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19972026
most citedThe DESI Experiment Part I: Science,Targeting, and Survey Design

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astro-ph.IM2026

Numerical Model Simulation of the Carruthers GCI Images

Heather Filippini, Alex Zhang, Evan Widloski +7

The Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, launched in September 2025, is NASA's first mission devoted to investigating the fundamental nature of Earth's exosphere from its distant vant…

astro-ph.IM2026

Design and Performance of the Carruthers Geocoronal Imager

Martin Sirk, Alex M. Zhang, Thomas J. Immel +13

The GeoCoronal Imager (GCI) onboard the Carruthers Geocorona Observatory is the primary scientific instrument of the mission. It is designed to measure far ultraviolet light at 121…

astro-ph.IM2026

Carruthers Data Processing Pipeline: Radiometric Responsivity Calibration

Alex Zhang, Heather Filippini, Gonzalo Cucho-Padin +5

The Carruthers Geocorona Observatory is NASA's first mission dedicated to investigating the fundamental nature of Earth's exosphere and its dynamic response to space weather. Its p…

astro-ph.EP2025

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-…

astro-ph.EP2025

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…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 1 cited

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…