The TESS objects of interest catalog from the TESS prime mission

NM Guerrero, S Seager, CX Huang… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present 2241 exoplanet candidates identified with data from the Transiting Exoplanet
Survey Satellite (TESS) during its 2 yr Prime Mission. We list these candidates in the TESS …

dynesty: a dynamic nested sampling package for estimating Bayesian posteriors and evidences

JS Speagle - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We present dynesty, a public, open-source, python package to estimate Bayesian posteriors
and evidences (marginal likelihoods) using the dynamic nested sampling methods …

Habitability and biosignatures of Hycean worlds

N Madhusudhan, AAA Piette… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate a new class of habitable planets composed of water-rich interiors with
massive oceans underlying H 2-rich atmospheres, referred to here as Hycean worlds. With …

Masses and compositions of three small planets orbiting the nearby M dwarf L231-32 (TOI-270) and the M dwarf radius valley

V Van Eylen, N Astudillo-Defru, X Bonfils… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We report on precise Doppler measurements of L231-32 (TOI-270), a nearby M dwarf (d= 22
pc, M⋆= 0.39 M⊙, R⋆= 0.38 R⊙), which hosts three transiting planets that were recently …

Two temperate super-Earths transiting a nearby late-type M dwarf

L Delrez, CA Murray, FJ Pozuelos, N Narita… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Context. In the age of JWST, temperate terrestrial exoplanets transiting nearby late-type M
dwarfs provide unique opportunities for characterising their atmospheres, as well as …

A pair of sub-Neptunes transiting the bright K-dwarf TOI-1064 characterized with CHEOPS

TG Wilson, E Goffo, Y Alibert, D Gandolfi… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We report the discovery and characterization of a pair of sub-Neptunes transiting the bright K-
dwarf TOI-1064 (TIC 79748331), initially detected in the Transiting Exoplanet Survey …

A super-Earth and a sub-Neptune orbiting the bright, quiet M3 dwarf TOI-1266

BO Demory, FJ Pozuelos, YGM Chew, L Sabin… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
We report the discovery and characterisation of a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune transiting
the bright (K= 8.8), quiet, and nearby (37 pc) M3V dwarf TOI-1266. We validate the planetary …

Vetting of 384 TESS Objects of Interest with TRICERATOPS and Statistical Validation of 12 Planet Candidates

S Giacalone, CD Dressing, ELN Jensen… - The Astronomical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We present TRICERATOPS, a new Bayesian tool that can be used to vet and validate TESS
Objects of Interest (TOIs). We test the tool on 68 TOIs that have been previously confirmed as …

SPECULOOS: Ultracool dwarf transit survey-Target list and strategy

D Sebastian, M Gillon, E Ducrot, FJ Pozuelos… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
Context. One of the most promising avenues for the detailed study of temperate Earth-sized
exoplanets is the detection of such planets in transit in front of stars that are small and near …

Exploring the ability of Hubble Space Telescope WFC3 G141 to uncover trends in populations of exoplanet atmospheres through a homogeneous transmission survey …

B Edwards, Q Changeat, A Tsiaras… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present analysis of the atmospheres of 70 gaseous extrasolar planets via transit
spectroscopy with Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3). For over half of these, we …