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astro-ph.EP2025

Spectroscopic Characterization of LOFAR Radio-emitting M dwarfs

E. Koo, G. Stefansson, R. D. Kavanagh +20

Recent observations with the LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR) have revealed 19 nearby M dwarfs showing bright circularly polarised radio emission. One of the possible sources of such em…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 1 cited

TOI-1259Ab: A Warm Jupiter Orbiting a K-dwarf White-Dwarf Binary is on a Well-aligned Orbit

Hugo Veldhuis, Juan I. Espinoza-Retamal, Gudmundur Stefansson +21

The evolution of one member of a stellar binary into a white dwarf has been proposed as a mechanism that triggers the formation of close-in gas giant planets. The star's asymmetric…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 7 cited

The NEID Earth Twin Survey. II. Dynamical Masses in Seven High-acceleration Star Systems

Mark R. Giovinazzi, Cullen H. Blake, Paul Robertson +26

We present a set of companion dynamical masses and orbital parameters of seven star systems from the NEID Earth Twin Survey with significant absolute astrometric accelerations betw…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 13 cited

The death of Vulcan: NEID reveals the planet candidate orbiting HD 26965 is stellar activity

Abigail Burrows, Samuel Halverson, Jared C. Siegel +17

We revisit the long-studied radial velocity (RV) target HD26965 using recent observations from the NASA-NSF 'NEID' precision Doppler facility. Leveraging a suite of classical activ…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 12 cited

TOI-5344 b: A Saturn-like planet orbiting a super-Solar metallicity M0 dwarf

Te Han, Paul Robertson, Shubham Kanodia +19

We confirm the planetary nature of TOI-5344 b as a transiting giant exoplanet around an M0 dwarf star. TOI-5344 b was discovered with the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite phot…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 1 cited

Revisiting Eridani with NEID: Identifying New Activity-Sensitive Lines in a Young K Dwarf Star

Sarah Jiang, Arpita Roy, Samuel Halverson +7

Recent improvements in the sensitivity and precision of the radial velocity (RV) method for exoplanets have brought it close, but not quite to, the threshold (10 cm/s) requir…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 21 cited

TOI-1859b: A 64-Day Warm Jupiter on an Eccentric and Misaligned Orbit

Jiayin Dong, Songhu Wang, Malena Rice +31

Warm Jupiters are close-in giant planets with relatively large planet-star separations (i.e., ). Given their weak tidal interactions with their host stars, meas…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 13 cited

A High-Eccentricity Warm Jupiter Orbiting TOI-4127

Arvind F. Gupta, Jonathan M. Jackson, Guillaume Hebrard +36

We report the discovery of TOI-4127 b, a transiting, Jupiter-sized exoplanet on a long-period ( d), high-eccentricity orbit around a late F-type…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 11 cited

The unusual M-dwarf Warm Jupiter TOI-1899~b: Refinement of orbital and planetary parameters

Andrea S. J. Lin, Jessica E. Libby-Roberts, Jaime A. Alvarado-Montes +31

TOI-1899 b is a rare exoplanet, a temperate Warm Jupiter orbiting an M-dwarf, first discovered by Cañas et al. (2020) from a TESS single-transit event. Using new radial velocities…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 15 cited

NEID Reveals that The Young Warm Neptune TOI-2076 b Has a Low Obliquity

Robert C. Frazier, Gudmundur Stefansson, Suvrath Mahadevan +27

TOI-2076 b is a sub-Neptune-sized planet () that transits a young () bright () K-dwarf hosting a system of three transiting…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 50 cited

TOI-5205 b: A Short-period Jovian Planet Transiting a Mid-M Dwarf

Shubham Kanodia, Suvrath Mahadevan, Jessica Libby-Roberts +27

We present the discovery of TOI-5205~b, a transiting Jovian planet orbiting a solar metallicity M4V star, which was discovered using Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite photometr…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 14 cited

GJ 3929: High Precision Photometric and Doppler Characterization of an Exo-Venus and its Hot, Mini-Neptune-mass Companion

Corey Beard, Paul Robertson, Shubham Kanodia +31

We detail the follow up and characterization of a transiting exo-Venus identified by TESS, GJ 3929b, (TOI-2013b) and its non-transiting companion planet, GJ 3929c (TOI-2013c). GJ 3…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 8 cited

