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A Distinct Type of Standstill in Ultra-Compact White Dwarf Binaries
Jan Kára, Liliana Rivera Sandoval, Iwona Kotko +3
AM CVn stars are ultra-compact, semi-detached binaries consisting of a white dwarf primary and a hydrogen-poor secondary. In this work, we analyse the AM CVn-type systems MGAB-V270…
COPAS: Compact Objects and the Physics of Accretion Survey I. Accreting Binaries with P < 83 Minutes
Wendy Mendoza, Liliana Rivera Sandoval, Jan Kára +9
We present the first results from the Compact Objects and the Physics of Accretion Survey (COPAS), a high-cadence photometric survey focused on the detection of accreting white dwa…
A Catalogue of Orbital Periods of Cataclysmic Variables and Candidates from TESS Observations
Meryem K. Dağ, Simone Scaringi, Kieran O'Brien +21
We present a systematic analysis of 2544 cataclysmic variable systems and related candidates observed by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), with the aim of compiling…
A study of transients from ground-based surveys reveals new ultra-compact accreting white dwarf binaries
Jan Kára, Liliana Rivera Sandoval, Wendy Mendoza +5
AM CVn stars are ultra-compact semi-detached binaries consisting of a white dwarf primary and a hydrogen-depleted secondary. In this paper we present spectroscopic and photometric…
Rapid characterization of exoplanet atmospheres with the Exoplanet Transmission Spectroscopy Imager (ETSI)
Luke M. Schmidt, Ryan J. Oelkers, Erika Cook +7
The Exoplanet Transmission Spectroscopy Imager (ETSI) amalgamates a low resolution slitless prism spectrometer with custom multi-band filters to simultaneously image 15 spectral ba…
Ground-Based Reconnaissance Observations of 21 Exoplanet Atmospheres with the Exoplanet Transmission Spectroscopy Imager
Ryan J. Oelkers, Luke M. Schmidt, Erika Cook +24
One of the most prolific methods of studying exoplanet atmospheres is transmission spectroscopy, which measures the difference between the depth of an exoplanet's transit signal at…
The GAPS Programme at TNG. LXV. Precise density measurement of TOI-1430 b, a young planet with an evaporating atmosphere
D. Nardiello, J. M. Akana Murphy, R. Spinelli +34
Small-sized exoplanets in tight orbits around young stars (10-1000 Myr) give us the opportunity to investigate the mechanisms that led to their formation, the evolution of their ph…
TOI-757 b: an eccentric transiting mini-Neptune on a 17.5-d orbit
A. Alqasim, N. Grieves, N. M. Rosário +129
We report the spectroscopic confirmation and fundamental properties of TOI-757 b, a mini-Neptune on a 17.5-day orbit transiting a bright star ( mag) discovered by the TESS…
The eclipse of the V773 Tau B circumbinary disk
M. A. Kenworthy, D. González Picos, E. Elizondo +9
A deep (~70%) and extended (~150 days) eclipse was seen towards the young multiple stellar system V773 Tau in 2010. We interpret it as due to the passage of a circumbinary disk aro…
SpinSpotter: An Automated Algorithm for Identifying Stellar Rotation Periods With Autocorrelation Analysis
Rae J. Holcomb, Paul Robertson, Patrick Hartigan +2
Spinspotter is a robust and automated algorithm designed to extract stellar rotation periods from large photometric datasets with minimal supervision. Our approach uses the autocor…
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…
H-band light curves of Milky Way Cepheids via Difference Imaging
Tarini Konchady, Ryan J. Oelkers, David O. Jones +4
We present H-band light curves of Milky Way Classical Cepheids observed as part of the DEHVILS survey with the Wide-Field Infrared Camera on the United Kingdom InfraRed Telescope.…
The TESS Mission Target Selection Procedure
