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20182026
most citedRevisited Mass-Radius relations for exoplanets below 120 Earth masses

244 citations · 945 across the 27 of their papers we have counts for

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29 papers

astro-ph.EP2026★ 3 cited

Super-Earth masses and stellar abundances from NIRPS reveal tentative evidence for water-rich formation around M dwarfs

Drew Weisserman, Nicole Gromek, Ryan Cloutier +98

Tracing the compositional link between terrestrial super-Earths and their host stars provides clues to their dominant formation pathway. By constraining the stellar abundances of r…

astro-ph.EP2026

NIRPS tightens the mass estimate of GJ 3090 b and detects a planet near the stellar rotation period

Pierrot Lamontagne, Drew Weisserman, Charles Cadieux +148

We present an updated characterization of the planetary system orbiting the nearby M2 dwarf GJ 3090 (TOI-177; pc), based on new high-precision radial velocity (RV) observa…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 5 cited

NIRPS and TESS reveal a peculiar system around the M dwarf TOI-756: A transiting sub-Neptune and a cold eccentric giant

Léna Parc, François Bouchy, Neil J. Cook +148

The Near InfraRed Planet Searcher (NIRPS) joined HARPS on the 3.6-m ESO telescope at La Silla Observatory in April 2023, dedicating part of its Guaranteed Time Observations (GTO) p…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 29 cited

NIRPS joining HARPS at ESO 3.6 m. On-sky performance and science objectives

Francois Bouchy, Rene Doyon, Francesco Pepe +131

The Near-InfraRed Planet Searcher (NIRPS) is a high-resolution, high-stability near-infrared (NIR) spectrograph equipped with an AO system. Installed on the ESO 3.6-m telescope, it…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 11 cited

Diving into the planetary system of Proxima with NIRPS -- Breaking the metre per second barrier in the infrared

Alejandro Suárez Mascareño, Étienne Artigau, Lucile Mignon +138

We obtained 420 high-resolution spectra of Proxima, over 159 nights, using the Near Infra Red Planet Searcher (NIRPS). We derived 149 nightly binned radial velocity measurements wi…

astro-ph.EP2025

Blind search for activity-sensitive lines in the near-infrared using HARPS and NIRPS observations of Proxima and Gl 581

João Gomes da Silva, Elisa Delgado-Mena, Nuno C. Santos +145

Stellar activity variability is one of the main obstacles to the detection of Earth-like planets using the RV method. The aim of this work is to measure the effect of activity in t…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 1 cited

TOI-2447 b / NGTS-29 b: a 69-day Saturn around a Solar analogue

Samuel Gill, Daniel Bayliss, Solène Ulmer-Moll +63

Discovering transiting exoplanets with relatively long orbital periods (10 days) is crucial to facilitate the study of cool exoplanet atmospheres () and to u…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 25 cited

TOI-5678 b: A 48-day transiting Neptune-mass planet characterized with CHEOPS and HARPS

S. Ulmer-Moll, H. P. Osborn, A. Tuson +92

A large sample of long-period giant planets has been discovered thanks to long-term radial velocity surveys, but only a few dozen of these planets have a precise radius measurement…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 22 cited

The CORALIE survey for southern extrasolar planets XIX. Brown dwarfs and stellar companions unveiled by radial velocity and astrometry

D. Barbato, D. Ségransan, S. Udry +17

A historical planet-search on a sample of 1647 nearby southern main sequence stars has been ongoing since 1998 with the CORALIE spectrograph at La Silla Observatory, with a backup…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 10 cited

Spinning up a Daze: TESS Uncovers a Hot Jupiter orbiting the Rapid-Rotator TOI-778

Jake Clark, Brett Addison, Jack Okumura +68

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission, has been uncovering a growing number of exoplanets orbiting nearby, bright stars. Most exoplanets that have been discov…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 18 cited

GJ 3090 b: one of the most favourable mini-Neptune for atmospheric characterisation

J. M. Almenara, X. Bonfils, J. F. Otegi +37

We report the detection of GJ 3090 b (TOI-177.01), a mini-Neptune on a 2.9-day orbit transiting a bright (K = 7.3 mag) M2 dwarf located at 22 pc. The planet was identified by the T…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 26 cited

