activity
20142026
most citedConstraining the Oblateness of Kepler Planets

60 citations · 78 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators

12 papers

astro-ph.EP2026

Transit Timing Variations in TESS: A Catalog from the First Five Years

Emma Nabbie, Chelsea X. Huang, Robert A. Wittenmyer +1

We present the first catalog of transit timing variations (TTVs) in TESS systems with multiple TESS Objects of Interest (TOIs) using data from Sector 1 to Sector 69, spanning the f…

astro-ph.EP2026

A Planetary Illusion's Funeral: Non-detection of a Gaia DR3 Exoplanet Candidate, and the Role of Intermediate-precision Radial Velocities in Gaia Exoplanet Follow-up

Alexander Venner, Chelsea X. Huang, David W. Latham +4

The detection of exoplanets using astrometry has long been an area of interest, but is fraught with challenges. The Gaia mission is fundamentally reshaping this field thanks to its…

astro-ph.EP2026

The Orbital Eccentricity--Radius Distribution for Warm, Single Planets in TESS

Tyler R. Fairnington, Jiayin Dong, Chelsea X. Huang +40

We characterize the radius-dependent eccentricity distribution of 219 warm (P = 8--50 days) systems with only one transiting planetary candidate identified during Sectors 1-69 of t…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 5 cited

A high mutual inclination system around KOI-134 revealed by transit timing variations

Emma Nabbie, Chelsea X. Huang, Judith Korth +9

Few planetary systems have measured mutual inclinations, and even less are found to be non-coplanar. Observing the gravitational interactions between exoplanets is an effective too…

astro-ph.EP2025

Searching for helium escape and a low density atmosphere around the 120 Myr old sub-Neptune HIP94235b using CRIRES+

Ava Morrissey, George Zhou, Chelsea X. Huang +6

Atmospheric mass loss is thought to induce the bimodality in the small planet population as we observe it today. Observationally, active mass loss can be traced by excess absorptio…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 3 cited

A 16 Myr super-Neptune in Upper-Centaurus Lupus and a preliminary survey of transiting planets in Sco-Cen with TESS

Sydney Vach, George Zhou, Andrew W. Mann +25

Measuring the properties of planets younger than about 50 Myr helps to test different planetary formation and evolution models. NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)…

astro-ph.SR2024

A catalog of binary stars from phase modulation in the first four years of TESS Mission photometry

Shishir Dholakia, Simon J. Murphy, Chelsea X. Huang +2

We present a catalog of binary companions to Scuti stars, detected through phase modulations of their pulsations in TESS data. Pulsation timing has provided orbits for hundreds…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 6 cited

Confirming the Tidal Tails of the Young Open Cluster Blanco 1 with TESS Rotation Periods

Lizhou Sha, Andrew M. Vanderburg, Luke G. Bouma +1

Blanco 1 is an open cluster located 240 pc from the Sun below the Galactic plane. Recent studies have reported the existence of diffuse tidal tails exte…

astro-ph.EP2024

Searching for Neutral Hydrogen Escape from the 120 Myr Old Sub-Neptune HIP94235b using HST

Ava Morrissey, George Zhou, Chelsea X. Huang +9

HIP94235 b, a 120 Myr old sub-Neptune, provides us the unique opportunity to study mass loss at a pivotal stage of the system's evolution: the end of a 100 million year (Myr) old p…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 4 cited

A transiting multi-planet system in the 61 million year old association Theia 116

Sydney Vach, George Zhou, Chelsea X. Huang +28

Observing and characterizing young planetary systems can aid in unveiling the evolutionary mechanisms that sculpt the mature exoplanet population. As an all-sky survey, NASA's Tran…

astro-ph.EP2023

TOI-4641b: An Aligned Warm Jupiter Orbiting a Bright (V=7.5) Rapidly Rotating F-star

Allyson Bieryla, George Zhou, Juliana García-Mejía +25

We report the discovery of TOI-4641b, a warm Jupiter transiting a rapidly rotating F-type star with a stellar effective temperature of 6560 K. The planet has a radius of 0.73 $R_{J…

astro-ph.EP2014★ 60 cited

Constraining the Oblateness of Kepler Planets

Wei Zhu, Chelsea Huang, George Zhou +1

We use Kepler short cadence light curves to constrain the oblateness of planet candidates in the Kepler sample. The transits of rapidly rotating planets that are deformed in shape…