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The First Habitable-zone Earth-sized Planet from TESS. I. Validation of the TOI-700 System
Kostov, Veselin B.; Barclay, Thomas; Vanderburg, Andrew +92 more
We present the discovery and validation of a three-planet system orbiting the nearby (31.1 pc) M2 dwarf star TOI-700 (TIC 150428135). TOI-700 lies in the TESS continuous viewing zone in the Southern Ecliptic Hemisphere; observations spanning 11 sectors reveal three planets with radii ranging from 1 R⊕ to 2.6 R⊕ and orbital pe…
Searching the Entirety of Kepler Data. II. Occurrence Rate Estimates for FGK Stars
Kunimoto, Michelle; Matthews, Jaymie M.
We present exoplanet occurrence rates estimated with approximate Bayesian computation for planets with radii between 0.5 and 16 R⊕ and orbital periods between 0.78 and 400 days orbiting FGK dwarf stars. We base our results on an independent planet catalog compiled from our search of all ∼200,000 stars observed over the Kepler mission, w…
Untangling the Galaxy. II. Structure within 3 kpc
Stassun, Keivan G.; Kounkel, Marina; Covey, Kevin
We present the results of the hierarchical clustering analysis of the Gaia DR2 data to search for clusters, comoving groups, and other stellar structures. The current paper builds on the sample from the previous work, extending it in distance from 1 to 3 kpc and increasing the number of identified structures up to 8292. To aid in the analysis of t…
High-precision Dark Halo Virial Masses from Globular Cluster Numbers: Implications for Globular Cluster Formation and Galaxy Assembly
Forbes, Duncan A.; Burkert, Andreas
We confirm that the number of globular clusters (GCs), NGC, is an excellent tracer of their host galaxy's halo virial mass, Mvir. The simple linear relation Mvir = 5 × 109 M⊙ × NGC fits the data perfectly from Mvir = 1010 M⊙ to Mvir = 2 × …
TESS Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets (THYME). II. A 17 Myr Old Transiting Hot Jupiter in the Sco-Cen Association
Vanderburg, Andrew; Quinn, Samuel N.; Law, Nicholas M. +10 more
We present the discovery of a transiting hot Jupiter orbiting HIP 67522 (Teff ∼ 5650 K; M* ∼ 1.2M⊙) in the 10-20 Myr old Sco-Cen OB association. We identified the transits in the TESS data using our custom notch filter planet search pipeline and characterize the system with additional photometry from Spitzer; spect…
Debris Disk Results from the Gemini Planet Imager Exoplanet Survey's Polarimetric Imaging Campaign
Matthews, Brenda C.; Duchêne, Gaspard; Esposito, Thomas M. +62 more
We report the results of a ∼4 yr direct imaging survey of 104 stars to resolve and characterize circumstellar debris disks in scattered light as part of the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) Exoplanet Survey. We targeted nearby (≲150 pc), young (≲500 Myr) stars with high infrared (IR) excesses (LIR/L⋆ > 10-5), includin…
The Featureless Transmission Spectra of Two Super-puff Planets
Fortney, Jonathan J.; Désert, Jean-Michel; Line, Michael R. +9 more
The Kepler mission revealed a class of planets known as "super-puffs," with masses only a few times larger than Earth's but radii larger than Neptune, giving them very low mean densities. All three of the known planets orbiting the young solar-type star Kepler 51 are super-puffs. The Kepler 51 system thereby provides an opportunity for a comparati…
TESS Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets (THYME). III. A Two-planet System in the 400 Myr Ursa Major Group
Gagliano, Robert; Kristiansen, Martti H.; LaCourse, Daryll M. +51 more
Exoplanets can evolve significantly between birth and maturity, as their atmospheres, orbits, and structures are shaped by their environment. Young planets (<1 Gyr) offer an opportunity to probe the critical early stages of this evolution, where planets evolve the fastest. However, most of the known young planets orbit prohibitively faint stars…
Revised and New Proper Motions for Confirmed and Candidate Milky Way Dwarf Galaxies
McConnachie, Alan W.; Venn, Kim A.
A new derivation of systemic proper motions of Milky Way satellites is presented and applied to 59 confirmed or candidate dwarf galaxy satellites using Gaia Data Release 2. This constitutes all known Milky Way dwarf galaxies (and likely candidates) as of 2020 May, except for the Magellanic Clouds, the Canis Major and Hydra 1 stellar overdensities,…
New Grids of Pure-hydrogen White Dwarf NLTE Model Atmospheres and the HST/STIS Flux Calibration
Rauch, Thomas; Hubeny, Ivan; Bohlin, Ralph C.
Nonlocal thermodynamic equilibrium (NLTE) calculations of hot white dwarf (WD) model atmospheres are the cornerstone of modern flux calibrations for the Hubble Space Telescope and for the CALSPEC database. These theoretical spectral energy distributions (SEDs) provide the relative flux versus wavelength, and only the absolute flux level remains to…