11 papers
A New Sirius-like System at Only 21 Parsecs: An Elusive White Dwarf Companion to the Nearby K-dwarf HD 38230
Alexander Venner, Logan A. Pearce, Qier An +6
White dwarfs are among the rarest and faintest stars found in the solar neighbourhood and are therefore persistently challenging to detect. Whereas the \textit{Gaia} mission has va…
The Architecture of the 14 Herculis System Suggests Primordial Ejection of a Massive Planet
Tiger Lu, Sarah C. Millholland, Malena Rice +6
The 14 Herculis system hosts two super-Jupiters on eccentric, significantly misaligned orbits. This orbital architecture represents a dynamical puzzle that demands explanation. In…
A carbon-rich atmosphere on a windy pulsar planet
Michael Zhang, Maya Beleznay, Timothy D. Brandt +17
A handful of enigmatic Jupiter-mass objects have been discovered orbiting pulsars. One such object, PSR\,J2322-2650b, uniquely resembles a hot Jupiter exoplanet due to its minimum…
The Roman Space Telescope as a Planetary Defense Asset
Bryan J. Holler, Richard G. Cosentino, William C. Schultz +5
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, slated to launch in October 2026, will serve a critical role in the characterization and threat assessment of near-Earth Objects (NEOs), t…
Orbits and Masses for 156 Companions from Combined Astrometry and Radial Velocities, and A Validation of Gaia Non-Single Star Solutions
Qier An, Timothy D. Brandt, G. Mirek Brandt +1
We combine absolute astrometry from Hipparcos and Gaia with archival radial velocities from the Keck/HIRES and ESO/HARPS spectrographs, as well as relative astrometry (when availab…
Hundreds of TESS exoplanets might be larger than we thought
Te Han, Paul Robertson, Timothy D. Brandt +5
The radius of a planet is a fundamental parameter that probes its composition and habitability. Precise radius measurements are typically derived from the fraction of starlight blo…