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31 papers

astro-ph.EP2026

Mid-infrared Imaging of SR 12 c with JWST/MIRI: Grain Growth in an Evolved Circumplanetary Disk

Ya-Lin Wu, Claire O. Finley, Brendan P. Bowler +13

The physical properties of circumplanetary disks offer insights into the formation of giant planets and their satellites. The circumbinary planetary-mass companion SR 12 c (1200 au…

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

Toddlers in Resonance I: low masses and eccentricities of the 17 Myr giant planets HIP 67522 bc from transit timing variations

Hannah R. James, Madyson G. Barber, Andrew W. Mann +28

Infant (100\,Myr) transiting planet systems provide glimpses into the processes that shape the observed mature planet population. Masses for these planets are powerful data poin…

astro-ph.EP2026

The First Hubble Detection of a Secondary Eclipse from a Rocky Exoplanet: the 5.4-hour planet TOI-2431 b

Sebastian Zieba, Billy Edwards, Samuel N. Quinn +18

We present an HST/WFC3 G141 phase-curve observation of the ultra-short-period rocky planet TOI-2431 b and detect its secondary eclipse in the near infrared. Combined with the TESS…

astro-ph.EP2026

Rescuing Kepler's False Positives: A Possible Habitable Zone Exoplanet in the Triple Star System KOI-1623

Rita Lanxuan Wang, Daniel Huber, Daniel Hey +6

The Kepler mission has significantly advanced our understanding of exoplanet demographics. However, Kepler planet candidates showing centroid shifts are often classified as false-p…

astro-ph.EP2026

Assessing the Impact of High-Resolution Imaging on Statistical Validation of TESS Planet Candidates

Michael Collier, Steven Giacalone, Brian Derfer +38

High-resolution imaging is widely used to constrain false-positive scenarios in exoplanet validation, but it is a finite follow-up resource that reaches only a subset of candidates…

astro-ph.EP2026

Stellar Obliquities of Young Systems, Atmospheres Undergoing Contraction and Escape (SOYSAUCE) II: a 135 Myr planet on an aligned orbit with transit timing variations

Madyson G. Barber, Andrew W. Mann, Sydney Vach +16

Young planets (<1 Gyr) provide opportunities to directly probe planet formation and evolution processes in action. However, due to heightened stellar activity, there is a lack of k…

astro-ph.GA2026

SPYGLASS. VII-B. Tracing the Fragments of Massive Star Formation Using Low-Mass Associations

Ronan Kerr, Adam L. Kraus, Jonathan C. Tan +6

New observations from the Gaia spacecraft have traced an emerging demographic of low-mass associations disconnected from larger associations or GMCs. The first of these association…

astro-ph.SR2026

The Herculis system solved after nearly three centuries

Marcus L. Marcussen, Mikkel N. Lund, Frank Grundahl +11

Herculis is a bright, nearby quadruple system. Its brightest member, Her Aa, displays solar-like oscillations, establishing the system as a crucial benchmark for asteroseis…

astro-ph.EP2026

Determining the Host Stars of Planets in Binary Star Systems with Asterodensity Profiling: Investigating the Canonical Radius Gap

Nathanael Burns-Watson, Kendall Sullivan, Adam Kraus

Over the past 30 years, thousands of exoplanets have been discovered, revealing detailed demographics of planets outside the Solar System. One of the most dramatic features of the…

astro-ph.EP2026

TESS Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets (THYME) XIV: A Comoving-Based Age Constraint for KELT-20

Adam Distler, Melinda Soares-Furtado, Andrew W. Mann +9

Young stellar moving groups offer unique opportunities to investigate the early evolution of stellar and planetary systems. In continuation of an ongoing effort to age-date compell…

astro-ph.SR2025

SPYGLASS. VII-A. The Demographics and Ages of Small Nearby Young Associations

Ronan Kerr, Facundo Peŕez Paolino, Jonathan C. Tan +5

Recent Gaia-based young stellar association surveys have revealed dozens of low-mass populations that have, until recently, been too small or sparse to detect. These populations re…