Three new brown dwarfs and a massive hot Jupiter revealed by TESS around early-type stars

Psaridi A., Bouchy F., Lendl M. +40

The detection and characterization of exoplanets and brown dwarfs (BDs) around massive AF-type stars is essential to investigate and constrain the impact of stellar mass on planet…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 28 cited

Forming Iron-rich Planets with Giant Impacts

Christian Reinhardt, Thomas Meier, Joachim Stadel +2

We investigate mantle stripping giant impacts (GI) between super-Earths with masses between 1 M and 20 M. We infer new scaling laws for the mass of the larges…

astro-ph.EP2021

The similarity of multi-planet systems

J. F. Otegi, R. Helled, F. Bouchy

Previous studies using Kepler data suggest that planets orbiting the same star tend to have similar sizes. However, due to the faintness of the stars, only a few of the planets wer…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 26 cited

The HD 137496 system: A dense, hot super-Mercury and a cold Jupiter

T. Azevedo Silva, O. D. S. Demangeon, S. C. C. Barros +28

Most of the currently known planets are small worlds with radii between that of the Earth and that of Neptune. The characterization of planets in this regime shows a large diversit…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 45 cited

TOI-431/HIP 26013: a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune transiting a bright, early K dwarf, with a third RV planet

Ares Osborn, David J. Armstrong, Bryson Cale +125

We present the bright (V), multi-planet system TOI-431, characterised with photometry and radial velocities. We estimate the stellar rotation period to be $30.5 \pm…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 9 cited

TESS and HARPS reveal two sub-Neptunes around TOI 1062

J. F. Otegi, F. Bouchy, R. Helled +46

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (\textit{TESS}) mission was designed to perform an all-sky search of planets around bright and nearby stars. Here we report the discovery…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 16 cited

TOI-220 : a warm sub-Neptune discovered by TESS

S. Hoyer, D. Gandolfi, D. J. Armstrong +77

In this paper we report the discovery of TOI-220 , a new sub-Neptune detected by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and confirmed by radial velocity follow-up obse…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 38 cited

TOI-269 b: An eccentric sub-Neptune transiting a M2 dwarf revisited with ExTrA

M. Cointepas, J. M. Almenara, X. Bonfils +59

We present the confirmation of a new sub-Neptune close to the transition between super-Earths and sub-Neptunes transiting the M2 dwarf TOI- 269 (TIC 220479565, V = 14.4 mag, J = 10…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 35 cited

A sub-Neptune and a non-transiting Neptune-mass companion unveiled by ESPRESSO around the bright late-F dwarf HD 5278 (TOI-130)

A. Sozzetti, M. Damasso, A. S. Bonomo +45

[Abridged] We exploit the extreme radial velocity (RV) precision of the ultra-stable echelle spectrograph ESPRESSO on the VLT to unveil the physical properties of the transiting su…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 17 cited

A hot mini-Neptune in the radius valley orbiting solar analogue HD 110113

H. P. Osborn, D. J. Armstrong, L. D. Nielsen +53

We report the discovery of HD 110113 b (TOI-755.01), a transiting mini-Neptune exoplanet on a 2.5-day orbit around the solar-analogue HD 110113 (Teff = 5730K). Using TESS photometr…

astro-ph.EP2020

TOI-824 b: A New Planet on the Lower Edge of the Hot Neptune Desert

Jennifer A. Burt, Louise D. Nielsen, Samuel N. Quinn +54

We report the detection of a transiting hot Neptune exoplanet orbiting TOI-824 (SCR J1448-5735), a nearby (d = 64 pc) K4V star, using data from the \textit{Transiting Exoplanet Sur…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 35 cited

TESS Reveals a Short-period Sub-Neptune Sibling (HD 86226c) to a Known Long-period Giant Planet

Johanna Teske, Matías R. Díaz, Rafael Luque +44

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite mission was designed to find transiting planets around bright, nearby stars. Here we present the detection and mass measurement of a small…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 49 cited

Impact of the measured parameters of exoplanets on the inferred internal structure

J. F. Otegi, C. Dorn, R. Helled +3

Exoplanet characterization is one of the main foci of current exoplanetary science. For super-Earths and sub-Neptunes, we mostly rely on mass and radius measurements, which allow t…