Search Results - "BUTLER, R. Paul"
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OBLIQUITIES OF HOT JUPITER HOST STARS: EVIDENCE FOR TIDAL INTERACTIONS AND PRIMORDIAL MISALIGNMENTS
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-09-2012)“…We provide evidence that the obliquities of stars with close-in giant planets were initially nearly random, and that the low obliquities that are often…”
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The Lick-Carnegie Exoplanet Survey: a Uranus-Mass Fourth Planet for GJ 876 in an Extrasolar Laplace Configuration
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-08-2010)“…Continued radial velocity (RV) monitoring of the nearby M4V red dwarf star GJ 876 with Keck/High Resolution Echelle Spectrograph has revealed the presence of a…”
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The PFS View of TOI-677 b: A Spin–Orbit Aligned Warm Jupiter in a Dynamically Hot System
Published in The Astronomical journal (01-04-2024)“…Abstract TOI-677 b is part of an emerging class of “tidally detached” gas giants ( a / R ⋆ ≳ 11) that exhibit large orbital eccentricities and yet low stellar…”
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TOI-1173 A b: The First Inflated Super-Neptune in a Wide Binary System
Published in The Astronomical journal (01-08-2024)“…Abstract Among Neptunian mass exoplanets (20−50 M ⊕ ), puffy hot Neptunes are extremely rare, and their unique combination of low mass and extended radii…”
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Evidence for Low-level Dynamical Excitation in Near-resonant Exoplanet Systems
Published in The Astronomical journal (01-12-2023)“…Abstract The geometries of near-resonant planetary systems offer a relatively pristine window into the initial conditions of exoplanet systems. Given that…”
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The Magellan/PFS Exoplanet Search: a 55-d period dense Neptune transiting the bright (V = 8.6) star HD 95338
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-08-2020)“…ABSTRACT We report the detection of a transiting, dense Neptune planet candidate orbiting the bright (V = 8.6) K0.5V star HD 95338. Detection of the 55-d…”
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Low-amplitude Solar-like Oscillations in the K5 V Star ϵ Indi A
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-04-2024)“…Abstract We have detected solar-like oscillations in the mid-K-dwarf ϵ Indi A, making it the coolest dwarf to have measured oscillations. The star is…”
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The Amplitude of Solar Oscillations Using Stellar Techniques
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-08-2008)“…The amplitudes of solar-like oscillations depend on the excitation and damping, both of which are controlled by convection. Comparing observations with theory…”
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Doppler Constraints on Planetary Companions to Nearby Sun-like Stars: An Archival Radial Velocity Survey of Southern Targets for Proposed NASA Direct Imaging Missions
Published in The Astronomical journal (01-04-2023)“…Abstract Directly imaging temperate rocky planets orbiting nearby, Sun-like stars with a 6 m class IR/O/UV space telescope, recently dubbed the Habitable…”
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ASTROMETRY AND RADIAL VELOCITIES OF THE PLANET HOST M DWARF GJ 317: NEW TRIGONOMETRIC DISTANCE, METALLICITY, AND UPPER LIMIT TO THE MASS OF GJ 317b
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-02-2012)“…We have obtained precision astrometry of the planet host M dwarf GJ 317 in the framework of the Carnegie Astrometric Planet Search project. The new astrometric…”
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TOI-1075 b: A Dense, Massive, Ultra-short-period Hot Super-Earth Straddling the Radius Gap
Published in The Astronomical journal (01-02-2023)“…Abstract Populating the exoplanet mass–radius diagram in order to identify the underlying relationship that governs planet composition is driving an…”
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Revised Architecture and Two New Super-Earths in the HD 134606 Planetary System
Published in The Astronomical journal (01-04-2024)“…Abstract Multiplanet systems exhibit a diversity of architectures that diverge from the solar system and contribute to the topic of exoplanet demographics…”
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A low-mass planet candidate orbiting Proxima Centauri at a distance of 1.5 AU
Published in Science advances (15-01-2020)“…Our nearest neighbor, Proxima Centauri, hosts a temperate terrestrial planet. We detected in radial velocities evidence of a possible second planet with…”
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The Lick-Carnegie Exoplanet Survey: A Saturn-Mass Planet in the Habitable Zone of the Nearby M4V Star HIP 57050
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-05-2010)“…Precision radial velocities (RV) from Keck/HIRES reveal a Saturn-mass planet orbiting the nearby M4V star HIP 57050. The planet has a minimum mass of Msin i…”
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A Transiting Super-Earth in the Radius Valley and an Outer Planet Candidate Around HD 307842
Published in The Astronomical journal (01-07-2023)“…Abstract We report the confirmation of a TESS-discovered transiting super-Earth planet orbiting a mid-G star, HD 307842 (TOI-784). The planet has a period of…”
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A Super-Earth and Two Neptunes Orbiting the Nearby Sun-like Star 61 Virginis
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-01-2010)“…We present precision radial velocity data that reveal a multiple exoplanet system orbiting the bright nearby G5V star 61 Virginis. Our 4.6 years of combined…”
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TOI-4201: An Early M Dwarf Hosting a Massive Transiting Jupiter Stretching Theories of Core Accretion
Published in Astrophysical journal. Letters (01-02-2024)“…Abstract We confirm TOI-4201 b as a transiting Jovian-mass planet orbiting an early M dwarf discovered by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. Using…”
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Measurement of the Spin-Orbit Angle of Exoplanet HAT-P-1b
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-10-2008)“…We present new spectroscopic and photometric observations of the HAT-P-1 planetary system. Spectra obtained during three transits exhibit the…”
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High-eccentricity planets from the Anglo-Australian Planet Search
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-06-2006)“…We report Doppler measurements of the stars HD 187085 and HD 20782 which indicate two high eccentricity low-mass companions to the stars. We find HD 187085 has…”
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DETECTION OF EXTRASOLAR GIANT PLANETS
Published in Annual review of astronomy and astrophysics (01-01-1998)“…Eight extrasolar planet candidates have now been identified, all revealed by Keplerian Doppler shifts in their host stars. The masses ( m sin i ) lie between…”
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