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10 papers

astro-ph.EP2025

11 New Transiting Brown Dwarfs and Very Low Mass Stars from TESS

Noah Vowell, Joseph E. Rodriguez, David W. Latham +39

We present the discovery of 11 new transiting brown dwarfs and low-mass M-dwarfs from NASA's TESS mission: TOI-2844, TOI-3122, TOI-3577, TOI-3755, TOI-4462, TOI-4635, TOI-4737, TOI…

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Retrieving day- and nightside atmospheric properties of the ultra-hot Jupiter TOI-2109b. Detection of Fe and CO emission lines and evidence for inefficient heat transport

D. Cont, L. Nortmann, F. Lesjak +32

The ultra-hot Jupiter (UHJ) TOI-2109b marks the lower edge of the equilibrium temperature gap between 3500 K and 4500 K, an unexplored thermal regime that separates KELT-9b, the ho…

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TOI-3493 b: A planet with a Neptune-like density transiting a bright G0-type star

P. Chaturvedi, E. Goffo, D. Gandolfi +23

We report the discovery of TOI-3493 b, a sub-Neptune-sized planet on an 8.15-d orbit transiting the bright (V=9.3) G0 star HD 119355 (aka TIC 203377303) initially identified by NAS…

astro-ph.SR2025

An Oasis in the Brown Dwarf Desert: Confirmation of Two Low-mass Transiting Brown Dwarfs Discovered by TESS

Elina Y. Zhang, Theron W. Carmichael, Daniel Huber +14

As the intermediate-mass siblings of stars and planets, brown dwarfs (BDs) are vital to study for a better understanding of how objects change across the planet-to-star mass range.…

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Constraining atmospheric composition from the outflow: helium observations reveal the fundamental properties of two planets straddling the radius gap

Michael Zhang, Jacob L. Bean, David Wilson +13

TOI-836 is a ~2-3 Gyr K dwarf with an inner super Earth (, d) and an outer mini Neptune (, d). JWST/NIRSpec 2.8--5.2 m transmiss…

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The NCORES Program: Precise planetary masses, null results, and insight into the planet mass distribution near the radius gap

David J. Armstrong, Ares Osborn, Remo Burn +39

NCORES was a large observing program on the ESO HARPS spectrograph, dedicated to measuring the masses of Neptune-like and smaller transiting planets discovered by the TESS satellit…