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astro-ph.EP2018★ 34 cited

Detectability of shape deformation in short-period exoplanets

B. Akinsanmi, S. C. C. Barros, N. C. Santos +4

Short-period planets suffer from extreme tidal forces from their parent stars causing them to deform and attain non-spherical shapes. The planet shapes, modeled here as triaxial el…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 64 cited

Bright Opportunities for Atmospheric Characterization of Small Planets: Masses and Radii of K2-3 b, c, d and GJ3470 b from Radial Velocity Measurements and Spitzer Transits

Molly R. Kosiarek, Ian J. M. Crossfield, Kevin K. Hardegree-Ullman +36

We report improved masses, radii, and densities for four planets in two bright M-dwarf systems, K2-3 and GJ3470, derived from a combination of new radial velocity and transit obser…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 44 cited

HD219666b: A hot-Neptune from TESS Sector 1

M. Esposito, D. J. Armstrong, D. Gandolfi +73

We report on the confirmation and mass determination of a transiting planet orbiting the old and inactive G7 dwarf star HD219666 (Mstar = 0.92 +/- 0.03 MSun, Rstar = 1.03 +/- 0.03…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 8 cited

SOPHIE velocimetry of Kepler transit candidates. XIX. The transiting temperate giant planet KOI-3680b

G. Hebrard, A. S. Bonomo, R. F. Diaz +15

Whereas thousands of transiting giant exoplanets are known today, only a few are well characterized with long orbital periods. Here we present KOI-3680b, a new planet in this categ…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 15 cited

The GAPS Programme with HARPS-N at TNG XVIII. Two new giant planets around the metal-poor stars HD 220197 and HD 233832

D. Barbato, A. Sozzetti, K. Biazzo +40

Statistical studies of exoplanets have shown that giant planets are more commonly hosted by metal-rich dwarf stars than low-metallicity ones, while such a correlation is not eviden…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 67 cited

Machine-learning Approaches to Exoplanet Transit Detection and Candidate Validation in Wide-field Ground-based Surveys

N. Schanche, A. Collier Cameron, G. Hébrard +23

Since the start of the Wide Angle Search for Planets (WASP) program, more than 160 transiting exoplanets have been discovered in the WASP data. In the past, possible transit-like e…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 20 cited

Predicted Yield of Transits of Known Radial Velocity Exoplanets from the TESS Primary and Extended Missions

Paul A. Dalba, Stephen R. Kane, Thomas Barclay +5

Radial velocity (RV) surveys have detected hundreds of exoplanets through their gravitational interactions with their host stars. Some will be transiting, but most lack sufficient…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 4 cited

K2 Targets Observed with SPHERE/VLT: An M4-7 Dwarf Companion Resolved around EPIC 206011496

Roxanne Ligi, Olivier Demangeon, Susana Barros +6

The quest to discover exoplanets is one of the most important missions in astrophysics, and is widely performed using the transit method, which allows for the detection of exoplane…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 93 cited

SWEET-Cat updated. New homogenous spectroscopic parameters

S. G. Sousa, V. Adibekyan, E. Delgado-Mena +14

Context: Exoplanets have now been proven to be very common. The number of its detections continues to grow following the development of better instruments and missions. One key ste…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 76 cited

Confirmation of the radial velocity super-Earth K2-18c with HARPS and CARMENES

R. Cloutier, N. Astudillo-Defru, R. Doyon +13

In an earlier campaign to characterize the mass of the transiting temperate super-Earth K2-18b with HARPS, a second, non-transiting planet was posited to exist in the system at $\s…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 40 cited

Extrasolar planets and brown dwarfs around AF-type stars. X.The SOPHIE northern sample. Combining the SOPHIE and HARPS surveys to compute the close giant planet mass-period distribution around AF-type stars

S. Borgniet, A. -M. Lagrange, N. Meunier +31

The impact of the stellar mass on the giant planet properties is still to be fully understood. Main-Sequence (MS) stars more massive than the Sun remain relatively unexplored in ra…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 16 cited

K2-263b: A 50-day period sub-Neptune with a mass measurement using HARPS-N

A. Mortier, A. S. Bonomo, V. M. Rajpaul +32

This paper reports on the validation and mass measurement of K2-263b, a sub-Neptune orbiting a quiet G9V star. Using K2 data from campaigns C5 and C16, we find this planet to have…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 24 cited

