Migration and Evolution of giant ExoPlanets (MEEP). III. Twenty-Nine Giant Planets from the TESS Mission

arXiv:2609.38468 · astro-ph.EP · Submitted 2026-09-29 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.EP

Submitted: 2026-09-29

Updated: 2026-09-29

Code: https://github.com/jackschulte/exofast_tools

Terminology

• Metallicity — 44× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Aperture — 8× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• TESS Input Catalog — 7× in this paper
• Adam — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Aperture Photometry — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Michigan State University — 4× in this paper
• Alignment — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 3× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• MESA Isochrones and Stellar Tracks — 2× in this paper
• Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes — 2× in this paper
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration — 2× in this paper
• Adaptive Optics (AO) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Aligned Orbit — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Caucasian Observatory of Sternberg Astronomical Institute — 1× in this paper
• Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory — 1× in this paper
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Degeneracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• European Southern Observatory — 1× in this paper
• Fiber-fed Extended Range Optical Spectrograph — 1× in this paper
• Markov Chain Monte Carlo — 1× in this paper
• Mid-Scale Innovations Program — 1× in this paper
• NN-EXPLORE Exoplanet Investigations with Doppler Spectroscopy — 1× in this paper
• Perth Exoplanet Survey Telescope — 1× in this paper
• Presearch Data Conditioning Simple Aperture Photometry — 1× in this paper
• Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers — 1× in this paper
• Stellar Parameter Classification — 1× in this paper
• TESS Science Processing Operations Center — 1× in this paper
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite — 1× in this paper
• Unistellar Citizen Science Network — 1× in this paper

Sources

• Planet-Planet Scattering Explains the Mass-Eccentricity Relation of Warm Jupiters
• EXOFASTv2: A public, generalized, publication-quality exoplanet modeling code
• ShaneAO: wide science spectrum adaptive optics system for the Lick Observatory
• A comprehensive radial velocity error budget for next generation Doppler spectrometers
• Overview of the spectrometer optical fiber feed for the Habitable-zone Planet Finder
• Commissioning ShARCS: the Shane Adaptive optics infraRed Camera-Spectrograph for the Lick Observatory 3-m telescope
• The TESS Grand Unified Hot Jupiter Survey. III. Thirty More Giant Planets

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