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20132024
most citedThe TESS Objects of Interest Catalog from the TESS Prime Mission

392 citations · 4.9k across the 100 of their papers we have counts for

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101 papers

astro-ph.EP2024

TESS Giants Transiting Giants. VII. A Hot Saturn Orbiting an Oscillating Red Giant Star

Nicholas Saunders, Samuel K. Grunblatt, Daniel Huber +26

We present the discovery of TOI-7041 b (TIC 201175570 b), a hot Saturn transiting a red giant star with measurable stellar oscillations. We observe solar-like oscillations in TOI-7…

astro-ph.EP2024

Gliese 12 b, A Temperate Earth-sized Planet at 12 Parsecs Discovered with TESS and CHEOPS

Shishir Dholakia, Larissa Palethorpe, Alexander Venner +33

We report on the discovery of Gliese 12 b, the nearest transiting temperate, Earth-sized planet found to date. Gliese 12 is a bright ( mag, mag) metal-poor M4V star…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 1 cited

The occurrence of small, short-period planets younger than 200 Myr with TESS

Sydney Vach, George Zhou, Chelsea X. Huang +10

Within the first few hundreds of millions of years, many physical processes sculpt the eventual properties of young planets. NASA's TESS mission has surveyed young stellar associat…

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.EP2023

TOI-5126: A hot super-Neptune and warm Neptune pair discovered by and

Tyler R. Fairnington, Emma Nabbie, Chelsea X. Huang +33

We present the confirmation of a hot super-Neptune with an exterior Neptune companion orbiting a bright (V = 10.1 mag) F-dwarf identified by the $\textit{Transiting Exoplanet Surve…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 1 cited

Two mini-Neptunes Transiting the Adolescent K-star HIP 113103 Confirmed with TESS and CHEOPS

Nataliea Lowson, George Zhou, Chelsea X. Huang +31

We report the discovery of two mini-Neptunes in near 2:1 resonance orbits ( d for HIP 113103 b and d for HIP 113103 c) around the adolescent K-star HIP 11…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 19 cited

TOI-4010: A System of Three Large Short-Period Planets With a Massive Long-Period Companion

Michelle Kunimoto, Andrew Vanderburg, Chelsea X. Huang +53

We report the confirmation of three exoplanets transiting TOI-4010 (TIC-352682207), a metal-rich K dwarf observed by TESS in Sectors 24, 25, 52, and 58. We confirm these planets wi…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 21 cited

TOI-1859b: A 64-Day Warm Jupiter on an Eccentric and Misaligned Orbit

Jiayin Dong, Songhu Wang, Malena Rice +31

Warm Jupiters are close-in giant planets with relatively large planet-star separations (i.e., ). Given their weak tidal interactions with their host stars, meas…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 10 cited

Three Saturn-mass planets transiting F-type stars revealed with TESS and HARPS

Angelica Psaridi, François Bouchy, Monika Lendl +62

While the sample of confirmed exoplanets continues to increase, the population of transiting exoplanets around early-type stars is still limited. These planets allow us to investig…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 11 cited

Multi-epoch detections of the extended atmosphere and transmission spectra of KELT-9b with a 1.5 m telescope

Nataliea Lowson, George Zhou, Duncan J. Wright +10

Irradiated Jovian atmospheres are complex, dynamic, and can undergo temporal variations due to the close proximity of their parent stars. Of the Jovian planets that have been catal…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 34 cited

A Second Earth-Sized Planet in the Habitable Zone of the M Dwarf, TOI-700

Emily A. Gilbert, Andrew Vanderburg, Joseph E. Rodriguez +29

We report the discovery of TOI-700 e, a 0.95 R planet residing in the Optimistic Habitable Zone (HZ) of its host star. This discovery was enabled by multiple years of moni…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 23 cited

Identifying Exoplanets with Deep Learning. V. Improved Light Curve Classification for TESS Full Frame Image Observations

Evan Tey, Dan Moldovan, Michelle Kunimoto +8

The TESS mission produces a large amount of time series data, only a small fraction of which contain detectable exoplanetary transit signals. Deep learning techniques such as neura…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 4 cited

