Everything about Exomoon

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: ExomoonA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Radio-loud Exoplanet-exomoon Survey: GMRT Search for Electron Cyclotron Maser EmissionInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Exomoons to Galactic StructureThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Transit timing effects due to an exomoonCited 252 times
5. Go sideways: List of exomoon candidatesA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Habitability of natural satellitesA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Transit timing effects due to an exomoon

  David M. Kipping · 2009 · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 252 citations

• Evidence for a large exomoon orbiting Kepler-1625b

  Alex Teachey, David M. Kipping · 2018 · Science Advances · 169 citations

• Transit timing effects due to an exomoon - II

  David M. Kipping · 2009 · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 144 citations

• Exomoon Habitability Constrained by Illumination and Tidal Heating

  René Heller, Rory Barnes · 2013 · Astrobiology · 116 citations

• HEK. VI. On the Dearth of Galilean Analogs in Kepler, and the Exomoon Candidate Kepler-1625b I

  A. Teachey, D. M. Kipping, A. R. Schmitt · 2017 · The Astronomical Journal · 106 citations

• An exomoon survey of 70 cool giant exoplanets and the new candidate Kepler-1708 b-i

  David Kipping, Steve Bryson, Chris Burke · 2022 · Nature Astronomy · 87 citations

• Exomoon habitability constrained by energy flux and orbital stability

  R. Heller · 2012 · Astronomy & Astrophysics · 77 citations

• THE HUNT FOR EXOMOONS WITH KEPLER (HEK). III. THE FIRST SEARCH FOR AN EXOMOON AROUND A HABITABLE-ZONE PLANET

  D. M. Kipping, D. Forgan, J. Hartman · 2013 · The Astrophysical Journal · 68 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Radio-loud Exoplanet-exomoon Survey: GMRT Search for Electron Cyclotron Maser Emission

  Mayank Narang, Apurva V. Oza, Kaustubh Hakim · 2022 · The Astronomical Journal · 22 citations

• A search for transit timing variations within the exomoon corridor using Kepler data

  David Kipping, Daniel A Yahalomi · 2022 · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 19 citations

• A full transit of v2 Lupi d and the search for an exomoon in its Hill sphere with CHEOPS

  D. Ehrenreich, L. Delrez, B. Akinsanmi · 2023 · Astronomy & Astrophysics · 15 citations

• uGMRT observations of the hot-Saturn WASP-69b: Radio-Loud Exoplanet–Exomoon Survey II (RLEES II)

  Mayank Narang, Apurva V Oza, Kaustubh Hakim · 2023 · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 15 citations

• Not-so-fast Kepler-1513: a perturbing planetary interloper in the exomoon corridor

  Daniel A Yahalomi, David Kipping, David Nesvorný · 2023 · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 14 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Exomoons to Galactic StructureSupachai Awiphan · 2018
• 📕Goodnight ExomoonCottage Door Press, Kelly Kennedy · 2020
• 📕On the Detection and Characterization of Exomoons Through Survey and Targeted ObservationsAlexander Macaulay Teachey · 2020

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🔗 Related topics

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