Search Results - "Latham, David W."

Absence of a thick atmosphere on the terrestrial exoplanet LHS 3844b by Kreidberg, Laura, Koll, Daniel D. B., Morley, Caroline, Hu, Renyu, Schaefer, Laura, Deming, Drake, Stevenson, Kevin B., Dittmann, Jason, Vanderburg, Andrew, Berardo, David, Guo, Xueying, Stassun, Keivan, Crossfield, Ian, Charbonneau, David, Latham, David W., Loeb, Abraham, Ricker, George, Seager, Sara, Vanderspek, Roland

“…Most known terrestrial planets orbit small stars with radii less than 60 per cent of that of the Sun 1 , 2 . Theoretical models predict that these planets are…”
Get full text

A noninteracting low-mass black hole-giant star binary system by Thompson, Todd A, Kochanek, Christopher S, Stanek, Krzysztof Z, Badenes, Carles, Post, Richard S, Jayasinghe, Tharindu, Latham, David W, Bieryla, Allyson, Esquerdo, Gilbert A, Berlind, Perry, Calkins, Michael L, Tayar, Jamie, Lindegren, Lennart, Johnson, Jennifer A, Holoien, Thomas W-S, Auchettl, Katie, Covey, Kevin

“…Black hole binary systems with companion stars are typically found via their x-ray emission, generated by interaction and accretion. Noninteracting binaries…”
Get full text

A spin-down clock for cool stars from observations of a 2.5-billion-year-old cluster by Meibom, Søren, Barnes, Sydney A., Platais, Imants, Gilliland, Ronald L., Latham, David W., Mathieu, Robert D.

“…The measurement of the rotational periods of 30 cool stars in the 2.5-billion-year-old cluster NGC 6819 allows the calibration of gyrochronology — the…”
Get full text

THE TRANSITING EXOPLANET SURVEY SATELLITE: SIMULATIONS OF PLANET DETECTIONS AND ASTROPHYSICAL FALSE POSITIVES by Sullivan, Peter W., Winn, Joshua N., Berta-Thompson, Zachory K., Charbonneau, David, Deming, Drake, Dressing, Courtney D., Latham, David W., Levine, Alan M., McCullough, Peter R., Morton, Timothy, Ricker, George R., Vanderspek, Roland, Woods, Deborah

“…ABSTRACT The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is a NASA-sponsored Explorer mission that will perform a wide-field survey for planets that transit…”
Get full text

Three regimes of extrasolar planet radius inferred from host star metallicities by Buchhave, Lars A., Bizzarro, Martin, Latham, David W., Sasselov, Dimitar, Cochran, William D., Endl, Michael, Isaacson, Howard, Juncher, Diana, Marcy, Geoffrey W.

“…Analysis of the metallicities of more than 400 stars hosting 600 candidate extrasolar planets shows that the planets can be categorized by size into three…”
Get full text

A disintegrating minor planet transiting a white dwarf by Vanderburg, Andrew, Johnson, John Asher, Rappaport, Saul, Bieryla, Allyson, Irwin, Jonathan, Lewis, John Arban, Kipping, David, Brown, Warren R., Dufour, Patrick, Ciardi, David R., Angus, Ruth, Schaefer, Laura, Latham, David W., Charbonneau, David, Beichman, Charles, Eastman, Jason, McCrady, Nate, Wittenmyer, Robert A., Wright, Jason T.

“…The atmospheres of white dwarfs often contain elements heavier than helium, even though these elements would be expected to settle into the stars’ interiors;…”
Get full text

WIYN Open Cluster Study. XC. Radial-velocity Measurements and Spectroscopic Binary Orbits in the Open Cluster NGC 2506 by Linck, Evan, Mathieu, Robert D., Latham, David W.

“…Abstract NGC 2506 is a rich, intermediate-age (2.0 Gyr), metal-poor ([Fe/H] ∼ −0.2) open cluster. This work presents the results of 12,157 spectroscopic…”
Get full text

Dynamical Masses for the Hyades Binary System vB 120 by Torres, Guillermo, Stefanik, Robert P., Latham, David W.

