Astrophysical: Hot Jupiters

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    The Near-ultraviolet Transit of XO-3 b
    Near-ultraviolet (NUV) measurements of exoplanet transits offer a means to probe atmospheric escape, cloud formation, and planetary magnetic fields. We examine...
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    The TESS Grand Unified Hot Jupiter Survey. I. Ten TESS Planets
    Hot Jupiters-short-period giant planets-were the first extrasolar planets to be discovered, but many questions about their origin remain. NASA's Transiting...
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    The TESS Grand Unified Hot Jupiter Survey. II. Twenty New Giant Planets
    NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission promises to improve our understanding of hot Jupiters by providing an all-sky, magnitude-limited...
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    The TESS Grand Unified Hot Jupiter Survey. III. Thirty More Giant Planets
    We present the discovery of 30 transiting giant planets that were initially detected using data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite mission. These...
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    TOI 564 b and TOI 905 b: Grazing and Fully Transiting Hot Jupiters Discovered by TESS
    We report the discovery and confirmation of two new hot Jupiters discovered by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS): TOI 564 b and TOI 905 b. The...
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    TOI-1408: Discovery and Photodynamical Modeling of a Small Inner Companion to a Hot Jupiter Revealed by Transit Timing Variations
    We report the discovery and characterization of a small planet, TOI-1408 c, on a 2.2 day orbit located interior to a previously known hot Jupiter, TOI-1408 b (P...
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    TOI-2494 c and TOI-5143 c: A Hot Saturn and a Hot Jupiter with Interior Planetary Companions
    We present the TESS-based discoveries of planetary systems orbiting the late G dwarfs TOI-2494 and TOI-5143, each of which harbors a hot giant planet and a...
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    TOI-954 b and K2-329 b: Short-period Saturn-mass Planets that Test whether Irradiation Leads to Inflation
    We report the discovery of two short-period Saturn-mass planets, one transiting the G subgiant TOI-954 (TIC 44792534, V = 10.343, T = 9.78) observed in TESS...
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    TrES-1 b: A Case Study in Detecting Secular Evolution of Exoplanet Orbits
    We present a comprehensive analysis of transit, eclipse, and radial velocity data of the hot Jupiter TrES-1 b and confirm evidence of orbital variations on...