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Overcoming the Meter Barrier and The Formation of Systems with Tightly-packed Inner Planets (STIPs)
Aaron C. Boley, Melissa A. Morris, Eric B. Ford
We present a solution to the long outstanding meter barrier problem in planet formation theory. As solids spiral inward due to aerodynamic drag, they will enter disk regions that a…
Planetesimal Interactions Can Explain the Mysterious Period Ratios of Small Near-Resonant Planets
Sourav Chatterjee, Eric B. Ford
An intriguing trend among \kepler's multi-planet systems is an overabundance of planet pairs with period ratios just wide of a mean motion resonance (MMR) and a dearth of systems j…
An Earth-sized Planet in the Habitable Zone of a Cool Star
Elisa V. Quintana, Thomas Barclay, Sean N. Raymond +20
The quest for Earth-like planets represents a major focus of current exoplanet research. While planets that are Earth-sized and smaller have been detected, these planets reside in…
Architectures of Planetary Systems and Implications for their Formation
Eric B. Ford
Doppler planet searches revealed that many giant planets orbit close to their host star or in highly eccentric orbits. These and subsequent observations inspired new theories of pl…
Validation of Kepler's Multiple Planet Candidates. III: Light Curve Analysis & Announcement of Hundreds of New Multi-planet Systems
Jason F. Rowe, Stephen T. Bryson, Geoffrey W. Marcy +25
The Kepler mission has discovered over 2500 exoplanet candidates in the first two years of spacecraft data, with approximately 40% of them in candidate multi-planet systems. The hi…
Validation of Kepler's Multiple Planet Candidates. II: Refined Statistical Framework and Descriptions of Systems of Special Interest
Jack J. Lissauer, Geoffrey W. Marcy, Stephen T. Bryson +11
We extend the statistical analysis of Lissauer et al. (2012, ApJ 750, 112), which demonstrates that the overwhelming majority of Kepler candidate multiple transiting systems (multi…