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20162026
most citedTESS Discovery of an ultra-short-period planet around the nearby M dwarf LHS 3844

161 citations · 577 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

astro-ph.EP2026

COUNTESS I: A Uniformly Vetted Catalog of Known and New Transiting Exoplanets in the TESS Northern Continuous Viewing Zone

Andrew Hotnisky, Rachel B. Fernandes, Kevin K. Hardegree-Ullman +9

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has transformed the study of nearby exoplanetary systems; however, its nominal observing strategy limits sensitivity to planets wit…

astro-ph.EP2025

Are We There Yet? Challenges in Quantifying the Frequency of Earth Analogs in the Habitable Zone

Rachel B. Fernandes, Samson Johnson, Galen J. Bergsten +43

Searching for life elsewhere in the universe is one of the most highly prioritized pursuits in astronomy today. However, the ability to observe evidence of Earth-like life through…

astro-ph.EP2025

Why Estimating is Difficult: A Kepler-Centric Perspective

Steve Bryson, Michelle Kunimoto, Ruslan Belikov +13

, the occurrence rate of rocky habitable zone exoplanets orbiting Sun-like stars, is of great interest to both the astronomical community and the general public. The Ke…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 1 cited

Searching for GEMS: The Occurrence of Giant Planets orbiting M-dwarfs within 100 pc

Rowen I. Glusman, Caleb I. Cañas, Shubham Kanodia +30

We present results from a systematic search for transiting short-period Giant Exoplanets around M-dwarf Stars (GEMS; days, ) within a distance-limi…

astro-ph.GA2024

La Silla-QUEST RR Lyrae Star Survey II: The Crater II Tidal Streams

P. S. Coppi, R. Zinn, C. Baltay +5

We describe photometry improvements in the La Silla--Quest RR Lyrae star (RRLS) survey that enable it to reach distances from the Sun () kpc. We report the re…

astro-ph.EP2023

LHS 475 b: A Venus-sized Planet Orbiting a Nearby M Dwarf

Kristo Ment, David Charbonneau, Jonathan Irwin +10

Based on photometric observations by TESS, we present the discovery of a Venus-sized planet transiting LHS 475, an M3 dwarf located 12.5 pc from the Sun. The mass of the star is $0…