Astrophysical: Exoplanets

  • Conference
    Substellar Astrophysics 2026
    We are pleased to announce the SUBSTELLAR ASTROPHYSICS 2026 international conference to be held in the week 10-14 August near the historic town of Tordesillas...
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    Systematic Reanalysis of KMTNet Microlensing Events. II. Two New Planets in Giant-source Events
    In this work, we continue to apply the updated KMTNet tender-love care photometric pipeline to historical microlensing events. We apply the pipeline to a...
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    Terrestrial- and Neptune-mass Free-Floating Planet Candidates from the MOA-II 9 yr Galactic Bulge Survey
    We report the discoveries of low-mass free-floating planet (FFP) candidates from the analysis of 2006-2014 MOA-II Galactic bulge survey data. In this data set...
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    TESS Asteroseismic Analysis of HD 76920: The Giant Star Hosting an Extremely Eccentric Exoplanet
    The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission searches for new exoplanets. The observing strategy of TESS results in high-precision photometry of...
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    TESS Asteroseismology of the Known Red-giant Host Stars HD 212771 and HD 203949
    The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is performing a near all-sky survey for planets that transit bright stars. In addition, its excellent...
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    TESS Delivers Five New Hot Giant Planets Orbiting Bright Stars from the Full-frame Images
    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...
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    TESS Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets (THYME). VII. Membership, Rotation, and Lithium in the Young Cluster Group-X and a New Young Exoplanet
    The public, all-sky surveys Gaia and TESS provide the ability to identify new young associations and determine their ages. These associations enable study of...
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    TESS Investigation—Demographics of Young Exoplanets (TI-DYE). II. A Second Giant Planet in the 17 Myr System HIP 67522
    The youngest (<50 Myr) planets are vital to understand planet formation and early evolution. The 17 Myr system HIP 67522 is already known to host a giant (≃10R...
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    TESS Investigation—Demographics of Young Exoplanets (TI-DYE). IV. A Jovian-radius Planet Orbiting a 34 Myr Sun-like Star in the Vela Association
    The discovery of infant (<50 Myr), close-in (<30-day-period) planets is vital in understanding the formation mechanisms that lead to the distribution of mature...