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most citedTESS's first planet: a super-Earth transiting the naked-eye star Mensae

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41 papers

astro-ph.EP2020★ 28 cited

TOI-519 b: a short-period substellar object around an M dwarf validated using multicolour photometry and phase curve analysis

H. Parviainen, E. Palle, M. R. Zapatero-Osorio +43

Context: We report the discovery of TOI-519 b (TIC 218795833), a transiting substellar object (R = 1.07 RJup) orbiting a faint M dwarf (V = 17.35) on a 1.26 d orbit. Brown dwarfs a…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 8 cited

K2-280b -- a low density warm sub-Saturn around a mildly evolved star

Grzegorz Nowak, Enric Palle, Davide Gandolfi +57

We present an independent discovery and detailed characterisation of K2-280b, a transiting low density warm sub-Saturn in a 19.9-day moderately eccentric orbit (e = 0.35_{-0.04}^{+…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 43 cited

TOI-503: The first known brown dwarf-Am star binary from the TESS mission

Ján Šubjak, Rishikesh Sharma, Theron W. Carmichael +76

We report the discovery of an intermediate-mass transiting brown dwarf, TOI-503b, from the TESS mission. TOI-503b is the first brown dwarf discovered by TESS and orbits a metallic-…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 18 cited

It takes two planets in resonance to tango around K2-146

Kristine W. F. Lam, Judith Korth, Kento Masuda +51

K2-146 is a cool, 0.358 M_sun dwarf that was found to host a mini-Neptune with a 2.67-days period. The planet exhibited strong transit timing variations (TTVs) of greater than 30 m…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 10 cited

Greening of the Brown Dwarf Desert. EPIC 212036875 b -- a 51 M object in a 5 day orbit around an F7 V star

Carina M. Persson, Szilárd Csizmadia, Alexander J. Mustill +55

Our aim is to investigate the nature and formation of brown dwarfs by adding a new well-characterised object to the small sample of less than 20 transiting brown dwarfs. One brown…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 49 cited

The Transiting Multi-planet System HD15337: Two Nearly Equal-mass Planets Straddling the Radius Gap

Davide Gandolfi, Luca Fossati, John H. Livingston +53

We report the discovery of a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune transiting the star HD 15337 (TOI-402, TIC 120896927), a bright (V=9) K1 dwarf observed by the Transiting Exoplanet Surve…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 37 cited

K2-290: a warm Jupiter and a mini-Neptune in a triple-star system

M. Hjorth, A. B. Justesen, T. Hirano +41

We report the discovery of two transiting planets orbiting K2-290 (EPIC 249624646), a bright (V=11.11) late F-type star residing in a triple-star system. It was observed during Cam…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 44 cited

HD219666b: A hot-Neptune from TESS Sector 1

M. Esposito, D. J. Armstrong, D. Gandolfi +73

We report on the confirmation and mass determination of a transiting planet orbiting the old and inactive G7 dwarf star HD219666 (Mstar = 0.92 +/- 0.03 MSun, Rstar = 1.03 +/- 0.03…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 25 cited

K2-140b and K2-180b - Characterization of a hot Jupiter and a mini-Neptune from the K2 mission

J. Korth, Sz. Csizmadia, D. Gandolfi +40

We report the independent discovery and characterization of two K2 planets: K2-180b, a mini-Neptune-size planet in an 8.9-day orbit transiting a V = 12.6 mag, metal-poor ([Fe/H] =$…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 126 cited

TESS's first planet: a super-Earth transiting the naked-eye star Mensae

D. Gandolfi, O. Barragan, J. Livingston +29

We report on the confirmation and mass determination of Pi Men c, the first transiting planet discovered by NASA's TESS space mission. Pi Men is a naked-eye (V=5.65 mag), quiet G0…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 41 cited

K2-264: A transiting multi-planet system in the Praesepe open cluster

John H. Livingston, Fei Dai, Teruyuki Hirano +31

Planet host stars with well-constrained ages provide a rare window to the time domain of planet formation and evolution. The NASA K2 mission has enabled the discovery of the vast m…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 27 cited

Detection and Doppler monitoring of EPIC 246471491, a system of four transiting planets smaller than Neptune

