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most citedValidation of Kepler's Multiple Planet Candidates. III: Light Curve Analysis & Announcement of Hundreds of New Multi-planet Systems

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astro-ph.EP2026

Kepler-50: Two Planets in Close Resonance Perturbed by a Non-transiting Planet

Daniel Jontof-Hutter, Jason F. Rowe, Jack J. Lissauer +1

Kepler-50 has two transiting planets close to the 6:5 commensurability. We analyze transit times measured from Kepler data with dynamical fits. We attribute the residual signal to…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 1 cited

Gas-depleted planet formation occurred in the four-planet system around the red dwarf LHS 1903

Thomas G. Wilson, Anna M. Simpson, Andrew Collier Cameron +173

Small exoplanet radii show two populations, referred to as super-Earths and sub-Neptunes, separated by a gap known as the radius valley. This may be produced by the removal of atmo…

astro-ph.EP2024

A Fourth Planet in the Kepler-51 System Revealed by Transit Timing Variations

Kento Masuda, Jessica E. Libby-Roberts, John H. Livingston +49

Kepler-51 is a -old Sun-like star hosting three transiting planets with radii - and orbital periods -$130\,\mathrm{day…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 5 cited

Gaussian Processes and Nested Sampling Applied to Kepler's Small Long-period Exoplanet Candidates

Michael R. B. Matesic, Jason F. Rowe, John H. Livingston +3

There are more than 5000 confirmed and validated planets beyond the solar system to date, more than half of which were discovered by NASA's Kepler mission. The catalog of Kepler's…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 17 cited

Updated Catalog of Kepler Planet Candidates: Focus on Accuracy and Orbital Periods

Jack J. Lissauer, Jason F. Rowe, Daniel Jontof-Hutter +5

We present a new catalog of Kepler planet candidates that prioritizes accuracy of planetary dispositions and properties over uniformity. This catalog contains 4376 transiting plane…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 56 cited

The Kepler Giant Planet Search. I: A Decade of Kepler Planet-host Radial Velocities from W. M. Keck Observatory

Lauren M. Weiss, Howard Isaacson, Andrew W. Howard +17

Despite the importance of Jupiter and Saturn to Earth's formation and habitability, there has not yet been a comprehensive observational study of how giant exoplanets correlate wit…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 7 cited

A Decade of Linear and Circular Polarimetry with the POLISH2 Polarimeter

Sloane J. Wiktorowicz, Agnieszka Słowikowska, Larissa A. Nofi +15

The POLISH2 optical polarimeter has been in operation at the Lick Observatory 3-m Shane telescope since 2011, and it was commissioned at the Gemini North 8-m in 2016. This instrume…

astro-ph.EP2022

Refining the Masses and Radii of the Star Kepler-33 and its Five Transiting Planets

James Sikora, Jason Rowe, Daniel Jontof-Hutter +1

Kepler-33 hosts five validated transiting planets ranging in period from 5 to 41 days. The planets are in nearly co-planar orbits and exhibit remarkably similar (appropriately scal…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 14 cited

Constraining the Densities of the Three Kepler-289 Planets with Transit Timing Variations

Michael Greklek-McKeon, Heather A. Knutson, Shreyas Vissapragada +4

Kepler-289 is a three-planet system containing two sub-Neptunes and one cool giant planet orbiting a young, Sun-like star. All three planets exhibit transit timing variations (TTVs…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 18 cited

TESS Observations of Kepler systems with Transit Timing Variations

Daniel Jontof-Hutter, Paul A. Dalba, John H. Livingston

We identify targets in the Kepler field that may be characterized by transit timing variations (TTVs) and are detectable by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). Despit…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 22 cited

Following up the Kepler field: Masses of Targets for transit timing and atmospheric characterization

Daniel Jontof-Hutter, Angie Wolfgang, Eric B. Ford +3

We identify a set of planetary systems observed by Kepler that merit transit timing variation (TTV) analysis given the orbital periods of transiting planets, the uncertainties for…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 35 cited

A Featureless Infrared Transmission Spectrum for the Super-Puff Planet Kepler-79d