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

THYME XIII: Two young Neptunes orbiting a 75-Myr star in the Alpha Persei Cluster

Anne Dattilo, Andrew M. Vanderburg, Madyson G. Barber +28

Young planets with mass measurements are particularly valuable in studying atmospheric mass-loss processes, but these planets are rare and their masses difficult to measure due to…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 3 cited

Dynamical Architectures of S-type Transiting Planets in Binaries II: A Dichotomy in Orbital Alignment of Small Planets in Close Binary Systems

Jingwen Zhang, Daniel Huber, Michael Bottom +35

Stellar multiplicity plays a crucial role in shaping planet formation and dynamical evolution. We present a survey of 54 TESS Objects of Interest (TOIs) within 300 pc that exhibit…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 1 cited

Coordinated Space and Ground-Based Monitoring of Accretion Bursts in a Protoplanetary Disk: Establishing Mid-Infrared Hydrogen Lines as Accretion Diagnostics for JWST-MIRI

Benjamin M. Tofflemire, Carlo F. Manara, Andrea Banzatti +17

In this paper, we establish and calibrate mid-infrared hydrogen recombination lines observed with JWST as accretion tracers for pre-main-sequence stars that accrete from circumstel…

astro-ph.GA2025

SPYGLASS. VI. Feedback-Driven Star Formation in the Circinus Complex

Ronan Kerr, Juan P. Farias, Lisa Prato +3

Young associations provide a record that traces the star formation process, and the youngest populations connect progenitor gas dynamics to the resulting stellar populations. We th…

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.SR2024

Sites of Planet Formation in Binary Systems. II. Double the Disks in DF Tau

Taylor Kutra, Lisa Prato, Benjamin M Tofflemire +8

This article presents the latest results of our ALMA program to study circumstellar disk characteristics as a function of orbital and stellar properties in a sample of young binary…

astro-ph.IM2024

Quantifying the Contamination From Nearby Stellar Companions in Gaia DR3 Photometry

Kendall Sullivan, Adam L. Kraus, Travis A. Berger +1

Identifying and removing binary stars from stellar samples is a crucial but complicated task. Regardless of how carefully a sample is selected, some binaries will remain and compli…

astro-ph.EP2024

TESS Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets (THYME) XII: A Young Mini-Neptune on the Upper Edge of the Radius Valley in the Hyades Cluster

Adam Distler, Melinda Soares-Furtado, Andrew Vanderburg +18

We present the discovery and characterization of TOI-4364\,b, a young mini-Neptune in the tidal tails of the Hyades cluster, identified through TESS transit observations and ground…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 3 cited

The Featherweight Giant: Unraveling the Atmosphere of a 17 Myr Planet with JWST

Pa Chia Thao, Andrew W. Mann, Adina D. Feinstein +29

The characterization of young planets (< 300 Myr) is pivotal for understanding planet formation and evolution. We present the 3-5m transmission spectrum of the 17 Myr, Jupiter-s…

astro-ph.EP2024

Orbital Architectures of Planet-Hosting Binaries III. Testing Mutual Inclinations of Stellar and Planetary Orbits in Triple-Star Systems

Elise L. Evans, Trent J. Dupuy, Kendall Sullivan +7

Transiting planets in multiple-star systems, especially high-order multiples, make up a small fraction of the known planet population but provide unique opportunities to study the…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 25 cited

TESS Investigation -- Demographics of Young Exoplanets (TI-DYE) II: a second giant planet in the 17-Myr system HIP 67522

Madyson G. Barber, Pa Chia Thao, Andrew W. Mann +13

The youngest (50 Myr) planets are vital to understand planet formation and early evolution. The 17 Myr system HIP 67522 is already known to host a giant (10) p…