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Detection of 27 candidate circumbinary planets through apsidal precession of eclipsing binaries observed by TESS
Margo Thornton, Benjamin T. Montet, Riley White +2
Most circumbinary planets have been discovered by their transits, limiting our understanding of such systems to those with mutually coplanar architectures. This bias makes it diffi…
Ever Elusive Exospheres: One Probable Detection and Two Non-Detections of Hα Transits in Young Systems
Reilly P. Milburn, Andrew W. Mann, Keighley Rockcliffe +5
Gaps in the exoplanet population, such as the Neptunian Desert, point to the importance of mass-loss in sculpting the radii of close-in exoplanets. Young planets (500Myr) offer…
Destruction of "Peas in a Pod?" A Candidate Multi-planet System Around the Nearby, Bright Star, HD208487
Rafael I. Rubenstein, James S. Jenkins, Pablo A. Peña R. +15
We re-investigate the HD208487 system to test the reality of the proposed HD208487c world. We also search for additional companions using applied Bayesian statistics and 15+ years…
A Planet Candidate Orbiting near the Hot Jupiter TOI-2818 b Inferred through Transit Timing
Brendan J. McKee, Benjamin T. Montet, Samuel W. Yee +5
TOI-2818 b is a hot Jupiter orbiting a slightly evolved G-type star on a 4.04-day orbit that shows transit timing variations (TTVs) suggestive of a decreasing orbital period. In th…
HD 222237 b: a long period super-Jupiter around a nearby star revealed by radial-velocity and Hipparcos-Gaia astrometry
Guang-Yao Xiao, Fabo Feng, Stephen A. Shectman +16
Giant planets on long period orbits around the nearest stars are among the easiest to directly image. Unfortunately these planets are difficult to fully constrain by indirect metho…
The metallicity and carbon-to-oxygen ratio of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-76b from Gemini-S/IGRINS
Megan Weiner Mansfield, Michael R. Line, Joost P. Wardenier +11
Measurements of the carbon-to-oxygen (C/O) ratios of exoplanet atmospheres can reveal details about their formation and evolution. Recently, high-resolution cross-correlation analy…
Transiting Exoplanet Yields for the Roman Galactic Bulge Time Domain Survey Predicted from Pixel-Level Simulations
Robert F. Wilson, Thomas Barclay, Brian P. Powell +8
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Roman) is NASA's next astrophysics flagship mission, expected to launch in late 2026. As one of Roman's core community science surveys, the G…
Transit Depth Variations Reveal TOI-216 b to be a Super-Puff
Brendan J. McKee, Benjamin T. Montet
The planets of the TOI-216 system have been previously observed to exhibit large transit timing variations (TTVs), which enabled precise mass characterization of both transiting pl…
V1298 Tau with TESS: Updated Ephemerides, Radii, and Period Constraints from a Second Transit of V1298 Tau e
Adina D. Feinstein, Trevor J. David, Benjamin T. Montet +3
V1298 Tau is a young (20-30 Myr) solar-mass K star hosting four transiting exoplanets with sizes between 0.5 - 0.9 . Given the system's youth, it provides a unique opportunity…
C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein): the nearly spherical cow of comets
Pedro H. Bernardinelli, Gary M. Bernstein, Benjamin T. Montet +64
C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein) is a comet incoming from the Oort cloud which is remarkable in having the brightest (and presumably largest) nucleus of any well-measured com…
H-alpha and Ca II Infrared Triplet Variations During a Transit of the 23 Myr Planet V1298 Tau c
Adina D. Feinstein, Benjamin T. Montet, Marshall C. Johnson +5
Young transiting exoplanets (< 100 Myr) provide crucial insight into atmospheric evolution via photoevaporation. However, transmission spectroscopy measurements to determine atmosp…
TIC 172900988: A Transiting Circumbinary Planet Detected in One Sector of TESS Data
Veselin B. Kostov, Brian P. Powell, Jerome A. Orosz +86
