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The current goal of exoplanetary science is not only focused on detecting but characterizing planetary systems in hopes of understanding how they formed, evolved, and relate to the Solar System. The Transit Ephemeris Refinement and…

An automatic Bayesian Kepler periodogram has been developed for identifying and characterizing multiple planetary orbits in precision radial velocity data. The periodogram is powered by a parallel tempering MCMC algorithm which is capable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 P. C. Gregory

Of the fourteen transiting extrasolar planetary systems for which radii have been measured, at least three appear to be considerably larger than theoretical estimates suggest. It has been proposed by Bodenheimer, Lin & Mardling that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Rosemary A. Mardling

A historical problem for indirect exoplanet detection has been contending with the intrinsic variability of the host star. If the variability is periodic, it can easily mimic various exoplanet signatures, such as radial velocity variations…

We examine eight known single-eccentric planetary systems in light of recently released large data archives and new analysis techniques. For four of these systems (HD 7449, HD 65216, HD 89744, HD 92788) we find evidence for additional…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-27 Robert A. Wittenmyer , Jake T. Clark , Jinglin Zhao , Jonathan Horner , Songhu Wang , Daniel Johns

We place the first constraints on binary planets and exomoons from Doppler monitoring of directly imaged exoplanets. We model radial velocity observations of HR 8799 b, c, and d from Ruffio et al. (2021) and determine upper limits on the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-24 Andrew Vanderburg , Joseph E. Rodriguez

Close-in extrasolar giant planets may be directly detectable by their reflected light, due to the proximity of the planet to the illuminating star. The spectrum of the system will contain a reflected light component that varies in amplitude…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 David Charbonneau , Robert W. Noyes

Among the hundred or so extrasolar planets discovered to date, 19 are orbiting a component of a double or multiple star system. In this paper, we discuss the properties of these planets and compare them to the characteristics of planets…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Eggenberger , S. Udry , M. Mayor

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

In 2015, K2 observations of the bright (V = 8.9, K = 7.7) star HIP 41378 revealed a rich system of at least five transiting exoplanets, ranging in size from super-Earths to gas giants. The 2015 K2 observations only spanned 74.8 days, and…

Rings around exoplanets (exorings) are one of the most expected discoveries in exoplanetary research. There is an increasing number of theoretical and observational efforts for detecting exorings, but none of them have succeeded yet. Most…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-09 Jorge I. Zuluaga , Mario Sucerquia , Jaime A. Alvarado-Montes

Although comparatively bright, the cataclysmic variable GY Hya has not attracted much attention in the past. As part of a project to better characterize such systems photometrically, we observed light curves in white light, each spanning…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-22 Albert Bruch , Berto Monard

Improved photometric sensitivity from space-based telescopes have enabled the detection of phase variations for a small sample of hot Jupiters. However, exoplanets in highly eccentric orbits present unique opportunities to study the effects…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Stephen R. Kane , Dawn M. Gelino

We use an extensive suite of numerical simulations to constrain the mass and orbit of Planet Nine, the recently proposed perturber in a distant eccentric orbit in the outer solar system. We compare our simulations to the observed population…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-22 Michael E. Brown , Konstantin Batygin

We have made a comprehensive transit search for exoplanets down to about 2 Earth radii in the HD 209458 system, based on nearly uninterrupted broadband optical photometry obtained with the MOST (Microvariability and Oscillations of Stars)…

We report a sensitive search for meter-wavelength emission at 244 and 614 MHz from HD189733b, the nearest known extrasolar transiting planet of `hot-Jupiter' type. To discriminate any planetary emission from possible stellar or background…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Lecavelier des Etangs , S. K. Sirothia , Gopal-Krishna , P. Zarka

Characterizing the dependence of the orbital architectures and formation environments on the eccentricity distribution of planets is vital for understanding planet formation. In this work, we perform statistical eccentricity studies of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-14 Sean M. Mills , Andrew W. Howard , Erik A. Petigura , Benjamin J. Fulton , Howard Isaacson , Lauren M. Weiss

Context: Planets outside our solar system transiting their host star, i. e. those with an orbital inclination near 90 degree, are of special interest to derive physical properties of extrasolar planets. With the knowledge of the host star's…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. D. Huegelmeyer , S. Dreizler , D. Homeier , A. Reiners

We report on the first extra-solar planet discovered with the brand new HARPS instrument. The planet is a typical 'hot Jupiter' with m2sini = 0.62 MJup and an orbital period of 3.39 days, but from the photometric follow-up of its parent…