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Full list of authors: Kabath, Petr; Chaturvedi, Priyanka; MacQueen, Phillip J.; Skarka, Marek; Subjak, Jan; Esposito, Massimilliano; Cochran, William D.; Bellomo, Salvatore E.; Karjalainen, Raine; Guenther, Eike W.; Endl, Michael; Csizmadia, Szilard; Karjalainen, Marie; Hatzes, Artie; Zak, Jiri; Gandolfi, Davide; Boffin, Henri M. J.; Vines, Jose, I; Livingston, John H.; Garcia, Rafael A.; Mathur, Savita; Gonzalez-Cuesta, Lucia; Blazek, Martin; Caldwell, Douglas A.; Colon, Knicole D.; Deeg, Hans; Erikson, Anders; Van Eylen, Vincent; Fong, William; Fridlund, Malcolm; Fukui, Akihiko; Furesz, Gabor; Goeke, Robert F.; Goffo, Elisa; Howell, Steve; Jenkins, Jon M.; Klagyivik, Peter; Korth, Judith; Latham, David W.; Luque, Rafael; Moldovan, Dan; Murgas, Felipe; Narita, Norio; Orell-Miquel, Jaume; Palle, Enric; Parviainen, Hannu; Persson, Carina M.; Reed, Phillip A.; Redfield, Seth; Ricker, George R.; Seager, Sara; Serrano, Luisa Maria; Shporer, Avi; Smith, Alexis M. S.; Watanabe, Noriharu; Winn, Joshua N.; KESPRINT Team., We present the confirmation and characterization of three hot Jupiters, TOI-1181b, TOI-1516b, and TOI-2046b, discovered by the TESS space mission. The reported hot Jupiters have orbital periods between 1.4 and 2.05 d. The masses of the three planets are 1.18 ± 0.14 MJ, 3.16 ± 0.12 MJ, and 2.30 ± 0.28 MJ, for TOI-1181b, TOI-1516b, and TOI-2046b, respectively. The stellar host of TOI-1181b is a F9IV star, whereas TOI-1516b and TOI-2046b orbit F main sequence host stars. The ages of the first two systems are in the range of 2–5 Gyrs. However, TOI-2046 is among the few youngest known planetary systems hosting a hot Jupiter, with an age estimate of 100–400 Myrs. The main instruments used for the radial velocity follow-up of these three planets are located at Ondřejov, Tautenburg, and McDonald Observatory, and all three are mounted on 2–3 m aperture telescopes, demonstrating that mid-aperture telescope networks can play a substantial role in the follow-up of gas giants discovered by TESS and in the future by PLATO. © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society, This work is done under the framework of the KESPRINT collaboration (http://www.kesprint.science). KESPRINT is an international consortium devoted to the characterization and research of exoplanets discovered with space-based missions. This work is based on data sets obtained with the Perek 2-m telescope. PK, JS, MS, RK, and MB are acknowledging the support by Inter-transfer grant no LTT-20015. MK acknowledges the support from ESA-PRODEX PEA4000127913. PK and JS acknowledge a travel budget from ERASMUS + grant 2020-1-CZ01-KA203-078200. HB’s mobility was funded under: MŠMT – CZ.02.2.69/0.0/0.0/18_053/0016972 Podpora mezinárodní spolupráce v astronomii. PC acknowledges the generous support from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) of the grant CH 2636/1-1. PR acknowledges support from National Science Foundations (NSF) grant No. 1952545. This work was generously supported by the Thüringer Ministerium für Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft und Digitale Gesellschaft. We acknowledge the use of public TESS data from pipelines at the TESS Science Office and at the TESS Science Processing Operations Center. Resources supporting this work were provided by the NASA High-End Computing (HEC) Program through the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division at Ames Research Center for the production of the SPOC data products. JIV acknowledges support of CONICYT-PFCHA/Doctorado Nacional-21191829. This work is partly supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP20K14518. JK gratefully acknowledge the support of the Swedish National Space Agency (SNSA; DNR 2020-00104). HD acknowledges support from the Spanish Research Agency of the Ministry of Science and Innovation (AEI-MICINN) under grant PID2019-107061GB-C66, DOI: 10.13039/501100011033. RL acknowledges financial support from the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, through project PID2019-109522GB-C52, and the Centre of Excellence ’Severo Ochoa’ award to the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (SEV-2017-0709). This work has made use of data from the European Space Agency (ESA) mission Gaia (https://www.cosmos.esa.int/gaia), processed by the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC; https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/dpac/consortium). Funding for the DPAC has been provided by national institutions, in particular the institutions participating in the Gaia Multilateral Agreement. This is University of Texas Center for Planetary Systems Habitability contribution #0054. LGC acknowledges support from grant FPI-SO from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) (research project SEV-2015-0548-17-2 and predoctoral contract BES-2017-082610). SM acknowledges support by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation with the Ramon y Cajal fellowship number RYC-2015-17697 and the grant number PID2019-107187GB-I00. RAG acknowledges the support from PLATO and GOLF CNES grants. This paper includes data collected with the TESS mission, obtained from the MAST data archive at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI). Funding for the TESS mission is provided by the NASA Explorer Program. STScI is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under NASA contract NAS 5-26555. Observations in the paper made use of the NN-EXPLORE Exoplanet and Stellar Speckle Imager (NESSI). NESSI was funded by the NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program and the NASA Ames Research Center. NESSI was built at the Ames Research Center by Steve B. Howell, Nic Scott, Elliott P. Horch, and Emmett Quigley. The authors are honored to be permitted to conduct observations on Iolkam Du’ag (Kitt Peak), a mountain within the Tohono O’odham Nation with particular significance to the Tohono O’odham people. This work is partly supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP17H04574 and JP18H05439, JST PRESTO Grant Number JPMJPR1775, the Astrobiology Center of National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS; Grant Number AB031010). This article is based on observations made with the MuSCAT2 instrument, developed by ABC, at Telescopio Carlos Sánchez operated on the island of Tenerife by the IAC in the Spanish Observatorio del Teide. Observations in the paper made use of the High-Resolution Imaging instrument ‘Alopeke. ‘Alopeke was funded by the NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program and built at the NASA Ames Research Center by Steve B. Howell, Nic Scott, Elliott P. Horch, and Emmett Quigley. ‘Alopeke was mounted on the Gemini North telescope of the international Gemini Observatory, a program of NSF’s NOIRLab, which is managed by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) under a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation on behalf of the Gemini partnership: the National Science Foundation (United States), National Research Council (Canada), Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo (Chile), Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (Argentina), Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia, Inovações e Comunicações (Brazil), and Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (Republic of Korea).

