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We examine the eccentricity distribution(s) of radial velocity detected exoplanets. Previously, the eccentricity distribution was found to be described well by a Beta distribution with shape parameters $a=0.867, b=3.03$. Increasing the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-16 A. T. Stevenson , C. A. Haswell , J. P. Faria , J. R. Barnes , J. K. Barstow , H. Dickinson , M. R. Standing

We characterize the eccentricity distribution of a sample of ~50 short-period planet candidates using transit and occultation measurements from NASA's Kepler Mission. First, we evaluate the sensitivity of our hierarchical Bayesian modeling…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-06 Megan Shabram , Brice-Olivier Demory , Jessi Cisewski , Eric B. Ford , Leslie Rogers

We investigate potential biases in the measurements of exoplanet orbital parameters obtained from radial velocity observations for single-planet systems. We create a mock catalog of radial velocity data, choosing input planet masses,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Nadia L. Zakamska , Margaret Pan , Eric B. Ford

Planets on eccentric orbits have a higher geometric probability of transiting their host star. By application of Bayes' theorem, we reverse this logic to show that the eccentricity distribution of transiting planets is positively biased.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 David M. Kipping

The eccentricity distribution of exoplanets is known from radial velocity surveys to be divergent from circular orbits beyond 0.1 AU. This is particularly the case for large planets where the radial velocity technique is most sensitive. The…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Stephen R. Kane , David R. Ciardi , Dawn M. Gelino , Kaspar von Braun

We investigate the estimation of orbital parameters by least-$\chi^2$ Keplerian fits to radial velocity (RV) data using synthetic data sets. We find that while the fitted period is fairly accurate, the best-fit eccentricity and $M_p\sin i$…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yue Shen , Edwin L. Turner

The eccentricity of a sub-stellar companion is an important tracer of its formation history. Directly imaged companions often present poorly constrained eccentricities. A recently developed prior framework for orbit fitting called…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-20 Clarissa R. Do Ó , Kelly K. O'Neil , Quinn M. Konopacky , Tuan Do , Gregory D. Martinez , Jean-Baptiste Ruffio , Andrea M. Ghez

We determine the orbital eccentricities of individual small Kepler planets, through a combination of asteroseismology and transit light-curve analysis. We are able to constrain the eccentricities of 51 systems with a single transiting…

Features in the distribution of exoplanet parameters by period demonstrate that the distribution of planet parameters is rich with information that can provide essential guidance to understanding planet histories. Structure has been found…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-09 Stuart F. Taylor

The discovery of over 200 extrasolar planets with the radial velocity (RV) technique has revealed that many giant planets have large eccentricities, in striking contrast with most of the planets in the solar system and prior theories of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-10 Eric B. Ford , Samuel N. Quinn , Dimitri Veras

We investigate the underlying distribution of orbital eccentricities for planets around early-to-mid M dwarf host stars. We employ a sample of 163 planets around early- to mid-M dwarfs across 101 systems detected by NASA's Kepler Mission.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-30 Sheila Sagear , Sarah Ballard

The probability of the detection of Earth-like exoplanets may increase in the near future after the launch of the space missions using the transit photometry as observation method. By using this technique only the semi-major axis of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Zsolt Sandor

Standard maximum-likelihood estimators for binary-star and exoplanet eccentricities are biased high, in the sense that the estimated eccentricity tends to be larger than the true eccentricity. As with most non-trivial observables, a simple…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-19 David W. Hogg , Adam D. Myers , Jo Bovy

We used the database of $1040$ short-period ($1 \leq P < 200$ days) exoplanets radial-velocity (RV) orbits to study the planetary eccentricity-period (PEP) distribution. We first divided the sample into low- and high-mass exoplanet…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-14 Dolev Bashi , Tsevi Mazeh , Simchon Faigler

Eccentricity is a parameter of particular interest as it is an informative indicator of the past of planetary systems. It is however not always clear whether the eccentricity fitted on radial velocity data is real or if it is an artefact of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-17 N. C. Hara , G. Boué , J. Laskar , J. B. Delisle , N. Unger

The two dominant features in the distribution of orbital parameters for close-in exoplanets are the prevalence of circular orbits for very short periods, and the observation that planets on closer orbits tend to be heavier. The first…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Frederic Pont , Nawal Husnoo , Tsevi Mazeh , Daniel Fabrycky

We present a database of well determined orbital parameters of exoplanets. This database comprises spectroscopic orbital elements measured for 427 planets orbiting 363 stars from radial velocity and transit measurements as reported in the…

For extrasolar planets with orbital periods, P>10 days, radial velocity surveys find non-circular orbital eccentricities are common, <e>~0.3. Future surveys for extrasolar planets using the transit technique will also have sensitivity to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Christopher J. Burke

Correct distributions of extrasolar systems for their orbital parameters (semi-major axes, period, eccentricity) and physical characteristics (mass, spectral type of parent star) are received. Orbital resonances in extrasolar systems are…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-22 B. R. Mushailov , L . M. Ivanovskaya , V. S. Teplitskaya
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