“…Abstract We report spectroscopic observations of vB 120 (HD 30712), a 5.7 yr astrometric–spectroscopic binary system in the Hyades cluster. We combine our…”
Get full text

Standing on the Shoulders of Dwarfs: the Kepler Asteroseismic LEGACY Sample. I. Oscillation Mode Parameters by Lund, Mikkel N., Aguirre, Víctor Silva, Davies, Guy R., Chaplin, William J., Christensen-Dalsgaard, Jørgen, Houdek, Günter, White, Timothy R., Bedding, Timothy R., Ball, Warrick H., Huber, Daniel, Antia, H. M., Lebreton, Yveline, Latham, David W., Handberg, Rasmus, Verma, Kuldeep, Basu, Sarbani, Casagrande, Luca, Justesen, Anders B., Kjeldsen, Hans, Mosumgaard, Jakob R.

“…The advent of space-based missions like Kepler has revolutionized the study of solar-type stars, particularly through the measurement and modeling of their…”
Get full text

The Metallicity Distribution and Hot Jupiter Rate of the Kepler Field: Hectochelle High-resolution Spectroscopy for 776 Kepler Target Stars by Guo, Xueying, Johnson, John A., Mann, Andrew W., Kraus, Adam L., Curtis, Jason L., Latham, David W.

“…The occurrence rate of hot Jupiters from the Kepler transit survey is roughly half that of radial velocity surveys targeting solar neighborhood stars. One…”
Get full text

Dynamical Masses for the Triple System HD 28363 in the Hyades Cluster by Torres, Guillermo, Stefanik, Robert P., Latham, David W.

“…The star HD 28363 in the Hyades cluster has been known for over a century as a visual binary with a period of 40 yr. The secondary is, in turn, a single-lined…”
Get full text

Mid-to-late M Dwarfs Lack Jupiter Analogs by Pass, Emily K., Winters, Jennifer G., Charbonneau, David, Irwin, Jonathan M., Latham, David W., Berlind, Perry, Calkins, Michael L., Esquerdo, Gilbert A., Mink, Jessica

“…Abstract Cold Jovian planets play an important role in sculpting the dynamical environment in which inner terrestrial planets form. The core accretion model…”
Get full text

Occurrence Rate of Hot Jupiters Around Early-type M Dwarfs Based on Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite Data by Gan, Tianjun, Wang, Sharon X., Wang, Songhu, Mao, Shude, Huang, Chelsea X., Collins, Karen A., Stassun, Keivan G., Shporer, Avi, Zhu, Wei, Ricker, George R., Vanderspek, Roland, Latham, David W., Seager, Sara, Winn, Joshua N., Jenkins, Jon M., Barkaoui, Khalid, Belinski, Alexander A., Ciardi, David R., Evans, Phil, Girardin, Eric, Maslennikova, Nataliia A., Mazeh, Tsevi, Panahi, Aviad, Pozuelos, Francisco J., Radford, Don J., Schwarz, Richard P., Twicken, Joseph D., Wünsche, Anaël, Zucker, Shay

“…Abstract We present an estimate of the occurrence rate of hot Jupiters (7 R ⊕ ≤ R p ≤ 2 R J , 0.8 ≤ P b ≤ 10 days) around early-type M dwarfs based on stars…”
Get full text

Flares, Rotation, and Planets of the AU Mic System from TESS Observations by Gilbert, Emily A., Barclay, Thomas, Quintana, Elisa V., Walkowicz, Lucianne M., Vega, Laura D., Schlieder, Joshua E., Monsue, Teresa, Cale, Bryson L., Collins, Kevin I., Gaidos, Eric, El Mufti, Mohammed, Reefe, Michael A., Plavchan, Peter, Tanner, Angelle, Wittenmyer, Robert A., Wittrock, Justin M., Jenkins, Jon M., Latham, David W., Ricker, George R., Rose, Mark E., Seager, S., Vanderspek, Roland K., Winn, Joshua N.

