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The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series

The ExoClock project has been created to increase the efficiency of the Ariel mission. It will ac... more The ExoClock project has been created to increase the efficiency of the Ariel mission. It will achieve this by continuously monitoring and updating the ephemerides of Ariel candidates, in order to produce a consistent catalog of reliable and precise ephemerides. This work presents a homogenous catalog of updated ephemerides for 450 planets, generated by the integration of ∼18,000 data points from multiple sources. These sources include observations from ground-based telescopes (the ExoClock network and the Exoplanet Transit Database), midtime values from the literature, and light curves from space telescopes (Kepler, K2, and TESS). With all the above, we manage to collect observations for half of the postdiscovery years (median), with data that have a median uncertainty less than 1 minute. In comparison with the literature, the ephemerides generated by the project are more precise and less biased. More than 40% of the initial literature ephemerides had to be updated to reach the goa...

Society for Astronomical Sciences Annual Symposium, May 1, 2013

VizieR Online Data Catalog, Oct 1, 2020

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Minor Planet Circulars, 2011

The Astronomical Journal, 2020

We present the discoveries of KELT-25 b (TIC 65412605, TOI-626.01) and KELT-26 b (TIC 160708862, ... more We present the discoveries of KELT-25 b (TIC 65412605, TOI-626.01) and KELT-26 b (TIC 160708862, TOI-1337.01), two transiting companions orbiting relatively bright, early A stars. The transit signals were initially detected by the KELT survey and subsequently confirmed by Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) photometry. KELT-25 b is on a 4.40 day orbit around the V = 9.66 star CD-24 5016 ( K, M ⋆ = M ⊙), while KELT-26 b is on a 3.34 day orbit around the V = 9.95 star HD 134004 ( = K, M ⋆ = M ⊙), which is likely an Am star. We have confirmed the substellar nature of both companions through detailed characterization of each system using ground-based and TESS photometry, radial velocity measurements, Doppler tomography, and high-resolution imaging. For KELT-25, we determine a companion radius of R P = R J and a 3σ upper limit on the companion’s mass of ∼64 M J. For KELT-26 b, we infer a planetary mass and radius of M P = and R P = R J. From Doppler tomographic observations, we...