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astro-ph.EP2026

An Infant Sub-Saturn in Scorpius-Centaurus

Gurmeher Kathuria, Luke G. Bouma, Andrew W. Boyle +25

We report the discovery and validation of TIC 88297141 Ab, a transiting planet orbiting a pre-main-sequence M dwarf (0.31 solar masses, 0.74 solar radii) in the Scorpius-Centaurus…

astro-ph.EP2026

Toddlers in Resonance I: low masses and eccentricities of the 17 Myr giant planets HIP 67522 bc from transit timing variations

Hannah R. James, Madyson G. Barber, Andrew W. Mann +28

Infant (100\,Myr) transiting planet systems provide glimpses into the processes that shape the observed mature planet population. Masses for these planets are powerful data poin…

astro-ph.EP2026

The T16 Planet Hunt: 10,000 New Planet Candidates from TESS Cycle 1 and the Confirmation of a Hot Jupiter Around TIC 183374187

Joshua T. Roth, Joel D. Hartman, Gáspár Á. Bakos +12

The T16 project has produced a uniformly detrended and systematics-corrected set of 83,717,159 TESS Cycle 1 full-frame image light curves for stars observed by TESS in its primary…

astro-ph.EP2025

High five from ASTEP: Three validated planets and two eclipsing binaries in a diverse set of long-period candidates

Erika Rea, Maximilian N. Günther, George Dransfield +44

We present the analysis of five long-period TESS Objects of Interest (TOIs), all orbiting Sun-like stars, with orbital periods exceeding one month. Initially identified by the Tran…

astro-ph.EP2025

The HD 60779 Planetary System: A Transiting Sub-Neptune on a 30-day Orbit and a More Massive Outer World

Victoria DiTomasso, David Charbonneau, Andrew Vanderburg +37

We present the discovery of the planetary system orbiting the bright (V = 7.2), nearby (35 pc), Sun-like star HD 60779, which has a mass of 1.050 +/- 0.044 solar masses and a radiu…

astro-ph.EP2025

Planet Masses, Radii, and Orbits from NASA's K2 Mission

Andrew W. Howard, Evan Sinukoff, Sarah Blunt +50

We report the masses, sizes, and orbital properties of 86 planets orbiting 55 stars observed by NASA's K2 Mission with follow-up Doppler measurements by the HIRES spectrometer at t…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 3 cited

A 16 Myr super-Neptune in Upper-Centaurus Lupus and a preliminary survey of transiting planets in Sco-Cen with TESS

Sydney Vach, George Zhou, Andrew W. Mann +25

Measuring the properties of planets younger than about 50 Myr helps to test different planetary formation and evolution models. NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 3 cited

A joint effort to discover and characterize two resonant mini Neptunes around TOI-1803 with TESS, HARPS-N and CHEOPS

T. Zingales, L. Malavolta, L. Borsato +130

We present the discovery of two mini Neptunes near a 2:1 orbital resonance configuration orbiting the K0 star TOI-1803. We describe their orbital architecture in detail and suggest…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 4 cited

A transiting multi-planet system in the 61 million year old association Theia 116

Sydney Vach, George Zhou, Chelsea X. Huang +28

Observing and characterizing young planetary systems can aid in unveiling the evolutionary mechanisms that sculpt the mature exoplanet population. As an all-sky survey, NASA's Tran…

astro-ph.EP2024

TESS Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets (THYME) X: a two-planet system in the 210 Myr MELANGE-5 Association

Pa Chia Thao, Andrew W. Mann, Madyson G. Barber +35

Young (<500 Myr) planets are critical to studying how planets form and evolve. Among these young planetary systems, multi-planet configurations are particularly useful as they prov…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 1 cited

The TEMPO Survey II: Science Cases Leveraged from a Proposed 30-Day Time Domain Survey of the Orion Nebula with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

Melinda Soares-Furtado, Mary Anne Limbach, Andrew Vanderburg +26

The TEMPO (Transiting Exosatellites, Moons, and Planets in Orion) Survey is a proposed 30-day observational campaign using the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. By providing deep,…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 1 cited

The Prevalence of Resonance Among Young, Close-in Planets

Fei Dai, Max Goldberg, Konstantin Batygin +11

Multiple planets undergoing disk migration may be captured into a chain of mean-motion resonances with the innermost planet parked near the disk's inner edge. Subsequent dynamical…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 1 cited

The occurrence of small, short-period planets younger than 200 Myr with TESS

Sydney Vach, George Zhou, Chelsea X. Huang +10

Within the first few hundreds of millions of years, many physical processes sculpt the eventual properties of young planets. NASA's TESS mission has surveyed young stellar associat…

astro-ph.EP2024

TESS Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets (THYME) XI: An Earth-sized Planet Orbiting a Nearby, Solar-like Host in the 400Myr Ursa Major Moving Group

Benjamin K. Capistrant, Melinda Soares-Furtado, Andrew Vanderburg +32

Young terrestrial worlds are critical test beds to constrain prevailing theories of planetary formation and evolution. We present the discovery of HD 63433d - a nearby (22pc), Eart…

astro-ph.EP2023

TOI-5126: A hot super-Neptune and warm Neptune pair discovered by and

Tyler R. Fairnington, Emma Nabbie, Chelsea X. Huang +33

We present the confirmation of a hot super-Neptune with an exterior Neptune companion orbiting a bright (V = 10.1 mag) F-dwarf identified by the $\textit{Transiting Exoplanet Surve…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 6 cited

TOI-858 B b: A hot Jupiter on a polar orbit in a loose binary

J. Hagelberg, L. D. Nielsen, O. Attia +30

We report the discovery of a hot Jupiter on a 3.28-day orbit around a 1.08 M G0 star that is the secondary component in a loose binary system. Based on follow-up radial vel…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 37 cited

A super-massive Neptune-sized planet

L. Naponiello, L. Mancini, A. Sozzetti +55

Neptune-sized planets exhibit a wide range of compositions and densities, depending onf cators related to their formation and evolution history, such as the distance from their hos…

astro-ph.EP2023

TOI-332 b: a super dense Neptune found deep within the Neptunian desert

Ares Osborn, David J. Armstrong, Jorge Fernández Fernández +49

To date, thousands of planets have been discovered, but there are regions of the orbital parameter space that are still bare. An example is the short period and intermediate mass/r…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 1 cited

TOI 4201 b and TOI 5344 b: Discovery of Two Transiting Giant Planets Around M Dwarf Stars and Revised Parameters for Three Others

J. D. Hartman, G. Á. Bakos, Z. Csubry +62

We present the discovery from the TESS mission of two giant planets transiting M dwarf stars: TOI 4201 b and TOI 5344 b. We also provide precise radial velocity measurements and up…

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★ 4 cited

A Transiting Super-Earth in the Radius Valley and An Outer Planet Candidate Around HD 307842

Xinyan Hua, Sharon Xuesong Wang, Johanna K. Teske +32

We report the confirmation of a TESS-discovered transiting super-Earth planet orbiting a mid-G star, HD 307842 (TOI-784). The planet has a period of 2.8 days, and the radial veloci…

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★ 15 cited

A 2:1 Mean-Motion Resonance Super-Jovian pair revealed by TESS, FEROS, and HARPS

Vladimir Bozhilov, Desislava Antonova, Melissa J. Hobson +24

We report the discovery of a super-Jovian 2:1 mean-motion resonance (MMR) pair around the G-type star TIC 279401253, whose dynamical architecture is a prospective benchmark for pla…

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…