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astro-ph.EP2019★ 28 cited

Gravity-Darkening Analysis of Misaligned Hot Jupiter MASCARA-4 b

John P. Ahlers, Ethan Kruse, Knicole D. Colon +17

MASCARA-4 b is a hot Jupiter in a highly-misaligned orbit around a rapidly-rotating A3V star that was observed for 54 days by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (\tess). We…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 3 cited

Precise radial velocities of giant stars XIII. A second Jupiter orbiting in 4:3 resonance in the 7 CMa system

R. Luque, T. Trifonov, S. Reffert +8

We report the discovery of a second planet orbiting the K giant star 7 CMa based on 166 high-precision radial velocities obtained with Lick, HARPS, UCLES and SONG. The periodogram…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 57 cited

Giant planet occurrence within 0.2 AU of low-luminosity red giant branch stars with K2

Samuel K. Grunblatt, Daniel Huber, Eric Gaidos +3

Every Sun-like star will eventually evolve into a red giant, a transition which can profoundly affect the evolution of a surrounding planetary system. The timescale of dynamical pl…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 130 cited

A giant exoplanet orbiting a very low-mass star challenges planet formation models

J. C. Morales, A. J. Mustill, I. Ribas +179

Statistical analyses from exoplanet surveys around low-mass stars indicate that super-Earth and Neptune-mass planets are more frequent than gas giants around such stars, in agreeme…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 32 cited

The potassium absorption on HD189733b and HD209458b

Engin Keles, Matthias Mallonn, Carolina von Essen +9

In this work, we investigate the potassium excess absorption around 7699A of the exoplanets HD189733b and HD209458b. For this purpose, we used high spectral resolution transit obse…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 72 cited

Radial velocity confirmation of K2-100b: a young, highly irradiated, and low density transiting hot Neptune

O. Barragán, S. Aigrain, D. Kubyshkina +37

We present a detailed analysis of HARPS-N radial velocity observations of K2-100, a young and active star in the Praesepe cluster, which hosts a transiting planet with a period of…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 37 cited

Erosion of an exoplanetary atmosphere caused by stellar winds

J. M. Rodriguez-Mozos, A. Moya

We present a formalism for a first-order estimation of the magnetosphere radius of exoplanets orbiting stars in the range from 0.08 to 1.3 Mo. With this radius, we estimate the atm…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 10 cited

Sensitivity Analyses of Exoplanet Occurrence Rates from Kepler and Gaia

Megan Shabram, Natalie Batalha, Susan E. Thompson +11

We infer the number of planets-per-star as a function of orbital period and planet size using archival data products with updated stellar properties from the Data R…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 18 cited

It takes two planets in resonance to tango around K2-146

Kristine W. F. Lam, Judith Korth, Kento Masuda +51

K2-146 is a cool, 0.358 M_sun dwarf that was found to host a mini-Neptune with a 2.67-days period. The planet exhibited strong transit timing variations (TTVs) of greater than 30 m…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 5 cited

Kepler Object of Interest Network III. Kepler-82f: A new non-transiting $21 M_\bigoplus$ planet from photodynamical modelling

J. Freudenthal, C. von Essen, A. Ofir +13

Context. The Kepler Object of Interest Network (KOINet) is a multi-site network of telescopes around the globe organised for follow-up observations of transiting planet candidate K…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 40 cited

Transit timing variations in the WASP-4 planetary system

John Southworth, M. Dominik, U. G. Jorgensen +25

Transits in the planetary system WASP-4 were recently found to occur 80s earlier than expected in observations from the TESS satellite. We present 22 new times of mid-transit that…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 10 cited

Greening of the Brown Dwarf Desert. EPIC 212036875 b -- a 51 M object in a 5 day orbit around an F7 V star

Carina M. Persson, Szilárd Csizmadia, Alexander J. Mustill +55

Our aim is to investigate the nature and formation of brown dwarfs by adding a new well-characterised object to the small sample of less than 20 transiting brown dwarfs. One brown…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 6 cited

