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most citedStellar obliquities in exoplanetary systems

187 citations · 711 across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

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26 papers

astro-ph.SR2026

The Stellar Observations Network Group (SONG) -- A Legacy Archive of Stellar Time-Domain Spectroscopy

M. N. Lund, F. Grundahl, M. S. Fredslund +41

The Stellar Observations Network Group (SONG) network has operated for more than a decade, providing long-baseline, high-cadence spectroscopic observations of bright stars and the…

astro-ph.EP2024

Gaia-4b and 5b: Radial Velocity Confirmation of Gaia Astrometric Orbital Solutions Reveal a Massive Planet and a Brown Dwarf Orbiting Low-mass Stars

Gudmundur Stefansson, Suvrath Mahadevan, Joshua Winn +31

Gaia astrometry of nearby stars is precise enough to detect the tiny displacements induced by substellar companions, but radial velocity data are needed for definitive confirmation…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 23 cited

TOI-1408: Discovery and Photodynamical Modeling of a Small Inner Companion to a Hot Jupiter Revealed by TTVs

Judith Korth, Priyanka Chaturvedi, Hannu Parviainen +60

We report the discovery and characterization of a small planet, TOI-1408 c, on a 2.2-day orbit located interior to a previously known hot Jupiter, TOI-1408 b ( d, $M=1.86\p…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 2 cited

ANDES, the high resolution spectrograph for the ELT: science goals, project overview and future developments

A. Marconi, M. Abreu, V. Adibekyan +286

The first generation of ELT instruments includes an optical-infrared high-resolution spectrograph, indicated as ELT-HIRES and recently christened ANDES (ArmazoNes high Dispersion E…

astro-ph.SR2023

Astrometry and Precise Radial Velocities Yield a Complete Orbital Solution for the Nearby Eccentric Brown Dwarf LHS 1610 b

Evan Fitzmaurice, Gudmundur Stefánsson, Robert D. Kavanagh +18

The LHS 1610 system consists of a nearby ( pc) M5 dwarf hosting a candidate brown dwarf companion in a day, eccentric () orbit. We confirm this brown dwa…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 13 cited

Detection of atmospheric species and dynamics in the bloated hot Jupiter WASP-172~b with ESPRESSO

J. V. Seidel, B. Prinoth, E. Knudstrup +3

The population of strongly irradiated Jupiter-sized planets has no equivalent in the Solar System. It is characterised by strongly bloated atmospheres and atmospheric large-scale h…

astro-ph.EP2023

A Non-Transiting Coplanar Circumbinary Planet Around Kepler-1660AB

Max Goldberg, Daniel Fabrycky, David V. Martin +3

Over a dozen transiting circumbinary planets have been discovered around eclipsing binaries. Transit detections are biased towards aligned planet and binary orbits, and indeed all…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 40 cited

Ponderings on the Possible Preponderance of Perpendicular Planets

Jared Siegel, Joshua Winn, Simon Albrecht

Misalignments between planetary orbits and the equatorial planes of their host stars are clues about the formation and evolution of planetary systems. Earlier work found evidence f…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 23 cited

Spectroscopic follow-up of Gaia exoplanet candidates: Impostor binary stars invade the Gaia DR3 astrometric exoplanet candidates

Marcus L. Marcussen, Simon H. Albrecht

In this paper we report on the follow-up of five potential exoplanets detected with Gaia astrometry and provide an overview of what is currently known about the nature of the entir…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 4 cited

The low density, hot Jupiter TOI-640 b is on a polar orbit

Emil Knudstrup, Simon H. Albrecht, Davide Gandolfi +17

TOI-640 b is a hot, puffy Jupiter with a mass of M and radius of R, orbiting a slightly evolved F-type star with a separation of…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 9 cited

Radial velocity confirmation of a hot super-Neptune discovered by TESS with a warm Saturn-mass companion

E. Knudstrup, D. Gandolfi, G. Nowak +59

We report the discovery and confirmation of the planetary system TOI-1288. This late G dwarf harbours two planets: TOI-1288 b and TOI-1288 c. We combine TESS space-borne and ground…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 72 cited

TOI-1136 is a Young, Coplanar, Aligned Planetary System in a Pristine Resonant Chain

Fei Dai, Kento Masuda, Corey Beard +60

Convergent disk migration has long been suspected to be responsible for forming planetary systems with a chain of mean-motion resonances (MMR). Dynamical evolution over time could…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 6 cited

