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Tidally Induced Radius Inflation of Sub-Neptunes by Millholland, Sarah

“…Recent work suggests that many short-period super-Earth and sub-Neptune planets may have significant spin axis tilts ("obliquities"). When planets are locked…”
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Obliquity-driven sculpting of exoplanetary systems by Millholland, Sarah, Laughlin, Gregory

“…NASA’s Kepler mission revealed that ~30% of Solar-type stars harbour planets with sizes between that of Earth and Neptune on nearly circular and coplanar…”
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Formation of Ultra-short-period Planets by Obliquity-driven Tidal Runaway by Millholland, Sarah C., Spalding, Christopher

“…Small, rocky planets have been found orbiting in extreme proximity to their host stars, sometimes down to only ∼2 stellar radii. These ultra-short-period…”
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Formation of Close-in Neptunes around Low-mass Stars through Breaking Resonant Chains by Liveoak, Donald, Millholland, Sarah C.

“…Abstract Conventional planet formation theories predict a paucity of massive planets around small stars, especially very low-mass (0.1−0.3 M ⊙ ) mid-to-late M…”
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Inferred Properties of Planets in Mean-motion Resonances are Biased by Measurement Noise by Jensen, David, Millholland, Sarah C.

“…Abstract Planetary systems with mean-motion resonances hold special value in terms of their dynamical complexity and their capacity to constrain planet…”
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Can Cold Jupiters Sculpt the Edge-of-the-multis? by Sobski, Nicole, Millholland, Sarah C.

“…Abstract Compact systems of multiple close-in super-Earths/sub-Neptunes ( compact multis ) are a ubiquitous outcome of planet formation. It was recently…”
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Spin Dynamics of Planets in Resonant Chains by Millholland, Sarah C., Lara, Teo, Toomlaid, Jan

“…Abstract About a dozen exoplanetary systems have been discovered with three or more planets participating in a sequence of mean-motion resonances. The unique…”
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Polar Neptunes Are Stable to Tides by Louden, Emma M., Millholland, Sarah C.

“…Abstract There is an intriguing and growing population of Neptune-sized planets with stellar obliquities near ∼90°. One previously proposed formation pathway…”
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Edge-of-the-Multis: Evidence for a Transition in the Outer Architectures of Compact Multiplanet Systems by Millholland, Sarah C., He, Matthias Y., Zink, Jon K.

“…Abstract Although the architectures of compact multiple-planet systems are well characterized, there has been little examination of their “outer edges,” or the…”
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Self-consistent Spin, Tidal, and Dynamical Equations of Motion in the REBOUNDx Framework by Lu, Tiger, Rein, Hanno, Tamayo, Daniel, Hadden, Sam, Mardling, Rosemary, Millholland, Sarah C., Laughlin, Gregory

“…Abstract We introduce self-consistent spin, tidal, and dynamical equations of motion into REBOUNDx , a library of additional effects for the popular N -body…”
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Tidal Dissipation Regimes among the Short-period Exoplanets by Louden, Emma M., Laughlin, Gregory P., Millholland, Sarah C.

“…Abstract 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…”
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The black hole low-mass X-ray binary V404 Cygni is part of a wide triple by Burdge, Kevin B., El-Badry, Kareem, Kara, Erin, Canizares, Claude, Chakrabarty, Deepto, Frebel, Anna, Millholland, Sarah C., Rappaport, Saul, Simcoe, Rob, Vanderburg, Andrew

“…Evidence suggests that, when compact objects such as black holes and neutron stars form, they may receive a ‘natal kick’, during which the stellar remnant…”
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The Prevalence of Resonance Among Young, Close-in Planets by Dai, Fei, Goldberg, Max, Batygin, Konstantin, van Saders, Jennifer, Chiang, Eugene, Choksi, Nick, Li, Rixin, Petigura, Erik A., Gilbert, Gregory J., Millholland, Sarah C., Dai, Yuan-Zhe, Bouma, Luke, Weiss, Lauren M., Winn, Joshua N.

