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TESS Photometry and Radial Velocity Analysis of the sub-Neptune Exoplanet π Mensae c and the Wider π Mensae Planetary System
Skylar S. Larsen, Jake D. Turner, Nikole K. Lewis +10
Exoplanet characterization relies on precise measurements of planetary orbital and physical parameters. This is particularly important for planetary dynamics and atmospheric evolut…
Signatures of Atmospheric Mass Loss and Planet Migration in the Time Evolution of Short-Period Transiting Exoplanets
Rachel B. Fernandes, Galen J. Bergsten, Gijs D. Mulders +19
Comparative studies of young and old exoplanet populations offer a glimpse into how planets may form and evolve with time. We present an occurrence rate study of short-period (1…
Thermal Phase Curves in Hot Gas Giant Exoplanets Exhibit a Complex Dependence on Planetary Properties
Mark R Swain, Kyle A Pearson, Thaddeus D. Komacek +5
We present a catalog of uniformly processed 3.6-m and 4.5-m band exoplanet thermal phase curves based on Infrared Array Camera observations obtained from the Spitzer Heritage…
Using Photometrically-Derived Properties of Young Stars to Refine TESS's Transiting Young Planet Survey Completeness
Rachel B. Fernandes, Kevin K. Hardegree-Ullman, Ilaria Pascucci +7
The demographics of young exoplanets can shed light onto their formation and evolution processes. Exoplanet properties are derived from the properties of their host stars. As such,…
13 New Light Curves and Updated Mid-Transit Time and Period for Hot Jupiter WASP-104 b with EXOTIC
Heather B. Hewitt, Federico Noguer, Suber Corley +17
Using the EXOplanet Transit Interpretation Code (EXOTIC), we reduced 52 sets of images of WASP-104 b, a Hot Jupiter-class exoplanet orbiting WASP-104, in order to obtain an updated…
Utilizing a global network of telescopes to update the ephemeris for the highly eccentric planet HD 80606 b and to ensure the efficient scheduling of JWST
Kyle A. Pearson, Chas Beichman, Benjamin J. Fulton +37
The transiting planet HD80606b undergoes a 1000-fold increase in insolation during its 111-day orbit due to it being highly eccentric (e=0.93). The planet's effective temperature i…
Pterodactyls: A Tool to Uniformly Search and Vet for Young Transiting Planets In TESS Primary Mission Photometry
Rachel B. Fernandes, Gijs D. Mulders, Ilaria Pascucci +8
Kepler's short-period exoplanet population has revealed evolutionary features such as the Radius Valley and the Hot Neptune desert that are likely sculpted by atmospheric loss over…
Detection of an Atmosphere on a Rocky Exoplanet
Mark R. Swain, Raissa Estrela, Gael M. Roudier +7
We report the detection of an atmosphere on a rocky exoplanet, GJ 1132 b, which is similar to Earth in terms of size and density. The atmospheric transmission spectrum was detected…
Utilizing Small Telescopes Operated by Citizen Scientists for Transiting Exoplanet Follow-up
Robert T. Zellem, Kyle A. Pearson, Ethan Blaser +41
Due to the efforts by numerous ground-based surveys and NASA's Kepler and TESS, there will be hundreds, if not thousands, of transiting exoplanets ideal for atmospheric characteriz…
A search for multi-planet systems with TESS using a Bayesian N-body retrieval and machine learning
Kyle A. Pearson
Transiting exoplanets in multi-planet systems exhibit non-Keplerian orbits as a result of the gravitational influence from companions which can cause the times and durations of tra…
Ground-based Spectroscopy of the Exoplanet XO-2b using a Systematic Wavelength Calibration
Kyle A. Pearson, Caitlin A. Griffith, Robert T. Zellem +2
Exoplanets orbiting close to their host star are expected to support a large ionosphere, which extends to larger pressures than witnessed in our Solar System. These ionospheres can…
Investigating the physical properties of transiting hot Jupiters with the 1.5-m Kuiper Telescope
Jake D. Turner, Robin M. Leiter, Lauren I. Biddle +13
We present new photometric data of 11 hot Jupiter transiting exoplanets (CoRoT-12b, HAT-P-5b, HAT-P-12b, HAT-P-33b, HAT-P-37b, WASP-2b, WASP-24b, WASP-60b, WASP-80b, WASP-103b, XO-…
Ground-based near-UV observations of 15 transiting exoplanets: Constraints on their atmospheres and no evidence for asymmetrical transits
Jake D. Turner, Kyle A. Pearson, Lauren I. Biddle +37
Transits of exoplanets observed in the near-UV have been used to study the scattering properties of their atmospheres and possible star-planet interactions. We observed the primary…
Rayleigh Scattering in the Atmosphere of the Warm Exo-Neptune GJ 3470b
Diana Dragomir, Björn Benneke, Kyle A. Pearson +4
GJ 3470b is a warm Neptune-size planet transiting a M dwarf star. Like the handful of other small exoplanets for which transmission spectroscopy has been obtained, GJ 3470b exhibit…
XO-2b: a hot Jupiter with a variable host star that potentially affects its measured transit depth
Robert T. Zellem, Caitlin A. Griffith, Kyle A. Pearson +6
The transiting hot Jupiter XO-2b is an ideal target for multi-object photometry and spectroscopy as it has a relatively bright (-mag = 11.25) K0V host star (XO-2N) and a large p…
Warm Ice Giant GJ 3470b. II Revised Planetary and Stellar Parameters from Optical to Near-infrared Transit Photometry
Lauren I. Biddle, Kyle A. Pearson, Ian J. M. Crossfield +19
It is important to explore the diversity of characteristics of low-mass, low-density planets to understand the nature and evolution of this class of planets. We present a homogeneo…
Photometric observation of HAT-P-16b in the near-UV
Kyle A. Pearson, Jake D. Turner, Thomas A. G. Sagan
We present the first primary transit light curve of the hot Jupiter HAT-P-16b in the near-UV photometric band. We observed this object on December 29,2012 in order to update the tr…