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most citedThe Mass of Kepler-93b and The Composition of Terrestrial Planets

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astro-ph.EP2026

Constraining Small Planet Compositions for Future Missions

Larissa Palethorpe, Annelies Mortier, Jo Ann Egger +14

Accurate mass and radius measurements of small transiting exoplanets are essential for probing their compositions, formation histories, and potential habitability. We present a uni…

astro-ph.EP2025

HARPS-N, TESS, and CHEOPS discover a transiting sub-Neptune and two outer companions around the bright solar analogue HD 85426

F. Lienhard, A. Mortier, A. Collier Cameron +96

We provide a detailed characterisation of the planetary system orbiting HD 85426 (TOI-1774). This bright G-type star (: 0.99 ; : 1.13 $\text{R…

astro-ph.EP2025

Discovery of a multi-planetary system orbiting the aged Sun-like star HD 224018

M. Damasso, L. Naponiello, A. Anna John +22

In 2016, Kepler/K2 detected a system of two sub-Neptunes transiting the star HD 224018, one of them showing a mono-transit event. In 2017, we began a spectroscopic follow-up with H…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 6 cited

In-depth characterization of the Kepler-10 three-planet system with HARPS-N radial velocities and Kepler transit timing variations

A. S. Bonomo, L. Borsato, V. M. Rajpaul +25

The old G3V star Kepler-10 is known to host two transiting planets, the ultra-short-period super-Earth Kepler-10b ( d; ) and the long-period s…

astro-ph.EP2024

The TESS-Keck Survey. XII. A Dense 1.8 R Ultra-Short-Period Planet Possibly Clinging to a High-Mean-Molecular-Weight Atmosphere After the First Gyr

Ryan A. Rubenzahl, Fei Dai, Andrew W. Howard +39

The extreme environments of ultra-short-period planets (USPs) make excellent laboratories to study how exoplanets obtain, lose, retain, and/or regain gaseous atmospheres. We presen…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 46 cited

K2-111: an old system with two planets in near-resonance

A. Mortier, M. R. Zapatero Osorio, L. Malavolta +64

This paper reports on the detailed characterisation of the K2-111 planetary system with K2, WASP, and ASAS-SN photometry as well as high-resolution spectroscopic data from HARPS-N…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 38 cited

The GAPS Programme at TNG XXVII. Reassessment of a young planetary system with HARPS-N: is the hot Jupiter V830 Tau b really there?

M. Damasso, A. F. Lanza, S. Benatti +41

Detecting and characterising exoworlds around very young stars (age10 Myr) are key aspects of exoplanet demographic studies, especially for understanding the mechanisms and time…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 10 cited

The GAPS Programme at TNG -- XXIV. An eccentric Neptune-mass planet near the inner edge of the BD-11 4672 habitable zone

D. Barbato, M. Pinamonti, A. Sozzetti +34

With the growth of comparative exoplanetology, it is increasingly clear that investigating the relationships between inner and outer planets plays a key role in discriminating betw…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 45 cited

TOI-1235 b: a keystone super-Earth for testing radius valley emergence models around early M dwarfs

Ryan Cloutier, Joseph E. Rodriguez, Jonathan Irwin +85

Small planets on close-in orbits tend to exhibit envelope mass fractions of either effectively zero or up to a few percent depending on their size and orbital period. Models of the…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 136 cited

Neutral Iron Emission Lines From The Day-side Of KELT-9b -- The GAPS Programme With HARPS-N At TNG XX

L. Pino, J. M. Désert, M. Brogi +47

We present the first detection of atomic emission lines from the atmosphere of an exoplanet. We detect neutral iron lines from the day-side of KELT-9b (Teq 4, 000 K). We com…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 29 cited

An ultra-short period rocky super-Earth orbiting the G2-star HD 80653

G. Frustagli, E. Poretti, T. Milbourne +26

Ultra-short period (USP) planets are a class of exoplanets with periods shorter than one day. The origin of this sub-population of planets is still unclear, with different formatio…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 20 cited

An extremely low-density and temperate giant exoplanet

A. Santerne, L. Malavolta, M. R. Kosiarek +68

Transiting extrasolar planets are key objects in the study of the formation, migration, and evolution of planetary systems. In particular, the exploration of the atmospheres of gia…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 17 cited

