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20062025
most citedA terrestrial planet candidate in a temperate orbit around Proxima Centauri

1.3k citations · 4k across the 56 of their papers we have counts for

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57 papers

astro-ph.EP2025

The Influence of Stellar Chromospheres and Coronae on Exoplanet Transmission Spectroscopy

Volker Perdelwitz, Adam Chaikin-Lifshitz, Aviv Ofir +1

A main source of bias in transmission spectroscopy of exoplanet atmospheres is magnetic activity of the host star in the form of stellar spots, faculae or flares. However, the fact…

astro-ph.EP2024

Planetary Mass Determinations from a Simplified Photodynamical Model -- Application To The Complete Kepler Dataset

Aviv Ofir, Gideon Yoffe, Oded Aharonson

We use PyDynamicaLC, a model using the least number of, and the least correlated, degrees of freedom needed to derive a photodynamical model, to describe some of the smallest -- an…

astro-ph.EP2023

The Advantages of Global Photometric Models in Fitting Transit Variations

Yair Judkovsky, Aviv Ofir, Oded Aharonson

Estimation of planetary orbital and physical parameters from light-curve data relies heavily on the accurate interpretation of Transit Timing Variations (TTV) measurements. In this…

astro-ph.EP2023

Kepler Multi-Transiting Systems Physical Properties and Impact Parameter Variations

Yair Judkovsky, Aviv Ofir, Oded Aharonson

We fit a dynamical model to Kepler systems that contain four or more transiting planets using the analytic method AnalyticLC, and obtain physical and orbital parameters for 101 pla…

astro-ph.IM2023

ULTRASAT: A wide-field time-domain UV space telescope

Y. Shvartzvald, E. Waxman, A. Gal-Yam +41

The Ultraviolet Transient Astronomy Satellite (ULTRASAT) is scheduled to be launched to geostationary orbit in 2026. It will carry a telescope with an unprecedentedly large field o…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 12 cited

Physical Properties and Impact Parameter Variations of Kepler Planets from Analytic Light Curve Modeling

Yair Judkovsky, Aviv Ofir, Oded Aharonson

We apply AnalyticLC, an analytic model described in an accompanying paper, to interpret Kepler data of systems that contain two or three transiting planets. We perform tests to ver…