Astronomy:TESS Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets
TESS Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets (THYME) is an exoplanet search project. The researchers of the THYME collaboration are mainly from the United States[1][2] and search for young exoplanets using data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). The new discoveries should help to understand the early evolution of exoplanets.[3] As of April 2026 the collaboration has produced 14 papers announcing the discovery of exoplanets.
Paper number 8 adapted the backronym to "Transit Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets", because it used data from the Kepler space telescope.[4] As a follow-up to the K2-based Zodiacal Exoplanets In Time (ZEIT) survey, which also has a time-based name, the THYME project's name pronunciation alludes to the young age of the planets it has discovered.
List of discoveries
| Name | orbital period
(days) |
Radius
(R⊕) |
age
(Myrs) |
discovery year | reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DS Tuc Ab (TOI-200.01) | 8.1 | 5.7 | 45 | 2019 | [1] |
| HIP 67522 b | 6.96 | 10.0 | 17 | 2020 | [5] |
| HIP 67522 c (candidate) | ≥23 | 8.01 | 17 | 2020 | [5] |
| HD 63433 d | 4.2 | 1.1 | 400 | 2024 | [6] |
| HD 63433 b (TOI-1726.01) | 7.11 | 2.15 | 400 | 2020 | [7] |
| HD 63433 c (TOI-1726.02) | 20.55 | 2.67 | 400 | 2020 | [7] |
| TOI-451 b | 1.9 | 1.9 | 120 | 2021 | [8] |
| TOI-451 c | 9.2 | 3.1 | 120 | 2021 | [8] |
| TOI-451 d | 16 | 4.1 | 120 | 2021 | [8] |
| HD 110082 b (TOI-1098.01) | 10.2 | 3.2 | 250 | 2021 | [9] |
| TOI-1227 b | 27.4 | 9.5 | 11 | 2022 | [10] |
| TOI-2048 b | 13.8 | 2.6[11] | 300 | 2022 | [2] |
| Kepler-1928 b | 19.58 | 2.0 | 105 | 2022 | [12] |
| HD 109833 b (TOI-1097.01) | 9.19 | 2.9 | 27 | 2023 | [13] |
| HD 109833 c (TOI-1097.02) | 13.90 | 2.6 | 27 | 2023 | [13] |
| TOI-1224 b | 4.18 | 2.10 | 210 | 2024 | [14] |
| TOI-1224 c | 17.95 | 2.88 | 210 | 2024 | [14] |
| TOI-4364 b | 5.4 | 2.01 | 710 | 2025 | [15] |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Newton, Elisabeth R.; Mann, Andrew W.; Tofflemire, Benjamin M.; Pearce, Logan; Rizzuto, Aaron C.; Vanderburg, Andrew; Martinez, Raquel A.; Wang, Jason J. et al. (2019-07-01). "TESS Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets (THYME): A Planet in the 45 Myr Tucana-Horologium Association". The Astrophysical Journal 880 (1): L17. doi:10.3847/2041-8213/ab2988. ISSN 0004-637X. Bibcode: 2019ApJ...880L..17N.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Newton, Elisabeth R.; Rampalli, Rayna; Kraus, Adam L.; Mann, Andrew W.; Curtis, Jason L.; Vanderburg, Andrew; Krolikowski, Daniel M.; Huber, Daniel et al. (2022-09-01). "TESS Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets (THYME). VII. Membership, Rotation, and Lithium in the Young Cluster Group-X and a New Young Exoplanet". The Astronomical Journal 164 (3): 115. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/ac8154. ISSN 0004-6256. Bibcode: 2022AJ....164..115N.
- ↑ Tofflemire, B.; Newton, E.; Mann, A.; Rizzuto, A.; Vanderburg, A.; Kraus, A. (2020-01-01). "THYME: The TESS Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets — Project Overview and Early Results". American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #235 235: 174.18. Bibcode: 2020AAS...23517418T. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020AAS...23517418T.
