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most citedThe Tenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-III Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment

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astro-ph.EP2026

A Headwind-like Helium Outflow from TOI-3884b

Joe P. Ninan, Jessica Libby-Roberts, Suvrath Mahadevan +19

Constraining atmospheric loss is crucial for understanding the evolution of planetary atmospheres. We report the detection of an evaporating exosphere from TOI-3884b, a super-Neptu…

astro-ph.EP2026

The NEID Earth Twin Survey. VI. Discovery of a Low-Mass Planet Orbiting HD 126053 and RV Signals Near the Rotation Periods of HD 168009 and HD 10780

Arvind F. Gupta, Sarah E. Logsdon, Jacob K. Luhn +19

Extreme precision radial velocity (EPRV) spectrographs are making strides in extending the limits of radial velocity exoplanet detection. Perhaps the best evidence for this is how…

astro-ph.EP2026

POSEIDON III: The Aligned Orbit of the Hot Neptune Around the Hot Star WASP-195

Juan I. Espinoza-Retamal, Joshua N. Winn, Rafael Brahm +33

Stellar obliquities provide important clues as to the formation and migration histories of planetary systems, but measurements remain scarce for Neptune-mass planets, especially th…

astro-ph.EP2026

Spin-Orbit Alignment of Two Neptune-size Planets Younger than 500 Myr: TOI-560 b and TOI-5082 b

Elina Y. Zhang, Fei Dai, Andrew W. Howard +25

Stellar obliquity measurements provide a direct probe of planetary system dynamics, but remain sparse for Neptune-size planets, particularly at young ages. We present Rossiter-McLa…

astro-ph.EP2026

Improving the Precision of Line-by-Line Radial Velocities: A Data-Driven Iterative Algorithm for Spectral Line Selection

Kanishk Pandey, Eric A. Ford, Joseph M. Salzer +17

Independent analysis of individual spectral lines, or line-by-line (LBL) analyses, can improve upon standard cross-correlation function (CCF) methods for measuring radial velocitie…

astro-ph.EP2026

A Revised Mass and Period for the Habitable Zone super-Earth GJ 3378b: A Planet Straddling the Cosmic Shoreline

Paul Robertson, Michael Endl, William D. Cochran +18

The nearby ( pc) M4V star GJ~3378 is a target of our radial velocity (RV) exoplanet survey of fully convective stars in the Solar neighborhood with the near-infrared spect…

astro-ph.EP2026

Searching for GEMS: Three warm Saturns and a super-Jupiter orbiting four early M-dwarfs

Pranav H. Premnath, Paul Robertson, Shubham Kanodia +33

We report the confirmation and characterization of four transiting giant planets orbiting early-M dwarfs discovered by the Searching for Giant Exoplanets around M-dwarf Stars (GEMS…

astro-ph.EP2026

The KPF-SLOPE Survey - Small, Compact Multi-Planet Systems Appear Spin-Orbit Aligned

Luke B. Handley, Andrew W. Howard, Fei Dai +16

The angle between stellar spin axes and planetary orbits -- stellar obliquity -- probes the dynamics of planetary migration and evolution. The obliquities of giant planets have bee…

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

Order-by-order Modeling of Exoplanet Radial Velocity Data

Zachary Langford, Cullen Blake, Samuel Halverson +12

Precise radial velocity (RV) measurements are a crucial tool for exoplanet discovery and characterization. Today, the majority of these measurements are derived from Echelle spectr…

astro-ph.EP2025

The KPF SURFS-UP Survey I: Transmission Spectroscopy of WASP-76 b

Aaron Householder, Fei Dai, Aurora Kesseli +25

We introduce the KPF SURFS-UP (Spectroscopy of the Upper-atmospheres and ReFractory Species in Ultra-hot Planets) Survey, a high-resolution survey to investigate the atmospheric co…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 2 cited

Discovery of a Nearby Habitable Zone Super-Earth Candidate Amenable to Direct Imaging

Corey Beard, Paul Robertson, Jack Lubin +31

We present the discovery of GJ 251 c, a candidate super-Earth orbiting in the Habitable Zone (HZ) of its M dwarf host star. Using high-precision Habitable-zone Planet Finder (HPF)…

astro-ph.EP2025

Searching for GEMS: TOI-5916 b & TOI-6158 b are two Saturn-density planets orbiting M2 dwarfs

