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astro-ph.EP2026

Hydrogen airglow from an escaping ultrahot Jupiter atmosphere

Yapeng Zhang, Chenliang Huang, Aaron Householder +17

Intense high-energy irradiation of close-in gaseous exoplanets drives the rapid escape of their atmospheres, fundamentally shaping planetary demographics. While atmospheric loss is…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 3 cited

HD 143811 AB b: A Directly Imaged Planet Orbiting a Spectroscopic Binary in Sco-Cen

Nathalie K. Jones, Jason J. Wang, Eric L. Nielsen +51

We present confirmation of HD 143811 AB b, a substellar companion to spectroscopic binary HD 143811 AB through direct imaging with the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) and Keck NIRC2. HD…

astro-ph.EP2025

Characterization of the Host Binary of the Directly Imaged Exoplanet HD 143811 AB b

Anne E. Peck, William Roberson, Eric L. Nielsen +50

HD~143811~AB is the host star to the directly imaged planet HD~143811~AB~b, which was recently discovered using data from the Gemini Planet Imager and Keck NIRC2. A member of the S…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 16 cited

Detection of an Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting the nearby ultracool dwarf star SPECULOOS-3

Michaël Gillon, Peter P. Pedersen, Benjamin V. Rackham +81

Located at the bottom of the main sequence, ultracool dwarf stars are widespread in the solar neighbourhood. Nevertheless, their extremely low luminosity has left their planetary p…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 53 cited

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.EP2023★ 11 cited

Developing a Drift Rate Distribution for Technosignature Searches of Exoplanets

Megan G. Li, Sofia Z. Sheikh, Christian Gilbertson +4

A stable-frequency transmitter with relative radial acceleration to a receiver will show a change in received frequency over time, known as a "drift rate''. For a transmission from…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 15 cited

TOI-1801 b: A temperate mini-Neptune around a young M0.5 dwarf

M. Mallorquín, E. Goffo, E. Pallé +79

We report the discovery, mass, and radius determination of TOI-1801 b, a temperate mini-Neptune around a young M dwarf. TOI-1801 b was observed in TESS sectors 22 and 49, and the a…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 8 cited

Dynamical Architectures of S-type Transiting Planets in Binaries I: Target Selection using Hipparcos and Gaia proper motion anomalies

Jingwen Zhang, Lauren M. Weiss, Daniel Huber +16

The effect of stellar multiplicity on planetary architecture and orbital dynamics provides an important context for exoplanet demographics. We present a volume-limited catalog up t…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 53 cited

Overfitting Affects the Reliability of Radial Velocity Mass Estimates of the V1298 Tau Planets

Sarah Blunt, Adolfo Carvalho, Trevor J. David +23

Mass, radius, and age measurements of young (<100 Myr) planets have the power to shape our understanding of planet formation. However, young stars tend to be extremely variable in…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 29 cited

Inner Planetary System Gap Complexity is a Predictor of Outer Giant Planets

Matthias Y. He, Lauren M. Weiss

The connection between inner small planets and outer giant planets is crucial to our understanding of planet formation across a wide range of orbital separations. While Kepler prov…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 17 cited

A Mini-Neptune Orbiting the Metal-poor K Dwarf BD+29 2654

Fei Dai, Kevin C. Schlaufman, Henrique Reggiani +48

We report the discovery and Doppler mass measurement of a 7.4-day 2.3- mini-Neptune around a metal-poor K dwarf BD+29 2654 (TOI-2018). Based on a high-resolution Keck/HIR…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 22 cited

The TESS-Keck Survey. XV. Precise Properties of 108 TESS Planets and Their Host Stars

Mason G. MacDougall, Erik A. Petigura, Gregory J. Gilbert +38

We present the stellar and planetary properties for 85 TESS Objects of Interest (TOIs) hosting 108 planet candidates which comprise the TESS-Keck Survey (TKS) sample. We combine ph…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 56 cited

The Kepler Giant Planet Search. I: A Decade of Kepler Planet-host Radial Velocities from W. M. Keck Observatory

