Showing 2016 · astro-ph.EPShow all

9 papers · 2 filters

astro-ph.EP2016★ 29 cited

Planetesimal clearing and size-dependent asteroid retention by secular resonance sweeping during the depletion of the solar nebula

Xiaochen Zheng, Douglas N. C. Lin, M. B. N. Kouwenhoven

The distribution of heavy elements is anomalously low in the asteroid main belt region compared with elsewhere in the solar system. Observational surveys also indicate a deficit in…

astro-ph.EP2016★ 53 cited

The Solar Twin Planet Search. V. Close-in, low-mass planet candidates and evidence of planet accretion in the solar twin HIP 68468

Jorge Melendez, Megan Bedell, Jacob L. Bean +14

[Methods]. We obtained high-precision radial velocities with HARPS on the ESO 3.6 m telescope and determined precise stellar elemental abundances (~0.01 dex) using MIKE spectra on…

astro-ph.EP2016★ 243 cited

Exoplanet Orbital Eccentricities Derived From LAMOST-Kepler Analysis

Ji-Wei Xie, Subo Dong, Zhaohuan Zhu +14

The nearly circular (mean eccentricity <e>~0.06) and coplanar (mean mutual inclination <i>~3 deg) orbits of the Solar System planets motivated Kant and Laplace to put forth the hyp…

astro-ph.EP2016★ 26 cited

First simultaneous microlensing observations by two space telescopes: & reveal a brown dwarf in event OGLE-2015-BLG-1319

Y. Shvartzvald, Z. Li, A. Udalski +90

Simultaneous observations of microlensing events from multiple locations allow for the breaking of degeneracies between the physical properties of the lensing system, specifically…

astro-ph.EP2016★ 52 cited

Free-floating planets from core accretion theory: microlensing predictions

Sizheng Ma, Shude Mao, Shigeru Ida +2

We calculate the microlensing event rate and typical time-scales for the free-floating planet (FFP) population that is predicted by the core accretion theory of planet formation. T…

astro-ph.EP2016★ 20 cited

Migration and Growth of Protoplanetary Embryos III: Mass and Metallicity Dependence for FGKM main-sequence stars

Beibei Liu, Xiaojia Zhang, Doug Lin

Radial velocity and transit surveys have found that the fraction of FGKM stars with close-in super-Earth(s) () is around , independent of the stellar mass $M…

astro-ph.EP2016★ 18 cited

YETI observations of the young transiting planet candidate CVSO 30 b

St. Raetz, T. O. B. Schmidt, S. Czesla +32

CVSO 30 is a unique young low-mass system, because, for the first time, a close-in transiting and a wide directly imaged planet candidates are found around a common host star. The…

astro-ph.EP2016★ 71 cited

Four new planets around giant stars and the mass-metallicity correlation of planet-hosting stars

M. I. Jones, J. S. Jenkins, R. Brahm +8

CONTEXT. Exoplanet searches have demonstrated that giant planets are preferentially found around metal-rich stars and that their fraction increases with the stellar mass. AIMS. Dur…

astro-ph.EP2016★ 20 cited

A Pair of Giant Planets around the Evolved Intermediate-Mass Star HD 47366: Multiple Circular Orbits or a Mutually Retrograde Configuration

Bun'ei Sato, Liang Wang, Yu-Juan Liu +19

We report the detection of a double planetary system around the evolved intermediate-mass star HD 47366 from precise radial-velocity measurements at Okayama Astrophysical Observato…