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 …

The orbital eccentricity distribution of planets orbiting M dwarfs

S Sagear, S Ballard - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
We investigate the underlying distribution of orbital eccentricities for planets around early-to-
mid M dwarf host stars. We employ a sample of 163 planets around early-to mid-M dwarfs …

Architectures of compact super-Earth systems shaped by instabilities

M Goldberg, K Batygin - The Astronomical Journal, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Compact nonresonant systems of sub-Jovian planets are the most common outcome of the
planet formation process. Despite exhibiting broad overall diversity, these planets also …

Enhanced Size Uniformity for Near-resonant Planets

AV Goyal, F Dai, S Wang - The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Super-Earths within the same close-in, compact planetary system tend to exhibit a striking
degree of uniformity in their radius, mass, and orbital spacing, and this" peas-in-a-pod" …

Orbital architectures of Kepler multis from dynamical instabilities

T Ghosh, S Chatterjee - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The high-multiplicity exoplanet systems are generally more tightly packed when compared
to the solar system. Such compact multiplanet systems are often susceptible to dynamical …

Exoplanet Science From {\it Kepler}

JJ Lissauer, NM Batalha, WJ Borucki - arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.04981, 2023 - arxiv.org
The Kepler spacecraft, whose single instrument was a 0.95 m diameter wide-field telescope,
operated in a heliocentric orbit for nearly a decade, returning a wealth of data that have …

Generalized Peas in a Pod: Extending Intra-system Mass Uniformity to Non-TTV Systems via the Gini Index

AV Goyal, S Wang - The Astrophysical Journal, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
It has been demonstrated that planets belonging to the same close-in, compact multiple-
planet system tend to exhibit a striking degree of uniformity in their sizes. A similar trend has …

Prospects from TESS and Gaia to constrain the flatness of planetary systems

JI Espinoza-Retamal, W Zhu… - The Astronomical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The mutual inclination between planets orbiting the same star provides key information to
understand the formation and evolution of multiplanet systems. In this work, we investigate …

Edge-of-the-multis: evidence for a transition in the outer architectures of compact multiplanet systems

SC Millholland, MY He, JK Zink - The Astronomical Journal, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Although the architectures of compact multiple-planet systems are well characterized, there
has been little examination of their" outer edges," or the locations of their outermost planets …

More Likely Than You Think: Inclination-driving Secular Resonances Are Common in Known Exoplanet Systems

TH Faridani, S Naoz, G Li, M Rice… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Multiplanet systems face significant challenges to detection. For example, farther-orbiting
planets have a reduced signal-to-noise ratio in radial velocity detection methods, and small …