We report the first discovery of a transiting circumbinary planet detected from a single sector of TESS data. During Sector 21, the planet TIC 172900988b transited the primary star…
A nearby transiting rocky exoplanet that is suitable for atmospheric investigation
T. Trifonov, J. A. Caballero, J. C. Morales +66
Spectroscopy of transiting exoplanets can be used to investigate their atmospheric properties and habitability. Combining radial velocity (RV) and transit data provides additional…
TOI-1259Ab -- a gas giant planet with 2.7% deep transits and a bound white dwarf companion
David V. Martin, Kareem El-Badry, Vedad Kunovac Hodžić +33
We present TOI-1259Ab, a 1.0 Rjup gas giant planet transiting a 0.71 Rsun K-dwarf on a 3.48 day orbit. The system also contains a bound white dwarf companion TOI-1259B with a proje…
Revisiting the HD 21749 Planetary System with Stellar Activity Modeling
Tianjun Gan, Sharon Xuesong Wang, Johanna K. Teske +26
HD 21749 is a bright ( mag) K dwarf at 16 pc known to host an inner terrestrial planet HD 21749c as well as an outer sub-Neptune HD 21749b, both delivered by TESS. Follow-up…
TOI 122b and TOI 237b, two small warm planets orbiting inactive M dwarfs, found by \textit{TESS}
William C. Waalkes, Zachory K. Berta-Thompson, Karen A. Collins +39
We report the discovery and validation of TOI 122b and TOI 237b, two warm planets transiting inactive M dwarfs observed by \textit{TESS}. Our analysis shows TOI 122b has a radius o…
TOI-954 b and K2-329 b: Short-Period Saturn-Mass Planets that Test whether Irradiation Leads to Inflation
Lizhou Sha, Chelsea X. Huang, Avi Shporer +70
We report the discovery of two short-period Saturn-mass planets, one transiting the G subgiant TOI-954 (TIC 44792534, , ) observed in TESS sectors 4 and 5…
TOI-824 b: A New Planet on the Lower Edge of the Hot Neptune Desert
Jennifer A. Burt, Louise D. Nielsen, Samuel N. Quinn +54
We report the detection of a transiting hot Neptune exoplanet orbiting TOI-824 (SCR J1448-5735), a nearby (d = 64 pc) K4V star, using data from the \textit{Transiting Exoplanet Sur…
TOI-1338: TESS' First Transiting Circumbinary Planet
Veselin B. Kostov, Jerome A. Orosz, Adina D. Feinstein +65
We report the detection of the first circumbinary planet found by TESS. The target, a known eclipsing binary, was observed in sectors 1 through 12 at 30-minute cadence and in secto…
The Young Planet DS Tuc Ab has a Low Obliquity
Benjamin T. Montet, Adina D. Feinstein, Rodrigo Luger +9
The abundance of short-period planetary systems with high orbital obliquities relative to the spin of their host stars is often taken as evidence that scattering processes play imp…
K2-146: Discovery of Planet c, Precise Masses from Transit Timing, and Observed Precession
Aaron Hamann, Benjamin T. Montet, Daniel C. Fabrycky +2
K2-146 is a mid-M dwarf (; ), observed in Campaigns 5, 16, and 18 of the K2 mission. In Campaign 5 data, a sin…
A Statistical Comparative Planetology Approach to Maximize the Scientific Return of Future Exoplanet Characterization Efforts
Jade H. Checlair, Dorian S. Abbot, Robert J. Webber +37
Provided that sufficient resources are deployed, we can look forward to an extraordinary future in which we will characterize potentially habitable planets. Until now, we have had…
The L 98-59 System: Three Transiting, Terrestrial-Sized Planets Orbiting a Nearby M-dwarf
Veselin B. Kostov, Joshua E. Schlieder, Thomas Barclay +112
We report the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) discovery of three terrestrial-sized planets transiting L 98-59 (TOI-175, TIC 307210830) -- a bright M dwarf at a distanc…
A super-Earth and two sub-Neptunes transiting the nearby and quiet M dwarf TOI-270
Maximilian N. Günther, Francisco J. Pozuelos, Jason A. Dittmann +57
We report the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite discovery of three small planets transiting one of the nearest and brightest M dwarf hosts to date, TOI-270 (TIC 259377017; K-ma…