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20222026
most citedTwo temperate super-Earths transiting a nearby late-type M dwarf

67 citations · 247 across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

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29 papers

astro-ph.SR2026

The EBLM project - XX. Absolute dynamical masses of five low-mass eclipsing binaries, and an evaluation of mass estimation methods

Adam T. Stevenson, Yasmin T. Davis, Daniel Sebastian +8

Eclipsing binaries consisting of a solar-type primary and an M dwarf secondary are key laboratories to study objects at the bottom of the main sequence. Fundamental parameters of s…

astro-ph.SR2026

The EBLM Project - XIX. The absence of radius inflation in a homogeneous analysis of 66 Northern low-mass eclipsing binaries

Yasmin T. Davis, Amaury H. M. J. Triaud, David V. Martin +30

Precise and accurate measurements of host stars are crucial in the search for Earth-like exoplanets, and M-dwarfs are favourable targets in this quest. Low-mass eclipsing binaries…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 1 cited

ASTEP confirmation of a pair of long-period Jupiter-sized planets with extremely low densities transiting TOI-791

Georgina Dransfield, Antoine C. Petit, Amaury H. M. J. Triaud +45

Gas giant planets with periods orbiting Sun-like stars are a relatively uncommon outcome of planetary formation, and key questions about the nature and form…

astro-ph.EP2026

Bayesian analysis of Gaia epoch astrometry and radial velocities with kima

Thomas A. Baycroft, João P. Faria, Jean-Baptiste Delisle

Context. The next data release from the Gaia space telescope is expected to result in tens of thousands of newly detected exoplanets, as well as detection and 3D orbital constraint…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 1 cited

Uncovering the Rapidly Evolving Orbits of the Dynamic TOI-201 System

Ismael Mireles, Solène Ulmer-Moll, Donald Liveoak +47

Studying planetary interactions in exoplanet systems informs theories of planet formation and evolution, providing essential context for understanding our own solar system. We comb…

astro-ph.EP2026

Predicting Gaia astrometry's ability to constrain the populations of circumbinary planets

Thomas A. Baycroft, Amaury H. M. J Triaud, Johannes Sahlmann

The coming data releases of Gaia are expected to result in an upheaval of exoplanet science, in particular for long period giant planets (…

astro-ph.EP2025

BEBOP VIII. SOPHIE radial velocities reveal an eccentric, circumbinary brown dwarf

Amaury H. M. J. Triaud, Thomas A. Baycroft, Neda Heidari +18

Circumbinary configurations offer a test of planet formation in an altered environment, where the inner binary has perturbed a protoplanetary disc. Comparisons of the physical and…

astro-ph.SR2025

Fundamental effective temperature measurements for eclipsing binary stars -- VI. Improved methodology and application to the circumbinary planet host star BEBOP-3

P. F. L. Maxted, N. J. Miller, T. A. Baycroft +3

BEBOP-3 is detached eclipsing binary star that shows total eclipses of a faint M~dwarf every 13.2 days by a 9-magnitude F9V star. High precision radial velocity measurem…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 9 cited

BEBOP VII. SOPHIE discovery of BEBOP-3b, a circumbinary giant planet on an eccentric orbit

Thomas A. Baycroft, Alexandre Santerne, Amaury H. M. J. Triaud +21

Planetary systems orbiting close binaries are valuable testing grounds for planet formation and migration models. More detections with good mass measurements are needed. We present…

astro-ph.EP2025

Polar alignment of a circumbinary disc around a brown dwarf binary

Jeremy L. Smallwood, Thomas A. Baycroft, Amaury H. M. J. Triaud +1

Inspired by recent observations suggesting that the retrograde precession of the brown dwarf binary 2M1510 AB is consistent with induction by a polar circumbinary planet, we invest…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 2 cited

SPECULOOS: five years hunting terrestrial planets around ultra-cool dwarfs

Sebastián Zúñiga-Fernández, Michael Gillon, SPECULOOS consortium

The SPECULOOS (Search for habitable Planets EClipsing ULtra-cOOl Stars) project aims to detect temperate terrestrial planets transiting nearby ultracool dwarfs, including late M-dw…

astro-ph.EP2025

EBLM XV -- Revised dynamical masses for the circumbinary planet host Kepler-16 AB, using the SOPHIE spectrograph

D. Sebastian, I. Boisse, A. Santerne +14

Eclipsing binaries are perfect laboratories to measure precise, accurate and model-independent stellar radii and stellar masses, so long as both components are spectroscopically re…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 13 cited

