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astro-ph.EP2012★ 20 cited

HAT-P-42b and HAT-P-43b. Two Inflated Transiting Hot Jupiters from the HATNet Survey

I. Boisse, J. Hartman, G. Bakos +20

First identified from the HATNet wide-field photometric survey, these candidate transiting planets were then followed-up with a variety of photometric observations. Determining the…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 29 cited

Are Large Trojan Asteroids Salty? An Observational, Theoretical, and Experimental Study

Bin Yang, Paul Lucey, Timothy Glotch

With a total mass similar to the main asteroid belt, the Jovian Trojan asteroids are a major feature in the solar system. Based upon the thermal infrared spectra of the largest Tro…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 77 cited

A Search for Giant Planet Companions to T Tauri Stars

Christopher J. Crockett, Naved I. Mahmud, L. Prato +4

We present results from an ongoing multiwavelength radial velocity (RV) survey of the Taurus-Auriga star forming region as part of our effort to identify pre--main sequence giant p…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 70 cited

SOAP-T: A tool to study the light-curve and radial velocity of a system with a transiting planet and a rotating spotted star

M. Oshagh, I. Boisse, G. Boué +4

We present an improved version of SOAP (Boisse et al. 2012) named "SOAP-T", which can generate the radial velocity variations and light-curves for systems consisting of a rotating…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 74 cited

KELT-3b: A Hot Jupiter Transiting a V=9.8 Late-F Star

Joshua Pepper, Robert J. Siverd, Thomas G. Beatty +31

We report the discovery of KELT-3b, a moderately inflated transiting hot Jupiter with a mass of 1.477 (-0.067, +0.066) M_J, and radius of 1.345 +/- 0.072 R_J, with an orbital perio…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 15 cited

Adaptive Optics Observations of 3 micron Water Ice in Silhouette Disks in the Orion Nebula Cluster and M43

Hiroshi Terada, Alan T. Tokunaga, Tae-Soo Pyo +9

We present the near-infrared images and spectra of four silhouette disks in the Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC; M42) and M43 using the Subaru Adaptive Optics system. While d053-717 and…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 68 cited

The Structure of Pre-transitional Protoplanetary Disks I: Radiative Transfer Modeling of the Disk+Cavity in the PDS 70 system

Ruobing Dong, Jun Hashimoto, Roman Rafikov +49

Through detailed radiative transfer modeling, we present a disk+cavity model to simultaneously explain both the SED and Subaru H-band polarized light imaging for the pre-transition…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 20 cited

The TRENDS High-Contrast Imaging Survey. II. Direct Detection of the HD 8375 Tertiary

Justin R. Crepp, John Asher Johnson, Andrew W. Howard +6

We present the direct imaging detection of a faint tertiary companion to the single-lined spectroscopic binary HD 8375 AB. Initially noticed as an 53 m/s/yr Doppler acceleration by…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 26 cited

2011 HM102: Discovery of a High-Inclination L5 Neptune Trojan in the Search for a post-Pluto New Horizons Target

Alex H. Parker, Marc W. Buie, David J. Osip +20

We present the discovery of a long-term stable L5 (trailing) Neptune Trojan in data acquired to search for candidate Trans-Neptunian objects for the New Horizons spacecraft to fly…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 219 cited

Planet Hunters: A Transiting Circumbinary Planet in a Quadruple Star System

Megan E. Schwamb, Jerome A. Orosz, Joshua A. Carter +17

We report the discovery and confirmation of a transiting circumbinary planet (PH1b) around KIC 4862625, an eclipsing binary in the Kepler field. The planet was discovered by volunt…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 63 cited

Physical Parameters of Asteroids Estimated from the WISE 3 Band Data and NEOWISE Post-Cryogenic Survey

A. Mainzer, T. Grav, J. Masiero +7

Enhancements to the science data processing pipeline of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Explorer (WISE) mission, collectively known as NEOWISE, resulted in the detection of 158,000 m…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 52 cited

A Common Proper Motion Stellar Companion to HAT-P-7

Norio Narita, Yasuhiro H. Takahashi, Masayuki Kuzuhara +51

We report that HAT-P-7 has a common proper motion stellar companion. The companion is located at arcsec to the east and estimated as an M5.5V dwarf based on its colors. W…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 3 cited

