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The Extreme-ultraviolet Stellar Characterization for Atmospheric Physics and Evolution (ESCAPE) mission is an astrophysics Small Explorer employing ultraviolet spectroscopy (EUV: 80 - 825 \AA\ and FUV: 1280 - 1650 \AA) to explore the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-01 K. France , B. Fleming , A. Youngblood , J. Mason , J. Drake , the ESCAPE Science , Instrument Team

New insights on stellar evolution and stellar interiors physics are being made possible by asteroseismology. Throughout the course of the Kepler mission, asteroseismology has also played an important role in the characterization of…

The fields of astronomy and astrophysics are currently engaged in an unprecedented era of discovery as recent missions have revealed thousands of exoplanets orbiting other stars. While the Kepler Space Telescope mission has enabled most of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-27 Kevin H. Knuth , Ben Placek , Daniel Angerhausen , Jennifer L. Carter , Bryan D'Angelo , Anthony D. Gai , Bertrand Carado

The CHEOPS space mission dedicated to exoplanet follow-up was launched in December 2019, equipped with the capacity to perform photometric measurements at the 20 ppm level. As CHEOPS carries out its observations in a broad optical passband,…

Exoplanet transit events are attractive targets for the ultrahigh-resolution capabilities afforded by optical interferometers. The intersection of two developments in astronomy enable direct imaging of exoplanet transits: first,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-09 Gerard T. van Belle , Kaspar von Braun , Tabetha Boyajian , Gail Schaefer

We present simulations of multi-year RV follow up campaigns of the {\it TESS} small exoplanet yield on the Automated Planet Finder telescope, using four different schemes to sample the transiting planets' RV phase curves. For planets below…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-28 Jennifer Burt , Bradford P. Holden , Angie Wolfgang , L. G. Bouma

Transiting planet discoveries have largely been restricted to the short-period or low-periastron distance regimes due to the bias inherent in the geometric transit probability. Through the refinement of planetary orbital parameters, and…

The phenomenon of transit depth variability offers a pathway through which processes such as exoplanet atmospheric activity and orbital dynamics can be studied. In this work we conduct a blind search for transit depth variations among 330…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-07 Gavin Wang , Néstor Espinoza

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is focusing on relatively bright stars and has found thousands of planet candidates. However, mainly because of the low spatial resolution of its cameras ($\approx$ 21 arcsec/pixel), TESS is…

Many ground-based photometric surveys are now under way, and five of them have been successful at detecting transiting exoplanets. Nevertheless, detecting transiting planets has turned out to be much more challenging than initially…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Frederic Pont , the ISSI Working Group on Transiting Planets

Detecting exoplanet transits at X-ray wavelengths would provide a window into the effects of high energy irradiation on the upper atmospheres of planets. However, stars are relatively dim in the X-ray, making exoplanet transit detections…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-14 Raven Cilley , George W. King , Lia Corrales

With the discovery of the first transiting extrasolar planetary system back to 1999, a great number of projects started to hunt for other similar systems. Because of the incidence rate of such systems was unknown and the length of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-13 Geza Kovacs

High contrast direct imaging of exoplanets can provide many important observables, including measurements of the orbit, spectra that probe the lower layers of the atmosphere, and phase variations of the planet, but cannot directly measure…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-10 Christopher C. Stark , Courtney Dressing , Shannon Dulz , Eric Lopez , Mark S. Marley , Peter Plavchan , Johannes Sahlmann

The Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT) survey is a ground-based program designed to search for transiting exoplanets orbiting relatively bright stars. To achieve this, the KELT Science Team operates two planets facilities -…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-10 Jack Soutter , Jonti Horner , Joshua Pepper

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, TESS, is currently carrying out an all-sky search for small planets transiting bright stars. In the first year of the TESS survey, steady progress was made in achieving the mission's primary…

K2-139 b is a warm Jupiter with an orbital period of 28.4 d, but only three transits of this system have previously been observed, in the long-cadence mode of K2, limiting the precision with which the orbital period can be determined, and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-29 Alexis M. S. Smith , Szilard Csizmadia

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is conducting a two-year wide-field survey searching for transiting exoplanets around nearby bright stars that will be ideal for follow-up characterization. To facilitate studies of planet…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-15 Rachel A. Matson , Steve B. Howell , David Ciardi

In the search for life in the cosmos, NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission has already monitored about 74% of the sky for transiting extrasolar planets, including potentially habitable worlds. However, TESS only…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-05 L. Kaltenegger , J. Pepper , P. M. Christodoulou , K. Stassun , S. Quinn , C. Burke

The Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS), operating in Paranal since 2016, is a wide-field survey to detect Neptunes and super-Earths transiting bright stars, which are suitable for precise radial velocity follow-up and characterisation.…

Among highly irradiated exoplanets, some have been found to undergo significant hydrodynamic expansion traced by atmospheric escape. To better understand these processes in the context of planetary evolution, we propose NIGHT (the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-31 C. Farret Jentink , V. Bourrier , C. Lovis , R. Allart , B. Chazelas , M. Lendl , X. Dumusque , F. Pepe