We present an observation of the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect for the warm-Neptune system TOI-1710 obtained with the NEID spectrograph on the WIYN 3.5 m telescope.
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Searching For Exoplanets Born Outside The Milky Way: VOYAGERS Survey Design
Observations over the past few decades have found that planets are common around nearby stars in our Galaxy, but little is known about planets that formed outside the Milky Way.
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Searching for Low-Mass Exoplanets Amid Stellar Variability with a Fixed Effects Linear Model of Line-by-Line Shape Changes
The radial velocity (RV) method, also known as Doppler spectroscopy, is a powerful technique for exoplanet discovery and characterization. In recent years, progress has been made thanks to the improvements […]
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High-precision NEID Spectrograph Helps Confirm First Gaia Astrometric Planet Discovery
NEID (rhymes with fluid) is a high-precision radial-velocity spectrograph that is designed to measure the extremely minute wobble of nearby stars using the radial velocity effect. This effect results from […]
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Leveraging Precise Photometry From Kepler and TESS to Extract Exoplanets from Radial Velocity Time Series
Stellar activity contamination of radial velocity (RV) data is one of the top challenges plaguing the field of extreme precision RV (EPRV) science. Previous work has shown that photometry can […]
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NEID Earth Twin Survey Delivers On Its Goal to Push the Limits of Exoplanet Discovery
For four years the NEID (rhymes with fluid) spectrograph, mounted on the WIYN 3.5-meter Telescope at U.S. National Science Foundation Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO), a Program of NSF NOIRLab, […]
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Star Trek’s “Vulcan” aka HD 26965 b – Thought To Orbit 40 Eridani A – Is Not A Planet After All
A planet thought to orbit the star 40 Eridani A – host to Mr. Spock’s fictional home planet, Vulcan, in the “Star Trek” universe – is really a kind of […]