Faint moving object detection, and the Low Signal-to-Noise recovery of Main Belt comet P/2008 R1 Garradd

Jan Kleyna, Karen J. Meech, Olivier Hainaut

We describe the recovery of faint Main Belt comet P/2008 R1 Garradd using several telescopes, culminating in a successful low recovery with the Gemini North telescope with GM…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 18 cited

The Nucleus of Main-Belt Comet 259P/Garradd

Eric MacLennan, Henry Hsieh

We present observations of the main-belt comet 259P/Garradd, previously known as P/2008 R1 (Garradd), obtained in 2011 and 2012 using the Gemini North Telescope on Mauna Kea in Haw…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 25 cited

WISE/NEOWISE Preliminary Analysis and Highlights of the 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko Near Nucleus Environs

James M. Bauer, Emily Kramer, A. K. Mainzer +15

On January 18-19 and June 28-29 of 2010, the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft imaged the Rosetta mission target, comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. We present a…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 17 cited

P/2010 A2 LINEAR II: dynamical dust modelling

Jan Kleyna, Olivier Hainaut, Karen Meech

P/2010 A2 is an object on an asteroidal orbit that was observed to have an extended tail or debris trail in January 2010. In this work, we fit the outburst of P/2010 A2 with a coni…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 54 cited

Revising the age for the Baptistina asteroid family using WISE/NEOWISE data

Joseph R. Masiero, A. K. Mainzer, T. Grav +2

We have used numerical routines to model the evolution of a simulated Baptistina family to constrain its age in light of new measurements of the diameters and albedos of family mem…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 32 cited

GJ 581 update: Additional Evidence for a Super-Earth in the Habitable Zone

Steven S. Vogt, R. Paul Butler, Nader Haghighipour

We present an analysis of the significantly expanded HARPS 2011 radial velocity data set for GJ 581 that was presented by Forveille et al. (2011). Our analysis reaches substantiall…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 32 cited

Keck/NIRC2 Imaging of the Warped, Asymmetric Debris Disk around HD 32297

Thayne Currie, Timothy J. Rodigas, John Debes +8

We present Keck/NIRC2 band high-contrast coronagraphic imaging of the luminous debris disk around the nearby, young A star HD 32297 resolved at a projected separation of $r…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 11 cited

The Lick-Carnegie Survey: A New Two-Planet System Around the Star HD 207832

Nader Haghighipour, R. Paul Butler, Eugenio J. Rivera +2

Keck/HIRES precision radial velocities of HD 207832 indicate the presence of two Jovian-type planetary companions in Keplerian orbits around this G star. The planets have minimum m…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 35 cited

Searching for the first Near-Earth Object family

Eva Schunova, Mikael Granvik, Robert Jedicke +3

We report on our search for genetically related asteroids amongst the near-Earth object (NEO) population - families of NEOs akin to the well known main belt asteroid families. We u…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 19 cited

Planets Around Low-Mass Stars (PALMS). II. A Low-Mass Companion to the Young M Dwarf GJ 3629 Separated By 0.2"

Brendan P. Bowler, Michael C. Liu, Evgenya L. Shkolnik +1

We present the discovery of a 0.2" companion to the young M dwarf GJ 3629 as part of our high contrast adaptive optics imaging search for giant planets around low-mass stars with t…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 300 cited

KELT-1b: A Strongly Irradiated, Highly Inflated, Short Period, 27 Jupiter-mass Companion Transiting a mid-F Star

Robert J. Siverd, Thomas G. Beatty, Joshua Pepper +29

We present the discovery of KELT-1b, the first transiting low-mass companion from the wide-field Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope-North (KELT-North) survey. The V=10.7 primary…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 5 cited

Activity of comet 103P/Hartley 2 at the time of the EPOXI mission fly-by

Gian Paolo Tozzi, Elena Mazzotta Epifani, Olivier R. Hainaut +8

Comet 103P/Hartley~2 was observed on Nov. 1-6, 2010, coinciding with the fly-by of the space probe EPOXI. The goal was to connect the large scale phenomena observed from the ground…