CHARA/SPICA: a 6-telescope visible instrument for the CHARA Array

Denis Mourard, Philippe Berio, Cyril Pannetier +25

With a possible angular resolution down to 0.1-0.2 millisecond of arc using the 330 m baselines and the access to the 600-900 nm spectral domain, the CHARA Array is ideally configu…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 27 cited

A low-eccentricity migration pathway for a 13-h-period Earth analogue in a four-planet system

Luisa Maria Serrano, Davide Gandolfi, Alexander J. Mustill +47

It is commonly accepted that exoplanets with orbital periods shorter than 1 day, also known as ultra-short period (USP) planets, formed further out within their natal protoplanetar…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 20 cited

TOI-1670 b and c: An Inner Sub-Neptune with an Outer Warm Jupiter Unlikely to have Originated from High-Eccentricity Migration

Quang H. Tran, Brendan P. Bowler, Michael Endl +38

We report the discovery of two transiting planets around the bright ( mag) main sequence F7 star TOI-1670 by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. TOI-1670 b is a sub-N…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 23 cited

A Radial Velocity Study of the Planetary System of Pi Mensae: Improved Planet Parameters for PI Mensae c and a Third Planet on a 125-d Orbit

Artie P. Hatzes, Davide Gandolfi, Judith Korth +33

Pi Men hosts a transiting planet detected by the TESS space mission and an outer planet in a 5.7-yr orbit discovered by RV surveys. We studied this system using new radial velocity…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 187 cited

Stellar obliquities in exoplanetary systems

Simon H. Albrecht, Rebekah I. Dawson, Joshua N. Winn

The rotation of a star and the revolutions of its planets are not necessarily aligned. This article reviews the measurement techniques, key findings, and theoretical interpretation…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 9 cited

DI Herculis Revisited: Starspots, Gravity Darkening, and 3-D Obliquities

Yan Liang, Joshua N. Winn, Simon H. Albrecht

DI Herculis is an eclipsing binary famous for a longstanding disagreement between theory and observation of the apsidal precession rate, which was resolved when both stars were fou…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 74 cited

GJ 367b: A dense ultra-short period sub-Earth planet transiting a nearby red dwarf star

Kristine W. F. Lam, Szilárd Csizmadia, Nicola Astudillo-Defru +75

Ultra-short-period (USP) exoplanets have orbital periods shorter than one day. Precise masses and radii of USPs could provide constraints on their unknown formation and evolution p…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 6 cited

Precise radial velocities of giant stars XV. Mysterious nearly periodic radial velocity variations in the eccentric binary Cygni

Paul Heeren, Sabine Reffert, Trifon Trifonov +10

Using the Hamilton Echelle Spectrograph at Lick Observatory, we have obtained precise radial velocities (RVs) of a sample of 373 G- and K-giant stars over more than 12 years, leadi…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 37 cited

Hot Stars With Kepler Planets Have High Obliquities

Emma M. Louden, Joshua N. Winn, Erik A. Petigura +5

It has been known for a decade that hot stars with hot Jupiters tend to have high obliquities. Less is known about the degree of spin-orbit alignment for hot stars with other kinds…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 9 cited

The multi-planet system TOI-421 -- A warm Neptune and a super puffy mini-Neptune transiting a G9 V star in a visual binary

Ilaria Carleo, Davide Gandolfi, Oscar Barragán +110

We report the discovery of a warm Neptune and a hot sub-Neptune transiting TOI-421 (BD-14 1137, TIC 94986319), a bright (V=9.9) G9 dwarf star in a visual binary system observed by…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 3 cited

Precise radial velocities of giant stars XIII. A second Jupiter orbiting in 4:3 resonance in the 7 CMa system

R. Luque, T. Trifonov, S. Reffert +8

We report the discovery of a second planet orbiting the K giant star 7 CMa based on 166 high-precision radial velocities obtained with Lick, HARPS, UCLES and SONG. The periodogram…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 100 cited

First Results From The Hertzsprung Song Telescope: Asteroseismology Of The G5 Subgiant Star {\Mu}Her

F. Grundahl, M. Fredslund Andersen, J. Christensen-Dalsgaard +26

We report the first asteroseismic results obtained with the Hertzsprung SONG Telescope from an extensive high-precision radial-velocity observing campaign of the subgiant muHerculi…