgado-Mena… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
Aims. The catalog of Stars With ExoplanETs (SWEET-Cat) was originally introduced in 2013.
Since then many more exoplanets have been confirmed, increasing significantly the number …

Analysis of Early Science observations with the CHaracterising ExOPlanets Satellite (CHEOPS) using pycheops

PFL Maxted, D Ehrenreich, TG Wilson… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT CHEOPS (CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite) is an ESA S-class mission that
observes bright stars at high cadence from low-Earth orbit. The main aim of the mission is to …

The occurrence of small, short-period planets younger than 200 Myr with TESS

S Vach, G Zhou, CX Huang, JG Rogers… - The Astronomical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Within the first few hundreds of millions of years, many physical processes sculpt the
eventual properties of young planets. NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) …