Evidence for a polar circumbinary exoplanet orbiting a pair of eclipsing brown dwarfs

Thomas A. Baycroft, Lalitha Sairam, Amaury H. M. J Triaud +1

One notable example of exoplanet diversity is the population of circumbinary planets, which orbit around both stars of a binary star system. There are so far only 16 known circumbi…

astro-ph.EP2024

BEBOP VI. Enabling the detection of circumbinary planets orbiting double-lined binaries with the DOLBY method of radial-velocity extraction

Lalitha Sairam, Thomas A. Baycroft, Isabelle Boisse +13

Circumbinary planets - planets that orbit both stars in a binary system - offer the opportunity to study planet formation and orbital migration in a different environment compare t…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 2 cited

Progress report on the BEBOP search for circumbinary planets with radial velocities

Thomas A. Baycroft, Amaury H. M. J. Triaud, Dong Lai

The BEBOP (Binaries Escorted By Orbiting Planets) survey is a search for circumbinary planets using the radial velocity spectrographs HARPS and SOPHIE, currently focusing on single…

astro-ph.SR2024

BEBOP V. Homogeneous Stellar Analysis of Potential Circumbinary Planet Hosts

Alix V. Freckelton, Daniel Sebastian, Annelies Mortier +29

Planets orbiting binary systems are relatively unexplored compared to those around single stars. Detections of circumbinary planets and planetary systems offer a first detailed vie…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 1 cited

CHEOPS in-flight performance: A comprehensive look at the first 3.5 years of operations

A. Fortier, A. E. Simon, C. Broeg +128

CHEOPS is a space telescope specifically designed to monitor transiting exoplanets orbiting bright stars. In September 2023, CHEOPS completed its nominal mission and remains in exc…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 16 cited

Detection of an Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting the nearby ultracool dwarf star SPECULOOS-3

Michaël Gillon, Peter P. Pedersen, Benjamin V. Rackham +81

Located at the bottom of the main sequence, ultracool dwarf stars are widespread in the solar neighbourhood. Nevertheless, their extremely low luminosity has left their planetary p…

astro-ph.EP2024

A long-period transiting substellar companion in the super-Jupiters to brown dwarfs mass regime and a prototypical warm-Jupiter detected by TESS

Matias I. Jones, Yared Reinarz, Rafael Brahm +48

We report on the confirmation and follow-up characterization of two long-period transiting substellar companions on low-eccentricity orbits around TIC 4672985 and TOI-2529, whose t…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 18 cited

ESPRESSO observations of Gaia BH1: high-precision orbital constraints and no evidence for an inner binary

Pranav Nagarajan, Kareem El-Badry, Amaury H. M. J. Triaud +9

We present high-precision radial velocity (RV) observations of Gaia BH1, the nearest known black hole (BH). The system contains a solar-type G star orbiting a massive dark companio…

astro-ph.SR2023

The EBLM Project XI. Mass, radius and effective temperature measurements for 23 M-dwarf companions to solar-type stars observed with CHEOPS

M. I. Swayne, P. F. L. Maxted, A. H. M. J. Triaud +104

Observations of low-mass stars have frequently shown a disagreement between observed stellar radii and radii predicted by theoretical stellar structure models. This ``radius inflat…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 11 cited

The EBLM Project XII. An eccentric, long-period eclipsing binary with a companion near the hydrogen-burning limit

Yasmin T. Davis, Amaury H. M. J. Triaud, Alix V. Freckelton +17

In the hunt for Earth-like exoplanets it is crucial to have reliable host star parameters, as they have a direct impact on the accuracy and precision of the inferred parameters for…

astro-ph.EP2023

New methods for radial-velocity measurements of double-lined binaries, and detection of a circumbinary planet orbiting TIC 172900988

Lalitha Sairam, Amaury H. M. J. Triaud, Thomas A. Baycroft +8

Ongoing ground-based radial-velocity observations seeking to detect circumbinary planets focus on single-lined binaries even though over nine in every ten binary systems in the sol…

astro-ph.EP2023

New evidence about HW Vir's circumbinary planets from Hipparcos-Gaia astrometry and a reanalysis of the eclipse timing variations using nested sampling

Thomas A. Baycroft, Amaury H. M. J Triaud, Pierre Kervella

The post common-envelope eclipsing binary HW Virginis has had many circumbinary companions proposed based on eclipse timing variations. Each proposed solution has lacked in predict…