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most citedTrue masses of the long-period companions to HD 92987 and HD 221420 from Hipparcos-Gaia astrometry

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astro-ph.EP2026

HD 715 b, a Warm Jupiter Orbiting a Massive Subgiant Discovered from a Single TESS Transit

Alexander Venner, Robert A. Wittenmyer, Andrew Vanderburg +23

Transiting Warm Jupiters orbiting bright stars are scarcely known, but a substantial number of these planets have been uncovered by the TESS mission. In this work we report the dis…

astro-ph.EP2026

TOI-6981 b: a transiting sub-Neptune at the water ice line

Madison G. Scott, Amaury H. M. J Triaud, Emily K. Pass +42

We present TOI-6981 b, a cold (Teq= 170.0 +/-4.5 K, assuming an Earth-like albedo) sub-Neptune (Rb=2.40+/-0.10 R_oplus) on a 60.8 day orbit around around its M4-type host star (R*=…

astro-ph.EP2026

The Pan-Pacific Planet Search -- IX. A menagerie of companions orbiting evolved stars

Robert A. Wittenmyer, Alexander Venner, Tyler Fairnington +22

We present resolutions as to the nature of six speculative candidate companions proposed in the final data release of the Pan-Pacific Planet Search, a 6-year radial-velocity survey…

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

A Planetary Illusion's Funeral: Non-detection of a Gaia DR3 Exoplanet Candidate, and the Role of Intermediate-precision Radial Velocities in Gaia Exoplanet Follow-up

Alexander Venner, Chelsea X. Huang, David W. Latham +4

The detection of exoplanets using astrometry has long been an area of interest, but is fraught with challenges. The Gaia mission is fundamentally reshaping this field thanks to its…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 1 cited

A Cool Earth-sized Planet Candidate Transiting a Tenth Magnitude K-dwarf From K2

Alexander Venner, Andrew Vanderburg, Chelsea X. Huang +7

The transit method is currently one of our best means for the detection of potentially habitable "Earth-like" exoplanets. In principle, given sufficiently high photometric precisio…

astro-ph.EP2025

Orbits and Masses for 156 Companions from Combined Astrometry and Radial Velocities, and A Validation of Gaia Non-Single Star Solutions

Qier An, Timothy D. Brandt, G. Mirek Brandt +1

We combine absolute astrometry from Hipparcos and Gaia with archival radial velocities from the Keck/HIRES and ESO/HARPS spectrographs, as well as relative astrometry (when availab…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 5 cited

A high mutual inclination system around KOI-134 revealed by transit timing variations

Emma Nabbie, Chelsea X. Huang, Judith Korth +9

Few planetary systems have measured mutual inclinations, and even less are found to be non-coplanar. Observing the gravitational interactions between exoplanets is an effective too…

astro-ph.EP2025

An Eccentric Sub-Neptune Moving Into the Evaporation Desert

Sydney Jenkins, Andrew Vanderburg, Ritika Sethi +31

Though missions such as Kepler, K2, and TESS have discovered 2,000 sub-Neptune and Neptunian planets, there is a dearth of such planets at close-in (P3 days) orbits. T…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 2 cited

The mass of the exo-Venus Gliese 12 b, as revealed by HARPS-N, ESPRESSO, and CARMENES

Daisy A. Turner, Yoshi Nike Emilia Eschen, Felipe Murgas +60

Small temperate planets are prime targets for exoplanet studies due to their possible similarities with the rocky planets in the Solar System. M dwarfs are promising hosts since th…

astro-ph.EP2025

Thermal Emission and Confirmation of the Frigid White Dwarf Exoplanet WD 1856+534b

Mary Anne Limbach, Andrew Vanderburg, Ryan J. MacDonald +12

We report the detection of thermal emission from and confirm the planetary nature of WD 1856+534b, the first transiting planet known to orbit a white dwarf star. Observations with…

astro-ph.EP2024

Two Earth-size Planets and an Earth-size Candidate Transiting the Nearby Star HD 101581

