A sun-like star orbiting a black hole

K El-Badry, HW Rix, E Quataert… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We report discovery of a bright, nearby () Sun-like star orbiting a dark object. We identified
the system as a black hole candidate via its astrometric orbital solution from the Gaia …

The California Legacy Survey. I. A catalog of 178 planets from precision radial velocity monitoring of 719 nearby stars over three decades

LJ Rosenthal, BJ Fulton, LA Hirsch… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a high-precision radial velocity (RV) survey of 719 FGKM stars, which host 164
known exoplanets and 14 newly discovered or revised exoplanets and substellar …

The California-Kepler Survey. X. The radius gap as a function of stellar mass, metallicity, and age

EA Petigura, JG Rogers, H Isaacson… - The Astronomical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract In 2017, the California-Kepler Survey (CKS) published its first data release (DR1) of
high-resolution optical spectra of 1305 planet hosts. Refined CKS planet radii revealed that …

CARMENES input catalogue of M dwarfs-V. Luminosities, colours, and spectral energy distributions

C Cifuentes, JA Caballero, M Cortés-Contreras… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
Context. The relevance of M dwarfs in the search for potentially habitable Earth-sized
planets has grown significantly in the last years. Aims. In our on-going effort to …

A noninteracting galactic black hole candidate in a binary system with a main-sequence star

S Chakrabarti, JD Simon, PA Craig… - The Astronomical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We describe the discovery of a solar neighborhood (d= 468 pc) binary system with a main-
sequence sunlike star and a massive noninteracting black hole candidate. The spectral …

Masses and compositions of three small planets orbiting the nearby M dwarf L231-32 (TOI-270) and the M dwarf radius valley

V Van Eylen, N Astudillo-Defru, X Bonfils… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We report on precise Doppler measurements of L231-32 (TOI-270), a nearby M dwarf (d= 22
pc, M⋆= 0.39 M⊙, R⋆= 0.38 R⊙), which hosts three transiting planets that were recently …

GJ 367b: A dense, ultrashort-period sub-Earth planet transiting a nearby red dwarf star

KWF Lam, S Csizmadia, N Astudillo-Defru, X Bonfils… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Ultrashort-period (USP) exoplanets have orbital periods shorter than 1 day. Precise masses
and radii of USP exoplanets could provide constraints on their unknown formation and …

A pair of sub-Neptunes transiting the bright K-dwarf TOI-1064 characterized with CHEOPS

TG Wilson, E Goffo, Y Alibert, D Gandolfi… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We report the discovery and characterization of a pair of sub-Neptunes transiting the bright K-
dwarf TOI-1064 (TIC 79748331), initially detected in the Transiting Exoplanet Survey …

ariadne: measuring accurate and precise stellar parameters through SED fitting

JI Vines, JS Jenkins - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Accurately measuring stellar parameters is a key goal to increase our understanding of the
observable Universe. However, current methods are limited by many factors, in particular …

A super-Earth and a sub-Neptune orbiting the bright, quiet M3 dwarf TOI-1266

BO Demory, FJ Pozuelos, YGM Chew, L Sabin… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
We report the discovery and characterisation of a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune transiting
the bright (K= 8.8), quiet, and nearby (37 pc) M3V dwarf TOI-1266. We validate the planetary …