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We report the discovery of an extrasolar planet detected from the combined data of a microlensing event OGLE-2015-BLG-0051/KMT-2015-BLG-0048 acquired by two microlensing surveys. Despite that the short planetary signal occurred in the very…

The high quality light curves from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) represent a unique laboratory for the study of stellar rotation, a fundamental observable driving stellar and planetary evolution, including planetary…

We present the detection of 9 new planet candidates orbiting M dwarfs, identified using an independent search and vetting pipeline applied to TESS Full-Frame Image (FFI) data from Sectors 1 to 63. Our candidates include planets as small as…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-01 Yoshi Nike Emilia Eschen , Michelle Kunimoto

We recently described the results of an initial search through TESS Sector 61 for free-floating planets. In this short note, we provide important context for our results and clarify the language used in our initial manuscript to ensure that…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-14 Michelle Kunimoto , William DeRocco , Nolan Smyth , Steve Bryson

The transient event labeled as TCP J05074264+2447555 recently discovered towards the Taurus region was quickly recognized to be an ongoing microlensing event on a source located at distance of only $700-800$ pc from Earth. Here, we show…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 A. A. Nucita , D. Licchelli , F. De Paolis , G. Ingrosso , F. Strafella , N. Katysheva , S. Shugarov

Most flares on the Sun occur at random, but there is a small percentage of "sympathetic flaring" -- the triggering of one flare by another. Previously there had been no widespread confirmation of sympathetic flares on other stars. In this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-25 Veronica Pratt , Jason R. Reeves , David V. Martin , Andy B. Zhang , Andrew Korkus , S. Edelman

Flares are short-lived but energetic manifestations of stellar activity. Studying them is crucial, as they emit intense high-energy radiation that can impact the circumstellar environment, especially the atmospheres of orbiting planets.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-22 G. Galletta , S. Colombo , L. Prisinzano , G. Micela

Simultaneous space- and ground-based microlensing surveys, such as K2's Campaign 9 (K2C9) and $WFIRST$, facilitate measuring the masses and distances of free-floating planet (FFP) candidates. FFPs are identified as single-lens events with a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-05 Calen B. Henderson , Yossi Shvartzvald

The recently launched Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is expected to produce many new exoplanet discoveries which will be especially amenable to follow-up study. Assessments of the planet discovery yield of TESS, such as…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-24 L. C. Mayorga , Daniel P. Thorngren

Recently Sahu et al., using the Hubble Space Telescope to monitor stars in the direction of the old globular cluster M22, detected six events in which otherwise constant stars brightened by ~50% during a time of <1 day. They tentatively…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. Scott Gaudi

The gravitational microlensing technique allows the discovery of exoplanets around stars distributed in the disk of the galaxy towards the bulge. However, the alignment of two stars that led to the discovery is unique over the timescale of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-09 I. Boisse , A. Santerne , J. -P. Beaulieu , W. Fakhardji , N. C. Santos , P. Figueira , S. G. Sousa , C. Ranc

We present an analysis of adaptive optics (AO) images from the Keck-I telescope of the microlensing event MOA-2011-BLG-262. The original discovery paper by Bennett et al. 2014 reports two distinct possibilities for the lens system; a nearby…

From the 389 2002 OGLE-III observations of Galactic Bulge microlensing events we select 321 that are well described by a point-source point-lens lightcurve model. From this sample we identify n=1 event, 2002-BLG-055, which we regard as a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Colin Snodgrass , Keith Horne , Yiannis Tsapras

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is conducting a two-year wide-field survey searching for transiting exoplanets around nearby bright stars that will be ideal for follow-up characterization. To facilitate studies of planet…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-15 Rachel A. Matson , Steve B. Howell , David Ciardi

We present a detailed vetting analysis of the TESS candidate TOI 864.01, initially identified as a potential ultra-short-period (P ~ 0.52 d) Earth-sized planet orbiting an M-dwarf. Using 12 sectors of TESS photometry spanning a multi-year…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-03 Biel Escolà-Rodrigo

Within the first few hundreds of millions of years, many physical processes sculpt the eventual properties of young planets. NASA's TESS mission has surveyed young stellar associations across the entire sky for transiting planets providing…

We report the discovery of TOI 263.01 (TIC 120916706), a transiting substellar object (R = 0.87 RJup) orbiting a faint M3.5~V dwarf (V=18.97) on a 0.56~d orbit. We set out to determine the nature of the TESS planet candidate TOI 263.01…

The ROSAT-selected tidal disruption event (TDE) candidate RX J133157.6-324319.7 (J1331), was detected in 1993 as a bright (0.2-2 keV flux of $(1.0 \pm 0.1) \times 10^{-12}$ erg s$^{-1}$ cm$^{-2}$), ultra-soft ($kT=0.11 \pm 0.03$ keV) X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-16 A. Malyali , Z. Liu , A. Rau , I. Grotova , A. Merloni , A. J. Goodwin , G. E. Anderson , J. C. A. Miller-Jones , A. Kawka , R. Arcodia , J. Buchner , K. Nandra , D. Homan , M. Krumpe
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