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most citedThe Kepler Giant Planet Search. I: A Decade of Kepler Planet-host Radial Velocities from W. M. Keck Observatory

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astro-ph.EP2026

An Outer Giant Planet or Brown Dwarf in the 51 Pegasi System?

Marvin Morgan, Brendan P. Bowler, Kyle Franson +15

51 Pegasi harbors the first confirmed extrasolar planet orbiting a Sun-like star. Decades of continued radial velocity (RV) observations have since uncovered signatures of an addit…

astro-ph.EP2026

Gaia Exoplanet Orbits, Demographics, and Evolution Survey (GEODES): Characteristics of Three Long-Period Companions Accelerating their Host Stars

Judah Van Zandt, Brendan Bowler, Erik Petigura +12

The upcoming release of DR4 will yield thousands of giant planet candidates, eventually enabling studies of giant planet eccentricities, masses, and occurrence rates across…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 3 cited

Dynamical Architectures of S-type Transiting Planets in Binaries II: A Dichotomy in Orbital Alignment of Small Planets in Close Binary Systems

Jingwen Zhang, Daniel Huber, Michael Bottom +35

Stellar multiplicity plays a crucial role in shaping planet formation and dynamical evolution. We present a survey of 54 TESS Objects of Interest (TOIs) within 300 pc that exhibit…

astro-ph.SR2024

The California Legacy Survey V. Chromospheric Activity Cycles in Main Sequence Stars

Howard Isaacson, Andrew W. Howard, Benjamin Fulton +31

We present optical spectroscopy of 710 solar neighborhood stars collected over twenty years to catalog chromospheric activity and search for stellar activity cycles. The California…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 53 cited

The TESS-Keck Survey XX: 15 New TESS Planets and a Uniform RV Analysis of all Survey Targets

Alex S. Polanski, Jack Lubin, Corey beard +69

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered hundreds of new worlds, with TESS planet candidates now outnumbering the total number of confirmed planets from $\te…

astro-ph.EP2024

The TESS-Keck Survey. XXII. A sub-Neptune Orbiting TOI-1437

Daria Pidhorodetska, Emily A. Gilbert, Stephen R. Kane +40

Exoplanet discoveries have revealed a dramatic diversity of planet sizes across a vast array of orbital architectures. Sub-Neptunes are of particular interest; due to their absence…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 6 cited

Planet Hunters TESS V: a planetary system around a binary star, including a mini-Neptune in the habitable zone

Nora L. Eisner, Samuel K. Grunblatt, Oscar Barragán +61

We report on the discovery and validation of a transiting long-period mini-Neptune orbiting a bright (V = 9.0 mag) G dwarf (TOI 4633; R = 1.05 RSun, M = 1.10 MSun). The planet was…

astro-ph.EP2024

ethraid: A simple method for characterizing long-period companions using Doppler, astrometric, and imaging constraints

Judah Van Zandt, Erik Petigura

We present \texttt{ethraid}, an open source Python package designed to measure the mass () and separation () of a bound companion from measurements covering a fraction of t…

astro-ph.EP2024

A Tale of Two Peas-In-A-Pod: The Kepler-323 and Kepler-104 Systems

C. Alexander Thomas, Lauren M. Weiss, Howard Isaacson +10

In order to understand the relationship between planet multiplicity, mass, and composition, we present newly measured masses of five planets in two planetary systems: Kepler-323 an…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 2 cited

The TESS-Keck Survey XXI: 13 New Planets and Homogeneous Properties for 21 Subgiant Systems

Ashley Chontos, Daniel Huber, Samuel K. Grunblatt +67

We present a dedicated transit and radial velocity survey of planets orbiting subgiant stars observed by the TESS Mission. Using nights on Keck/HIRES, we confirm and cha…

astro-ph.EP2024

The TESS-Keck Survey. XII. A Dense 1.8 R Ultra-Short-Period Planet Possibly Clinging to a High-Mean-Molecular-Weight Atmosphere After the First Gyr

