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most citedAstrometric Accelerations as Dynamical Beacons: A Giant Planet Imaged Inside the Debris Disk of the Young Star AF Lep

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astro-ph.EP2026

Mid-infrared Imaging of SR 12 c with JWST/MIRI: Grain Growth in an Evolved Circumplanetary Disk

Ya-Lin Wu, Claire O. Finley, Brendan P. Bowler +13

The physical properties of circumplanetary disks offer insights into the formation of giant planets and their satellites. The circumbinary planetary-mass companion SR 12 c (1200 au…

astro-ph.EP2026

The Cephei System: Updated Orbits, Dynamical Architecture, and Limits on Additional Companions

Judah Van Zandt, Brendan P. Bowler, Michael Endl +18

The Cephei system hosts one of the first exoplanets discovered and is orbited by one of the closest known stellar companions to a planet-hosting star. Here, we derive updated o…

astro-ph.EP2026

AESTRA II: Generative Spectral Modeling of the Sun as a Star for Precise Radial Velocities

Yan Liang, Joshua N. Winn, Peter Melchior +2

The detection of Earth analogs with extreme-precision radial velocities (EPRVs) is limited by spectral variability from stellar activity, telluric absorption, and instrumental syst…

astro-ph.EP2026

Ultraviolet Imaging of SR 12 c with HST/WFC3: Accretion and Variability of a Giant Planet at the End Stages of Growth

Claire O. Finley, Brendan P. Bowler, Ya-Lin Wu +12

Many details of the gas accretion phase during giant planet formation remain untested. We present new 0.2$\unicode{x2013}$0.7 m UV-through-red optical imaging of the young, wide…

astro-ph.EP2026

An Outer Giant Planet or Brown Dwarf in the 51 Pegasi System?

Marvin Morgan, Brendan P. Bowler, Kyle Franson +15

51 Pegasi harbors the first confirmed extrasolar planet orbiting a Sun-like star. Decades of continued radial velocity (RV) observations have since uncovered signatures of an addit…

astro-ph.EP2026

Observational and Dynamical Constraints on an Unseen Outer Perturber in the GJ 436 Hot Neptune System

Haedam Im, Tiger Lu, Malena Rice +3

Hot Neptunes in the sub-Jovian desert offer unique insights into planetary system evolution, retaining signatures of dynamical processes that shaped their present-day architectures…

astro-ph.EP2025

Exploring Warm Jupiter Migration Pathways with Eccentricities II. Correlations with Host Star Properties and Orbital Separation

Marvin Morgan, Brendan P. Bowler, Quang H. Tran

Warm Jupiters with orbital periods of 10-365 d represent a population of giant planets located well within the water ice line but beyond the region of tidal influence of t…

astro-ph.EP2025

Exploring Warm Jupiter Migration Pathways with Eccentricities. I. Catalog of Uniform Keplerian Fits to Radial Velocities of 200 Warm Jupiters

Marvin Morgan, Brendan P. Bowler, Quang H. Tran +4

Giant planets are expected to predominantly form beyond the water ice line and occasionally undergo inward migration. Unlike hot Jupiters, which can result from high-eccentricity t…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 16 cited

One-third of Sun-like stars are born with misaligned planet-forming disks

Lauren I. Biddle, Brendan P. Bowler, Marvin Morgan +2

Exoplanets are organized in a broad array of orbital configurations that reflect their formation along with billions of years of dynamical processing through gravitational interact…

astro-ph.EP2025

The Epoch of Giant Planet Migration Planet Search Program. III. The Occurrence Rate of Young Giant Planets Inside the Water Ice Line

Quang H. Tran, Brendan P. Bowler, William D. Cochran +8

We present statistical results from the Epoch of Giant Planet Migration RV planet search program. This survey was designed to measure the occurrence rate of giant planets interior…

astro-ph.EP2025

H Variability of AB Aur b with the Hubble Space Telescope: Probing the Nature of a Protoplanet Candidate with Accretion Light Echoes

Brendan P. Bowler, Yifan Zhou, Lauren I. Biddle +11

Giant planets generate accretion luminosity as they form. Much of this energy is radiated in strong H line emission, which has motivated direct imaging surveys at optical wavele…

astro-ph.EP2024

Gaussian Process Models Impact the Inferred Properties of Giant Planets around Active Stars

