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The NEID Earth Twin Survey. VI. Discovery of a Low-Mass Planet Orbiting HD 126053 and RV Signals Near the Rotation Periods of HD 168009 and HD 10780
Arvind F. Gupta, Sarah E. Logsdon, Jacob K. Luhn +19
Extreme precision radial velocity (EPRV) spectrographs are making strides in extending the limits of radial velocity exoplanet detection. Perhaps the best evidence for this is how…
A Galactic-scale extreme-precision radial velocity survey
Sukanya Chakrabarti, Jack Wagner, Robert J. de Rosa +8
We describe the first Galactic-scale extreme-precision radial velocity (EPRV) survey and outline our goals of measuring Galactic accelerations and deriving constraints on the dark…
RVTESS I: Modeling Asteroseismic Signals with Simultaneous Photometry and RVs
Jiaxin Tang, Sharon X. Wang, Yaguang Li +22
Detecting small planets via the radial velocity method remains challenged by signals induced by stellar variability, versus the effects of the planet(s). Here, we explore using Gau…
Scalable Gaussian Processes for Integrated and Overlapping Measurements Via Augmented State Space Models
Ryan A. Rubenzahl, Soichiro Hattori, Simo Särkkä +4
Astronomical measurements are often integrated over finite exposures, which can obscure latent variability on comparable timescales. Correctly accounting for exposure integration w…
Exposure-averaged Gaussian Processes for Combining Overlapping Datasets
Jacob K. Luhn, Ryan A. Rubenzahl, Samuel Halverson +1
Physically motivated Gaussian process (GP) kernels for stellar variability, like the commonly used damped, driven simple harmonic oscillators that model stellar granulation and p-m…
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)…
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…
Time-resolved p-mode oscillations for subgiant HD 142091 with NEID at WIYN
Jacob K. Luhn, Paul Robertson, Samuel Halverson +22
Detections of Earth-analog planets in radial velocity observations are limited by stellar astrophysical variability occurring on a variety of timescales. Current state-of-the-art m…
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…
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…
TOI-6324b: An Earth-Mass Ultra-Short-Period Planet Transiting a Nearby M Dwarf
Rena A. Lee, Fei Dai, Andrew W. Howard +71
We report the confirmation of TOI-6324 b, an Earth-sized (1.059 0.041 R) ultra-short-period (USP) planet orbiting a nearby (20 pc) M dwarf. Using the newly com…
A Pair of Dynamically Interacting Sub-Neptunes Around TOI-6054
Maxwell A. Kroft, Thomas G. Beatty, Ian J. M. Crossfield +31
We confirm the planetary nature of a pair of transiting sub-Neptune exoplanets orbiting the bright F-type sub-giant star TOI-6054 (, ) as a part of the OrCAS radia…
Origins of Super Jupiters: TOI-2145b Has a Moderately Eccentric and Nearly Aligned Orbit
Jiayin Dong, Ashley Chontos, George Zhou +15
Super Jupiters are giant planets with several Jupiter masses. It remains an open question whether these planets originate with such high masses or grow through collisions. Previous…
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…
The HD 191939 Exoplanet System is Well-Aligned and Flat
Jack Lubin, Erik A. Petigura, Judah Van Zandt +25
We report the sky-projected spin-orbit angle for HD 191939 b, the innermost planet in a 6 planet system, using Keck/KPF to detect the Rossiter-McLaughlin (RM) effect. Planet b…
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…
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…
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…
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…
NEID Reveals that The Young Warm Neptune TOI-2076 b Has a Low Obliquity
Robert C. Frazier, Gudmundur Stefansson, Suvrath Mahadevan +27
TOI-2076 b is a sub-Neptune-sized planet () that transits a young () bright () K-dwarf hosting a system of three transiting…
Detection of p-mode Oscillations in HD 35833 with NEID and TESS
Arvind F. Gupta, Jacob K. Luhn, Jason T. Wright +15
We report the results of observations of p-mode oscillations in the G0 subgiant star HD 35833 in both radial velocities and photometry with NEID and TESS, respectively. We achieve…
GJ 3929: High Precision Photometric and Doppler Characterization of an Exo-Venus and its Hot, Mini-Neptune-mass Companion
Corey Beard, Paul Robertson, Shubham Kanodia +31
We detail the follow up and characterization of a transiting exo-Venus identified by TESS, GJ 3929b, (TOI-2013b) and its non-transiting companion planet, GJ 3929c (TOI-2013c). GJ 3…
HD 166620: Portrait of a Star Entering a Grand Magnetic Minimum
Jacob K. Luhn, Jason T. Wright, Gregory W. Henry +2
HD 166620 was recently identified as a Maunder Minimum candidate based on nearly 50 years of Ca II H & K activity data from Mount Wilson and Keck-HIRES (Baum et al. 2022). These da…
Impact of Correlated Noise on the Mass Precision of Earth-analog Planets in Radial Velocity Surveys
Jacob K. Luhn, Eric B. Ford, Zhao Guo +6
Characterizing the masses and orbits of near-Earth-mass planets is crucial for interpreting observations from future direct imaging missions (e.g., HabEx, LUVOIR). Therefore, the E…