Formation, habitability, and detection of extrasolar moons

R Heller, D Williams, D Kipping, MA Limbach… - Astrobiology, 2014 - liebertpub.com
The diversity and quantity of moons in the Solar System suggest a manifold population of
natural satellites exist around extrasolar planets. Of peculiar interest from an astrobiological …

Transits and occultations

JN Winn - arXiv preprint arXiv:1001.2010, 2010 - arxiv.org
When we are fortunate enough to view an exoplanetary system nearly edge-on, the star and
planet periodically eclipse each other. Observations of eclipses (transits and occultations) …

The prevalence of dust on the exoplanet HD 189733b from Hubble and Spitzer observations

F Pont, DK Sing, NP Gibson, S Aigrain… - Monthly Notices of …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
The hot Jupiter HD 189733b is the most extensively observed exoplanet. Its atmosphere has
been detected and characterized in transmission and eclipse spectroscopy, and its phase …

Starspots, spin–orbit misalignment, and active latitudes in the HAT-P-11 exoplanetary system

R Sanchis-Ojeda, JN Winn - The Astrophysical Journal, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the analysis of four months of Kepler photometry of the K4V star HAT-P-11,
including 26 transits of its" super-Neptune" planet. The transit data exhibit numerous …

VERY LOW DENSITY PLANETS AROUND KEPLER-51 REVEALED WITH TRANSIT TIMING VARIATIONS AND AN ANOMALY SIMILAR TO A PLANET–PLANET …

K Masuda - The Astrophysical Journal, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We present an analysis of the transit timing variations (TTVs) in the multi-transiting planetary
system around Kepler-51 (KOI-620). This system consists of two confirmed transiting …

Spotted star light curves with enhanced precision

RE Wilson - The Astronomical Journal, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
The nearly continuous timewise coverage of recent photometric surveys is free of the large
gaps that compromise attempts to follow starspot growth and decay as well as motions …

HEK. VI. On the dearth of Galilean analogs in Kepler, and the exomoon candidate Kepler-1625b I

A Teachey, DM Kipping, AR Schmitt - The Astronomical Journal, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Exomoons represent an outstanding challenge in modern astronomy, with the potential to
provide rich insights into planet formation theory and habitability. In this work, we stack the …

STARSPOTS AND SPIN–ORBIT ALIGNMENT IN THE WASP-4 EXOPLANETARY SYSTEM

R Sanchis-Ojeda, JN Winn, MJ Holman… - The Astrophysical …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
We present photometry of four transits of the exoplanet WASP-4b, each with a precision of
approximately 500 ppm and a time sampling of 40–60 s. We have used the data to refine the …

A Spitzer transmission spectrum for the exoplanet GJ 436b, evidence for stellar variability, and constraints on dayside flux variations

HA Knutson, N Madhusudhan, NB Cowan… - The Astrophysical …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper, we describe a uniform analysis of eight transits and eleven secondary eclipses
of the extrasolar planet GJ 436b obtained in the 3.6, 4.5, and 8.0 μm bands using the IRAC …

The GJ1214 super-Earth system: stellar variability, new transits, and a search for additional planets

ZK Berta, D Charbonneau, J Bean, J Irwin… - The Astrophysical …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
The super-Earth GJ1214b transits a nearby M dwarf that exhibits a 1% intrinsic variability in
the near-infrared. Here, we analyze new observations to refine the physical properties of …