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most citedTESS Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets (THYME): A planet in the 45 Myr Tucana-Horologium association

164 citations · 734 across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

astro-ph.EP2026

Toddlers in Resonance I: low masses and eccentricities of the 17 Myr giant planets HIP 67522 bc from transit timing variations

Hannah R. James, Madyson G. Barber, Andrew W. Mann +28

Infant (100\,Myr) transiting planet systems provide glimpses into the processes that shape the observed mature planet population. Masses for these planets are powerful data poin…

astro-ph.EP2025

Searching for Transit Timing Variations in young transiting systems

Ana Isabel Lopez Murillo, Andrew W. Mann, Madyson G. Barber +3

The discovery of young (<800 Myr) transiting planets has provided a new avenue to explore how planets form and evolve over their lifetimes. Mass measurements for these planets woul…

astro-ph.EP2025

Statistical trends in JWST transiting exoplanet atmospheres

Guangwei Fu, Kevin B. Stevenson, David K. Sing +13

Our brains are hardwired for pattern recognition as correlations are useful for predicting and understanding nature. As more exoplanet atmospheres are being characterized with JWST…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 34 cited

A giant planet transiting a 3-Myr protostar with a misaligned disk

Madyson G. Barber, Andrew W. Mann, Andrew Vanderburg +35

Astronomers have found more than a dozen planets transiting 10-40 million year old stars, but even younger transiting planets have remained elusive. A possible reason for the lack…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 3 cited

The Featherweight Giant: Unraveling the Atmosphere of a 17 Myr Planet with JWST

Pa Chia Thao, Andrew W. Mann, Adina D. Feinstein +29

The characterization of young planets (< 300 Myr) is pivotal for understanding planet formation and evolution. We present the 3-5m transmission spectrum of the 17 Myr, Jupiter-s…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 25 cited

TESS Investigation -- Demographics of Young Exoplanets (TI-DYE) II: a second giant planet in the 17-Myr system HIP 67522

Madyson G. Barber, Pa Chia Thao, Andrew W. Mann +13

The youngest (50 Myr) planets are vital to understand planet formation and early evolution. The 17 Myr system HIP 67522 is already known to host a giant (10) p…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 17 cited

Revising Properties of Planet-Host Binary Systems. IV. The Radius Distribution of Small Planets in Binary Star Systems is Dependent on Stellar Separation

Kendall Sullivan, Adam L. Kraus, Travis A. Berger +10

Small planets () are divided into rocky super-Earths and gaseous sub-Neptunes separated by a radius gap, but the mechanisms that produce these distinct pla…

astro-ph.EP2024

TESS Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets (THYME) X: a two-planet system in the 210 Myr MELANGE-5 Association

Pa Chia Thao, Andrew W. Mann, Madyson G. Barber +35

Young (<500 Myr) planets are critical to studying how planets form and evolve. Among these young planetary systems, multi-planet configurations are particularly useful as they prov…

astro-ph.EP2024

Transit Spectroscopy of K2-33b with Subaru/IRD: Spin-Orbit Alignment and Tentative Atmospheric Helium

Teruyuki Hirano, Eric Gaidos, Hiroki Harakawa +13

Exoplanets in their infancy are ideal targets to probe the formation and evolution history of planetary systems, including the planet migration and atmospheric evolution and dissip…

astro-ph.SR2023

A Lithium Depletion Age for the Carina Association

Mackenna L. Wood, Andrew W. Mann, Madyson G. Barber +6

The dispersed remnants of stellar nurseries, stellar associations provide unparalleled samples of coeval stars critical for studies of stellar and planetary formation and evolution…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 37 cited

TESS Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets (THYME) IX: a 27 Myr extended population of Lower-Centaurus Crux with a transiting two-planet system

Mackenna L. Wood, Andrew W. Mann, Madyson G. Barber +35

We report the discovery and characterization of a nearby (~ 85 pc), older (27 +/- 3 Myr), distributed stellar population near Lower-Centaurus-Crux (LCC), initially identified by se…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 13 cited

Hazy with a chance of star spots: constraining the atmosphere of the young planet, K2-33b

Pa Chia Thao, Andrew W. Mann, Peter Gao +10

Although all-sky surveys have led to the discovery of dozens of young planets, little is known about their atmospheres. Here, we present multi-wavelength transit data for the super…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 11 cited

