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 …

Exoplanet statistics and theoretical implications

W Zhu, S Dong - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2021 - annualreviews.org
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 …

High tide or riptide on the cosmic shoreline? A water-rich atmosphere or stellar contamination for the warm super-Earth GJ 486b from JWST observations

SE Moran, KB Stevenson, DK Sing… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Planets orbiting M-dwarf stars are prime targets in the search for rocky exoplanet
atmospheres. The small size of M dwarfs renders their planets exceptional targets for …

The TESS objects of interest catalog from the TESS prime mission

NM Guerrero, S Seager, CX Huang… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present 2241 exoplanet candidates identified with data from the Transiting Exoplanet
Survey Satellite (TESS) during its 2 yr Prime Mission. We list these candidates in the TESS …

A JWST transmission spectrum of the nearby Earth-sized exoplanet LHS 475 b

J Lustig-Yaeger, G Fu, EM May, KNO Ceballos… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The critical first step in the search for life on exoplanets over the next decade is to determine
whether rocky planets transiting small M-dwarf stars possess atmospheres and, if so, what …

A high internal heat flux and large core in a warm Neptune exoplanet

L Welbanks, TJ Bell, TG Beatty, MR Line, K Ohno… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Interactions between exoplanetary atmospheres and internal properties have long been
proposed to be drivers of the inflation mechanisms of gaseous planets and apparent …

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs-Planet occurrence rates from a subsample of 71 stars

S Sabotta, M Schlecker, P Chaturvedi… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
Context. The CARMENES exoplanet survey of M dwarfs has obtained more than 18 000
spectra of 329 nearby M dwarfs over the past five years as part of its guaranteed time …

Planet formation theory in the era of ALMA and Kepler: from pebbles to exoplanets

J Drazkowska, B Bitsch, M Lambrechts… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
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 …

A planet within the debris disk around the pre-main-sequence star AU Microscopii

P Plavchan, T Barclay, J Gagné, P Gao, B Cale… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract AU Microscopii (AU Mic) is the second closest pre-main-sequence star, at a
distance of 9.79 parsecs and with an age of 22 million years. AU Mic possesses a relatively …

Revisited mass-radius relations for exoplanets below 120 M⊕

JF Otegi, F Bouchy, R Helled - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2020 - aanda.org
The masses and radii of exoplanets are fundamental quantities needed for their
characterisation. Studying the different populations of exoplanets is important for …