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Millimeter Emission Structure in the first ALMA Image of the AU Mic Debris Disk
Meredith A. MacGregor, David J. Wilner, Katherine A. Rosenfeld +9
We present 1.3 millimeter ALMA Cycle 0 observations of the edge-on debris disk around the nearby, ~10 Myr-old, M-type star AU Mic. These observations obtain 0.6 arcsec (6 AU) resol…
A DEBRIS Disk Around The Planet Hosting M-star GJ581 Spatially Resolved with Herschel
J. -F. Lestrade, B. C. Matthews, B. Sibthorpe +17
Debris disks have been found primarily around intermediate and solar mass stars (spectral types A-K) but rarely around low mass M-type stars. We have spatially resolved a debris di…
Chemical consequences of the C/O ratio on hot Jupiters: Examples from WASP-12b,CoRoT-2b, XO-1b, and HD 189733b
J. I. Moses, N. Madhusudhan, C. Visscher +1
Motivated by recent spectroscopic evidence for carbon-rich atmospheres on some transiting exoplanets, we investigate the influence of the C/O ratio on the chemistry, composition, a…
Of Horseshoes and Heliotropes: Dynamics of Dust in the Encke Gap
M. M. Hedman, J. A. Burns, D. P. Hamilton +1
The Encke Gap is a 320-km-wide opening in Saturn's outer A ring that contains the orbit of the small moon Pan and an array of dusty features composed of particles less than 100 mic…
A 3D general circulation model for Pluto and Triton with fixed volatile abundance and simplified surface forcing
Angela Zalucha, Timothy Michaels
We present a 3D general circulation model of Pluto and Triton's atmospheres, which uses radiative-conductive-convective forcing. In both the Pluto and Triton models, an easterly (p…
Analysis of the rotation period of asteroids (1865) Cerberus, (2100) Ra-Shalom, and (3103) Eger - search for the YORP effect
J. Durech, D. Vokrouhlicky, A. R. Baransky +28
The spin state of small asteroids can change on a long timescale by the Yarkovsky-O'Keefe-Radzievskii-Paddack (YORP) effect, the net torque that arises from anisotropically scatter…
Resolved Debris Discs Around A Stars in the Herschel DEBRIS Survey
Mark Booth, Grant Kennedy, Bruce Sibthorpe +12
The majority of debris discs discovered so far have only been detected through infrared excess emission above stellar photospheres. While disc properties can be inferred from unres…
Transit Timing Observations from Kepler: VII. Confirmation of 27 planets in 13 multiplanet systems via Transit Timing Variations and orbital stability
Jason H. Steffen, Daniel C. Fabrycky, Eric Agol +15
We confirm 27 planets in 13 planetary systems by showing the existence of statistically significant anti-correlated transit timing variations (TTVs), which demonstrates that the pl…
The Derivation, Properties and Value of Kepler's Combined Differential Photometric Precision
Jessie L. Christiansen, Jon M. Jenkins, Thomas S. Barclay +11
The Kepler Mission is searching for Earth-size planets orbiting solar-like stars by simultaneously observing >160,000 stars to detect sequences of transit events in the photometric…
Three-dimensional atmospheric circulation of hot Jupiters on highly eccentric orbits
Tiffany Kataria, Adam P. Showman, Nikole K. Lewis +3
Of the over 800 exoplanets detected to date, over half are on non-circular orbits, with eccentricities as high as 0.93. Such orbits lead to time-variable stellar heating, which has…
Alignment of the stellar spin with the orbits of a three-planet system
Roberto Sanchis-Ojeda, Daniel C. Fabrycky, Josh N. Winn +16
The Sun's equator and the planets' orbital planes are nearly aligned, which is presumably a consequence of their formation from a single spinning gaseous disk. For exoplanetary sys…
Outward Migration of Jupiter and Saturn in Evolved Gaseous Disks
Gennaro D'Angelo, Francesco Marzari
