The Sonora brown dwarf atmosphere and evolution models. I. Model description and application to cloudless atmospheres in rainout chemical equilibrium

MS Marley, D Saumon, C Visscher… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a new generation of substellar atmosphere and evolution models, appropriate
for application to studies of L-, T-, and Y-type brown dwarfs and self-luminous extrasolar …

The next generation transit survey (NGTS)

PJ Wheatley, RG West, MR Goad… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Abstract We describe the Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS), which is a ground-based
project searching for transiting exoplanets orbiting bright stars. NGTS builds on the legacy of …

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 …

Constraints on the Spindown of Fully Convective M Dwarfs Using Wide Field Binaries

EK Pass, D Charbonneau, JM Irwin… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
M dwarfs remain active over longer timescales than their Sunlike counterparts, with
potentially devastating implications for the atmospheres of their planets. However, the age at …

Age determination in Upper Scorpius with eclipsing binaries

TJ David, LA Hillenbrand, E Gillen… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Upper Scorpius OB association is the nearest region of recent massive star
formation and thus an important benchmark for investigations concerning stellar evolution …

Combing the brown dwarf desert with Gaia DR3

AT Stevenson, CA Haswell, JR Barnes… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We have created an up-to-date catalogue of 214 brown dwarfs (BDs) in binaries with P< 104
d. This allows us to examine the population statistics of the BD desert. We searched Gaia …

allesfitter: Flexible star and exoplanet inference from photometry and radial velocity

MN Günther, T Daylan - The Astrophysical Journal Supplement …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present allesfitter, a public and open-source Python software for flexible and robust
inference of stars and exoplanets given photometric and radial velocity data. Allesfitter offers …

NGTS-1b: a hot Jupiter transiting an M-dwarf

D Bayliss, E Gillen, P Eigmüller… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We present the discovery of NGTS-1b, a hot Jupiter transiting an early M-dwarf host (T eff,*=
K) in a P= 2.647 d orbit discovered as part of the Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS) …

A 5D view of the α Per, Pleiades, and Praesepe clusters

N Lodieu, A Pérez-Garrido, RL Smart… - Astronomy & …, 2019 - aanda.org
Aims. Our scientific goal is to provide revised membership lists of the α Per, Pleiades, and
Praesepe clusters exploiting the second data release of Gaia and produce five-dimensional …

NGTS-4b: A sub-Neptune transiting in the desert

RG West, E Gillen, D Bayliss… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We report the discovery of NGTS-4b, a sub-Neptune-sized planet transiting a 13th
magnitude K-dwarf in a 1.34 d orbit. NGTS-4b has a mass M= 20.6±3.0 M⊕ and radius R …