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20082023
most citedA dynamically-packed planetary system around GJ667C with three super-Earths in its habitable zone

384 citations · 3k across the 66 of their papers we have counts for

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68 papers

astro-ph.IM2023

Ultrafast transfer of low-mass payloads to Mars and beyond using aerographite solar sails

Julius Karlapp, René Heller, Martin Tajmar

With interstellar mission concepts now being under study by various space agencies and institutions, a feasible and worthy interstellar precursor mission concept will be key to the…

astro-ph.IM2023

RoSETZ: Roman Survey of the Earth Transit Zone -- a SETI-optimized survey for habitable-zone exoplanets

Eamonn Kerins, Supachai Awiphan, Kathryn Edmondson +12

In this White Paper for Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Roman) science, we propose the Roman Survey of the Earth Transit Zone (RoSETZ), a transit search for rocky planets within…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 33 cited

TOI-2525 b and c: A pair of massive warm giant planets with a strong transit timing variations revealed by TESS

Trifon Trifonov, Rafael Brahm, Andres Jordan +44

TOI-2525 is a K-type star with an estimated mass of M = 0.849 M and radius of R = 0.785 R observed by the TESS mission in 22…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 15 cited

The TEMPO Survey I: Predicting Yields of the Transiting Exosatellites, Moons, and Planets from a 30-day Survey of Orion with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

Mary Anne Limbach, Melinda Soares-Furtado, Andrew Vanderburg +12

We present design considerations for the Transiting Exosatellites, Moons, and Planets in Orion (TEMPO) Survey with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. This proposed 30-day surve…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 25 cited

Transit least-squares survey IV. Earth-like transiting planets expected from the PLATO mission

René Heller, Jan-Vincent Harre, Réza Samadi

In its long-duration observation phase, the PLATO satellite will observe two non-overlapping fields for a total of 4 yr. The exact duration of each pointing will be determined 2 yr…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 15 cited

Pandora: A fast open-source exomoon transit detection algorithm

Michael Hippke, René Heller

We present Pandora, a new software to model, detect, and characterize transits of extrasolar planets with moons in stellar photometric time series. Pandora uses an analytical descr…