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most citedThe Eighth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Data from SDSS-III

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63 papers

astro-ph.EP2026

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…

astro-ph.EP2026

Toddlers in Resonance I: low masses and eccentricities of the 17 Myr giant planets HIP 67522 bc from transit timing variations

Hannah R. James, Madyson G. Barber, Andrew W. Mann +28

Infant (100\,Myr) transiting planet systems provide glimpses into the processes that shape the observed mature planet population. Masses for these planets are powerful data poin…

astro-ph.EP2026

Stellar Obliquities of Young Systems, Atmospheres Undergoing Contraction and Escape (SOYSAUCE) II: a 135 Myr planet on an aligned orbit with transit timing variations

Madyson G. Barber, Andrew W. Mann, Sydney Vach +16

Young planets (<1 Gyr) provide opportunities to directly probe planet formation and evolution processes in action. However, due to heightened stellar activity, there is a lack of k…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 2 cited

TOI-7166 b: A Habitable Zone mini-Neptune planet around a nearby low-mass star

Khalid Barkaoui, Francisco J. Pozuelos, Benjamin V. Rackham +41

We present the discovery and validation of TOI-7166b, a 2.01+/-0.05R_Earth planet orbiting a nearby low-mass star. We validated the planet by combining TESS and multi-color high-pr…

astro-ph.EP2025

Stellar Obliquities of Young Systems, Atmospheres Undergoing Contraction and Escape (SOYSAUCE): a likely aligned orbit for the 3 Myr planet TIDYE-1 b

Madyson G. Barber, Andrew W. Mann, Marshall C. Johnson +12

Despite the wide range of planet-star (mis)alignments in the mature population of transiting exoplanets, the small number of known young transiting planets are nearly all aligned w…

astro-ph.EP2025

TOI-333b: A Neptune Desert planet around a F7V star

Douglas R. Alves, James S. Jenkins, José I. Vinés +29

Observations have shown that planets similar to Neptune are rarely found orbiting Sun-like stars with periods up to ~4 days, defining the so-called Neptune desert region. Therefore…

astro-ph.SR2025

Coordinated Space- and Ground-based Monitoring of Accretion Bursts in a Protoplanetary Disk: The Orbital and Accretion Properties of DQ Tau

Hala Alqubelat, Carlo F. Manara, Justyn Campbell-White +9

Multiplicity in pre-main-sequence (PMS) systems shapes circumstellar and circumbinary disks, often producing features such as inner cavities, spiral arms, and gas streamers that fa…

astro-ph.SR2025

Radio and Optical Flares on the dMe Flare Star EV Lac

Rachel A. Osten, Adam F. Kowalski, Suzanne Hawley +4

We present the results of a coordinated campaign to observe radio and optical stellar flares from the nearby M dwarf flare star EV~Lac. From a total of 27 hours of radio and 29 hou…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 3 cited

TOI-2322: two transiting rocky planets close to the stellar rotation period and its first harmonic

M. J. Hobson, A. Suárez Mascareño, C. Lovis +42

Context. Active regions on the stellar surface can induce quasi-periodic radial velocity (RV) variations that can mimic planets and mask true planetary signals. These spurious sign…

astro-ph.EP2025

Validation of TESS Planet Candidates with Multi-Color Transit Photometry and TRICERATOPS+

Jonathan Gomez Barrientos, Michael Greklek-McKeon, Heather A. Knutson +33

We present an upgraded version of TRICERATOPS, a software package designed to calculate false positive probabilities for planet candidates identified by the Transiting Exoplanet Su…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 4 cited

A New Brown Dwarf Orbiting an M star and An Investigation on the Eccentricity Distribution of Transiting Long-Period Brown Dwarfs

Tianjun Gan, Charles Cadieux, Shigeru Ida +32

The orbital eccentricities of brown dwarfs encode valuable information of their formation and evolution history, providing insights into whether they resemble giant planets or stel…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 1 cited

Three Hot Jupiters transiting K-dwarfs with a significant heavy element mass

Y. G. C. Frensch, F. Bouchy, G. Lo Curto +50

Albeit at a lower frequency than around hotter stars, short-period gas giants around low-mass stars ( K) do exist, despite predictions from planetary populat…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 2 cited

