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astro-ph.EP2022

A close-in puffy Neptune with hidden friends: The enigma of TOI 620

Michael A. Reefe, Rafael Luque, Eric Gaidos +82

We present the validation of a transiting low-density exoplanet orbiting the M2.5 dwarf TOI 620 discovered by the NASA TESS mission. We utilize photometric data from both TESS and…

astro-ph.SR2023

Visual Orbits & Alignments of Planet Hosting Binary Systems

Kathryn Lester, Steve Howell, Rachel Matson +7

Roughly half of Solar-type planet hosts have stellar companions, so understanding how these binary companions affect the formation and evolution of planets is an important componen…

astro-ph.EP2021

TESS discovery of a super-Earth and three sub-Neptunes hosted by the bright, Sun-like star HD 108236

Tansu Daylan, Kartik Pingle, Jasmine Wright +59

We report the discovery and validation of four extrasolar planets hosted by the nearby, bright, Sun-like (G3V) star HD~108236 using data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satell…

astro-ph.EP2019

A super-Earth and sub-Neptune transiting the late-type M dwarf LP 791-18

Ian J. M. Crossfield, William Waalkes, Elisabeth R. Newton +57

Planets occur most frequently around cool dwarfs, but only a handful of specific examples are known to orbit the latest-type M stars. Using TESS photometry, we report the discovery…

astro-ph.EP2024

The TESS-Keck Survey XX: 15 New TESS Planets and a Uniform RV Analysis of all Survey Targets

Alex S. Polanski, Jack Lubin, Corey beard +69

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered hundreds of new worlds, with TESS planet candidates now outnumbering the total number of confirmed planets from $\te…

astro-ph.EP2022

A sub-Neptune transiting the young field star HD 18599 at 40 pc

Jerome P. de Leon, John H. Livingston, James S. Jenkins +67

Transiting exoplanets orbiting young nearby stars are ideal laboratories for testing theories of planet formation and evolution. However, to date only a handful of stars with age <…

astro-ph.EP2021

TOI-674b: an oasis in the desert of exo-Neptunes transiting a nearby M dwarf

F. Murgas, N. Astudillo-Defru, X. Bonfils +59

We use TESS, Spitzer, ground-based light curves and HARPS spectrograph radial velocity measurements to establish the physical properties of the transiting exoplanet candidate TOI-6…

astro-ph.EP2022

HD 28109 hosts a trio of transiting Neptunian planets including a near-resonant pair, confirmed by ASTEP from Antarctica

Georgina Dransfield, Amaury H. M. J. Triaud, Tristan Guillot +28

We report on the discovery and characterisation of three planets orbiting the F8 star HD~28109, which sits comfortably in \tess's continuous viewing zone. The two outer planets hav…

astro-ph.EP2023

VaTEST II: Statistical Validation of 11 TESS-Detected Exoplanets Orbiting K-type Stars

Priyashkumar Mistry, Kamlesh Pathak, Aniket Prasad +48

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is an all-sky survey mission designed to find transiting exoplanets orbiting nearby bright stars. It has identified more than 32…

astro-ph.SR2022

Determining Which Binary Component Hosts the TESS Transiting Planet

Kathryn Lester, Steve Howell, David Ciardi +1

The NASA TESS mission has discovered many transiting planets orbiting bright nearby stars, and high-resolution imaging studies have revealed that a number of these exoplanet hosts…

astro-ph.SR2015

Spectroscopy, MOST Photometry, and Interferometry of MWC 314: Is it an LBV or an interacting binary?

Noel D. Richardson, Anthony F. J. Moffat, Raphaël Maltais-Tariant +34

MWC 314 is a bright candidate luminous blue variable that resides in a fairly close binary system, with an orbital period of 60.7530.003 d. We observed MWC 314 with a combinat…

astro-ph.EP2023

Identification of the Top TESS Objects of Interest for Atmospheric Characterization of Transiting Exoplanets with JWST

Benjamin J. Hord, Eliza M. -R. Kempton, Thomas Mikal-Evans +142

JWST has ushered in an era of unprecedented ability to characterize exoplanetary atmospheres. While there are over 5,000 confirmed planets, more than 4,000 TESS planet candidates a…

astro-ph.SR2026

Paving the Road to the Habitable Worlds Observatory with High-Resolution Imaging I: New and Archival Speckle Observations of Potential HWO Target Stars

Zachary D. Hartman, Catherine A. Clark, Michael B. Lund +15

One of the key goals of the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is to directly image about 25 potentially habitable exoplanets and determine their properties. This challenge will re…

astro-ph.EP2020

A pair of TESS planets spanning the radius valley around the nearby mid-M dwarf LTT 3780

Ryan Cloutier, Jason D. Eastman, Joseph E. Rodriguez +84

We present the confirmation of two new planets transiting the nearby mid-M dwarf LTT 3780 (TIC 36724087, TOI-732, , , =0.374 R, =0.401 M$_{\…