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most citedThe Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite

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astro-ph.EP2026

Worlds Next Door. V. A Candidate Solar System Scale Super-Jupiter in the 61 Cygni Binary System

Aniket Sanghi, Billy Quarles, Andrea S. J. Lin +16

We present new constraints on a candidate third companion in the 61 Cygni binary system-one of the closest neighbors to our solar system (3.5 pc), the first stars to have a measure…

astro-ph.EP2026

Kepler-50: Two Planets in Close Resonance Perturbed by a Non-transiting Planet

Daniel Jontof-Hutter, Jason F. Rowe, Jack J. Lissauer +1

Kepler-50 has two transiting planets close to the 6:5 commensurability. We analyze transit times measured from Kepler data with dynamical fits. We attribute the residual signal to…

astro-ph.EP2026

A Pair of Warm Saturn-mass Planets near the 2:1 Mean Motion Resonance around TOI-3850

Sean Collins, Michelle Kunimoto, Nicolas B. Cowan +24

Warm Jupiters, with orbital periods of -- and radii exceeding , are a relatively understudied class of exoplanets occupying the parameter space bet…

astro-ph.EP2026

The GAPS programme at TNG: LXXVI. TOI-1533: a compact system hosting a super-Neptune-mass pair with disparate radii

G. Mantovan, V. Nascimbeni, S. Desidera +49

The present-day architecture of planetary systems contains information about their formation and migration histories. The origin of hot Jupiters (HJs, P 10 d, $R_{\rm p}…

astro-ph.EP2026

GJ 523b is a Massive, 170 Myr-old Mega-Earth, Likely on a Polar Orbit

Maxwell A. Kroft, Thomas G. Beatty, Joseph M. Salzer +18

We use WIYN/NEID radial velocity measurements to confirm the planetary nature and measure the mass of the TESS transiting exoplanet candidate around the mid-K dwarf GJ 523 ($V=9.23…

astro-ph.EP2026

A Warm Massive Pair of Planets around TOI-1232 Revealed with Transit-timing Variations and Doppler Spectroscopy

Deyan P. Mihaylov, Jan Eberhardt, Trifon Trifonov +32

TOI-1232 is a G-dwarf star with a mass of , a radius of , and slightly higher metallicity than solar of Fe/H = .…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 1 cited

Orbital stability of compact three-planet systems III. The role of three-body resonances

Sacha Gavino, Jack J. Lissauer

Observational surveys show that at least ~ 30% of short-period multiplanetary systems host tightly packed planets, some of which are locked in stable chains of mean-motion resonanc…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 1 cited

LEO-Vetter: Fully Automated Flux- and Pixel-Level Vetting of TESS Planet Candidates to Support Occurrence Rates

Michelle Kunimoto, Steve Bryson, Drayson Jaffee +7

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has identified several thousand planet candidates orbiting a wide variety of stars, and has provided an exciting opportunity for de…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 9 cited

Worlds Next Door: A Candidate Giant Planet Imaged in the Habitable Zone of Cen A. I. Observations, Orbital and Physical Properties, and Exozodi Upper Limits

Charles Beichman, Aniket Sanghi, Dimitri Mawet +27

We report on coronagraphic observations of the nearest solar-type star, Cen A, using the MIRI instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope. With three epochs of observation (Au…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 6 cited

The Hot-Neptune Initiative (HONEI) I. Two hot sub-Neptunes on a close-in, eccentric orbit (TOI-5800 b) and a farther-out, circular orbit (TOI-5817 b)

L. Naponiello, S. Vissapragada, A. S. Bonomo +37

Neptune-sized exoplanets are key targets for atmospheric studies, yet their formation and evolution remain poorly understood due to their diverse characteristics and limited sample…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 2 cited

A Pair of Dynamically Interacting Sub-Neptunes Around TOI-6054

Maxwell A. Kroft, Thomas G. Beatty, Ian J. M. Crossfield +31

We confirm the planetary nature of a pair of transiting sub-Neptune exoplanets orbiting the bright F-type sub-giant star TOI-6054 (, ) as a part of the OrCAS radia…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 10 cited

TOI-4504: Exceptionally large Transit Timing Variations induced by two resonant warm gas giants in a three planet system

Michaela Vítková, Rafael Brahm, Trifon Trifonov +24

We present a joint analysis of TTVs and Doppler data for the transiting exoplanet system TOI-4504. TOI-4504 c is a warm Jupiter-mass planet that exhibits the largest known transit…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 1 cited

