TOI-4010: A System of Three Large Short-period Planets with a Massive Long-period Companion

Absence of a Metallicity Effect for Ultra-short-period Planets

Ultra-short-period (USP) planets are a newly recognized class of planets with periods shorter than one day, and radii smaller than about 2 R⊕. It has been proposed that USP planets are the solid cores of hot Jupiters that lost their gaseous envelopes due to photo-evaporation or Roche lobe overflow. We test this hypothesis by asking whether USP planets are associated with metal-rich stars, as ha...

The Stability of Short-Period Extrasolar Giant Planets

A three-dimensional coupled thermosphere-ionosphere model for extrasolar giant planets (EXOTIM) has been developed. This is the first such model reported in the literature. This thesis contains an extensive description of the model and the methods adopted in modelling the different physical processes expected in the upper atmospheres and ionospheres of extrasolar giant planets. Modelling the up...

On the Tidal In ation of Short-Period Extrasolar Planets

A Study of the Shortest-period Planets Found with Kepler

We present the results of a survey aimed at discovering and studying transiting planets with orbital periods shorter than one day (ultra–short-period, or USP, planets), using data from the Kepler spacecraft. We computed Fourier transforms of the photometric time series for all 200,000 target stars, and detected transit signals based on the presence of regularly spaced sharp peaks in the Fourier...

Determining the Best Performance Time Period of a System

The main purpose of this paper is to determine the best performance time period of a system, consisting some DMUs, among some sequential time periods. This aim is satised by two proposed algorithms, the rst based on global Malmquist Productivity Index and the second is based on PPS frontiers.