Publications (41)
Discovery of a multi-planetary system orbiting the aged Sun-like star HD 224018
M. Damasso, L. Naponiello, A. Anna John +22
In 2016, Kepler/K2 detected a system of two sub-Neptunes transiting the star HD 224018, one of them showing a mono-transit event. In 2017, we began a spectroscopic follow-up with H…
Transit Timing Variations in HIP 41378: CHEOPS and TESS confirm a non-transiting sixth planet in the system
P. Leonardi, L. Borsato, L. Pagliaro +89
In multiple-planet systems, gravitational interactions of exoplanets could lead to transit timing variations (TTVs), whose amplitude becomes significantly enhanced when planets are…
A four-planet system orbiting the old thick disk star TOI-1203
D. Gandolfi, A. Alnajjarine, L. M. Serrano +120
TOI-1203 is a bright (V=8.6) G3 V star known to host a transiting warm sub-Neptune on a 25.5 d orbit. Here we report on an intensive high-precision radial velocity and photometric…
The GAPS Programme at TNG. LXXIII. Confirmation of the hot sub-Neptune TOI-4602 b (HD 25295 b), a key target for future atmospheric characterization
C. Di Maio, S. Benatti, D. Locci +25
Precise mass and radius measurements of small, transitional exoplanets, such as super-Earths and sub-Neptunes, are essential to constrain their bulk density and formation history,…
The GAPS programme at TNG XLIX. TOI-5398, the youngest compact multi-planet system composed of an inner sub-Neptune and an outer warm Saturn
G. Mantovan, L. Malavolta, S. Desidera +68
Short-period giant planets are frequently found to be solitary compared to other classes of exoplanets. Small inner companions to giant planets with 15 days are known…
The GAPS Programme at TNG: LIV. A HeI survey of close-in giant planets hosted by M-K dwarf stars with GIANO-B
G. Guilluy, M. C. D'Arpa, A. S. Bonomo +30
Atmospheric escape plays a fundamental role in shaping the properties of exoplanets. The metastable near-infrared helium triplet at 1083.3 nm (HeI) is a powerful proxy of extended…
The GAPS programme at TNG LXXI. A sub-Neptune suitable for atmospheric characterization in a multiplanet and mutually inclined system orbiting the bright K dwarf TOI-5789 (HIP 99452)
A. S. Bonomo, L. Naponiello, A. Sozzetti +37
Sub-Neptunes with planetary radii of are the most common planets around solar-type stars in short-period ( d) orbits. It is still unclear, howe…
TOI-837 b: characterisation, formation and evolutionary history of an infant warm Saturn-mass planet
M. Damasso, D. Polychroni, D. Locci +15
We aim to determine the fundamental properties of the 35 Myr old star TOI-837 and its close-in Saturn-sized planet, and to investigate the system's formation and evolutionary…
Improved characterization of the TOI-2141 system: a dense sub-Neptune with non-transiting inner and outer companions
R. Luque, K. W. F. Lam, J. Cabrera +87
We aim to refine the fundamental parameters of the TOI-2141 planetary system, which includes a transiting sub-Neptune orbiting a Sun-like star in a relatively long orbit of 18.26 d…
Transit-timing variations in the AU Mic system observed with CHEOPS
Ã. Boldog, Gy. M. Szabó, L. Kriskovics +86
AU Mic is a very active M dwarf with an edge-on debris disk and two transiting sub-Neptunes with a possible third planetary companion. The two transiting planets exhibit significan…
The Hot-Neptune Initiative (HONEI) I. Two hot sub-Neptunes on a close-in, eccentric orbit (TOI-5800 b) and a farther-out, circular orbit (TOI-5817 b)
L. Naponiello, S. Vissapragada, A. S. Bonomo +37
Neptune-sized exoplanets are key targets for atmospheric studies, yet their formation and evolution remain poorly understood due to their diverse characteristics and limited sample…
The GAPS programme at TNG: LXXVI. TOI-1533: a compact system hosting a super-Neptune-mass pair with disparate radii
G. Mantovan, V. Nascimbeni, S. Desidera +49
The present-day architecture of planetary systems contains information about their formation and migration histories. The origin of hot Jupiters (HJs, P 10 d, $R_{\rm p}…
The GAPS Programme at TNG. LIII. New insights on the peculiar XO-2 system
A. Ruggieri, S. Desidera, K. Biazzo +20
Planets in binary systems are a fascinating and yet poorly understood phenomenon. Since there are only a few known large-separation systems in which both components host planets, c…
TOI-159 b: an eccentric hot-Jupiter planet around a young, pulsating Doradus star
G. Mantovan, A. Llancaqueo Albornoz, A. Psaridi +16
Fast-rotating hot stars are challenging targets for exoplanet searches due to rotational broadening and stellar variability. Moreover, hot stars often exhibit pulsations, an additi…
