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astro-ph.EP2019★ 26 cited

TESS Reveals HD 118203 b to be a Transiting Planet

Joshua Pepper, Stephen R. Kane, Joseph E. Rodriguez +30

The exoplanet HD 118203 b, orbiting a bright (V = 8.05) host star, was discovered using the radial velocity method by da Silva et al. (2006), but was not previously known to transi…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 48 cited

TOI-222: a single-transit TESS candidate revealed to be a 34-day eclipsing binary with CORALIE, EulerCam and NGTS

Monika Lendl, François Bouchy, Samuel Gill +58

We report the period, eccentricity, and mass determination for the TESS single-transit event candidate TOI-222, which displayed a single 3000 ppm transit in the TESS two-minute cad…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 98 cited

Three Red Suns in the Sky: A Transiting, Terrestrial Planet in a Triple M Dwarf System at 6.9 Parsecs

Jennifer G. Winters, Amber A. Medina, Jonathan M. Irwin +40

We present the discovery from TESS data of LTT 1445Ab. At a distance of 6.9 parsecs, it is the second nearest transiting exoplanet system found to date, and the closest one known f…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 60 cited

A super-Earth and sub-Neptune transiting the late-type M dwarf LP 791-18

Ian J. M. Crossfield, William Waalkes, Elisabeth R. Newton +57

Planets occur most frequently around cool dwarfs, but only a handful of specific examples are known to orbit the latest-type M stars. Using TESS photometry, we report the discovery…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 129 cited

Planetary system around the nearby M dwarf GJ 357 including a transiting, hot, Earth-sized planet optimal for atmospheric characterization

R. Luque, E. Pallé, D. Kossakowski +73

We report the detection of a transiting Earth-size planet around GJ 357, a nearby M2.5V star, using data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). GJ 357 b (TOI-562.01…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 135 cited

The L 98-59 System: Three Transiting, Terrestrial-Sized Planets Orbiting a Nearby M-dwarf

Veselin B. Kostov, Joshua E. Schlieder, Thomas Barclay +112

We report the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) discovery of three terrestrial-sized planets transiting L 98-59 (TOI-175, TIC 307210830) -- a bright M dwarf at a distanc…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 66 cited

HD 213885b: A transiting 1-day-period super-Earth with an Earth-like composition around a bright () star unveiled by TESS

Néstor Espinoza, Rafael Brahm, Thomas Henning +60

We report the discovery of the 1.008-day, ultra-short period (USP) super-Earth HD 213885b (TOI-141b) orbiting the bright () star HD 213885 (TOI-141, TIC 403224672), detected…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 121 cited

A super-Earth and two sub-Neptunes transiting the nearby and quiet M dwarf TOI-270

Maximilian N. Günther, Francisco J. Pozuelos, Jason A. Dittmann +57

We report the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite discovery of three small planets transiting one of the nearest and brightest M dwarf hosts to date, TOI-270 (TIC 259377017; K-ma…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 52 cited

Hot, rocky and warm, puffy super-Earths orbiting TOI-402 (HD 15337)

X. Dumusque, O. Turner, C. Dorn +30

TESS is revolutionising the search for planets orbiting bright and nearby stars. In sectors 3 and 4, TESS observed TOI-402 (TIC-120896927), a bright V=9.1 K1 dwarf also known as HD…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 80 cited

WASP-4b Arrived Early for the TESS Mission

L. G. Bouma, J. N. Winn, C. Baxter +21

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) recently observed 18 transits of the hot Jupiter WASP-4b. The sequence of transits occurred 81.6 11.7 seconds earlier than ha…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 42 cited

Near-resonance in a system of sub-Neptunes from TESS

Samuel N. Quinn, Juliette C. Becker, Joseph E. Rodriguez +78

We report the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite () detection of a multi-planet system orbiting the K0 dwarf TOI 125. We find evidence for up to five planets, wit…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 79 cited

TESS delivers its first Earth-sized planet and a warm sub-Neptune

Diana Dragomir, Johanna Teske, Maximilian N. Gunther +48

The future of exoplanet science is bright, as TESS once again demonstrates with the discovery of its longest-period confirmed planet to date. We hereby present HD 21749b (TOI 186.0…