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20102026
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173 papers

astro-ph.EP2026★ 1 cited

ASTEP confirmation of a pair of long-period Jupiter-sized planets with extremely low densities transiting TOI-791

Georgina Dransfield, Antoine C. Petit, Amaury H. M. J. Triaud +45

Gas giant planets with periods orbiting Sun-like stars are a relatively uncommon outcome of planetary formation, and key questions about the nature and form…

astro-ph.EP2026

An Ultra-Short Period Super-Earth and a Sub-Neptune Orbiting the K dwarf TOI-4311

Yoshi Nike Emilia Eschen, Thomas G. Wilson, Andrew Collier Cameron +95

We report the discovery and characterisation of the multi-planetary system around TOI-4311, a K dwarf kinematically between the Galactic thick disk and Hercules stream. TOI-4311 ho…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 1 cited

Uncovering the Rapidly Evolving Orbits of the Dynamic TOI-201 System

Ismael Mireles, Solène Ulmer-Moll, Donald Liveoak +47

Studying planetary interactions in exoplanet systems informs theories of planet formation and evolution, providing essential context for understanding our own solar system. We comb…

astro-ph.EP2026

A Warm Massive Pair of Planets around TOI-1232 Revealed with Transit-timing Variations and Doppler Spectroscopy

Deyan P. Mihaylov, Jan Eberhardt, Trifon Trifonov +32

TOI-1232 is a G-dwarf star with a mass of , a radius of , and slightly higher metallicity than solar of Fe/H = .…

astro-ph.EP2026

Two warm sub-Saturn mass planets identified from the TESS Full Frame Images

Felipe I. Rojas, Rafael Brahm, Andrés Jordán +47

Context. Characterization of warm giants is crucial to constrain giant planet formation and evolution. Measuring the mass and radius of these planets, combined with their moderated…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 1 cited

Gas-depleted planet formation occurred in the four-planet system around the red dwarf LHS 1903

Thomas G. Wilson, Anna M. Simpson, Andrew Collier Cameron +173

Small exoplanet radii show two populations, referred to as super-Earths and sub-Neptunes, separated by a gap known as the radius valley. This may be produced by the removal of atmo…

astro-ph.EP2026

The Orbital Eccentricity--Radius Distribution for Warm, Single Planets in TESS

Tyler R. Fairnington, Jiayin Dong, Chelsea X. Huang +40

We characterize the radius-dependent eccentricity distribution of 219 warm (P = 8--50 days) systems with only one transiting planetary candidate identified during Sectors 1-69 of t…

astro-ph.EP2026

ExoMiner++ 2.0: Vetting TESS Full-Frame Image Transit Signals

Miguel J. S. Martinho, Hamed Valizadegan, Jon M. Jenkins +4

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) Full-Frame Images (FFIs) provide photometric time series for millions of stars, enabling transit searches beyond the limited set of…

astro-ph.EP2026

Characterization of two new transiting sub-Neptunes and a terrestrial planet around M-dwarf hosts

E. Poultourtzidis, G. Lacedelli, E. Pallé +49

We report the confirmation of three transiting exoplanets orbiting TOI-1243 (LSPM~J0902+7138), TOI-4529 (G~2--21), and TOI-5388 (Wolf~346) that were initially detected by TESS thro…

astro-ph.EP2026

TOI-4495: A Pair of Aligned, Near-Resonant Sub-Neptunes that Likely Experienced Overstable Migration

Mu-Tian Wang, Fei Dai, Hui-Gen Liu +24

We report the discovery of a sub-Neptune and a Neptune-like planet (, ) orbiting the F-type star TOI-449…

astro-ph.EP2025

From Earths to Super-Earths: Five New Small Planets Transiting M Dwarf Stars

Jonathan Gomez Barrientos, Heather A. Knutson, Morgan Saidel +39

Earth-sized planets transiting M dwarf stars present one of the best opportunities with current facilities for studying the atmospheric and bulk compositions of terrestrial worlds.…

astro-ph.EP2025

Validation of a Third Earth-sized Planet in the TOI-2267 Binary System

Michael Greklek-McKeon, Jonathan Gomez Barrientos, Heather A. Knutson +13

We report the validation of a third terrestrial exoplanet in the nearby (22 pc) TOI-2267 system. TOI-2267 is a binary system with stellar components TOI-2267A (M5, 3030 K) and TOI-…

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

Why Estimating is Difficult: A Kepler-Centric Perspective

Steve Bryson, Michelle Kunimoto, Ruslan Belikov +13

, the occurrence rate of rocky habitable zone exoplanets orbiting Sun-like stars, is of great interest to both the astronomical community and the general public. The Ke…

astro-ph.EP2025

An Ultra-Short Period Super-Earth and Sub-Neptune Spanning the Radius Valley Orbiting the Kinematic Thick Disk Star TOI-2345

Yoshi Nike Emilia Eschen, Thomas G. Wilson, Andrea Bonfanti +94

A crucial chemical link between stars and their orbiting exoplanets is thought to exist. If universal, this connection could affect the formation and evolution of all planets. Ther…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 3 cited

Detection and characterisation of a 106-day transiting Jupiter : TOI-2449 b / NGTS-36 b

S. Ulmer-Moll, S. Gill, R. Brahm +64

Only a handful of transiting giant exoplanets with orbital periods longer than 100 days are known. These warm exoplanets are valuable objects as their radius and mass can be measur…

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

The TESS Grand Unified Hot Jupiter Survey. III. Thirty More Giant Planets

Samuel W. Yee, Joshua N. Winn, Joel D. Hartman +123

We present the discovery of 30 transiting giant planets that were initially detected using data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission. These new planets…

astro-ph.EP2025

TOI-1846b: A super-Earth in the radius valley orbiting a nearby M dwarf

Abderahmane Soubkiou, Khalid Barkaoui, Zouhair Benkhaldoun +42

We present the discovery and validation of a super-Earth planet orbiting the M dwarf star TOI-1846 (TIC 198385543). The host star(Kmag = 9.6)is located 47 pc away and has a radius…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 10 cited

A transiting giant planet in orbit around a 0.2-solar-mass host star

Edward M. Bryant, Andrés Jordán, Joel D. Hartman +56

Planet formation models suggest that the formation of giant planets is significantly harder around low-mass stars, due to the scaling of protoplanetary disc masses with stellar mas…

astro-ph.EP2025

The TOI-1117 Multi-planetary System: 3 sub-Neptunes, 1 in both the Neptunian Desert and Radius Valley

Isobel S. Lockley, David J. Armstrong, Jorge Fernández Fernández +33

We present the discovery of three sub-Neptune planets around TOI-1117, a Sun-like star with mass , radius , age Gyr and ef…

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.EP2025

The Eccentricity Distribution of Warm Sub-Saturns in TESS

Tyler R. Fairnington, Jiayin Dong, Chelsea X. Huang +45

We present the eccentricity distribution of warm sub-Saturns (4-8 Re, 8-200 day periods) as derived from an analysis of transit light curves from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey…

astro-ph.EP2025

HD 35843: A Sun-like star hosting a long period sub-Neptune and inner super-Earth

Katharine Hesse, Ismael Mireles, François Bouchy +52

We report the discovery and confirmation of two planets orbiting the metal-poor Sun-like star, HD 35843 (TOI 4189). HD 35843 c is a temperate sub-Neptune transiting planet with an…