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most citedThe Exoplanet Mass-Ratio Function from the MOA-II Survey: Discovery of a Break and Likely Peak at a Neptune Mass

278 citations · 720 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

astro-ph.EP2024

An Earth-sized Planet on the Verge of Tidal Disruption

Fei Dai, Andrew W. Howard, Samuel Halverson +95

TOI-6255~b (GJ 4256) is an Earth-sized planet (1.079 ) with an orbital period of only 5.7 hours. With the newly commissioned Keck Planet Finder (KPF) and CARMEN…

astro-ph.EP2024

New insights into the internal structure of GJ 1214 b informed by JWST

Matthew C. Nixon, Anjali A. A. Piette, Eliza M. -R. Kempton +7

Recent JWST observations of the sub-Neptune GJ 1214 b suggest that it hosts a high-metallicity (>100x solar), hazy atmosphere. Emission spectra of the planet show molecular absorpt…

astro-ph.EP202327 cited

Helium Enhanced Planets Along the Upper Edge of the Radius Valley

Isaac Malsky, Leslie Rogers, Eliza M. R. Kempton +1

The low mean densities of sub-Neptunes imply that they formed within a few million years and accreted primordial envelopes. Because these planets receive a total X-ray and extreme…

astro-ph.EP202323 cited

Where are the Water Worlds?: Self-Consistent Models of Water-Rich Exoplanet Atmospheres

Eliza M. -R. Kempton, Madeline Lessard, Matej Malik +5

It remains to be ascertained whether sub-Neptune exoplanets primarily possess hydrogen-rich atmospheres or whether a population of HO-rich "water worlds" lurks in their midst.…

astro-ph.EP20222 cited

Mass Upper Bounds for Over 50 Kepler Planets Using Low-S/N Transit Timing Variations

Jared C. Siegel, Leslie A. Rogers

Prospects for expanding the available mass measurements of the Kepler sample are limited. Planet masses have typically been inferred via radial velocity (RV) measurements of the ho…

astro-ph.EP202219 cited

Thermal Evolution and magnetic history of rocky planets

Jisheng Zhang, Leslie Rogers

We present a thermal evolution model coupled with a Henyey solver to study the circumstances under which a rocky planet could potentially host a dynamo in its liquid iron core and/…