K2-265 b: A Transiting Rocky Super-Earth

K. W. F. Lam, A. Santerne, S. G. Sousa +34

We report the discovery of the super-Earth K2-265 b detected with K2 photometry. The planet orbits a bright (V_mag = 11.1) star of spectral type G8V with a period of 2.37 days. We…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 31 cited

Activity induced variation in spin-orbit angles as derived from Rossiter-McLaughlin measurements

M. Oshagh, A. H. M. J. Triaud, A. Burdanov +17

One of the most powerful methods used to estimate sky-projected spin-orbit angles of exoplanetary systems is through a spectroscopic transit observation known as the Rossiter-McLau…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 103 cited

A second terrestrial planet orbiting the nearby M dwarf LHS 1140

Kristo Ment, Jason A. Dittmann, Nicola Astudillo-Defru +27

LHS 1140 is a nearby mid-M dwarf known to host a temperate rocky super-Earth (LHS 1140 b) on a 24.737-day orbit. Based on photometric observations by MEarth and Spitzer as well as…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 10 cited

Planets around evolved intermediate-mass stars in open clusters II. Are there really planets around IC4651No9122, NGC2423No3 and NGC4349No127?

E. Delgado Mena, C. Lovis, N. C. Santos +10

(shorter version)The aim of this work is to search for planets around intermediate-mass stars in open clusters by using RV data obtained with HARPS from an extensive survey with mo…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 14 cited

A 4.6-year period brown-dwarf companion interacting with the hot-Jupiter CoRoT-20 b

J. Rey, F. Bouchy, M. Stalport +18

We report the discovery of an additional substellar companion in the CoRoT-20 system based on six years of HARPS and SOPHIE radial velocity follow-up. CoRoT-20 c has a minimum mass…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 30 cited

The TROY project: II. Multi-technique constraints on exotrojans in nine planetary systems

J. Lillo-Box, A. Leleu, H. Parviainen +10

Co-orbital bodies are the byproduct of planet formation and evolution, as we know from the Solar System. Although planet-size co-orbitals do not exists in our planetary system, dyn…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 33 cited

The SOPHIE search for northern extrasolar planets XIII. Two planets around M-dwarfs Gl617A and Gl96

M. J. Hobson, R. F. Díaz, X. Delfosse +32

We report the detection of two exoplanets and a further tentative candidate around the M-dwarf stars Gl96 and Gl617A, based on radial velocity measurements obtained with the SOPHIE…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 19 cited

Chemical abundances of neutron capture elements in exoplanet-hosting stars

E. Delgado Mena, V. Zh. Adibekyan, P. Figueira +7

To understand the formation and composition of planetary systems it is important to study their host stars composition since both are formed in the same stellar nebula. In this wor…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 76 cited

Radial velocity follow-up of GJ1132 with HARPS. A precise mass for planet 'b' and the discovery of a second planet

X. Bonfils, J. -M. Almenara, R. Cloutier +19

GJ1132 is a nearby red dwarf known to host a transiting Earth-size planet. After its initial detection, we pursued an intense follow-up with the HARPS velocimeter. We now confirm t…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 64 cited

Quantifying the Bayesian Evidence for a Planet in Radial Velocity Data

Benjamin E. Nelson, Eric B. Ford, Johannes Buchner +5

We present results from a data challenge posed to the radial velocity (RV) community: namely, to quantify the Bayesian "evidence" for n={0,1,2,3} planets in a set of synthetically…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 112 cited

An Earth-sized exoplanet with a Mercury-like composition

A. Santerne, B. Brugger, D. J. Armstrong +43

The Earth, Venus, Mars, and some extrasolar terrestrial planets have a mass and radius that is consistent with a mass fraction of about 30% metallic core and 70% silicate mantle. A…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 11 cited

Recovering the colour-dependent albedo of exoplanets with high-resolution spectroscopy: from ESPRESSO to the ELT

J. H. C. Martins, P. Figueira, N. C. Santos +5

The characterization of planetary atmospheres is a daunting task, pushing current observing facilities to their limits. The next generation of high-resolution spectrographs mounted…