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1. Five carbon- and nitrogen-bearing species in a hot giant planet's atmosphere

Author: Giacobbe, Paolo, Brogi, Matteo, Gandhi, Siddharth, Cubillos, Patricio E., Bonomo, Aldo S., Sozzetti, Alessandro, Fossati, Luca, Guilluy, Gloria, Carleo, Ilaria, Rainer, Monica, Harutyunyan, Avet, Borsa, Francesco, Pino, Lorenzo, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Benatti, Serena, Biazzo, Katia, Bignamini, Andrea, Chubb, Katy L., Claudi, Riccardo, Cosentino, Rosario, Covino, Elvira, Damasso, Mario, Desidera, Silvano, Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M., Ghedina, Adriano, Lanza, Antonino F., Leto, Giuseppe, Maggio, Antonio, Malavolta, Luca, Maldonado, Jesus, Micela, Giuseppina, Molinari, Emilio, Pagano, Isabella, Pedani, Marco, Piotto, Giampaolo, Poretti, Ennio, Scandariato, Gaetano, Yurchenko, Sergei N., Fantinel, Daniela, Galli, Alberto, Lodi, Marcello, Sanna, Nicoletta, Tozzi, Andrea, Giacobbe, Paolo, Brogi, Matteo, Gandhi, Siddharth, Cubillos, Patricio E., Bonomo, Aldo S., Sozzetti, Alessandro, Fossati, Luca, Guilluy, Gloria, Carleo, Ilaria, Rainer, Monica, Harutyunyan, Avet, Borsa, Francesco, Pino, Lorenzo, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Benatti, Serena, Biazzo, Katia, Bignamini, Andrea, Chubb, Katy L., Claudi, Riccardo, Cosentino, Rosario, Covino, Elvira, Damasso, Mario, Desidera, Silvano, Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M., Ghedina, Adriano, Lanza, Antonino F., Leto, Giuseppe, Maggio, Antonio, Malavolta, Luca, Maldonado, Jesus, Micela, Giuseppina, Molinari, Emilio, Pagano, Isabella, Pedani, Marco, Piotto, Giampaolo, Poretti, Ennio, Scandariato, Gaetano, Yurchenko, Sergei N., Fantinel, Daniela, Galli, Alberto, Lodi, Marcello, Sanna, Nicoletta, and Tozzi, Andrea
Abstract: The atmospheres of gaseous giant exoplanets orbiting close to their parent stars (hot Jupiters) have been probed for nearly two decades. They allow us to investigate the chemical and physical properties of planetary atmospheres under extreme irradiation conditions. Previous observations of hot Jupiters as they transit in front of their host stars have revealed the frequent presence of water vapour and carbon monoxide in their atmospheres; this has been studied in terms of scaled solar composition under the usual assumption of chemical equilibrium. Both molecules as well as hydrogen cyanide were found in the atmosphere of HD 209458b, a well studied hot Jupiter (with equilibrium temperature around 1,500 kelvin), whereas ammonia was tentatively detected there and subsequently refuted. Here we report observations of HD 209458b that indicate the presence of water (H2O), carbon monoxide (CO), hydrogen cyanide (HCN), methane (CH4), ammonia (NH3) and acetylene (C2H2), with statistical significance of 5.3 to 9.9 standard deviations per molecule. Atmospheric models in radiative and chemical equilibrium that account for the detected species indicate a carbon-rich chemistry with a carbon-to-oxygen ratio close to or greater than 1, higher than the solar value (0.55). According to existing models relating the atmospheric chemistry to planet formation and migration scenarios, this would suggest that HD 209458b formed far from its present location and subsequently migrated inwards. Other hot Jupiters may also show a richer chemistry than has been previously found, which would bring into question the frequently made assumption that they have solar-like and oxygen-rich compositions., Comment: As part of the Springer Nature Content Sharing Initiative, it is possible to access a view-only version of this paper by using the following SharedIt link: https://rdcu.be/cifrz
Published: 2021
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2. An Ultra-short Period Rocky Super-Earth with a Secondary Eclipse and a Neptune-like Companion around K2-141

Author: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics, Malavolta, Luca, Mayo, Andrew W., Louden, Tom, Rajpaul, Vinesh M., Bonomo, Aldo S., Crossfield, Ian Jm, Buchhave, Lars A., Kreidberg, Laura, Kristiansen, Martti H., Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Mortier, Annelies, Vanderburg, Andrew, Coffinet, Adrien, Ehrenreich, David, Lovis, Christophe, Bouchy, Francois, Charbonneau, David, Ciardi, David R., Cameron, Andrew Collier, Cosentino, Rosario, Damasso, Mario, Dressing, Courtney D., Dumusque, Xavier, Everett, Mark E., Figueira, Pedro, Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M., Gonzales, Erica J., Haywood, Raphaëlle D., Harutyunyan, Avet, Hirsch, Lea, Howell, Steve B., Johnson, John Asher, Latham, David W., Lopez, Eric, Mayor, Michel, Micela, Giusi, Molinari, Emilio, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Pepe, Francesco, Phillips, David F., Piotto, Giampaolo, Rice, Ken, Sasselov, Dimitar, Ségransan, Damien, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Udry, Stéphane, Watson, Chris, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics, Malavolta, Luca, Mayo, Andrew W., Louden, Tom, Rajpaul, Vinesh M., Bonomo, Aldo S., Crossfield, Ian Jm, Buchhave, Lars A., Kreidberg, Laura, Kristiansen, Martti H., Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Mortier, Annelies, Vanderburg, Andrew, Coffinet, Adrien, Ehrenreich, David, Lovis, Christophe, Bouchy, Francois, Charbonneau, David, Ciardi, David R., Cameron, Andrew Collier, Cosentino, Rosario, Damasso, Mario, Dressing, Courtney D., Dumusque, Xavier, Everett, Mark E., Figueira, Pedro, Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M., Gonzales, Erica J., Haywood, Raphaëlle D., Harutyunyan, Avet, Hirsch, Lea, Howell, Steve B., Johnson, John Asher, Latham, David W., Lopez, Eric, Mayor, Michel, Micela, Giusi, Molinari, Emilio, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Pepe, Francesco, Phillips, David F., Piotto, Giampaolo, Rice, Ken, Sasselov, Dimitar, Ségransan, Damien, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Udry, Stéphane, and Watson, Chris
Abstract: Ultra-short period (USP) planets are a class of low-mass planets with periods shorter than one day. Their origin is still unknown, with photo-evaporation of mini-Neptunes and in situ formation being the most credited hypotheses. Formation scenarios differ radically in the predicted composition of USP planets, and it is therefore extremely important to increase the still limited sample of USP planets with precise and accurate mass and density measurements. We report here the characterization of a USP planet with a period of 0.28 days around K2-141 (EPIC 246393474), and the validation of an outer planet with a period of 7.7 days in a grazing transit configuration. We derived the radii of the planets from the K2 light curve and used high-precision radial velocities gathered with the HARPS-N spectrograph for mass measurements. For K2-141b, we thus inferred a radius of 1.51 ±0.05 R and a mass of 5.08 ±0.41 M, consistent with a rocky composition and lack of a thick atmosphere. K2-141c is likely a Neptune-like planet, although due to the grazing transits and the non-detection in the RV data set, we were not able to put a strong constraint on its density. We also report the detection of secondary eclipses and phase curve variations for K2-141b. The phase variation can be modeled either by a planet with a geometric albedo of 0.30 ±0.06 in the Kepler bandpass, or by thermal emission from the surface of the planet at ∼3000 K. Only follow-up observations at longer wavelengths will allow us to distinguish between these two scenarios., United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Grant NNX15AC90G), United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Grant NNX17AB59G)
Published: 2021

3. A giant impact as the likely origin of different twins in the Kepler-107 exoplanet system

Author: Bonomo, Aldo S., Zeng, Li, Damasso, Mario, Leinhardt, Zoë M., Justesen, Anders B., Lopez, Eric, Lund, Mikkel N., Malavolta, Luca, Aguirre, Victor Silva, Buchhave, Lars A., Corsaro, Enrico, Denman, Thomas, Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Mills, Sean M., Mortier, Annelies, Rice, Ken, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Vanderburg, Andrew, Affer, Laura, Arentoft, Torben, Benbakoura, Mansour, Bouchy, François, Christensen-Dalsgaard, Jørgen, Cameron, Andrew Collier, Cosentino, Rosario, Dressing, Courtney D., Dumusque, Xavier, Figueira, Pedro, Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M., García, Rafael A., Handberg, Rasmus, Harutyunyan, Avet, Johnson, John A., Kjeldsen, Hans, Latham, David W., Lovis, Christophe, Lundkvist, Mia S., Mathur, Savita, Mayor, Michel, Micela, Giusi, Molinari, Emilio, Motalebi, Fatemeh, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Nava, Chantanelle, Pepe, Francesco, Phillips, David F., Piotto, Giampaolo, Poretti, Ennio, Sasselov, Dimitar, Ségransan, Damien, Udry, Stéphane, Watson, Chris, Bonomo, Aldo S., Zeng, Li, Damasso, Mario, Leinhardt, Zoë M., Justesen, Anders B., Lopez, Eric, Lund, Mikkel N., Malavolta, Luca, Aguirre, Victor Silva, Buchhave, Lars A., Corsaro, Enrico, Denman, Thomas, Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Mills, Sean M., Mortier, Annelies, Rice, Ken, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Vanderburg, Andrew, Affer, Laura, Arentoft, Torben, Benbakoura, Mansour, Bouchy, François, Christensen-Dalsgaard, Jørgen, Cameron, Andrew Collier, Cosentino, Rosario, Dressing, Courtney D., Dumusque, Xavier, Figueira, Pedro, Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M., García, Rafael A., Handberg, Rasmus, Harutyunyan, Avet, Johnson, John A., Kjeldsen, Hans, Latham, David W., Lovis, Christophe, Lundkvist, Mia S., Mathur, Savita, Mayor, Michel, Micela, Giusi, Molinari, Emilio, Motalebi, Fatemeh, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Nava, Chantanelle, Pepe, Francesco, Phillips, David F., Piotto, Giampaolo, Poretti, Ennio, Sasselov, Dimitar, Ségransan, Damien, Udry, Stéphane, and Watson, Chris
Abstract: Measures of exoplanet bulk densities indicate that small exoplanets with radius less than 3 Earth radii ($R_\oplus$) range from low-density sub-Neptunes containing volatile elements to higher density rocky planets with Earth-like or iron-rich (Mercury-like) compositions. Such astonishing diversity in observed small exoplanet compositions may be the product of different initial conditions of the planet-formation process and/or different evolutionary paths that altered the planetary properties after formation. Planet evolution may be especially affected by either photoevaporative mass loss induced by high stellar X-ray and extreme ultraviolet (XUV) flux or giant impacts. Although there is some evidence for the former, there are no unambiguous findings so far about the occurrence of giant impacts in an exoplanet system. Here, we characterize the two innermost planets of the compact and near-resonant system Kepler-107. We show that they have nearly identical radii (about $1.5-1.6~R_\oplus$), but the outer planet Kepler-107c is more than twice as dense (about $12.6~\rm g\,cm^{-3}$) as the innermost Kepler-107b (about $5.3~\rm g\,cm^{-3}$). In consequence, Kepler-107c must have a larger iron core fraction than Kepler-107b. This imbalance cannot be explained by the stellar XUV irradiation, which would conversely make the more-irradiated and less-massive planet Kepler-107b denser than Kepler-107c. Instead, the dissimilar densities are consistent with a giant impact event on Kepler-107c that would have stripped off part of its silicate mantle. This hypothesis is supported by theoretical predictions from collisional mantle stripping, which match the mass and radius of Kepler-107c., Comment: Published in Nature Astronomy on 4 February 2019, 35 pages including Supplementary Information material
Published: 2019
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4. A giant impact as the likely origin of different twins in the Kepler-107 exoplanet system

