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astro-ph.EP2026

NGTS clusters survey - VII. An Enigmatic Short-Period Circumsecondary Disk Candidate in Orion

Niamh Mallaghan, Ernst J. W. de Mooij, Christopher A. Watson +31

Young stellar systems provide key insights into the processes governing star/planet formation, often exhibiting complex and evolving photometric variability. In this paper, we pres…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 1 cited

Unraveling the Brown Dwarf Desert: Four New Discoveries and a Unifying, Period-Coded Picture

Ján Šubjak, Rafael Brahm, Jozef Lipták +30

We present four newly validated transiting brown dwarfs identified through TESS photometry and confirmed with high-precision radial velocity measurements obtained from the FEROS an…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 2 cited

TIC-65910228 b / NGTS-38 b, a 180 day transiting warm super-Jupiter

Toby Rodel, Solène Ulmer-Moll, Samuel Gill +63

We present the discovery of TIC-65910228 b / NGTS-38 b, a giant exoplanet with a radius of R and a mass of M on a long-…

astro-ph.EP2025

A 43 day transiting Neptune and two 25 day Saturns from TESS, NGTS and ASTEP

Alicia Kendall, Solène Ulmer-Moll, Samuel Gill +53

Beyond orbital periods of 10 days, there is a dearth of known transiting gas giants. On longer orbits, planets are less affected by their host star, and become ideal probes of plan…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 1 cited

Disc fragmentation. I. Ejection of Jupiter-mass Free Floating Planets from growing binary systems

Aleksandra Ćalović, Sergei Nayakshin, Sarah Casewell +1

Over the past 25 years, observations have uncovered a large population of free-floating planets (FFPs), whose origins remain debated. Massive FFPs (several Jupiter masses or more)…

astro-ph.EP2025

TOI-333b: A Neptune Desert planet around a F7V star

Douglas R. Alves, James S. Jenkins, José I. Vinés +29

Observations have shown that planets similar to Neptune are rarely found orbiting Sun-like stars with periods up to ~4 days, defining the so-called Neptune desert region. Therefore…

astro-ph.EP2025

NGTS-11 c: a transiting Neptune-mass planet interior to the warm Saturn NGTS-11 b

David R. Anderson, Jose I. Vines, Katharine Hesse +56

We report the discovery of NGTS-11 c, a transiting warm Neptune ( d; ; ), in an…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 3 cited

MANGOS II: Five new giant planets orbiting low-mass stars

G. Dransfield, M. Timmermans, D. Sebastian +47

Giant planets orbiting low-mass stars on short orbits present a conundrum, as in the most extreme cases their existence cannot be reconciled with current models of core accretion.…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 12 cited

Silicate Precursor Silane detected in Cold Low-Metallicity Brown Dwarf

Jacqueline K. Faherty, Aaron M. Meisner, Ben Burningham +28

Within 20 pc of the Sun there are currently 29 known cold brown dwarfs, sources with measured distances and an estimated effective temperature between that of Jupiter (170K) and ~5…

astro-ph.EP2025

TOI-2155 b: A Massive Brown Dwarf or a Very Low-Mass Star?

Md Redyan Ahmed, Tansu Daylan, Theron W. Carmichael +14

We present TOI-2155\,b, a massive transiting companion, discovered using data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission and confirmed with ground-based RV me…

astro-ph.EP2025

Characterizing the Dynamics and Chemistry of Transiting Exoplanets with the Habitable World Observatory

Hannah R. Wakeford, Laura C. Mayorga, Joanna K. Barstow +7

The primary scientific objective of this Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) Science Case Development Document (SCDD) is to measure planetary rotation rates of transiting exoplanets…

astro-ph.EP2024

NGTS-33b: A Young Super-Jupiter Hosted by a Fast Rotating Massive Hot Star

Douglas R. Alves, James S. Jenkins, Jose I. Vines +22

In the last few decades planet search surveys have been focusing on solar type stars, and only recently the high-mass regimes. This is mostly due to challenges arising from the lac…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 10 cited

The First Spin-Orbit Obliquity of an M dwarf/brown dwarf System: An eccentric and aligned TOI-2119 b

