8 papers
A Wandering 35,000-Solar-Mass Black Hole Fed by a Gravitational Wake
Xin Li, Yong Shi, Fuyan Bian +8
Intermediate-mass black holes are widely considered to be the seeds of supermassive black holes, a substantial population of which is expected to remain displaced from galactic nuc…
Stellar Multiplicity of M Dwarfs with Short-period Giant Planets, and the Characterization of TOI-5628Ab
Tianjun Gan, Alexandrine L'Heureux, Charles Cadieux +33
Binary stars are ubiquitous, yet it remains unclear how wide-orbit stellar companions influence the formation of hot Jupiters, particularly around M dwarfs. Here, we first report t…
An Aligned Very-Low-Mass Star Orbiting an M dwarf and Obliquity Patterns Across Giant Planets, Brown Dwarfs, and Binary Stars
Tianjun Gan, Alexandrine L'Heureux, Ãtienne Artigau +4
Stellar obliquity serves as a key diagnostic for tracing the dynamical evolution of bound systems-from giant planets and brown dwarfs to stellar binaries-revealing whether these di…
Revisiting the atmosphere of HAT-P-70b with CARMENES high-resolution transmission spectroscopy
Tianjun Gan, Jaume Orell-Miquel, Fei Yan +19
Owing to hot and inflated envelopes that facilitate atmospheric studies, ultra-hot Jupiters (UHJs) have attracted much attention. Significant progress has been achieved, from enlar…
Dynamical Instability of Multi-planet Systems and Free-floating Planets
Ruocheng Zhai, Man Hoi Lee, Tianjun Gan +1
The ejection of planets by the instability of planetary systems is a potential source of free-floating planets. We numerically simulate multi-planet systems to study the evolution…
A New Brown Dwarf Orbiting an M star and An Investigation on the Eccentricity Distribution of Transiting Long-Period Brown Dwarfs
Tianjun Gan, Charles Cadieux, Shigeru Ida +32
The orbital eccentricities of brown dwarfs encode valuable information of their formation and evolution history, providing insights into whether they resemble giant planets or stel…