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most citedChemical Abundances of M-dwarfs from the APOGEE Survey. I. The Exoplanet Hosting Stars Kepler-138 and Kepler-186

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astro-ph.EP2026

Improving the Precision of Line-by-Line Radial Velocities: A Data-Driven Iterative Algorithm for Spectral Line Selection

Kanishk Pandey, Eric A. Ford, Joseph M. Salzer +17

Independent analysis of individual spectral lines, or line-by-line (LBL) analyses, can improve upon standard cross-correlation function (CCF) methods for measuring radial velocitie…

astro-ph.EP2025

Order-by-order Modeling of Exoplanet Radial Velocity Data

Zachary Langford, Cullen Blake, Samuel Halverson +12

Precise radial velocity (RV) measurements are a crucial tool for exoplanet discovery and characterization. Today, the majority of these measurements are derived from Echelle spectr…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 2 cited

Discovery of a Nearby Habitable Zone Super-Earth Candidate Amenable to Direct Imaging

Corey Beard, Paul Robertson, Jack Lubin +31

We present the discovery of GJ 251 c, a candidate super-Earth orbiting in the Habitable Zone (HZ) of its M dwarf host star. Using high-precision Habitable-zone Planet Finder (HPF)…

astro-ph.EP2025

The NEID Earth Twin Survey. IV. Confirming an 89 d, Planet Orbiting a Nearby Sun-like Star

Mark R. Giovinazzi, Evan Fitzmaurice, Arvind F. Gupta +19

We present the confirmation of HD 190360 d, a warm (), low-mass () planet orbiting the nearb…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 2 cited

An Earth-Sized Planet in a 5.4h Orbit Around a Nearby K dwarf

Kaya Han Taş, Gudmundur Stefansson, Syarief N. M. Fariz +25

We present the discovery and confirmation of the ultra-short period (USP) planet TOI-2431 b orbiting a nearby ( pc) late K star ( = $4109 \pm 28 \, {\rm…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 1 cited

TOI-1259Ab: A Warm Jupiter Orbiting a K-dwarf White-Dwarf Binary is on a Well-aligned Orbit

Hugo Veldhuis, Juan I. Espinoza-Retamal, Gudmundur Stefansson +21

The evolution of one member of a stellar binary into a white dwarf has been proposed as a mechanism that triggers the formation of close-in gas giant planets. The star's asymmetric…

astro-ph.EP2025

The NEID Earth Twin Survey. III. Survey Performance After Three Years on Sky

Arvind F. Gupta, Evan Fitzmaurice, Suvrath Mahadevan +22

The NEID Earth Twin Survey (NETS) has been delivering a rich set of precise radial velocity (RV) measurements for 41 bright, nearby main sequence stars. Here, we describe the statu…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 7 cited

The NEID Earth Twin Survey. II. Dynamical Masses in Seven High-acceleration Star Systems

Mark R. Giovinazzi, Cullen H. Blake, Paul Robertson +26

We present a set of companion dynamical masses and orbital parameters of seven star systems from the NEID Earth Twin Survey with significant absolute astrometric accelerations betw…

astro-ph.EP2025

Searching for GEMS: Confirmation of TOI-5573b, a Cool, Saturn-like Planet Orbiting An M-dwarf

Rachel B Fernandes, Shubham Kanodia, Megan Delamer +35

We present the confirmation of TOI-5573b, a Saturn-sized exoplanet on an 8.79-day orbit around an early M-dwarf (3790 K, 0.59 R, 0.61 M, 12.30 J mag). TOI-5573b has a…

astro-ph.SR2025

Three-dimensional Orbit and Dynamical Masses of GJ 105 AC

Cayla M. Dedrick, Jason T. Wright, Jason D. Eastman +11

The precision of stellar models is higher than the precision at which we are able to measure the masses of most stars, with the notable exception of binaries where we can determine…

astro-ph.EP2024

Jitter Across 15 Years: Leveraging Precise Photometry from Kepler and TESS to Extract Exoplanets from Radial Velocity Time Series

Corey Beard, Paul Robertson, Jack Lubin +24

Stellar activity contamination of radial velocity (RV) data is one of the top challenges plaguing the field of extreme precision RV (EPRV) science. Previous work has shown that pho…

astro-ph.EP2024

Gaia-4b and 5b: Radial Velocity Confirmation of Gaia Astrometric Orbital Solutions Reveal a Massive Planet and a Brown Dwarf Orbiting Low-mass Stars

