TOI-6981 b: a transiting sub-Neptune at the water ice line

arXiv:2609.37597 · astro-ph.EP · Submitted 2026-09-29 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-29

Updated: 2026-09-29

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Terminology

• Aperture — 8× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 3× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• European Research Council — 3× in this paper
• Metallicity — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Transmission spectroscopy — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Aperture Photometry — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers — 2× in this paper
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory — 1× in this paper
• Mid-Scale Innovations Program — 1× in this paper
• Sternberg Astronomical Institute — 1× in this paper
• Tillinghast Reflector Echelle Spectrograph — 1× in this paper

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• TOI-2015b: a sub-Neptune in strong gravitational interaction with an outer non-transiting planet
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• Helium escaping from the atmosphere of a nearby rocky exoplanet orbiting in a habitable zone
• EXOFASTv2: A public, generalized, publication-quality exoplanet modeling code
• Real-time processing of the imaging data from the network of Las Cumbres Observatory Telescopes using BANZAI
• MAROON-X: A Radial Velocity Spectrograph for the Gemini Observatory
• The Dispersed Matter Planet Project Sample -- Detection limits, Occurrence Rates and New Planets
• Radial and Rotational Velocities of a Volume-Complete Sample of M Dwarfs with Masses 0.1-0.3 Msun within 15 parsecs

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