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20192025
most citedThe continuing search for evidence of tidal orbital decay of hot Jupiters

93 citations · 468 across the 28 of their papers we have counts for

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28 papers

astro-ph.EP2025

The mass of TOI-654 b: A short-period sub-Neptune transiting a mid-M dwarf

Kai Ikuta, Norio Narita, Takuya Takarada +40

Sub-Neptunes are small planets between the size of the Earth and Neptune. The orbital and bulk properties of transiting sub-Neptunes can provide clues for their formation and evolu…

astro-ph.EP2025

TOI-2015b: a sub-Neptune in strong gravitational interaction with an outer non-transiting planet

K. Barkaoui, J. Korth, E. Gaidos +119

TOI-2015 is a known exoplanetary system around an M4 dwarf star, consisting of a transiting sub-Neptune planet in a 3.35-day orbital period, TOI-2015b, accompanied by a non-transit…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 11 cited

Validation of up to seven TESS planet candidates through multi-colour transit photometry using MuSCAT2 data

A. Peláez-Torres, E. Esparza-Borges, E. Pallé +62

The TESS mission searches for transiting exoplanets by monitoring the brightness of hundreds of thousands of stars across the entire sky. M-type planet hosts are ideal targets for…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 16 cited

Detection of an Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting the nearby ultracool dwarf star SPECULOOS-3

Michaël Gillon, Peter P. Pedersen, Benjamin V. Rackham +81

Located at the bottom of the main sequence, ultracool dwarf stars are widespread in the solar neighbourhood. Nevertheless, their extremely low luminosity has left their planetary p…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 22 cited

Gliese 12 b: A temperate Earth-sized planet at 12 pc ideal for atmospheric transmission spectroscopy

M. Kuzuhara, A. Fukui, J. H. Livingston +103

Recent discoveries of Earth-sized planets transiting nearby M dwarfs have made it possible to characterize the atmospheres of terrestrial planets via follow-up spectroscopic observ…

astro-ph.EP2024

The Discovery and Follow-up of Four Transiting Short-period Sub-Neptunes Orbiting M dwarfs

Y. Hori, A. Fukui, T. Hirano +100

Sub-Neptunes with are intermediate in size between rocky planets and Neptune-sized planets. The orbital properties and bulk compositions of transiting sub-Neptunes pr…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 15 cited

Characterization of starspots on a young M-dwarf K2-25: multi-band observations of stellar photometric variability and planetary transits

Mayuko Mori, Kai Ikuta, Akihiko Fukui +13

Detailed atmospheric characterization of exoplanets by transmission spectroscopy requires careful consideration of stellar surface inhomogeneities induced by starspots. This effect…

astro-ph.EP2024

Wolf 327b: A new member of the pack of ultra-short-period super-Earths around M dwarfs

F. Murgas, E. Pallé, J. Orell-Miquel +52

Planets with orbital periods shorter than 1 day are rare and have formation histories that are not completely understood. Small () ultra-short-period (…

astro-ph.EP2024

TOI-2266 b: a keystone super-Earth at the edge of the M dwarf radius valley

Hannu Parviainen, Felipe Murgas, Emma Esparza-Borges +59

We validate the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) object of interest TOI-2266.01 (TIC 348911) as a small transiting planet (most likely a super-Earth) orbiting a faint M…

astro-ph.EP2023

Centimeter-sized Grains in the Compact Dust Ring around Very Low Mass Star CIDA 1

Jun Hashimoto, Hauyu Baobab Liu, Ruobing Dong +3

We examined the grain size in the dust ring encircling the 0.19~$M_\sun$ T Tauri star CIDA 1 using the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (JVLA) at multiple centimeter wavelengths, wi…

astro-ph.SR2023

Anisotropic Ionizing Illumination from an M-type Pre-main Sequence Star, DM Tau

Yuka Terada, Hauyu Baobab Liu, David Mkrtichian +6

The powerful, high-energy magnetic activities of young stars play important roles in the magnetohydrodynamics in the innermost parts of the protoplanetary disks. In addition, the a…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 14 cited

A hot sub-Neptune in the desert and a temperate super-Earth around faint M dwarfs: Color validation of TOI-4479b and TOI-2081b

E. Esparza-Borges, H. Parviainen, F. Murgas +45

We report the discovery and validation of two TESS exoplanets orbiting faint M dwarfs: TOI-4479b and TOI-2081b. We have jointly analyzed space (TESS mission) and ground based (MuSC…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 18 cited

