5 papers
The KPF SURFS-UP Survey I: Transmission Spectroscopy of WASP-76 b
Aaron Householder, Fei Dai, Aurora Kesseli +25
We introduce the KPF SURFS-UP (Spectroscopy of the Upper-atmospheres and ReFractory Species in Ultra-hot Planets) Survey, a high-resolution survey to investigate the atmospheric co…
Exposure-averaged Gaussian Processes for Combining Overlapping Datasets
Jacob K. Luhn, Ryan A. Rubenzahl, Samuel Halverson +1
Physically motivated Gaussian process (GP) kernels for stellar variability, like the commonly used damped, driven simple harmonic oscillators that model stellar granulation and p-m…
TOI-4495: A Pair of Aligned, Near-Resonant Sub-Neptunes that Likely Experienced Overstable Migration
Mu-Tian Wang, Fei Dai, Hui-Gen Liu +24
We report the discovery of a sub-Neptune and a Neptune-like planet (, ) orbiting the F-type star TOI-449…
Precise Radial Velocities
Jennifer A. Burt, Xavier Dumusque, Samuel Halverson
Precise measurements of a star's radial velocity (RV) made using extremely stable, high resolution, optical or near infrared spectrographs can be used to determine the masses and o…
An Hα Transit of HD 189733b to Assess Stellar Activity Across the Transit Chord Close to JWST Observations
Kingsley E. Ehrich, Jason A. Dittmann, Samuel P. Halverson +1
Transmission spectroscopy allows us to detect molecules in planetary atmospheres, but is subject to contamination from inhomogeneities on the stellar surface. Quantifying the exten…