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20222026
most cited3-D selection of 167 sub-stellar companions to nearby stars

103 citations · 103 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

astro-ph.SR2026

An Intermediate-orbit Brown Dwarf Confirmed with Astrometry+Radial Velocity Joint Analysis, and the Eccentricity Distribution of Brown Dwarfs Across Different Locations

Lei Ren, Tianjun Gan, Yifan Xuan +5

Intermediate-orbit ( AU) brown dwarfs with absolute mass measurements are essential for understanding the evolution of substellar objects. Although such systems remain rare…

astro-ph.EP2026

A universal brown dwarf desert formed between planets and stars

Kaiming Cui, Guang-Yao Xiao, Fabo Feng +10

Giant planets and brown dwarfs play a crucial role in star and planet formation, as they are situated at the boundary between planets and stars with uncertain formation mechanisms.…

astro-ph.EP2025

Predicting the detection yields of giant planets and brown dwarfs with CSST astrometry

Yifan Xuan, Fabo Feng, Zhensen Fu +3

Chinese Space Station Telescope (CSST), which will begin its scientific operations around 2027, is going to survey the sky area of the median-to-high Galactic latitude and median-t…

astro-ph.IM2025

DeepAP: Deep Learning-based Aperture Photometry Feasibility Assessment and Aperture Size Prediction

Zheng-Jun Du, Qing-Quan Li, Yi-Cheng Rui +6

Aperture photometry is a fundamental technique widely used to obtain high-precision light curves in optical survey projects like Tianyu. However, its effectiveness is limited in cr…

astro-ph.IM2025

Architecture of Tianyu Software: Relative Photometry as a Case Study

Yicheng Rui, Yifan Xuan, Shuyue Zheng +8

Tianyu telescope, an one-meter robotic optical survey instrument to be constructed in Lenghu, Qinghai, China, is designed for detecting transiting exoplanets, variable stars and tr…

astro-ph.IM2024

Tianyu: search for the second solar system and explore the dynamic universe

Fabo Feng, Yicheng Rui, Zhimao Du +32

Giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn, play important roles in the formation and habitability of Earth-like planets. The detection of solar system analogs that have multiple cold g…

astro-ph.SR2024

Modeling and Calibration of Gaia, Hipparcos, and Tycho-2 astrometric data for the detection of dark companions

Fabo Feng, Yicheng Rui, Yifan Xuan +1

Hidden within the Gaia satellite's multiple data releases lies a valuable cache of dark companions. To facilitate the efficient and reliable detection of these companions via combi…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 103 cited

3-D selection of 167 sub-stellar companions to nearby stars

Fabo Feng, R. Paul Butler, Steven S. Vogt +20

We analyze 5108 AFGKM stars with at least five high precision radial velocity points as well as Gaia and Hipparcos astrometric data utilizing a novel pipeline developed in previous…