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astro-ph.EP2013★ 112 cited

The Ginger-shaped Asteroid 4179 Toutatis: New Observations from a Successful Flyby of Chang'e-2

Jiangchuan Huang, Jianghui Ji, Peijian Ye +26

On 13 December 2012, Chang'e-2 conducted a successful flyby of the near-Earth asteroid 4179 Toutatis at a closest distance of 770 120 meters from the asteroid's surface. The…

astro-ph.EP2013★ 45 cited

Degeneracies in triple gravitational microlensing

Ying-Yi Song, Shude Mao, Jin H. An

We study microlensing light curves by a triple lens, in particular, by a primary star plus two planets. A four-fold degeneracy is confirmed in the light curves, similar to the clos…

astro-ph.EP2013★ 97 cited

On the Metallicities of Kepler Stars

Subo Dong, Zheng Zheng, Zhaohuan Zhu +6

We use 12000 stars from Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) spectroscopic data to show that the metallicities of Kepler field stars as given in the K…

astro-ph.EP2013★ 188 cited

High Stellar FUV/NUV Ratio and Oxygen Contents in the Atmospheres of Potentially Habitable Planets

Feng Tian, Kevin France, Jeffrey L. Linsky +2

Recent observations of several planet-hosting M dwarfs show that most have FUV/NUV flux ratios 1000 times greater than that of the Sun. Here we show that the atmospheric oxygen con…

astro-ph.EP2013★ 13 cited

Conservation of Total Escape from Hydrodynamic Planetary Atmospheres

F. Tian

Atmosphere escape is one key process controlling the evolution of planets. However, estimating the escape rate in any detail is difficult because there are many physical processes…

astro-ph.EP2013★ 35 cited

Growth of grains in Brown Dwarf disks

Farzana Meru, Marina Galvagni, Christoph Olczak

We perform coagulation and fragmentation simulations using the new physically-motivated model by Garaud et al. (2013) to determine growth locally in brown dwarf disks. We show that…

astro-ph.EP2013★ 33 cited

High-precision photometry by telescope defocussing. V. WASP-15 and WASP-16

J. Southworth, L. Mancini, P. Browne +40

We present new photometric observations of WASP-15 and WASP-16, two transiting extrasolar planetary systems with measured orbital obliquities but without photometric follow-up sinc…

astro-ph.EP2013★ 99 cited

Physical properties, transmission and emission spectra of the WASP-19 planetary system from multi-colour photometry

L. Mancini, S. Ciceri, G. Chen +43

We present new ground-based, multi-colour, broad-band photometric measurements of the physical parameters, transmission and emission spectra of the transiting extrasolar planet WAS…

astro-ph.EP2013★ 43 cited

Ground-based detections of thermal emission from the dense hot Jupiter WASP-43b in H and Ks-bands

Wei Wang, Roy van Boekel, Nikku Madhusudhan +3

We report new detections of thermal emission from the transiting hot Jupiter WASP-43b in the H and Ks-bands as observed at secondary eclipses. The observations were made with the W…

astro-ph.EP2013★ 52 cited

Planetary Companions to Three Evolved Intermediate-Mass Stars: HD 2952, HD 120084, and omega Serpentis

Bun'ei Sato, Masashi Omiya, Hiroki Harakawa +9

We report the detections of planetary companions orbiting around three evolved intermediate-mass stars from precise radial velocity measurements at Okayama Astrophysical Observator…

astro-ph.EP2013★ 37 cited

A Giant Planet beyond the Snow Line in Microlensing Event OGLE-2011-BLG-0251

N. Kains, R. Street, J. -Y. Choi +128

We present the analysis of the gravitational microlensing event OGLE-2011-BLG-0251. This anomalous event was observed by several survey and follow-up collaborations conducting micr…

astro-ph.EP2013★ 54 cited

Escaping particle fluxes in the atmospheres of close-in exoplanets. ii. reduced mass loss rates and anisotropic winds

J. H. Guo

We constructed a multi-fluid two-dimensional hydrodynamic model with detailed radiative transfer to depict the escape of particles. We found that the tidal forces supply significan…

astro-ph.EP2013★ 3 cited

Hybrid methods in planetesimal dynamics: Formation of protoplanetary systems and the mill condition

Pau Amaro-Seoane, Patrick Glaschke, Rainer Spurzem

The formation and evolution of protoplanetary discs remains a challenge from both a theoretical and numerical standpoint. In this work we first perform a series of tests of our new…