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Jitter Across 15 Years: Leveraging Precise Photometry from Kepler and TESS to Extract Exoplanets from Radial Velocity Time Series
Corey Beard, Paul Robertson, Jack Lubin +24
Stellar activity contamination of radial velocity (RV) data is one of the top challenges plaguing the field of extreme precision RV (EPRV) science. Previous work has shown that pho…
An Obliquity Measurement of the Hot Neptune TOI-1694b
Luke B. Handley, Andrew W. Howard, Ryan A. Rubenzahl +9
We present spectral observations of the multiplanet host TOI-1694 during the transit of TOI-1694b, a 26.1 hot Neptune with a 3.77-day orbit. By analyzing radial velociti…
Searching for GEMS: Two Super-Jupiters around M-dwarfs -- Signatures of Instability or Accretion?
Andrew Hotnisky, Shubham Kanodia, Jessica Libby-Roberts +20
We present the discovery of TOI-6303b and TOI-6330b, two massive transiting super-Jupiters orbiting a M0 and a M2 star respectively, as part of the Searching for GEMS survey. These…
Origins of Super Jupiters: TOI-2145b Has a Moderately Eccentric and Nearly Aligned Orbit
Jiayin Dong, Ashley Chontos, George Zhou +15
Super Jupiters are giant planets with several Jupiter masses. It remains an open question whether these planets originate with such high masses or grow through collisions. Previous…
Gaia-4b and 5b: Radial Velocity Confirmation of Gaia Astrometric Orbital Solutions Reveal a Massive Planet and a Brown Dwarf Orbiting Low-mass Stars
Gudmundur Stefansson, Suvrath Mahadevan, Joshua Winn +31
Gaia astrometry of nearby stars is precise enough to detect the tiny displacements induced by substellar companions, but radial velocity data are needed for definitive confirmation…
The Compositions of Rocky Planets in Close-in Orbits Tend to be Earth-Like
Casey L. Brinkman, Lauren M. Weiss, Daniel Huber +54
Hundreds of exoplanets between 1-1.8 times the size of the Earth have been discovered on close in orbits. However, these planets show such a diversity in densities that some appear…
Searching for GEMS: TOI-6383Ab, a giant planet transiting an M3-dwarf star in a binary system
Lia Marta Bernabò, Shubham Kanodia, Caleb I. Canas +22
We report on the discovery of a transiting giant planet around the 3500 K M3-dwarf star TOI-6383A located 172 pc from Earth. It was detected by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Sate…
The NEID Earth Twin Survey. I. Confirmation of a 31-day planet orbiting HD 86728
Arvind F. Gupta, Jacob K. Luhn, Jason T. Wright +21
With close to three years of observations in hand, the NEID Earth Twin Survey (NETS) is starting to unearth new astrophysical signals for a curated sample of bright, radial velocit…
The HD 191939 Exoplanet System is Well-Aligned and Flat
Jack Lubin, Erik A. Petigura, Judah Van Zandt +25
We report the sky-projected spin-orbit angle for HD 191939 b, the innermost planet in a 6 planet system, using Keck/KPF to detect the Rossiter-McLaughlin (RM) effect. Planet b…
Searching for GEMS: TOI-5688 A b, a low-density giant orbiting a high-metallicity early M-dwarf
Varghese Reji, Shubham Kanodia, Joe Ninan +31
We present the discovery of a low-density planet orbiting the high-metallicity early M-dwarf TOI-5688 A b. This planet was characterized as part of the search for transiting giant…
Data-Driven Modeling of Telluric Features and Stellar Variability with StellarSpectraObservationFitting.jl
Christian Gilbertson, Eric B. Ford, Samuel Halverson +11
A significant barrier to achieving the radial velocity (RV) measurement accuracy and precision required to characterize terrestrial mass exoplanets is the existence of time-variabl…
Searching for GEMS: Characterizing Six Giant Planets around Cool Dwarfs
Shubham Kanodia, Arvind F. Gupta, Caleb I. Canas +42
Transiting giant exoplanets around M-dwarf stars (GEMS) are rare, owing to the low-mass host stars. However, the all-sky coverage of TESS has enabled the detection of an increasing…