TESS Discovery of Twin Planets near 2:1 Resonance around Early M-Dwarf TOI 4342

Evan Tey, Chelsea X. Huang, Michelle Kunimoto +28

With data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), we showcase improvements to the MIT Quick-Look Pipeline (QLP) through the discovery and validation of a multi-plane…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 37 cited

TESS Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets (THYME) IX: a 27 Myr extended population of Lower-Centaurus Crux with a transiting two-planet system

Mackenna L. Wood, Andrew W. Mann, Madyson G. Barber +35

We report the discovery and characterization of a nearby (~ 85 pc), older (27 +/- 3 Myr), distributed stellar population near Lower-Centaurus-Crux (LCC), initially identified by se…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 89 cited

Occurrence rate of hot Jupiters around early-type M dwarfs based on TESS data

Tianjun Gan, Sharon X. Wang, Songhu Wang +26

We present an estimate of the occurrence rate of hot Jupiters (, days) around early-type M dwarfs based on stars obser…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 28 cited

TESS spots a mini-neptune interior to a hot saturn in the TOI-2000 system

Lizhou Sha, Andrew M. Vanderburg, Chelsea X. Huang +52

Hot jupiters (P < 10 d, M > 60 ) are almost always found alone around their stars, but four out of hundreds known have inner companion planets. These rare compan…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 9 cited

HD 56414 b: A Warm Neptune Transiting an A-type Star

Steven Giacalone, Courtney D. Dressing, Antonio García Muñoz +17

We report the discovery in TESS data and validation of HD 56414 b (a.k.a. TOI-1228 b), a Neptune-size () planet with a 29-day orbital period t…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 15 cited

TOI-4562 b: A highly eccentric temperate Jupiter analog orbiting a young field star

Alexis Heitzmann, George Zhou, Samuel N. Quinn +47

We report the discovery of TOI-4562 b (TIC-349576261), a Jovian planet orbiting a young F7V-type star, younger than the Praesepe/Hyades clusters (< Myr). This planet stands o…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 18 cited

ET White Paper: To Find the First Earth 2.0

Jian Ge, Hui Zhang, Weicheng Zang +163

We propose to develop a wide-field and ultra-high-precision photometric survey mission, temporarily named "Earth 2.0 (ET)". This mission is designed to measure, for the first time,…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 25 cited

The TESS Grand Unified Hot Jupiter Survey. I. Ten TESS Planets

Samuel W. Yee, Joshua N. Winn, Joel D. Hartman +69

We report the discovery of ten short-period giant planets (TOI-2193A b, TOI-2207 b, TOI-2236 b, TOI-2421 b, TOI-2567 b, TOI-2570 b, TOI-3331 b, TOI-3540A b, TOI-3693 b, TOI-4137 b)…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 27 cited

Another Shipment of Six Short-Period Giant Planets from TESS

Joseph E. Rodriguez, Samuel N. Quinn, Andrew Vanderburg +119

We present the discovery and characterization of six short-period, transiting giant planets from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) -- TOI-1811 (TIC 376524552), TO…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 27 cited

A Mini-Neptune from TESS and CHEOPS Around the 120 Myr Old AB Dor member HIP 94235

George Zhou, Christopher P. Wirth, Chelsea X. Huang +36

The TESS mission has enabled discoveries of the brightest transiting planet systems around young stars. These systems are the benchmarks for testing theories of planetary evolution…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 20 cited

TOI-1670 b and c: An Inner Sub-Neptune with an Outer Warm Jupiter Unlikely to have Originated from High-Eccentricity Migration

Quang H. Tran, Brendan P. Bowler, Michael Endl +38

We report the discovery of two transiting planets around the bright ( mag) main sequence F7 star TOI-1670 by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. TOI-1670 b is a sub-N…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 21 cited

TESS discovery of a sub-Neptune orbiting a mid-M dwarf TOI-2136

Tianjun Gan, Abderahmane Soubkiou, Sharon X. Wang +60

We present the discovery of TOI-2136b, a sub-Neptune planet transiting every 7.85 days a nearby M4.5V-type star, identified through photometric measurements from the TESS mission.…