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31 papers

astro-ph.EP2026

Migration and Evolution of giant ExoPlanets (MEEP). III. Twenty-Nine Giant Planets from the TESS Mission

Jack Schulte, Joseph E. Rodriguez, David W. Latham +97

We present the discovery and characterization of 29 hot and warm Jupiter systems transiting bright () FGK stars using TESS data and ground-based photometry and spectrosco…

astro-ph.EP2026

The TASSIE Program. II: Three Close-In Companions Orbiting Sun-Like Stars

T. Plunkett, E. Thygesen, A. A. Cole +16

We present three southern transiting giant planet candidates alerted by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission and investigated at the University of Tasmania Gree…

astro-ph.EP2026

TOI-3664 b, TOI-4034 b & TOI-6564 b: Three new hot Jupiters around stars approaching the terminal age main sequence

Matthew P. Battley, Marina Lafarga, Edward Gillen +21

Studying the evolution of hot Jupiters requires a sample of well-characterised systems across all evolutionary states. We present three new gas giant exoplanets around stars approa…

astro-ph.EP2026

JWST unveils a high mean molecular weight atmosphere for mini-Neptune TOI-1130b: Evidence for formation beyond the water ice line

Saugata Barat, Tyler Fairnington, Shelby Courreges +21

We present the combined JWST/NIRSpec G395H and NIRISS SOSS transmission spectrum of a warm mini-Neptune, TOI-1130b (3.66 R, 19.8 M, K). It is…

astro-ph.EP2026

A Warm Massive Pair of Planets around TOI-1232 Revealed with Transit-timing Variations and Doppler Spectroscopy

Deyan P. Mihaylov, Jan Eberhardt, Trifon Trifonov +32

TOI-1232 is a G-dwarf star with a mass of , a radius of , and slightly higher metallicity than solar of Fe/H = .…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 4 cited

Migration and Evolution of giant ExoPlanets (MEEP) II: Super-Jupiters and Lithium-rich Host Stars

Jack Schulte, Joseph E. Rodriguez, David W. Latham +30

Although hot Jupiters were the first exoplanets discovered orbiting main sequence stars, the dominant mechanisms through which they form and evolve are not known. To address the qu…

astro-ph.EP2025

The Hot Neptune Initiative (HONEI) II. TOI-5795 b: A hot super-Neptune orbiting a metal-poor star

F. Manni, L. Naponiello, L. Mancini +31

The formation of Neptune planets with orbital periods less than 10\,days remains uncertain. They might have developed similarly to longer-period counterparts, emerged from rare col…

astro-ph.EP2025

The TESS Grand Unified Hot Jupiter Survey. III. Thirty More Giant Planets

Samuel W. Yee, Joshua N. Winn, Joel D. Hartman +123

We present the discovery of 30 transiting giant planets that were initially detected using data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission. These new planets…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 1 cited

Three Hot Jupiters transiting K-dwarfs with a significant heavy element mass

Y. G. C. Frensch, F. Bouchy, G. Lo Curto +50

Albeit at a lower frequency than around hotter stars, short-period gas giants around low-mass stars ( K) do exist, despite predictions from planetary populat…

astro-ph.EP2025

The Eccentricity Distribution of Warm Sub-Saturns in TESS

Tyler R. Fairnington, Jiayin Dong, Chelsea X. Huang +45

We present the eccentricity distribution of warm sub-Saturns (4-8 Re, 8-200 day periods) as derived from an analysis of transit light curves from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey…

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

11 New Transiting Brown Dwarfs and Very Low Mass Stars from TESS

Noah Vowell, Joseph E. Rodriguez, David W. Latham +39

We present the discovery of 11 new transiting brown dwarfs and low-mass M-dwarfs from NASA's TESS mission: TOI-2844, TOI-3122, TOI-3577, TOI-3755, TOI-4462, TOI-4635, TOI-4737, TOI…

astro-ph.SR2024

Planets Around Solar Twins/Analogs (PASTA) I.: High precision stellar chemical abundance for 17 planet-hosting stars and the condensation temperature trend

