An Edge-On Orbit for the Eccentric Long-Period Planet HR 5183 b

Kavli Affiliate: Andrew Vanderburg | First 5 Authors: Alexander Venner, Logan A. Pearce, Andrew Vanderburg, , | Summary: The long-period giant planet HR 5183 b has one of the most extreme orbits among exoplanets known to date. In this work we use Hipparcos-Gaia astrometry to measure the orbital inclination of this planet for the first […]


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Amplified J-factors in the Galactic Center for velocity-dependent darkmatter annihilation in FIRE simulations

Kavli Affiliate: Lina Necib | First 5 Authors: Daniel McKeown, James S. Bullock, Francisco J. Mercado, Zachary Hafen, Michael Boylan-Kolchin | Summary: We use FIRE-2 zoom cosmological simulations of Milky Way size galaxy halos to calculate astrophysical J-factors for dark matter annihilation and indirect detection studies. In addition to velocity-independent (s-wave) annihilation cross sections $sigma_v$, […]


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K2-79b and K2-222b: Mass measurements of two small exoplanets with periods beyond 10 days that overlap with periodic magnetic activity signals

Kavli Affiliate: Andrew Vanderburg | First 5 Authors: Chantanelle Nava, Mercedes López-Morales, Annelies Mortier, Li Zeng, Helen A. C. Giles | Summary: We present mass and radius measurements of K2-79b and K2-222b, two transiting exoplanets orbiting active G-type stars. Their respective 10.99d and 15.39d orbital periods fall near periods of signals induced by stellar magnetic […]


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TOI-712: a system of adolescent mini-Neptunes extending to the habitable zone

Kavli Affiliate: Roland K. Vanderspek | First 5 Authors: Sydney Vach, Samuel N. Quinn, Andrew Vanderburg, Stephen R. Kane, Karen A. Collins | Summary: As an all-sky survey, NASA’s $TESS$ mission is able to detect the brightest and rarest types of transiting planetary systems, including young planets that enable study of the evolutionary processes that […]


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The THESAN project: predictions for multi-tracer line intensity mapping in the epoch of reionization

Kavli Affiliate: Mark Vogelsberger | First 5 Authors: Rahul Kannan, Aaron Smith, Enrico Garaldi, Xuejian Shen, Mark Vogelsberger | Summary: Line intensity mapping (LIM) is rapidly emerging as a powerful technique to study galaxy formation and cosmology in the high-redshift Universe. We present LIM estimates of select spectral lines originating from the interstellar medium (ISM) […]


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TOI-2076 and TOI-1807: Two young, comoving planetary systems within 50 pc identified by TESS that are ideal candidates for further follow-up

Kavli Affiliate: Roland K. Vanderspek | First 5 Authors: Christina Hedges, Alex Hughes, Steven Giacalone, George Zhou, Trevor J. David | Summary: We report the discovery of two planetary systems around comoving stars; TOI-2076 (TIC 27491137) and TOI-1807 (TIC 180695581). TOI-2076 is a nearby (41.9 pc) multi-planetary system orbiting a young (204$pm$50 Myr), bright (K […]


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Interpretable contrastive word mover’s embedding

Kavli Affiliate: Eric Miller | First 5 Authors: Ruijie Jiang, Julia Gouvea, Eric Miller, David Hammer, Shuchin Aeron | Summary: This paper shows that a popular approach to the supervised embedding of documents for classification, namely, contrastive Word Mover’s Embedding, can be significantly enhanced by adding interpretability. This interpretability is achieved by incorporating a clustering […]


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On measuring the Hubble constant with X-ray reverberation mapping of active galactic nuclei

Kavli Affiliate: Erin Kara | First 5 Authors: Adam Ingram, Guglielmo Mastroserio, Michiel van der Klis, Edward Nathan, Riley Connors | Summary: We show that X-ray reverberation mapping can be used to measure the distance to type 1 active galactic nuclei (AGNs). This is because X-ray photons originally emitted from the `corona’ close to the […]


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First Doppler Limits on Binary Planets and Exomoons in the HR 8799 System

Kavli Affiliate: Andrew Vanderburg | First 5 Authors: Andrew Vanderburg, Joseph E. Rodriguez, , , | Summary: We place the first constraints on binary planets and exomoons from Doppler monitoring of directly imaged exoplanets. We model radial velocity observations of HR 8799 b, c, and d from Ruffio et al. (2021) and determine upper limits […]


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Gemini/GMOS Transmission Spectroscopy of the Grazing Planet Candidate WD 1856+534 b

Kavli Affiliate: Andrew Vanderburg | First 5 Authors: Siyi Xu, Hannah Diamond-Lowe, Ryan J. MacDonald, Andrew Vanderburg, Simon Blouin | Summary: WD 1856+534 b is a Jupiter-sized, cool giant planet candidate transiting the white dwarf WD 1856+534. Here, we report an optical transmission spectrum of WD 1856+534 b obtained from ten transits using the Gemini […]


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