E. Palle, G. Nowak, R. Luque +43

The Kepler extended mission, also known as K2, has provided the community with a wealth of planetary candidates that orbit stars typically much brighter than the targets of the ori…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 10 cited

K2-295 b and K2-237 b: two transiting hot Jupiters

A. M. S. Smith, Sz. Csizmadia, D. Gandolfi +32

We report the discovery from K2 of two transiting hot Jupiter systems. K2-295 (observed in Campaign 8) is a K5 dwarf which hosts a planet slightly smaller than Jupiter, orbiting wi…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 74 cited

44 Validated Planets from K2 Campaign 10

John H. Livingston, Michael Endl, Fei Dai +31

We present 44 validated planets from the 10 observing campaign of the NASA mission, as well as high resolution spectroscopy and speckle imaging follow-up observa…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 101 cited

The GTC exoplanet transit spectroscopy survey IX. Detection of Haze, Na, K, and Li in the super-Neptune WASP-127b

G. Chen, E. Palle, L. Welbanks +9

Exoplanets with relatively clear atmospheres are prime targets for detailed studies of chemical compositions and abundances in their atmospheres. Alkali metals have long been sugge…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 26 cited

Mass determination of the 1:3:5 near-resonant planets transiting GJ 9827 (K2-135)

J. Prieto-Arranz, E. Palle, D. Gandolfi +38

Aims. GJ 9827 (K2-135) has recently been found to host a tightly packed system consisting of three transiting small planets whose orbital periods of 1.2, 3.6, and 6.2 days are near…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 20 cited

K2-155: A Bright Metal-Poor M Dwarf with Three Transiting Super-Earths

Teruyuki Hirano, Fei Dai, John H. Livingston +32

We report on the discovery of three transiting super-Earths around K2-155 (EPIC 210897587), a relatively bright early M dwarf ( mag) observed during Campaign 13 of the NAS…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 68 cited

K2-141 b: A 5-M super-Earth transiting a K7 V star every 6.7 hours

O. Barragán, D. Gandolfi, F. Dai +32

We report on the discovery of K2-141 b (EPIC 246393474 b), an ultra-short-period super-Earth on a 6.7-hour orbit transiting an active K7 V star based on data from K2 campaign 12. W…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 58 cited

Three Small Super-Earths Transiting the nearby star GJ 9827

Prajwal Niraula, Seth Redfield, Fei Dai +25

We report on the discovery of three transiting planets around GJ~9827. The planets have radii of 1.75, 1.36, and 2.10~…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 55 cited

The discovery of WASP-151b, WASP-153b, WASP-156b: Insights on giant planet migration and the upper boundary of the Neptunian desert

Olivier. D. S. Demangeon, F. Faedi, G. Hébrard +31

To investigate the origin of the features discovered in the exoplanet population, the knowledge of exoplanets' mass and radius with a good precision is essential. In this paper, we…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 46 cited

Three Small Planets Transiting a Hyades Star

John H. Livingston, Fei Dai, Teruyuki Hirano +33

We present the discovery of three small planets transiting K2-136 (LP 358 348, EPIC 247589423), a late K dwarf in the Hyades. The planets have orbital periods of $7.9757 \pm 0.0011…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 89 cited

Exoplanets around Low-mass Stars Unveiled by K2

Teruyuki Hirano, Fei Dai, Davide Gandolfi +38

We present the detection and follow-up observations of planetary candidates around low-mass stars observed by the K2 mission. Based on light-curve analysis, adaptive-optics imaging…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 63 cited

The discovery and mass measurement of a new ultra-short-period planet: EPIC~228732031b

Fei Dai, Joshua N. Winn, Davide Gandolfi +51

We report the discovery of a new ultra-short-period planet and summarize the properties of all such planets for which the mass and radius have been measured. The new planet, EPIC~2…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 47 cited

K2-137 b: an Earth-sized planet in a 4.3-hour orbit around an M-dwarf

A. M. S. Smith, J. Cabrera, Sz. Csizmadia +34

We report the discovery from K2 of a transiting terrestrial planet in an ultra-short-period orbit around an M3-dwarf. K2-137 b completes an orbit in only 4.3 hours, the second-shor…