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most citedThe Eleventh and Twelfth Data Releases of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Final Data from SDSS-III

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astro-ph.IM2020★ 1 cited

FIRST, a Pupil-Remapping Fiber Interferometer at the Subaru Telescope: on-sky results

Sébastien Vievard, Elsa Huby, Sylvestre Lacour +13

FIRST, the Fibered Imager foR a Single Telescope, is a spectro-imager using single-mode fibers for pupil remapping, allowing measurements beyond the telescope diffraction limit. In…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 31 cited

First detection of orbital motion for HD 106906 b: A wide-separation exoplanet on a Planet Nine-like orbit

Meiji M. Nguyen, Robert J. De Rosa, Paul Kalas

HD 106906 is a 15 Myr old short-period (49 days) spectroscopic binary that hosts a wide-separation (737 au) planetary-mass () common proper motion companion, H…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 60 cited

Two young planetary systems around field stars with ages between 20-320 Myr from TESS

George Zhou, Samuel N. Quinn, Jonathan Irwin +46

Planets around young stars trace the early evolution of planetary systems. We report the discovery and validation of two planetary systems with ages Myr from observa…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 28 cited

TOI-519 b: a short-period substellar object around an M dwarf validated using multicolour photometry and phase curve analysis

H. Parviainen, E. Palle, M. R. Zapatero-Osorio +43

Context: We report the discovery of TOI-519 b (TIC 218795833), a transiting substellar object (R = 1.07 RJup) orbiting a faint M dwarf (V = 17.35) on a 1.26 d orbit. Brown dwarfs a…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 18 cited

Estimating fast transient detection pipeline efficiencies at UTMOST via real-time injection of mock FRBs

Vivek Gupta, Chris Flynn, Wael Farah +7

Dedicated surveys using different detection pipelines are being carried out at multiple observatories to find more Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs). Understanding the efficiency of detecti…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 29 cited

Science Extraction from TESS Observations of Known Exoplanet Hosts

Stephen R. Kane, Jacob L. Bean, Tiago L. Campante +15

The transit method of exoplanet discovery and characterization has enabled numerous breakthroughs in exoplanetary science. These include measurements of planetary radii, mass-radiu…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 79 cited

New Horizons Observations of the Cosmic Optical Background

Tod R. Lauer, Marc Postman, Harold A. Weaver +26

We used existing data from the New Horizons LORRI camera to measure the optical-band () sky brightness within seven high galactic latitude fields. T…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 47 cited

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs -- LP 714-47b (TOI 442.01): Populating the Neptune desert

S. Dreizler, I., J. +134

We report the discovery of a Neptune-like planet (LP 714-47 b, P = 4.05204 d, m_b = 30.8 +/- 1.5 M_earth , R_b = 4.7 +/- 0.3 R_earth ) located in the 'hot Neptune desert'. Confirma…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 21 cited

The pulsating white dwarf G117-B15A: still the most stable optical clock known

S. O. Kepler, D. E. Winget, Zachary P. Vanderbosch +14

The pulsating hydrogen atmosphere white dwarf star G 117-B15A has been observed since 1974. Its main pulsation period at 215.19738823(63) s, observed in optical light curves, varie…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 42 cited

The Magellan-TESS Survey I: Survey Description and Mid-Survey Results

Johanna Teske, Sharon Xuesong Wang, Angie Wolfgang +66

revealed that roughly one-third of Sun-like stars host planets orbiting within 100 days and between the size of Earth and Neptune. How do these planets form, what are they…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 128 cited

Beyond Equilibrium Temperature: How the Atmosphere/Interior Connection Affects the Onset of Methane, Ammonia, and Clouds in Warm Transiting Giant Planets

Jonathan J. Fortney, Channon Visscher, Mark S. Marley +5

The atmospheric pressure-temperature profiles for transiting giant planets cross a range of chemical transitions. Here we show that the particular shape of these irradiated profile…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 17 cited

TOI 122b and TOI 237b, two small warm planets orbiting inactive M dwarfs, found by \textit{TESS}

William C. Waalkes, Zachory K. Berta-Thompson, Karen A. Collins +39

We report the discovery and validation of TOI 122b and TOI 237b, two warm planets transiting inactive M dwarfs observed by \textit{TESS}. Our analysis shows TOI 122b has a radius o…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 19 cited

