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 …

Hot Jupiters were the first exoplanets to be discovered around main sequence stars and
astonished us with their close-in orbits. They are a prime example of how exoplanets have …

Mass and radius are two of the most fundamental properties of an astronomical object.
Increasingly, new planet discoveries are being announced with a measurement of one of …

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 …

The basic geometry of the Solar System—the shapes, spacings, and orientations of the
planetary orbits—has long been a subject of fascination as well as inspiration for planet …

PLATO 2.0 has recently been selected for ESA's M3 launch opportunity (2022/24). Providing
accurate key planet parameters (radius, mass, density and age) in statistical numbers, it …

The detection of transiting exoplanets in time-series photometry requires the removal or
modeling of instrumental and stellar noise. While instrumental systematics can be reduced …

We present a study of 33 Kepler planet-candidate host stars for which asteroseismic
observations have sufficiently high signal-to-noise ratio to allow extraction of individual …

The Kepler mission has provided exquisite data to perform an ensemble asteroseismic
analysis on evolved stars. In this work we systematically characterize solar-like oscillations …

In this paper we search for distant massive companions to known transiting gas giant
planets that may have influenced the dynamical evolution of these systems. We present new …