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most citedObliquities of Exoplanet Host Stars: 19 New and Updated Measurements, and Trends in the Sample of 205 Measurements

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23 papers

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

A gem system with a lava world and a habitable zone sub-Neptune orbiting TOI-1752

A. Peláez-Torres, F. J. Pozuelos, G. Morello +47

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has delivered a large number of transiting planet candidates around nearby stars by identifying periodic decreases in stellar brigh…

astro-ph.EP2026

TOI-4616 b: a benchmark Earth-sized planet transiting a nearby M4 dwarf

F. Zong Lang, B. O. Demory, Y. Gomez Maqueo Chew +44

Rocky exoplanets are particularly abundant around M-type stars. Their small radii and low luminosities provide favourable conditions for detecting transiting terrestrial planets an…

astro-ph.EP2026

WD 1054-226 revisited: a stable transiting debris system

J. Korth, A. J. Mustill, H. Parviainen +24

A growing number of white dwarfs (WDs) exhibit one or more signs of remnant planetary systems, including transits, infrared excesses, and atmospheric metal pollution. WD 1054-226 s…

astro-ph.EP2026

Hidden Gems in TESS: sherlock finds two new rocky planets around nearby M dwarfs

M. Timmermans, M. Dévora-Pajares, F. J. Pozuelos +25

The Hidden Gems project searches the TESS data for additional planets transiting low-mass stars in confirmed systems. Our goal is to identify planet candidates that are below the d…

astro-ph.EP2026

Characterization of two new transiting sub-Neptunes and a terrestrial planet around M-dwarf hosts

E. Poultourtzidis, G. Lacedelli, E. Pallé +49

We report the confirmation of three transiting exoplanets orbiting TOI-1243 (LSPM~J0902+7138), TOI-4529 (G~2--21), and TOI-5388 (Wolf~346) that were initially detected by TESS thro…

astro-ph.EP2025

ExoClock Project IV: A homogeneous catalogue of 620 updated exoplanet ephemerides

A. Kokori, A. Tsiaras, G. Pantelidou +323

The ExoClock project is an open platform aiming to monitor exoplanets by integrating observations from space and ground based telescopes. This study presents an updated catalogue o…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 3 cited

MANGOS II: Five new giant planets orbiting low-mass stars

G. Dransfield, M. Timmermans, D. Sebastian +47

Giant planets orbiting low-mass stars on short orbits present a conundrum, as in the most extreme cases their existence cannot be reconciled with current models of core accretion.…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 3 cited

TOI-1743 b, TOI-5799 b, TOI-5799 c and TOI-6223 b: TESS discovery and validation of four super-Earth to Neptune-sized planets around M dwarfs

S. Yalçınkaya, K. Barkaoui, Ö. Baştürk +62

We present the discovery by the TESS mission of one transiting Neptune-sized planet, TOI-6223 b and two transiting super-Earths, TOI-1743 b and TOI-5799 b. We validate these planet…

astro-ph.EP2025

Sibling Sub-Neptunes Around Sibling M Dwarfs: TOI-521 and TOI-912

G. Lacedelli, E. Pallé, R. Luque +47

Sub-Neptunes are absent in the Solar System, yet they are commonly found in our Galaxy. They challenge the internal structure models and prompt investigation on their formation, ev…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 1 cited

A Swarm of WASP Planets: Nine giant planets identified by the WASP survey

Nicole Schanche, Guillaume Hébrard, Keivan G. Stassun +52

The Wide Angle Search for Planets (WASP) survey provided some of the first transiting hot Jupiter candidates. With the addition of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS),…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 2 cited

AT2021uey: A planetary microlensing event outside the Galactic bulge

M. Ban, P. Voloshyn, R. Adomaviciene +42

We report the analysis of a planetary microlensing event AT2021uey. The event was observed outside the Galactic bulge and was alerted by both space- (Gaia) and ground-based (ZTF an…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 3 cited

TESS and HARPS-N unveil two planets transiting TOI-1453. A super-Earth and one of the lowest mass sub-Neptunes

M. Stalport, A. Mortier, M. Cretignier +37

We report on the validation and characterisation of two transiting planets around TOI-1453, a K-dwarf star in the TESS northern continuous viewing zone. In addition to the TESS dat…

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.EP2024★ 10 cited

Characterization of seven transiting systems including four warm Jupiters from SOPHIE and TESS

N. Heidari, G. H'ebrard, E. Martioli +65

We present the study of seven systems, three of which TOI-2295, TOI-2537, and TOI-5110 are newly discovered planetary systems. Through the analysis of TESS photometry, SOPHIE radia…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 3 cited

A joint effort to discover and characterize two resonant mini Neptunes around TOI-1803 with TESS, HARPS-N and CHEOPS

T. Zingales, L. Malavolta, L. Borsato +130

We present the discovery of two mini Neptunes near a 2:1 orbital resonance configuration orbiting the K0 star TOI-1803. We describe their orbital architecture in detail and suggest…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 11 cited

TESS discovery of two super-Earths orbiting the M-dwarf stars TOI-6002 and TOI-5713 near the radius valley

M. Ghachoui, B. V. Rackham, M. Dévora-Pajares +45

We present the validation of two TESS super-Earth candidates transiting the mid-M dwarfs TOI-6002 and TOI-5713 every 10.90 and 10.44 days, respectively. The first star (TOI-6002) i…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 11 cited

Validation of up to seven TESS planet candidates through multi-colour transit photometry using MuSCAT2 data

A. Peláez-Torres, E. Esparza-Borges, E. Pallé +62

The TESS mission searches for transiting exoplanets by monitoring the brightness of hundreds of thousands of stars across the entire sky. M-type planet hosts are ideal targets for…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 3 cited

K2-399 b is not a planet. The Saturn that wandered through the Neptune desert is actually a hierarchical eclipsing binary

J. Lillo-Box, D. W. Latham, K. A. Collins +19

The transit technique has been very efficient in detecting planet candidate signals over the past decades. The so-called statistical validation approach has become a popular way of…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 40 cited

Obliquities of Exoplanet Host Stars: 19 New and Updated Measurements, and Trends in the Sample of 205 Measurements

Emil Knudstrup, Simon H. Albrecht, Joshua N. Winn +17

Measurements of the obliquities in exoplanet systems have revealed some remarkable architectures, some of which are very different from the Solar System. Nearly 200 obliquity measu…

astro-ph.EP2024

TOI-757 b: an eccentric transiting mini-Neptune on a 17.5-d orbit

A. Alqasim, N. Grieves, N. M. Rosário +129

We report the spectroscopic confirmation and fundamental properties of TOI-757 b, a mini-Neptune on a 17.5-day orbit transiting a bright star ( mag) discovered by the TESS…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 2 cited

Climate Change in Hell: Long-Term Variation in Transits of the Evaporating Planet K2-22b

E. Gaidos, H. Parviainen, E. Esparza-Borges +9

Context: Rocky planets on ultra-short period orbits can have surface magma oceans and rock-vapour atmospheres in which dust can condense. Observations of that dust can inform about…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 32 cited

Kojima-1Lb Is a Mildly Cold Neptune around the Brightest Microlensing Host Star

A. Fukui, D. Suzuki, N. Koshimoto +56

We report the analysis of additional multiband photometry and spectroscopy and new adaptive optics (AO) imaging of the nearby planetary microlensing event TCP J05074264+2447555 (Ko…