Exoplanet statistics and theoretical implications

W Zhu, S Dong - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2021 - annualreviews.org
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 …

The orbital eccentricity of small planet systems

V Van Eylen, S Albrecht, X Huang… - The Astronomical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

Evidence for a high mutual inclination between the cold Jupiter and transiting super Earth orbiting π Men

JW Xuan, MC Wyatt - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT π Men hosts a transiting super Earth (P≈ 6.27 d, m≈ 4.82 M⊕, R≈ 2.04 R⊕)
discovered by TESS and a cold Jupiter (P≈ 2093 d, m sin I≈ 10.02 M Jup, e≈ 0.64) …

A disk-driven resonance as the origin of high inclinations of close-in planets

C Petrovich, DJ Muñoz, KM Kratter… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The recent characterization of transiting close-in planets has revealed an intriguing
population of sub-Neptunes with highly tilted and even polar orbits relative to their host star's …

Transit timing and duration variations for the discovery and characterization of exoplanets

E Agol, D Fabrycky - arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.09849, 2017 - arxiv.org
Transiting exoplanets in multi-planet systems have non-Keplerian orbits which can cause
the times and durations of transits to vary. The theory and observations of transit timing …

Evidence for a nondichotomous solution to the Kepler dichotomy: Mutual inclinations of Kepler planetary systems from transit duration variations

SC Millholland, MY He, EB Ford… - The Astronomical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Early analyses of exoplanet statistics from the Kepler mission revealed that a model
population of multiplanet systems with low mutual inclinations (∼ 1–2) adequately describes …

A significant mutual inclination between the planets within the π Mensae system

RJ De Rosa, R Dawson, EL Nielsen - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2020 - aanda.org
Context. Measuring the geometry of multi-planet extrasolar systems can provide insight into
their dynamical history and the processes of planetary formation. These types of …

The effects of external planets on inner systems: multiplicities, inclinations and pathways to eccentric warm Jupiters

AJ Mustill, MB Davies… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
We study how close-in systems such as those detected by Kepler are affected by the
dynamics of bodies in the outer system. We consider two scenarios: outer systems of giant …

3D orbital architecture of a dwarf binary system and its planetary companion

S Curiel, GN Ortiz-León, AJ Mioduszewski… - The Astronomical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Because of the diversity of stellar masses and orbital sizes of binary systems and the
complex interaction between star–star, star–planet, and planet–planet, it has been difficult to …

Kepler-411: a four-planet system with an active host star

L Sun, P Ioannidis, S Gu, J Schmitt, X Wang… - Astronomy & …, 2019 - aanda.org
We present a detailed characterization of the Kepler-411 system (KOI 1781). This system
was previously known to host two transiting planets: one with a period of 3 days (R= 2.4 R⊕; …