An analysis of binary microlensing event OGLE-2015-BLG-0060

Y. Tsapras, A. Cassan, C. Ranc +83

We present the analysis of stellar binary microlensing event OGLE-2015-BLG-0060 based on observations obtained from 13 different telescopes. Intensive coverage of the anomalous par…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 13 cited

MASCARA-3b: A hot Jupiter transiting a bright F7 star in an aligned orbit

M. Hjorth, S. Albrecht, G. J. J. Talens +12

We report the discovery of MASCARA-3b, a hot Jupiter orbiting its bright (V = 8.33) late F-type host every days in an almost circular orbit ($e = 0.050^{+0.020…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 16 cited

Indications for transit timing variations in the exo-Neptune HAT-P-26b

C. von Essen, S. Wedemeyer, M. S. Sosa +8

From its discovery, the low density transiting Neptune HAT-P-26b showed a 2.1-sigma detection drift in its spectroscopic data, while photometric data showed a weak curvature in the…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 25 cited

First Light of Engineered Diffusers at the Nordic Optical Telescope Reveal Time Variability in the Optical Eclipse Depth of WASP-12b

C. von Essen, G. Stefansson, M. Mallonn +6

We present the characterization of two engineered diffusers mounted on the 2.5 meter Nordic Optical Telescope, located at Roque de Los Muchachos, Spain. To assess the reliability a…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 41 cited

Low albedos of hot to ultra-hot Jupiters in the optical to near-infrared transition regime

M. Mallonn, J. Köhler, X. Alexoudi +4

The depth of a secondary eclipse contains information of both the thermally emitted light component of a hot Jupiter and the reflected light component. If the dayside atmosphere of…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 27 cited

Physical properties and transmission spectrum of the WASP-74 planetary system from multi-band photometry

L. Mancini, J. Southworth, P. Molliere +32

We present broad-band photometry of eleven planetary transits of the hot Jupiter WASP-74b, using three medium-class telescopes and employing the telescope-defocussing technique. Mo…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 34 cited

The Curious Case of KOI 4: Confirming Kepler's First Exoplanet

Ashley Chontos, Daniel Huber, David W. Latham +13

The discovery of thousands of planetary systems by Kepler has demonstrated that planets are ubiquitous. However, a major challenge has been the confirmation of Kepler planet candid…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 49 cited

The Transiting Multi-planet System HD15337: Two Nearly Equal-mass Planets Straddling the Radius Gap

Davide Gandolfi, Luca Fossati, John H. Livingston +53

We report the discovery of a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune transiting the star HD 15337 (TOI-402, TIC 120896927), a bright (V=9) K1 dwarf observed by the Transiting Exoplanet Surve…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 37 cited

K2-290: a warm Jupiter and a mini-Neptune in a triple-star system

M. Hjorth, A. B. Justesen, T. Hirano +41

We report the discovery of two transiting planets orbiting K2-290 (EPIC 249624646), a bright (V=11.11) late F-type star residing in a triple-star system. It was observed during Cam…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 118 cited

A giant impact as the likely origin of different twins in the Kepler-107 exoplanet system

Aldo S. Bonomo, Li Zeng, Mario Damasso +49

Measures of exoplanet bulk densities indicate that small exoplanets with radius less than 3 Earth radii () range from low-density sub-Neptunes containing volatile element…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 33 cited

Ephemeris refinement of 21 Hot Jupiter exoplanets with high timing uncertainties

M. Mallonn, C. von Essen, E. Herrero +32

Transit events of extrasolar planets offer a wealth of information for planetary characterization. However, for many known targets, the uncertainty of their predicted transit windo…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 95 cited

A Hot Saturn Orbiting An Oscillating Late Subgiant Discovered by TESS

Daniel Huber, William J. Chaplin, Ashley Chontos +139

We present the discovery of TOI-197.01, the first transiting planet identified by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) for which asteroseismology of the host star is po…