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Doomed Worlds II: Reassessing Suggestions of Orbital Decay for TrES-5 b
Marvin Rothmeier, Elisabeth R. Adams, Karsten Schindler +9
TrES-5b is one of only three ultra-hot Jupiters (UHJs) with suggestions of a possibly decreasing orbital period that have persisted through multiple independent analyses (G. Maciej…
Metrics for Optimizing Searches for Orbital Precession and Tidal Decay via Transit- and Occultation-Timing
Brian Jackson, Elisabeth R. Adams, Rachel M. Huchmala +4
Short-period exoplanets may exhibit orbital precession driven by several different processes, including tidal interactions with their host stars and secular interactions with addit…
Profiling Near-Surface Winds on Mars Using Attitude Data from Mars 2020 Ingenuity
Brian Jackson, Lori Fenton, Travis Brown +8
We used attitude data from the Mars Ingenuity helicopter with a simple steady-state model to estimate windspeeds and directions at altitudes of 3 meters up to 24 meters, the first…
Doomed Worlds I: No new evidence for orbital decay in a long-term survey of 43 ultra-hot Jupiters
Elisabeth R. Adams, Brian Jackson, Amanda A. Sickafoose +8
Ultra-hot Jupiters are likely doomed by tidal forces to undergo orbital decay and eventual disruption by their stars, but the timescale over which this process unfolds is unknown.…