TESS Science Processing Operations Center Photometric Precision Archival Product

Joseph D. Twicken, Jon M. Jenkins, Douglas A. Caldwell +11

We report the delivery to the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST) of tables containing Root Mean Square (RMS) Combined Differential Photometric Precision (CDPP) values for…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 1 cited

Coordinated Space and Ground-Based Monitoring of Accretion Bursts in a Protoplanetary Disk: Establishing Mid-Infrared Hydrogen Lines as Accretion Diagnostics for JWST-MIRI

Benjamin M. Tofflemire, Carlo F. Manara, Andrea Banzatti +17

In this paper, we establish and calibrate mid-infrared hydrogen recombination lines observed with JWST as accretion tracers for pre-main-sequence stars that accrete from circumstel…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 34 cited

A giant planet transiting a 3-Myr protostar with a misaligned disk

Madyson G. Barber, Andrew W. Mann, Andrew Vanderburg +35

Astronomers have found more than a dozen planets transiting 10-40 million year old stars, but even younger transiting planets have remained elusive. A possible reason for the lack…

astro-ph.SR2024

Sites of Planet Formation in Binary Systems. II. Double the Disks in DF Tau

Taylor Kutra, Lisa Prato, Benjamin M Tofflemire +8

This article presents the latest results of our ALMA program to study circumstellar disk characteristics as a function of orbital and stellar properties in a sample of young binary…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 3 cited

The Featherweight Giant: Unraveling the Atmosphere of a 17 Myr Planet with JWST

Pa Chia Thao, Andrew W. Mann, Adina D. Feinstein +29

The characterization of young planets (< 300 Myr) is pivotal for understanding planet formation and evolution. We present the 3-5m transmission spectrum of the 17 Myr, Jupiter-s…

astro-ph.SR2024

Upper Limits on Stellar Companions to the Kepler-34 and Kepler-35 Systems

Carlos Jurado, Lauren M. Weiss, Laura Daclison +3

We obtained new spectra of Kepler-34 and Kepler-35 with Keck-HIRES, nearly a decade after these systems were originally characterized with this spectrograph and other instruments,…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 25 cited

TESS Investigation -- Demographics of Young Exoplanets (TI-DYE) II: a second giant planet in the 17-Myr system HIP 67522

Madyson G. Barber, Pa Chia Thao, Andrew W. Mann +13

The youngest (50 Myr) planets are vital to understand planet formation and early evolution. The 17 Myr system HIP 67522 is already known to host a giant (10) p…

astro-ph.EP2024

TESS Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets (THYME) X: a two-planet system in the 210 Myr MELANGE-5 Association

Pa Chia Thao, Andrew W. Mann, Madyson G. Barber +35

Young (<500 Myr) planets are critical to studying how planets form and evolve. Among these young planetary systems, multi-planet configurations are particularly useful as they prov…

astro-ph.EP2024

Sites of Planet Formation in Binary Systems. I. Evidence for Disk-Orbit Alignment in the Close Binary FO Tau

Benjamin M. Tofflemire, Lisa Prato, Adam L. Kraus +8

Close binary systems present challenges to planet formation. As binary separations decrease, so too do the occurrence rates of protoplanetary disks in young systems and planets in…

astro-ph.EP2024

TESS Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets (THYME) XI: An Earth-sized Planet Orbiting a Nearby, Solar-like Host in the 400Myr Ursa Major Moving Group

Benjamin K. Capistrant, Melinda Soares-Furtado, Andrew Vanderburg +32

Young terrestrial worlds are critical test beds to constrain prevailing theories of planetary formation and evolution. We present the discovery of HD 63433d - a nearby (22pc), Eart…

astro-ph.SR2023

The Strength and Variability of the Helium 10830 Å Triplet in Young Stars, with Implications for Exosphere Detection

Daniel M. Krolikowski, Adam L. Kraus, Benjamin M. Tofflemire +3

Young exoplanets trace planetary evolution, particularly the atmospheric mass loss that is most dynamic in youth. However, the high activity level of young stars can mask or mimic…

astro-ph.SR2023

A Lithium Depletion Age for the Carina Association

Mackenna L. Wood, Andrew W. Mann, Madyson G. Barber +6

The dispersed remnants of stellar nurseries, stellar associations provide unparalleled samples of coeval stars critical for studies of stellar and planetary formation and evolution…