Author: Bonomo, Aldo S., Zeng, Li, Damasso, Mario, Leinhardt, Zoë M., Justesen, Anders B., Lopez, Eric, Lund, Mikkel N., Malavolta, Luca, Aguirre, Victor Silva, Buchhave, Lars A., Corsaro, Enrico, Denman, Thomas, Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Mills, Sean M., Mortier, Annelies, Rice, Ken, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Vanderburg, Andrew, Affer, Laura, Arentoft, Torben, Benbakoura, Mansour, Bouchy, François, Christensen-Dalsgaard, Jørgen, Cameron, Andrew Collier, Cosentino, Rosario, Dressing, Courtney D., Dumusque, Xavier, Figueira, Pedro, Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M., García, Rafael A., Handberg, Rasmus, Harutyunyan, Avet, Johnson, John A., Kjeldsen, Hans, Latham, David W., Lovis, Christophe, Lundkvist, Mia S., Mathur, Savita, Mayor, Michel, Micela, Giusi, Molinari, Emilio, Motalebi, Fatemeh, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Nava, Chantanelle, Pepe, Francesco, Phillips, David F., Piotto, Giampaolo, Poretti, Ennio, Sasselov, Dimitar, Ségransan, Damien, Udry, Stéphane, Watson, Chris, Bonomo, Aldo S., Zeng, Li, Damasso, Mario, Leinhardt, Zoë M., Justesen, Anders B., Lopez, Eric, Lund, Mikkel N., Malavolta, Luca, Aguirre, Victor Silva, Buchhave, Lars A., Corsaro, Enrico, Denman, Thomas, Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Mills, Sean M., Mortier, Annelies, Rice, Ken, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Vanderburg, Andrew, Affer, Laura, Arentoft, Torben, Benbakoura, Mansour, Bouchy, François, Christensen-Dalsgaard, Jørgen, Cameron, Andrew Collier, Cosentino, Rosario, Dressing, Courtney D., Dumusque, Xavier, Figueira, Pedro, Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M., García, Rafael A., Handberg, Rasmus, Harutyunyan, Avet, Johnson, John A., Kjeldsen, Hans, Latham, David W., Lovis, Christophe, Lundkvist, Mia S., Mathur, Savita, Mayor, Michel, Micela, Giusi, Molinari, Emilio, Motalebi, Fatemeh, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Nava, Chantanelle, Pepe, Francesco, Phillips, David F., Piotto, Giampaolo, Poretti, Ennio, Sasselov, Dimitar, Ségransan, Damien, Udry, Stéphane, and Watson, Chris
Abstract: Measures of exoplanet bulk densities indicate that small exoplanets with radius less than 3 Earth radii ($R_\oplus$) range from low-density sub-Neptunes containing volatile elements to higher density rocky planets with Earth-like or iron-rich (Mercury-like) compositions. Such astonishing diversity in observed small exoplanet compositions may be the product of different initial conditions of the planet-formation process and/or different evolutionary paths that altered the planetary properties after formation. Planet evolution may be especially affected by either photoevaporative mass loss induced by high stellar X-ray and extreme ultraviolet (XUV) flux or giant impacts. Although there is some evidence for the former, there are no unambiguous findings so far about the occurrence of giant impacts in an exoplanet system. Here, we characterize the two innermost planets of the compact and near-resonant system Kepler-107. We show that they have nearly identical radii (about $1.5-1.6~R_\oplus$), but the outer planet Kepler-107c is more than twice as dense (about $12.6~\rm g\,cm^{-3}$) as the innermost Kepler-107b (about $5.3~\rm g\,cm^{-3}$). In consequence, Kepler-107c must have a larger iron core fraction than Kepler-107b. This imbalance cannot be explained by the stellar XUV irradiation, which would conversely make the more-irradiated and less-massive planet Kepler-107b denser than Kepler-107c. Instead, the dissimilar densities are consistent with a giant impact event on Kepler-107c that would have stripped off part of its silicate mantle. This hypothesis is supported by theoretical predictions from collisional mantle stripping, which match the mass and radius of Kepler-107c., Comment: Published in Nature Astronomy on 4 February 2019, 35 pages including Supplementary Information material
Published: 2019
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5. An Ultra-short Period Rocky Super-Earth with a Secondary Eclipse and a Neptune-like Companion around K2-141

Author: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics, Malavolta, Luca, Mayo, Andrew W., Louden, Tom, Rajpaul, Vinesh M., Bonomo, Aldo S., Crossfield, Ian Jm, Buchhave, Lars A., Kreidberg, Laura, Kristiansen, Martti H., Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Mortier, Annelies, Vanderburg, Andrew, Coffinet, Adrien, Ehrenreich, David, Lovis, Christophe, Bouchy, Francois, Charbonneau, David, Ciardi, David R., Cameron, Andrew Collier, Cosentino, Rosario, Damasso, Mario, Dressing, Courtney D., Dumusque, Xavier, Everett, Mark E., Figueira, Pedro, Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M., Gonzales, Erica J., Haywood, Raphaëlle D., Harutyunyan, Avet, Hirsch, Lea, Howell, Steve B., Johnson, John Asher, Latham, David W., Lopez, Eric, Mayor, Michel, Micela, Giusi, Molinari, Emilio, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Pepe, Francesco, Phillips, David F., Piotto, Giampaolo, Rice, Ken, Sasselov, Dimitar, Ségransan, Damien, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Udry, Stéphane, Watson, Chris, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics, Malavolta, Luca, Mayo, Andrew W., Louden, Tom, Rajpaul, Vinesh M., Bonomo, Aldo S., Crossfield, Ian Jm, Buchhave, Lars A., Kreidberg, Laura, Kristiansen, Martti H., Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Mortier, Annelies, Vanderburg, Andrew, Coffinet, Adrien, Ehrenreich, David, Lovis, Christophe, Bouchy, Francois, Charbonneau, David, Ciardi, David R., Cameron, Andrew Collier, Cosentino, Rosario, Damasso, Mario, Dressing, Courtney D., Dumusque, Xavier, Everett, Mark E., Figueira, Pedro, Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M., Gonzales, Erica J., Haywood, Raphaëlle D., Harutyunyan, Avet, Hirsch, Lea, Howell, Steve B., Johnson, John Asher, Latham, David W., Lopez, Eric, Mayor, Michel, Micela, Giusi, Molinari, Emilio, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Pepe, Francesco, Phillips, David F., Piotto, Giampaolo, Rice, Ken, Sasselov, Dimitar, Ségransan, Damien, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Udry, Stéphane, and Watson, Chris
Abstract: Ultra-short period (USP) planets are a class of low-mass planets with periods shorter than one day. Their origin is still unknown, with photo-evaporation of mini-Neptunes and in situ formation being the most credited hypotheses. Formation scenarios differ radically in the predicted composition of USP planets, and it is therefore extremely important to increase the still limited sample of USP planets with precise and accurate mass and density measurements. We report here the characterization of a USP planet with a period of 0.28 days around K2-141 (EPIC 246393474), and the validation of an outer planet with a period of 7.7 days in a grazing transit configuration. We derived the radii of the planets from the K2 light curve and used high-precision radial velocities gathered with the HARPS-N spectrograph for mass measurements. For K2-141b, we thus inferred a radius of 1.51 ±0.05 R and a mass of 5.08 ±0.41 M, consistent with a rocky composition and lack of a thick atmosphere. K2-141c is likely a Neptune-like planet, although due to the grazing transits and the non-detection in the RV data set, we were not able to put a strong constraint on its density. We also report the detection of secondary eclipses and phase curve variations for K2-141b. The phase variation can be modeled either by a planet with a geometric albedo of 0.30 ±0.06 in the Kepler bandpass, or by thermal emission from the surface of the planet at ∼3000 K. Only follow-up observations at longer wavelengths will allow us to distinguish between these two scenarios., United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Grant NNX15AC90G), United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Grant NNX17AB59G)
Published: 2019

6. An ultra-short period rocky super-Earth with a secondary eclipse and a Neptune-like companion around K2-141

Author: Malavolta, Luca, Mayo, Andrew W., Louden, Tom, Rajpaul, Vinesh M., Bonomo, Aldo S., Buchhave, Lars A., Kreidberg, Laura, Kristiansen, Martti H., Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Mortier, Annelies, Vanderburg, Andrew, Coffinet, Adrien, Ehrenreich, David, Lovis, Christophe, Bouchy, Francois, Charbonneau, David, Ciardi, David R., Cameron, Andrew Collier, Cosentino, Rosario, Crossfield, Ian J. M., Damasso, Mario, Dressing, Courtney D., Dumusque, Xavier, Everett, Mark E., Figueira, Pedro, Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M., Gonzales, Erica J., Haywood, Raphaëlle D., Harutyunyan, Avet, Hirsch, Lea, Howell, Steve B., Johnson, John Asher, Latham, David W., Lopez, Eric, Mayor, Michel, Micela, Giusi, Molinari, Emilio, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Pepe, Francesco, Phillips, David F., Piotto, Giampaolo, Rice, Ken, Sasselov, Dimitar, Ségransan, Damien, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Udry, Stéphane, Watson, Chris, Malavolta, Luca, Mayo, Andrew W., Louden, Tom, Rajpaul, Vinesh M., Bonomo, Aldo S., Buchhave, Lars A., Kreidberg, Laura, Kristiansen, Martti H., Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Mortier, Annelies, Vanderburg, Andrew, Coffinet, Adrien, Ehrenreich, David, Lovis, Christophe, Bouchy, Francois, Charbonneau, David, Ciardi, David R., Cameron, Andrew Collier, Cosentino, Rosario, Crossfield, Ian J. M., Damasso, Mario, Dressing, Courtney D., Dumusque, Xavier, Everett, Mark E., Figueira, Pedro, Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M., Gonzales, Erica J., Haywood, Raphaëlle D., Harutyunyan, Avet, Hirsch, Lea, Howell, Steve B., Johnson, John Asher, Latham, David W., Lopez, Eric, Mayor, Michel, Micela, Giusi, Molinari, Emilio, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Pepe, Francesco, Phillips, David F., Piotto, Giampaolo, Rice, Ken, Sasselov, Dimitar, Ségransan, Damien, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Udry, Stéphane, and Watson, Chris
Abstract: Ultra-short period (USP) planets are a class of low mass planets with periods shorter than one day. Their origin is still unknown, with photo-evaporation of mini-Neptunes and in-situ formation being the most credited hypotheses. Formation scenarios differ radically in the predicted composition of USP planets, it is therefore extremely important to increase the still limited sample of USP planets with precise and accurate mass and density measurements. We report here the characterization of an USP planet with a period of 0.28 days around K2-141 (EPIC 246393474), and the validation of an outer planet with a period of 7.7 days in a grazing transit configuration. We derived the radii of the planets from the K2 light curve and used high-precision radial velocities gathered with the HARPS-N spectrograph for mass measurements. For K2-141b we thus inferred a radius of $1.51\pm0.05~R_\oplus$ and a mass of $5.08\pm0.41~M_\oplus$, consistent with a rocky composition and lack of a thick atmosphere. K2-141c is likely a Neptune-like planet, although due to the grazing transits and the non-detection in the RV dataset, we were not able to put a strong constraint on its density. We also report the detection of secondary eclipses and phase curve variations for K2-141b. The phase variation can be modeled either by a planet with a geometric albedo of $0.30 \pm 0.06$ in the Kepler bandpass, or by thermal emission from the surface of the planet at $\sim$3000K. Only follow-up observations at longer wavelengths will allow us to distinguish between these two scenarios., Comment: 16 pages, 10 figures., accepted for publication in AJ
Published: 2018
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7. An ultra-short period rocky super-Earth with a secondary eclipse and a Neptune-like companion around K2-141

