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most citedTransiting exoplanets from the CoRoT space mission VIII. CoRoT-7b: the first Super-Earth with measured radius

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astro-ph.EP2018★ 22 cited

Detection and characterization of an ultra-dense sub-Neptune planet orbiting the Sun-like star HD 119130

R. Luque, G. Nowak, E. Pallé +51

We present the discovery and characterization of a new transiting planet from Campaign 17 of the Kepler extended mission K2. HD 119130 b is a warm sub-Neptune on a 17-d orbit aroun…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 44 cited

HD219666b: A hot-Neptune from TESS Sector 1

M. Esposito, D. J. Armstrong, D. Gandolfi +73

We report on the confirmation and mass determination of a transiting planet orbiting the old and inactive G7 dwarf star HD219666 (Mstar = 0.92 +/- 0.03 MSun, Rstar = 1.03 +/- 0.03…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 25 cited

K2-140b and K2-180b - Characterization of a hot Jupiter and a mini-Neptune from the K2 mission

J. Korth, Sz. Csizmadia, D. Gandolfi +40

We report the independent discovery and characterization of two K2 planets: K2-180b, a mini-Neptune-size planet in an 8.9-day orbit transiting a V = 12.6 mag, metal-poor ([Fe/H] =$…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 126 cited

TESS's first planet: a super-Earth transiting the naked-eye star Mensae

D. Gandolfi, O. Barragan, J. Livingston +29

We report on the confirmation and mass determination of Pi Men c, the first transiting planet discovered by NASA's TESS space mission. Pi Men is a naked-eye (V=5.65 mag), quiet G0…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 41 cited

K2-264: A transiting multi-planet system in the Praesepe open cluster

John H. Livingston, Fei Dai, Teruyuki Hirano +31

Planet host stars with well-constrained ages provide a rare window to the time domain of planet formation and evolution. The NASA K2 mission has enabled the discovery of the vast m…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 8 cited

A transiting M-dwarf showing beaming effect in the field of Ruprecht 147

Philipp Eigmüller, Szilárd Csizmadia, Michael Endl +11

We report the discovery and characterization of an eclipsing M5V dwarf star, orbiting a slightly evolved F7V main sequence star. In contrast to previous claims in the literature, w…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 27 cited

Detection and Doppler monitoring of EPIC 246471491, a system of four transiting planets smaller than Neptune

E. Palle, G. Nowak, R. Luque +43

The Kepler extended mission, also known as K2, has provided the community with a wealth of planetary candidates that orbit stars typically much brighter than the targets of the ori…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 10 cited

K2-295 b and K2-237 b: two transiting hot Jupiters

A. M. S. Smith, Sz. Csizmadia, D. Gandolfi +32

We report the discovery from K2 of two transiting hot Jupiter systems. K2-295 (observed in Campaign 8) is a K5 dwarf which hosts a planet slightly smaller than Jupiter, orbiting wi…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 74 cited

44 Validated Planets from K2 Campaign 10

John H. Livingston, Michael Endl, Fei Dai +31

We present 44 validated planets from the 10 observing campaign of the NASA mission, as well as high resolution spectroscopy and speckle imaging follow-up observa…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 50 cited

K2-260 b: a hot Jupiter transiting an F star, and K2-261 b: a warm Saturn around a bright G star

M. C. Johnson, F. Dai, A. B. Justesen +45

We present the discovery and confirmation of two new transiting giant planets from the Kepler extended mission K2. K2-260 b is a hot Jupiter transiting a F6V star in K2 Fi…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 44 cited

Planets, candidates, and binaries from the CoRoT/Exoplanet programme: the CoRoT transit catalogue

M. Deleuil, S. Aigrain, C. Moutou +30

We provide the catalogue of all transit-like features, including false alarms, detected by the CoRoT exoplanet teams in the 177 454 light curves of the mission. All these detection…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 41 cited

HD 89345: a bright oscillating star hosting a transiting warm Saturn-sized planet observed by K2

V. Van Eylen, F. Dai, S. Mathur +40

We report the discovery and characterization of HD 89345b (K2-234b; EPIC 248777106b), a Saturn-sized planet orbiting a slightly evolved star. HD 89345 is a bright star ( m…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 56 cited

Super-Earth of 8 Mearth in a 2.2-day orbit around the K5V star K2-216

C. M. Persson, M. Fridlund, O. Barragán +35

The KESPRINT consortium identified K2-216 as a planetary candidate host star in the K2 space mission Campaign 8 field with a transiting super-Earth. The planet has recently been va…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 26 cited

Mass determination of the 1:3:5 near-resonant planets transiting GJ 9827 (K2-135)

J. Prieto-Arranz, E. Palle, D. Gandolfi +38

Aims. GJ 9827 (K2-135) has recently been found to host a tightly packed system consisting of three transiting small planets whose orbital periods of 1.2, 3.6, and 6.2 days are near…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 20 cited

K2-155: A Bright Metal-Poor M Dwarf with Three Transiting Super-Earths

Teruyuki Hirano, Fei Dai, John H. Livingston +32

We report on the discovery of three transiting super-Earths around K2-155 (EPIC 210897587), a relatively bright early M dwarf ( mag) observed during Campaign 13 of the NAS…