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Four newborn planets transiting the young solar analog V1298 Tau
Trevor J. David, Erik A. Petigura, Rodrigo Luger +4
Exoplanets orbiting pre-main sequence stars are laboratories for studying planet evolution processes, including atmospheric loss, orbital migration, and radiative cooling. V1298 Ta…
Analytic Planetary Transit Light Curves and Derivatives for Stars with Polynomial Limb Darkening
Eric Agol, Rodrigo Luger, Daniel Foreman-Mackey
We derive analytic, closed-form solutions for the light curve of a planet transiting a star with a limb darkening profile which is a polynomial function of the stellar elevation, u…
EXOFASTv2: A public, generalized, publication-quality exoplanet modeling code
Jason D. Eastman, Joseph E. Rodriguez, Eric Agol +6
We present the next generation public exoplanet fitting software, EXOFASTv2. It is capable of fitting an arbitrary number of planets, radial velocity data sets, astrometric data se…
Detecting volcanically produced tori along orbits of exoplanets using UV spectroscopy
Kristina G. Kislyakova, Luca Fossati, Denis Shulyak +17
We suggest to use the Hubble Space Telescople (HST) follow-up observations of the TESS targets for detecting possible plasma tori along the orbits of exoplanets orbiting M dwarfs.…
Detection of Hundreds of New Planet Candidates and Eclipsing Binaries in K2 Campaigns 0-8
Ethan Kruse, Eric Agol, Rodrigo Luger +1
We implement a search for exoplanets in campaigns zero through eight (C0-8) of the K2 extension of the Kepler spacecraft. We apply a modified version of the QATS planet search algo…
On The XUV Luminosity Evolution of TRAPPIST-1
David P. Fleming, Rory Barnes, Rodrigo Luger +1
We model the long-term XUV luminosity of TRAPPIST-1 to constrain the evolving high-energy radiation environment experienced by its planetary system. Using Markov Chain Monte Carlo…
No Evidence for Lunar Transit in New Analysis of Hubble Space Telescope Observations of the Kepler-1625 System
Laura Kreidberg, Rodrigo Luger, Megan Bedell
Observations of the Kepler-1625 system with the Kepler and Hubble Space Telescopes have suggested the presence of a candidate exomoon, Kepler-1625b I, a Neptune-radius satellite or…
VPLanet: The Virtual Planet Simulator
Rory Barnes, Rodrigo Luger, Russell Deitrick +14
We describe a software package called VPLanet that simulates fundamental aspects of planetary system evolution over Gyr timescales, with a focus on investigating habitable worlds.…
TESS Photometric Mapping of a Terrestrial Planet in the Habitable Zone: Detection of Clouds, Oceans, and Continents
Rodrigo Luger, Megan Bedell, Roland Vanderspek +1
To date, a handful of exoplanets have been photometrically mapped using phase-modulated reflection or emission from their surfaces, but the small amplitudes of such signals have li…
The Pointing Limits of Transiting Exoplanet Light Curve Characterization with Pixel Level De-correlation
Nicholas Saunders, Rodrigo Luger, Rory Barnes
We present scope (Simulated CCD Observations for Photometric Experimentation), a Python package to create a forward model of telescope detectors and simulate stellar targets with m…
eleanor: An open-source tool for extracting light curves from the TESS Full-Frame Images
Adina D. Feinstein, Benjamin T. Montet, Daniel Foreman-Mackey +8
During its two year prime mission the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will perform a time-series photometric survey covering over 80% of the sky. This survey comprises…
Rotation Period Evolution in Low-Mass Binary Stars: The Impact of Tidal Torques and Magnetic Braking
David P. Fleming, Rory Barnes, James R. A. Davenport +1
We examine how tides, stellar evolution, and magnetic braking shape the rotation period (P) evolution of low-mass stellar binaries up to orbital periods (P) of 100…
Detecting Ocean Glint on Exoplanets Using Multiphase Mapping
Jacob Lustig-Yaeger, Victoria S. Meadows, Guadalupe Tovar Mendoza +4
Rotational mapping and glint are two proposed methods to directly detect liquid water on the surface of habitable exoplanets. However, false positives for both methods may prevent…
Wobble: A Data-driven Analysis Technique for Time-series Stellar Spectra
Megan Bedell, David W. Hogg, Daniel Foreman-Mackey +2
In recent years, dedicated extreme-precision radial velocity (EPRV) spectrographs have produced vast quantities of high-resolution, high-signal-to-noise time-series spectra for bri…