“…Abstract AU Mic is a young (∼24 Myr), pre-main-sequence M dwarf star that was observed in the first month of science observations of the Transiting Exoplanet…”
Get full text

THE KEPLER-10 PLANETARY SYSTEM REVISITED BY HARPS-N: A HOT ROCKY WORLD AND A SOLID NEPTUNE-MASS PLANET by DUMUSQUE, XAVIER, Bonomo, Aldo S, Haywood, Raphaelle D, Malavolta, Luca, SEGRANSAN, DAMIEN, Buchhave, Lars A, Cameron, Andrew Collier, Latham, David W, Molinari, Emilio, Pepe, Francesco

“…Kepler-10b was the first rocky planet detected by the Kepler satellite and confirmed with radial velocity follow-up observations from Keck-HIRES. The mass of…”
Get full text

A super-Earth transiting a nearby low-mass star by Charbonneau, David, Berta, Zachory K., Irwin, Jonathan, Burke, Christopher J., Nutzman, Philip, Buchhave, Lars A., Lovis, Christophe, Bonfils, Xavier, Latham, David W., Udry, Stéphane, Murray-Clay, Ruth A., Holman, Matthew J., Falco, Emilio E., Winn, Joshua N., Queloz, Didier, Pepe, Francesco, Mayor, Michel, Delfosse, Xavier, Forveille, Thierry

“…A super-Earth with atmosphere 'Super-Earths' are extrasolar planets about two to ten times the mass of the Earth, too small to be considered 'Jupiters'…”
Get full text

The Mass Dependence of Hα Emission and Stellar Spindown for Fully Convective M Dwarfs by Pass, Emily K., Charbonneau, David, Latham, David W., Berlind, Perry, Calkins, Michael L., Esquerdo, Gilbert A., Mink, Jessica

“…Abstract Fully convective M dwarfs typically remain rapidly rotating and magnetically active for billions of years, followed by an abrupt and mass-dependent…”
Get full text

Kepler-102: Masses and Compositions for a Super-Earth and Sub-Neptune Orbiting an Active Star by Brinkman, Casey L., Cadman, James, Weiss, Lauren, Gaidos, Eric, Rice, Ken, Huber, Daniel, Claytor, Zachary R., Bonomo, Aldo S., Buchhave, Lars A., Cameron, Andrew Collier, Cosentino, Rosario, Dumusque, Xavier, Martinez Fiorenzano, Aldo F., Ghedina, Adriano, Harutyunyan, Avet, Howard, Andrew, Isaacson, Howard, Latham, David W., López-Morales, Mercedes, Malavolta, Luca, Micela, Giuseppina, Molinari, Emilio, Pepe, Francesco, Philips, David F., Poretti, Ennio, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Udry, Stéphane

“…Abstract Radial velocity (RV) measurements of transiting multiplanet systems allow us to understand the densities and compositions of planets unlike those in…”
Get full text

Multiepoch Detections of the Extended Atmosphere and Transmission Spectra of KELT-9b with a 1.5 m Telescope by Lowson, Nataliea, Zhou, George, Wright, Duncan J., Huang, Chelsea X., Mendonça, João M., Cabot, Samuel H. C., Pudmenzky, Christa, Wittenmyer, Robert A., Latham, David W., Bieryla, Allyson, Esquerdo, Gilbert A., Berlind, Perry, Calkins, Michael L.

“…Abstract Irradiated Jovian atmospheres are complex and dynamic and can undergo temporal variations due to the close proximity of their parent stars. Of the…”
Get full text

Orbits and Dynamical Masses for Six Binary Systems in the Hyades Cluster by Torres, Guillermo, Schaefer, Gail H., Stefanik, Robert P., Latham, David W., Boden, Andrew F., Anugu, Narsireddy, Jones, Jeremy W., Klement, Robert, Kraus, Stefan, Lanthermann, Cyprien, Monnier, John D.

“…Abstract We report long-baseline interferometric observations with the CHARA Array that resolve six previously known double-lined spectroscopic binary systems…”
Get full text