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We present two new planetary systems found around cool dwarf stars with data from the K2 mission. The first system was found in K2-239 (EPIC 248545986), char- acterized in this work as M3.0V and observed in the 14th campaign of K2. It…

Small, cool planets represent the typical end-products of planetary formation. Studying the archi- tectures of these systems, measuring planet masses and radii, and observing these planets' atmospheres during transit directly informs…

The number of isolating integrals of motion of the Trappist-1 system - a late M-dwarf orbited by seven Earth-sized planets - was determined numerically, using an adapted version of the correlation dimension method. It was found that over…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-04 Johannes Floß , Hanno Rein , Paul Brumer

The seven approximately Earth-sized transiting planets in the \object{TRAPPIST-1} system provide a unique opportunity to explore habitable zone and non-habitable zone small planets within the same system. Its habitable zone exoplanets --…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 Zhanbo Zhang , Yifan Zhou , Benjamin V. Rackham , Daniel Apai

The atmospheres of late M stars represent a significant challenge in the characterization of any transiting exoplanets due to the presence of strong molecular features in the stellar atmosphere. TRAPPIST-1 is an ultra-cool dwarf, host to…

The TRAPPIST-1 system provides an exquisite laboratory for advancing our understanding exoplanetary atmospheres, compositions, dynamics and architectures. A remarkable aspect of TRAPPIST-1 is that it represents the longest known resonance…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-31 David Kipping

We announce the discovery of a planetary system with 7 transiting planets around a Kepler target, a current record for transiting systems. Planets b, c, e and f are reported for the first time in this work. Planets d, g and h were…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 J. Cabrera , Sz. Csizmadia , H. Lehmann , R. Dvorak , D. Gandolfi , H. Rauer , A. Erikson , C. Dreyer , Ph. Eigmueller , A. Hatzes

The first nearby very-low mass star planet-host discovered, TRAPPIST-1, presents not only a unique opportunity for studying a system of multiple terrestrial planets, but a means to probe magnetospheric interactions between a star at the end…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-31 J. Sebastian Pineda , Gregg Hallinan

We report the discovery of EPIC201702477b, a transiting brown dwarf in a long period (40.73691 +/- 0.00037 day) and eccentric (e=0.2281 +/- 0.0026) orbit. This system was initially reported as a planetary candidate based on two transit…

We present a simple model for estimating the probability of interplanetary panspermia in the recently discovered system of seven planets orbiting the ultracool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1, and find that panspermia is potentially orders of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-29 Manasvi Lingam , Abraham Loeb

The two known planets in the planetary system of Teegarden's Star are among the most Earth-like exoplanets currently known. Revisiting this nearby planetary system with two planets in the habitable zone aims at a more complete census of…

The presence of an atmosphere over sufficiently long timescales is widely perceived as one of the most prominent criteria associated with planetary surface habitability. We address the crucial question as to whether the seven Earth-sized…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-17 Chuanfei Dong , Meng Jin , Manasvi Lingam , Vladimir S. Airapetian , Yingjuan Ma , Bart van der Holst

The TRAPPIST-1 system is home to at least seven terrestrial planets and is a target of interest for future James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations. Additionally, these planets will be of interest to future missions making…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-26 Kathleen Mandt , Adrienn Luspay-Kuti , Jacob Lustig-Yaeger , Ryan Felton , Shawn Domagal-Goldman

High-precision planetary densities are key to derive robust atmospheric properties for extrasolar planets. Measuring precise masses is the most challenging part, especially in multi-planetary systems. We measure the masses and densities of…

Multiple planet systems provide an ideal laboratory for probing exoplanet composition, formation history and potential habitability. For the TRAPPIST-1 planets, the planetary radii are well established from transits (Gillon et al., 2016,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-07 Cayman T. Unterborn , Steven J. Desch , Natalie R. Hinkel , Alejandro Lorenzo

The Trappist-1 system contains seven roughly Earth-sized planets locked in a multi-resonant orbital configuration, which has enabled precise measurements of the planets' masses and constrained their compositions. Here we use the system's…

We announce the detection of two new planetary-mass companions around Kepler-451 binary system in addition to the one detected previously based on eclipse timing variation analysis. We found that an inner planet with 43 d period with a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-02 Ekrem Murat Esmer , Özgür Baştürk , Selim Osman Selam , Sinan Aliş

The very recent discovery of planets orbiting very low mass stars sheds light on these exotic objects. Planetary systems around low-mass stars and brown dwarfs are very different from our solar system: the planets are expected to be much…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-06 Emeline Bolmont

After publication of our initial mass-radius-composition models for the TRAPPIST-1 system in Unterborn et al. (2018), the planet masses were updated in Grimm et al. (2018). We had originally adopted the data set of Wang et al., 2017 who…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-27 Cayman T. Unterborn , Natalie R. Hinkel , Steven J. Desch

K2-19 is the second multi-planetary system discovered with K2 observations. The system is composed of two Neptune size planets close to the 3:2 mean-motion resonance. To better characterise the system we obtained two additional transit…