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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…
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…
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…
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…
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 $…
The Architecture of the GW Ori Young Triple Star System and Its Disk: Dynamical Masses, Mutual Inclinations, and Recurrent Eclipses
Ian Czekala, Sean M. Andrews, Guillermo Torres +15
We present spatially and spectrally resolved Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations of gas and dust orbiting the pre-main sequence hierarchical triple sta…
KELT-19Ab: A P~4.6 Day Hot Jupiter Transiting a Likely Am Star with a Distant Stellar Companion
Robert J. Siverd, Karen A. Collins, George Zhou +51
We present the discovery of the giant planet KELT-19Ab, which transits the moderately bright A8V star TYC 764-1494-1 with an orbital period of 4.61 days. We…
KELT-20b: A giant planet with a period of P~ 3.5 days transiting the V~ 7.6 early A star HD 185603
Michael B. Lund, Joseph E. Rodriguez, George Zhou +46
We report the discovery of KELT-20b, a hot Jupiter transiting a V~7.6 early A star with an orbital period of P~3.47 days. We identified the initial transit signal in KELT-North sur…
A giant planet undergoing extreme ultraviolet irradiation by its hot massive-star host
B. Scott Gaudi, Keivan G. Stassun, Karen A. Collins +57
The amount of ultraviolet irradiation and ablation experienced by a planet depends strongly on the temperature of its host star. Of the thousands of extra-solar planets now known,…
Periodic Eclipses of the Young Star PDS 110 Discovered with WASP and KELT Photometry
H. P. Osborn, J. E. Rodriguez, M. A. Kenworthy +28
We report the discovery of eclipses by circumstellar disc material associated with the young star PDS 110 in the Ori OB1a association using the SuperWASP and KELT surveys. PDS 110…
WASP-167b/KELT-13b: Joint discovery of a hot Jupiter transiting a rapidly-rotating F1V star
L. Y. Temple, C. Hellier, M. D. Albrow +46
We report the joint WASP/KELT discovery of WASP-167b/KELT-13b, a transiting hot Jupiter with a 2.02-d orbit around a = 10.5, F1V star with [Fe/H] = 0.1 0.1. The 1.5 R$_{\…
KELT-11b: A Highly Inflated Sub-Saturn Exoplanet Transiting the V=8 Subgiant HD 93396
Joshua Pepper, Joseph E. Rodriguez, Karen A. Collins +34
We report the discovery of a transiting exoplanet, KELT-11b, orbiting the bright () subgiant HD 93396. A global analysis of the system shows that the host star is an evolved…
KELT-17b: A hot-Jupiter transiting an A-star in a misaligned orbit detected with Doppler tomography
George Zhou, Joseph E. Rodriguez, Karen A. Collins +45
We present the discovery of a hot-Jupiter transiting the V=9.23 mag main-sequence A-star KELT-17 (BD+14 1881). KELT-17b is a 1.31 -0.29/+0.28 Mj, 1.525 -0.060/+0.065 Rj hot-Jupiter…
KELT-14b and KELT-15b: An Independent Discovery of WASP-122b and a New Hot Jupiter
Joseph E. Rodriguez, Knicole D. Colon, Keivan G. Stassun +28
We report the discovery of KELT-14b and KELT-15b, two hot Jupiters from the KELT-South survey. KELT-14b, an independent discovery of the recently announced WASP-122b, is an inflate…
KELT-10b: The First Transiting Exoplanet from the KELT-South Survey -- A Hot Sub-Jupiter Transiting a V = 10.7 Early G-Star
Rudolf B. Kuhn, Joseph E. Rodriguez, Karen A. Collins +30
We report the discovery of KELT-10b, the first transiting exoplanet discovered using the KELT-South telescope. KELT-10b is a highly inflated sub-Jupiter mass planet transiting a re…