Publications (6)
Wide Binary Orbits are Preferentially Aligned with the Orbits of Small Planets, but Probably Not Hot Jupiters
Sam Christian, Andrew Vanderburg, Juliette Becker +28
Studying the relative orientations of the orbits of exoplanets and wide-orbiting binary companions (semimajor axis greater than 100 AU) can shed light on how planets form and evolv…
Aspects of Propagator Sparsening in Lattice QCD
Sam Christian, William Detmold
In lattice field theory, field sparsening aims to replace quantum fields, or objects constructed from them, with approximations that preserve the appropriate symmetries and maintai…
TESS Delivers Five New Hot Giant Planets Orbiting Bright Stars from the Full Frame Images
Joseph E. Rodriguez, Samuel N. Quinn, George Zhou +115
We present the discovery and characterization of five hot and warm Jupiters -- TOI-628 b (TIC 281408474; HD 288842), TOI-640 b (TIC 147977348), TOI-1333 b (TIC 395171208, BD+47 352…
Aligning Planet-Hosting Binaries via Dissipative Precession in Circumstellar Disks
Konstantin Gerbig, Malena Rice, J. J. Zanazzi +2
Recent observations have demonstrated that some subset of even moderately wide-separation planet-hosting binaries are preferentially configured such that planetary and binary orbit…
A Possible Alignment Between the Orbits of Planetary Systems and their Visual Binary Companions
Sam Christian, Andrew Vanderburg, Juliette Becker +111
Astronomers do not have a complete picture of the effects of wide-binary companions (semimajor axes greater than 100 AU) on the formation and evolution of exoplanets. We investigat…
Re-Examining the Evidence of the Hercules-Corona-Borealis Great Wall
Sam Christian
In the Î-CDM paradigm of cosmology, anisotropies larger than 260 Mpc shouldn't exist. However, the existence of the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall (HCB) is purported to chall…