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astro-ph.EP2023★ 64 cited

A resonant sextuplet of sub-Neptunes transiting the bright star HD 110067

R. Luque, H. P. Osborn, A. Leleu +149

Planets with radii between that of the Earth and Neptune (hereafter referred to as sub-Neptunes) are found in close-in orbits around more than half of all Sun-like stars. Yet, thei…

astro-ph.EP2023

TESS Spots a Super-Puff: The Remarkably Low Density of TOI-1420b

Stephanie Yoshida, Shreyas Vissapragada, David W. Latham +51

We present the discovery of TOI-1420b, an exceptionally low-density ( g cm) transiting planet in a day orbit around a late G dwarf star. Using tra…

astro-ph.SR2023

C3PO: Towards a complete census of co-moving pairs of stars. I. High precision stellar parameters for 250 stars

David Yong, Fan Liu, Yuan-Sen Ting +6

We conduct a line-by-line differential analysis of a sample of 125 co-moving pairs of stars (dwarfs and subgiants near solar metallicity). We obtain high precision stellar paramete…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 1 cited

Identification of the Top TESS Objects of Interest for Atmospheric Characterization of Transiting Exoplanets with JWST

Benjamin J. Hord, Eliza M. -R. Kempton, Thomas Mikal-Evans +142

JWST has ushered in an era of unprecedented ability to characterize exoplanetary atmospheres. While there are over 5,000 confirmed planets, more than 4,000 TESS planet candidates a…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 11 cited

Enhanced Size Uniformity for Near-resonant Planets

Armaan V. Goyal, Fei Dai, Songhu Wang

Super-Earths within the same close-in, compact planetary system tend to exhibit a striking degree of uniformity in their radius, mass, and orbital spacing, and this 'peas-in-a-pod'…

astro-ph.EP2023

Outflowing helium from a mature mini-Neptune

Michael Zhang, Fei Dai, Jacob L. Bean +2

We announce the detection of escaping helium from TOI 2134b, a mini-Neptune a few Gyr old. The average in-transit absorption spectrum shows a peak of 0.37 +- 0.05% and an equivalen…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 34 cited

Company for the ultra-high density, ultra-short period sub-Earth GJ 367 b: discovery of two additional low-mass planets at 11.5 and 34 days

Elisa Goffo, Davide Gandolfi, Jo Ann Egger +38

GJ 367 is a bright (V 10.2) M1 V star that has been recently found to host a transiting ultra-short period sub-Earth on a 7.7 hr orbit. With the aim of improving the plan…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 53 cited

Overfitting Affects the Reliability of Radial Velocity Mass Estimates of the V1298 Tau Planets

Sarah Blunt, Adolfo Carvalho, Trevor J. David +23

Mass, radius, and age measurements of young (<100 Myr) planets have the power to shape our understanding of planet formation. However, young stars tend to be extremely variable in…

astro-ph.EP2023

The TESS-Keck Survey. XVI. Mass Measurements for 12 Planets in Eight Systems

Joseph M. Akana Murphy, Natalie M. Batalha, Nicholas Scarsdale +44

With JWST's successful deployment and unexpectedly high fuel reserves, measuring the masses of sub-Neptunes transiting bright, nearby stars will soon become the bottleneck for char…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 17 cited

A Mini-Neptune Orbiting the Metal-poor K Dwarf BD+29 2654

Fei Dai, Kevin C. Schlaufman, Henrique Reggiani +48

We report the discovery and Doppler mass measurement of a 7.4-day 2.3- mini-Neptune around a metal-poor K dwarf BD+29 2654 (TOI-2018). Based on a high-resolution Keck/HIR…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 22 cited

The TESS-Keck Survey. XV. Precise Properties of 108 TESS Planets and Their Host Stars

Mason G. MacDougall, Erik A. Petigura, Gregory J. Gilbert +38

We present the stellar and planetary properties for 85 TESS Objects of Interest (TOIs) hosting 108 planet candidates which comprise the TESS-Keck Survey (TKS) sample. We combine ph…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 21 cited