Author: Malavolta, Luca, Mayo, Andrew W., Louden, Tom, Rajpaul, Vinesh M., Bonomo, Aldo S., Buchhave, Lars A., Kreidberg, Laura, Kristiansen, Martti H., Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Mortier, Annelies, Vanderburg, Andrew, Coffinet, Adrien, Ehrenreich, David, Lovis, Christophe, Bouchy, Francois, Charbonneau, David, Ciardi, David R., Cameron, Andrew Collier, Cosentino, Rosario, Crossfield, Ian J. M., Damasso, Mario, Dressing, Courtney D., Dumusque, Xavier, Everett, Mark E., Figueira, Pedro, Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M., Gonzales, Erica J., Haywood, Raphaëlle D., Harutyunyan, Avet, Hirsch, Lea, Howell, Steve B., Johnson, John Asher, Latham, David W., Lopez, Eric, Mayor, Michel, Micela, Giusi, Molinari, Emilio, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Pepe, Francesco, Phillips, David F., Piotto, Giampaolo, Rice, Ken, Sasselov, Dimitar, Ségransan, Damien, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Udry, Stéphane, Watson, Chris, Malavolta, Luca, Mayo, Andrew W., Louden, Tom, Rajpaul, Vinesh M., Bonomo, Aldo S., Buchhave, Lars A., Kreidberg, Laura, Kristiansen, Martti H., Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Mortier, Annelies, Vanderburg, Andrew, Coffinet, Adrien, Ehrenreich, David, Lovis, Christophe, Bouchy, Francois, Charbonneau, David, Ciardi, David R., Cameron, Andrew Collier, Cosentino, Rosario, Crossfield, Ian J. M., Damasso, Mario, Dressing, Courtney D., Dumusque, Xavier, Everett, Mark E., Figueira, Pedro, Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M., Gonzales, Erica J., Haywood, Raphaëlle D., Harutyunyan, Avet, Hirsch, Lea, Howell, Steve B., Johnson, John Asher, Latham, David W., Lopez, Eric, Mayor, Michel, Micela, Giusi, Molinari, Emilio, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Pepe, Francesco, Phillips, David F., Piotto, Giampaolo, Rice, Ken, Sasselov, Dimitar, Ségransan, Damien, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Udry, Stéphane, and Watson, Chris
Abstract: Ultra-short period (USP) planets are a class of low mass planets with periods shorter than one day. Their origin is still unknown, with photo-evaporation of mini-Neptunes and in-situ formation being the most credited hypotheses. Formation scenarios differ radically in the predicted composition of USP planets, it is therefore extremely important to increase the still limited sample of USP planets with precise and accurate mass and density measurements. We report here the characterization of an USP planet with a period of 0.28 days around K2-141 (EPIC 246393474), and the validation of an outer planet with a period of 7.7 days in a grazing transit configuration. We derived the radii of the planets from the K2 light curve and used high-precision radial velocities gathered with the HARPS-N spectrograph for mass measurements. For K2-141b we thus inferred a radius of $1.51\pm0.05~R_\oplus$ and a mass of $5.08\pm0.41~M_\oplus$, consistent with a rocky composition and lack of a thick atmosphere. K2-141c is likely a Neptune-like planet, although due to the grazing transits and the non-detection in the RV dataset, we were not able to put a strong constraint on its density. We also report the detection of secondary eclipses and phase curve variations for K2-141b. The phase variation can be modeled either by a planet with a geometric albedo of $0.30 \pm 0.06$ in the Kepler bandpass, or by thermal emission from the surface of the planet at $\sim$3000K. Only follow-up observations at longer wavelengths will allow us to distinguish between these two scenarios., Comment: 16 pages, 10 figures., accepted for publication in AJ
Published: 2018
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8. An Ultra-short Period Rocky Super-Earth with a Secondary Eclipse and a Neptune-like Companion around K2-141

Author: Malavolta, Luca, Mayo, Andrew W., Louden, Tom, Rajpaul, Vinesh M., Bonomo, Aldo S., Buchhave, Lars A., Kreidberg, Laura, Kristiansen, Martti H., Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Mortier, Annelies, Vanderburg, Andrew, Coffinet, Adrien, Ehrenreich, David, Lovis, Christophe, Bouchy, Francois, Charbonneau, David, Ciardi, David R., Cameron, Andrew Collier, Cosentino, Rosario, Crossfield, Ian J. M., Damasso, Mario, Dressing, Courtney D., Dumusque, Xavier, Everett, Mark E., Figueira, Pedro, Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M., Gonzales, Erica J., Haywood, Raphaelle D., Harutyunyan, Avet, Hirsch, Lea, Howell, Steve B., Johnson, John Asher, Latham, David W., Lopez, Eric, Mayor, Michel, Micela, Giusi, Molinari, Emilio, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Pepe, Francesco, Phillips, David F., Piotto, Giampaolo, Rice, Ken, Sasselov, Dimitar, Segransan, Damien, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Udry, Stephane, Watson, Chris, Malavolta, Luca, Mayo, Andrew W., Louden, Tom, Rajpaul, Vinesh M., Bonomo, Aldo S., Buchhave, Lars A., Kreidberg, Laura, Kristiansen, Martti H., Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Mortier, Annelies, Vanderburg, Andrew, Coffinet, Adrien, Ehrenreich, David, Lovis, Christophe, Bouchy, Francois, Charbonneau, David, Ciardi, David R., Cameron, Andrew Collier, Cosentino, Rosario, Crossfield, Ian J. M., Damasso, Mario, Dressing, Courtney D., Dumusque, Xavier, Everett, Mark E., Figueira, Pedro, Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M., Gonzales, Erica J., Haywood, Raphaelle D., Harutyunyan, Avet, Hirsch, Lea, Howell, Steve B., Johnson, John Asher, Latham, David W., Lopez, Eric, Mayor, Michel, Micela, Giusi, Molinari, Emilio, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Pepe, Francesco, Phillips, David F., Piotto, Giampaolo, Rice, Ken, Sasselov, Dimitar, Segransan, Damien, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Udry, Stephane, and Watson, Chris
Published: 2018

9. An Ultra-short Period Rocky Super-Earth with a Secondary Eclipse and a Neptune-like Companion around K2-141

Author: Malavolta, Luca, Mayo, Andrew W., Louden, Tom, Rajpaul, Vinesh M., Bonomo, Aldo S., Buchhave, Lars A., Kreidberg, Laura, Kristiansen, Martti H., Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Mortier, Annelies, Vanderburg, Andrew, Coffinet, Adrien, Ehrenreich, David, Lovis, Christophe, Bouchy, Francois, Charbonneau, David, Ciardi, David R., Cameron, Andrew Collier, Cosentino, Rosario, Crossfield, Ian J. M., Damasso, Mario, Dressing, Courtney D., Dumusque, Xavier, Everett, Mark E., Figueira, Pedro, Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M., Gonzales, Erica J., Haywood, Raphaelle D., Harutyunyan, Avet, Hirsch, Lea, Howell, Steve B., Johnson, John Asher, Latham, David W., Lopez, Eric, Mayor, Michel, Micela, Giusi, Molinari, Emilio, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Pepe, Francesco, Phillips, David F., Piotto, Giampaolo, Rice, Ken, Sasselov, Dimitar, Segransan, Damien, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Udry, Stephane, Watson, Chris, Malavolta, Luca, Mayo, Andrew W., Louden, Tom, Rajpaul, Vinesh M., Bonomo, Aldo S., Buchhave, Lars A., Kreidberg, Laura, Kristiansen, Martti H., Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Mortier, Annelies, Vanderburg, Andrew, Coffinet, Adrien, Ehrenreich, David, Lovis, Christophe, Bouchy, Francois, Charbonneau, David, Ciardi, David R., Cameron, Andrew Collier, Cosentino, Rosario, Crossfield, Ian J. M., Damasso, Mario, Dressing, Courtney D., Dumusque, Xavier, Everett, Mark E., Figueira, Pedro, Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M., Gonzales, Erica J., Haywood, Raphaelle D., Harutyunyan, Avet, Hirsch, Lea, Howell, Steve B., Johnson, John Asher, Latham, David W., Lopez, Eric, Mayor, Michel, Micela, Giusi, Molinari, Emilio, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Pepe, Francesco, Phillips, David F., Piotto, Giampaolo, Rice, Ken, Sasselov, Dimitar, Segransan, Damien, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Udry, Stephane, and Watson, Chris
Abstract: Ultra-short period (USP) planets are a class of low-mass planets with periods shorter than one day. Their origin is still unknown, with photo-evaporation of mini-Neptunes and in situ formation being the most credited hypotheses. Formation scenarios differ radically in the predicted composition of USP planets, and it is therefore extremely important to increase the still limited sample of USP planets with precise and accurate mass and density measurements. We report here the characterization of a USP planet with a period of 0.28 days around K2-141 (EPIC 246393474), and the validation of an outer planet with a period of 7.7 days in a grazing transit configuration. We derived the radii of the planets from the K2 light curve and used high-precision radial velocities gathered with the HARPS-N spectrograph for mass measurements. For K2-141b, we thus inferred a radius of 1.51 ± 0.05 R⊕ and a mass of 5.08 ± 0.41 M ⊕, consistent with a rocky composition and lack of a thick atmosphere. K2-141c is likely a Neptune-like planet, although due to the grazing transits and the non-detection in the RV data set, we were not able to put a strong constraint on its density. We also report the detection of secondary eclipses and phase curve variations for K2-141b. The phase variation can be modeled either by a planet with a geometric albedo of 0.30 ± 0.06 in the Kepler bandpass, or by thermal emission from the surface of the planet at ~3000 K. Only follow-up observations at longer wavelengths will allow us to distinguish between these two scenarios.
Published: 2018

10. The Kepler-19 system: a thick-envelope super-Earth with two Neptune-mass companions characterized using Radial Velocities and Transit Timing Variations

Author: Malavolta, Luca, Borsato, Luca, Granata, Valentina, Piotto, Giampaolo, Lopez, Eric, Vanderburg, Andrew, Figueira, Pedro, Mortier, Annelies, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Affer, Laura, Bonomo, Aldo S., Bouchy, Francois, Buchhave, Lars A., Charbonneau, David, Cameron, Andrew Collier, Cosentino, Rosario, Dressing, Courtney D., Dumusque, Xavier, Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M., Harutyunyan, Avet, Haywood, Raphaëlle D., Johnson, John Asher, Latham, David W., Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Lovis, Christophe, Mayor, Michel, Micela, Giusi, Molinari, Emilio, Motalebi, Fatemeh, Pepe, Francesco, Phillips, David F., Pollacco, Don, Queloz, Didier, Rice, Ken, Sasselov, Dimitar, Ségransan, Damien, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Udry, Stéphane, Watson, Chris, Malavolta, Luca, Borsato, Luca, Granata, Valentina, Piotto, Giampaolo, Lopez, Eric, Vanderburg, Andrew, Figueira, Pedro, Mortier, Annelies, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Affer, Laura, Bonomo, Aldo S., Bouchy, Francois, Buchhave, Lars A., Charbonneau, David, Cameron, Andrew Collier, Cosentino, Rosario, Dressing, Courtney D., Dumusque, Xavier, Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M., Harutyunyan, Avet, Haywood, Raphaëlle D., Johnson, John Asher, Latham, David W., Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Lovis, Christophe, Mayor, Michel, Micela, Giusi, Molinari, Emilio, Motalebi, Fatemeh, Pepe, Francesco, Phillips, David F., Pollacco, Don, Queloz, Didier, Rice, Ken, Sasselov, Dimitar, Ségransan, Damien, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Udry, Stéphane, and Watson, Chris
Abstract: We report a detailed characterization of the Kepler-19 system. This star was previously known to host a transiting planet with a period of 9.29 days, a radius of 2.2 R$_\oplus$ and an upper limit on the mass of 20 M$_\oplus$. The presence of a second, non-transiting planet was inferred from the transit time variations (TTVs) of Kepler-19b, over 8 quarters of Kepler photometry, although neither mass nor period could be determined. By combining new TTVs measurements from all the Kepler quarters and 91 high-precision radial velocities obtained with the HARPS-N spectrograph, we measured through dynamical simulations a mass of $8.4 \pm 1.6$ M$_\oplus$ for Kepler-19b. From the same data, assuming system coplanarity, we determined an orbital period of 28.7 days and a mass of $13.1 \pm 2.7$ M$_\oplus$ for Kepler-19c and discovered a Neptune-like planet with a mass of $20.3 \pm 3.4$ M$_\oplus$ on a 63 days orbit. By comparing dynamical simulations with non-interacting Keplerian orbits, we concluded that neglecting interactions between planets may lead to systematic errors that could hamper the precision in the orbital parameters when the dataset spans several years. With a density of $4.32 \pm 0.87$ g cm$^{-3}$ ($0.78 \pm 0.16$ $\rho_\oplus$) Kepler-19b belongs to the group of planets with a rocky core and a significant fraction of volatiles, in opposition to low-density planets characterized by transit-time variations only and the increasing number of rocky planets with Earth-like density. Kepler-19 joins the small number of systems that reconcile transit timing variation and radial velocity measurements., Comment: Accepted by AJ, 15 pages, 10 figures, 6 tables. Mass-Radius diagram for Exoplanets and code available at https://github.com/LucaMalavolta and https://github.com/lucaborsato
Published: 2017
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11. The Kepler-19 system: a thick-envelope super-Earth with two Neptune-mass companions characterized using Radial Velocities and Transit Timing Variations