The outward migration of a pair of resonant-orbit planets, driven by tidal interactions with a gas-dominated disk, is studied in the context of evolved solar nebula models. The pla…
Kepler-36: A Pair of Planets with Neighboring Orbits and Dissimilar Densities
Joshua A. Carter, Eric Agol, William J. Chaplin +43
In the Solar system the planets' compositions vary with orbital distance, with rocky planets in close orbits and lower-density gas giants in wider orbits. The detection of close-in…
Herschel imaging of 61 Vir: implications for the prevalence of debris in low-mass planetary systems
M. C. Wyatt, G. Kennedy, B. Sibthorpe +15
This paper describes Herschel observations of the nearby (8.5pc) G5V multi-exoplanet host star 61 Vir at 70-500micron carried out by the DEBRIS survey. These reveal emission that i…
Masses, Radii, and Cloud Properties of the HR 8799 Planets
Mark S. Marley, Didier Saumon, Michael Cushing +3
The near-infrared colors of the planets directly imaged around the A star HR 8799 are much redder than most field brown dwarfs of the same effective temperature. Previous theoretic…
Remnant gas in evolved circumstellar disks: Herschel PACS observations of 10-100 Myr old disk systems
Vincent C. Geers, Uma Gorti, Michael R. Meyer +3
We present Herschel PACS spectroscopy of the [OI] 63 micron gas-line for three circumstellar disk systems showing signs of significant disk evolution and/or planet formation: HR 87…
Transit Detection in the MEarth Survey of Nearby M Dwarfs: Bridging the Clean-First, Search-Later Divide
Zachory K. Berta, Jonathan Irwin, David Charbonneau +2
In the effort to characterize the masses, radii, and atmospheres of potentially habitable exoplanets, there is an urgent need to find examples of such planets transiting nearby M d…
Long-Term Stability of Horseshoe Orbits
Matija Ćuk, Douglas P. Hamilton, Matthew J. Holman
Unlike Trojans, horseshoe coorbitals are not generally considered to be long-term stable (Dermott and Murray, 1981; Murray and Dermott, 1999). As the lifetime of Earth's and Venus'…
Free-free Emission and Radio Recombination Lines from Photoevaporating Disks
I. Pascucci, U. Gorti, D. Hollenbach
Recent infrared observations have demonstrated that photoevaporation driven by high-energy photons from the central star contributes to the dispersal of protoplanetary disks. Here,…
Constraining multiple systems with GAIA
L. Beauvalet, V. Lainey, J. -E. Arlot +3
GAIA will provide observations of some multiple asteroid and dwarf systems. These observations are a way to determine and improve the quantification of dynamical parameters, such a…
The Transiting Circumbinary Planets Kepler-34 and Kepler-35
William F. Welsh, Jerome A. Orosz, Joshua A. Carter +43
Most Sun-like stars in the Galaxy reside in gravitationally-bound pairs of stars called "binary stars". While long anticipated, the existence of a "circumbinary planet" orbiting su…
An investigation of a super-Earth exoplanet with a greenhouse-gas atmosphere using a general circulation model
Angela M. Zalucha, Timothy I. Michaels, Nikku Madhusudhan
We use the Massachusetts Institute of Technology general circulation model (GCM) dynamical core, in conjunction with a Newtonian relaxation scheme that relaxes to a gray, analytica…
Planetary Candidates Observed by Kepler, III: Analysis of the First 16 Months of Data
Natalie M. Batalha, Jason F. Rowe, Stephen T. Bryson +69
New transiting planet candidates are identified in sixteen months (May 2009 - September 2010) of data from the Kepler spacecraft. Nearly five thousand periodic transit-like signals…
Architecture of Kepler's Multi-transiting Systems: II. New investigations with twice as many candidates
Daniel C. Fabrycky, Jack J. Lissauer, Darin Ragozzine +16
We report on the orbital architectures of Kepler systems having multiple planet candidates identified in the analysis of data from the first six quarters of Kepler data and reporte…