Qinghui Sun, Sharon Xuesong Wang, Tianjun Gan +30

The Sun is depleted in refractory elements compared to nearby solar twins, which may be linked to the formation of giant or terrestrial planets. Here we present high-resolution, hi…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 7 cited

The inflated, eccentric warm Jupiter TOI-4914 b orbiting a metal-poor star, and the hot Jupiters TOI-2714 b and TOI-2981 b

G. Mantovan, T. G. Wilson, L. Borsato +32

Recent observations of giant planets have revealed unexpected bulk densities. Hot Jupiters, in particular, appear larger than expected for their masses compared to planetary evolut…

astro-ph.EP2024

TOI-2374 b and TOI-3071 b: two metal-rich sub-Saturns well within the Neptunian desert

Alejandro Hacker, Rodrigo F. Díaz, David J. Armstrong +40

We report the discovery of two transiting planets detected by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), TOI-2374 b and TOI-3071 b, orbiting a K5V and an F8V star, respectiv…

astro-ph.EP2024

TESS Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets (THYME) X: a two-planet system in the 210 Myr MELANGE-5 Association

Pa Chia Thao, Andrew W. Mann, Madyson G. Barber +35

Young (<500 Myr) planets are critical to studying how planets form and evolve. Among these young planetary systems, multi-planet configurations are particularly useful as they prov…

astro-ph.EP2024

Wide Binary Orbits are Preferentially Aligned with the Orbits of Small Planets, but Probably Not Hot Jupiters

Sam Christian, Andrew Vanderburg, Juliette Becker +28

Studying the relative orientations of the orbits of exoplanets and wide-orbiting binary companions (semimajor axis greater than 100 AU) can shed light on how planets form and evolv…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 8 cited

Dynamical Architectures of S-type Transiting Planets in Binaries I: Target Selection using Hipparcos and Gaia proper motion anomalies

Jingwen Zhang, Lauren M. Weiss, Daniel Huber +16

The effect of stellar multiplicity on planetary architecture and orbital dynamics provides an important context for exoplanet demographics. We present a volume-limited catalog up t…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 6 cited

TOI-858 B b: A hot Jupiter on a polar orbit in a loose binary

J. Hagelberg, L. D. Nielsen, O. Attia +30

We report the discovery of a hot Jupiter on a 3.28-day orbit around a 1.08 M G0 star that is the secondary component in a loose binary system. Based on follow-up radial vel…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 1 cited

Identification of the Top TESS Objects of Interest for Atmospheric Characterization of Transiting Exoplanets with JWST

Benjamin J. Hord, Eliza M. -R. Kempton, Thomas Mikal-Evans +142

JWST has ushered in an era of unprecedented ability to characterize exoplanetary atmospheres. While there are over 5,000 confirmed planets, more than 4,000 TESS planet candidates a…

astro-ph.EP2023

Validating AU Microscopii d with Transit Timing Variations

Justin M. Wittrock, Peter Plavchan, Bryson L. Cale +31

AU Mic is a young (22 Myr) nearby exoplanetary system that exhibits excess TTVs that cannot be accounted for by the two known transiting planets nor stellar activity. We present th…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 10 cited

Spinning up a Daze: TESS Uncovers a Hot Jupiter orbiting the Rapid-Rotator TOI-778

Jake Clark, Brett Addison, Jack Okumura +68

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission, has been uncovering a growing number of exoplanets orbiting nearby, bright stars. Most exoplanets that have been discov…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 38 cited

The TESS Grand Unified Hot Jupiter Survey. II. Twenty New Giant Planets

Samuel W. Yee, Joshua N. Winn, Joel D. Hartman +83

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission promises to improve our understanding of hot Jupiters by providing an all-sky, magnitude-limited sample of transiting ho…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 89 cited

Occurrence rate of hot Jupiters around early-type M dwarfs based on TESS data

Tianjun Gan, Sharon X. Wang, Songhu Wang +26

We present an estimate of the occurrence rate of hot Jupiters (, days) around early-type M dwarfs based on stars obser…