Author: Malavolta, Luca, Borsato, Luca, Granata, Valentina, Piotto, Giampaolo, Lopez, Eric, Vanderburg, Andrew, Figueira, Pedro, Mortier, Annelies, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Affer, Laura, Bonomo, Aldo S., Bouchy, Francois, Buchhave, Lars A., Charbonneau, David, Cameron, Andrew Collier, Cosentino, Rosario, Dressing, Courtney D., Dumusque, Xavier, Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M., Harutyunyan, Avet, Haywood, Raphaëlle D., Johnson, John Asher, Latham, David W., Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Lovis, Christophe, Mayor, Michel, Micela, Giusi, Molinari, Emilio, Motalebi, Fatemeh, Pepe, Francesco, Phillips, David F., Pollacco, Don, Queloz, Didier, Rice, Ken, Sasselov, Dimitar, Ségransan, Damien, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Udry, Stéphane, Watson, Chris, Malavolta, Luca, Borsato, Luca, Granata, Valentina, Piotto, Giampaolo, Lopez, Eric, Vanderburg, Andrew, Figueira, Pedro, Mortier, Annelies, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Affer, Laura, Bonomo, Aldo S., Bouchy, Francois, Buchhave, Lars A., Charbonneau, David, Cameron, Andrew Collier, Cosentino, Rosario, Dressing, Courtney D., Dumusque, Xavier, Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M., Harutyunyan, Avet, Haywood, Raphaëlle D., Johnson, John Asher, Latham, David W., Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Lovis, Christophe, Mayor, Michel, Micela, Giusi, Molinari, Emilio, Motalebi, Fatemeh, Pepe, Francesco, Phillips, David F., Pollacco, Don, Queloz, Didier, Rice, Ken, Sasselov, Dimitar, Ségransan, Damien, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Udry, Stéphane, and Watson, Chris
Abstract: We report a detailed characterization of the Kepler-19 system. This star was previously known to host a transiting planet with a period of 9.29 days, a radius of 2.2 R$_\oplus$ and an upper limit on the mass of 20 M$_\oplus$. The presence of a second, non-transiting planet was inferred from the transit time variations (TTVs) of Kepler-19b, over 8 quarters of Kepler photometry, although neither mass nor period could be determined. By combining new TTVs measurements from all the Kepler quarters and 91 high-precision radial velocities obtained with the HARPS-N spectrograph, we measured through dynamical simulations a mass of $8.4 \pm 1.6$ M$_\oplus$ for Kepler-19b. From the same data, assuming system coplanarity, we determined an orbital period of 28.7 days and a mass of $13.1 \pm 2.7$ M$_\oplus$ for Kepler-19c and discovered a Neptune-like planet with a mass of $20.3 \pm 3.4$ M$_\oplus$ on a 63 days orbit. By comparing dynamical simulations with non-interacting Keplerian orbits, we concluded that neglecting interactions between planets may lead to systematic errors that could hamper the precision in the orbital parameters when the dataset spans several years. With a density of $4.32 \pm 0.87$ g cm$^{-3}$ ($0.78 \pm 0.16$ $\rho_\oplus$) Kepler-19b belongs to the group of planets with a rocky core and a significant fraction of volatiles, in opposition to low-density planets characterized by transit-time variations only and the increasing number of rocky planets with Earth-like density. Kepler-19 joins the small number of systems that reconcile transit timing variation and radial velocity measurements., Comment: Accepted by AJ, 15 pages, 10 figures, 6 tables. Mass-Radius diagram for Exoplanets and code available at https://github.com/LucaMalavolta and https://github.com/lucaborsato
Published: 2017
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12. The Kepler-19 system:a thick-envelope super-Earth with two Neptune-mass companions characterized using radial velocities and transit timing variations

Author: Malavolta, Luca, Borsato, Luca, Granata, Valentina, Piotto, Giampaolo, Lopez, Eric, Vanderburg, Andrew, Figueira, Pedro, Mortier, Annelies, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Affer, Laura, Bonomo, Aldo S., Bouchy, Francois, Buchhave, Lars A., Charbonneau, David, Cameron, Andrew Collier, Cosentino, Rosario, Dressing, Courtney D., Dumusque, Xavier, Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M., Harutyunyan, Avet, Haywood, Raphaëlle D., Johnson, John Asher, Latham, David W., Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Lovis, Christophe, Mayor, Michel, Micela, Giusi, Molinari, Emilio, Motalebi, Fatemeh, Pepe, Francesco, Phillips, David F., Pollacco, Don, Queloz, Didier, Rice, Ken, Sasselov, Dimitar D., Ségransan, Damien, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Udry, Stéphane, Watson, Chris, Malavolta, Luca, Borsato, Luca, Granata, Valentina, Piotto, Giampaolo, Lopez, Eric, Vanderburg, Andrew, Figueira, Pedro, Mortier, Annelies, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Affer, Laura, Bonomo, Aldo S., Bouchy, Francois, Buchhave, Lars A., Charbonneau, David, Cameron, Andrew Collier, Cosentino, Rosario, Dressing, Courtney D., Dumusque, Xavier, Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M., Harutyunyan, Avet, Haywood, Raphaëlle D., Johnson, John Asher, Latham, David W., Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Lovis, Christophe, Mayor, Michel, Micela, Giusi, Molinari, Emilio, Motalebi, Fatemeh, Pepe, Francesco, Phillips, David F., Pollacco, Don, Queloz, Didier, Rice, Ken, Sasselov, Dimitar D., Ségransan, Damien, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Udry, Stéphane, and Watson, Chris
Published: 2017

13. Kepler-21b: A rocky planet around a V = 8.25 magnitude star

Author: Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Haywood, Raphaelle D., Coughlin, Jeffrey L., Zeng, Li, Buchhave, Lars A., Giles, Helen A. C., Affer, Laura, Bonomo, Aldo S., Charbonneau, David, Cameron, Andrew Collier, Cosentino, Rosario, Dressing, Courtney D., Dumusque, Xavier, Figueira, Pedro, Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M., Harutyunyan, Avet, Johnson, John Asher, Latham, David W., Lopez, Eric D., Lovis, Christophe, Malavolta, Luca, Mayor, Michel, Micela, Giusi, Molinari, Emilio, Mortier, Annelies, Motalebi, Fatemeh, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Pepe, Francesco, Phillips, David F., Piotto, Giampaolo, Pollacco, Don, Queloz, Didier, Rice, Ken, Sasselov, Dimitar, Segransan, Damien, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Udry, Stephane, Vanderburg, Andrew, Watson, Chris, Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Haywood, Raphaelle D., Coughlin, Jeffrey L., Zeng, Li, Buchhave, Lars A., Giles, Helen A. C., Affer, Laura, Bonomo, Aldo S., Charbonneau, David, Cameron, Andrew Collier, Cosentino, Rosario, Dressing, Courtney D., Dumusque, Xavier, Figueira, Pedro, Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M., Harutyunyan, Avet, Johnson, John Asher, Latham, David W., Lopez, Eric D., Lovis, Christophe, Malavolta, Luca, Mayor, Michel, Micela, Giusi, Molinari, Emilio, Mortier, Annelies, Motalebi, Fatemeh, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Pepe, Francesco, Phillips, David F., Piotto, Giampaolo, Pollacco, Don, Queloz, Didier, Rice, Ken, Sasselov, Dimitar, Segransan, Damien, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Udry, Stephane, Vanderburg, Andrew, and Watson, Chris
Abstract: HD 179070, aka Kepler-21, is a V = 8.25 F6IV star and the brightest exoplanet host discovered by Kepler. An early detailed analysis by Howell et al. (2012) of the first thirteen months (Q0 - Q5) of Kepler light curves revealed transits of a planetary companion, Kepler-21b, with a radius of about 1.60 +/- 0.04 R_earth and an orbital period of about 2.7857 days. However, they could not determine the mass of the planet from the initial radial velocity observations with Keck-HIRES, and were only able to impose a 2-sigma upper limit of 10 M_earth. Here we present results from the analysis of 82 new radial velocity observations of this system obtained with HARPS-N, together with the existing 14 HIRES data points. We detect the Doppler signal of Kepler-21b with a radial velocity semi-amplitude K = 2.00 +/- 0.65 m/s, which corresponds to a planetary mass of 5.1 +/- 1.7 M_earth. We also measure an improved radius for the planet of 1.639 (+0.019, -0.015) R_earth, in agreement with the radius reported by Howell et al. (2012). We conclude that Kepler-21b, with a density of 6.4 +/- 2.1 g/cm^3, belongs to the population of terrestrial planets with iron, magnesium silicate interiors, which have lost the majority of their envelope volatiles via stellar winds or gravitational escape. The radial velocity analysis presented in this paper serves as example of the type of analysis that will be necessary to confirm the masses of TESS small planet candidates., Comment: 52 pages, 13 figures, 1 long table. Accepted for publication in ApJ
Published: 2016
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14. A 1.9 Earth radius rocky planet and the discovery of a non-transiting planet in the Kepler-20 system

Author: Buchhave, Lars A., Dressing, Courtney D., Dumusque, Xavier, Rice, Ken, Vanderburg, Andrew, Mortier, Annelies, Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Lopez, Eric, Lundkvist, Mia S., Kjeldsen, Hans, Affer, Laura, Bonomo, Aldo S., Charbonneau, David, Cameron, Andrew Collier, Cosentino, Rosario, Figueira, Pedro, Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M., Harutyunyan, Avet, Haywood, Raphaëlle D., Johnson, John Asher, Latham, David W., Lovis, Christophe, Malavolta, Luca, Mayor, Michel, Micela, Giusi, Molinari, Emilio, Motalebi, Fatemeh, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Pepe, Francesco, Phillips, David F., Piotto, Giampaolo, Pollacco, Don, Queloz, Didier, Sasselov, Dimitar, Ségransan, Damien, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Udry, Stéphane, Watson, Chris, Buchhave, Lars A., Dressing, Courtney D., Dumusque, Xavier, Rice, Ken, Vanderburg, Andrew, Mortier, Annelies, Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Lopez, Eric, Lundkvist, Mia S., Kjeldsen, Hans, Affer, Laura, Bonomo, Aldo S., Charbonneau, David, Cameron, Andrew Collier, Cosentino, Rosario, Figueira, Pedro, Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M., Harutyunyan, Avet, Haywood, Raphaëlle D., Johnson, John Asher, Latham, David W., Lovis, Christophe, Malavolta, Luca, Mayor, Michel, Micela, Giusi, Molinari, Emilio, Motalebi, Fatemeh, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Pepe, Francesco, Phillips, David F., Piotto, Giampaolo, Pollacco, Don, Queloz, Didier, Sasselov, Dimitar, Ségransan, Damien, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Udry, Stéphane, and Watson, Chris
Abstract: Kepler-20 is a solar-type star (V = 12.5) hosting a compact system of five transiting planets, all packed within the orbital distance of Mercury in our own Solar System. A transition from rocky to gaseous planets with a planetary transition radius of ~1.6 REarth has recently been proposed by several publications in the literature (Rogers 2015;Weiss & Marcy 2014). Kepler-20b (Rp ~ 1.9 REarth) has a size beyond this transition radius, however previous mass measurements were not sufficiently precise to allow definite conclusions to be drawn regarding its composition. We present new mass measurements of three of the planets in the Kepler-20 system facilitated by 104 radial velocity measurements from the HARPS-N spectrograph and 30 archival Keck/HIRES observations, as well as an updated photometric analysis of the Kepler data and an asteroseismic analysis of the host star (MStar = 0.948+-0.051 Msun and Rstar = 0.964+-0.018 Rsun). Kepler-20b is a 1.868+0.066-0.034 REarth planet in a 3.7 day period with a mass of 9.70+1.41-1.44 MEarth resulting in a mean density of 8.2+1.5-1.3 g/cc indicating a rocky composition with an iron to silicate ratio consistent with that of the Earth. This makes Kepler-20b the most massive planet with a rocky composition found to date. Furthermore, we report the discovery of an additional non-transiting planet with a minimum mass of 19.96+3.08-3.61 MEarth and an orbital period of ~34 days in the gap between Kepler-20f (P ~ 11 days) and Kepler-20d (P ~ 78 days)., Comment: 33 pages, 8 figures. Accepted for publication in AJ
Published: 2016
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15. Kepler-21b: A rocky planet around a V = 8.25 magnitude star

