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20242026
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51 papers

astro-ph.SR2026

Spectroscopic follow-up of compact object binary candidates from Gaia DR3: White dwarfs, neutron stars, black holes, and the parallax zeropoint

Kareem El-Badry, David W. Latham, Hans-Walter Rix +12

Astrometry and radial velocities (RVs) from Gaia DR3 yielded orbits for hundreds of thousands of binary systems, including several samples proposed to contain black holes (BHs), ne…

astro-ph.EP2026

HIP 61637 b: a TESS Brown Dwarf in a Near-circular Orbit around a Massive A-type Star

Nino Ephremidze, David W. Latham, Perry Berlind +8

We present the characterization of HIP 61637 b (TOI-5401 b), a brown dwarf discovered by TESS to transit an A-type star. HIP 61637 is the most massive and the brightest star known…

astro-ph.EP2026

CAFE follow-up of TESS hot Jupiter candidates left behind: I. Five newly confirmed planets and a false positive

J. Lillo-Box, C. Cifuentes, O. Balsalobre-Ruza +56

Hot Jupiters are key targets for understanding planet formation, migration, and atmospheres. Yet, most ground-based follow-up resources for the TESS mission are focused on confirmi…

astro-ph.EP2026

The Occurrence Rate of Nearby Planetary Companions to Hot Jupiters

Lizhou Sha, Andrew M. Vanderburg, Chelsea X. Huang +33

The paper measures how often hot Jupiters have nearby transiting companion planets using TESS data, finding an occurrence rate of about 8%, which informs theories of hot‑Jupiter fo…

astro-ph.EP2026

NGTS-39 b: A 58 d transiting warm Jupiter in an eccentric orbit

Ioannis Apergis, Daniel Bayliss, Solène Ulmer-Moll +53

We report the discovery and characterisation of NGTS-39 b (TIC 453147896 b), a warm Jupiter transiting a Sun-like star on a 58.2 day, eccentric (e = 0.386 +/- 0.019) orbit. NGTS-39…

astro-ph.EP2026

TOI-6884b: A low-mass brown dwarf transiting a slightly evolved star

Akanksha Khandelwal, Shubhendra Nath Das, Rishikesh Sharma +42

We report the discovery of a low-mass transiting brown dwarf orbiting TOI-6884 (TIC~156514476, ) from NASA's \textit{Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite} (\text…