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Evolution of Planetary Obliquity: The Eccentric Kozai–Lidov Mechanism Coupled with Tide
The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 Planetary obliquity plays a significant role in determining the physical properties of planetary surfaces and climate. As direct detection is constrained due to the present observation accuracy, kinetic theories are helpful for predicting the evolution ...
Xiumin Huang +4 more
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The Sensitivity of Eclipse Mapping to Planetary Rotation
The Astronomical Journal, 2022 Mapping exoplanets across phases and during secondary eclipse is a powerful technique for characterizing Hot Jupiters in emission. Since these planets are expected to rotate about axes normal to their orbital planes, with rotation periods synchronized ...
Arthur D. Adams, Emily Rauscher
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The Astronomical Journal, 2023 We present a validation of a long-period ( ${91.68278}_{-0.00041}^{+0.00032}$ days) transiting sub-Neptune planet, TOI-1221 b (TIC 349095149.01), around a Sun-like ( m _V = 10.5) star.
Christopher Mann +27 more
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Exploring Climate with Obliquity in a Variable-eccentricity Earth-like World
The Astronomical Journal, 2023 Exploring planetary systems similar to our solar system can provide a means to explore a large range of possibly temperate climates on Earth-like worlds.
M. J. Way +2 more
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Kepler-80 Revisited: Assessing the Participation of a Newly Discovered Planet in the Resonant Chain
The Astronomical Journal, 2023 In this paper, we consider the chain of resonances in the Kepler-80 system and evaluate the impact that the additional member of the resonant chain discovered by Shallue & Vanderburg has on the dynamics of the system and the physical parameters that can ...
D. Weisserman +2 more
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Dynamical Evolution of Closely Packed Multiple Planetary Systems Subject to Atmospheric Mass Loss
The Astronomical Journal, 2023 A gap in exoplanets’ radius distribution has been widely attributed to the photoevaporation threshold of their progenitors’ gaseous envelope. Giant impacts can also lead to substantial mass loss.
Su Wang, D. N. C. Lin
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Tidal Dissipation Regimes among the Short-period Exoplanets
The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2023 The efficiency of tidal dissipation provides a zeroth-order link to a planet’s physical properties. For super-Earth and sub-Neptune planets in the range R _⊕ ≲ R _p ≲ 4 R _⊕ , particularly efficient dissipation (i.e., low tidal quality factors) may ...
Emma M. Louden +2 more
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exoMMR: A New Python Package to Confirm and Characterize Mean Motion Resonances
The Astronomical Journal, 2023 The study of orbital resonances allows for the constraint of planetary properties of compact systems. We can predict a system’s resonances by observing the orbital periods of the planets, as planets in or near mean motion resonance (MMR) have period ...
Mariah G. MacDonald +4 more
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TOI-1136 is a Young, Coplanar, Aligned Planetary System in a Pristine Resonant Chain
The Astronomical Journal, 2023 Convergent disk migration has long been suspected to be responsible for forming planetary systems with a chain of mean-motion resonances (MMRs). Dynamical evolution over time could disrupt the delicate resonant configuration. We present TOI-1136, a 700 ±
Fei Dai +62 more
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TOI-1670 c, a 40 day Orbital Period Warm Jupiter in a Compact System, Is Well Aligned
The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2023 We report the measurement of the sky-projected obliquity angle λ of the warm Jovian exoplanet TOI-1670 c via the Rossiter–McLaughlin effect. We observed the transit window during UT 2023 April 20 for 7 continuous hours with NEID on the 3.5 m WIYN ...
Jack Lubin +23 more
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