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20242026
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7 papers

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.SR2026

Radial and Rotational Velocities of a Volume-Complete Sample of M Dwarfs with Masses 0.1-0.3 Msun within 15 parsecs

Jennifer G. Winters, Emily K. Pass, David Charbonneau +7

We present the results from a five-year campaign to gather multi-epoch, high-resolution spectra of a volume-complete sample of 413 M dwarfs with masses 10-30% that of the Sun that…

astro-ph.EP2025

Searching for Exoplanets Born Outside the Milky Way: VOYAGERS Survey Design

Robert Aloisi, Andrew Vanderburg, Melinda Soares-Furtado +44

Observations over the past few decades have found that planets are common around nearby stars in our Galaxy, but little is known about planets that formed outside the Milky Way. We…

astro-ph.EP2025

An Eccentric Sub-Neptune Moving Into the Evaporation Desert

Sydney Jenkins, Andrew Vanderburg, Ritika Sethi +31

Though missions such as Kepler, K2, and TESS have discovered 2,000 sub-Neptune and Neptunian planets, there is a dearth of such planets at close-in (P3 days) orbits. T…

astro-ph.EP2025

11 New Transiting Brown Dwarfs and Very Low Mass Stars from TESS

Noah Vowell, Joseph E. Rodriguez, David W. Latham +39

We present the discovery of 11 new transiting brown dwarfs and low-mass M-dwarfs from NASA's TESS mission: TOI-2844, TOI-3122, TOI-3577, TOI-3755, TOI-4462, TOI-4635, TOI-4737, TOI…

astro-ph.EP2025

ExoMiner++: Enhanced Transit Classification and a New Vetting Catalog for 2-Minute TESS Data

Hamed Valizadegan, Miguel J. S. Martinho, Jon M. Jenkins +24

We present ExoMiner++, an enhanced deep learning model that builds on the success of ExoMiner to improve transit signal classification in 2-minute TESS data. ExoMiner++ incorporate…