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TOI-544 b: a potential water-world inside the radius valley in a two-planet system (2023)
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Osborne, H. L. M., Van Eylen, V., Goffo, E., Gandolfi, D., Nowak, G., Persson, C. M., …Lam, K. W. F. (in press). TOI-544 b: a potential water-world inside the radius valley in a two-planet system. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 527(4), 11138-11157. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad3837

We report on the precise radial velocity follow-up of TOI-544 (HD 290498), a bright K star (V=10.8), which hosts a small transiting planet recently discovered by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). We collected 122 high-resolution HARPS... Read More about TOI-544 b: a potential water-world inside the radius valley in a two-planet system.

Giant Outer Transiting Exoplanet Mass (GOT ’EM) Survey. III. Recovery and Confirmation of a Temperate, Mildly Eccentric, Single-transit Jupiter Orbiting TOI-2010 (2023)
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Mann, C. R., Dalba, P. A., Lafrenière, D., Fulton, B. J., Hébrard, G., Boisse, I., …Ting, E. B. (2023). Giant Outer Transiting Exoplanet Mass (GOT ’EM) Survey. III. Recovery and Confirmation of a Temperate, Mildly Eccentric, Single-transit Jupiter Orbiting TOI-2010. Astronomical Journal, 166(6), Article 239. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ad00bc

Large-scale exoplanet surveys like the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission are powerful tools for discovering large numbers of exoplanet candidates. Single-transit events are commonplace within the resulting candidate list due to the... Read More about Giant Outer Transiting Exoplanet Mass (GOT ’EM) Survey. III. Recovery and Confirmation of a Temperate, Mildly Eccentric, Single-transit Jupiter Orbiting TOI-2010.

TOI-858 B b: A hot Jupiter on a polar orbit in a loose binary (2023)
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Hagelberg, J., Nielsen, L. D., Attia, O., Bourrier, V., Pearce, L., Venturini, J., …Ziegler, C. (2023). TOI-858 B b: A hot Jupiter on a polar orbit in a loose binary. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 679, Article A70. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202244940

We report the discovery of a hot Jupiter on a 3.28-day orbit around a 1.08 M⊙ G0 star that is the secondary component in a loose binary system. Based on follow-up radial velocity observations of TOI-858 B with CORALIE on the Swiss 1.2 m telescope and... Read More about TOI-858 B b: A hot Jupiter on a polar orbit in a loose binary.

TESS giants transiting giants V - Two hot Jupiters orbiting red-giant hosts (2023)
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Pereira, F., Grunblatt, S. K., Psaridi, A., Campante, T. L., Cunha, M. S., Santos, N. C., …Huber, D. (in press). TESS giants transiting giants V - Two hot Jupiters orbiting red-giant hosts. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 527(3), 6332-6345. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad3449

In this work we present the discovery and confirmation of two hot Jupiters orbiting red-giant stars, TOI-4377 b and TOI-4551 b, observed by TESS in the southern ecliptic hemisphere and later followed-up with radial-velocity (RV) observations. For TOI... Read More about TESS giants transiting giants V - Two hot Jupiters orbiting red-giant hosts.

A hot mini-Neptune and a temperate, highly eccentric sub-Saturn around the bright K-dwarf TOI-2134 (2023)
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Rescigno, F., Hébrard, G., Vanderburg, A., Mann, A. W., Mortier, A., Morrell, S., …Forés-Toribio, R. (in press). A hot mini-Neptune and a temperate, highly eccentric sub-Saturn around the bright K-dwarf TOI-2134. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 527(3), 5385-5407. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad3255

We present the characterisation of an inner mini-Neptune in a 9.2292005±0.0000063 day orbit and an outer mono-transiting sub-Saturn planet in a 95.50$^{+0.36}_{-0.25}$ day orbit around the moderately active, bright (mv = 8.9 mag) K5V star TOI-2134. B... Read More about A hot mini-Neptune and a temperate, highly eccentric sub-Saturn around the bright K-dwarf TOI-2134.

