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20192023
most citedTESS delivers its first Earth-sized planet and a warm sub-Neptune

79 citations · 328 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

astro-ph.EP2023★ 12 cited

TESS and CHEOPS Discover Two Warm Sub-Neptunes Transiting the Bright K-dwarf HD 15906

Amy Tuson, Didier Queloz, Hugh P. Osborn +119

We report the discovery of two warm sub-Neptunes transiting the bright (G = 9.5 mag) K-dwarf HD 15906 (TOI 461, TIC 4646810). This star was observed by the Transiting Exoplanet Sur…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 15 cited

Three low-mass companions around aged stars discovered by TESS

Zitao Lin, Tianjun Gan, Sharon X. Wang +42

We report the discovery of three transiting low-mass companions to aged stars: a brown dwarf (TOI-2336b) and two objects near the hydrogen burning mass limit (TOI-1608b and TOI-252…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 4 cited

TESS discovery of a super-Earth and two sub-Neptunes orbiting the bright, nearby, Sun-like star HD 22946

Luca Cacciapuoti, Laura Inno, Giovanni Covone +51

We report the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) discovery of a three-planet system around the bright Sun-like star HD~22946(V=8.3 mag),also known as TIC~100990000, locat…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 10 cited

A close-in puffy Neptune with hidden friends: The enigma of TOI 620

Michael A. Reefe, Rafael Luque, Eric Gaidos +82

We present the validation of a transiting low-density exoplanet orbiting the M2.5 dwarf TOI 620 discovered by the NASA TESS mission. We utilize photometric data from both TESS and…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 8 cited

The TESS Mission Target Selection Procedure

Michael Fausnaugh, Ed Morgan, Roland Vanderspek +61

We describe the target selection procedure by which stars are selected for 2-minute and 20-second observations by TESS. We first list the technical requirements of the TESS instrum…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 15 cited

Hot planets around cool stars -- two short-period mini-Neptunes transiting the late K-dwarf TOI-1260

I. Y. Georgieva, C. M. Persson, O. Barragán +56

We present the discovery and characterization of two sub-Neptunes in close orbits, as well as a tentative outer planet of a similar size, orbiting TOI-1260 - a low metallicity K6V…