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most citedUnderstanding the Mass-Radius Relation for Sub-Neptunes: Radius as a Proxy for Composition

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astro-ph.EP2016★ 167 cited

Born Dry in the Photo-Evaporation Desert: Kepler's Ultra-Short-Period Planets Formed Water-Poor

Eric D. Lopez

Recent surveys have uncovered an exciting new population of ultra-short-period (USP) planets with orbital periods less than a day. These planets typically have radii <1.5 Earth rad…

astro-ph.EP2016★ 152 cited

How formation time-scales affect the period dependence of the transition between rocky super-Earths and gaseous sub-Neptunes and implications for

Eric D. Lopez, Ken Rice

One of the most significant advances by NASA's Mission was the discovery of an abundant new population of highly irradiated planets with sizes between the Earth…

astro-ph.EP2016★ 108 cited

Kepler-21b: A rocky planet around a V = 8.25 magnitude star

Mercedes Lopez-Morales, Raphaelle D. Haywood, Jeffrey L. Coughlin +36

HD 179070, aka Kepler-21, is a V = 8.25 F6IV star and the brightest exoplanet host discovered by Kepler. An early detailed analysis by Howell et al. (2012) of the first thirteen mo…

astro-ph.EP2016★ 90 cited

A 1.9 Earth radius rocky planet and the discovery of a non-transiting planet in the Kepler-20 system

Lars A. Buchhave, Courtney D. Dressing, Xavier Dumusque +35

Kepler-20 is a solar-type star (V = 12.5) hosting a compact system of five transiting planets, all packed within the orbital distance of Mercury in our own Solar System. A transiti…

astro-ph.EP2016★ 130 cited

A Dynamical Analysis of the Kepler-80 System of Five Transiting Planets

Mariah G. MacDonald, Darin Ragozzine, Daniel C. Fabrycky +10

Kepler has discovered hundreds of systems with multiple transiting exoplanets which hold tremendous potential both individually and collectively for understanding the formation and…

astro-ph.EP2016★ 73 cited

K2-97b: A (Re-?)Inflated Planet Orbiting a Red Giant Star

Samuel K. Grunblatt, Daniel Huber, Eric J. Gaidos +11

Strongly irradiated giant planets are observed to have radii larger than thermal evolution models predict. Although these inflated planets have been known for over fifteen years, i…