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astro-ph.EP2026★ 1 cited

Uncovering the Rapidly Evolving Orbits of the Dynamic TOI-201 System

Ismael Mireles, Solène Ulmer-Moll, Donald Liveoak +47

Studying planetary interactions in exoplanet systems informs theories of planet formation and evolution, providing essential context for understanding our own solar system. We comb…

astro-ph.EP2026

TOI-1080 b: a temperate, rocky planet orbiting a quiet M4V host

Y. Gómez Maqueo Chew, G. Dransfield, K. Barkaoui +41

We present the detection and validation of a small, temperate transiting exoplanet orbiting TOI-1080 every 3.9652482 days. The host is a quiet M4V star…

astro-ph.EP2025

NGTS-11 c: a transiting Neptune-mass planet interior to the warm Saturn NGTS-11 b

David R. Anderson, Jose I. Vines, Katharine Hesse +56

We report the discovery of NGTS-11 c, a transiting warm Neptune ( d; ; ), in an…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 4 cited

Migration and Evolution of giant ExoPlanets (MEEP) II: Super-Jupiters and Lithium-rich Host Stars

Jack Schulte, Joseph E. Rodriguez, David W. Latham +30

Although hot Jupiters were the first exoplanets discovered orbiting main sequence stars, the dominant mechanisms through which they form and evolve are not known. To address the qu…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 5 cited

TOI-2005b: An Eccentric Warm Jupiter in Spin-Orbit Alignment

Allyson Bieryla, Jiayin Dong, George Zhou +36

We report the discovery and characterization of TOI-2005b, a warm Jupiter on an eccentric (e~0.59), 17.3-day orbit around a V_mag = 9.867 rapidly rotating F-star. The object was de…

astro-ph.EP2025

The NCORES Program: Precise planetary masses, null results, and insight into the planet mass distribution near the radius gap

David J. Armstrong, Ares Osborn, Remo Burn +39

NCORES was a large observing program on the ESO HARPS spectrograph, dedicated to measuring the masses of Neptune-like and smaller transiting planets discovered by the TESS satellit…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 13 cited

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…

astro-ph.EP2024

TOI-2374 b and TOI-3071 b: two metal-rich sub-Saturns well within the Neptunian desert

Alejandro Hacker, Rodrigo F. Díaz, David J. Armstrong +40

We report the discovery of two transiting planets detected by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), TOI-2374 b and TOI-3071 b, orbiting a K5V and an F8V star, respectiv…

astro-ph.EP2024

Wide Binary Orbits are Preferentially Aligned with the Orbits of Small Planets, but Probably Not Hot Jupiters

Sam Christian, Andrew Vanderburg, Juliette Becker +28

Studying the relative orientations of the orbits of exoplanets and wide-orbiting binary companions (semimajor axis greater than 100 AU) can shed light on how planets form and evolv…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 2 cited

The TESS-Keck Survey XXI: 13 New Planets and Homogeneous Properties for 21 Subgiant Systems

Ashley Chontos, Daniel Huber, Samuel K. Grunblatt +67

We present a dedicated transit and radial velocity survey of planets orbiting subgiant stars observed by the TESS Mission. Using nights on Keck/HIRES, we confirm and cha…

astro-ph.EP2023

VaTEST III: Validation of 8 Potential Super-Earths from TESS Data

Priyashkumar Mistry, Aniket Prasad, Mousam Maity +29

NASA's all-sky survey mission, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), is specifically engineered to detect exoplanets that transit bright stars. Thus far, TESS has succe…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 8 cited

Dynamical Architectures of S-type Transiting Planets in Binaries I: Target Selection using Hipparcos and Gaia proper motion anomalies

Jingwen Zhang, Lauren M. Weiss, Daniel Huber +16

The effect of stellar multiplicity on planetary architecture and orbital dynamics provides an important context for exoplanet demographics. We present a volume-limited catalog up t…

astro-ph.EP2023

TOI-199 b: A well-characterized 100-day transiting warm giant planet with TTVs seen from Antarctica

Melissa J. Hobson, Trifon Trifonov, Thomas Henning +49

We present the spectroscopic confirmation and precise mass measurement of the warm giant planet TOI-199 b. This planet was first identified in TESS photometry and confirmed using g…

astro-ph.EP2023

TOI-332 b: a super dense Neptune found deep within the Neptunian desert

Ares Osborn, David J. Armstrong, Jorge Fernández Fernández +49

To date, thousands of planets have been discovered, but there are regions of the orbital parameter space that are still bare. An example is the short period and intermediate mass/r…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 20 cited

Transit Timing Variations in the three-planet system: TOI-270

Laurel Kaye, Shreyas Vissapragada, Maximilian N. Gunther +69

We present ground and space-based photometric observations of TOI-270 (L231-32), a system of three transiting planets consisting of one super-Earth and two sub-Neptunes discovered…

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★ 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

Validating AU Microscopii d with Transit Timing Variations

Justin M. Wittrock, Peter Plavchan, Bryson L. Cale +31

AU Mic is a young (22 Myr) nearby exoplanetary system that exhibits excess TTVs that cannot be accounted for by the two known transiting planets nor stellar activity. We present th…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 12 cited

VaTEST II: Statistical Validation of 11 TESS-Detected Exoplanets Orbiting K-type Stars

Priyashkumar Mistry, Kamlesh Pathak, Aniket Prasad +48

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is an all-sky survey mission designed to find transiting exoplanets orbiting nearby bright stars. It has identified more than 32…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 10 cited

Spinning up a Daze: TESS Uncovers a Hot Jupiter orbiting the Rapid-Rotator TOI-778

Jake Clark, Brett Addison, Jack Okumura +68

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission, has been uncovering a growing number of exoplanets orbiting nearby, bright stars. Most exoplanets that have been discov…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 38 cited

The TESS Grand Unified Hot Jupiter Survey. II. Twenty New Giant Planets

Samuel W. Yee, Joshua N. Winn, Joel D. Hartman +83

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission promises to improve our understanding of hot Jupiters by providing an all-sky, magnitude-limited sample of transiting ho…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 3 cited

A sub-Neptune transiting the young field star HD 18599 at 40 pc

Jerome P. de Leon, John H. Livingston, James S. Jenkins +67

Transiting exoplanets orbiting young nearby stars are ideal laboratories for testing theories of planet formation and evolution. However, to date only a handful of stars with age <…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 3 cited

MOA-2020-BLG-208Lb: Cool Sub-Saturn Planet Within Predicted Desert

Greg Olmschenk, David P. Bennett, Ian A. Bond +74

We analyze the MOA-2020-BLG-208 gravitational microlensing event and present the discovery and characterization of a new planet, MOA-2020-BLG-208Lb, with an estimated sub-Saturn ma…