Lauren M. Weiss, Howard Isaacson, Andrew W. Howard +17

Despite the importance of Jupiter and Saturn to Earth's formation and habitability, there has not yet been a comprehensive observational study of how giant exoplanets correlate wit…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 74 cited

Astrometric Accelerations as Dynamical Beacons: A Giant Planet Imaged Inside the Debris Disk of the Young Star AF Lep

Kyle Franson, Brendan P. Bowler, Yifan Zhou +13

We present the direct imaging discovery of a giant planet orbiting the young star AF Lep, a 1.2 member of the 24 3 Myr Pic moving group. AF Lep was observed a…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 11 cited

A Dynamical Systems Approach to the Theory of Circumbinary Orbits in the Circular Restricted Problem

Andrew Langford, Lauren M. Weiss

To better understand the orbital dynamics of exoplanets around close binary stars, i.e., circumbinary planets (CBPs), we applied techniques from dynamical systems theory to a physi…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 57 cited

Evidence for the volatile-rich composition of a 1.5- planet

Caroline Piaulet, Björn Benneke, Jose M. Almenara +18

The population of planets smaller than approximately is widely interpreted as consisting of rocky worlds, generally referred to as super-Earths. This picture is larg…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 76 cited

Direct Imaging and Astrometric Detection of a Gas Giant Planet Orbiting an Accelerating Star

Thayne Currie, G. Mirek Brandt, Timothy D. Brandt +31

Direct imaging of gas giant exoplanets provides key information on planetary atmospheres and the architectures of planetary systems. However, few planets have been detected in blin…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 9 cited

Radial velocity confirmation of a hot super-Neptune discovered by TESS with a warm Saturn-mass companion

E. Knudstrup, D. Gandolfi, G. Nowak +59

We report the discovery and confirmation of the planetary system TOI-1288. This late G dwarf harbours two planets: TOI-1288 b and TOI-1288 c. We combine TESS space-borne and ground…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 72 cited

TOI-1136 is a Young, Coplanar, Aligned Planetary System in a Pristine Resonant Chain

Fei Dai, Kento Masuda, Corey Beard +60

Convergent disk migration has long been suspected to be responsible for forming planetary systems with a chain of mean-motion resonances (MMR). Dynamical evolution over time could…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 5 cited

Kepler-102: Masses and Compositions for a Super-Earth and Sub-Neptune Orbiting an Active Star

Casey Brinkman, James Cadman, Lauren Weiss +24

Radial velocity (RV) measurements of transiting multiplanet systems allow us to understand the densities and compositions of planets unlike those in the Solar System. Kepler-102, w…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 38 cited

The TESS Grand Unified Hot Jupiter Survey. II. Twenty New Giant Planets

Samuel W. Yee, Joshua N. Winn, Joel D. Hartman +83

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission promises to improve our understanding of hot Jupiters by providing an all-sky, magnitude-limited sample of transiting ho…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 40 cited

TOI-561 b: A Low Density Ultra-Short Period "Rocky" Planet around a Metal-Poor Star

Casey Brinkman, Lauren M. Weiss, Fei Dai +22

TOI-561 is a galactic thick disk star hosting an ultra-short period (0.45 day orbit) planet with a radius of 1.37 R, making it one of the most metal-poor ([Fe/H] = -0.41…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 15 cited

TESS-Keck Survey XIV: Two giant exoplanets from the Distant Giants Survey

Judah E. Van Zandt, Erik A. Petigura, Mason MacDougall +42

We present the Distant Giants Survey, a three-year radial velocity (RV) campaign to measure P(DG|CS), the conditional occurrence of distant giant planets (DG; M_p ~ 0.3 - 13 M_J, P…

astro-ph.EP2022

GPI 2.0: Characterizing Self-Luminous Exoplanets Through Low-Resolution Infrared Spectroscopy

Arlene Aleman, Bruce Macintosh, Mary Anne Limbach +4

Direct imaging characterization of extrasolar planets is often done at low spectral resolution. We model the spectrograph for the Gemini Planet Imager upgrade (GPI 2.0) and assess…