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The Effect of Adiabatic Index on Radius Evolution and the Mass Loss
Arick Collander, Eve J. Lee
Models that track the size evolution of exoplanets often assume a prescribed initial thermal state or a single adiabatic index to describe the planetary interior structure, the lat…
The Persistent Missing Mass Problem in Planet Formation
Eve J. Lee, William DeRocco, Sam Hadden +1
Recent ground-based microlensing surveys suggest that our Galaxy may abound with small free floating planets, potentially up to 21 such planets per star. We explore the impli…
Preparing for the Early eVolution Explorer: Detecting the Primordial, Transiting Exoplanet Population
George Zhou, James G. Rogers, Jennifer A. Burt +17
The close-in small planet population may be formed either with hydrogen/helium dominated envelopes or with water-rich interiors. Both scenarios reproduce the present day planet pop…
On the Dynamical Erasure of Initial Conditions in Multi-Planetary Systems
Kevin Marimbu, Eve J. Lee
Do sub-Neptunes assemble close to where we see them or do they form full-fledged farther away from their host star then migrate inwards? We explore this question using the distribu…
Separating Super-Puffs vs. Hot Jupiters Among Young Puffy Planets
Amalia Karalis, Eve J. Lee, Daniel P. Thorngren
Discoveries of close-in young puffy (R 6 R) planets raise the question of whether they are bona fide hot Jupiters or puffed-up Neptunes, potentially plac…
Friends not Foes: Strong Correlation between Inner Super-Earths and Outer Gas Giants
Marta L. Bryan, Eve J. Lee
The connection between outer gas giants and inner super-Earths reflects their formation and evolutionary histories. Past work exploring this link has suggested a tentative positive…
A Uniform Analysis of Debris Disks with the Gemini Planet Imager I: An Empirical Search for Perturbations from Planetary Companions in Polarized Light Images
Katie A. Crotts, Brenda C. Matthews, Gaspard Duchêne +37
The Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) has excelled in imaging debris disks in the near-infrared. The GPI Exoplanet Survey (GPIES) imaged twenty-four debris disks in polarized -band lig…
Small Planets Around Cool Dwarfs: Enhanced Formation Efficiency of Super-Earths around M dwarfs
Yayaati Chachan, Eve J. Lee
Current measurements of planet population as a function of stellar mass show three seemingly contradictory signatures: close-in super-Earths are more prevalent around M dwarfs than…
Removal of Hot Saturns in Mass-Radius Plane by Runaway Mass Loss
Daniel P. Thorngren, Eve J. Lee, Eric D. Lopez
The hot Saturn population exhibits a boundary in mass-radius space, such that no planets are observed at a density less than 0.1 g cm. Yet, planet interior structure m…
Establishing Dust Rings and Forming Planets Within Them
Eve J. Lee, J. R. Fuentes, Philip F. Hopkins
Radio images of protoplanetary disks demonstrate that dust grains tend to organize themselves into rings. These rings may be a consequence of dust trapping within gas pressure maxi…
Creating the Radius Gap without Mass Loss
Eve J. Lee, Amalia Karalis, Daniel P. Thorngren
The observed exoplanet population features a gap in the radius distribution that separates the smaller super-Earths (1.7 Earth radii) from the larger sub-Neptunes (…
Sculpting the sub-Saturn Occurrence Rate via Atmospheric Mass Loss
Tim Hallatt, Eve J. Lee
The sub-Saturn (4--8) occurrence rate rises with orbital period out to at least 300 days. In this work we adopt and test the hypothesis that the decrease in…
Radial Gradients in Dust-to-Gas Ratio Lead to Preferred Region for Giant Planet Formation
Yayaati Chachan, Eve J. Lee, Heather A. Knutson
The Rosseland mean opacity of dust in protoplanetary disks is often calculated assuming the interstellar medium (ISM) size distribution and a constant dust-to-gas ratio. However, t…
WASP-107b's density is even lower: a case study for the physics of planetary gas envelope accretion and orbital migration
Caroline Piaulet, Björn Benneke, Ryan A. Rubenzahl +21
With a mass in the Neptune regime and a radius of Jupiter, WASP-107b presents a challenge to planet formation theories. Meanwhile, the planet's low surface gravity and the star's b…
Can Large-Scale Migration Explain the Giant Planet Occurrence Rate?
Tim Hallatt, Eve J Lee
The giant planet occurrence rate rises with orbital period out to at least 300 days. Large-scale planetary migration through the disk has long been suspected to be the physic…
A Featureless Infrared Transmission Spectrum for the Super-Puff Planet Kepler-79d
Yayaati Chachan, Daniel Jontof-Hutter, Heather A. Knutson +12
Extremely low density planets ('super-puffs') are a small but intriguing subset of the transiting planet population. With masses in the super-Earth range ( M) and…
Primordial Radius Gap and Potentially Broad Core Mass Distributions of Super-Earths and Sub-Neptunes
Eve J. Lee, Nicholas J. Connors
The observed radii distribution of {\it Kepler} exoplanets reveals two distinct populations: those that are more likely to be terrestrials () and those that ar…
Most Stars (and Planets?) Are Born in Intense Radiation Fields
Eve J. Lee, Philip F. Hopkins
Protostars and young stars are strongly spatially "clustered" or "correlated" within their natal giant molecular clouds (GMCs). We demonstrate that such clustering leads to the con…
Forming Diverse Super-Earth Systems in Situ
Mariah G. MacDonald, Rebekah I. Dawson, Sarah J. Morrison +2
Super-Earths and mini-Neptunes exhibit great diversity in their compositional and orbital properties. Their bulk densities span a large range, from those dense enough to be purely…
The First Habitable Zone Earth-Sized Planet From TESS II: Confirms TOI-700 d
Joseph E. Rodriguez, Andrew Vanderburg, Sebastian Zieba +43
We present 4.5m observations of the transit of TOI-700 d, a habitable zone Earth-sized planet in a multiplanet system transiting a nearby M-dwarf star (TIC 150428135,…
The First Habitable Zone Earth-sized Planet from TESS. I: Validation of the TOI-700 System
Emily A. Gilbert, Thomas Barclay, Joshua E. Schlieder +92
We present the discovery and validation of a three-planet system orbiting the nearby (31.1 pc) M2 dwarf star TOI-700 (TIC 150428135). TOI-700 lies in the TESS continuous viewing zo…
LRP2020: Signposts of planet formation in protoplanetary disks
Nienke van der Marel, Ruobing Dong, Ralph Pudritz +7
Successful exoplanet surveys in the last decade have revealed that planets are ubiquitous throughout the Milky Way, and show a large diversity in mass, location and composition. At…
A multi-wavelength study of the debris disc around 49 Cet
Nicole Pawellek, Attila Moór, Julien Milli +17
In a multi-wavelength study of thermal emission and scattered light images we analyse the dust properties and structure of the debris disc around the A1-type main sequence star 49~…
Diffuser-Assisted Infrared Transit Photometry for Four Dynamically Interacting \textit{Kepler} Systems
Shreyas Vissapragada, Daniel Jontof-Hutter, Avi Shporer +11
We present ground-based infrared transit observations for four dynamically interacting \textit{Kepler} planets, including Kepler-29b, Kepler-36c, KOI-1783.01, and Kepler-177c, obta…