The GAPS programme at TNG. LVII. TOI-5076b: A warm sub-Neptune planet orbiting a thin-to-thick-disk transition star in a wide binary system
M. Montalto, N. Greco, K. Biazzo +36
Aims. We report the confirmation of a new transiting exoplanet orbiting the star TOI-5076. Methods. We present our vetting procedure and follow-up observations which led to the con…
The 35-Myr old infant planet TOI-837 b has a mildly misaligned orbit
G. Mantovan, L. Malavolta, F. Marzari +6
The measurement of the spin-orbit obliquity, that is, the angle between the orbital axis of a planet and the stellar spin axis, provides crucial insights into how planets form and…
The GAPS Programme at the TNG: LXX. TOI-5734b: A hot sub-Neptune orbiting a relatively young K dwarf with an Earth-like density
S. Filomeno, T. Trifonov, M. Damasso +40
Increasing interest in young exoplanets is leading to a growing effort to understand the formation and evolutionary processes responsible for their different architectures. One int…
Orbital obliquity of the young planet TOI-5398 b and the evolutionary history of the system
G. Mantovan, L. Malavolta, D. Locci +19
Multi-planet systems exhibit remarkable architectural diversity. However, short-period giant planets are typically isolated. Compact systems like TOI-5398, with an outer close-orbi…
The GAPS Programme at TNG. LXV. Precise density measurement of TOI-1430 b, a young planet with an evaporating atmosphere
D. Nardiello, J. M. Akana Murphy, R. Spinelli +34
Small-sized exoplanets in tight orbits around young stars (10-1000 Myr) give us the opportunity to investigate the mechanisms that led to their formation, the evolution of their ph…
New members of the Lupus I cloud based on Gaia astrometry Physical and accretion properties from X-Shooter spectra
F. Z. Majidi, J. M. Alcala', A. Frasca +13
We characterize twelve young stellar objects (YSOs) located in the Lupus I region, spatially overlapping with the Upper Centaurus Lupus (UCL) sub-stellar association. The aim of th…
The GAPS Programme with HARPS-N at TNG LXXVII. Occurrence rates of small close-in planets in the presence of cold Jupiters
A. Ruggieri, S. Desidera, M. Pinamonti +18
The paper compiles a homogeneous sample of 137 stars with cold Jupiters and uses radial‑velocity data, including new HARPS‑N observations, to measure how often inner small planets…
: Accelerating Bayesian atmospheric retrievals with transformer neural networks
L. Pagliaro, T. Zingales, G. Piotto +2
Computationally expensive and time-consuming Bayesian atmospheric retrievals pose a significant bottleneck for the rapid analysis of high-quality exoplanetary spectra from present…
Architecture of TOI-561 planetary system
G. Piotto, T. Zingales, L. Borsato +89
We present new observations from CHEOPS and TESS to clarify the architecture of the planetary system hosted by the old Galactic thick disk star TOI-561. Our global analysis, which…
Discovery and characterisation of two exoplanets orbiting the metal-poor, solar-type star TOI-5788 with TESS, CHEOPS, and HARPS-N
Ben S. Lakeland, A. Mortier, R. D. Haywood +48
We present the discovery and characterisation of two transiting exoplanets orbiting the metal-poor, solar-type star TOI-5788. From our analysis of six \textit{TESS} sectors and a d…
The Hot Neptune Initiative (HONEI) II. TOI-5795 b: A hot super-Neptune orbiting a metal-poor star
F. Manni, L. Naponiello, L. Mancini +31
The formation of Neptune planets with orbital periods less than 10\,days remains uncertain. They might have developed similarly to longer-period counterparts, emerged from rare col…
The GAPS Programme at TNG. LXI. Atmospheric parameters and elemental abundances of TESS young exoplanet host stars
S. Filomeno, K. Biazzo, M. Baratella +26
The study of exoplanets at different evolutionary stages can shed light on their formation, migration, and evolution. The determination of exoplanet properties depends on the prope…
A PSF-based Approach to TESS High quality data Of Stellar clusters (PATHOS) -- IV. Candidate exoplanets around stars in open clusters: frequency and age-planetary radius distribution
D. Nardiello, M. Deleuil, G. Mantovan +7
The knowledge of the ages of stars hosting exoplanets allows us to obtain an overview on the evolution of exoplanets and understand the mechanisms affecting their life. The measure…
A tidally detached super Neptune on a strongly misaligned retrograde orbit
G. Mantovan, L. Malavolta, A. F. Lanza +18
