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most citedSearching for Giant Exoplanets around M-dwarf Stars (GEMS) I: Survey Motivation

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astro-ph.EP2026

A Headwind-like Helium Outflow from TOI-3884b

Joe P. Ninan, Jessica Libby-Roberts, Suvrath Mahadevan +19

Constraining atmospheric loss is crucial for understanding the evolution of planetary atmospheres. We report the detection of an evaporating exosphere from TOI-3884b, a super-Neptu…

astro-ph.EP2026

GEMS JWST: Hold on to your HATS(-6 b), a sub-solar metallicity giant planet with water, methane and ammonia in its atmosphere

Giannina Guzmán Caloca, Caleb I. Cañas, Nicole L. Wallack +16

HATS-6 b is one of several recently discovered Giant Exoplanets orbiting M-dwarf Stars (GEMS) and is part of a JWST survey that aims to compare bulk and atmospheric properties of t…

astro-ph.IM2026

Fabrication of focusing optics for TA-MOONS: Micro-MOONS

Ceiwynn Longworth, Megan Delamer, Suvrath Mahadevan +3

Understanding star and planet formation requires optical to near-infrared spectroscopic observations of a large number of young stellar objects. The TIFR-ARIES Multi-Object Optical…

astro-ph.EP2026

GEMS JWST: HATS-75 b -- A giant planet with a sub-solar metallicity atmosphere orbiting an M-dwarf

Reza Ashtari, Jacob Lustig-Yaeger, Jessica Libby-Roberts +12

HATS-75 b is one of the recently discovered Giant Exoplanets orbiting M-dwarf Stars (GEMS) with a transmission spectrum shaped by both its atmosphere and the active stellar surface…

astro-ph.EP2026

GEMS JWST: A sub-Solar metallicity atmosphere for giant planet TOI-5293Ab orbiting a rapidly changing M-dwarf

Shubham Kanodia, Caleb I. Cañas, Jacob Lustig-Yaeger +13

The growing sample of Giant Exoplanets around M-dwarf Stars (GEMS) helps probe the extremes of giant planet formation. Comparing the properties of this sample with their FGK counte…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 1 cited

A Panchromatic JWST Spectrum of a Giant Starspot on the Fully Convective M-dwarf TOI-3884

C. A. Murray, L. Garcia, B. V. Rackham +18

TOI-3884 b is a rare super-Neptune transiting a fully convective M dwarf that hosts a persistent giant polar spot. Because the planet occults this active region during every transi…

astro-ph.IM2026

Star Grazing with Alumina Grass: Antireflection coatings in the visible and near-infrared on IPX-Clear Microlenses assisted by Grass-like Alumina

Ishan Rana, Suvrath Mahadevan, Megan Delamer +1

Two-photon polymerization (2PP) enables fabrication of high-precision micro-optics with complex freeform geometries, opening a new parameter space for custom astronomical optics. A…

astro-ph.SR2025

Hipparcos, Gaia, and RVs reveal that the radio emitting F star HD 220242 has an M dwarf companion, a likely source of the radio emission

Megan Delamer, Guðmundur Stefánsson, Suvrath Mahadevan +18

The detection of circularly polarized, low frequency radio emission offers the tantalizing possibility of the observation of interactions between stars and their possible substella…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 2 cited

Discovery of a Nearby Habitable Zone Super-Earth Candidate Amenable to Direct Imaging

Corey Beard, Paul Robertson, Jack Lubin +31

We present the discovery of GJ 251 c, a candidate super-Earth orbiting in the Habitable Zone (HZ) of its M dwarf host star. Using high-precision Habitable-zone Planet Finder (HPF)…

astro-ph.IM2025

POKEMON: print optimization for kilo-fiber experiments using micro-optics and nanostructures

