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 …

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 …

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 …

We present astrophysical false positive probability calculations for every Kepler Object of
Interest (KOI)—the first large-scale demonstration of a fully automated transiting planet …

The orbital distribution of giant planets is crucial for understanding how terrestrial planets
form and predicting yields of exoplanet surveys. Here, we derive giant planets occurrence …

One bottleneck for the exploitation of data from the Kepler mission for stellar astrophysics
and exoplanet research has been the lack of precise radii and evolutionary states for most of …

The Kepler survey provides a statistical census of planetary systems out to the habitable
zone. Because most planets are non-transiting, orbital architectures are best estimated …

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

Gaps in protoplanetary disks have long been hailed as signposts of planet formation.
However, a direct link between exoplanets and disks remains hard to identify. We present a …

Context. Planetary formation and evolution is a combination of multiple interlinked
processes. Constraining the mechanisms observationally requires statistical comparison to …