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20202026
most citedTESS Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets (THYME) III: a two-planet system in the 400 Myr Ursa Major Group

99 citations · 625 across the 35 of their papers we have counts for

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35 papers

astro-ph.EP2026

Assessing the Impact of High-Resolution Imaging on Statistical Validation of TESS Planet Candidates

Michael Collier, Steven Giacalone, Brian Derfer +38

High-resolution imaging is widely used to constrain false-positive scenarios in exoplanet validation, but it is a finite follow-up resource that reaches only a subset of candidates…

astro-ph.EP2026

CAFE follow-up of TESS hot Jupiter candidates left behind: I. Five newly confirmed planets and a false positive

J. Lillo-Box, C. Cifuentes, O. Balsalobre-Ruza +56

Hot Jupiters are key targets for understanding planet formation, migration, and atmospheres. Yet, most ground-based follow-up resources for the TESS mission are focused on confirmi…

astro-ph.EP2026

TOI-6884b: A low-mass brown dwarf transiting a slightly evolved star

Akanksha Khandelwal, Shubhendra Nath Das, Rishikesh Sharma +42

We report the discovery of a low-mass transiting brown dwarf orbiting TOI-6884 (TIC~156514476, ) from NASA's \textit{Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite} (\text…

astro-ph.EP2026

TOI-3862 b: A dense super-Neptune deep in the hot Neptune desert

Ilaria Carleo, Amadeo Castro-González, Enric Pallé +61

The structure and evolution of close-in exoplanets are shaped by atmospheric loss and migration processes, which give rise to key population features such as the hot Neptune desert…

astro-ph.EP2026

The Occurrence Rate of Nearby Planetary Companions to Hot Jupiters

Lizhou Sha, Andrew M. Vanderburg, Chelsea X. Huang +33

Of the > 500 confirmed transiting hot jupiters and approximately 2000 additional candidates today, only ten are known to have nearby companion planets. The survival of nearby compa…

astro-ph.EP2025

From Earths to Super-Earths: Five New Small Planets Transiting M Dwarf Stars

Jonathan Gomez Barrientos, Heather A. Knutson, Morgan Saidel +39

Earth-sized planets transiting M dwarf stars present one of the best opportunities with current facilities for studying the atmospheric and bulk compositions of terrestrial worlds.…

astro-ph.EP2025

Precise mass and radius determination for two new and one known Neptune-sized planets around G Dwarf hosts

Ilaria Carleo, Grzegorz Nowak, Felipe Murgas +56

As part of the KESPRINT collaboration, we present the discovery and characterization of three exoplanets in the sub-Neptune to super-Neptune regime, spanning key regions of the exo…

astro-ph.EP2025

THYME XIII: Two young Neptunes orbiting a 75-Myr star in the Alpha Persei Cluster

Anne Dattilo, Andrew M. Vanderburg, Madyson G. Barber +28

Young planets with mass measurements are particularly valuable in studying atmospheric mass-loss processes, but these planets are rare and their masses difficult to measure due to…

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.EP2025★ 4 cited

Confirmation of four hot Jupiters detected by TESS using follow-up spectroscopy from MaHPS at Wendelstein together with NEID and TRES

Juliana Ehrhardt, Luis Thomas, Hanna Kellermann +57

We report the confirmation and characterization of four hot Jupiter-type exoplanets initially detected by TESS: TOI-1295 b, TOI-2580 b, TOI-6016 b, and TOI-6130 b. Using observatio…

astro-ph.EP2024

OrCAS: Origins, Compositions, and Atmospheres of Sub-neptunes. I. Survey Definition

Ian J. M. Crossfield, Alex S. Polanski, Paul Robertson +61

Sub-Neptunes - volatile-rich exoplanets smaller than Neptune - are intrinsically the most common type of planet known. However, the formation and nature of these objects, as well a…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 13 cited

TESS Giants Transiting Giants. VI. Newly Discovered Hot Jupiters Provide Evidence for Efficient Obliquity Damping after the Main Sequence

Nicholas Saunders, Samuel K. Grunblatt, Ashley Chontos +53

The degree of alignment between a star's spin axis and the orbital plane of its planets (the stellar obliquity) is related to interesting and poorly understood processes that occur…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 2 cited