Quang H. Tran, Brendan P. Bowler

The recent development of statistical methods that can distinguish between stellar activity and dynamical signals in radial velocity (RV) observations has facilitated the discovery…

astro-ph.EP2024

JWST/NIRCam 4-5 m Imaging of the Giant Planet AF Lep b

Kyle Franson, William O. Balmer, Brendan P. Bowler +23

With a dynamical mass of , the recently discovered giant planet AF Lep b is the lowest-mass imaged planet with a direct mass measurement. Its youth and spectra…

astro-ph.EP2024

The Epoch of Giant Planet Migration Planet Search Program. II. A Young Hot Jupiter Candidate around the AB Dor Member HS Psc

Quang H. Tran, Brendan P. Bowler, William D. Cochran +6

We report the discovery of a hot Jupiter candidate orbiting HS Psc, a K7 (0.7 ) member of the 130 Myr AB Doradus moving group. Using radial velocities ov…

astro-ph.EP2023

Signs of Similar Stellar Obliquity Distributions for Hot and Warm Jupiters Orbiting Cool Stars

Marvin Morgan, Brendan P. Bowler, Quang H. Tran +3

Transiting giant planets provide a natural opportunity to examine stellar obliquities, which offer clues about the origin and dynamical histories of close-in planets. Hot Jupiters…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 1 cited

A Large and Variable Leading Tail of Helium in a Hot Saturn Undergoing Runaway Inflation

Michael Gully-Santiago, Caroline V. Morley, Jessica Luna +14

Atmospheric escape shapes the fate of exoplanets, with statistical evidence for transformative mass loss imprinted across the mass-radius-insolation distribution. Here we present t…

astro-ph.EP2023

Giant Tidal Tails of Helium Escaping the Hot Jupiter HAT-P-32 b

Zhoujian Zhang, Caroline V. Morley, Michael Gully-Santiago +14

Capturing planets in the act of losing their atmospheres provides rare opportunities to probe their evolution history. Such analysis has been enabled by observations of the helium…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 14 cited

Joint Modeling of Radial Velocities and Photometry with a Gaussian Process Framework

Quang H. Tran, Megan Bedell, Daniel Foreman-Mackey +1

Developments in the stability of modern spectrographs have led to extremely precise instrumental radial velocity (RV) measurements. For most stars, the detection limit of planetary…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 74 cited

Astrometric Accelerations as Dynamical Beacons: A Giant Planet Imaged Inside the Debris Disk of the Young Star AF Lep

Kyle Franson, Brendan P. Bowler, Yifan Zhou +13

We present the direct imaging discovery of a giant planet orbiting the young star AF Lep, a 1.2 member of the 24 3 Myr Pic moving group. AF Lep was observed a…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 64 cited

Rotation Periods, Inclinations, and Obliquities of Cool Stars Hosting Directly Imaged Substellar Companions: Spin-Orbit Misalignments are Common

Brendan P. Bowler, Quang H. Tran, Zhoujian Zhang +10

The orientation between a star's spin axis and a planet's orbital plane provides valuable information about the system's formation and dynamical history. For non-transiting planets…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 42 cited

Astrometric Accelerations as Dynamical Beacons: Discovery and Characterization of HIP 21152 B, the First T-Dwarf Companion in the Hyades

Kyle Franson, Brendan P. Bowler, Mariangela Bonavita +28

Benchmark brown dwarf companions with well-determined ages and model-independent masses are powerful tools to test substellar evolutionary models and probe the formation of giant p…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 5 cited

Distances to Local Group Galaxies via Population II, Stellar Distance Indicators I: The Sculptor Dwarf Spheroidal

Quang H. Tran, Taylor J. Hoyt, Wendy L. Freedman +5

We determine the distance to the Sculptor Dwarf Spheroidal via three Population II stellar distance indicators: (a) the Tip of the Red Giant Branch (TRGB), (b) RR Lyrae variables (…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 12 cited

Distances to Local Group Galaxies via Population II, Stellar Distance Indicators. II. The Fornax Dwarf Spheroidal

Elias K. Oakes, Taylor J. Hoyt, Wendy L. Freedman +5

We determine three independent Population II distance moduli to the Fornax dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxy, using wide-field, ground-based imaging acquired with the Magellan-Ba…

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…