An 11 Earth-Mass, Long-Period Sub-Neptune Orbiting a Sun-like Star

Andrew W. Mayo, Vinesh M. Rajpaul, Lars A. Buchhave +27

Although several thousands of exoplanets have now been detected and characterized, observational biases have led to a paucity of long-period, low-mass exoplanets with measured mass…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 118 cited

A giant impact as the likely origin of different twins in the Kepler-107 exoplanet system

Aldo S. Bonomo, Li Zeng, Mario Damasso +49

Measures of exoplanet bulk densities indicate that small exoplanets with radius less than 3 Earth radii () range from low-density sub-Neptunes containing volatile element…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 25 cited

An accurate mass determination for Kepler-1655b, a moderately-irradiated world with a significant volatile envelope

R. D. Haywood, A. Vanderburg, A. Mortier +32

We present the confirmation of a small, moderately-irradiated (F = 155 +/- 7 Fearth) Neptune with a substantial gas envelope in a P=11.8728787+/-0.0000085-day orbit about a quiet,…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 137 cited

An ultra-short period rocky super-Earth with a secondary eclipse and a Neptune-like companion around K2-141

Luca Malavolta, Andrew W. Mayo, Tom Louden +44

Ultra-short period (USP) planets are a class of low mass planets with periods shorter than one day. Their origin is still unknown, with photo-evaporation of mini-Neptunes and in-si…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 63 cited

Precise Masses in the WASP-47 System

Andrew Vanderburg, Juliette C. Becker, Lars A. Buchhave +32

We present precise radial velocity observations of WASP-47, a star known to host a hot Jupiter, a distant Jovian companion, and, uniquely, two additional transiting planets in shor…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 91 cited

Three's Company: An additional non-transiting super-Earth in the bright HD 3167 system, and masses for all three planets

Jessie L. Christiansen, Andrew Vanderburg, Jennifer Burt +55

HD 3167 is a bright (V = 8.9), nearby K0 star observed by the NASA K2 mission (EPIC 220383386), hosting two small, short-period transiting planets. Here we present the results of a…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 57 cited

The Kepler-19 system: a thick-envelope super-Earth with two Neptune-mass companions characterized using Radial Velocities and Transit Timing Variations

Luca Malavolta, Luca Borsato, Valentina Granata +36

We report a detailed characterization of the Kepler-19 system. This star was previously known to host a transiting planet with a period of 9.29 days, a radius of 2.2 R and…

astro-ph.EP2016★ 108 cited

Kepler-21b: A rocky planet around a V = 8.25 magnitude star

Mercedes Lopez-Morales, Raphaelle D. Haywood, Jeffrey L. Coughlin +36

HD 179070, aka Kepler-21, is a V = 8.25 F6IV star and the brightest exoplanet host discovered by Kepler. An early detailed analysis by Howell et al. (2012) of the first thirteen mo…

astro-ph.EP2016★ 90 cited

A 1.9 Earth radius rocky planet and the discovery of a non-transiting planet in the Kepler-20 system

Lars A. Buchhave, Courtney D. Dressing, Xavier Dumusque +35

Kepler-20 is a solar-type star (V = 12.5) hosting a compact system of five transiting planets, all packed within the orbital distance of Mercury in our own Solar System. A transiti…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 42 cited

The Kepler-454 System: A Small, Not-rocky Inner Planet, a Jovian World, and a Distant Companion

Sara Gettel, David Charbonneau, Courtney D. Dressing +47

Kepler-454 (KOI-273) is a relatively bright (V = 11.69 mag), Sun-like starthat hosts a transiting planet candidate in a 10.6 d orbit. From spectroscopy, we estimate the stellar tem…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 148 cited

The HARPS-N Rocky Planet Search I. HD219134b: A transiting rocky planet in a multi-planet system at 6.5 pc from the Sun

F. Motalebi, S. Udry, M. Gillon +36

We present here the detection of a system of four low-mass planets around the bright (V=5.5) and close-by (6.5 pc) star HD219134. This is the first result of the Rocky Planet Searc…

astro-ph.EP2014★ 230 cited

The Mass of Kepler-93b and The Composition of Terrestrial Planets

Courtney D. Dressing, David Charbonneau, Xavier Dumusque +32

Kepler-93b is a 1.478 +/- 0.019 Earth radius planet with a 4.7 day period around a bright (V=10.2), astroseismically-characterized host star with a mass of 0.911+/-0.033 solar mass…