Megan Delamer, Suvrath Mahadevan, Chad Bender +7

The most pressing problems in modern astrophysics have often required the largest telescopes. With the cost scaling of mirror diameters, the field as a whole is faced with a challe…

astro-ph.EP2025

Spectroscopic Characterization of LOFAR Radio-emitting M dwarfs

E. Koo, G. Stefansson, R. D. Kavanagh +20

Recent observations with the LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR) have revealed 19 nearby M dwarfs showing bright circularly polarised radio emission. One of the possible sources of such em…

astro-ph.EP2025

Searching for GEMS: Confirmation of TOI-5573b, a Cool, Saturn-like Planet Orbiting An M-dwarf

Rachel B Fernandes, Shubham Kanodia, Megan Delamer +35

We present the confirmation of TOI-5573b, a Saturn-sized exoplanet on an 8.79-day orbit around an early M-dwarf (3790 K, 0.59 R, 0.61 M, 12.30 J mag). TOI-5573b has a…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 6 cited

GEMS JWST: Transmission spectroscopy of TOI-5205b reveals significant stellar contamination and a metal-poor atmosphere

Caleb I. Cañas, Jacob Lustig-Yaeger, Shang-Min Tsai +21

Recent discoveries of transiting giant exoplanets () around M dwarfs (GEMS) present an opportunity to investigate their atmospheric compositions and…

astro-ph.IM2025

Million Points of Light (MPoL): a PyTorch library for radio interferometric imaging and inference

Ian Czekala, Jeff Jennings, Brianna Zawadzki +9

Astronomical radio interferometers achieve exquisite angular resolution by cross-correlating signal from a cosmic source simultaneously observed by distant pairs of radio telescope…

astro-ph.EP2024

Searching for GEMS: Two Super-Jupiters around M-dwarfs -- Signatures of Instability or Accretion?

Andrew Hotnisky, Shubham Kanodia, Jessica Libby-Roberts +20

We present the discovery of TOI-6303b and TOI-6330b, two massive transiting super-Jupiters orbiting a M0 and a M2 star respectively, as part of the Searching for GEMS survey. These…

astro-ph.EP2024

Gaia-4b and 5b: Radial Velocity Confirmation of Gaia Astrometric Orbital Solutions Reveal a Massive Planet and a Brown Dwarf Orbiting Low-mass Stars

Gudmundur Stefansson, Suvrath Mahadevan, Joshua Winn +31

Gaia astrometry of nearby stars is precise enough to detect the tiny displacements induced by substellar companions, but radial velocity data are needed for definitive confirmation…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 29 cited

Searching for Giant Exoplanets around M-dwarf Stars (GEMS) I: Survey Motivation

Shubham Kanodia, Caleb I. Cañas, Suvrath Mahadevan +13

Recent discoveries of transiting giant exoplanets around M-dwarf stars (GEMS), aided by the all-sky coverage of TESS, are starting to stretch theories of planet formation through t…

astro-ph.SR2023

Astrometry and Precise Radial Velocities Yield a Complete Orbital Solution for the Nearby Eccentric Brown Dwarf LHS 1610 b

Evan Fitzmaurice, Gudmundur Stefánsson, Robert D. Kavanagh +18

The LHS 1610 system consists of a nearby ( pc) M5 dwarf hosting a candidate brown dwarf companion in a day, eccentric () orbit. We confirm this brown dwa…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 1 cited

TOI-4201: An Early M-dwarf Hosting a Massive Transiting Jupiter Stretching Theories of Core-Accretion

Megan Delamer, Shubham Kanodia, Caleb I. Cañas +24

We confirm TOI-4201 b as a transiting Jovian mass planet orbiting an early M dwarf discovered by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. Using ground based photometry and precis…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 1 cited

An extreme test case for planet formation: a close-in Neptune orbiting an ultracool star

Gudmundur Stefansson, Suvrath Mahadevan, Yamila Miguel +27

In current theories of planet formation, close-orbiting planets as massive as Neptune are expected to be very rare around low-mass stars. We report the discovery of a Neptune-mass…