activity
20162026
most citedTOI-1136 is a Young, Coplanar, Aligned Planetary System in a Pristine Resonant Chain

72 citations · 977 across the 43 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators
Showing astro-ph.EPShow all

40 papers · 1 filter

astro-ph.EP2026

A Pair of Warm Saturn-mass Planets near the 2:1 Mean Motion Resonance around TOI-3850

Sean Collins, Michelle Kunimoto, Nicolas B. Cowan +24

Warm Jupiters, with orbital periods of -- and radii exceeding , are a relatively understudied class of exoplanets occupying the parameter space bet…

astro-ph.EP2026

The Roasting Marshmallows Program with IGRINS on Gemini South V: Atmosphere of MASCARA-1b is Enriched in Refractory Elements

Krishna Kanumalla, Michael R. Line, Martina Chiarella +75

Ultra-hot Jupiters (UHJs; K) enable simultaneous detection of volatile (ice-forming) and refractory (rock-forming) species in planetary atmospheres, provi…

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

The TESS-Keck Survey XXIV: Outer Giants may be More Prevalent in the Presence of Inner Small Planets

Judah Van Zandt, Erik A. Petigura, Jack Lubin +38

We present the results of the Distant Giants Survey, a three-year radial velocity (RV) campaign to search for wide-separation giant planets orbiting Sun-like stars known to host an…

astro-ph.EP2024

Additional Doppler Monitoring Corroborates HAT-P-11 c as a Planet

Samuel W. Yee, Erik A. Petigura, Howard Isaacson +15

In 2010, Bakos and collaborators discovered a Neptune-sized planet transiting the K-dwarf HAT-P-11 every five days. Later in 2018, Yee and collaborators reported an additional Jovi…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 7 cited

The Aligned Orbit of a Hot Jupiter around the M Dwarf TOI-4201

Tianjun Gan, Sharon X. Wang, Fei Dai +12

Measuring the obliquities of stars hosting giant planets may shed light on the dynamical history of planetary systems. Significant efforts have been made to measure the obliquities…

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

A Perfect Tidal Storm: HD 104067 Planetary Architecture Creating an Incandescent World

Stephen R. Kane, Tara Fetherolf, Zhexing Li +5

The discovery of planetary systems beyond the solar system has revealed a diversity of architectures, most of which differ significantly from our system. The initial detection of a…

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.EP2024

Giant Outer Transiting Exoplanet Mass (GOT 'EM) Survey. IV. Long-term Doppler Spectroscopy for 11 Stars Thought to Host Cool Giant Exoplanets

Paul A. Dalba, Stephen R. Kane, Howard Isaacson +29

Discovering and characterizing exoplanets at the outer edge of the transit method's sensitivity has proven challenging owing to geometric biases and the practical difficulties asso…

astro-ph.EP2023

The TESS-Keck Survey XVII: Precise Mass Measurements in a Young, High Multiplicity Transiting Planet System using Radial Velocities and Transit Timing Variations

Corey Beard, Paul Robertson, Fei Dai +41

We present a radial velocity (RV) analysis of TOI-1136, a bright TESS system with six confirmed transiting planets, and a seventh single-transiting planet candidate. All planets in…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 6 cited

Variability of Known Exoplanet Host Stars Observed by TESS

Emilie R. Simpson, Tara Fetherolf, Stephen R. Kane +3

Both direct and indirect methods of exoplanet detection rely upon detailed knowledge of the potential host stars. Such stellar characterization allows for accurate extraction of pl…

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★ 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…

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.EP2022★ 7 cited

The TESS-Keck Survey. XIII. An Eccentric Hot Neptune with a Similar-Mass Outer Companion around TOI-1272

Mason G. MacDougall, Erik A. Petigura, Tara Fetherolf +58

We report the discovery of an eccentric hot Neptune and a non-transiting outer planet around TOI-1272. We identified the eccentricity of the inner planet, with an orbital period of…

astro-ph.EP2022

Revisiting BD-06 1339b: A Likely False Positive Caused by Stellar Activity

Emilie Simpson, Tara Fetherolf, Stephen R. Kane +3

As long as astronomers have searched for exoplanets, the intrinsic variability of host stars has interfered with the ability to reliably detect and confirm exoplanets. One particul…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 39 cited

The TESS-Keck Survey. VIII. Confirmation of a Transiting Giant Planet on an Eccentric 261 day Orbit with the Automated Planet Finder Telescope

Paul A. Dalba, Stephen R. Kane, Diana Dragomir +72

We report the discovery of TOI-2180 b, a 2.8 giant planet orbiting a slightly evolved G5 host star. This planet transited only once in Cycle 2 of the primary Transiting…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 17 cited

HD207897 b: A dense sub-Neptune transiting a nearby and bright K-type star

N. Heidari, I. Boisse, J. Orell-Mique +90

We present the discovery and characterization of a transiting sub-Neptune orbiting with a 16.20 day period around a nearby (28 pc) and bright(V=8.37) K0V star HD207897 (TOI-1611).…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 39 cited

TESS-Keck Survey IX: Masses of Three Sub-Neptunes Orbiting HD 191939 and the Discovery of a Warm Jovian Plus a Distant Sub-Stellar Companion

Jack Lubin, Judah Van Zandt, Rae Holcomb +32

Exoplanet systems with multiple transiting planets are natural laboratories for testing planetary astrophysics. One such system is HD 191939 (TOI-1339), a bright (V=9) and Sun-like…

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…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 43 cited

TKS X: Confirmation of TOI-1444b and a Comparative Analysis of the Ultra-short-period Planets with Hot Neptunes

Fei Dai, Andrew W. Howard, Natalie M. Batalha +48

We report the discovery of TOI-1444b, a 1.4- super-Earth on a 0.47-day orbit around a Sun-like star discovered by {\it TESS}. Precise radial velocities from Keck/HIRES co…