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More precise lunar and Martian ranging will enable unprecedented tests of Einstein's theory of General Relativity and well as lunar and planetary science. NASA is currently planning several missions to return to the Moon, and it is natural…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Stephen M. Merkowitz , Philip W. Dabney , Jeffrey C. Livas , Jan F. McGarry , Gregory A. Neumann , Thomas W. Zagwodzki

We present the latest velocities for 10 multi-planet systems, including a re-analysis of archival Keck and Lick data, resulting in improved velocities that supersede our previously published measurements. We derive updated orbital fits for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 J. T. Wright , S. Upadhyay , G. W. Marcy , D. A. Fischer , Eric B. Ford , John Asher Johnson

Equivalence between algebraic equations of motion may be detected by using a $p$-adic method, methods using factorization and linear algebra, or by systematic computer search of suitable Tschirnhausen transformations. Here, we show standard…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2018-10-05 Owen J. Brison , Jason A. C. Gallas

To interpret adaptive-optics observations of (216) Kleopatra, we need to describe an evolution of multiple moons, orbiting an extremely irregular body and including their mutual interactions. Such orbits are generally non-Keplerian and…

We present a calibrated database of reflectance spectra for the solar system planets (i.e., Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune) and for Titan, spanning from the ultraviolet to the near infrared. We considered data…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-23 Allison Payne , Geronimo L. Villanueva , Vincent Kofman , Thomas J. Fauchez , Sara Faggi , Avi M. Mandell , Aki Roberge , Eleonora Alei

Robotic and human activities in the cislunar space are expected to rapidly increase in the future. Modeling, jointly analysis and sharing of time measurements made in the vicinity of the Moon might indispensably demand calculating a lunar…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-18 Xu Lu , Tian-Ning Yang , Yi Xie

Despite numerous search campaigns based on a diverse set of observational techniques, exomoons - prospective satellites of extrasolar planets - remain an elusive and hard-to-pin-down class of objects. Yet, the case for intensifying this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-19 Thomas O. Winterhalder , Antoine Mérand , Sylvestre Lacour , Jens Kammerer , Guillaume Bourdarot , Frank Eisenhauer

As next-generation imaging instruments and interferometers search for planets closer to their stars, they must contend with increasing orbital motion and longer integration times. These compounding effects make it difficult to detect faint…

Despite the ever-increasing number of known exoplanets, no uncontested detections have been made of their satellites, known as exomoons. The quest to find exomoons is at the forefront of exoplanetary sciences. Certain space-born instruments…

Giant gaseous planets often reside on orbits in sufficient proximity to their host stars for the planetary quadrupole gravitational field to become non-negligible. In presence of an additional planetary companion, a precise characterization…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Juliette C. Becker , Konstantin Batygin

We present refined parameters for the extrasolar planetary system HAT-P-2 (also known as HD 147506), based on new radial velocity and photometric data. HAT-P-2b is a transiting extrasolar planet that exhibits an eccentric orbit. We present…

Transiting planet discoveries have yielded a plethora of information regarding the internal structure and atmospheres of extra-solar planets. These discoveries have been restricted to the low-periastron distance regime due to the bias…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Stephen R. Kane , Suvrath Mahadevan , Kaspar von Braun , Gregory Laughlin , David R. Ciardi

We present a tool for the comparison and validation of the integration packages suitable for Solar System dynamics. iCompare, written in Python, compares the ephemeris prediction accuracy of a suite of commonly-used integration packages…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-25 Maria Chernyavskaya , Mario Juric , Joachim Moeyens , Siegfried Eggl , Lynne Jones

The software MAVKA is described, which was elaborated for statistically optimal determination of the characteristics of the extrema of 1000+ variable stars of different types, mainly eclipsing and pulsating. The approximations are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-05 Ivan L. Andronov , Kateryna D. Andrych , Lidia L. Chinarova , Dmytro E. Tvardovskyi

Recently, we introduced PLanetary Atmospheric Tool for Observer Noobs (PLATON), a Python package that calculates model transmission spectra for exoplanets and retrieves atmospheric characteristics based on observed spectra. We now expand…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-19 Michael Zhang , Yayaati Chachan , Eliza M. -R. Kempton , Heather Knutson , Wenjun , Chang

Future missions like Roman, HabEx, and LUVOIR will directly image exoplanets in reflected light. While current near infrared direct imaging searches are only sensitive to young, self-luminous planets whose brightness is independent of their…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-19 Margaret Bruna , Nicolas B. Cowan , Julia Sheffler , Hal M. Haggard , Audrey Bourdon , Mathilde Mâlin

High precision ephemerides not only support space missions, but can also be used to study the origin and future of celestial bodies. In this paper, a coupled orbit rotation dynamics model that fully takes into account the rotation of the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-30 Yongzhang Yang , Kai Huang , Jianguo Yan , Yuqiang Li

We collected rich series of RV measurements covering last 110 years and photometric observations from the past 6 primary eclipses, complemented them by our new observations and derived a new precise ephemeris and an orbital solution of…

Stellar occultations currently provide the most accurate ground-based measurements of the positions of natural satellites (down to a few kilometres for the Galilean moons). However, when using these observations in the calculation of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-09 M. Fayolle , V. Lainey , D. Dirkx , L. I. Gurvits , G. Cimo , S. J. Bolton

The Mars Express (MEX) mission has been successfully operated around Mars since 2004. Among many results, MEX has provided some of the most accurate astrometric data of the two Mars moons, Phobos and Deimos. In this work we present new…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-23 V. Lainey , A. Pasewaldt , V. Robert , P. Rosenblatt , R. Jaumann , J. Oberst , T. Roatsch , K. Willner , R. Ziese , W. Thuillot