Author: Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Haywood, Raphaelle D., Coughlin, Jeffrey L., Zeng, Li, Buchhave, Lars A., Giles, Helen A. C., Affer, Laura, Bonomo, Aldo S., Charbonneau, David, Cameron, Andrew Collier, Cosentino, Rosario, Dressing, Courtney D., Dumusque, Xavier, Figueira, Pedro, Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M., Harutyunyan, Avet, Johnson, John Asher, Latham, David W., Lopez, Eric D., Lovis, Christophe, Malavolta, Luca, Mayor, Michel, Micela, Giusi, Molinari, Emilio, Mortier, Annelies, Motalebi, Fatemeh, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Pepe, Francesco, Phillips, David F., Piotto, Giampaolo, Pollacco, Don, Queloz, Didier, Rice, Ken, Sasselov, Dimitar, Segransan, Damien, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Udry, Stephane, Vanderburg, Andrew, Watson, Chris, Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Haywood, Raphaelle D., Coughlin, Jeffrey L., Zeng, Li, Buchhave, Lars A., Giles, Helen A. C., Affer, Laura, Bonomo, Aldo S., Charbonneau, David, Cameron, Andrew Collier, Cosentino, Rosario, Dressing, Courtney D., Dumusque, Xavier, Figueira, Pedro, Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M., Harutyunyan, Avet, Johnson, John Asher, Latham, David W., Lopez, Eric D., Lovis, Christophe, Malavolta, Luca, Mayor, Michel, Micela, Giusi, Molinari, Emilio, Mortier, Annelies, Motalebi, Fatemeh, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Pepe, Francesco, Phillips, David F., Piotto, Giampaolo, Pollacco, Don, Queloz, Didier, Rice, Ken, Sasselov, Dimitar, Segransan, Damien, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Udry, Stephane, Vanderburg, Andrew, and Watson, Chris
Abstract: HD 179070, aka Kepler-21, is a V = 8.25 F6IV star and the brightest exoplanet host discovered by Kepler. An early detailed analysis by Howell et al. (2012) of the first thirteen months (Q0 - Q5) of Kepler light curves revealed transits of a planetary companion, Kepler-21b, with a radius of about 1.60 +/- 0.04 R_earth and an orbital period of about 2.7857 days. However, they could not determine the mass of the planet from the initial radial velocity observations with Keck-HIRES, and were only able to impose a 2-sigma upper limit of 10 M_earth. Here we present results from the analysis of 82 new radial velocity observations of this system obtained with HARPS-N, together with the existing 14 HIRES data points. We detect the Doppler signal of Kepler-21b with a radial velocity semi-amplitude K = 2.00 +/- 0.65 m/s, which corresponds to a planetary mass of 5.1 +/- 1.7 M_earth. We also measure an improved radius for the planet of 1.639 (+0.019, -0.015) R_earth, in agreement with the radius reported by Howell et al. (2012). We conclude that Kepler-21b, with a density of 6.4 +/- 2.1 g/cm^3, belongs to the population of terrestrial planets with iron, magnesium silicate interiors, which have lost the majority of their envelope volatiles via stellar winds or gravitational escape. The radial velocity analysis presented in this paper serves as example of the type of analysis that will be necessary to confirm the masses of TESS small planet candidates., Comment: 52 pages, 13 figures, 1 long table. Accepted for publication in ApJ
Published: 2016
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16. A 1.9 Earth radius rocky planet and the discovery of a non-transiting planet in the Kepler-20 system

Author: Buchhave, Lars A., Dressing, Courtney D., Dumusque, Xavier, Rice, Ken, Vanderburg, Andrew, Mortier, Annelies, Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Lopez, Eric, Lundkvist, Mia S., Kjeldsen, Hans, Affer, Laura, Bonomo, Aldo S., Charbonneau, David, Cameron, Andrew Collier, Cosentino, Rosario, Figueira, Pedro, Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M., Harutyunyan, Avet, Haywood, Raphaëlle D., Johnson, John Asher, Latham, David W., Lovis, Christophe, Malavolta, Luca, Mayor, Michel, Micela, Giusi, Molinari, Emilio, Motalebi, Fatemeh, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Pepe, Francesco, Phillips, David F., Piotto, Giampaolo, Pollacco, Don, Queloz, Didier, Sasselov, Dimitar, Ségransan, Damien, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Udry, Stéphane, Watson, Chris, Buchhave, Lars A., Dressing, Courtney D., Dumusque, Xavier, Rice, Ken, Vanderburg, Andrew, Mortier, Annelies, Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Lopez, Eric, Lundkvist, Mia S., Kjeldsen, Hans, Affer, Laura, Bonomo, Aldo S., Charbonneau, David, Cameron, Andrew Collier, Cosentino, Rosario, Figueira, Pedro, Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M., Harutyunyan, Avet, Haywood, Raphaëlle D., Johnson, John Asher, Latham, David W., Lovis, Christophe, Malavolta, Luca, Mayor, Michel, Micela, Giusi, Molinari, Emilio, Motalebi, Fatemeh, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Pepe, Francesco, Phillips, David F., Piotto, Giampaolo, Pollacco, Don, Queloz, Didier, Sasselov, Dimitar, Ségransan, Damien, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Udry, Stéphane, and Watson, Chris
Abstract: Kepler-20 is a solar-type star (V = 12.5) hosting a compact system of five transiting planets, all packed within the orbital distance of Mercury in our own Solar System. A transition from rocky to gaseous planets with a planetary transition radius of ~1.6 REarth has recently been proposed by several publications in the literature (Rogers 2015;Weiss & Marcy 2014). Kepler-20b (Rp ~ 1.9 REarth) has a size beyond this transition radius, however previous mass measurements were not sufficiently precise to allow definite conclusions to be drawn regarding its composition. We present new mass measurements of three of the planets in the Kepler-20 system facilitated by 104 radial velocity measurements from the HARPS-N spectrograph and 30 archival Keck/HIRES observations, as well as an updated photometric analysis of the Kepler data and an asteroseismic analysis of the host star (MStar = 0.948+-0.051 Msun and Rstar = 0.964+-0.018 Rsun). Kepler-20b is a 1.868+0.066-0.034 REarth planet in a 3.7 day period with a mass of 9.70+1.41-1.44 MEarth resulting in a mean density of 8.2+1.5-1.3 g/cc indicating a rocky composition with an iron to silicate ratio consistent with that of the Earth. This makes Kepler-20b the most massive planet with a rocky composition found to date. Furthermore, we report the discovery of an additional non-transiting planet with a minimum mass of 19.96+3.08-3.61 MEarth and an orbital period of ~34 days in the gap between Kepler-20f (P ~ 11 days) and Kepler-20d (P ~ 78 days)., Comment: 33 pages, 8 figures. Accepted for publication in AJ
Published: 2016
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17. The Kepler-454 system:a small, not-rocky inner planet, a Jovian world, and a distant companion

Author: Gettel, Sara, Charbonneau, David, Dressing, Courtney D., Buchhave, Lars A., Dumusque, Xavier, Vanderburg, Andrew, Bonomo, Aldo S., Malavolta, Luca, Pepe, Francesco, Cameron, Andrew Collier, Latham, David W., Udry, Stéphane, Marcy, Geoffrey W., Isaacson, Howard, Howard, Andrew W., Davies, Guy R., Aguirre, Victor Silva, Kjeldsen, Hans, Bedding, Timothy R., Lopez, Eric, Affer, Laura, Cosentino, Rosario, Figueira, Pedro, Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M., Harutyunyan, Avet, Johnson, John Asher, Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Lovis, Christophe, Mayor, Michel, Micela, Giusi, Molinari, Emilio, Motalebi, Fatemeh, Phillips, David F., Piotto, Giampaolo, Queloz, Didier, Rice, Ken, Sasselov, Dimitar, Segransan, Damien, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Watson, Chris, Basu, Sarbani, Campante, Tiago L., Christensen-Dalsgaard, Jørgen, Kawaler, Steven D., Metcalfe, Travis S., Handberg, Rasmus, Lund, Mikkel N., Lundkvist, Mia S., Huber, Daniel, Chaplin, William J., Gettel, Sara, Charbonneau, David, Dressing, Courtney D., Buchhave, Lars A., Dumusque, Xavier, Vanderburg, Andrew, Bonomo, Aldo S., Malavolta, Luca, Pepe, Francesco, Cameron, Andrew Collier, Latham, David W., Udry, Stéphane, Marcy, Geoffrey W., Isaacson, Howard, Howard, Andrew W., Davies, Guy R., Aguirre, Victor Silva, Kjeldsen, Hans, Bedding, Timothy R., Lopez, Eric, Affer, Laura, Cosentino, Rosario, Figueira, Pedro, Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M., Harutyunyan, Avet, Johnson, John Asher, Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Lovis, Christophe, Mayor, Michel, Micela, Giusi, Molinari, Emilio, Motalebi, Fatemeh, Phillips, David F., Piotto, Giampaolo, Queloz, Didier, Rice, Ken, Sasselov, Dimitar, Segransan, Damien, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Watson, Chris, Basu, Sarbani, Campante, Tiago L., Christensen-Dalsgaard, Jørgen, Kawaler, Steven D., Metcalfe, Travis S., Handberg, Rasmus, Lund, Mikkel N., Lundkvist, Mia S., Huber, Daniel, and Chaplin, William J.
Published: 2016

18. A 1.9 Earth radius rocky planet and the discovery of a non-transiting planet in the Kepler-20 system

Author: Buchhave, Lars A., Dressing, Courtney D., Dumusque, Xavier, Rice, Ken, Vanderburg, Andrew, Mortier, Annelies, Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Lopez, Eric, Lundkvist, Mia S., Kjeldsen, Hans, Affer, Laura, Bonomo, Aldo S., Charbonneau, David, Cosentino, Rosario, Figueira, Pedro, Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M., Harutyunyan, Avet, Haywood, Raphaelle D., Johnson, John Asher, Latham, David W., Lovis, Christophe, Malavolta, Luca, Mayor, Michel, Molinari, Emilio, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Phillips, David F., Piotto, Giampaolo, Queloz, Didier, Segransan, Damien, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Udry, Stephane, Watson, Chris, Buchhave, Lars A., Dressing, Courtney D., Dumusque, Xavier, Rice, Ken, Vanderburg, Andrew, Mortier, Annelies, Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Lopez, Eric, Lundkvist, Mia S., Kjeldsen, Hans, Affer, Laura, Bonomo, Aldo S., Charbonneau, David, Cosentino, Rosario, Figueira, Pedro, Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M., Harutyunyan, Avet, Haywood, Raphaelle D., Johnson, John Asher, Latham, David W., Lovis, Christophe, Malavolta, Luca, Mayor, Michel, Molinari, Emilio, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Phillips, David F., Piotto, Giampaolo, Queloz, Didier, Segransan, Damien, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Udry, Stephane, and Watson, Chris
Published: 2016

19. Kepler-21b:a rocky planet around a V=8.25 mag star

Author: Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Haywood, Raphaëlle D., Coughlin, Jeffrey L., Zeng, Li, Buchhave, Lars A., Giles, Helen A. C., Affer, Laura, Bonomo, Aldo S., Charbonneau, David, Cameron, Andrew Collier, Consentino, Rosario, Dressing, Courtney D., Dumusque, Xavier, Figueira, Pedro, Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M., Harutyunyan, Avet, Johnson, John Asher, Lovis, Christophe, Mayor, Michel, Motalebi, Fatemeh, Piotto, Giampaolo, Pollacco, Don, Queloz, Didier, Rice, Ken, Sasselov, Dimitar, Segransan, Damien, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Udry, Stephane, Vanderburg, Andrew, Watson, Chris, Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Haywood, Raphaëlle D., Coughlin, Jeffrey L., Zeng, Li, Buchhave, Lars A., Giles, Helen A. C., Affer, Laura, Bonomo, Aldo S., Charbonneau, David, Cameron, Andrew Collier, Consentino, Rosario, Dressing, Courtney D., Dumusque, Xavier, Figueira, Pedro, Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M., Harutyunyan, Avet, Johnson, John Asher, Lovis, Christophe, Mayor, Michel, Motalebi, Fatemeh, Piotto, Giampaolo, Pollacco, Don, Queloz, Didier, Rice, Ken, Sasselov, Dimitar, Segransan, Damien, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Udry, Stephane, Vanderburg, Andrew, and Watson, Chris
Published: 2016