Yayaati Chachan, Daniel Jontof-Hutter, Heather A. Knutson +12

Extremely low density planets ('super-puffs') are a small but intriguing subset of the transiting planet population. With masses in the super-Earth range ( M) and…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 108 cited

Predicting the long-term stability of compact multiplanet systems

Daniel Tamayo, Miles Cranmer, Samuel Hadden +11

We combine analytical understanding of resonant dynamics in two-planet systems with machine learning techniques to train a model capable of robustly classifying stability in compac…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 18 cited

TESS discovery of a super-Earth and three sub-Neptunes hosted by the bright, Sun-like star HD 108236

Tansu Daylan, Kartik Pingle, Jasmine Wright +59

We report the discovery and validation of four extrasolar planets hosted by the nearby, bright, Sun-like (G3V) star HD~108236 using data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satell…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 69 cited

The Compositional Diversity of Low-Mass Exoplanets

Daniel Jontof-Hutter

Low-mass planets have an extraordinarily diverse range of bulk compositions, from primarily rocky worlds to those with deep gaseous atmospheres. As techniques for measuring the mas…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 23 cited

K2-19b and c are in a 3:2 Commensurability but out of Resonance: A Challenge to Planet Assembly by Convergent Migration

Erik A. Petigura, John Livingston, Konstantin Batygin +11

K2-19b and c were among the first planets discovered by NASA's K2 mission and together stand in stark contrast with the physical and orbital properties of the solar system planets.…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 71 cited

Diffuser-Assisted Infrared Transit Photometry for Four Dynamically Interacting \textit{Kepler} Systems

Shreyas Vissapragada, Daniel Jontof-Hutter, Avi Shporer +11

We present ground-based infrared transit observations for four dynamically interacting \textit{Kepler} planets, including Kepler-29b, Kepler-36c, KOI-1783.01, and Kepler-177c, obta…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 89 cited

Discovery of a Third Transiting Planet in the Kepler-47 Circumbinary System

Jerome A. Orosz, William F. Welsh, Nader Haghighipour +16

Of the nine confirmed transiting circumbinary planet systems, only Kepler-47 is known to contain more than one planet. Kepler-47 b (the "inner planet") has an orbital period of 49.…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 23 cited

Identifying inflated super-Earths and photo-evaporated cores

Daniel Carrera, Eric B. Ford, Andre Izidoro +3

We present empirical evidence, supported by a planet formation model, to show that the curve approximates the location of the so-called pho…

astro-ph.EP2018

Exoplanet Diversity in the Era of Space-based Direct Imaging Missions

Ravi Kopparapu, Eric Hebrard, Rus Belikov +55

This whitepaper discusses the diversity of exoplanets that could be detected by future observations, so that comparative exoplanetology can be performed in the upcoming era of larg…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 9 cited

Outer Architecture of Kepler-11: Constraints from Coplanarity

Daniel Jontof-Hutter, Brian P. Weaver, Eric B. Ford +2

The outer architectures of Kepler's compact systems of multiple transiting planets remain poorly constrained and few of these systems have lower bounds on the orbital distance of a…

astro-ph.EP2016★ 201 cited

Transit Timing Observations from Kepler. IX. Catalog of the Full Long-Cadence Data Set

Tomer Holczer, Tsevi Mazeh, Gil Nachmani +6

We present a new transit timing catalog of 2599 Kepler Objects of Interest (=KOIs), using the PDC-MAP long-cadence light curves that include the full seventeen quarters of the miss…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 145 cited

Secure TTV Mass Measurements: Ten Kepler Exoplanets between 3 and 8 Earth Masses with Diverse Densities and Incident Fluxes

Daniel Jontof-Hutter, Eric B. Ford, Jason F. Rowe +7

We infer dynamical masses in eight multi-planet systems using transit times measured from Kepler's complete dataset, including short-cadence data where available. Of the eighteen d…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 89 cited

The Ĝ Search for Extraterrestrial Civilizations with Large Energy Supplies. IV. The Signatures and Information Content of Transiting Megastructures

Jason T. Wright, Kimberly M. S. Cartier, Ming Zhao +2

Arnold (2005), Forgan (2013), and Korpela et al. (2015) noted that planet-sized artificial structures could be discovered with Kepler as they transit their host star. We present a…