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astro-ph.EP2026

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…

astro-ph.EP2026

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…

astro-ph.EP2026

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…

astro-ph.EP2026

Searching for GEMS: Three warm Saturns and a super-Jupiter orbiting four early M-dwarfs

Pranav H. Premnath, Paul Robertson, Shubham Kanodia +33

We report the confirmation and characterization of four transiting giant planets orbiting early-M dwarfs discovered by the Searching for Giant Exoplanets around M-dwarf Stars (GEMS…

astro-ph.EP2025

Stellar Obliquities of Young Systems, Atmospheres Undergoing Contraction and Escape (SOYSAUCE): a likely aligned orbit for the 3 Myr planet TIDYE-1 b

Madyson G. Barber, Andrew W. Mann, Marshall C. Johnson +12

Despite the wide range of planet-star (mis)alignments in the mature population of transiting exoplanets, the small number of known young transiting planets are nearly all aligned w…

astro-ph.EP2025

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…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 2 cited

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)…

astro-ph.EP2025

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 (…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 1 cited

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…

astro-ph.EP2025

HET/HPF observations of Helium in warm, hot, and ultra-hot Jupiters

Jaume Orell-Miquel, Kyra Sampson, Caroline V. Morley +5

The near-infrared helium triplet line is a powerful tool for studying atmospheric escape processes of close-in exoplanets, especially irradiated gas giants. Line profile fitting pr…

astro-ph.EP2025

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…

astro-ph.EP2025

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…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 2 cited

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…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 1 cited

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…

astro-ph.EP2025

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…

astro-ph.EP2025

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…

astro-ph.EP2024

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…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 34 cited

A giant planet transiting a 3-Myr protostar with a misaligned disk

Madyson G. Barber, Andrew W. Mann, Andrew Vanderburg +35

Astronomers have found more than a dozen planets transiting 10-40 million year old stars, but even younger transiting planets have remained elusive. A possible reason for the lack…

astro-ph.EP2024

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…

astro-ph.EP2024

The NEID Earth Twin Survey. I. Confirmation of a 31-day planet orbiting HD 86728

Arvind F. Gupta, Jacob K. Luhn, Jason T. Wright +21

With close to three years of observations in hand, the NEID Earth Twin Survey (NETS) is starting to unearth new astrophysical signals for a curated sample of bright, radial velocit…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 1 cited

A Large and Variable Leading Tail of Helium in a Hot Saturn Undergoing Runaway Inflation

Michael Gully-Santiago, Caroline V. Morley, Jessica Luna +14

Atmospheric escape shapes the fate of exoplanets, with statistical evidence for transformative mass loss imprinted across the mass-radius-insolation distribution. Here we present t…

astro-ph.EP2023

Giant Tidal Tails of Helium Escaping the Hot Jupiter HAT-P-32 b

Zhoujian Zhang, Caroline V. Morley, Michael Gully-Santiago +14

Capturing planets in the act of losing their atmospheres provides rare opportunities to probe their evolution history. Such analysis has been enabled by observations of the helium…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 15 cited

TOI-4562 b: A highly eccentric temperate Jupiter analog orbiting a young field star

Alexis Heitzmann, George Zhou, Samuel N. Quinn +47

We report the discovery of TOI-4562 b (TIC-349576261), a Jovian planet orbiting a young F7V-type star, younger than the Praesepe/Hyades clusters (< Myr). This planet stands o…

astro-ph.EP2022

Transit Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets (THYME) VIII: a Pleiades-age association harboring two transiting planetary systems from Kepler

Madyson G. Barber, Andrew W. Mann, Jonathan L. Bush +8

Young planets provide a window into the early stages and evolution of planetary systems. Ideal planets for such research are in coeval associations, where the parent population can…