20. The Kepler-454 System: A Small, Not-rocky Inner Planet, a Jovian World, and a Distant Companion

Author: Gettel, Sara, Charbonneau, David, Dressing, Courtney D., Buchhave, Lars A., Dumusque, Xavier, Vanderburg, Andrew, Bonomo, Aldo S., Malavolta, Luca, Pepe, Francesco, Cameron, Andrew Collier, Latham, David W., Udry, Stephane, Marcy, Geoffrey W., Isaacson, Howard, Howard, Andrew W., Davies, Guy R., Aguirre, Victor Silva, Kjeldsen, Hans, Bedding, Timothy R., Lopez, Eric, Affer, Laura, Cosentino, Rosario, Figueira, Pedro, Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M., Harutyunyan, Avet, Johnson, John Asher, Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Lovis, Christophe, Mayor, Michel, Micela, Giusi, Molinari, Emilio, Motalebi, Fatemeh, Phillips, David F., Piotto, Giampaolo, Queloz, Didier, Rice, Ken, Sasselov, Dimitar, Segransan, Damien, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Watson, Chris, Basu, Sarbani, Campante, Tiago L., Christensen-Dalsgaard, Jorgen, Kawaler, Steven D., Metcalfe, Travis S., Handberg, Rasmus, Lund, Mikkel N., Lundkvist, Mia S., Huber, Daniel, Chaplin, William J., Gettel, Sara, Charbonneau, David, Dressing, Courtney D., Buchhave, Lars A., Dumusque, Xavier, Vanderburg, Andrew, Bonomo, Aldo S., Malavolta, Luca, Pepe, Francesco, Cameron, Andrew Collier, Latham, David W., Udry, Stephane, Marcy, Geoffrey W., Isaacson, Howard, Howard, Andrew W., Davies, Guy R., Aguirre, Victor Silva, Kjeldsen, Hans, Bedding, Timothy R., Lopez, Eric, Affer, Laura, Cosentino, Rosario, Figueira, Pedro, Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M., Harutyunyan, Avet, Johnson, John Asher, Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Lovis, Christophe, Mayor, Michel, Micela, Giusi, Molinari, Emilio, Motalebi, Fatemeh, Phillips, David F., Piotto, Giampaolo, Queloz, Didier, Rice, Ken, Sasselov, Dimitar, Segransan, Damien, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Watson, Chris, Basu, Sarbani, Campante, Tiago L., Christensen-Dalsgaard, Jorgen, Kawaler, Steven D., Metcalfe, Travis S., Handberg, Rasmus, Lund, Mikkel N., Lundkvist, Mia S., Huber, Daniel, and Chaplin, William J.
Abstract: Kepler-454 (KOI-273) is a relatively bright (V = 11.69 mag), Sun-like starthat hosts a transiting planet candidate in a 10.6 d orbit. From spectroscopy, we estimate the stellar temperature to be 5687 +/- 50 K, its metallicity to be [m/H] = 0.32 +/- 0.08, and the projected rotational velocity to be v sin i <2.4 km s-1. We combine these values with a study of the asteroseismic frequencies from short cadence Kepler data to estimate the stellar mass to be 1.028+0:04-0:03 M_Sun, the radius to be 1.066 +/- 0.012 R_Sun and the age to be 5.25+1:41-1:39 Gyr. We estimate the radius of the 10.6 d planet as 2.37 +/- 0.13 R_Earth. Using 63 radial velocity observations obtained with the HARPS-N spectrograph on the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo and 36 observations made with the HIRES spectrograph at Keck Observatory, we measure the mass of this planet to be 6.8 +/- 1.4M_Earth. We also detect two additional non-transiting companions, a planet with a minimum mass of 4.46 +/- 0.12 M_J in a nearly circular 524 d orbit and a massive companion with a period >10 years and mass >12.1M_J . The twelve exoplanets with radii <2.7 R_Earth and precise mass measurements appear to fall into two populations, with those <1.6 R_Earth following an Earth-like composition curve and larger planets requiring a significant fraction of volatiles. With a density of 2.76 +/- 0.73 g cm-3, Kepler-454b lies near the mass transition between these two populations and requires the presence of volatiles and/or H/He gas., Comment: 40 pages, 13 figures, 6 pages; ApJ in press
Published: 2015
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21. The Kepler-454 System: A Small, Not-rocky Inner Planet, a Jovian World, and a Distant Companion

Author: Gettel, Sara, Charbonneau, David, Dressing, Courtney D., Buchhave, Lars A., Dumusque, Xavier, Vanderburg, Andrew, Bonomo, Aldo S., Malavolta, Luca, Pepe, Francesco, Cameron, Andrew Collier, Latham, David W., Udry, Stephane, Marcy, Geoffrey W., Isaacson, Howard, Howard, Andrew W., Davies, Guy R., Aguirre, Victor Silva, Kjeldsen, Hans, Bedding, Timothy R., Lopez, Eric, Affer, Laura, Cosentino, Rosario, Figueira, Pedro, Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M., Harutyunyan, Avet, Johnson, John Asher, Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Lovis, Christophe, Mayor, Michel, Micela, Giusi, Molinari, Emilio, Motalebi, Fatemeh, Phillips, David F., Piotto, Giampaolo, Queloz, Didier, Rice, Ken, Sasselov, Dimitar, Segransan, Damien, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Watson, Chris, Basu, Sarbani, Campante, Tiago L., Christensen-Dalsgaard, Jorgen, Kawaler, Steven D., Metcalfe, Travis S., Handberg, Rasmus, Lund, Mikkel N., Lundkvist, Mia S., Huber, Daniel, Chaplin, William J., Gettel, Sara, Charbonneau, David, Dressing, Courtney D., Buchhave, Lars A., Dumusque, Xavier, Vanderburg, Andrew, Bonomo, Aldo S., Malavolta, Luca, Pepe, Francesco, Cameron, Andrew Collier, Latham, David W., Udry, Stephane, Marcy, Geoffrey W., Isaacson, Howard, Howard, Andrew W., Davies, Guy R., Aguirre, Victor Silva, Kjeldsen, Hans, Bedding, Timothy R., Lopez, Eric, Affer, Laura, Cosentino, Rosario, Figueira, Pedro, Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M., Harutyunyan, Avet, Johnson, John Asher, Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Lovis, Christophe, Mayor, Michel, Micela, Giusi, Molinari, Emilio, Motalebi, Fatemeh, Phillips, David F., Piotto, Giampaolo, Queloz, Didier, Rice, Ken, Sasselov, Dimitar, Segransan, Damien, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Watson, Chris, Basu, Sarbani, Campante, Tiago L., Christensen-Dalsgaard, Jorgen, Kawaler, Steven D., Metcalfe, Travis S., Handberg, Rasmus, Lund, Mikkel N., Lundkvist, Mia S., Huber, Daniel, and Chaplin, William J.
Abstract: Kepler-454 (KOI-273) is a relatively bright (V = 11.69 mag), Sun-like starthat hosts a transiting planet candidate in a 10.6 d orbit. From spectroscopy, we estimate the stellar temperature to be 5687 +/- 50 K, its metallicity to be [m/H] = 0.32 +/- 0.08, and the projected rotational velocity to be v sin i <2.4 km s-1. We combine these values with a study of the asteroseismic frequencies from short cadence Kepler data to estimate the stellar mass to be 1.028+0:04-0:03 M_Sun, the radius to be 1.066 +/- 0.012 R_Sun and the age to be 5.25+1:41-1:39 Gyr. We estimate the radius of the 10.6 d planet as 2.37 +/- 0.13 R_Earth. Using 63 radial velocity observations obtained with the HARPS-N spectrograph on the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo and 36 observations made with the HIRES spectrograph at Keck Observatory, we measure the mass of this planet to be 6.8 +/- 1.4M_Earth. We also detect two additional non-transiting companions, a planet with a minimum mass of 4.46 +/- 0.12 M_J in a nearly circular 524 d orbit and a massive companion with a period >10 years and mass >12.1M_J . The twelve exoplanets with radii <2.7 R_Earth and precise mass measurements appear to fall into two populations, with those <1.6 R_Earth following an Earth-like composition curve and larger planets requiring a significant fraction of volatiles. With a density of 2.76 +/- 0.73 g cm-3, Kepler-454b lies near the mass transition between these two populations and requires the presence of volatiles and/or H/He gas., Comment: 40 pages, 13 figures, 6 pages; ApJ in press
Published: 2015
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22. The mass of Kepler-93b and the composition of terrestrial planets

Author: Dressing, Courtney D., Charbonneau, David, Dumusque, Xavier, Gettel, Sara, Pepe, Francesco, Cameron, Andrew Collier, Latham, David W., Molinari, Emilio, Udry, Stéphane, Affer, Laura, Bonomo, Aldo S., Buchhave, Lars A., Cosentino, Rosario, Figueira, Pedro, Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M., Harutyunyan, Avet, Haywood, Raphaëlle D., Johnson, John Asher, Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Lovis, Christophe, Malavolta, Luca, Mayor, Michel, Micela, Giusi, Motalebi, Fatemeh, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Phillips, David F., Piotto, Giampaolo, Pollacco, Don, Queloz, Didier, Rice, Ken, Sasselov, Dimitar, Ségransan, Damien, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Szentgyorgyi, Andrew, Watson, Chris, Dressing, Courtney D., Charbonneau, David, Dumusque, Xavier, Gettel, Sara, Pepe, Francesco, Cameron, Andrew Collier, Latham, David W., Molinari, Emilio, Udry, Stéphane, Affer, Laura, Bonomo, Aldo S., Buchhave, Lars A., Cosentino, Rosario, Figueira, Pedro, Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M., Harutyunyan, Avet, Haywood, Raphaëlle D., Johnson, John Asher, Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Lovis, Christophe, Malavolta, Luca, Mayor, Michel, Micela, Giusi, Motalebi, Fatemeh, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Phillips, David F., Piotto, Giampaolo, Pollacco, Don, Queloz, Didier, Rice, Ken, Sasselov, Dimitar, Ségransan, Damien, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Szentgyorgyi, Andrew, and Watson, Chris
Published: 2015

23. The Mass of Kepler-93b and The Composition of Terrestrial Planets

Author: Dressing, Courtney D., Charbonneau, David, Dumusque, Xavier, Gettel, Sara, Pepe, Francesco, Cameron, Andrew Collier, Latham, David W., Molinari, Emilio, Udry, Stephane, Affer, Laura, Bonomo, Aldo S., Buchhave, Lars A., Cosentino, Rosario, Figueira, Pedro, Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M., Harutyunyan, Avet, Haywood, Raphaelle D., Johnson, John Asher, Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Lovis, Christophe, Malavolta, Luca, Mayor, Michel, Micela, Giusi, Motalebi, Fatemeh, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Phillips, David F., Piotto, Giampaolo, Pollacco, Don, Queloz, Didier, Rice, Ken, Sasselov, Dimitar, Segransan, Damien, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Szentgyorgyi, Andrew, Watson, Chris, Dressing, Courtney D., Charbonneau, David, Dumusque, Xavier, Gettel, Sara, Pepe, Francesco, Cameron, Andrew Collier, Latham, David W., Molinari, Emilio, Udry, Stephane, Affer, Laura, Bonomo, Aldo S., Buchhave, Lars A., Cosentino, Rosario, Figueira, Pedro, Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M., Harutyunyan, Avet, Haywood, Raphaelle D., Johnson, John Asher, Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Lovis, Christophe, Malavolta, Luca, Mayor, Michel, Micela, Giusi, Motalebi, Fatemeh, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Phillips, David F., Piotto, Giampaolo, Pollacco, Don, Queloz, Didier, Rice, Ken, Sasselov, Dimitar, Segransan, Damien, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Szentgyorgyi, Andrew, and Watson, Chris
Abstract: Kepler-93b is a 1.478 +/- 0.019 Earth radius planet with a 4.7 day period around a bright (V=10.2), astroseismically-characterized host star with a mass of 0.911+/-0.033 solar masses and a radius of 0.919+/-0.011 solar radii. Based on 86 radial velocity observations obtained with the HARPS-N spectrograph on the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo and 32 archival Keck/HIRES observations, we present a precise mass estimate of 4.02+/-0.68 Earth masses. The corresponding high density of 6.88+/-1.18 g/cc is consistent with a rocky composition of primarily iron and magnesium silicate. We compare Kepler-93b to other dense planets with well-constrained parameters and find that between 1-6 Earth masses, all dense planets including the Earth and Venus are well-described by the same fixed ratio of iron to magnesium silicate. There are as of yet no examples of such planets with masses > 6 Earth masses: All known planets in this mass regime have lower densities requiring significant fractions of volatiles or H/He gas. We also constrain the mass and period of the outer companion in the Kepler-93 system from the long-term radial velocity trend and archival adaptive optics images. As the sample of dense planets with well-constrained masses and radii continues to grow, we will be able to test whether the fixed compositional model found for the seven dense planets considered in this paper extends to the full population of 1-6 Earth mass planets., Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ
Published: 2014
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24. The Kepler-10 planetary system revisited by HARPS-N: A hot rocky world and a solid Neptune-mass planet

