Giant Outer Transiting Exoplanet Mass (GOT’EM) survey: VII. TOI-6041: A multi-planet system including a warm Neptune exhibiting strong transit-timing variations

01/03/2026 - Exoplanets

We present the characterisation of the TOI-6041 system, a bright (V = 9.84 ± 0.03) G7-type star hosting at least two planets. The inner planet, TOI-6041 b, is a warm Neptune with a radius of 4.55−0.17+0.18 R⊕, initially identified as a single-transit event in TESS photometry. Subsequent observations with TESS and CHEOPS revealed additional transits,…

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A JWST Transit of a Jupiter Analog. I. Constraints on the Oblateness of Kepler-167 e

01/03/2026 - Exoplanets

In 2024 October, JWST observed a transit of Kepler-167 e, a Jupiter-analog planet on a 1000+ day orbit. These observations, recorded over a long baseline of nearly 60 hr, were designed to search for signatures of planetary oblateness and/or exomoons comparable to Ganymede. In this first in a series of studies analyzing these data, we…

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The MUSCLES Extension for Atmospheric Transmission Spectroscopy: Spectral Energy Distributions for 20 Exoplanet Host Stars that JWST Observed in Cycle 1

01/03/2026 - Exoplanets

Correctly interpreting JWST spectra of close-in exoplanets requires a measurement of the X-ray and ultraviolet light that the planets receive from their host stars. Here, we provide spectral energy distributions (SEDs) covering the range ≍5─1 × 107 Å for 20 transiting exoplanet host stars observed in JWST Cycle 1. The SEDs are constructed out of…

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