Exploring the Diversity of Extrasolar Planets

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30/03/2022
NASA reports cosmic milestone: over 5000 exoplanets have been discovered so far!

Among them are the most diverse celestial bodies: rocky planets like Earth, gas giants many times larger than Jupiter, “hot Jupiters” orbiting very close to…
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21/03/2022
The IAU Working Definition of an Exoplanet

Written by A. Lecavelier des Etangs and Jack J. Lissauer. In antiquity, all of the enduring celestial bodies that were seen to move relative to…
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18/03/2022
Cotton candy exoplanets: the lightest planets found so far

Several of the exoplanets discovered so far have exceptionally low densities. But that could be a misconception, astronomers say. Some exoplanets with surprisingly low density…
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May 2022
K. Herbst, L. R. Baalmann, A. Bykov, N. Engelbrecht, S. E. S. Ferreira, V. V. Izmodenov, S. D. Korolkov, K. P. Levenfish, J. L. Linsky, D. M. -A. Meyer, K. Scherer, R. Du Toit Strauss

Astrospheres of Planet-Hosting Cool Stars and Beyond ⋅ When Modeling Meets Observations

DOI
April 2022
L. M. Serrano, D. Gandolfi, A. J. Mustill, O. Barragán, J. Korth, F. Dai, S. Redfield, M. Fridlund, K. W. F. Lam, M. R. Díaz, S. Grziwa, K. A. Collins, J. H. Livingston, W. D. Cochran, C. Hellier, S. E. Bellomo, T. Trifonov, F. Rodler, J. Alarcon, J. M. Jenkins, D. W. Latham, G. Ricker, S. Seager, R. Vanderspek, J. N. Winn, S. Albrecht, K. I. Collins, S. Csizmadia, T. Daylan, H. J. Deeg, M. Esposito, M. Fausnaugh, I. Georgieva, E. Goffo, E. W. Guenther, A. P. Hatzes, S. B. Howell, E. L. N. Jensen, R. Luque, A. W. Mann, F. Murgas, H. L. M. Osborne, E. Pallé, C. M. Persson, P. Rowden, A. Rudat, A. M. S. Smith, J. D. Twicken, V. Van Eylen, C. Ziegler

A low-eccentricity migration pathway for a 13-h-period Earth analogue in a four-planet system

arXiv
April 2022
E. V. Turtelboom, L. M. Weiss, C. D. Dressing, G. Nowak, E. Pallé, C. Beard, S. Blunt, C. Brinkman, A. Chontos, Z. R. Claytor, F. Dai, P. A. Dalba, S. Giacalone, E. Gonzales, C. K. Harada, M. L. Hill, R. Holcomb, J. Korth, J. Lubin, T. Masseron, M. Macdougall, A. W. Mayo, T. Močnik, J. M. Akana Murphy, A. S. Polanski, M. Rice, R. A. Rubenzahl, N. Scarsdale, K. G. Stassun, D. B. Tyler, J. Van Zandt, I. Crossfield, H. J. Deeg, B. Fulton, D. Gandolfi, A. W. Howard, D. Huber, H. Isaacson, S. R. Kane, K. W. F. Lam, R. Luque, E. L. Martín, G. Morello, J. Orell-Miquel, E. A. Petigura, P. Robertson, A. Roy, V. Van Eylen, D. Baker, A. A. Belinski, A. Bieryla, D. R. Ciardi, K. A. Collins, N. Cutting, D. J. Della-Rose, T. B. Ellingsen, E. Furlan, T. Gan, C. L. Gnilka, P. Guerra, S. B. Howell, M. Jimenez, D. W. Latham, M. Larivière, K. V. Lester, J. Lillo-Box, L. Luker, C. R. Mann, P. Plavchan, B. Safonov, B. Skinner, I. A. Strakhov, J. Wittrock, D. Caldwell, Z. Essack, J. M. Jenkins, E. V. Quintana, G. R. Ricker, R. Vanderspek, S. Seager, J. N. Winn

The TESS-Keck Survey. XI. Mass Measurements for Four Transiting sub-Neptunes orbiting K dwarf TOI-1246

arXiv