Author: 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, Udry, Stephane, Charbonneau, David, Cosentino, Rosario, Dressing, Courtney D., Figueira, Pedro, Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M., Gettel, Sara, Harutyunyan, Avet, Horne, Keith, Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Lovis, Christophe, Mayor, Michel, Micela, Giusi, Motalebi, Fatemeh, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Phillips, David F., Piotto, Giampaolo, Pollacco, Don, Queloz, Didier, Rice, Ken, Sasselov, Dimitar, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Szentgyorgyi, Andrew, Watson, Chris, 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, Udry, Stephane, Charbonneau, David, Cosentino, Rosario, Dressing, Courtney D., Figueira, Pedro, Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M., Gettel, Sara, Harutyunyan, Avet, Horne, Keith, Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Lovis, Christophe, Mayor, Michel, Micela, Giusi, Motalebi, Fatemeh, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Phillips, David F., Piotto, Giampaolo, Pollacco, Don, Queloz, Didier, Rice, Ken, Sasselov, Dimitar, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Szentgyorgyi, Andrew, and Watson, Chris
Abstract: Kepler-10b was the first rocky planet detected by the Kepler satellite and con- firmed with radial velocity follow-up observations from Keck-HIRES. The mass of the planet was measured with a precision of around 30%, which was insufficient to constrain models of its internal structure and composition in detail. In addition to Kepler-10b, a second planet transiting the same star with a period of 45 days was sta- tistically validated, but the radial velocities were only good enough to set an upper limit of 20 Mearth for the mass of Kepler-10c. To improve the precision on the mass for planet b, the HARPS-N Collaboration decided to observe Kepler-10 intensively with the HARPS-N spectrograph on the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo on La Palma. In to- tal, 148 high-quality radial-velocity measurements were obtained over two observing seasons. These new data allow us to improve the precision of the mass determina- tion for Kepler-10b to 15%. With a mass of 3.33 +/- 0.49 Mearth and an updated radius of 1.47 +0.03 -0.02 Rearth, Kepler-10b has a density of 5.8 +/- 0.8 g cm-3, very close to the value -0.02 predicted by models with the same internal structure and composition as the Earth. We were also able to determine a mass for the 45-day period planet Kepler-10c, with an even better precision of 11%. With a mass of 17.2 +/- 1.9 Mearth and radius of 2.35 +0.09 -0.04 Rearth, -0.04 Kepler-10c has a density of 7.1 +/- 1.0 g cm-3. Kepler-10c appears to be the first strong evidence of a class of more massive solid planets with longer orbital periods., Comment: 44 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Published: 2014
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25. The Mass of Kepler-93b and The Composition of Terrestrial Planets

Author: Dressing, Courtney D., Charbonneau, David, Dumusque, Xavier, Gettel, Sara, Pepe, Francesco, Cameron, Andrew Collier, Latham, David W., Molinari, Emilio, Udry, Stephane, Affer, Laura, Bonomo, Aldo S., Buchhave, Lars A., Cosentino, Rosario, Figueira, Pedro, Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M., Harutyunyan, Avet, Haywood, Raphaelle D., Johnson, John Asher, Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Lovis, Christophe, Malavolta, Luca, Mayor, Michel, Micela, Giusi, Motalebi, Fatemeh, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Phillips, David F., Piotto, Giampaolo, Pollacco, Don, Queloz, Didier, Rice, Ken, Sasselov, Dimitar, Segransan, Damien, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Szentgyorgyi, Andrew, Watson, Chris, Dressing, Courtney D., Charbonneau, David, Dumusque, Xavier, Gettel, Sara, Pepe, Francesco, Cameron, Andrew Collier, Latham, David W., Molinari, Emilio, Udry, Stephane, Affer, Laura, Bonomo, Aldo S., Buchhave, Lars A., Cosentino, Rosario, Figueira, Pedro, Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M., Harutyunyan, Avet, Haywood, Raphaelle D., Johnson, John Asher, Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Lovis, Christophe, Malavolta, Luca, Mayor, Michel, Micela, Giusi, Motalebi, Fatemeh, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Phillips, David F., Piotto, Giampaolo, Pollacco, Don, Queloz, Didier, Rice, Ken, Sasselov, Dimitar, Segransan, Damien, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Szentgyorgyi, Andrew, and Watson, Chris
Abstract: Kepler-93b is a 1.478 +/- 0.019 Earth radius planet with a 4.7 day period around a bright (V=10.2), astroseismically-characterized host star with a mass of 0.911+/-0.033 solar masses and a radius of 0.919+/-0.011 solar radii. Based on 86 radial velocity observations obtained with the HARPS-N spectrograph on the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo and 32 archival Keck/HIRES observations, we present a precise mass estimate of 4.02+/-0.68 Earth masses. The corresponding high density of 6.88+/-1.18 g/cc is consistent with a rocky composition of primarily iron and magnesium silicate. We compare Kepler-93b to other dense planets with well-constrained parameters and find that between 1-6 Earth masses, all dense planets including the Earth and Venus are well-described by the same fixed ratio of iron to magnesium silicate. There are as of yet no examples of such planets with masses > 6 Earth masses: All known planets in this mass regime have lower densities requiring significant fractions of volatiles or H/He gas. We also constrain the mass and period of the outer companion in the Kepler-93 system from the long-term radial velocity trend and archival adaptive optics images. As the sample of dense planets with well-constrained masses and radii continues to grow, we will be able to test whether the fixed compositional model found for the seven dense planets considered in this paper extends to the full population of 1-6 Earth mass planets., Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ
Published: 2014
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26. The Kepler-10 planetary system revisited by HARPS-N: A hot rocky world and a solid Neptune-mass planet

Author: 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, Udry, Stephane, Charbonneau, David, Cosentino, Rosario, Dressing, Courtney D., Figueira, Pedro, Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M., Gettel, Sara, Harutyunyan, Avet, Horne, Keith, Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Lovis, Christophe, Mayor, Michel, Micela, Giusi, Motalebi, Fatemeh, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Phillips, David F., Piotto, Giampaolo, Pollacco, Don, Queloz, Didier, Rice, Ken, Sasselov, Dimitar, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Szentgyorgyi, Andrew, Watson, Chris, 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, Udry, Stephane, Charbonneau, David, Cosentino, Rosario, Dressing, Courtney D., Figueira, Pedro, Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M., Gettel, Sara, Harutyunyan, Avet, Horne, Keith, Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Lovis, Christophe, Mayor, Michel, Micela, Giusi, Motalebi, Fatemeh, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Phillips, David F., Piotto, Giampaolo, Pollacco, Don, Queloz, Didier, Rice, Ken, Sasselov, Dimitar, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Szentgyorgyi, Andrew, and Watson, Chris
Abstract: Kepler-10b was the first rocky planet detected by the Kepler satellite and con- firmed with radial velocity follow-up observations from Keck-HIRES. The mass of the planet was measured with a precision of around 30%, which was insufficient to constrain models of its internal structure and composition in detail. In addition to Kepler-10b, a second planet transiting the same star with a period of 45 days was sta- tistically validated, but the radial velocities were only good enough to set an upper limit of 20 Mearth for the mass of Kepler-10c. To improve the precision on the mass for planet b, the HARPS-N Collaboration decided to observe Kepler-10 intensively with the HARPS-N spectrograph on the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo on La Palma. In to- tal, 148 high-quality radial-velocity measurements were obtained over two observing seasons. These new data allow us to improve the precision of the mass determina- tion for Kepler-10b to 15%. With a mass of 3.33 +/- 0.49 Mearth and an updated radius of 1.47 +0.03 -0.02 Rearth, Kepler-10b has a density of 5.8 +/- 0.8 g cm-3, very close to the value -0.02 predicted by models with the same internal structure and composition as the Earth. We were also able to determine a mass for the 45-day period planet Kepler-10c, with an even better precision of 11%. With a mass of 17.2 +/- 1.9 Mearth and radius of 2.35 +0.09 -0.04 Rearth, -0.04 Kepler-10c has a density of 7.1 +/- 1.0 g cm-3. Kepler-10c appears to be the first strong evidence of a class of more massive solid planets with longer orbital periods., Comment: 44 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Published: 2014
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27. The Kepler-10 planetary system revisited by HARPS-N:a hot rocky world and a solid Neptune-mass planet

Author: 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, Udry, Stephane, Charbonneau, David, Cosentino, Rosario, Dressing, Courtney D., Figueira, Pedro, Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M., Gettel, Sara, Harutyunyan, Avet, Horne, Keith, Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Lovis, Christophe, Mayor, Michel, Micela, Giusi, Motalebi, Fatemeh, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Phillips, David F., Piotto, Giampaolo, Pollacco, Don, Queloz, Didier, Rice, Ken, Sasselov, Dimitar, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Szentgyorgyi, Andrew, Watson, Chris, 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, Udry, Stephane, Charbonneau, David, Cosentino, Rosario, Dressing, Courtney D., Figueira, Pedro, Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M., Gettel, Sara, Harutyunyan, Avet, Horne, Keith, Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Lovis, Christophe, Mayor, Michel, Micela, Giusi, Motalebi, Fatemeh, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Phillips, David F., Piotto, Giampaolo, Pollacco, Don, Queloz, Didier, Rice, Ken, Sasselov, Dimitar, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Szentgyorgyi, Andrew, and Watson, Chris
Abstract: 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 the planet was measured with a precision of around 30%, which was insufficient to constrain models of its internal structure and composition in detail. In addition to Kepler-10b, a second planet transiting the same star with a period of 45 days was statistically validated, but the radial velocities were only good enough to set an upper limit of 20 M ⊕ for the mass of Kepler-10c. To improve the precision on the mass for planet b, the HARPS-N Collaboration decided to observe Kepler-10 intensively with the HARPS-N spectrograph on the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo on La Palma. In total, 148 high-quality radial-velocity measurements were obtained over two observing seasons. These new data allow us to improve the precision of the mass determination for Kepler-10b to 15%. With a mass of 3.33 ± 0.49 M ⊕ and an updated radius of R ⊕, Kepler-10b has a density of 5.8 ± 0.8 g cm–3, very close to the value predicted by models with the same internal structure and composition as the Earth. We were also able to determine a mass for the 45-day period planet Kepler-10c, with an even better precision of 11%. With a mass of 17.2 ± 1.9 M ⊕ and radius of R ⊕, Kepler-10c has a density of 7.1 ± 1.0 g cm–3. Kepler-10c appears to be the first strong evidence of a class of more massive solid planets with longer orbital periods.
Published: 2014

28. The Kepler-10 planetary system revisited by HARPS-N:a hot rocky world and a solid Neptune-mass planet

Author: 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, Udry, Stephane, Charbonneau, David, Cosentino, Rosario, Dressing, Courtney D., Figueira, Pedro, Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M., Gettel, Sara, Harutyunyan, Avet, Horne, Keith, Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Lovis, Christophe, Mayor, Michel, Micela, Giusi, Motalebi, Fatemeh, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Phillips, David F., Piotto, Giampaolo, Pollacco, Don, Queloz, Didier, Rice, Ken, Sasselov, Dimitar, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Szentgyorgyi, Andrew, Watson, Chris, 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, Udry, Stephane, Charbonneau, David, Cosentino, Rosario, Dressing, Courtney D., Figueira, Pedro, Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M., Gettel, Sara, Harutyunyan, Avet, Horne, Keith, Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Lovis, Christophe, Mayor, Michel, Micela, Giusi, Motalebi, Fatemeh, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Phillips, David F., Piotto, Giampaolo, Pollacco, Don, Queloz, Didier, Rice, Ken, Sasselov, Dimitar, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Szentgyorgyi, Andrew, and Watson, Chris
Abstract: 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 the planet was measured with a precision of around 30%, which was insufficient to constrain models of its internal structure and composition in detail. In addition to Kepler-10b, a second planet transiting the same star with a period of 45 days was statistically validated, but the radial velocities were only good enough to set an upper limit of 20 M ⊕ for the mass of Kepler-10c. To improve the precision on the mass for planet b, the HARPS-N Collaboration decided to observe Kepler-10 intensively with the HARPS-N spectrograph on the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo on La Palma. In total, 148 high-quality radial-velocity measurements were obtained over two observing seasons. These new data allow us to improve the precision of the mass determination for Kepler-10b to 15%. With a mass of 3.33 ± 0.49 M ⊕ and an updated radius of R ⊕, Kepler-10b has a density of 5.8 ± 0.8 g cm–3, very close to the value predicted by models with the same internal structure and composition as the Earth. We were also able to determine a mass for the 45-day period planet Kepler-10c, with an even better precision of 11%. With a mass of 17.2 ± 1.9 M ⊕ and radius of R ⊕, Kepler-10c has a density of 7.1 ± 1.0 g cm–3. Kepler-10c appears to be the first strong evidence of a class of more massive solid planets with longer orbital periods.
Published: 2014