TOI-1696 and TOI-2136: Constraining the Masses of Two Mini-Neptunes with HPF

Corey Beard, Paul Robertson, Shubham Kanodia +29

We present the validation of two planets orbiting M dwarfs, TOI-1696b and TOI-2136b. Both planets are mini-Neptunes orbiting nearby stars, making them promising prospects for atmos…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 10 cited

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.EP2022

TOI-3757 b: A low density gas giant orbiting a solar-metallicity M dwarf

Shubham Kanodia, Jessica Libby-Roberts, Caleb I. Canas +32

We present the discovery of a new Jovian-sized planet, TOI-3757 b, the lowest density planet orbiting an M dwarf (M0V). It orbits a solar-metallicity M dwarf discovered using TESS…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 23 cited

NEID Rossiter-McLaughlin Measurement of TOI-1268b: A Young Warm Saturn Aligned with Its Cool Host Star

Jiayin Dong, Chelsea X. Huang, George Zhou +56

Close-in gas giants present a surprising range of stellar obliquity, the angle between a planet's orbital axis and its host star's spin axis. It is unclear whether the obliquities…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 41 cited

TOI-3714 b and TOI-3629 b: Two gas giants transiting M dwarfs confirmed with HPF and NEID

Caleb I. Cañas, Shubham Kanodia, Chad F. Bender +36

We confirm the planetary nature of two gas giants discovered by TESS to transit M dwarfs. TOI-3714 () is an M2 dwarf hosting a hot Jupiter ($M_p=0.70 \pm 0.03~\ma…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 86 cited

The Warm Neptune GJ 3470b has a Polar Orbit

Gudmundur Stefansson, Suvrath Mahadevan, Cristobal Petrovich +34

The warm Neptune GJ 3470b transits a nearby (pc) bright slowly rotating M1.5-dwarf star. Using spectroscopic observations during two transits with the newly commissioned NEID…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 1 cited

A Search for Planetary Metastable Helium Absorption in the V1298 Tau System

Shreyas Vissapragada, Guðmundur Stefánsson, Michael Greklek-McKeon +28

Early in their lives, planets endure extreme amounts of ionizing radiation from their host stars. For planets with primordial hydrogen and helium-rich envelopes, this can lead to s…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 25 cited

TOI-532b: The Habitable-zone Planet Finder confirms a Large Super Neptune in the Neptune Desert orbiting a metal-rich M dwarf host

Shubham Kanodia, Gudmundur Stefansson, Caleb I. Canas +30

We confirm the planetary nature of TOI-532b, using a combination of precise near-infrared radial velocities with the Habitable-zone Planet Finder, TESS light curves, ground based p…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 8 cited

A Harsh Test of Far-Field Scrambling with the Habitable Zone Planet Finder and the Hobby Eberly Telescope

Shubham Kanodia, Samuel Halverson, Joe P. Ninan +18

The Habitable zone Planet Finder (HPF) is a fiber fed precise radial velocity spectrograph at the 10 m Hobby Eberly Telescope (HET). Due to its fixed altitude design, the HET pupil…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 22 cited

The Habitable-zone Planet Finder Detects a Terrestrial-mass Planet Candidate Closely Orbiting Gliese 1151: The Likely Source of Coherent Low-frequency Radio Emission from an Inactive Star

Suvrath Mahadevan, Guðmundur Stefánsson, Paul Robertson +17

The coherent low-frequency radio emission detected by LOFAR from Gliese 1151, a quiescent M4.5 dwarf star, has radio emission properties consistent with theoretical expectations of…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 36 cited

Target Prioritization and Observing Strategies for the NEID Earth Twin Survey

Arvind F. Gupta, Jason T. Wright, Paul Robertson +16

NEID is a high-resolution optical spectrograph on the WIYN 3.5-m telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory and will soon join the new generation of extreme precision radial veloc…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 18 cited

The Epoch of Giant Planet Migration Planet Search Program. I. Near-Infrared Radial Velocity Jitter of Young Sun-like Stars

Quang H. Tran, Brendan P. Bowler, William D. Cochran +8

We present early results from the Epoch of Giant Planet Migration program, a precise RV survey of over one hundred intermediate-age (20200 Myr) G and K dwarfs with the Hab…