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most citedTESS Giants Transiting Giants. VI. Newly Discovered Hot Jupiters Provide Evidence for Efficient Obliquity Damping after the Main Sequence

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astro-ph.EP2026

LSST and Keck characterization of outer Main Belt comet P/2026 N2

Bryce Bolin, Leo Alcorn, Max Brodheim +5

We characterize comet P/2026 N2, whose outer Main Belt orbit has au, , and , using optical observations, archival imaging, and dynamical integrations…

astro-ph.IM2026

Validating the SCALES DRP: A Performance Study of the Medium-Resolution IFS Mode

Athira Unni, Steph Sallum, Max Brodheim +11

We present a performance verification of the medium-resolution integral field spectrograph (IFS) mode of the SCALES Data Reduction Pipeline (SCALES-DRP) using data obtained during…

astro-ph.IM2026

An open-source data processing pipeline for Keck / NIRC2-Polarimetry

Briley L. Lewis, Maxwell A. Millar-Blanchaer, Rebecca Zhang +3

The Keck/NIRC2 infrared imager was recently upgraded with a new suite of polarimetric observing modes. This polarimetry upgrade (referred to as NIRC2-Pol) will open up a wide range…

astro-ph.IM2025

SCALES-DRP : A Data Reduction Pipeline for an Upcoming Keck Thermal Infrared Spectrograph

Athira Unni, Steph Sallum, Peyton Benac +5

We present the end-to-end data reduction pipeline for SCALES (Slicer Combined with Array of Lenslets for Exoplanet Spectroscopy), the upcoming thermal-infrared, diffraction-limited…

astro-ph.SR2025

Discovery of the pre-main-sequence eclipsing binary MML 48

Y. Gómez Maqueo Chew, L. Hebb, H. C. Stempels +12

We present the discovery of the eclipsing binary MML 48, which is a member of Upper Centaurus Lupus, has an associated age of 16 Myr, and is composed of two young, low-mass stars.…

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.IM2024

Robust support for semi-automated reductions of Keck/NIRSPEC data using PypeIt

Adolfo S. Carvalho, Greg Doppmann, Kyle B. Westfall +7

We present a data reduction pipeline (DRP) for Keck/NIRSPEC built as an addition to the PypeIt Python package. The DRP is capable of reducing multi-order echelle data taken both be…

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…

astro-ph.EP2024

The HD 191939 Exoplanet System is Well-Aligned and Flat

Jack Lubin, Erik A. Petigura, Judah Van Zandt +25

We report the sky-projected spin-orbit angle for HD 191939 b, the innermost planet in a 6 planet system, using Keck/KPF to detect the Rossiter-McLaughlin (RM) effect. Planet b…

astro-ph.SR2024

Asteroseismology of the Nearby K-Dwarf Draconis using the Keck Planet Finder and TESS

Marc Hon, Daniel Huber, Yaguang Li +76

Asteroseismology of dwarf stars cooler than the Sun is very challenging due to the low amplitudes and rapid timescales of oscillations. Here, we present the asteroseismic detection…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 13 cited

TESS Giants Transiting Giants. VI. Newly Discovered Hot Jupiters Provide Evidence for Efficient Obliquity Damping after the Main Sequence

Nicholas Saunders, Samuel K. Grunblatt, Ashley Chontos +53

The degree of alignment between a star's spin axis and the orbital plane of its planets (the stellar obliquity) is related to interesting and poorly understood processes that occur…

astro-ph.EP2024

KPF Confirms a Polar Orbit for KELT-18 b

Ryan A. Rubenzahl, Fei Dai, Samuel Halverson +24

We present the first spectroscopic transit results from the newly commissioned Keck Planet Finder on the Keck-I telescope at W. M. Keck Observatory. We observed a transit of KELT-1…

astro-ph.EP2024

Obliquity Constraints for the Extremely Eccentric Sub-Saturn Kepler-1656 b

Ryan A. Rubenzahl, Andrew W. Howard, Samuel Halverson +25

The orbits of close-in exoplanets provide clues to their formation and evolutionary history. Many close-in exoplanets likely formed far out in their protoplanetary disks and migrat…

astro-ph.EP2024

An Earth-sized Planet on the Verge of Tidal Disruption

Fei Dai, Andrew W. Howard, Samuel Halverson +95

TOI-6255~b (GJ 4256) is an Earth-sized planet (1.079 ) with an orbital period of only 5.7 hours. With the newly commissioned Keck Planet Finder (KPF) and CARMEN…

astro-ph.EP2024

A Testbed for Tidal Migration: the 3D Architecture of an Eccentric Hot Jupiter HD 118203 b Accompanied by a Possibly Aligned Outer Giant Planet

Jingwen Zhang, Daniel Huber, Lauren M. Weiss +31

Characterizing outer companions to hot Jupiters plays a crucial role in deciphering their origins. We present the discovery of a long-period giant planet, HD 118203 c ($m_{c}=11.79…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 13 cited

The OATMEAL Survey. I. Low Stellar Obliquity in the Transiting Brown Dwarf System GPX-1

Steven Giacalone, Fei Dai, J. J. Zanazzi +31

We introduce the OATMEAL survey, an effort to measure the obliquities of stars with transiting brown dwarf companions. We observed a transit of the close-in ($P_{\rm orb} = 1.74 \,…