“…Abstract Multiple planets undergoing disk migration may be captured into a chain of mean-motion resonances with the innermost planet parked near the disk’s…”
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TOI-1685 b Is a Hot Rocky Super-Earth: Updates to the Stellar and Planet Parameters of a Popular JWST Cycle 2 Target by Burt, Jennifer A., Hooton, Matthew J., Mamajek, Eric E., Barragán, Oscar, Millholland, Sarah C., Fairnington, Tyler R., Fisher, Chloe, Halverson, Samuel P., Huang, Chelsea X., Brady, Madison, Seifahrt, Andreas, Gaidos, Eric, Luque, Rafael, Kasper, David, Bean, Jacob L.

“…Abstract We present an updated characterization of the TOI-1685 planetary system, which consists of a P b = 0.69 day ultra-short-period super-Earth planet…”
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A 2:1 Mean-motion Resonance Super-Jovian Pair Revealed by TESS, FEROS, and HARPS by Bozhilov, Vladimir, Antonova, Desislava, Hobson, Melissa J., Brahm, Rafael, Jordán, Andrés, Henning, Thomas, Eberhardt, Jan, Rojas, Felipe I., Batygin, Konstantin, Torres-Miranda, Pascal, Stassun, Keivan G., Millholland, Sarah C., Stoeva, Denitza, Minev, Milen, Espinoza, Nestor, Ricker, George R., Latham, David W., Dragomir, Diana, Kunimoto, Michelle, Jenkins, Jon M., Ting, Eric B., Seager, Sara, Winn, Joshua N., Villasenor, Jesus Noel, Bouma, Luke G., Medina, Jennifer, Trifonov, Trifon

“…Abstract We report the discovery of a super-Jovian 2:1 mean-motion resonance (MMR) pair around the G-type star TIC 279401253, whose dynamical architecture is a…”
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The Warm Neptune GJ 3470b Has a Polar Orbit by Stefànsson, Guđmundur, Mahadevan, Suvrath, Petrovich, Cristobal, Winn, Joshua N., Kanodia, Shubham, Millholland, Sarah C., Maney, Marissa, Cañas, Caleb I., Wisniewski, John, Robertson, Paul, Ninan, Joe P., Ford, Eric B., Bender, Chad F., Blake, Cullen H., Cegla, Heather, Cochran, William D., Diddams, Scott A., Dong, Jiayin, Endl, Michael, Fredrick, Connor, Halverson, Samuel, Hearty, Fred, Hebb, Leslie, Hirano, Teruyuki, Lin, Andrea S. J., Logsdon, Sarah E., Lubar, Emily, McElwain, Michael W., Metcalf, Andrew J., Monson, Andrew, Rajagopal, Jayadev, Ramsey, Lawrence W., Roy, Arpita, Schwab, Christian, Schweiker, Heidi, Terrien, Ryan C., Wright, Jason T.

“…The warm Neptune GJ 3470b transits a nearby (d = 29 pc) bright slowly rotating M1.5-dwarf star. Using spectroscopic observations during two transits with the…”
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Measured spin–orbit alignment of ultra-short-period super-Earth 55 Cancri e by Zhao, Lily L., Kunovac, Vedad, Brewer, John M., Llama, Joe, Millholland, Sarah C., Hedges, Christina, Szymkowiak, Andrew E., Roettenbacher, Rachael M., Cabot, Samuel H. C., Weiss, Sam A., Fischer, Debra A.

“…A planet’s orbital alignment places important constraints on how a planet formed and consequently evolved. The dominant formation pathway of ultra-short-period…”
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Author Correction: Measured spin–orbit alignment of ultra-short-period super-Earth 55 Cancri e by Zhao, Lily L., Kunovac, Vedad, Brewer, John M., Llama, Joe, Millholland, Sarah C., Hedges, Christina, Szymkowiak, Andrew E., Roettenbacher, Rachael M., Cabot, Samuel H. C., Weiss, Sam A., Fischer, Debra A.

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Excitation of Planetary Obliquities through Planet-Disk Interactions by Millholland, Sarah, Batygin, Konstantin

“…The tilt of a planet's spin axis off its orbital axis ("obliquity") is a basic physical characteristic that plays a central role in determining the planet's…”
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Tidal Inflation Reconciles Low-density Sub-Saturns with Core Accretion by Millholland, Sarah, Petigura, Erik, Batygin, Konstantin

“…While the solar system contains no planets between the sizes of Uranus and Saturn, our current exoplanet census includes several dozen such planets with…”
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