7 papers
Bernhard-1: An Eccentric Binary Periodically Obscured by its Misaligned Circumbinary Disk
Zhecheng Hu, Wei Zhu, Ping Chen +2
Bernhard-1 is a proposed KH 15D-like circumbinary disk occultation (CBO) system, but its binary nature and disk geometry have not previously been confirmed. We present new optical…
Capture and Stability of Resonant Planet Pairs in Turbulent Disk
Linghong Lin, Beibei Liu, Fei Dai +6
We present a theoretical framework for the resonance capture and stability of two-planet systems in turbulent disks. By incorporating stochastic forcing (parameterized by ) alo…
Mass Production of 2023 KMTNet Microlensing Planets I: Low Mass Ratio
Yoon-Hyun Ryu, Andrzej Udalski, Hongjing Yang +34
We initiate the systematic search for planets in the 2023 data of the Korea Microlensing Telescope Network (KMTNet), focusing on those planets found by the KMTNet AnomalyFinder wit…
Effects of Stellar X-ray Photoevaporation on Planetesimal Formation via the Streaming Instability
Xuchu Ying, Beibei Liu, Haifeng Yang +7
The formation of planetesimals via the streaming instability (SI) is a crucial step in planet formation, yet its triggering conditions and efficiency are highly sensitive to both d…
A free-floating-planet microlensing event caused by a Saturn-mass object
Subo Dong, Zexuan Wu, Yoon-Hyun Ryu +39
A population of free-floating planets is known from gravitational microlensing surveys. None have a directly measured mass, owing to a degeneracy with the distance, but the populat…
Optical/infrared observations of the extraordinary GRB 250702B: a highly obscured afterglow in a massive galaxy consistent with multiple possible progenitors
Jonathan Carney, Igor Andreoni, Brendan O'Connor +31
GRB 250702B was the longest gamma-ray burst ever detected, with a duration that challenges standard collapsar models and suggests an exotic progenitor. We collected a rich set of o…