In the past few years, significant advances have been made in understanding the
distributions of exoplanet populations and the architecture of planetary systems. We review …

Until the last few decades, investigations of stellar interiors had been restricted to theoretical
studies only constrained by observations of their global properties and external …

Various theoretical models treating the effect of stellar irradiation on planetary envelopes
predict the presence of a radius valley, ie a bimodal distribution of planet radii, with super …

Abstract The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has a goal of detecting small
planets orbiting stars bright enough for mass determination via ground-based radial velocity …

One bottleneck for the exploitation of data from the Kepler mission for stellar astrophysics
and exoplanet research has been the lack of precise radii and evolutionary states for most of …

Abstract 'Hot super-Earths'(or 'mini-Neptunes') between one and four times Earth's size with
period shorter than 100 d orbit 30–50 per cent of Sun-like stars. Their orbital configuration …

We determine the orbital eccentricities of individual small Kepler planets, through a
combination of asteroseismology and transit light-curve analysis. We are able to constrain …

Planets with radii between that of the Earth and Neptune (hereafter referred to as 'sub-
Neptunes') are found in close-in orbits around more than half of all Sun-like stars,. However …

We use asteroseismic data from the Kepler satellite to determine fundamental stellar
properties of the 66 main-sequence targets observed for at least one full year by the mission …

The riddle posed by super-Earths (1–4R⊕, 2–20M⊕) is that they are not Jupiters: their core
masses are large enough to trigger runaway gas accretion, yet somehow super-Earths …