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The Fe I 4377 Å Line as a Solar Faculae Indicator: Insights from Spectral Ratio Analysis
Katlyn L. Hobbs, Christopher A. Watson, Jean C. Costes +21
Faculae are a dominant source of stellar activity noise in radial velocity measurements, yet their low contrast and broad surface distribution make them difficult to track in disc-…
Spectral Ratio Analysis: probing of a new suite of stellar activity indicators as a tool for astrophysical noise mitigation
Jean C. Costes, Christopher A. Watson, Ernst de Mooij +6
Stellar activity is the main barrier to detecting and/or confirming low-mass/long-period (and Earth-analogue) planets using radial-velocity (RV) measurements. Searching for reliabl…
TIC-65910228 b / NGTS-38 b, a 180 day transiting warm super-Jupiter
Toby Rodel, Solène Ulmer-Moll, Samuel Gill +63
We present the discovery of TIC-65910228 b / NGTS-38 b, a giant exoplanet with a radius of R and a mass of M on a long-…
A Decade of Solar High-Fidelity Spectroscopy and Precise Radial Velocities from HARPS-N
X. Dumusque, K. Al Moulla, M. Cretignier +53
We recently released 10 years of HARPS-N solar telescope and the goal of this manuscript is to present the different optimisations made to the data reduction, to describe data cura…
NGTS-EB-7, an eccentric, long-period, low-mass eclipsing binary
Toby Rodel, Christopher. A. Watson, Solène Ulmer-Moll +35
Despite being the most common types of stars in the Galaxy, the physical properties of late M dwarfs are often poorly constrained. A trend of radius inflation compared to evolution…
The PLATO Mission
Heike Rauer, Conny Aerts, Juan Cabrera +842
PLATO (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars) is ESA's M3 mission designed to detect and characterise extrasolar planets and perform asteroseismic monitoring of a large numb…
A low-mass sub-Neptune planet transiting the bright active star HD 73344
S. Sulis, I. J. M. Crossfield, A. Santerne +33
Context. Planets with radii of between 2-4 RE closely orbiting solar-type stars are of significant importance for studying the transition from rocky to giant planets. Aims. Our goa…
The discovery of three hot Jupiters, NGTS-23b, 24b and 25b, and updated parameters for HATS-54b from the Next Generation Transit Survey
David G. Jackson, Christopher A. Watson, Ernst J. W. de Mooij +35
We report the discovery of three new hot Jupiters with the Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS) as well as updated parameters for HATS-54b, which was independently discovered by N…
NGTS-21b: An Inflated Super-Jupiter Orbiting a Metal-poor K dwarf
Douglas R. Alves, James S. Jenkins, Jose I. Vines +29
We report the discovery of NGTS-21b, a massive hot Jupiter orbiting a low-mass star as part of the Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS). The planet has a mass and radius of $2.36…
Periodic stellar variability from almost a million NGTS light curves
Joshua T. Briegal, Edward Gillen, Didier Queloz +25
We analyse 829,481 stars from the Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS) to extract variability periods. We utilise a generalisation of the autocorrelation function (the G-ACF), whi…
Long-term stellar activity variations and their effect on radial-velocity measurements
Jean C. Costes, Christopher A. Watson, Ernst de Mooij +8
Long-term stellar activity variations can affect the detectability of long-period and Earth-analogue extrasolar planets. We have, for 54 stars, analysed the long-term trend of five…
NGTS 15b, 16b, 17b and 18b: four hot Jupiters from the Next Generation Transit Survey
Rosanna H. Tilbrook, Matthew R. Burleigh, Jean C. Costes +36
We report the discovery of four new hot Jupiters with the Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS). NGTS-15b, NGTS-16b, NGTS-17b, and NGTS-18b are short-period (d) planets orbiti…
NGTS-14Ab: a Neptune-sized transiting planet in the desert
A. M. S. Smith, J. S. Acton, D. R. Anderson +35
Context: The sub-Jovian or Neptunian desert is a previously-identified region of parameter space where there is a relative dearth of intermediate-mass planets at short orbital peri…
The spectral impact of magnetic activity on disk-integrated HARPS-N solar observations: exploring new activity indicators
A. P. G. Thompson, C. A. Watson, R. D. Haywood +21
Stellar activity is the major roadblock on the path to finding true Earth-analogue planets with the Doppler technique. Thus, identifying new indicators that better trace magnetic a…
NGTS-8b and NGTS-9b: two non-inflated hot-Jupiters
Jean C. Costes, Christopher A. Watson, Claudia Belardi +35
We report the discovery, by the Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS), of two hot-Jupiters NGTS-8b and NGTS-9b. These orbit a V = 13.68 K0V star (Teff = 5241 +/- 50 K) with a perio…
NGTS-10b: The shortest period hot Jupiter yet discovered
James McCormac, Edward Gillen, James A. G. Jackman +44
We report the discovery of a new ultra-short period transiting hot Jupiter from the Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS). NGTS-10b has a mass and radius of $2.162\,^{+0.092}_{-0.1…
Temporal evolution and correlations of optical activity indicators measured in Sun-as-a-star observations
J. Maldonado, D. F. Phillips, X. Dumusque +29
(Abridged) We perform a detailed study of the main optical activity indicators (Ca II H & K, Balmer lines, Na I D D, and He I D) measured for the Sun…
NGTS-7Ab: An ultra-short period brown dwarf transiting a tidally-locked and active M dwarf
James A. G. Jackman, Peter J. Wheatley, Dan Bayliss +36
We present the discovery of NGTS-7Ab, a high mass brown dwarf transiting an M dwarf with a period of 16.2 hours, discovered as part of the Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS). Th…
Three years of Sun-as-a-star radial-velocity observations on the approach to solar minimum
A. Collier Cameron, A. Mortier, D. Phillips +33
The time-variable velocity fields of solar-type stars limit the precision of radial-velocity determinations of their planets' masses, obstructing detection of Earth twins. Since 20…
HARPS-N Solar Radial-Velocity Variations Are Dominated By Large, Bright Magnetic Regions
T. W. Milbourne, R. D. Haywood, D. F. Phillips +37
State of the art radial-velocity (RV) exoplanet searches are currently limited by RV signals arising from stellar magnetic activity. We analyze solar observations acquired over a 3…
FOREST Unbiased Galactic plane Imaging survey with the Nobeyama 45-m telescope (FUGIN) I: Project Overview and Initial Results
Tomofumi Umemoto, Tetsuhiro Minamidani, Nario Kuno +41
The FOREST Unbiased Galactic plane Imaging survey with the Nobeyama 45-m telescope (FUGIN) project is one of the legacy projects using the new multi-beam FOREST receiver installed…
A new view of the giant molecular cloud M16 (Eagle Nebula) in 12CO J=1-0 and 2-1 transitions with NANTEN2
Atsushi Nishimura, Jean Costes, Tetsuta Inaba +11
M16, the Eagle Nebula, is an outstanding HII region where extensive high-mass star formation is taking place in the Sagittarius Arm, and hosts the remarkable "pillars" observed wit…