TOI-1696: a nearby M4 dwarf with a planet in the Neptunian desert

Mayuko Mori, John H. Livingston, Jerome de Leon +59

We present the discovery and validation of a temperate sub-Neptune around the nearby mid-M dwarf TIC 470381900 (TOI-1696), with a radius of and an orbita…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 14 cited

Nodal Precession of WASP-33b for Eleven Years by Doppler Tomographic and Transit Photometric Observations

Noriharu Watanabe, Norio Narita, Enric Palle +14

WASP-33b, a hot Jupiter around a hot star, is a rare system in which nodal precession has been discovered. We updated the model for the nodal precession of WASP-33b by adding new o…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 12 cited

Validation and atmospheric exploration of the sub-Neptune TOI-2136b around a nearby M3 dwarf

K. Kawauchi, F. Murgas, E. Palle +51

The NASA space telescope is currently in the extended mission of its all-sky search for new transiting planets. Of the thousands of candidates that TESS is expected to deliv…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 41 cited

A Possible Alignment Between the Orbits of Planetary Systems and their Visual Binary Companions

Sam Christian, Andrew Vanderburg, Juliette Becker +111

Astronomers do not have a complete picture of the effects of wide-binary companions (semimajor axes greater than 100 AU) on the formation and evolution of exoplanets. We investigat…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 11 cited

TOI-1442 b and TOI-2445 b: two potentially rocky ultra-short period planets around M dwarfs

G. Morello, H. Parviainen, F. Murgas +52

Context. Exoplanets with orbital periods of less than one day are known as ultra-short period (USP) planets. They are relatively rare products of planetary formation and evolution…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 14 cited

Is the orbit of the exoplanet WASP-43b really decaying? TESS and MuSCAT2 observations confirm no detection

Z. Garai, T. Pribulla, H. Parviainen +24

Up to now, WASP-12b is the only hot Jupiter confirmed to have a decaying orbit. The case of WASP-43b is still under debate. Recent studies preferred or ruled out the orbital decay…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 17 cited

TOI-2285b: A 1.7 Earth-radius Planet Near the Habitable Zone around a Nearby M Dwarf

Akihiko Fukui, Tadahiro Kimura, Teruyuki Hirano +60

We report the discovery of TOI-2285b, a sub-Neptune-sized planet transiting a nearby (42 pc) M dwarf with a period of 27.3 days. We identified the transit signal from the Transitin…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 10 cited

TOI-1749: an M dwarf with a Trio of Planets including a Near-Resonant Pair

A. Fukui, J. Korth, J. H. Livingston +65

We report the discovery of one super-Earth- (TOI-1749b) and two sub-Neptune-sized planets (TOI-1749c and TOI-1749d) transiting an early M dwarf at a distance of 100~pc, which were…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 2 cited

Two Bright M Dwarfs Hosting Ultra-Short-Period Super-Earths with Earth-like Compositions

Teruyuki Hirano, John H. Livingston, Akihiko Fukui +58

We present observations of two bright M dwarfs (TOI-1634 and TOI-1685: ) hosting ultra-short period (USP) planets, identified by the TESS mission. The two stars are simi…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 21 cited

An enhanced slope in the transmission spectrum of the hot Jupiter WASP-104b

G. Chen, E. Palle, H. Parviainen +25

We present the optical transmission spectrum of the hot Jupiter WASP-104b based on one transit observed by the blue and red channels of the DBSP spectrograph at the Palomar 200-inc…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 43 cited

Discovery of a hot, transiting, Earth-sized planet and a second temperate, non-transiting planet around the M4 dwarf GJ 3473 (TOI-488)

J. Kemmer, S. Stock, D. Kossakowski +93

We present the confirmation and characterisation of GJ 3473 b (G 50--16, TOI-488.01), a hot Earth-sized planet orbiting an M4 dwarf star, whose transiting signal ($P=1.1980035\pm0.…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 18 cited

Obliquity measurement and atmospheric characterization of the WASP-74 planetary system

R. Luque, N. Casasayas-Barris, H. Parviainen +27

We present new transit observations of the hot Jupiter WASP-74 b ( 1860 K) using the high-resolution spectrograph HARPS-N and the multi-colour simultaneous imag…