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20202026
most citedEvolution of the Exoplanet Size Distribution: Forming Large Super-Earths Over Billions of Years

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53 papers

astro-ph.SR2026

Modeling Rotation in the Old, Cold Domain: Implications on Gyrochronology and the Stellar Magnetic Wind

Amanda L. Ash, Yuxi, Lu +1

Gyrochronology ties stellar rotation periods to ages. It is well studied in the young, open cluster age domain, but there are few constraints on gyrochronology in the old field sta…

astro-ph.SR2026

Host--Non-host Differences in Stellar Chemistry, Activity, and Birth Radius: Hints of Distinct Formation Environments for Earth-like Planets and Sub-Neptunes

Xunzhou Chen, Tiancheng Sun, Yuxi +3

Host-star properties provide important clues to planet formation and evolution, yet it remains unclear whether the observed differences between planet-hosting stars and stars witho…

astro-ph.SR2026

They Won't Be Giants: Missing Metal-Rich RGB Stars in Gaia Data Indicate Truncated Stellar Evolution

Yuxi Lu, Madeline Howell, Marc H. Pinsonneault +3

We investigate the population of luminous red giant branch stars as a function of metallicity using Gaia XP metallicity combined with SDSS-V, GALAH, and LAMOST. After applying unif…

astro-ph.GA2026

The Twentieth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First All-Sky BOSS Spectra, eROSITA-SDSS-V Mapper Coordinated Observations, and a Preview of the Local Volume Mapper

SDSS Collaboration, Mojgan Aghakhanloo, David Aguilar +273

This paper presents the twentieth data release (DR20) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the third data release of its fifth generation (SDSS-V). SDSS-V is a panoptic spectroscopy…

astro-ph.SR2026

Ensemble Kinematic Ages for 1.5 Million LAMOST Stars

Yuxi Lu, Marc H. Pinsonneault

We present a framework for inferring stellar ages from spectroscopic stellar parameters, calibrated with ensemble kinematics by averaging over the median vertical action, , fo…

astro-ph.SR2026

Insights into the Exoplanet Radius Valley from Host-Star Ages, Activity, Chemistry, and Birth Radius

Xunzhou Chen, Tiancheng Sun, Yuxi +3

The radius valley, a bimodal feature in the size distribution of close-in small exoplanets, is widely interpreted as a signature of atmospheric loss and therefore provides a key co…