Two mini-Neptunes transiting the adolescent K-star HIP 113103 confirmed with TESS and CHEOPS (2023)
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Lowson, N., Zhou, G., Huang, C. X., Wright, D. J., Edwards, B., Nabbie, E., …Addison, B. C. (2024). Two mini-Neptunes transiting the adolescent K-star HIP 113103 confirmed with TESS and CHEOPS. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 527(1), 1146-1162. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad2756

We report the discovery of two mini-Neptunes in near 2:1 resonance orbits (P = 7.610303 d for HIP 113103 b and P = 14.245651 d for HIP 113103 c ) around the adolescent K-star HIP 113103 (TIC 121490076 ). The planet system was first identified from th... Read More about Two mini-Neptunes transiting the adolescent K-star HIP 113103 confirmed with TESS and CHEOPS.

TOI-332 b: A super dense Neptune found deep within the Neptunian desert (2023)
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Osborn, A., Armstrong, D. J., Fernández, J. F., Knierim, H., Adibekyan, V., Collins, K. A., …Wheatley, P. J. (in press). TOI-332 b: A super dense Neptune found deep within the Neptunian desert. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 526(1), 548-566. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad2575

To date, thousands of planets have been discovered, but there are regions of the orbital parameter space that are still bare. An example is the short period and intermediate mass/radius space known as the ‘Neptunian desert’, where planets should be e... Read More about TOI-332 b: A super dense Neptune found deep within the Neptunian desert.

A Mini-Neptune Orbiting the Metal-poor K Dwarf BD+29 2654 (2023)
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Dai, F., Schlaufman, K. C., Reggiani, H., Bouma, L., Howard, A. W., Chontos, A., …Winn, J. N. (2023). A Mini-Neptune Orbiting the Metal-poor K Dwarf BD+29 2654. Astronomical Journal, 166(2), Article 49. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/acdee8

We report the discovery and Doppler mass measurement of a 7.4 days 2.3 R ⊕ mini-Neptune around a metal-poor K dwarf BD+29 2654 (TOI-2018). Based on a high-resolution Keck/HIRES spectrum, the Gaia parallax, and multiwavelength photometry from the UV t... Read More about A Mini-Neptune Orbiting the Metal-poor K Dwarf BD+29 2654.

Three low-mass companions around aged stars discovered by TESS (2023)
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Lin, Z., Gan, T., Wang, S. X., Shporer, A., Rabus, M., Zhou, G., …Yu, J. (2023). Three low-mass companions around aged stars discovered by TESS. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 523(4), 6162–6185. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad1745

We report the discovery of three transiting low-mass companions to aged stars: a brown dwarf (TOI-2336b) and two objects near the hydrogen burning mass limit (TOI-1608b and TOI-2521b). These three systems were first identified using data from the Tra... Read More about Three low-mass companions around aged stars discovered by TESS.

Another shipment of six short-period giant planets from TESS (2023)
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Rodriguez, J. E., Quinn, S. N., Vanderburg, A., Zhou, G., Eastman, J. D., Thygesen, E., …Zobel, E. (2023). Another shipment of six short-period giant planets from TESS. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 521(2), 2765-2785. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad595

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), TOI-2025 (TIC 394050135), TOI-2145 (TIC 88992642), TOI-2152 (TIC 3953932... Read More about Another shipment of six short-period giant planets from TESS.

Validation of TOI-1221 b: A Warm Sub-Neptune Exhibiting Transit Timing Variations around a Sun-like Star (2023)
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Mann, C., Lafreniere, D., Dragomir, D., Quinn, S. N., Tan, T., Collins, K. A., …Schwarz, R. P. (2023). Validation of TOI-1221 b: A Warm Sub-Neptune Exhibiting Transit Timing Variations around a Sun-like Star. Astronomical Journal, 165(5), Article 217. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/acc8d4

We present a validation of a long-period (91.68278 (+0.00032)(-0.00041) days) transiting sub-Neptune planet, TOI-1221 b (TIC 349095149.01), around a Sun-like (m(V)= 10.5) star. This is one of the few known exoplanets with a period >50 days, and belon... Read More about Validation of TOI-1221 b: A Warm Sub-Neptune Exhibiting Transit Timing Variations around a Sun-like Star.

The young mini-Neptune HD 207496b that is either a naked core or on the verge of becoming one (2023)
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Barros, S. C. C., Demangeon, O. D. S., Armstrong, D. J., Mena, E. D., Acuna, L., Fernandez, J. F., …Winn, J. N. (2023). The young mini-Neptune HD 207496b that is either a naked core or on the verge of becoming one. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 673, Article A4. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202245741

Aims. We report the discovery and characterisation of the transiting mini-Neptune HD 207496 b (TOI-1099) as part of a large programme that aims to characterise naked core planets. Methods. We obtained HARPS spectroscopic observations, one grou... Read More about The young mini-Neptune HD 207496b that is either a naked core or on the verge of becoming one.