The TESS-Keck Survey XXI: 13 New Planets and Homogeneous Properties for 21 Subgiant Systems

Ashley Chontos, Daniel Huber, Samuel K. Grunblatt +67

We present a dedicated transit and radial velocity survey of planets orbiting subgiant stars observed by the TESS Mission. Using nights on Keck/HIRES, we confirm and cha…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 15 cited

TOI-1801 b: A temperate mini-Neptune around a young M0.5 dwarf

M. Mallorquín, E. Goffo, E. Pallé +79

We report the discovery, mass, and radius determination of TOI-1801 b, a temperate mini-Neptune around a young M dwarf. TOI-1801 b was observed in TESS sectors 22 and 49, and the a…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 8 cited

Dynamical Architectures of S-type Transiting Planets in Binaries I: Target Selection using Hipparcos and Gaia proper motion anomalies

Jingwen Zhang, Lauren M. Weiss, Daniel Huber +16

The effect of stellar multiplicity on planetary architecture and orbital dynamics provides an important context for exoplanet demographics. We present a volume-limited catalog up t…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 1 cited

Identification of the Top TESS Objects of Interest for Atmospheric Characterization of Transiting Exoplanets with JWST

Benjamin J. Hord, Eliza M. -R. Kempton, Thomas Mikal-Evans +142

JWST has ushered in an era of unprecedented ability to characterize exoplanetary atmospheres. While there are over 5,000 confirmed planets, more than 4,000 TESS planet candidates a…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 8 cited

Two sub-Neptunes around the M dwarf TOI-1470

E. González-Álvarez, M. R. Zapatero Osorio, J. A. Caballero +50

Aims. A transiting planet candidate with a sub-Neptune radius orbiting the nearby ( = 51.90.07 pc) M1.5 V star TOI-1470 with a period of 2.5 d was announced by the NA…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 20 cited

Characterization of a set of small planets with TESS and CHEOPS and an analysis of photometric performance

Dominic Oddo, Diana Dragomir, Alexis Brandeker +41

The radius valley carries implications for how the atmospheres of small planets form and evolve, but this feature is visible only with highly precise characterizations of many smal…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 38 cited

The TESS Grand Unified Hot Jupiter Survey. II. Twenty New Giant Planets

Samuel W. Yee, Joshua N. Winn, Joel D. Hartman +83

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission promises to improve our understanding of hot Jupiters by providing an all-sky, magnitude-limited sample of transiting ho…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 28 cited

TESS spots a mini-neptune interior to a hot saturn in the TOI-2000 system

Lizhou Sha, Andrew M. Vanderburg, Chelsea X. Huang +52

Hot jupiters (P < 10 d, M > 60 ) are almost always found alone around their stars, but four out of hundreds known have inner companion planets. These rare compan…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 29 cited

TOI-836: A super-Earth and mini-Neptune transiting a nearby K-dwarf

Faith Hawthorn, Daniel Bayliss, Thomas G. Wilson +137

We present the discovery of two exoplanets transiting TOI-836 (TIC 440887364) using data from TESS Sector 11 and Sector 38. TOI-836 is a bright ( mag), high proper motion…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 25 cited

The TESS Grand Unified Hot Jupiter Survey. I. Ten TESS Planets

Samuel W. Yee, Joshua N. Winn, Joel D. Hartman +69

We report the discovery of ten short-period giant planets (TOI-2193A b, TOI-2207 b, TOI-2236 b, TOI-2421 b, TOI-2567 b, TOI-2570 b, TOI-3331 b, TOI-3540A b, TOI-3693 b, TOI-4137 b)…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 27 cited

Another Shipment of Six Short-Period Giant Planets from TESS

Joseph E. Rodriguez, Samuel N. Quinn, Andrew Vanderburg +119

We present the discovery and characterization of six short-period, transiting giant planets from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) -- TOI-1811 (TIC 376524552), TO…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 11 cited

Confirmation and characterisation of three giant planets detected by TESS from the FIES/NOT and Tull/McDonald spectrographs

E. Knudstrup, L. M. Serrano, D. Gandolfi +37

We report the confirmation and characterisation of TOI-1820~b, TOI-2025~b, and TOI-2158~b, three Jupiter-sized planets on short-period orbits around G-type stars detected by TESS.…