Kavli Affiliate: Roland Vanderspek | First 5 Authors: Fei Dai, Andrew W. Howard, Samuel Halverson, Jaume Orell-Miquel, Enric Palle | Summary: TOI-6255~b (GJ 4256) is an Earth-sized planet (1.079$pm0.065$ $R_oplus$) with an orbital period of only 5.7 hours. With the newly commissioned Keck Planet Finder (KPF) and CARMENES spectrographs, we determined the planet’s mass to […]
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