The TESS Grand Unified Hot Jupiter Survey. II. Twenty New Giant Planets* (2023)
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Hellier. (2023). The TESS Grand Unified Hot Jupiter Survey. II. Twenty New Giant Planets*. Astrophysical Journal Supplement, https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/aca286

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission promises to improve our understanding of hot Jupiters by providing an all-sky, magnitude-limited sample of transiting hot Jupiters suitable for population studies. Assembling such a sample r... Read More about The TESS Grand Unified Hot Jupiter Survey. II. Twenty New Giant Planets*.

The EBLM project X. benchmark masses, radii and temperatures for two fully convective M-dwarfs using K2 (2023)
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Duck, A., Martin, D. V., Gill, S., Armitage, T., Rodríguez Martínez, R., Maxted, P. F. L., …Udry, S. (2023). The EBLM project X. benchmark masses, radii and temperatures for two fully convective M-dwarfs using K2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 521(4), 6305-6317. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad452

M-dwarfs are the most abundant stars in the galaxy and popular targets for exoplanet searches. However, their intrinsic faintness and complex spectra inhibit precise characterisation. We only know of dozens of M-dwarfs with fundamental parameters of... Read More about The EBLM project X. benchmark masses, radii and temperatures for two fully convective M-dwarfs using K2.

TOI-836: A super-Earth and mini-Neptune transiting a nearby K-dwarf (2023)
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Hawthorn, F., Bayliss, D., Wilson, T. G., Bonfanti, A., Adibekyan, V., Alibert, Y., …Zhang, H. (2023). TOI-836: A super-Earth and mini-Neptune transiting a nearby K-dwarf. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 520(3), 3649 - 3668. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad306

We present the discovery of two exoplanets transiting TOI-836 (TIC 440887364) using data from TESS Sector 11 and Sector 38. TOI-836 is a bright (T = 8.5?mag), high proper motion (~200?mas?yr-1), low metallicity ([Fe/H]˜-0.28) K-dwarf with a mass of 0... Read More about TOI-836: A super-Earth and mini-Neptune transiting a nearby K-dwarf.

TOI-1075 b: A Dense, Massive, Ultra-short-period Hot Super-Earth Straddling the Radius Gap (2023)
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Hellier. (2023). TOI-1075 b: A Dense, Massive, Ultra-short-period Hot Super-Earth Straddling the Radius Gap. Astronomical Journal, https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ac9c5b

Populating the exoplanet mass–radius diagram in order to identify the underlying relationship that governs planet composition is driving an interdisciplinary effort within the exoplanet community. The discovery of hot super-Earths—a high-temperature,... Read More about TOI-1075 b: A Dense, Massive, Ultra-short-period Hot Super-Earth Straddling the Radius Gap.

TOI-969: a late-K dwarf with a hot mini-Neptune in the desert and an eccentric cold Jupiter (2023)
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Hellier. (2023). TOI-969: a late-K dwarf with a hot mini-Neptune in the desert and an eccentric cold Jupiter. Astronomy & Astrophysics, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202243879

Context. The current architecture of a given multi-planetary system is a key fingerprint of its past formation and dynamical evolution history. Long-term follow-up observations are key to complete their picture. Aims. In this paper, we focus on the c... Read More about TOI-969: a late-K dwarf with a hot mini-Neptune in the desert and an eccentric cold Jupiter.

Examining the orbital decay targets KELT-9 b, KELT-16 b, and WASP-4 b, and the transit-timing variations of HD 97658 b (2023)
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Maxted, P., & Hellier, C. (2023). Examining the orbital decay targets KELT-9 b, KELT-16 b, and WASP-4 b, and the transit-timing variations of HD 97658 b. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 669, Article A124. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202244529

Context. Tidal orbital decay is suspected to occur for hot Jupiters in particular, with the only observationally confirmed case of this being WASP-12b. By examining this effect, information on the properties of the host star can be obtained using the... Read More about Examining the orbital decay targets KELT-9 b, KELT-16 b, and WASP-4 b, and the transit-timing variations of HD 97658 b.