TOI-1416: A system with a super-Earth planet with a 1.07d period

H. J. Deeg, I. Y. Georgieva, G. Nowak +49

TOI 1416 (BD+42 2504, HIP 70705) is a V=10 late G or early K-type dwarf star with transits detected by TESS. Radial velocities verify the presence of the transiting planet TOI-1416…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 35 cited

TOI-1130: A photodynamical analysis of a hot Jupiter in resonance with an inner low-mass planet

J. Korth, D. Gandolfi, J. Šubjak +59

The TOI-1130 is a known planetary system around a K-dwarf consisting of a gas giant planet, TOI-1130 c, on an 8.4-day orbit, accompanied by an inner Neptune-sized planet, TOI-1130…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 6 cited

TOI-733 b: a planet in the small-planet radius valley orbiting a Sun-like star

Iskra Y. Georgieva, Carina M. Persson, Elisa Goffo +40

We report the discovery of a hot ( 1055 K) planet in the small planet radius valley transiting the Sun-like star TOI-733, as part of the KESPRINT follow-up pr…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 14 cited

Stability and detectability of exomoons orbiting HIP 41378 f, a temperate Jovian planet with an anomalously low apparent density

Caleb K. Harada, Courtney D. Dressing, Munazza K. Alam +21

Moons orbiting exoplanets ("exomoons") may hold clues about planet formation, migration, and habitability. In this work, we investigate the plausibility of exomoons orbiting the te…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 4 cited

The low density, hot Jupiter TOI-640 b is on a polar orbit

Emil Knudstrup, Simon H. Albrecht, Davide Gandolfi +17

TOI-640 b is a hot, puffy Jupiter with a mass of M and radius of R, orbiting a slightly evolved F-type star with a separation of…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 9 cited

An Earth-sized Planet around an M5 Dwarf Star at 22 pc

Teruyuki Hirano, Fei Dai, John H. Livingston +46

We report on the discovery of an Earth-sized transiting planet () in a day orbit around K2-415 (EPIC 211414619), an M5V star at 22 pc. The pla…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 23 cited

The Orbital Architecture of Qatar-6: A Fully Aligned 3-Body System?

Malena Rice, Songhu Wang, Konstantin Gerbig +5

The evolutionary history of an extrasolar system is, in part, fossilized through its planets' orbital orientations relative to the host star's spin axis. However, spin-orbit constr…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 47 cited

The Possible Tidal Demise of Kepler's First Planetary System

Shreyas Vissapragada, Ashley Chontos, Michael Greklek-McKeon +6

We present evidence of tidally-driven inspiral in the Kepler-1658 (KOI-4) system, which consists of a giant planet (1.1, 5.9) orbiting an evolved host s…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 15 cited

NEID Reveals that The Young Warm Neptune TOI-2076 b Has a Low Obliquity

Robert C. Frazier, Gudmundur Stefansson, Suvrath Mahadevan +27

TOI-2076 b is a sub-Neptune-sized planet () that transits a young () bright () K-dwarf hosting a system of three transiting…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 9 cited

Radial velocity confirmation of a hot super-Neptune discovered by TESS with a warm Saturn-mass companion

E. Knudstrup, D. Gandolfi, G. Nowak +59

We report the discovery and confirmation of the planetary system TOI-1288. This late G dwarf harbours two planets: TOI-1288 b and TOI-1288 c. We combine TESS space-borne and ground…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 72 cited

TOI-1136 is a Young, Coplanar, Aligned Planetary System in a Pristine Resonant Chain

Fei Dai, Kento Masuda, Corey Beard +60

Convergent disk migration has long been suspected to be responsible for forming planetary systems with a chain of mean-motion resonances (MMR). Dynamical evolution over time could…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 18 cited

HD 20329b: An ultra-short-period planet around a solar-type star found by TESS

F. Murgas, G. Nowak, T. Masseron +45

We used TESS light curves and HARPS-N spectrograph radial velocity measurements to establish the physical properties of the transiting exoplanet candidate found around the star HD…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 33 cited

Planet Engulfment Detections are Rare According to Observations and Stellar Modeling

Aida Behmard, Fei Dai, John M. Brewer +2

Dynamical evolution within planetary systems can cause planets to be engulfed by their host stars. Following engulfment, the stellar photosphere abundance pattern will reflect accr…