3 papers
astro-ph.EP2024
Do anomalously-dense hot Jupiters orbit stealth binary stars?
Tanvi Goswamy, Andrew Collier Cameron, Thomas G. Wilson
The Wide Angle Search for Planets (WASP) survey used transit photometry to discover nearly 200 gas-giant exoplanets and derive their planetary and stellar parameters. Reliable dete…
astro-ph.EP2024
Gliese 12 b, A Temperate Earth-sized Planet at 12 Parsecs Discovered with TESS and CHEOPS
Shishir Dholakia, Larissa Palethorpe, Alexander Venner +33
We report on the discovery of Gliese 12 b, the nearest transiting temperate, Earth-sized planet found to date. Gliese 12 is a bright ( mag, mag) metal-poor M4V star…
astro-ph.SR2024
Missing Metals in DQ Stars; a Compelling Clue to their Origin
J. Farihi, P. Dufour, T. G. Wilson
White dwarf stars frequently experience external pollution by heavy elements, and yet the intrinsically carbon-enriched DQ spectral class members fail to exhibit this phenomenon, r…