Nominated as an outstanding Ph.D. thesis by the University of Tokyo Department of Physics Presents methodology for the self-consistent joint analysis of photometric and spectroscopic data Discusses unique analyses of the precise photometric light curve combined with orbital dynamics, which appeal to both observers and theorists

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Kento Masuda is a NASA Sagan Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University. He received his B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Tokyo in March 2012, March 2014, and July 2016, respectively. He was awarded the Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) research fellowship for young scientists, and his research throughout his doctoral program was supported by the JSPS. He has also received a number of prizes and awards: the School of Science Research Award (Master) from the University of Tokyo in 2014, the JSPS Ikushi Prize in 2017, the School of Science Research Award (Ph.D.) from the University of Tokyo in 2017, and the Inoue Research Award for Young Scientists from the Inoue Foundation for Science in 2018.

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Diversity of the Extrasolar Worlds.- Measurements of Stellar Obliquities.- Origin of the Misaligned Hot Jupiters: Nature or Nurture?.- Three-dimensional Stellar Obliquities of HAT-P-7 and Kepler-25 from Joint Analysis of Asteroseismology, Transit Light Curve, and the RossiterMcLaughlin Eect.- SpinOrbit Misalignments of Kepler-13Ab and HAT-P-7b from Gravity-Darkened Transit Light Curves.- Probing the Architecture of Hierarchical Multi-Body Systems: Photometric Characterization of the Triply-Eclipsing Triple-Star System KIC 6543674.- Summary and Future Prospects.