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most citedKepler Mission Design, Realized Photometric Performance, and Early Science

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astro-ph.EP2025

The First Occurrence Rate Estimates for Exoplanets in Small-Separation Binary Star Systems: Planet Occurrence is Suppressed in Binary Stars

Kendall Sullivan, Anne Dattilo, Natalie M. Batalha

Exoplanet occurrence rates facilitate comparisons between observations of planets and theoretical models of planet formation. Despite their deductive power, exoplanet occurrence ra…

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.EP2025

The TESS-Keck Survey XXIV: Outer Giants may be More Prevalent in the Presence of Inner Small Planets

Judah Van Zandt, Erik A. Petigura, Jack Lubin +38

We present the results of the Distant Giants Survey, a three-year radial velocity (RV) campaign to search for wide-separation giant planets orbiting Sun-like stars known to host an…

astro-ph.EP2024

OrCAS: Origins, Compositions, and Atmospheres of Sub-neptunes. I. Survey Definition

Ian J. M. Crossfield, Alex S. Polanski, Paul Robertson +61

Sub-Neptunes - volatile-rich exoplanets smaller than Neptune - are intrinsically the most common type of planet known. However, the formation and nature of these objects, as well a…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 5 cited

The GAPS Programme at TNG. LXV. Precise density measurement of TOI-1430 b, a young planet with an evaporating atmosphere

D. Nardiello, J. M. Akana Murphy, R. Spinelli +34

Small-sized exoplanets in tight orbits around young stars (10-1000 Myr) give us the opportunity to investigate the mechanisms that led to their formation, the evolution of their ph…

astro-ph.EP2024

The impact of observing cadence and undetected companions on the accuracy of planet mass measurements from radial velocity monitoring

Joseph M. Akana Murphy, Rafael Luque, Natalie M. Batalha

We conduct experiments on both real and synthetic radial velocity (RV) data to quantify the impact that observing cadence, the number of RV observations, and undetected companions…

astro-ph.EP2024

HD 119130 b is not an "ultra-dense" sub-Neptune

Joseph M. Akana Murphy, Rafael Luque, Natalie M. Batalha +13

We present a revised mass measurement for HD 119130 b (aka K2-292 b), a transiting planet ( days, ) orbiting a chro…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 9 cited

Characterisation of TOI-406 as showcase of the THIRSTEE program: A 2-planet system straddling the M-dwarf density gap

G. Lacedelli, E. Pallè, R. Luque +31

The exoplanet sub-Neptune population currently poses a conundrum, as to whether small-size planets are volatile-rich cores without an atmosphere, or rocky cores surrounded by a H-H…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 3 cited

K2-399 b is not a planet. The Saturn that wandered through the Neptune desert is actually a hierarchical eclipsing binary

J. Lillo-Box, D. W. Latham, K. A. Collins +19

The transit technique has been very efficient in detecting planet candidate signals over the past decades. The so-called statistical validation approach has become a popular way of…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 53 cited

The TESS-Keck Survey XX: 15 New TESS Planets and a Uniform RV Analysis of all Survey Targets

Alex S. Polanski, Jack Lubin, Corey beard +69

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered hundreds of new worlds, with TESS planet candidates now outnumbering the total number of confirmed planets from $\te…

astro-ph.EP2024

The TESS-Keck Survey. XXII. A sub-Neptune Orbiting TOI-1437

Daria Pidhorodetska, Emily A. Gilbert, Stephen R. Kane +40

Exoplanet discoveries have revealed a dramatic diversity of planet sizes across a vast array of orbital architectures. Sub-Neptunes are of particular interest; due to their absence…

astro-ph.EP2024

A Unified Treatment of Kepler Occurrence to Trace Planet Evolution II: The Radius Cliff Formed by Atmospheric Escape

Anne Dattilo, Natalie M. Batalha

The Kepler mission enabled us to look at the intrinsic population of exoplanets within our galaxy. In period-radius space, the distribution of the intrinsic population of planets c…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 2 cited

The TESS-Keck Survey XXI: 13 New Planets and Homogeneous Properties for 21 Subgiant Systems

Ashley Chontos, Daniel Huber, Samuel K. Grunblatt +67

We present a dedicated transit and radial velocity survey of planets orbiting subgiant stars observed by the TESS Mission. Using nights on Keck/HIRES, we confirm and cha…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 1 cited

The TESS-Keck Survey. XIX. A Warm Transiting Sub-Saturn Mass Planet and a non-Transiting Saturn Mass Planet Orbiting a Solar Analog

Michelle L. Hill, Stephen R. Kane, Paul A. Dalba +45

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) continues to dramatically increase the number of known transiting exoplanets, and is optimal for monitoring bright stars amenable t…

astro-ph.EP2023

The TESS-Keck Survey XVII: Precise Mass Measurements in a Young, High Multiplicity Transiting Planet System using Radial Velocities and Transit Timing Variations

Corey Beard, Paul Robertson, Fei Dai +41

We present a radial velocity (RV) analysis of TOI-1136, a bright TESS system with six confirmed transiting planets, and a seventh single-transiting planet candidate. All planets in…

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★ 1 cited

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…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 1 cited

A Unified Treatment of Kepler Occurrence to Trace Planet Evolution I: Methodology

Anne Dattilo, Natalie M. Batalha, Steve Bryson

We present Kepler exoplanet occurrence rates for planets between R and between days. To measure occurrence, we use a non-parametric method via a kernel de…

astro-ph.EP2023

The TESS-Keck Survey. XVI. Mass Measurements for 12 Planets in Eight Systems

Joseph M. Akana Murphy, Natalie M. Batalha, Nicholas Scarsdale +44

With JWST's successful deployment and unexpectedly high fuel reserves, measuring the masses of sub-Neptunes transiting bright, nearby stars will soon become the bottleneck for char…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 17 cited

A Mini-Neptune Orbiting the Metal-poor K Dwarf BD+29 2654

Fei Dai, Kevin C. Schlaufman, Henrique Reggiani +48

We report the discovery and Doppler mass measurement of a 7.4-day 2.3- mini-Neptune around a metal-poor K dwarf BD+29 2654 (TOI-2018). Based on a high-resolution Keck/HIR…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 22 cited

The TESS-Keck Survey. XV. Precise Properties of 108 TESS Planets and Their Host Stars

Mason G. MacDougall, Erik A. Petigura, Gregory J. Gilbert +38

We present the stellar and planetary properties for 85 TESS Objects of Interest (TOIs) hosting 108 planet candidates which comprise the TESS-Keck Survey (TKS) sample. We combine ph…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 145 cited

A broadband thermal emission spectrum of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-18b

Louis-Philippe Coulombe, Björn Benneke, Ryan Challener +73

Close-in giant exoplanets with temperatures greater than 2,000 K (''ultra-hot Jupiters'') have been the subject of extensive efforts to determine their atmospheric properties using…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 197 cited

Early Release Science of the exoplanet WASP-39b with JWST NIRCam

Eva-Maria Ahrer, Kevin B. Stevenson, Megan Mansfield +96

Measuring the metallicity and carbon-to-oxygen (C/O) ratio in exoplanet atmospheres is a fundamental step towards constraining the dominant chemical processes at work and, if in eq…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 72 cited

TOI-1136 is a Young, Coplanar, Aligned Planetary System in a Pristine Resonant Chain

Fei Dai, Kento Masuda, Corey Beard +60

Convergent disk migration has long been suspected to be responsible for forming planetary systems with a chain of mean-motion resonances (MMR). Dynamical evolution over time could…