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SOPHIE and TESS characterization of fourteen TESS Objects of Interest: nine planetary systems and five low-mass stellar companions
N. Heidari, G. Hébrard, S. Sousa +61
We present fourteen TESS Objects of Interest (TOIs) from the SOPHIE-TESS follow-up program. Combining TESS photometry, SOPHIE radial velocities (RVs), ground-based photometry, and…
Asymmetrical shape of the Near-Infrared K 4p-5s doublet perturbed by He and H2
N. F. Allard, J. F. Kielkopf
The goal of this paper is to provide an exhaustive study of the K 4p-5s doublet at 1.243/1.252~m perturbed by He and H in physical conditions of brown dwarfs. This work is a…
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…
The Pan-Pacific Planet Search -- IX. A menagerie of companions orbiting evolved stars
Robert A. Wittenmyer, Alexander Venner, Tyler Fairnington +22
We present resolutions as to the nature of six speculative candidate companions proposed in the final data release of the Pan-Pacific Planet Search, a 6-year radial-velocity survey…
Finding Alien Worlds in Queensland -- A Decade of MINERVA-Australis
Jonathan Horner, Robert A. Wittenmyer, Stephen R. Kane +2
Three decades ago, humanity entered the Exoplanet Era, with the discovery of the first planets orbiting other stars. Today, more than 6000 exoplanets are known - a tally recently b…
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…
Line shapes of the Na/K resonance line profiles perturbed by H2 at extreme density
N. F. Allard, J. F. Kielkopf
Collision broadening by molecular hydrogen of sodium and potassium is one of the major broadening mechanisms in the atmospheres of brown dwarf stars and exoplanets at an effective…
Migration and Evolution of giant ExoPlanets (MEEP) II: Super-Jupiters and Lithium-rich Host Stars
Jack Schulte, Joseph E. Rodriguez, David W. Latham +30
Although hot Jupiters were the first exoplanets discovered orbiting main sequence stars, the dominant mechanisms through which they form and evolve are not known. To address the qu…
Updated Masses for the Gas Giants in the Eight-Planet Kepler-90 System Via Transit-Timing Variation and Radial Velocity Observations
David E. Shaw, Lauren M. Weiss, Eric Agol +28
The eight-planet Kepler-90 system exhibits the greatest multiplicity of planets found to date. All eight planets are transiting and were discovered in photometry from the NASA Kepl…
TOI-2015b: a sub-Neptune in strong gravitational interaction with an outer non-transiting planet
K. Barkaoui, J. Korth, E. Gaidos +119
TOI-2015 is a known exoplanetary system around an M4 dwarf star, consisting of a transiting sub-Neptune planet in a 3.35-day orbital period, TOI-2015b, accompanied by a non-transit…
The K2 and TESS Synergy III: search and rescue of the lost ephemeris for K2's first planet
Erica Thygesen, Joseph E. Rodriguez, Zoë L. De Beurs +13
K2-2 b/HIP 116454 b, the first exoplanet discovery by K2 during its Two-Wheeled Concept Engineering Test, is a sub-Neptune (2.5 0.1 , 9.7 1.2 ) orbi…
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…
HD 21520 b: a warm sub-Neptune transiting a bright G dwarf
Molly Nies, Ismael Mireles, François Bouchy +49
We report the discovery and validation of HD 21520 b, a transiting planet found with TESS and orbiting a bright G dwarf (V=9.2, K, $R_{\star} = 1.04\pm 0.02…
Migration and Evolution of giant ExoPlanets (MEEP) I: Nine Newly Confirmed Hot Jupiters from the TESS Mission
Jack Schulte, Joseph E. Rodriguez, Allyson Bieryla +72
Hot Jupiters were many of the first exoplanets discovered in the 1990s, but in the decades since their discovery, the mysteries surrounding their origins remain. Here, we present n…
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…
Two mini-Neptunes Transiting the Adolescent K-star HIP 113103 Confirmed with TESS and CHEOPS
Nataliea Lowson, George Zhou, Chelsea X. Huang +31
We report the discovery of two mini-Neptunes in near 2:1 resonance orbits ( d for HIP 113103 b and d for HIP 113103 c) around the adolescent K-star HIP 11…
Transit Timing Variations in the three-planet system: TOI-270
Laurel Kaye, Shreyas Vissapragada, Maximilian N. Gunther +69
We present ground and space-based photometric observations of TOI-270 (L231-32), a system of three transiting planets consisting of one super-Earth and two sub-Neptunes discovered…
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…
TOI-1130: A photodynamical analysis of a hot Jupiter in resonance with an inner low-mass planet
J. Korth, D. Gandolfi, J. Šubjak +59
The TOI-1130 is a known planetary system around a K-dwarf consisting of a gas giant planet, TOI-1130 c, on an 8.4-day orbit, accompanied by an inner Neptune-sized planet, TOI-1130…
TOI-2498 b: A hot bloated super-Neptune within the Neptune desert
Ginger Frame, David J. Armstrong, Heather M. Cegla +39
We present the discovery and confirmation of a transiting hot, bloated Super-Neptune using photometry from TESS and LCOGT and radial velocity measurements from HARPS. The host star…
Validating AU Microscopii d with Transit Timing Variations
Justin M. Wittrock, Peter Plavchan, Bryson L. Cale +31
AU Mic is a young (22 Myr) nearby exoplanetary system that exhibits excess TTVs that cannot be accounted for by the two known transiting planets nor stellar activity. We present th…
Spinning up a Daze: TESS Uncovers a Hot Jupiter orbiting the Rapid-Rotator TOI-778
Jake Clark, Brett Addison, Jack Okumura +68
NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission, has been uncovering a growing number of exoplanets orbiting nearby, bright stars. Most exoplanets that have been discov…
The TESS Grand Unified Hot Jupiter Survey. II. Twenty New Giant Planets
Samuel W. Yee, Joshua N. Winn, Joel D. Hartman +83
NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission promises to improve our understanding of hot Jupiters by providing an all-sky, magnitude-limited sample of transiting ho…
A sub-Neptune transiting the young field star HD 18599 at 40 pc
Jerome P. de Leon, John H. Livingston, James S. Jenkins +67
Transiting exoplanets orbiting young nearby stars are ideal laboratories for testing theories of planet formation and evolution. However, to date only a handful of stars with age <…