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Kepler 62
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New Techniques Allow Discovery of Smallest Super-Earth Exoplanets A University of Washington astronomer, funded by a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award, has discovered perhaps the smallest super-earth planet in its host star habitable zone. E...
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K-giant planets
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Title: Planetary-mass companions to the K-giants BD+15 2940 and HD 233604 Authors: G. Nowak, A. Niedzielski, A. Wolszczan, M. Adamów, G. Maciejewski We report the discovery of planetary-mass companions to two red giants by the ongoing Penn State - Torun Planet Search (PTPS) conducted with the 9....
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Kepler-61b
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Title: Exoplanet Characterisation by Proxy: a Transiting 2.15 Earth Radii Planet Near the Habitable Zone of the Late K dwarf Kepler-61 Authors: Sarah Ballard, David Charbonneau, Francois Fressin, Guillermo Torres, Jonathan Irwin, Jean-Michel Desert, Elisabeth Newton, Andrew W. Mann, David...
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Habitable Exoplanets
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Title: Characterisation of potentially habitable planets: Retrieval of atmospheric and planetary properties from emission spectra Authors: P. von Paris, P. Hedelt, F. Selsis, F. Schreier, T. Trautmann An increasing number of potentially habitable terrestrial planets and planet candidate...
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Kepler-36b
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Astronomers spy two planets in tight quarters as they orbit a distant star A research team led by astronomers at the University of Washington and Harvard University has discovered a bigger version of Earth locked in an orbital tug-of-war with a much larger, Neptune-sized planet as they orbit very...
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KOI-142
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Title: KOI-142, the King of Transit Variations, is a Pair of Planets near the 2:1 Resonance Authors: David Nesvorny, David Kipping, Dirk Terrell, Joel Hartman, Gaspar A. Bakos, Lars A. Buchhave The Transit Timing Variations (TTVs) can be used as a diagnostic of gravitational interactions betwee...
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Circumbinary Planetary Systems
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Title: On the Habitable Zones of Circumbinary Planetary Systems Authors: Stephen R. Kane, Natalie R. Hinkel The effect of the stellar flux on exoplanetary systems is becoming an increasingly important property as more planets are discovered in the Habitable Zone (HZ). The Kepler mission has rec...
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Neptunian exoplanets
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Title: Interior Structure of Water Planets: Implications for their dynamo source regions Authors: Bob Yunsheng Tian, Sabine Stanley Recent discoveries of water-rich, sub-Neptunian to Neptunian-massed exoplanets with short-period orbits present a new parameter space for the study of exopl...
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HD 23079
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Title: Case Studies of Habitable Trojan Planets in the System of HD 23079 Authors: J. Eberle, M. Cúntz, B. Quarles, Z. E. Musielak We investigate the possibility of habitable Trojan planets in the HD 23079 star-planet system. This system consists of a solar-type star and a Jupiter-type planet, whi...
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HAT-P-27b
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Title: HAT-P-27b: A hot Jupiter transiting a G star on a 3 day orbit Authors: Bence Béky, Gáspár Á. Bakos, Joel Hartman, Guillermo Torres, David Latham, Andres Jordán, Pamela Arriagada, Daniel Bayliss, László L. Kiss, Géza Kovács, Sam L. Quinn, Geoffrey W. Marcy, Andrew W. Howard, Debra A. Fischer...
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WASP-8b
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Title: WASP-8b: Characterisation of a Cool and Eccentric Exoplanet with Spitzer Authors: Patricio Cubillos (1,2), Joseph Harrington (1,2), Nikku Madhusudhan (3), Kevin B. Stevenson (4), Ryan A. Hardy (1), Jasmina Blecic (1), David R. Anderson (5), Matthew Hardin (1), Christopher J. Campo (1)...
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2MASS J01033563-5515561(AB)b
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Title: Direct imaging discovery of 12-14 Jupiter mass object orbiting a young binary system of very low-mass stars Authors: P. Delorme, J. Gagné, J.H. Girard, A.M. Lagrange, G. Chauvin, M-E. Naud, D. Lafreničre, R. Doyon, A. Riedel, M. Bonnefoy, L. Malo Context. Though only a handful of extrasola...
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Super-dense terrestrial exoplanets
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Super-dense celestial bodies could be a new kind of planet Mysterious dense bodies outside the Solar System could be the remnants of ice giants similar to Neptune that wandered too close to their suns, according to results presented this week at a meeting on exoplanets at the Royal Society in London...
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OGLE-2011-BLG-0251
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Title: A Giant Planet beyond the Snow Line in Microlensing Event OGLE-2011-BLG-0251 Authors: N. Kains, R. Street, J.-Y. Choi, C. Han, A. Udalski, L. A. Almeida, F. Jablonski, P. Tristram, U. G. Jorgensen, M. K. Szymanski, M. Kubiak, G. Pietrzynski, I. Soszynski, R. Poleski, S. Kozlowski, P. Pietr...
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Kepler-41b
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Title: Confirmation of Hot Jupiter Kepler-41b via Phase Curve Analysis Authors: Elisa V. Quintana, Jason F. Rowe, Thomas Barclay, Steve B. Howell, David R. Ciardi, Brice-Olivier Demory, Douglas A. Caldwell, William J. Borucki, Jessie L. Christiansen, Jon M. Jenkins, Todd C. Klaus, Benjamin J....
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