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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…
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…
A Revised Mass and Period for the Habitable Zone super-Earth GJ 3378b: A Planet Straddling the Cosmic Shoreline
Paul Robertson, Michael Endl, William D. Cochran +18
The nearby ( pc) M4V star GJ~3378 is a target of our radial velocity (RV) exoplanet survey of fully convective stars in the Solar neighborhood with the near-infrared spect…
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…
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)…
Searching for GEMS: TOI-5916 b & TOI-6158 b are two Saturn-density planets orbiting M2 dwarfs
Shane O'Brien, Amber Wong, Te Han +20
We confirm the planetary nature of (1) TOI-5916 b and (2) TOI-6158 b, two Exoplanets Transiting M-dwarf Stars (GEMS), both discovered by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (…
Searching for GEMS: The Occurrence of Giant Planets orbiting M-dwarfs within 100 pc
Rowen I. Glusman, Caleb I. Cañas, Shubham Kanodia +30
We present results from a systematic search for transiting short-period Giant Exoplanets around M-dwarf Stars (GEMS; days, ) within a distance-limi…
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…
Searching for GEMS: TOI-7149~b an Inflated Giant Planet causing a 12% Transit of a Fully Convective M-dwarf
Shubham Kanodia, Caleb I. Cañas, Suvrath Mahadevan +20
We describe the discovery and characterization of TOI-7149~b, a 0.705 0.075 , 1.18 0.045 gas giant on a day period orbit transiting an M4V star w…
Spectroscopic Characterization of LOFAR Radio-emitting M dwarfs
E. Koo, G. Stefansson, R. D. Kavanagh +20
Recent observations with the LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR) have revealed 19 nearby M dwarfs showing bright circularly polarised radio emission. One of the possible sources of such em…
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…
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…
A Hot Jupiter with a Retrograde Orbit around a Sun-like Star and a Toy Model of Hot Jupiters in Wide Binary Star Systems
Steven Giacalone, Andrew W. Howard, Ryan A. Rubenzahl +21
We report an observation of a transit of the hot Jupiter (HJ) KELT-23A b with the Keck Planet Finder spectrograph and a measurement of the sky-projected obliquity () of its Sun-…
Orbital Decay of the Ultra-Hot Jupiter TOI-2109b: Tidal Constraints and Transit-Timing Analysis
Jaime A. Alvarado-Montes, Mario Sucerquia, Jorge I. Zuluaga +1
TOI-2109b is the ultra-hot Jupiter with the shortest orbital period (hr) yet discovered. At this close distance, strong tidal interactions can produce a significant excha…
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…
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…
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…
Searching for GEMS: Discovery and Characterization of Two Brown Dwarfs Around M Dwarfs
Alexander Larsen, Tera N. Swaby, Henry A. Kobulnicky +17
Brown dwarfs bridge the gap between stars and planets, providing valuable insight into both planetary and stellar formation mechanisms. Yet the census of transiting brown dwarf com…
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…
Searching for GEMS: Two Super-Jupiters around M-dwarfs -- Signatures of Instability or Accretion?
Andrew Hotnisky, Shubham Kanodia, Jessica Libby-Roberts +20
We present the discovery of TOI-6303b and TOI-6330b, two massive transiting super-Jupiters orbiting a M0 and a M2 star respectively, as part of the Searching for GEMS survey. These…
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…
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…
The Compositions of Rocky Planets in Close-in Orbits Tend to be Earth-Like
Casey L. Brinkman, Lauren M. Weiss, Daniel Huber +54
Hundreds of exoplanets between 1-1.8 times the size of the Earth have been discovered on close in orbits. However, these planets show such a diversity in densities that some appear…