GJ 238 b: A 0.57 Earth Radius Planet Orbiting an M2.5 Dwarf Star at 15.2 pc

Evan Tey, Avi Shporer, Zifan Lin +30

We report the discovery of the transiting planet GJ 238 b, with a radius of R ( times the radius of Mars) and an orbital period of 1.74 da…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 12 cited

Origin of Mars's moons by disruptive partial capture of an asteroid

Jacob A. Kegerreis, Jack J. Lissauer, Vincent R. Eke +2

The origin of Mars's small moons, Phobos and Deimos, remains unknown. They are typically thought either to be captured asteroids or to have accreted from a debris disk produced by…

astro-ph.EP2024

The TESS-Keck Survey. XII. A Dense 1.8 R Ultra-Short-Period Planet Possibly Clinging to a High-Mean-Molecular-Weight Atmosphere After the First Gyr

Ryan A. Rubenzahl, Fei Dai, Andrew W. Howard +39

The extreme environments of ultra-short-period planets (USPs) make excellent laboratories to study how exoplanets obtain, lose, retain, and/or regain gaseous atmospheres. We presen…

astro-ph.EP2024

Discovery of two warm mini-Neptunes with contrasting densities orbiting the young K3V star TOI-815

Angelica Psaridi, Hugh Osborn, François Bouchy +130

We present the discovery and characterization of two warm mini-Neptunes transiting the K3V star TOI-815 in a K-M binary system. Analysis of the spectra and rotation period reveal i…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 5 cited

Gaussian Processes and Nested Sampling Applied to Kepler's Small Long-period Exoplanet Candidates

Michael R. B. Matesic, Jason F. Rowe, John H. Livingston +3

There are more than 5000 confirmed and validated planets beyond the solar system to date, more than half of which were discovered by NASA's Kepler mission. The catalog of Kepler's…

astro-ph.EP2024

A long-period transiting substellar companion in the super-Jupiters to brown dwarfs mass regime and a prototypical warm-Jupiter detected by TESS

Matias I. Jones, Yared Reinarz, Rafael Brahm +48

We report on the confirmation and follow-up characterization of two long-period transiting substellar companions on low-eccentricity orbits around TIC 4672985 and TOI-2529, whose t…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 6 cited

Exoplanet Science From {\it Kepler}

Jack J. Lissauer, Natalie M. Batalha, William J. Borucki

The Kepler spacecraft, whose single instrument was a 0.95 m diameter wide-field telescope, operated in a heliocentric orbit for nearly a decade, returning a wealth of data that hav…

astro-ph.EP2023

VaTEST III: Validation of 8 Potential Super-Earths from TESS Data

Priyashkumar Mistry, Aniket Prasad, Mousam Maity +29

NASA's all-sky survey mission, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), is specifically engineered to detect exoplanets that transit bright stars. Thus far, TESS has succe…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 17 cited

Updated Catalog of Kepler Planet Candidates: Focus on Accuracy and Orbital Periods

Jack J. Lissauer, Jason F. Rowe, Daniel Jontof-Hutter +5

We present a new catalog of Kepler planet candidates that prioritizes accuracy of planetary dispositions and properties over uniformity. This catalog contains 4376 transiting plane…

astro-ph.EP2023

TOI-5126: A hot super-Neptune and warm Neptune pair discovered by and

Tyler R. Fairnington, Emma Nabbie, Chelsea X. Huang +33

We present the confirmation of a hot super-Neptune with an exterior Neptune companion orbiting a bright (V = 10.1 mag) F-dwarf identified by the $\textit{Transiting Exoplanet Surve…

astro-ph.EP2023

TOI-199 b: A well-characterized 100-day transiting warm giant planet with TTVs seen from Antarctica

Melissa J. Hobson, Trifon Trifonov, Thomas Henning +49

We present the spectroscopic confirmation and precise mass measurement of the warm giant planet TOI-199 b. This planet was first identified in TESS photometry and confirmed using g…

astro-ph.EP2023

TESS Spots a Super-Puff: The Remarkably Low Density of TOI-1420b

Stephanie Yoshida, Shreyas Vissapragada, David W. Latham +51

We present the discovery of TOI-1420b, an exceptionally low-density ( g cm) transiting planet in a day orbit around a late G dwarf star. Using tra…