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The Trojan asteroids provide a unique perspective on the history of Solar System. As a large population of small bodies, they record important gravitational interactions and dynamical evolution of the Solar System. In the past decade,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-31 Joshua P. Emery , Francesco Marzari , Alessandro Morbidelli , Linda M. French , Tommy Grav

We present a survey of 41 Kepler Objects of Interest (KOIs) for exomoons using Bayesian photodynamics, more than tripling the number of KOIs surveyed with this technique. We find no compelling evidence for exomoons although thirteen KOIs…

With their smaller radii and high cosmic abundance, transiting planets around cool stars hold a unique appeal. As part of our on-going project to measure the occurrence rate of extrasolar moons, we here present results from a survey…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 David M. Kipping , David Nesvorny , Lars A. Buchhave , Joel Hartman , Gáspár Á. Bakos , Allan R. Schmitt

Jovian co-orbitals share Jupiter's orbit in 1:1 mean motion resonance. This includes $>$10,000 so-called Trojan asteroids surrounding the leading (L4) and trailing (L5) Lagrange points, viewed as stable groups dating back to planet…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-12 Sarah Greenstreet , Brett Gladman , Mario Juric

From the list of 2321 transiting planet candidates announced by the Kepler Mission, we select seven targets with favorable properties for the capacity to dynamically maintain an exomoon and present a detectable signal. These seven…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 David M. Kipping , Joel Hartman , Lars A. Buchhave , Allan R. Schmitt , Gáspár Á. Bakos , David Nesvorny

Aims. We present our re-analyze the Kepler photometric dataset, searching for planetary transits using an alternative processing pipeline to the one used by the Kepler Mission. Methods. The SARS pipeline was tested extensively by processing…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Aviv Ofir , Stefan Dreizler

[ABRIDGED]: Aims: two candidates in the KOI 1574 system are relatively long-period (about 114d and 191d) and in 5:3 resonance. We therefore search for TTVs in this particularly promising system. Methods: The full Kepler data was used,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Aviv Ofir , Stefan Dreizler , Mathias Zechmeister , Tim-Oliver Husser

We present the results of an independent search of all ~200,000 stars observed over the four year Kepler mission (Q1-Q17) for multiplanet systems, using a three-transit minimum detection criteria to search orbital periods up to hundreds of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-11 Michelle Kunimoto , Jaymie M. Matthews , Henry Ngo

We present the results of a search for planetary companions orbiting near hot Jupiter planet candidates (Jupiter-size candidates with orbital periods near 3 days) identified in the Kepler data through its sixth quarter of science…

We visually analyzed the Transit Timing Variation (TTV) data of 5930 Kepler Objects of Interest (KOIs) homogeneously. Using data from Rowe et al. 2014 and Holczer et al. 2016, we investigated TTVs for KOIs in Kepler's Data Release 24…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-17 Mackenzie Kane , Darin Ragozzine , Xzavier Flowers , Tomer Holczer , Tsevi Mazeh , Howard M. Relles

All the Trojan asteroids orbit about the Sun at roughly the same heliocentric distance as Jupiter. Differences in the observed visible reflection spectra range from neutral to red, with no ultra-red objects found so far. Given that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-01-17 M. D. Melita , J. Licandro , Jones , D. C. , I. P. Williams

Most of the major planets in the Solar System support populations of co-orbiting bodies, known as Trojans, at their L4 and L5 Lagrange points. In contrast, Earth has only one known co-orbiting companion. This paper presents the results from…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-05 Larissa Markwardt , David W. Gerdes , Renu Malhotra , Juliette C. Becker , Stephanie J. Hamilton , Fred C. Adams

We present an ultra-deep survey for Neptune Trojans using the Subaru 8.2-m and Magellan 6.5-m telescopes. The survey reached a 50% detection efficiency in the R-band at 25.7 magnitudes and covered 49 square degrees of sky. This depth…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Scott S. Sheppard , Chadwick A. Trujillo

We report on the discovery of new Martian Trojans within the Minor Planet Center list of asteroids. Their orbital evolution over 10^8 yr shows characteristic signatures of dynamical longevity (Scholl et al, 2005) while their average orbits…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Apostolos A. Christou

The Kepler mission has discovered a plethora of multiple transiting planet candidate exosystems, many of which feature putative pairs of planets near mean motion resonance commensurabilities. Identifying potentially resonant systems could…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Dimitri Veras , Eric B. Ford

Non-planetary bodies provide valuable insight into our current under- standing of planetary formation and evolution. Although these objects are challeng- ing to detect and characterize, the potential information to be drawn from them has…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-06 Juan Cabrera , Maria Fernandez Jimenez , Antonio Garcia Munoz , Jean Schneider

Despite the importance of Jupiter and Saturn to Earth's formation and habitability, there has not yet been a comprehensive observational study of how giant exoplanets correlate with the architectural properties of close-in,…

Trojan objects share a planet's orbit, never straying far from the triangular Lagrangian points, 60 degrees ahead of (L4) or behind (L5) the planet. We report the detection of a Uranian Trojan; in our numerical integrations, 2011 QF99…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-02 Mike Alexandersen , Brett Gladman , Sarah Greenstreet , JJ Kavelaars , Jean-Marc Petit , Stephen Gwyn