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most citedA General Origin for Multi-Planetary Systems With Significantly Misaligned USP Planets

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physics.atom-ph2026

Parallel Omnidirectional Atom Rearrangement with Dynamic Holograms

Samuel A. Engel, Dewei Gong, Ziguang Lin +3

The ability to assemble and reconfigure individual atoms is central to performing quantum science using optical tweezer arrays. Here, we demonstrate parallel omnidirectional atom t…

astro-ph.EP2026

Toddlers in Resonance I: low masses and eccentricities of the 17 Myr giant planets HIP 67522 bc from transit timing variations

Hannah R. James, Madyson G. Barber, Andrew W. Mann +28

Infant (100\,Myr) transiting planet systems provide glimpses into the processes that shape the observed mature planet population. Masses for these planets are powerful data poin…

astro-ph.EP2026

Simulated Effects of Radioactive Elements on Magnetic Evolution and Atmospheric Mass Loss of Earth-like Planets

Nathaniel Tanglin, Juliette Becker

Thousands of exoplanets have been discovered in recent decades, yet Earth remains the only known world with life. To assess the potential habitability of other planets, we must ide…

astro-ph.EP2026

Discovery and Characterization of the TOI-4468 Planetary System: A Transiting Hot Jupiter With a Lone Nearby Outer Companion

Joseph R. Livesey, Benjamin J. Hord, Juliette Becker +28

We report the discovery of two planets, a hot Jupiter and a nearby outer sub-Neptune, orbiting the star TOI-4468. This system is unique among the current exoplanet census in that i…

astro-ph.EP2026

Atmospheric Signatures of Common Envelope Evolution in White Dwarf Planets

Sydney Jenkins, Andrew Vanderburg, James Mang +4

The majority of confirmed exoplanets orbit within 1 au of a main-sequence (MS) star. When their stellar hosts evolve off the MS, many of these planets will be engulfed and destroye…

astro-ph.EP2026

Peas and USPs: Can Stellar Spindown and Peas in a Pod Replicate Ultra-Short-Period Planet Characteristics?

Adam Distler, Juliette Becker

Peas-in-a-Pod (PIAP) systems have been shown to be common across exoplanet systems, with regular planet spacings and similar planet sizes. In contrast, ultra-short-period planets h…

astro-ph.EP2025

An Eccentric Sub-Neptune Moving Into the Evaporation Desert

Sydney Jenkins, Andrew Vanderburg, Ritika Sethi +31

Though missions such as Kepler, K2, and TESS have discovered 2,000 sub-Neptune and Neptunian planets, there is a dearth of such planets at close-in (P3 days) orbits. T…

astro-ph.EP2025

Three-Dimensional Orbital Architectures and Detectability of Adjacent Companions to Hot Jupiters

Thomas MacLean, Juliette Becker

The orbital properties of the (as-yet) small population of hot Jupiters with nearby planetary companions provide valuable constraints on the past migration processes of these syste…

astro-ph.EP2025

Thermal Evolution and Mass Loss on Short-Period, Low-Mass Planets During FU Orionis Outbursts

Juliette Becker, Konstantin Batygin

Ultra-short-period (USP) planets represent a unique class of exoplanets characterized by their tight orbits and relatively low masses, with some also exhibiting unusually high iron…

astro-ph.EP2025

The Ambiguous Age and Tidal History for the Ultra-Hot Jupiter TOI-1937Ab

Alyssa R. Jankowski, Juliette Becker, Melinda Soares-Furtado +2

Ultra-short-period (USP) planets are a rare but dynamically significant subset of the exoplanet sample, and understanding their dynamical histories and migration processes is neces…

astro-ph.EP2025

Long-lived Habitable Zones around White Dwarfs undergoing Neon-22 Distillation

Andrew Vanderburg, Antoine Bédard, Juliette C. Becker +1

White dwarf stars have attracted considerable attention in the past 15 years as hosts for potentially habitable planets, but their low luminosity and continuous cooling are major c…

astro-ph.EP2024

History and Habitability of the LP 890-9 Planetary System

Rory Barnes, Laura N. R. do Amaral, Jessica Birky +42

We present numerous aspects of the evolution of the LP 890-9 (SPECULOOS-2/TOI-4306) planetary system, focusing on the likelihood that planet c can support life. We find that the ho…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 8 cited

The Fate of Oceans on First-Generation Planets Orbiting White Dwarfs

Juliette Becker, Andrew Vanderburg, Joseph Livesey

Several groups have recently suggested that small planets orbiting very closely around white dwarf stars could be promising locations for life to arise, even after stellar death. T…

astro-ph.EP2024

TESS Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets (THYME) XII: A Young Mini-Neptune on the Upper Edge of the Radius Valley in the Hyades Cluster

Adam Distler, Melinda Soares-Furtado, Andrew Vanderburg +18

We present the discovery and characterization of TOI-4364\,b, a young mini-Neptune in the tidal tails of the Hyades cluster, identified through TESS transit observations and ground…

astro-ph.EP2024

A long spin period for a sub-Neptune-mass exoplanet

Ellen M. Price, Juliette Becker, Zoë L. de Beurs +2

HIP 41378 f is a sub-Neptune exoplanet with an anomalously low density. Its long orbital period and deep transit make it an ideal candidate for detecting oblateness photometrically…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 1 cited

The TEMPO Survey II: Science Cases Leveraged from a Proposed 30-Day Time Domain Survey of the Orion Nebula with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

Melinda Soares-Furtado, Mary Anne Limbach, Andrew Vanderburg +26

The TEMPO (Transiting Exosatellites, Moons, and Planets in Orion) Survey is a proposed 30-day observational campaign using the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. By providing deep,…

astro-ph.EP2024

Wide Binary Orbits are Preferentially Aligned with the Orbits of Small Planets, but Probably Not Hot Jupiters

Sam Christian, Andrew Vanderburg, Juliette Becker +28

Studying the relative orientations of the orbits of exoplanets and wide-orbiting binary companions (semimajor axis greater than 100 AU) can shed light on how planets form and evolv…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 14 cited

A General Origin for Multi-Planetary Systems With Significantly Misaligned USP Planets

Lucas Brefka, Juliette Becker

Ultra-short period (USP) planets are exoplanets which have orbital periods of less than one day and are unique because they orbit inside the nominal magnetic truncation gap of thei…