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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…
Giants Transiting Giants I: A Non-inflated Hot Jupiter Orbiting a Massive Subgiant
Nicholas Saunders, Samuel K. Grunblatt, Daniel Huber +27
While the population of confirmed exoplanets continues to grow, the sample of confirmed transiting planets around evolved stars is still limited. We present the discovery and confi…
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 Planets Straddling the Habitable Zone of The Nearby K Dwarf Gl 414A
Cayla M. Dedrick, Benjamin J. Fulton, Heather A. Knutson +14
We present the discovery of two planets orbiting the nearby (D=11.9 pc) K7 dwarf Gl 414A. Gl 414A b is a sub-Neptune mass planet with M M$_\opl…
A KELT-TESS Eclipsing Binary in a Young Triple System Associated with a "Stellar String" Theia 301
Joni-Marie Clark Cunningham, Dax L. Felix, Don M. Dixon +7
HD 54236 is a nearby, wide common-proper-motion visual pair that has been previously identified as likely being very young by virtue of strong X-ray emission and lithium absorption…
Bow-shocks, nova shells, disc winds and tilted discs: The Nova-Like V341 Ara Has It All
N. Castro Segura, C. Knigge, J. A. Acosta-Pulido +21
V341 Ara was recently recognised as one of the closest (d ~ 150 pc) and brightest (V~ 10) nova-like cataclysmic variables. This unique system is surrounded by a bright emission neb…
Long-Period High-Amplitude Red Variables in the KELT Survey
R. Alex Arnold, M. Virginia McSwain, Joshua Pepper +8
We present a sample of 4,132 Mira-like variables (red variables with long periods and high amplitudes) in the Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT) survey. Of these, 814 are…
KELT-25b and KELT-26b: A Hot Jupiter and a Substellar Companion Transiting Young A-stars Observed by TESS
Romy Rodríguez Martínez, B. Scott Gaudi, Joseph E. Rodriguez +89
We present the discoveries of KELT-25b (TIC 65412605, TOI-626.01) and KELT-26b (TIC 160708862, TOI-1337.01), two transiting companions orbiting relatively bright, early A-stars. Th…
An Extreme-mass Ratio, Short-period Eclipsing Binary Consisting of a B Dwarf Primary and a Pre-main Sequence M Star Companion Discovered by KELT
Daniel J. Stevens, George Zhou, Marshall C. Johnson +16
We present the discovery of \thisstar\ (HD 58730), a very low mass ratio () eclipsing binary (EB) identified by the Kilodegree Extremely Little Teles…
Bright Southern Variable Stars in the bRing Survey
Samuel N. Mellon, Eric E. Mamajek, Remko Stuik +9
Besides monitoring the bright star Pic during the near transit event for its giant exoplanet, the Pictoris b Ring (bRing) observatories at Siding Springs Observatory, Austr…
New Beta Cephei stars with KELT
Jonathan Labadie-Bartz, Gerald Handler, Joshua Pepper +9
We present the results of a search for Galactic Beta Cephei stars, which are massive pulsating stars with both pressure modes and mixed modes. Thus, these stars can serve as benchm…
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…
Revisiting the pulsational characteristics of the exoplanet host star Pictoris
K. Zwintz, D. R. Reese, C. Neiner +22
Exoplanet properties crucially depend on their host stars' parameters. In case the exoplanet host star shows pulsations, asteroseismology can be used for an improved description of…
KELT-23Ab: A Hot Jupiter Transiting a Near-Solar Twin Close to the TESS and JWST Continuous Viewing Zones
Daniel Johns, Phillip Reed, Joseph Rodriguez +55
We announce the discovery of KELT-23Ab, a hot Jupiter transiting the relatively bright () star BD+66 911 (TYC 4187-996-1), and characterize the system using follow-up photo…
TESS delivers its first Earth-sized planet and a warm sub-Neptune
Diana Dragomir, Johanna Teske, Maximilian N. Gunther +48
The future of exoplanet science is bright, as TESS once again demonstrates with the discovery of its longest-period confirmed planet to date. We hereby present HD 21749b (TOI 186.0…
Discovery of δ Scuti Pulsations in the Young Hybrid Debris Disk Star HD 156623
Samuel N. Mellon, Eric E. Mamajek, Konstanze Zwintz +11
The bRing robotic observatory network was built to search for circumplanetary material within the transiting Hill sphere of the exoplanet Pic b across its bright host star …
Constraining the period of the ringed secondary companion to the young star J1407 with photographic plates
R. T. Mentel, M. A. Kenworthy, D. A. Cameron +13
Context. The 16 Myr old star 1SWASP J140747.93-394542.6 (V1400 Cen) underwent a series of complex eclipses in May 2007, interpreted as the transit of a giant Hill sphere filling de…
A Discrete Set of Possible Transit Ephemerides for Two Long Period Gas Giants Orbiting HIP 41378
Juliette C. Becker, Andrew Vanderburg, Joseph E. Rodriguez +22
In 2015, K2 observations of the bright (V = 8.9, K = 7.7) star HIP 41378 revealed a rich system of at least five transiting exoplanets, ranging in size from super-Earths to gas gia…
Precovery of TESS Single Transits with KELT
Xinyu Yao, Joshua Pepper, B. Scott Gaudi +12
During the TESS prime mission, 74% of the sky area will only have an observational baseline of 27 days. For planets with orbital periods longer than 13.5 days, TESS can only captur…
KELT-22Ab: A Massive Hot Jupiter Transiting a Near Solar Twin
Jonathan Labadie-Bartz, Joseph E. Rodriguez, Keivan G. Stassun +58
We present the discovery of KELT-22Ab, a hot Jupiter from the KELT-South survey. KELT-22Ab transits the moderately bright () Sun-like G2V star TYC 7518-468-1. The plane…
The KELT Follow-Up Network and Transit False Positive Catalog: Pre-vetted False Positives for TESS
Karen A. Collins, Kevin I. Collins, Joshua Pepper +108
The Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT) project has been conducting a photometric survey for transiting planets orbiting bright stars for over ten years. The KELT images h…
KELT-21b: A Hot Jupiter Transiting the Rapidly-Rotating Metal-Poor Late-A Primary of a Likely Hierarchical Triple System
Marshall C. Johnson, Joseph E. Rodriguez, George Zhou +65
We present the discovery of KELT-21b, a hot Jupiter transiting the A8V star HD 332124. The planet has an orbital period of days and a radius of $…
The Architecture of the GW Ori Young Triple Star System and Its Disk: Dynamical Masses, Mutual Inclinations, and Recurrent Eclipses
Ian Czekala, Sean M. Andrews, Guillermo Torres +15
We present spatially and spectrally resolved Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations of gas and dust orbiting the pre-main sequence hierarchical triple sta…
Variability Properties of 4 Million Sources in the Input Catalog Observed with the Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope Survey
Ryan J. Oelkers, Joseph E. Rodriguez, Keivan G. Stassun +10
The Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT) has been surveying more than of the celestial sphere for nearly a decade. While the primary science goal of the survey is th…