Shane O'Brien, Amber Wong, Te Han +20

We confirm the planetary nature of (1) TOI-5916 b and (2) TOI-6158 b, two Exoplanets Transiting M-dwarf Stars (GEMS), both discovered by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (…

astro-ph.EP2025

Searching for GEMS: TOI-5349b is a Saturn-like planet orbiting a metal-rich early M-dwarf

Angeli Sandoval, Caleb I. Cañas, Shubham Kanodia +27

We report the confirmation and analysis of TOI-5349b, a transiting, warm, Saturn-like planet orbiting an early M-dwarf with a period of 3.3 days, which we confirmed as part o…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 1 cited

Searching for GEMS: The Occurrence of Giant Planets orbiting M-dwarfs within 100 pc

Rowen I. Glusman, Caleb I. Cañas, Shubham Kanodia +30

We present results from a systematic search for transiting short-period Giant Exoplanets around M-dwarf Stars (GEMS; days, ) within a distance-limi…

astro-ph.EP2025

The NEID Earth Twin Survey. IV. Confirming an 89 d, Planet Orbiting a Nearby Sun-like Star

Mark R. Giovinazzi, Evan Fitzmaurice, Arvind F. Gupta +19

We present the confirmation of HD 190360 d, a warm (), low-mass () planet orbiting the nearb…

astro-ph.EP2025

Searching for GEMS: TOI-7149~b an Inflated Giant Planet causing a 12% Transit of a Fully Convective M-dwarf

Shubham Kanodia, Caleb I. Cañas, Suvrath Mahadevan +20

We describe the discovery and characterization of TOI-7149~b, a 0.705 0.075 , 1.18 0.045 gas giant on a day period orbit transiting an M4V star w…

astro-ph.EP2025

TOI-880 is an Aligned, Coplanar, Multi-planet System

Elina Y. Zhang, Huan-Yu Teng, Fei Dai +22

Although many cases of stellar spin-orbit misalignment are known, it is usually unclear whether a single planet's orbit was tilted or if the entire protoplanetary disk was misalign…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 1 cited

TOI-1259Ab: A Warm Jupiter Orbiting a K-dwarf White-Dwarf Binary is on a Well-aligned Orbit

Hugo Veldhuis, Juan I. Espinoza-Retamal, Gudmundur Stefansson +21

The evolution of one member of a stellar binary into a white dwarf has been proposed as a mechanism that triggers the formation of close-in gas giant planets. The star's asymmetric…

astro-ph.EP2025

A Hot Jupiter with a Retrograde Orbit around a Sun-like Star and a Toy Model of Hot Jupiters in Wide Binary Star Systems

Steven Giacalone, Andrew W. Howard, Ryan A. Rubenzahl +21

We report an observation of a transit of the hot Jupiter (HJ) KELT-23A b with the Keck Planet Finder spectrograph and a measurement of the sky-projected obliquity () of its Sun-…

astro-ph.EP2025

The Epoch of Giant Planet Migration Planet Search Program. III. The Occurrence Rate of Young Giant Planets Inside the Water Ice Line

Quang H. Tran, Brendan P. Bowler, William D. Cochran +8

We present statistical results from the Epoch of Giant Planet Migration RV planet search program. This survey was designed to measure the occurrence rate of giant planets interior…

astro-ph.EP2025

The NEID Earth Twin Survey. III. Survey Performance After Three Years on Sky

Arvind F. Gupta, Evan Fitzmaurice, Suvrath Mahadevan +22

The NEID Earth Twin Survey (NETS) has been delivering a rich set of precise radial velocity (RV) measurements for 41 bright, nearby main sequence stars. Here, we describe the statu…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 3 cited

The OATMEAL Survey. II. The 3D spin-orbit obliquity of an eccentric transiting brown dwarf in the Ruprecht 147 open cluster

Theron W. Carmichael, Steven Giacalone, Noah Vowell +11

We present new analysis of the CWW 89 system as part of the Orbital Architectures of Transiting Massive Exoplanets And Low-mass stars (OATMEAL) survey. The CWW 89 system is a membe…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 7 cited

The NEID Earth Twin Survey. II. Dynamical Masses in Seven High-acceleration Star Systems

Mark R. Giovinazzi, Cullen H. Blake, Paul Robertson +26

We present a set of companion dynamical masses and orbital parameters of seven star systems from the NEID Earth Twin Survey with significant absolute astrometric accelerations betw…