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most citedFrequently Occurring Reconnection Jets from Sunspot Light Bridges

94 citations · 313 across the 30 of their papers we have counts for

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36 papers

astro-ph.EP2026

A Misaligned Debris Disk relative to the Host Star CPD-72 2713 from JWST/NIRCam Imaging

Jingwen Zhang, Maxwell A. Millar-Blanchaer, Kellen Lawson +17

Observations of debris disks provide a valuable window to investigate the formation and evolution of planetary systems. We present high-contrast JWST/NIRCam observations of CPD-72…

astro-ph.EP2026

The Cephei System: Updated Orbits, Dynamical Architecture, and Limits on Additional Companions

Judah Van Zandt, Brendan P. Bowler, Michael Endl +18

The Cephei system hosts one of the first exoplanets discovered and is orbited by one of the closest known stellar companions to a planet-hosting star. Here, we derive updated o…

astro-ph.IM2026

The Roman Coronagraph Community Participation Program: early calibration plan and pilot observation of a companion

Julien H. Girard, Eric Cady, Neil T. Zimmerman +42

Roman is set to launch in weeks! The Coronagraph Instrument - technology pathfinder for future direct imaging missions - is ready to fly too. According to predictions, laboratory t…

astro-ph.IM2026

The Roman Coronagraph Community Participation Program: corgisim - a simulation suite for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Instrument

Jingwen Zhang, Sophie Noiret, Maxwell A. Millar Blanchaer +14

NASA's Roman Space Telescope will feature a pathfinder Coronagraph Instrument to demonstrate advanced high-contrast imaging from space, paving the way for future missions like the…

astro-ph.IM2026

The Roman Coronagraph Community Participation Program: Observation planning and data reduction for polarimetric mode

Ramya M Anche, Toshiyuki Mizuki, Justin Hom +25

Reflected-light polarimetry of exoplanets constrains and resolves degeneracies in atmospheric properties, while polarized light observations of debris disks enable the characteriza…

astro-ph.IM2026

The Roman Coronagraph Community Participation Program: pre-launch reference star list and impact of reference star properties on post-processing performance

Justin Hom, Schuyler G. Wolff, Jessica Gersh-Range +51

The upcoming Roman Coronagraph will be the first high-contrast instrument in space capable of high-order wavefront sensing and control technologies, a critical technology demonstra…

astro-ph.IM2026

The Roman Coronagraph Community Participation Program: data reduction pipeline design and implementation

Jason J. Wang, Maxwell A. Millar-Blanchaer, Marie Ygouf +39

The Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Instrument will demonstrate a series of technologies and techniques to enable the direct detection of reflected-light planets with space-based…

astro-ph.EP2026

Hydrogen airglow from an escaping ultrahot Jupiter atmosphere

Yapeng Zhang, Chenliang Huang, Aaron Householder +17

Intense high-energy irradiation of close-in gaseous exoplanets drives the rapid escape of their atmospheres, fundamentally shaping planetary demographics. While atmospheric loss is…

astro-ph.EP2026

An Outer Giant Planet or Brown Dwarf in the 51 Pegasi System?

Marvin Morgan, Brendan P. Bowler, Kyle Franson +15

51 Pegasi harbors the first confirmed extrasolar planet orbiting a Sun-like star. Decades of continued radial velocity (RV) observations have since uncovered signatures of an addit…

astro-ph.EP2026

Gaia Exoplanet Orbits, Demographics, and Evolution Survey (GEODES): Characteristics of Three Long-Period Companions Accelerating their Host Stars

Judah Van Zandt, Brendan Bowler, Erik Petigura +12

The upcoming release of DR4 will yield thousands of giant planet candidates, eventually enabling studies of giant planet eccentricities, masses, and occurrence rates across…

astro-ph.EP2026

Dynamical Mass Constraints on Transition Disk Perturbers with the G23H Catalog

Dori Blakely, William Thompson, Doug Johnstone +14

We present dynamical mass constraints on perturbers in 11 transition disk systems using a novel combination of calibrated Hipparcos and Gaia absolute astrometry data. Out of the sa…

astro-ph.EP2026

Detecting and Characterizing Companions with a Calibrated Gaia DR2, DR3, and Hipparcos Catalog (G23H)