29. An Earth-sized planet with an Earth-like density

Author: Pepe, Francesco, Cameron, Andrew Collier, Latham, David W., Molinari, Emilio, Udry, Stéphane, Bonomo, Aldo S., Buchhave, Lars A., Charbonneau, David, Cosentino, Rosario, Dressing, Courtney D., Dumusque, Xavier, Figueira, Pedro, Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M., Gettel, Sara, Harutyunyan, Avet, Haywood, Raphaëlle D., Horne, Keith, Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Lovis, Christophe, Malavolta, Luca, Mayor, Michel, Micela, Giusi, Motalebi, Fatemeh, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Phillips, David, Piotto, Giampaolo, Pollacco, Don, Queloz, Didier, Rice, Ken, Sasselov, Dimitar, Ségransan, Damien, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Szentgyorgyi, Andrew, Watson, Christopher A., Pepe, Francesco, Cameron, Andrew Collier, Latham, David W., Molinari, Emilio, Udry, Stéphane, Bonomo, Aldo S., Buchhave, Lars A., Charbonneau, David, Cosentino, Rosario, Dressing, Courtney D., Dumusque, Xavier, Figueira, Pedro, Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M., Gettel, Sara, Harutyunyan, Avet, Haywood, Raphaëlle D., Horne, Keith, Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Lovis, Christophe, Malavolta, Luca, Mayor, Michel, Micela, Giusi, Motalebi, Fatemeh, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Phillips, David, Piotto, Giampaolo, Pollacco, Don, Queloz, Didier, Rice, Ken, Sasselov, Dimitar, Ségransan, Damien, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Szentgyorgyi, Andrew, and Watson, Christopher A.
Abstract: Kepler-78 (KIC 8435766) was identified by Sanchis-Ojeda et al. (2013) as harbouring a transiting planet of 1.16 times the size of the Earth and an orbital period of only 8.5 hours. While the exquisite Kepler photometry was able to determine its radius and period, the mass of the planet (and thus its mean density) remained unconstrained in the absence of precise radial-velocity measurements. Here we present an accurate mass measurement of Kepler-78b using the HARPS-N spectrograph, recently installed on the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (INAF) at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, La Palma, Spain. These new data yield a mass of 1.86 Earth masses. The resulting mean density of the planet is 5.57 grams per cubic centimetre, which is similar to that of the Earth and implies a composition of iron and rock. Kepler-78b, which orbits a Sun-like star called Kepler 78 located in the Cygnus constellation at a distance of about 400 light years from us, is now the smallest exoplanet for which both the mass and radius are known accurately., Comment: 10 Pages, 8 figures, 5 tables, data. Nature, 2013 (published online Oct. 30)
Published: 2013
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30. An Earth-sized planet with an Earth-like density

Author: Pepe, Francesco, Cameron, Andrew Collier, Latham, David W., Molinari, Emilio, Udry, Stéphane, Bonomo, Aldo S., Buchhave, Lars A., Charbonneau, David, Cosentino, Rosario, Dressing, Courtney D., Dumusque, Xavier, Figueira, Pedro, Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M., Gettel, Sara, Harutyunyan, Avet, Haywood, Raphaëlle D., Horne, Keith, Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Lovis, Christophe, Malavolta, Luca, Mayor, Michel, Micela, Giusi, Motalebi, Fatemeh, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Phillips, David, Piotto, Giampaolo, Pollacco, Don, Queloz, Didier, Rice, Ken, Sasselov, Dimitar, Ségransan, Damien, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Szentgyorgyi, Andrew, Watson, Christopher A., Pepe, Francesco, Cameron, Andrew Collier, Latham, David W., Molinari, Emilio, Udry, Stéphane, Bonomo, Aldo S., Buchhave, Lars A., Charbonneau, David, Cosentino, Rosario, Dressing, Courtney D., Dumusque, Xavier, Figueira, Pedro, Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M., Gettel, Sara, Harutyunyan, Avet, Haywood, Raphaëlle D., Horne, Keith, Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Lovis, Christophe, Malavolta, Luca, Mayor, Michel, Micela, Giusi, Motalebi, Fatemeh, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Phillips, David, Piotto, Giampaolo, Pollacco, Don, Queloz, Didier, Rice, Ken, Sasselov, Dimitar, Ségransan, Damien, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Szentgyorgyi, Andrew, and Watson, Christopher A.
Abstract: Kepler-78 (KIC 8435766) was identified by Sanchis-Ojeda et al. (2013) as harbouring a transiting planet of 1.16 times the size of the Earth and an orbital period of only 8.5 hours. While the exquisite Kepler photometry was able to determine its radius and period, the mass of the planet (and thus its mean density) remained unconstrained in the absence of precise radial-velocity measurements. Here we present an accurate mass measurement of Kepler-78b using the HARPS-N spectrograph, recently installed on the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (INAF) at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, La Palma, Spain. These new data yield a mass of 1.86 Earth masses. The resulting mean density of the planet is 5.57 grams per cubic centimetre, which is similar to that of the Earth and implies a composition of iron and rock. Kepler-78b, which orbits a Sun-like star called Kepler 78 located in the Cygnus constellation at a distance of about 400 light years from us, is now the smallest exoplanet for which both the mass and radius are known accurately., Comment: 10 Pages, 8 figures, 5 tables, data. Nature, 2013 (published online Oct. 30)
Published: 2013
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31. An Earth-sized planet with an Earth-like density

Author: Pepe, Francesco, Cameron, Andrew Collier, Latham, David W., Molinari, Emilio, Udry, Stéphane, Bonomo, Aldo S., Buchhave, Lars A., Charbonneau, David, Cosentino, Rosario, Dressing, Courtney D., Dumusque, Xavier, Figueira, Pedro, Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M., Gettel, Sara, Harutyunyan, Avet, Haywood, Raphaëlle D., Horne, Keith, Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Lovis, Christophe, Malavolta, Luca, Mayor, Michel, Micela, Giusi, Motalebi, Fatemeh, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Phillips, David, Piotto, Giampaolo, Pollacco, Don, Queloz, Didier, Rice, Ken, Sasselov, Dimitar, Segransan, Damien, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Szentgyorgyi, Andrew, Watson, Christopher A., Pepe, Francesco, Cameron, Andrew Collier, Latham, David W., Molinari, Emilio, Udry, Stéphane, Bonomo, Aldo S., Buchhave, Lars A., Charbonneau, David, Cosentino, Rosario, Dressing, Courtney D., Dumusque, Xavier, Figueira, Pedro, Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M., Gettel, Sara, Harutyunyan, Avet, Haywood, Raphaëlle D., Horne, Keith, Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Lovis, Christophe, Malavolta, Luca, Mayor, Michel, Micela, Giusi, Motalebi, Fatemeh, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Phillips, David, Piotto, Giampaolo, Pollacco, Don, Queloz, Didier, Rice, Ken, Sasselov, Dimitar, Segransan, Damien, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Szentgyorgyi, Andrew, and Watson, Christopher A.
Abstract: cent analyses 1, 2, 3, 4 of data from the NASA Kepler spacecraft5 have established that planets with radii within 25 per cent of the Earth’s ( ) are commonplace throughout the Galaxy, orbiting at least 16.5 per cent of Sun-like stars1. Because these studies were sensitive to the sizes of the planets but not their masses, the question remains whether these Earth-sized planets are indeed similar to the Earth in bulk composition. The smallest planets for which masses have been accurately determined6, 7 are Kepler-10b (1.42 ) and Kepler-36b (1.49 ), which are both significantly larger than the Earth. Recently, the planet Kepler-78b was discovered8 and found to have a radius of only 1.16 . Here we report that the mass of this planet is 1.86 Earth masses. The resulting mean density of the planet is 5.57 g cm−3, which is similar to that of the Earth and implies a composition of iron and rock., Recent analyses(1-4) of data from the NASA Kepler spacecraft(5) have established that planets with radii within 25 per cent of the Earth's (R-circle plus) are commonplace throughout the Galaxy, orbiting at least 16.5 per cent of Sun-like stars(1). Because these studies were sensitive to the sizes of the planets but not their masses, the question remains whether these Earth-sized planets are indeed similar to the Earth in bulk composition. The smallest planets for which masses have been accurately determined(6,7) are Kepler-10b (1.42R(circle plus)) and Kepler-36b (1.49R(circle plus)), which are both significantly larger than the Earth. Recently, the planet Kepler-78b was discovered(8) and found to have a radius of only 1.16R(circle plus). Here we report that the mass of this planet is 1.86 Earth masses. The resulting mean density of the planet is 5.57 g cm(-3), which is similar to that of the Earth and implies a composition of iron and rock.
Published: 2013

32. An Earth-sized planet with an Earth-like density

Author: Pepe, Francesco, Cameron, Andrew Collier, Latham, David W., Molinari, Emilio, Udry, Stéphane, Bonomo, Aldo S., Buchhave, Lars A., Charbonneau, David, Cosentino, Rosario, Dressing, Courtney D., Dumusque, Xavier, Figueira, Pedro, Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M., Gettel, Sara, Harutyunyan, Avet, Haywood, Raphaëlle D., Horne, Keith, Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Lovis, Christophe, Malavolta, Luca, Mayor, Michel, Micela, Giusi, Motalebi, Fatemeh, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Phillips, David, Piotto, Giampaolo, Pollacco, Don, Queloz, Didier, Rice, Ken, Sasselov, Dimitar, Segransan, Damien, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Szentgyorgyi, Andrew, Watson, Christopher A., Pepe, Francesco, Cameron, Andrew Collier, Latham, David W., Molinari, Emilio, Udry, Stéphane, Bonomo, Aldo S., Buchhave, Lars A., Charbonneau, David, Cosentino, Rosario, Dressing, Courtney D., Dumusque, Xavier, Figueira, Pedro, Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M., Gettel, Sara, Harutyunyan, Avet, Haywood, Raphaëlle D., Horne, Keith, Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Lovis, Christophe, Malavolta, Luca, Mayor, Michel, Micela, Giusi, Motalebi, Fatemeh, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Phillips, David, Piotto, Giampaolo, Pollacco, Don, Queloz, Didier, Rice, Ken, Sasselov, Dimitar, Segransan, Damien, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Szentgyorgyi, Andrew, and Watson, Christopher A.
Abstract: cent analyses 1, 2, 3, 4 of data from the NASA Kepler spacecraft5 have established that planets with radii within 25 per cent of the Earth’s ( ) are commonplace throughout the Galaxy, orbiting at least 16.5 per cent of Sun-like stars1. Because these studies were sensitive to the sizes of the planets but not their masses, the question remains whether these Earth-sized planets are indeed similar to the Earth in bulk composition. The smallest planets for which masses have been accurately determined6, 7 are Kepler-10b (1.42 ) and Kepler-36b (1.49 ), which are both significantly larger than the Earth. Recently, the planet Kepler-78b was discovered8 and found to have a radius of only 1.16 . Here we report that the mass of this planet is 1.86 Earth masses. The resulting mean density of the planet is 5.57 g cm−3, which is similar to that of the Earth and implies a composition of iron and rock., Recent analyses(1-4) of data from the NASA Kepler spacecraft(5) have established that planets with radii within 25 per cent of the Earth's (R-circle plus) are commonplace throughout the Galaxy, orbiting at least 16.5 per cent of Sun-like stars(1). Because these studies were sensitive to the sizes of the planets but not their masses, the question remains whether these Earth-sized planets are indeed similar to the Earth in bulk composition. The smallest planets for which masses have been accurately determined(6,7) are Kepler-10b (1.42R(circle plus)) and Kepler-36b (1.49R(circle plus)), which are both significantly larger than the Earth. Recently, the planet Kepler-78b was discovered(8) and found to have a radius of only 1.16R(circle plus). Here we report that the mass of this planet is 1.86 Earth masses. The resulting mean density of the planet is 5.57 g cm(-3), which is similar to that of the Earth and implies a composition of iron and rock.
Published: 2013

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2. An Ultra-short Period Rocky Super-Earth with a Secondary Eclipse and a Neptune-like Companion around K2-141

3. A giant impact as the likely origin of different twins in the Kepler-107 exoplanet system

4. A giant impact as the likely origin of different twins in the Kepler-107 exoplanet system

5. An Ultra-short Period Rocky Super-Earth with a Secondary Eclipse and a Neptune-like Companion around K2-141

6. An ultra-short period rocky super-Earth with a secondary eclipse and a Neptune-like companion around K2-141

7. An ultra-short period rocky super-Earth with a secondary eclipse and a Neptune-like companion around K2-141

8. An Ultra-short Period Rocky Super-Earth with a Secondary Eclipse and a Neptune-like Companion around K2-141

9. An Ultra-short Period Rocky Super-Earth with a Secondary Eclipse and a Neptune-like Companion around K2-141

10. The Kepler-19 system: a thick-envelope super-Earth with two Neptune-mass companions characterized using Radial Velocities and Transit Timing Variations

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18. A 1.9 Earth radius rocky planet and the discovery of a non-transiting planet in the Kepler-20 system

19. Kepler-21b:a rocky planet around a V=8.25 mag star

20. The Kepler-454 System: A Small, Not-rocky Inner Planet, a Jovian World, and a Distant Companion

21. The Kepler-454 System: A Small, Not-rocky Inner Planet, a Jovian World, and a Distant Companion

22. The mass of Kepler-93b and the composition of terrestrial planets

23. The Mass of Kepler-93b and The Composition of Terrestrial Planets

24. The Kepler-10 planetary system revisited by HARPS-N: A hot rocky world and a solid Neptune-mass planet

25. The Mass of Kepler-93b and The Composition of Terrestrial Planets

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