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The radius of a planet is a fundamental parameter that probes its composition and habitability. Precise radius measurements are typically derived from the fraction of starlight blocked when a planet transits its host star. The wide-field…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-12 Te Han , Paul Robertson , Timothy D. Brandt , Shubham Kanodia , Caleb Cañas , Avi Shporer , George Ricker , Corey Beard

Instead of parameterizing the pressure-density relation of a neutron star (NS), one can parameterize its macroscopic properties such as mass ($M$), radius ($R$), and dimensionless tidal deformability ($\Lambda$) to infer the equation of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-31 Bhaskar Biswas , Sayak Datta

Determination of an exoplanet's mass is a key to understanding its basic properties, including its potential for supporting life. To date, mass constraints for exoplanets are predominantly based on radial velocity (RV) measurements, which…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-27 Julien de Wit , Sara Seager

Survey strategies for upcoming exoplanet direct imaging missions have considered varying assumptions of prior knowledge. Precursor radial velocity surveys could have detected nearby exo-Earths and provided prior orbit and mass constraints.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-13 Arnaud Salvador , Tyler D. Robinson , Jonathan J. Fortney , Mark S. Marley

Several tools have been developed in the past few years for the statistical analysis of the exoplanet search surveys, mostly using a combination of Monte-Carlo simulations or a Bayesian approach.Here we present the Quick-MESS, a grid-based,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Mariangela Bonavita , Ernst J. W. de Mooij , Ray Jayawardhana

I present a review of astrometric techniques and instrumentation utilized to search for, detect, and characterize extra-solar planets. First, I briefly summarize the properties of the present-day sample of extrasolar planets, in connection…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Sozzetti

The orbits of the confirmed exoplanets from all multiple systems known to date are investigated. Observational data from 1890 objects, of which 1176 are found in multiplanetary systems, are compiled and analyzed. Mean motion resonances and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-26 Marian C. Ghilea

This study develops a robust framework for exoplanet characterization by leveraging asteroseismic constraints on host stars. Using precise photometric data from missions such as \textit{Kepler} and \textit{TESS}, we derive stellar…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-27 Wen-Xu Lin , Sheng-Bang Qian , Li-Ying Zhu , Wen-Ping Liao , Fu-Xing Li , Xiang-Dong Shi , Lin-Jia Li , Er-Gang Zhao

For planets other than Earth, interpretation of the composition and structure depends largely on comparing the mass and radius with the composition expected given their distance from the parent star. The composition implies a mass-radius…

While thousands of exoplanets have been confirmed, the known properties about individual discoveries remain sparse and depend on detection technique. To utilize more than a small section of the exoplanet dataset, tools need to be developed…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-15 Elizabeth J. Tasker , Matthieu Laneuville , Nicholas Guttenberg

The high number of planet discoveries made in the last years provides a good sample for statistical analysis, leading to some clues on the distributions of planet parameters, like masses and periods, at least in close proximity to the host…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 M. Bonavita , G. Chauvin , S. Desidera , R. Gratton , M. Janson , J. L. Beuzit , M. Kasper , C. Mordasini

Several small dense exoplanets are now known, inviting comparisons to Earth and Venus. Such comparisons require translating their masses and sizes to composition models of evolved multi-layer-interior planets. Such theoretical models rely…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-15 Li Zeng , Dimitar Sasselov , Stein Jacobsen

A space telescope capable of high-contrast imaging has been recognized as the avenue toward finding terrestrial planets around nearby Sun-like stars and characterizing their potential habitability. It is thus essential to quantify the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-01 Mario Damiano , Renyu Hu

The present-day bulk elemental composition of an exoplanet can provide insight into a planet's formation and evolutionary history. Such information is now being measured for dozens of planets with state-of-the-art facilities using Bayesian…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-31 Joshua D. Lothringer , Nataliea Lowson , Guangwei Fu

The increasing precision of planetary mass and radius observations is bringing major questions about the structure and formation of planets--such as the nature of the radius valley and origin of super-Mercuries--within reach, demanding the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-29 Bennett Neil Skinner , Ralph E. Pudritz , Ryan Cloutier

A space-based gravitational microlensing exoplanet survey will provide a statistical census of exoplanets with masses down to 0.1 Earth-masses and orbital separations ranging from 0.5AU to infinity. This includes analogs to all the Solar…

We apply the Minimum Description Length model selection approach to the detection of extra-solar planets, and use this example to show how specification of the experimental design affects the prior distribution on the model parameter space…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-06 Vijay Balasubramanian , Klaus Larjo , Ravi Sheth

We revisited ten known exoplanetary systems using publicly available data provided by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). The sample presented in this work consists of short period transiting exoplanets, with inflated radii…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-22 Xanthippi Alexoudi

Two of TESS's major science goals are to measure masses for 50 planets smaller than 4 Earth radii and to discover high-quality targets for atmospheric characterization efforts. It is important that these two goals are linked by quantifying…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Natasha E. Batalha , Taylor Lewis , Jonathan J. Fortney , Natalie M. Batalha , Eliza Kempton , Nikole K. Lewis , Michael R. Line