We present the discovery of KELT-22Ab, a hot Jupiter from the KELT-South survey. KELT-22Ab transits the moderately bright ($V\sim 11.1$) Sun-like G2V star TYC 7518-468-1. The planet has an orbital period of $P = 1.3866529 \pm 0.0000027 $ days, a radius of $R_{P} = 1.285_{-0.071}^{+0.12}~R_{J}$, and a relatively large mass of $M_{P} = 3.47_{-0.14}^{+0.15}~ M_{J}$. The star has $R_{\star} = 1.099_{-0.046}^{+0.079}~ R_{\odot}$, $M_{\star} = 1.092_{-0.041}^{+0.045}~ M_{\odot}$, ${T_{\rm eff}\,} = 5767_{-49}^{+50}~$ K, ${\log{g_\star}} = 4.393_{-0.060}^{+0.039}~$ (cgs), and [m/H] = $+0.259_{-0.083}^{+0.085}~$, and thus, other than its slightly super-solar metallicity, appears to be a near solar twin. Surprisingly, KELT-22A exhibits kinematics and a Galactic orbit that are somewhat atypical for thin disk stars. Nevertheless, the star is rotating quite rapidly for its estimated age, shows evidence of chromospheric activity, and is somewhat metal rich. Imaging reveals a slightly fainter companion to KELT-22A that is likely bound, with a projected separation of 6\arcsec ($\sim$1400 AU). In addition to the orbital motion caused by the transiting planet, we detect a possible linear trend in the radial velocity of KELT-22A suggesting the presence of another relatively nearby body that is perhaps non-stellar. KELT-22Ab is highly irradiated (as a consequence of the small semi-major axis of $a/R_{\star} = 4.97$), and is mildly inflated. At such small separations, tidal forces become significant. The configuration of this system is optimal for measuring the rate of tidal dissipation within the host star. Our models predict that, due to tidal forces, the semi-major axis of KELT-22Ab is decreasing rapidly, and is thus predicted to spiral into the star within the next Gyr., Comment: 14 pages, 13 figures, 5 tables

With the advent of high resolution digital video projection and high quality spatial sound systems in modern planetariums, the planetarium can become the basis for a unique set of virtual musical instrument capabilities that go well beyond packaged multimedia shows. The dome, circular speaker and circular seating arrangements provide means for skilled composers and performers to create a virtual reality in which attendees are immersed in the composite instrument. This initial foray into designing an audio-visual computerbased instrument for improvisational performance in a planetarium builds on prior, successful work in mapping the rules and state of two-dimensional computer board games to improvised computer music. The unique visual and audio geometries of the planetarium present challenges and opportunities. The game tessellates the dome in mobile, colored hexagons that emulate both atoms and musical scale intervals in an expanding universe. Spatial activity in the game maps to spatial locale and instrument voices in the speakers, in essence creating a virtual orchestra with a string section, percussion section, etc. on the dome. Future work includes distribution of game play via mobile devices to permit attendees to participate in a performance. This environment is open-ended, with great educational and aesthetic potential.

This is a period study of the bright interacting southern eclipsing binary star R Arae. New photometric data are combined with archival data to determine R Ara's average mass transfer rate over the past 116 years through the analysis of the resulting ephemeris curve. An updated ephemeris is given., Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in IBVS on Feb. 14, 2011

We announce the discovery of a highly inflated transiting hot Jupiter by the KELT-North survey. A global analysis including constraints from isochrones indicates that the V = 10.8 host star (HD 343246) is a mildly evolved, G dwarf with K, , , an inferred mass , and radius . The planetary companion has a mass MJ, radius RJ, surface gravity , and density g cm−3. The planet is on a roughly circular orbit with semimajor axis AU and eccentricity . The best-fit linear ephemeris is and days. This planet is one of the most inflated of all known transiting exoplanets, making it one of the few members of a class of extremely low density, highly irradiated gas giants. The low stellar and large implied radius are supported by stellar density constraints from follow-up light curves, as well as an evolutionary and space motion analysis. We also develop a new technique to extract high-precision radial velocities from noisy spectra that reduces the observing time needed to confirm transiting planet candidates. This planet boasts deep transits of a bright star, a large inferred atmospheric scale height, and a high equilibrium temperature of K, assuming zero albedo and perfect heat redistribution, making it one of the best targets for future atmospheric characterization studies.