Gudmundur Stefansson, Suvrath Mahadevan, Joshua Winn +31

Gaia astrometry of nearby stars is precise enough to detect the tiny displacements induced by substellar companions, but radial velocity data are needed for definitive confirmation…

astro-ph.EP2024

The NEID Earth Twin Survey. I. Confirmation of a 31-day planet orbiting HD 86728

Arvind F. Gupta, Jacob K. Luhn, Jason T. Wright +21

With close to three years of observations in hand, the NEID Earth Twin Survey (NETS) is starting to unearth new astrophysical signals for a curated sample of bright, radial velocit…

astro-ph.EP2024

Searching for GEMS: TOI-5688 A b, a low-density giant orbiting a high-metallicity early M-dwarf

Varghese Reji, Shubham Kanodia, Joe Ninan +31

We present the discovery of a low-density planet orbiting the high-metallicity early M-dwarf TOI-5688 A b. This planet was characterized as part of the search for transiting giant…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 1 cited

Data-Driven Modeling of Telluric Features and Stellar Variability with StellarSpectraObservationFitting.jl

Christian Gilbertson, Eric B. Ford, Samuel Halverson +11

A significant barrier to achieving the radial velocity (RV) measurement accuracy and precision required to characterize terrestrial mass exoplanets is the existence of time-variabl…

astro-ph.SR2024

Earths within Reach: Evaluation of Strategies for Mitigating Solar Variability using 3.5 years of NEID Sun-as-a-Star Observations

Eric B. Ford, Chad F. Bender, Cullen H. Blake +15

We present the results of Sun-as-a-star observations by the NEID Solar Telescope at WIYN Observatory, spanning January 1, 2021 through June 30, 2024. We identify 117,060 observatio…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 7 cited

Quiet Please: Detrending Radial Velocity Variations from Stellar Activity with a Physically Motivated Spot Model

Jared C. Siegel, Samuel Halverson, Jacob K. Luhn +15

For solar-type stars, spots and their associated magnetic regions induce radial velocity perturbations through the Doppler rotation signal and the suppression of convective blueshi…

astro-ph.EP2024

Utilizing Photometry from Multiple Sources to Mitigate Stellar Variability in Precise Radial Velocities: A Case Study of Kepler-21

Corey Beard, Paul Robertson, Mark R. Giovinazzi +26

We present a new analysis of Kepler-21, the brightest (V = 8.5) Kepler system with a known transiting exoplanet, Kepler-21 b. Kepler-21 b is a radius valley planet ($R = 1.6\pm 0.2…

astro-ph.EP2024

Trials and Tribulations in the Reanalysis of KELT-24 b: a Case Study for the Importance of Stellar Modeling

Mark R. Giovinazzi, Bryson Cale, Jason D. Eastman +21

We present a new analysis of the KELT-24 system, comprising a well-aligned hot Jupiter, KELT-24~b, and a bright (), nearby () F-type host star. KELT-24~b…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 13 cited

The death of Vulcan: NEID reveals the planet candidate orbiting HD 26965 is stellar activity

Abigail Burrows, Samuel Halverson, Jared C. Siegel +17

We revisit the long-studied radial velocity (RV) target HD26965 using recent observations from the NASA-NSF 'NEID' precision Doppler facility. Leveraging a suite of classical activ…

astro-ph.SR2024

The Brown Dwarf Kinematics Project (BDKP). VI. Ultracool Dwarf Radial and Rotational Velocities from SDSS/APOGEE High-resolution Spectroscopy

Chih-Chun Hsu, Adam J. Burgasser, Christopher A. Theissen +11

We present precise measurements of radial (RV) and projected rotational () velocities, effective temperatures, and surface gravities of a sample of 258 M6 to L2 dwarfs wi…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 15 cited

Astrometric orbits of spectral binary brown dwarfs I: Massive T dwarf companions to 2M105921 and 2M080548

J. Sahlmann, A. J. Burgasser, D. C. Bardalez Gagliuffi +7

Near-infrared spectroscopic surveys have uncovered a population of short-period, blended-light spectral binaries composed of low-mass stars and brown dwarfs. These systems are amen…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 60 cited

Chemical Abundances of M-dwarfs from the APOGEE Survey. I. The Exoplanet Hosting Stars Kepler-138 and Kepler-186

Diogo Souto, Katia Cunha, D. A. Garcia-Hernandez +18

We report the first detailed chemical abundance analysis of the exoplanet-hosting M-dwarf stars Kepler-138 and Kepler-186 from the analysis of high-resolution ( 22,500) $…

astro-ph.SR2013★ 43 cited

The SDSS-III APOGEE Radial Velocity Survey of M dwarfs I: Description of Survey and Science Goals

R. Deshpande, C. H. Blake, C. F. Bender +28

We are carrying out a large ancillary program with the SDSS-III, using the fiber-fed multi-object NIR APOGEE spectrograph, to obtain high-resolution H-band spectra of more than 120…