Lauren Doyle, Caleb I. Cañas, Jessica E. Libby-Roberts +15

We report the first instance of an M dwarf/brown dwarf obliquity measurement for the TOI-2119 system using the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect. TOI-2119 b is a transiting brown dwarf or…

astro-ph.EP2024

TOI-2490b- The most eccentric brown dwarf transiting in the brown dwarf desert

Beth A. Henderson, Sarah L. Casewell, Andrés Jordán +40

We report the discovery of the most eccentric transiting brown dwarf in the brown dwarf desert, TOI02490b. The brown dwarf desert is the lack of brown dwarfs around main sequence s…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 96 cited

Sulphur dioxide in the mid-infrared transmission spectrum of WASP-39b

Diana Powell, Adina D. Feinstein, Elspeth K. H. Lee +70

The recent inference of sulphur dioxide (SO) in the atmosphere of the hot (1100 K), Saturn-mass exoplanet WASP-39b from near-infrared JWST observations suggests that phot…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 10 cited

Photo-dynamical characterisation of the TOI-178 resonant chain

A. Leleu, J. -B. Delisle, L. Delrez +104

The TOI-178 system consists of a nearby late K-dwarf transited by six planets in the super-Earth to mini-Neptune regime, with radii ranging from 1.2 to 2.9 earth radius and orbital…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 17 cited

Euclid: Early Release Observations -- A glance at free-floating new-born planets in the sigma Orionis cluster

E. L. Martín, M. {Ž}erjal, H. Bouy +175

We provide an early assessment of the imaging capabilities of the Euclid space mission to probe deeply into nearby star-forming regions and associated very young open clusters, and…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 1 cited

TOI-2447 b / NGTS-29 b: a 69-day Saturn around a Solar analogue

Samuel Gill, Daniel Bayliss, Solène Ulmer-Moll +63

Discovering transiting exoplanets with relatively long orbital periods (10 days) is crucial to facilitate the study of cool exoplanet atmospheres () and to u…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 2 cited

Planet Hunters NGTS: New Planet Candidates from a Citizen Science Search of the Next Generation Transit Survey Public Data

Sean M. O'Brien, Megan E. Schwamb, Samuel Gill +35

We present the results from the first two years of the Planet Hunters NGTS citizen science project, which searches for transiting planet candidates in data from the Next Generation…

astro-ph.EP2024

Time-resolved Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Camera 3 Spectrophotometry Reveals Inefficient Day-to-Night Heat Redistribution in the Highly Irradiated Brown Dwarf SDSS 1557B

Rachael C. Amaro, Daniel Apai, Ben W. P. Lew +8

Brown dwarfs in ultra-short period orbits around white dwarfs offer a unique opportunity to study the properties of tidally-locked, fast rotating (1-3 hr), and highly-irradiated at…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 1 cited

NGTS-30 b/TOI-4862 b: An 1 Gyr old 98-day transiting warm Jupiter

M. P. Battley, K. A. Collins, S. Ulmer-Moll +63

Long-period transiting exoplanets bridge the gap between the bulk of transit- and Doppler-based exoplanet discoveries, providing key insights into the formation and evolution of pl…

astro-ph.EP2024

NGTS-28Ab: A short period transiting brown dwarf

Beth A. Henderson, Sarah L. Casewell, Michael R. Goad +43

We report the discovery of a brown dwarf orbiting a M1 host star. We first identified the brown dwarf within the Next Generation Transit Survey data, with supporting observations f…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 5 cited

Nightside clouds and disequilibrium chemistry on the hot Jupiter WASP-43b

Taylor J. Bell, Nicolas Crouzet, Patricio E. Cubillos +80

Hot Jupiters are among the best-studied exoplanets, but it is still poorly understood how their chemical composition and cloud properties vary with longitude. Theoretical models pr…

astro-ph.EP2023

WD0141-675: A case study on how to follow-up astrometric planet candidates around white dwarfs

Laura K. Rogers, John Debes, Richard J. Anslow +22

This work combines spectroscopic and photometric data of the polluted white dwarf WD0141-675 which has a now retracted astrometric super-Jupiter candidate and investigates the most…