Ryan A. Rubenzahl, Fei Dai, Andrew W. Howard +39

The extreme environments of ultra-short-period planets (USPs) make excellent laboratories to study how exoplanets obtain, lose, retain, and/or regain gaseous atmospheres. We presen…

astro-ph.EP2024

The TESS-Keck Survey. XVIII. A sub-Neptune and spurious long-period signal in the TOI-1751 system

Anmol Desai, Emma V. Turtelboom, Caleb K. Harada +37

We present and confirm TOI-1751 b, a transiting sub-Neptune orbiting a slightly evolved, solar-type, metal-poor star ( K, , V = 9.3 ma…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 1 cited

The TESS-Keck Survey. XIX. A Warm Transiting Sub-Saturn Mass Planet and a non-Transiting Saturn Mass Planet Orbiting a Solar Analog

Michelle L. Hill, Stephen R. Kane, Paul A. Dalba +45

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) continues to dramatically increase the number of known transiting exoplanets, and is optimal for monitoring bright stars amenable t…

astro-ph.EP2023

Investigating the Atmospheric Mass Loss of the Kepler-105 Planets Straddling the Radius Gap

Aaron Householder, Lauren M. Weiss, James E. Owen +21

An intriguing pattern among exoplanets is the lack of detected planets between approximately R and R. One proposed explanation for this "radius gap" i…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 3 cited

The SN 2023ixf Progenitor in M101: II. Properties

Schuyler D. Van Dyk, Sundar Srinivasan, Jennifer E. Andrews +12

We follow our first paper with an analysis of the ensemble of the extensive pre-explosion ground- and space-based infrared observations of the red supergiant (RSG) progenitor candi…

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★ 21 cited

TOI-1416: A system with a super-Earth planet with a 1.07d period

H. J. Deeg, I. Y. Georgieva, G. Nowak +49

TOI 1416 (BD+42 2504, HIP 70705) is a V=10 late G or early K-type dwarf star with transits detected by TESS. Radial velocities verify the presence of the transiting planet TOI-1416…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 56 cited

The Kepler Giant Planet Search. I: A Decade of Kepler Planet-host Radial Velocities from W. M. Keck Observatory

Lauren M. Weiss, Howard Isaacson, Andrew W. Howard +17

Despite the importance of Jupiter and Saturn to Earth's formation and habitability, there has not yet been a comprehensive observational study of how giant exoplanets correlate wit…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 38 cited

The TESS Grand Unified Hot Jupiter Survey. II. Twenty New Giant Planets

Samuel W. Yee, Joshua N. Winn, Joel D. Hartman +83

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission promises to improve our understanding of hot Jupiters by providing an all-sky, magnitude-limited sample of transiting ho…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 15 cited

TESS-Keck Survey XIV: Two giant exoplanets from the Distant Giants Survey

Judah E. Van Zandt, Erik A. Petigura, Mason MacDougall +42

We present the Distant Giants Survey, a three-year radial velocity (RV) campaign to measure P(DG|CS), the conditional occurrence of distant giant planets (DG; M_p ~ 0.3 - 13 M_J, P…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 16 cited

The TESS-Keck Survey. VI. Two Eccentric sub-Neptunes Orbiting HIP-97166

Mason G. MacDougall, Erik A. Petigura, Isabel Angelo +45

We report the discovery of HIP-97166b (TOI-1255b), a transiting sub-Neptune on a 10.3-day orbit around a K0 dwarf 68 pc from Earth. This planet was identified in a systematic searc…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 37 cited

An Aligned Orbit for the Young Planet V1298 Tau b

Marshall C. Johnson, Trevor J. David, Erik A. Petigura +22

The alignment of planetary orbits with respect to the stellar rotation preserves information on their dynamical histories. Measuring this angle for young planets help illuminate th…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 39 cited

The TESS-Keck Survey: Science Goals and Target Selection

Ashley Chontos, Joseph M. Akana Murphy, Mason G. MacDougall +28

Space-based transit missions such as Kepler and TESS have demonstrated that planets are ubiquitous. However, the success of these missions heavily depends on ground-based radial ve…