Astrophysical: Planet hosting stars

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    A giant planet around a tiny star
    An international team of astronomers, including researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), the University of Liège and collaborators in UK...
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    Asteroseismology of iota Draconis and Discovery of an Additional Long-period Companion
    Giant stars as known exoplanet hosts are relatively rare due to the potential challenges in acquiring precision radial velocities and the small predicted...
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    IAC discovers a super-Earth in the habitable zone of a nearby red dwarf
    An international team, led by a student from Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has detected a super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of GJ 3998, a...
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    Planets Around Solar Twins/Analogs (PASTA). I. High-precision Stellar Chemical Abundances for 17 Planet-hosting Stars and the Condensation Temperature Trend
    The Sun is depleted in refractory elements compared to nearby solar twins, which may be linked to the formation of giant or terrestrial planets. Here we present...
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    Revisiting the Li Abundances of Stars with and without Detected Planets from High-resolution Spectroscopy
    Whether the presence of planets affects the lithium (Li) abundance of their host stars is still an open question. To investigate the difference in the Li...
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    The Habitability of GJ 357D: Possible Climate and Observability
    The GJ 357 system harbors three planets orbiting a bright, nearby M2.5V star at 9.44 pc. The innermost planet, GJ 357b (TOI-562.01), is a hot transiting Earth...
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    TOI-4600 b and c: Two Long-period Giant Planets Orbiting an Early K Dwarf
    We report the discovery and validation of two long-period giant exoplanets orbiting the early K dwarf TOI-4600 (V = 12.6, T = 11.9), first detected using...
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    Vetting of 384 TESS Objects of Interest with TRICERATOPS and Statistical Validation of 12 Planet Candidates
    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...