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 eccentric Kozai-Lidov effect and its applications

S Naoz - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2016 - annualreviews.org
The hierarchical triple-body approximation has useful applications to a variety of systems
from planetary and stellar scales to supermassive black holes. In this approximation, the …

SOAR TESS survey. I. Sculpting of TESS planetary systems by stellar companions

C Ziegler, A Tokovinin, C Briceño, J Mang… - The Astronomical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is finding transiting planet
candidates around bright, nearby stars across the entire sky. The large field of view …

Imaging extrasolar giant planets

BP Bowler - Publications of the Astronomical Society of the …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
High-contrast adaptive optics (AO) imaging is a powerful technique to probe the
architectures of planetary systems from the outside-in and survey the atmospheres of self …

Searching the entirety of Kepler data. II. Occurrence rate estimates for FGK stars

M Kunimoto, JM Matthews - The Astronomical Journal, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We present exoplanet occurrence rates estimated with approximate Bayesian computation
for planets with radii between 0.5 and 16 R⊕ and orbital periods between 0.78 and 400 …

An excess of Jupiter analogs in super-earth systems

ML Bryan, HA Knutson, EJ Lee, BJ Fulton… - The Astronomical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We use radial velocity (RV) observations to search for long-period gas giant companions in
systems hosting inner super-Earth (1–4 R⊕, 1–10 M⊕) planets to constrain formation and …

The impact of stellar multiplicity on planetary systems. I. The ruinous influence of close binary companions

AL Kraus, MJ Ireland, D Huber, AW Mann… - The Astronomical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The dynamical influence of binary companions is expected to profoundly influence planetary
systems. However, the difficulty of identifying planets in binary systems has left the …

Statistics of long period gas giant planets in known planetary systems

ML Bryan, HA Knutson, AW Howard… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We conducted a Doppler survey at Keck combined with NIRC2 K-band adaptive optics (AO)
imaging to search for massive, long-period companions to 123 known exoplanet systems …

Unresolved stellar companions with Gaia DR2 astrometry

V Belokurov, Z Penoyre, S Oh, G Iorio… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
For stars with unresolved companions, motions of the centre of light and that of mass
decouple, causing a single-source astrometric model to perform poorly. We show that such …

Evidence for Hidden Nearby Companions to Hot Jupiters

DH Wu, M Rice, S Wang - The Astronomical Journal, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The first discovered extrasolar worlds—giant," hot Jupiter" planets on short-period orbits—
came as a surprise to solar system–centric models of planet formation, prompting the …