Michael Fausnaugh, Ed Morgan, Roland Vanderspek +61
We describe the target selection procedure by which stars are selected for 2-minute and 20-second observations by TESS. We first list the technical requirements of the TESS instrum…
Final Targeting Strategy for the SDSS-IV APOGEE-2S Survey
Felipe A. Santana, Rachael L. Beaton, Kevin R. Covey +43
APOGEE is a high-resolution (R sim 22,000), near-infrared, multi-epoch, spectroscopic survey of the Milky Way. The second generation of the APOGEE project, APOGEE-2, includes an ex…
Final Targeting Strategy for the SDSS-IV APOGEE-2N Survey
Rachael L. Beaton, Ryan J. Oelkers, Christian R. Hayes +57
APOGEE-2 is a dual-hemisphere, near-infrared (NIR), spectroscopic survey with the goal of producing a chemo-dynamical mapping of the Milky Way Galaxy. The targeting for APOGEE-2 is…
TESS Delivers Five New Hot Giant Planets Orbiting Bright Stars from the Full Frame Images
Joseph E. Rodriguez, Samuel N. Quinn, George Zhou +115
We present the discovery and characterization of five hot and warm Jupiters -- TOI-628 b (TIC 281408474; HD 288842), TOI-640 b (TIC 147977348), TOI-1333 b (TIC 395171208, BD+47 352…
Two Massive Jupiters in Eccentric Orbits from the TESS Full Frame Images
Mma Ikwut-Ukwa, Joseph E. Rodriguez, Samuel N. Quinn +43
We report the discovery of two short-period massive giant planets from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). Both systems, TOI-558 (TIC 207110080) and TOI-559 (TIC 2…
KELT-24b: A 5M Planet on a 5.6 day Well-Aligned Orbit around the Young V=8.3 F-star HD 93148
Joseph E. Rodriguez, Jason D. Eastman, George Zhou +76
We present the discovery of KELT-24 b, a massive hot Jupiter orbiting a bright (V=8.3 mag, K=7.2 mag) young F-star with a period of 5.6 days. The host star, KELT-24 (HD 93148), has…
The Revised TESS Input Catalog and Candidate Target List
Keivan G. Stassun, Ryan J. Oelkers, Martin Paegert +33
We describe the catalogs assembled and the algorithms used to populate the revised TESS Input Catalog (TIC), based on the incorporation of the Gaia second data release. We also des…
TESS Habitable Zone Star Catalog
L. Kaltenegger, J. Pepper, K. Stassun +1
We present the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) Habitable Zone Stars Catalog, a list of 1822 nearby stars with a TESS magnitude brighter than T = 12 and reliable distan…
An Eccentric Massive Jupiter Orbiting a Sub-Giant on a 9.5 Day Period Discovered in the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite Full Frame Images
Joseph E. Rodriguez, Samuel N. Quinn, Chelsea X. Huang +71
We report the discovery of TOI-172 b from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission, a massive hot Jupiter transiting a slightly evolved G-star with a 9.48-day orbit…
Stellar Flares from the First Tess Data Release: Exploring a New Sample of M-dwarfs
Maximilian N. Günther, Zhuchang Zhan, Sara Seager +21
We perform a study of stellar flares for the 24,809 stars observed with 2 minute cadence during the first two months of the TESS mission. Flares may erode exoplanets' atmospheres a…
Precision Light Curves from TESS Full-Frame Images: A Difference Imaging Approach
Ryan J. Oelkers, Keivan G. Stassun
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will observe 150~million stars brighter than , with photometric precision from 60~ppm to 3~percent, e…
H-band discovery of additional Second-Generation stars in the Galactic Bulge Globular Cluster NGC 6522 as observed by APOGEE and Gaia
José G. Fernández-Trincado, O. Zamora, Diogo Souto +34
We present elemental abundance analysis of high-resolution spectra for five giant stars, deriving Fe, Mg, Al, C, N, O, Si and Ce abundances, and spatially located within the innerm…