11 papers
Atmospheric Signatures of Common Envelope Evolution in White Dwarf Planets
Sydney Jenkins, Andrew Vanderburg, James Mang +4
The majority of confirmed exoplanets orbit within 1 au of a main-sequence (MS) star. When their stellar hosts evolve off the MS, many of these planets will be engulfed and destroye…
Peas and USPs: Can Stellar Spindown and Peas in a Pod Replicate Ultra-Short-Period Planet Characteristics?
Adam Distler, Juliette Becker
Peas-in-a-Pod (PIAP) systems have been shown to be common across exoplanet systems, with regular planet spacings and similar planet sizes. In contrast, ultra-short-period planets h…
The Fate of Oceans on First-Generation Planets Orbiting White Dwarfs
Juliette Becker, Andrew Vanderburg, Joseph Livesey
Several groups have recently suggested that small planets orbiting very closely around white dwarf stars could be promising locations for life to arise, even after stellar death. T…
An Eccentric Sub-Neptune Moving Into the Evaporation Desert
Sydney Jenkins, Andrew Vanderburg, Ritika Sethi +31
Though missions such as Kepler, K2, and TESS have discovered 2,000 sub-Neptune and Neptunian planets, there is a dearth of such planets at close-in (P3 days) orbits. T…
Three-Dimensional Orbital Architectures and Detectability of Adjacent Companions to Hot Jupiters
Thomas MacLean, Juliette Becker
The orbital properties of the (as-yet) small population of hot Jupiters with nearby planetary companions provide valuable constraints on the past migration processes of these syste…
Thermal Evolution and Mass Loss on Short-Period, Low-Mass Planets During FU Orionis Outbursts
Juliette Becker, Konstantin Batygin
Ultra-short-period (USP) planets represent a unique class of exoplanets characterized by their tight orbits and relatively low masses, with some also exhibiting unusually high iron…