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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

Multicolour Validation of Two Temperate Mini-Neptunes Around M-dwarf Habitable Zones

Chengzi Jiang, Aleksandra Selezneva, Hannu Parviainen +17

For small planets orbiting within the habitable zones of their host stars, multicolour validation via photometric transit observations offers an efficient alternative to prioritize…

astro-ph.EP2025

Precise mass and radius determination for two new and one known Neptune-sized planets around G Dwarf hosts

Ilaria Carleo, Grzegorz Nowak, Felipe Murgas +56

As part of the KESPRINT collaboration, we present the discovery and characterization of three exoplanets in the sub-Neptune to super-Neptune regime, spanning key regions of the exo…

astro-ph.EP2025

NGTS-11 c: a transiting Neptune-mass planet interior to the warm Saturn NGTS-11 b

David R. Anderson, Jose I. Vines, Katharine Hesse +56

We report the discovery of NGTS-11 c, a transiting warm Neptune ( d; ; ), in an…

astro-ph.EP2025

High five from ASTEP: Three validated planets and two eclipsing binaries in a diverse set of long-period candidates

Erika Rea, Maximilian N. Günther, George Dransfield +44

We present the analysis of five long-period TESS Objects of Interest (TOIs), all orbiting Sun-like stars, with orbital periods exceeding one month. Initially identified by the Tran…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 1 cited

HARPS-N Reveals a Well-aligned Orbit for the Highly Eccentric Warm Jupiter TOI-4127 b

Ismael Mireles, Felipe Murgas, Diana Dragomir +4

While many hot Jupiter systems have a measured obliquity, few warm Jupiter systems do. The longer orbital periods and transit durations of warm Jupiters make it more difficult to m…

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TOI-1438: A rare system with two short-period sub-Neptunes and a tentative long-period Jupiter-like planet orbiting a K0V star

Carina M. Persson, Emil Knudstrup, Ilaria Carleo +44

We present the detection and characterisation of the TOI-1438 multi-planet system discovered by TESS. We collected a series of follow-up observations including high-spectral resolu…

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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…

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The mass of TOI-654 b: A short-period sub-Neptune transiting a mid-M dwarf

Kai Ikuta, Norio Narita, Takuya Takarada +40

Sub-Neptunes are small planets between the size of the Earth and Neptune. The orbital and bulk properties of transiting sub-Neptunes can provide clues for their formation and evolu…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 1 cited

Discovery of a transiting hot water-world candidate orbiting Ross 176 with TESS and CARMENES

S. Geraldía-González, J. Orell-Miquel, E. Pallé +30

The case of Ross 176 is a late K-type star that hosts a promising water-world candidate planet. The star has a radius of =0.5690.020 and a mass of …

astro-ph.EP2025

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Revisiting the GJ 317, GJ 463, and GJ 3512 systems and two newly discovered planets orbiting GJ 9773 and GJ 508.2

J. C. Morales, I. Ribas, S. Reffert +33

Surveys for exoplanets indicate that the occurrence rate of gas giant planets orbiting late-type stars in orbits with periods shorter than 1000 days is lower than in the case of Su…

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★ 4 cited

Giant Outer Transiting Exoplanet Mass (GOT 'EM) Survey. VI: Confirmation of a Long-Period Giant Planet Discovered with a Single TESS Transit

Zahra Essack, Diana Dragomir, Paul A. Dalba +81

We report the discovery and confirmation of TOI-4465 b, a , giant planet orbiting a G dwarf star at 122 pc. The planet was…

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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★ 2 cited

The mass of the exo-Venus Gliese 12 b, as revealed by HARPS-N, ESPRESSO, and CARMENES

Daisy A. Turner, Yoshi Nike Emilia Eschen, Felipe Murgas +60

Small temperate planets are prime targets for exoplanet studies due to their possible similarities with the rocky planets in the Solar System. M dwarfs are promising hosts since th…

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★ 1 cited

A Swarm of WASP Planets: Nine giant planets identified by the WASP survey

Nicole Schanche, Guillaume Hébrard, Keivan G. Stassun +52

The Wide Angle Search for Planets (WASP) survey provided some of the first transiting hot Jupiter candidates. With the addition of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS),…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 3 cited

TESS and HARPS-N unveil two planets transiting TOI-1453. A super-Earth and one of the lowest mass sub-Neptunes

M. Stalport, A. Mortier, M. Cretignier +37

We report on the validation and characterisation of two transiting planets around TOI-1453, a K-dwarf star in the TESS northern continuous viewing zone. In addition to the TESS dat…

astro-ph.SR2025

An Oasis in the Brown Dwarf Desert: Confirmation of Two Low-mass Transiting Brown Dwarfs Discovered by TESS

Elina Y. Zhang, Theron W. Carmichael, Daniel Huber +14

As the intermediate-mass siblings of stars and planets, brown dwarfs (BDs) are vital to study for a better understanding of how objects change across the planet-to-star mass range.…

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TOI-6508b: A massive transiting brown dwarf orbiting a low-mass star

K. Barkaoui, D. Sebastian, S. Zúñiga-Fernández +44

We report the discovery of a transiting brown dwarf orbiting a low-mass star, TOI-6508b. Today, only ~50 transiting brown dwarfs have been discovered. TOI-6508b was first detected…

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The NCORES Program: Precise planetary masses, null results, and insight into the planet mass distribution near the radius gap

David J. Armstrong, Ares Osborn, Remo Burn +39

NCORES was a large observing program on the ESO HARPS spectrograph, dedicated to measuring the masses of Neptune-like and smaller transiting planets discovered by the TESS satellit…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 27 cited

Connection between planetary He I 10830 Å absorption and extreme-ultraviolet emission of planet-host stars

J. Sanz-Forcada, M. López-Puertas, M. Lampón +13

Context. The detection of the He I 10830 A triplet in exoplanet atmospheres has opened a new window for probing planetary properties, including atmospheric escape. Unlike Lyman alp…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 4 cited

Confirmation of four hot Jupiters detected by TESS using follow-up spectroscopy from MaHPS at Wendelstein together with NEID and TRES

Juliana Ehrhardt, Luis Thomas, Hanna Kellermann +57

We report the confirmation and characterization of four hot Jupiter-type exoplanets initially detected by TESS: TOI-1295 b, TOI-2580 b, TOI-6016 b, and TOI-6130 b. Using observatio…