Publications (10)
The Heavy Element Masses of Extrasolar Giant Planets, Revealed
Neil Miller, Jonathan J. Fortney
We investigate a population of transiting planets that receive relatively modest stellar insolation, indicating equilibrium temperatures K, and for which the heating mecha…
Kepler 18-b, c, and d: A System Of Three Planets Confirmed by Transit Timing Variations, Lightcurve Validation, Spitzer Photometry and Radial Velocity Measurements
William D. Cochran, Daniel C. Fabrycky, Guillermo Torres +51
We report the detection of three transiting planets around a Sunlike star, which we designate Kepler-18. The transit signals were detected in photometric data from the Kepler satel…
Discovery and Atmospheric Characterization of Giant Planet Kepler-12b: An Inflated Radius Outlier
Jonathan J. Fortney, Brice-Olivier Demory, Jean-Michel Desert +34
We report the discovery of planet Kepler-12b (KOI-20), which at 1.695\pm0.030 RJ is among the handful of planets with super-inflated radii above 1.65 RJ. Orbiting its slightly evol…
A practical model of convective dynamics for stellar evolution calculations
Neil Miller, Pascale Garaud
Turbulent motions in the interior of a star play an important role in its evolution, since they transport chemical species, thermal energy and angular momentum. Our overall goal is…
Dynamical Evidence for Environmental Evolution of Intermediate Redshift Spiral Galaxies
Sean M. Moran, Neil Miller, Tommaso Treu +2
Combining resolved optical spectroscopy with panoramic HST imaging, we study the dynamical properties of spiral galaxies as a function of position across two intermediate redshift…
WASP-12b as a prolate, inflated and disrupting planet from tidal dissipation
Shu-lin Li, Neil Miller, Douglas N. C. Lin +1
The class of exotic Jupiter-mass planets that orbit very close to their parent stars were not explicitly expected before their discovery. The recently found transiting planet WASP-…
The Mass of KOI-94d and a Relation for Planet Radius, Mass, and Incident Flux
Lauren M. Weiss, Geoffrey W. Marcy, Jason F. Rowe +15
We measure the mass of a modestly irradiated giant planet, KOI-94d. We wish to determine whether this planet, which is in a 22-day orbit and receives 2700 times as much incident fl…
A Closely-Packed System of Low-Mass, Low-Density Planets Transiting Kepler-11
Jack J. Lissauer, Daniel C. Fabrycky, Eric B. Ford +36
When an extrasolar planet passes in front of its star (transits), its radius can be measured from the decrease in starlight and its orbital period from the time between transits. M…
A model of the entropy flux and Reynolds stress in turbulent convection
Pascale Garaud, Gordon I. Ogilvie, Neil Miller +1
We propose a closure model for the transport of entropy and momentum in astrophysical turbulence, intended for application to rotating stellar convective regions. Our closure model…
The Roles of Tidal Evolution and Evaporative Mass Loss in the Origin of CoRoT-7 b
Brian Jackson, Neil Miller, Rory Barnes +3
CoRoT-7 b is the first confirmed rocky exoplanet, but, with an orbital semi-major axis of 0.0172 AU, its origins may be unlike any rocky planet in our solar system. In this study,…