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20152026
most citedAtmospheric characterization of the ultra-hot Jupiter MASCARA-2b/KELT-20b

181 citations · 1.6k across the 63 of their papers we have counts for

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64 papers

astro-ph.EP2026

Correcting stellar contamination in transmission spectroscopy with contemporaneous monitoring: Application to GJ 1214 b

Ò. Porqueras-León, M. Perger, J. C. Morales +19

Transmission spectroscopy has emerged as an essential tool for characterising the atmospheres of transiting exoplanets. However, stellar surface inhomogeneities contaminate transmi…

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★ 1 cited

Discovery of a transiting hot water-world candidate orbiting Ross 176 with TESS and CARMENES

S. Geraldía-González, J. Orell-Miquel, E. Pallé +30

The case of Ross 176 is a late K-type star that hosts a promising water-world candidate planet. The star has a radius of =0.5690.020 and a mass of …

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

TOI-6508b: A massive transiting brown dwarf orbiting a low-mass star

K. Barkaoui, D. Sebastian, S. Zúñiga-Fernández +44

We report the discovery of a transiting brown dwarf orbiting a low-mass star, TOI-6508b. Today, only ~50 transiting brown dwarfs have been discovered. TOI-6508b was first detected…

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★ 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.EP2024

Three short-period Earth-sized planets around M dwarfs discovered by TESS: TOI-5720b, TOI-6008b and TOI-6086b

K. Barkaoui, R. P. Schwarz, N. Narita +53

One of the main goals of the NASA's TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) mission is the discovery of Earth-like planets around nearby M-dwarf stars. Here, we present the di…

astro-ph.EP2024

HD 110067 c has an aligned orbit

J. Zak, H. M. J. Boffin, E. Sedaghati +25

Planetary systems in mean motion resonances hold a special place among the planetary population. They allow us to study planet formation in great detail as dissipative processes ar…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 33 cited

The MOPYS project: A survey of 70 planets in search of extended He I and H atmospheres. No evidence of enhanced evaporation in young planets

J. Orell-Miquel, F. Murgas, E. Pallé +30

During the first Gyr of their life, exoplanet atmospheres suffer from different atmospheric escape phenomena that can strongly affect the shape and morphology of the exoplanet itse…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 4 cited

TOI-1199 b and TOI-1273 b: Two new transiting hot Saturns detected and characterized with SOPHIE and TESS

J. Serrano Bell, R. F. Díaz, G. Hébrard +41

We report the characterization of two planet candidates detected by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), TOI-1199 b and TOI-1273 b, with periods of 3.7 and 4.6 days, r…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 13 cited

TOI-4438 b: a transiting mini-Neptune amenable to atmospheric characterization

E. Goffo, P. Chaturvedi, F. Murgas +47

We report the confirmation and mass determination of a mini-Neptune transiting the M3.5 V star TOI-4438 (G 182-34) every 7.44 days. A transit signal was detected with NASA's TESS s…

astro-ph.EP2024

Wolf 327b: A new member of the pack of ultra-short-period super-Earths around M dwarfs

F. Murgas, E. Pallé, J. Orell-Miquel +52

Planets with orbital periods shorter than 1 day are rare and have formation histories that are not completely understood. Small () ultra-short-period (…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 64 cited

A resonant sextuplet of sub-Neptunes transiting the bright star HD 110067

R. Luque, H. P. Osborn, A. Leleu +149

Planets with radii between that of the Earth and Neptune (hereafter referred to as sub-Neptunes) are found in close-in orbits around more than half of all Sun-like stars. Yet, thei…