The obliquity between a planet's orbital axis and its host star's spin axis provides crucial insights into planetary formation and migration. Planets with scaled semi-major axes ($…
The GAPS Programme at TNG L -- TOI-4515 b: An eccentric warm Jupiter orbiting a 1.2 Gyr-old G-star
I. Carleo, L. Malavolta, S. Desidera +68
Context. Different theories have been developed to explain the origins and properties of close-in giant planets, but none of them alone can explain all of the properties of the war…
TIC~257060897b: an inflated, low-density, hot-Jupiter transiting a rapidly evolving subgiant star
M. Montalto, L. Malavolta, J. Gregorio +7
We report the discovery of a new transiting exoplanet orbiting the star TIC~257060897 and detected using {\it TESS} full frame images. We acquired HARPS-N time-series spectroscopic…
The K2-24 planetary system revisited by CHEOPS
V. Nascimbeni, L. Borsato, P. Leonardi +82
K2-24 is a planetary system composed of two transiting low-density Neptunians locked in an almost perfect 2:1 resonance and showing large TTVs, i.e., an excellent laboratory to sea…
The GAPS programme at TNG LXX. HD 128717 B/Gaia-6 B: a long-period eccentric low-mass brown dwarf from astrometry and radial velocities
M. Pinamonti, A. Sozzetti, D. Barbato +24
The transition regime between giant planets (GPs) and brown dwarfs (BDs) is still an open subject of study in exoplanetary science. A complete understanding of the population of lo…
The GAPS programme at TNG LXIV: An inner eccentric sub-Neptune and an outer sub-Neptune-mass candidate around BD+00 444 (TOI-2443)
L. Naponiello, A. S. Bonomo, L. Mancini +25
We examined in depth the star BD+00 444 (GJ 105.5, TOI-2443; V = 9.5 mag; d = 23.9 pc), with the aim of characterizing and confirming the planetary nature of its small companion, t…
A Decade of Solar High-Fidelity Spectroscopy and Precise Radial Velocities from HARPS-N
X. Dumusque, K. Al Moulla, M. Cretignier +53
We recently released 10 years of HARPS-N solar telescope and the goal of this manuscript is to present the different optimisations made to the data reduction, to describe data cura…
The GAPS programme at TNG -- LXIII. Photo-evaporating puzzle: Exploring the enigmatic nature of TOI-5398 b atmospheric signal
M. C. D'Arpa, G. Guilluy, G. Mantovan +26
Atmospheric characterization is key to understanding exoplanetary systems, offering insights into the planets current and past conditions. By analyzing key lines like H alpha and t…
The GAPS programme at TNG LXXV. Validating and confirming Gaia substellar astrometric candidates with HARPS-N
D. Barbato, M. Pinamonti, A. Sozzetti +22
The astrometric measurements provided by the Gaia space mission represent a key advancement in the search and characterization of exoplanets, helping in particular to solve the mas…
The inflated, eccentric warm Jupiter TOI-4914 b orbiting a metal-poor star, and the hot Jupiters TOI-2714 b and TOI-2981 b
G. Mantovan, T. G. Wilson, L. Borsato +32
Recent observations of giant planets have revealed unexpected bulk densities. Hot Jupiters, in particular, appear larger than expected for their masses compared to planetary evolut…
The GAPS programme at TNG LX Atmospheric characterisation of KELT-9 b via single-line analysis: Detection of six H I Balmer lines, Na I, Ca I, Ca II, Fe I, Fe II, Mg I, Ti II, Sc II, and Cr II
M. C. D'Arpa, A. Saba, F. Borsa +27
We analysed six primary transits of the ultra-hot Jupiter KELT-9,b obtained with the HARPS-N high-resolution spectrograph in the context of the Global Architecture of Planetary Sys…
A joint effort to discover and characterize two resonant mini Neptunes around TOI-1803 with TESS, HARPS-N and CHEOPS
T. Zingales, L. Malavolta, L. Borsato +130
We present the discovery of two mini Neptunes near a 2:1 orbital resonance configuration orbiting the K0 star TOI-1803. We describe their orbital architecture in detail and suggest…
The GAPS Programme at TNG. LIX. A characterisation study of the 300 Myr old multi-planetary system orbiting the star BD+40 2790 (TOI-2076)
M. Damasso, D. Locci, S. Benatti +35
We collected more than 300 high-resolution spectra of the 300 Myr old star BD+40 2790 (TOI-2076) over ~3 years. This star hosts three transiting planets discovered by TESS, with or…
The GAPS programme at TNG XLIII. A massive brown dwarf orbiting the active M dwarf TOI-5375
J. Maldonado, A. Petralia, G. Mantovan +23
Context. Massive substellar companions orbiting active low-mass stars are rare. They, however, offer an excellent opportunity to study the main mechanisms involved in the formation…