Possible Transient Luminous Events observed in Jupiter's upper atmosphere

Rohini S. Giles, Thomas K. Greathouse, Bertrand Bonfond +10

11 transient bright flashes were detected in Jupiter's atmosphere using the UVS instrument on the Juno spacecraft. These bright flashes are only observed in a single spin of the sp…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 28 cited

Spitzer Reveals Evidence of Molecular Absorption in the Atmosphere of the Hot Neptune LTT 9979b

Diana Dragomir, Ian J. M. Crossfield, Bjorn Benneke +27

Non-rocky sub-jovian exoplanets in high irradiation environments are rare. LTT 9979b, also known as TESS Object of Interest (TOI) 193.01, is one of the few such planets discovered…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 18 cited

The MURALES survey. III. Completing the MUSE observations of 37 3C low-z radio galaxies

Barbara Balmaverde, Alessandro Capetti, Alessandro Marconi +12

We present the final observations of a complete sample of 37 radio galaxies from the Third Cambridge Catalog (3C) with redshift <0.3 and declination <20 degrees obtained with the V…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 5 cited

Capabilities of a fibered imager on an extremely large telescope

Sebastien Vievard, Nick Cvetojevic, Elsa Huby +11

FIRST, the Fibered Imager foR a Single Telescope instrument, is an ultra-high angular resolution spectro-imager, able to deliver calibrated images and measurements beyond the teles…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 26 cited

Gemini Planet Imager Spectroscopy of the Dusty Substellar Companion HD 206893 B

K. Ward-Duong, J. Patience, K. Follette +55

We present new near-infrared Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) spectroscopy of HD 206893 B, a substellar companion orbiting within the debris disk of its F5V star. The , , , and…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 24 cited

Supernova 2018cuf: A Type IIP supernova with a slow fall from plateau

Yize Dong, S. Valenti, K. A. Bostroem +34

We present multi-band photometry and spectroscopy of SN 2018cuf, a Type IIP ("P" for plateau) supernova (SN) discovered by the Distance Less Than 40 Mpc survey (DLT40) within 24 ho…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 5 cited

CzeV1731: The unique doubly eclipsing quadruple system

P. Zasche, Z. Henzl, H. Lehmann +14

We report the discovery of the relatively bright (V = 10.5 mag), doubly eclipsing 2+2 quadruple system CzeV1731. This is the third known system of its kind, in which the masses are…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 23 cited

A Principal Component Analysis of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon emission in NGC 2023

Ameek Sidhu, Els Peeters, Jan Cami +1

We use the measured fluxes of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) emission features at 6.2, 7.7, 8.6, 11.0 and 11.2 m in the reflection nebula NGC 2023 to carry out a principa…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 43 cited

Measuring Transit Signal Recovery in the Kepler Pipeline IV: Completeness of the DR25 Planet Candidate catalog

Jessie L. Christiansen, Bruce D. Clarke, Christopher J. Burke +12

In this work we empirically measure the detection efficiency of Kepler pipeline used to create the final Kepler Threshold Crossing Event (TCE; Twicken et al. 2016) and planet candi…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 12 cited

Spectropolarimetry of primitive phototrophs as global surface biosignatures

William B. Sparks, M. Niki Parenteau, Robert E. Blankenship +5

Photosynthesis is an ancient metabolic process that began on the early Earth, offering plentiful energy to organisms that utilize it, to the extent that they can achieve global sig…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 19 cited

Evidence for sulfur-bearing species on Callisto's leading hemisphere: Sourced from Jupiter's irregular satellites or Io?

Richard J. Cartwright, Tom A. Nordheim, Dale P. Cruikshank +5

We investigated whether sulfur-bearing species are present on the icy Galilean moon Callisto by analyzing eight near-infrared reflectance spectra collected over a wide range of sub…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 45 cited

Retrieval of SDSS J1416+1348AB

Eileen Gonzales, Ben Burningham, Jackie Faherty +5

We present the distance-calibrated spectral energy distribution (SED) of the d/sdL7 SDSS J14162408+1348263A (J1416A) and an updated SED for SDSS J14162408+1348263B (J1416B). We als…