A Circumplanetary Dust Ring May Explain the Extreme Spectral Slope of the 10 Myr Young Exoplanet K2-33b

Kazumasa Ohno, Pa Chia Thao, Andrew W. Mann +1

Young exoplanets are attractive targets for atmospheric characterization to explore the early phase of planetary evolution and the surrounding environment. Recent observations of t…

astro-ph.EP2022

Transit Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets (THYME) VIII: a Pleiades-age association harboring two transiting planetary systems from Kepler

Madyson G. Barber, Andrew W. Mann, Jonathan L. Bush +8

Young planets provide a window into the early stages and evolution of planetary systems. Ideal planets for such research are in coeval associations, where the parent population can…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 31 cited

TESS Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets (THYME) VII : Membership, rotation, and lithium in the young cluster Group-X and a new young exoplanet

Elisabeth R. Newton, Rayna Rampalli, Adam L. Kraus +36

The public, all-sky surveys Gaia and TESS provide the ability to identify new young associations and determine their ages. These associations enable study of planetary evolution by…

astro-ph.SR2022

Activity and Rotation of Nearby Field M Dwarfs in the TESS Southern Continuous Viewing Zone

Francys Anthony, Alejandro Núñez, Marcel A. Agüeros +8

The evolution of magnetism in late-type dwarfs remains murky, as we can only weakly predict levels of activity for M dwarfs of a given mass and age. We report results from our spec…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 14 cited

Gemini/GMOS Transmission Spectroscopy of the Grazing Planet Candidate WD 1856+534 b

Siyi Xu, Hannah Diamond-Lowe, Ryan J. MacDonald +12

WD 1856+534 b is a Jupiter-sized, cool giant planet candidate transiting the white dwarf WD 1856+534. Here, we report an optical transmission spectrum of WD 1856+534 b obtained fro…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 83 cited

TESS Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets (THYME) VI: an 11 Myr giant planet transiting a very low-mass star in Lower Centaurus Crux

Andrew W. Mann, Mackenna L. Wood, Stephen P. Schmidt +48

Mature super-Earths and sub-Neptunes are predicted to be Jovian radius when younger than 10 Myr. Thus, we expect to find 5-15 planets around young stars even if t…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 61 cited

TESS Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets (THYME) IV: Three small planets orbiting a 120 Myr-old star in the Pisces--Eridanus stream

Elisabeth R. Newton, Andrew W. Mann, Adam L. Kraus +50

Young exoplanets can offer insight into the evolution of planetary atmospheres, compositions, and architectures. We present the discovery of the young planetary system TOI 451 (TIC…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 108 cited

TESS Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets (THYME) II: A 17 Myr Old Transiting Hot Jupiter in the Sco-Cen Association

Aaron C. Rizzuto, Elisabeth R. Newton, Andrew W. Mann +10

We present the discovery of a transiting hot Jupiter orbiting HIP 67522 ( K; ) in the 10-20 Myr old Sco-Cen OB association. We identified t…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 99 cited

TESS Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets (THYME) III: a two-planet system in the 400 Myr Ursa Major Group

Andrew W. Mann, Marshall C. Johnson, Andrew Vanderburg +51

Exoplanets can evolve significantly between birth and maturity, as their atmospheres, orbits, and structures are shaped by their environment. Young planets (1 Gyr) offer an oppo…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 6 cited

The young planetary system K2-25: constraints on companions and starspots

Isabel J. Kain, Elisabeth R. Newton, Jason A. Dittmann +5

The abundance of planets with orbital periods of a few to tens of days suggests that exoplanets experience complex dynamical histories. Planets in young stellar clusters or associa…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 28 cited

Zodiacal Exoplanets in Time (ZEIT) IX: a flat transmission spectrum and a highly eccentric orbit for the young Neptune K2-25b as revealed by Spitzer

Pa Chia Thao, Andrew W. Mann, Marshall C. Johnson +9

Transiting planets in nearby young clusters offer the opportunity to study the atmospheres and dynamics of planets during their formative years. To this end, we focused on K2-25b -…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 164 cited

TESS Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets (THYME): A planet in the 45 Myr Tucana-Horologium association

Elisabeth R. Newton, Andrew W. Mann, Benjamin M. Tofflemire +49

Young exoplanets are snapshots of the planetary evolution process. Planets that orbit stars in young associations are particularly important because the age of the planetary system…