Stellar obliquities in exoplanetary systems

SH Albrecht, RI Dawson, JN Winn - Publications of the …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The rotation of a star and the revolutions of its planets are not necessarily aligned. This
article reviews the measurement techniques, key findings, and theoretical interpretations …

State of the field: extreme precision radial velocities

DA Fischer, G Anglada-Escude… - Publications of the …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Second Workshop on Extreme Precision Radial Velocities defined circa 2015
the state of the art Doppler precision and identified the critical path challenges for reaching …

Five carbon-and nitrogen-bearing species in a hot giant planet's atmosphere

P Giacobbe, M Brogi, S Gandhi, PE Cubillos… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The atmospheres of gaseous giant exoplanets orbiting close to their parent stars (hot
Jupiters) have been probed for nearly two decades,. They allow us to investigate the …

The GAPS programme with HARPS-N at TNG-XIV. Investigating giant planet migration history via improved eccentricity and mass determination for 231 transiting …

AS Bonomo, S Desidera, S Benatti, F Borsa… - Astronomy & …, 2017 - aanda.org
We carried out a Bayesian homogeneous determination of the orbital parameters of 231
transiting giant planets (TGPs) that are alone or have distant companions; we employed …

TESS transit timing of hundreds of hot Jupiters

ES Ivshina, JN Winn - The Astrophysical Journal Supplement …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We provide a database of transit times and updated ephemerides for 382 planets based on
data from the NASA Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and previously reported …

Rapid contraction of giant planets orbiting the 20-million-year-old star V1298 Tau

A Suárez Mascareño, M Damasso, N Lodieu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Current theories of planetary evolution predict that infant giant planets have large radii and
very low densities before they slowly contract to reach their final size after about several …

Neutral iron emission lines from the dayside of KELT-9b: the GAPS program with HARPS-N at TNG XX

L Pino, JM Désert, M Brogi, L Malavolta… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the first detection of atomic emission lines from the atmosphere of an exoplanet.
We detect neutral iron lines from the dayside of KELT-9b (T eq∼ 4000 K). We combined …

A preponderance of perpendicular planets

SH Albrecht, ML Marcussen, JN Winn… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Observing the Rossiter–McLaughlin effect during a planetary transit allows the
determination of the angle λ between the sky projections of the star's spin axis and the …

Visible-light Phase Curves from the Second Year of the TESS Primary Mission

I Wong, D Kitzmann, A Shporer, K Heng… - The Astronomical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We carried out a systematic study of full-orbit phase curves for known transiting systems in
the northern ecliptic sky that were observed during Year 2 of the TESS primary mission. We …

ExoClock Project. II. A large-scale integrated study with 180 updated exoplanet ephemerides

A Kokori, A Tsiaras, B Edwards… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The ExoClock project is an inclusive, integrated, and interactive platform that was developed
to monitor the ephemerides of the Ariel targets to increase the mission efficiency. The project …