William Thompson, Dori Blakely, Jerry W. Xuan +16

Gaia DR4 epoch astrometry will enable the detection of thousands of exoplanets through astrometric motion. Here, we present a composite catalog and modeling framework that extracts…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 8 cited

Extreme winds on the emerging dayside of an ultrahot Jupiter

Yapeng Zhang, Joost P. Wardenier, Aaron Householder +16

High-resolution spectroscopy provides a unique opportunity to directly probe atmospheric dynamics by resolving Doppler shifts of planetary signal as a function of orbital phases. U…

astro-ph.SR2025

A Test of Substellar Evolutionary Models with High-Precision Ages from Asteroseismology and Gyrochronology for the Benchmark System HR 7672AB

Yaguang Li, Michael C. Liu, Trent J. Dupuy +35

We present high-precision measurements for HR~7672AB, composed of a Sun-like (G0V) star and an L~dwarf companion. Three nights of precise (70 cm/s) radial velocity (RV) asteroseism…

astro-ph.SR2025

CoronaGraph Instrument Reference stars for Exoplanets (CorGI-REx) I. Preliminary Vetting and Implications for the Roman Coronagraph and Habitable Worlds Observatory

Justin Hom, Schuyler G. Wolff, Catherine A. Clark +28

The upcoming Roman Coronagraph will be the first high-contrast instrument in space capable of high-order wavefront sensing and control technologies, a critical technology demonstra…

astro-ph.EP2025

Discovery of a Debris Disk Around TWA 20

Skyler Palatnick, Maxwell A. Millar-Blanchaer, Jingwen Zhang +20

We report the discovery of a debris disk surrounding the M3 star, TWA 20, revealed by JWST coronagraphic observations using the Near-infrared Camera (NIRCam). With reference-star d…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 3 cited

Dynamical Architectures of S-type Transiting Planets in Binaries II: A Dichotomy in Orbital Alignment of Small Planets in Close Binary Systems

Jingwen Zhang, Daniel Huber, Michael Bottom +35

Stellar multiplicity plays a crucial role in shaping planet formation and dynamical evolution. We present a survey of 54 TESS Objects of Interest (TOIs) within 300 pc that exhibit…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 2 cited

The highest mass Kepler red giants -- II. Spectroscopic parameters, the amplitude-activity relation, and unexpected halo orbits

Courtney L. Crawford, Yaguang Li, Daniel Huber +11

The high-mass (M2 \Msolar{}) Kepler red giant stars are less well-studied than their lower-mass counterparts. In the previous article, we presented a sample of 48 high-mass Kepl…

astro-ph.EP2025

TOI-6324b: An Earth-Mass Ultra-Short-Period Planet Transiting a Nearby M Dwarf

Rena A. Lee, Fei Dai, Andrew W. Howard +71

We report the confirmation of TOI-6324 b, an Earth-sized (1.059 0.041 R) ultra-short-period (USP) planet orbiting a nearby (20 pc) M dwarf. Using the newly com…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 1 cited

The Compositions of Rocky Planets in Close-in Orbits Tend to be Earth-Like

Casey L. Brinkman, Lauren M. Weiss, Daniel Huber +54

Hundreds of exoplanets between 1-1.8 times the size of the Earth have been discovered on close in orbits. However, these planets show such a diversity in densities that some appear…

astro-ph.EP2024

Discovery of a Jupiter Analog Misaligned to the Inner Planetary System in HD 73344

Jingwen Zhang, Lauren M. Weiss, Daniel Huber +6

We present the discovery of a Jupiter-like planet, HD 73344 d (, AU, ) based on…

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

Additional Doppler Monitoring Corroborates HAT-P-11 c as a Planet

Samuel W. Yee, Erik A. Petigura, Howard Isaacson +15

In 2010, Bakos and collaborators discovered a Neptune-sized planet transiting the K-dwarf HAT-P-11 every five days. Later in 2018, Yee and collaborators reported an additional Jovi…

astro-ph.EP2024

A Testbed for Tidal Migration: the 3D Architecture of an Eccentric Hot Jupiter HD 118203 b Accompanied by a Possibly Aligned Outer Giant Planet

Jingwen Zhang, Daniel Huber, Lauren M. Weiss +31

Characterizing outer companions to hot Jupiters plays a crucial role in deciphering their origins. We present the discovery of a long-period giant planet, HD 118203 c ($m_{c}=11.79…