Asteroseismology of the Nearby K-Dwarf Draconis using the Keck Planet Finder and TESS
Marc Hon, Daniel Huber, Yaguang Li +76
Asteroseismology of dwarf stars cooler than the Sun is very challenging due to the low amplitudes and rapid timescales of oscillations. Here, we present the asteroseismic detection…
Earths within Reach: Evaluation of Strategies for Mitigating Solar Variability using 3.5 years of NEID Sun-as-a-Star Observations
Eric B. Ford, Chad F. Bender, Cullen H. Blake +15
We present the results of Sun-as-a-star observations by the NEID Solar Telescope at WIYN Observatory, spanning January 1, 2021 through June 30, 2024. We identify 117,060 observatio…
Quiet Please: Detrending Radial Velocity Variations from Stellar Activity with a Physically Motivated Spot Model
Jared C. Siegel, Samuel Halverson, Jacob K. Luhn +15
For solar-type stars, spots and their associated magnetic regions induce radial velocity perturbations through the Doppler rotation signal and the suppression of convective blueshi…
Utilizing Photometry from Multiple Sources to Mitigate Stellar Variability in Precise Radial Velocities: A Case Study of Kepler-21
Corey Beard, Paul Robertson, Mark R. Giovinazzi +26
We present a new analysis of Kepler-21, the brightest (V = 8.5) Kepler system with a known transiting exoplanet, Kepler-21 b. Kepler-21 b is a radius valley planet ($R = 1.6\pm 0.2…
TESS Giants Transiting Giants. VI. Newly Discovered Hot Jupiters Provide Evidence for Efficient Obliquity Damping after the Main Sequence
Nicholas Saunders, Samuel K. Grunblatt, Ashley Chontos +53
The degree of alignment between a star's spin axis and the orbital plane of its planets (the stellar obliquity) is related to interesting and poorly understood processes that occur…
KPF Confirms a Polar Orbit for KELT-18 b
Ryan A. Rubenzahl, Fei Dai, Samuel Halverson +24
We present the first spectroscopic transit results from the newly commissioned Keck Planet Finder on the Keck-I telescope at W. M. Keck Observatory. We observed a transit of KELT-1…
Obliquity Constraints for the Extremely Eccentric Sub-Saturn Kepler-1656 b
Ryan A. Rubenzahl, Andrew W. Howard, Samuel Halverson +25
The orbits of close-in exoplanets provide clues to their formation and evolutionary history. Many close-in exoplanets likely formed far out in their protoplanetary disks and migrat…
An Earth-sized Planet on the Verge of Tidal Disruption
Fei Dai, Andrew W. Howard, Samuel Halverson +95
TOI-6255~b (GJ 4256) is an Earth-sized planet (1.079 ) with an orbital period of only 5.7 hours. With the newly commissioned Keck Planet Finder (KPF) and CARMEN…
A Testbed for Tidal Migration: the 3D Architecture of an Eccentric Hot Jupiter HD 118203 b Accompanied by a Possibly Aligned Outer Giant Planet
Jingwen Zhang, Daniel Huber, Lauren M. Weiss +31
Characterizing outer companions to hot Jupiters plays a crucial role in deciphering their origins. We present the discovery of a long-period giant planet, HD 118203 c ($m_{c}=11.79…
The OATMEAL Survey. I. Low Stellar Obliquity in the Transiting Brown Dwarf System GPX-1
Steven Giacalone, Fei Dai, J. J. Zanazzi +31
We introduce the OATMEAL survey, an effort to measure the obliquities of stars with transiting brown dwarf companions. We observed a transit of the close-in ($P_{\rm orb} = 1.74 \,…
The death of Vulcan: NEID reveals the planet candidate orbiting HD 26965 is stellar activity
Abigail Burrows, Samuel Halverson, Jared C. Siegel +17
We revisit the long-studied radial velocity (RV) target HD26965 using recent observations from the NASA-NSF 'NEID' precision Doppler facility. Leveraging a suite of classical activ…
Giant Outer Transiting Exoplanet Mass (GOT 'EM) Survey. IV. Long-term Doppler Spectroscopy for 11 Stars Thought to Host Cool Giant Exoplanets
Paul A. Dalba, Stephen R. Kane, Howard Isaacson +29
Discovering and characterizing exoplanets at the outer edge of the transit method's sensitivity has proven challenging owing to geometric biases and the practical difficulties asso…