7 papers
Contribution of White Dwarf Formation Kicks to the Free-Floating Planet Population
Alexander P. Stephan, Keivan G. Stassun
Free-Floating Planets (FFPs) are a distinct class of exoplanets that do not orbit stars but are nevertheless found to be very common. A variety of formation mechanisms have been pr…
Technique-agnostic exoplanet demography for the Roman era -- I. Testing a demography retrieval framework using simulated Kepler-like transit datasets
Akshay Priyadarshi, Eamonn Kerins, Michael D. Albrow +41
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Roman) will unveil for the first time the full architecture of planetary systems across Galactic distances through the discovery of up to 200…
Observable Metal Pollution in Main-Sequence Stars: Simulations of Rocky Planets Engulfed by Stars in the to M Range
Kaitlyn T. Lane, Alexander P. Stephan, Melinda Soares-Furtado +2
The engulfment of planets by their host stars is an expected outcome of various dynamical processes and has been invoked to explain a variety of observed stellar properties, such a…
Predictions of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Galactic Exoplanet Survey. V. Detection Rates of Multiplanetary Systems in High Magnification Microlensing Events
Vito Saggese, Ãtienne Bachelet, Sebastiano Calchi Novati +34
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will expand the reach of gravitational microlensing surveys by increasing the number of events monitored and the precision of their light curv…
Predictions of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Galactic Exoplanet Survey. IV. Lens Mass and Distance Measurements
Sean K. Terry, Etienne Bachelet, Farzaneh Zohrabi +54
As part of the Galactic Bulge Time Domain Survey (GBTDS), the Nancy Grace Roman Galactic Exoplanet Survey (RGES) will use microlensing to discover cold outer planets and free-float…
Triple Evolution Pathways to Black Hole Low-Mass X-ray Binaries: Insights from V404 Cygni
Cheyanne Shariat, Smadar Naoz, Kareem El-Badry +5
A recent discovery shows that V404 Cygni, a prototypical black hole low-mass X-ray binary (BH-LMXB) is a hierarchical triple: the BH and donor star are orbited by a M$_{\odot…