Michelle Kunimoto, Zifan Lin, Sarah Millholland +43

We report the validation of multiple planets transiting the nearby ( pc) K5V dwarf HD 101581 (GJ 435, TOI-6276, TIC 397362481). The system consists of at least two Earth-…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 7 cited

HD 28185 Revisited: An Outer Planet, Instead of a Brown Dwarf, On a Saturn-like Orbit

Alexander Venner, Qier An, Chelsea X. Huang +3

As exoplanet surveys reach ever-higher sensitivities and durations, planets analogous to the solar system giant planets are increasingly within reach. HD 28185 is a Sun-like star k…

astro-ph.EP2024

The K2 and TESS Synergy III: search and rescue of the lost ephemeris for K2's first planet

Erica Thygesen, Joseph E. Rodriguez, Zoë L. De Beurs +13

K2-2 b/HIP 116454 b, the first exoplanet discovery by K2 during its Two-Wheeled Concept Engineering Test, is a sub-Neptune (2.5 0.1 , 9.7 1.2 ) orbi…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 1 cited

The MIRI Exoplanets Orbiting White Dwarfs (MEOW) Survey: Mid-Infrared Excess Reveals a Giant Planet Candidate around a Nearby White Dwarf

Mary Anne Limbach, Andrew Vanderburg, Alexander Venner +17

The MIRI Exoplanets Orbiting White dwarfs (MEOW) Survey is a cycle 2 JWST program to search for exoplanets around dozens of nearby white dwarfs via infrared excess and direct imagi…

astro-ph.EP2024

Gliese 12 b, A Temperate Earth-sized Planet at 12 Parsecs Discovered with TESS and CHEOPS

Shishir Dholakia, Larissa Palethorpe, Alexander Venner +33

We report on the discovery of Gliese 12 b, the nearest transiting temperate, Earth-sized planet found to date. Gliese 12 is a bright ( mag, mag) metal-poor M4V star…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 12 cited

Revisiting Orbital Evolution in HAT-P-2 b and Confirmation of HAT-P-2 c

Zoë L. de Beurs, Julien de Wit, Alexander Venner +5

One possible formation mechanism for Hot Jupiters is that high-eccentricity gas giants experience tidal interactions with their host star that cause them to lose orbital energy and…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 1 cited

Two mini-Neptunes Transiting the Adolescent K-star HIP 113103 Confirmed with TESS and CHEOPS

Nataliea Lowson, George Zhou, Chelsea X. Huang +31

We report the discovery of two mini-Neptunes in near 2:1 resonance orbits ( d for HIP 113103 b and d for HIP 113103 c) around the adolescent K-star HIP 11…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 27 cited

A Mini-Neptune from TESS and CHEOPS Around the 120 Myr Old AB Dor member HIP 94235

George Zhou, Christopher P. Wirth, Chelsea X. Huang +36

The TESS mission has enabled discoveries of the brightest transiting planet systems around young stars. These systems are the benchmarks for testing theories of planetary evolution…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 7 cited

An Edge-On Orbit for the Eccentric Long-Period Planet HR 5183 b

Alexander Venner, Logan A. Pearce, Andrew Vanderburg

The long-period giant planet HR 5183 b has one of the most extreme orbits among exoplanets known to date, and represents a test for models of their dynamical evolution. In this wor…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 43 cited

True masses of the long-period companions to HD 92987 and HD 221420 from Hipparcos-Gaia astrometry

Alexander Venner, Andrew Vanderburg, Logan A. Pearce

The extensive timespan of modern radial velocity surveys has made the discovery of long-period substellar companions more common in recent years, however measuring the true masses…

astro-ph.EP2016★ 27 cited

Planet Hunters X: Searching for Nearby Neighbors of 75 Planet and Eclipsing Binary Candidates from the K2 Kepler Extended Mission

Joseph R. Schmitt, Andrei Tokovinin, Ji Wang +22

We present high-resolution observations of a sample of 75 K2 targets from Campaigns 1-3 using speckle interferometry on the Southern Astrophysical Research (SOAR) telescope and ada…