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20052023
most citedLas Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network

1.2k citations · 26.3k across the 277 of their papers we have counts for

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278 papers

astro-ph.EP2023★ 37 cited

A super-massive Neptune-sized planet

L. Naponiello, L. Mancini, A. Sozzetti +55

Neptune-sized planets exhibit a wide range of compositions and densities, depending onf cators related to their formation and evolution history, such as the distance from their hos…

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★ 16 cited

A massive hot Jupiter orbiting a metal-rich early-M star discovered in the TESS full frame images

Tianjun Gan, Charles Cadieux, Farbod Jahandar +41

Observations and statistical studies have shown that giant planets are rare around M dwarfs compared with Sun-like stars. The formation mechanism of these extreme systems remains u…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 4 cited

A Transiting Super-Earth in the Radius Valley and An Outer Planet Candidate Around HD 307842

Xinyan Hua, Sharon Xuesong Wang, Johanna K. Teske +32

We report the confirmation of a TESS-discovered transiting super-Earth planet orbiting a mid-G star, HD 307842 (TOI-784). The planet has a period of 2.8 days, and the radial veloci…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 21 cited

TOI-1859b: A 64-Day Warm Jupiter on an Eccentric and Misaligned Orbit

Jiayin Dong, Songhu Wang, Malena Rice +31

Warm Jupiters are close-in giant planets with relatively large planet-star separations (i.e., ). Given their weak tidal interactions with their host stars, meas…

astro-ph.EP2023

LHS 475 b: A Venus-sized Planet Orbiting a Nearby M Dwarf

Kristo Ment, David Charbonneau, Jonathan Irwin +10

Based on photometric observations by TESS, we present the discovery of a Venus-sized planet transiting LHS 475, an M3 dwarf located 12.5 pc from the Sun. The mass of the star is $0…