- ↑ Barber, Madyson G.; Mann, Andrew W.; Bush, Jonathan L.; Tofflemire, Benjamin M.; Kraus, Adam L.; Krolikowski, Daniel M.; Vanderburg, Andrew; Fields, Matthew J. et al. (2022-09-01). "Transit Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets (THYME). VIII. A Pleiades-age Association Harboring Two Transiting Planetary Systems from Kepler". The Astronomical Journal 164 (3): 88. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/ac7b28. ISSN 0004-6256. Bibcode: 2022AJ....164...88B.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Rizzuto, Aaron C.; Newton, Elisabeth R.; Mann, Andrew W.; Tofflemire, Benjamin M.; Vanderburg, Andrew; Kraus, Adam L.; Wood, Mackenna L.; Quinn, Samuel N. et al. (2020-07-01). "TESS Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets (THYME). II. A 17 Myr Old Transiting Hot Jupiter in the Sco-Cen Association". The Astronomical Journal 160 (1): 33. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/ab94b7. ISSN 0004-6256. Bibcode: 2020AJ....160...33R.
- ↑ Capistrant, Benjamin K.; Soares-Furtado, Melinda; Vanderburg, Andrew; Jankowski, Alyssa; Mann, Andrew W.; Ross, Gabrielle; Srdoc, Gregor; Hinkel, Natalie R. et al. (2024-02-01). "TESS Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets (THYME). XI. An Earth-sized Planet Orbiting a Nearby, Solar-like Host in the 400 Myr Ursa Major Moving Group". The Astronomical Journal 167 (2): 54. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/ad1039. ISSN 0004-6256. Bibcode: 2024AJ....167...54C.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Mann, Andrew W.; Johnson, Marshall C.; Vanderburg, Andrew; Kraus, Adam L.; Rizzuto, Aaron C.; Wood, Mackenna L.; Bush, Jonathan L.; Rockcliffe, Keighley et al. (2020-10-01). "TESS Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets (THYME). III. A Two-planet System in the 400 Myr Ursa Major Group". The Astronomical Journal 160 (4): 179. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/abae64. ISSN 0004-6256. Bibcode: 2020AJ....160..179M.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Newton, Elisabeth R.; Mann, Andrew W.; Kraus, Adam L.; Livingston, John H.; Vanderburg, Andrew; Curtis, Jason L.; Thao, Pa Chia; Hawkins, Keith et al. (2021-02-01). "TESS Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets (THYME). IV. Three Small Planets Orbiting a 120 Myr Old Star in the Pisces-Eridanus Stream". The Astronomical Journal 161 (2): 65. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/abccc6. ISSN 0004-6256. Bibcode: 2021AJ....161...65N.
- ↑ Tofflemire, Benjamin M.; Rizzuto, Aaron C.; Newton, Elisabeth R.; Kraus, Adam L.; Mann, Andrew W.; Vanderburg, Andrew; Nelson, Tyler; Hawkins, Keith et al. (2021-04-01). "TESS Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets (THYME). V. A Sub-Neptune Transiting a Young Star in a Newly Discovered 250 Myr Association". The Astronomical Journal 161 (4): 171. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/abdf53. ISSN 0004-6256. Bibcode: 2021AJ....161..171T.
- ↑ Mann, Andrew W.; Wood, Mackenna L.; Schmidt, Stephen P.; Barber, Madyson G.; Owen, James E.; Tofflemire, Benjamin M.; Newton, Elisabeth R.; Mamajek, Eric E. et al. (2022-04-01). "TESS Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets (THYME). VI. An 11 Myr Giant Planet Transiting a Very-low-mass Star in Lower Centaurus Crux". The Astronomical Journal 163 (4): 156. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/ac511d. ISSN 0004-6256. Bibcode: 2022AJ....163..156M.
- ↑ Newton, Elisabeth R.; Rampalli, Rayna; Kraus, Adam L.; Mann, Andrew W.; Curtis, Jason L.; Vanderburg, Andrew; Krolikowski, Daniel M.; Huber, Daniel et al. (2023-03-01). "Erratum: "TESS Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets (THYME). VII. Membership, Rotation, and Lithium in the Young Cluster Group-X and a New Young Exoplanet" (2022, AJ, 164, 119)". The Astronomical Journal 165 (3): 136. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/acb589. ISSN 0004-6256. Bibcode: 2023AJ....165..136N.
- ↑ Barber, Madyson G.; Mann, Andrew W.; Bush, Jonathan L.; Tofflemire, Benjamin M.; Kraus, Adam L.; Krolikowski, Daniel M.; Vanderburg, Andrew; Fields, Matthew J. et al. (2022-09-01). "Transit Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets (THYME). VIII. A Pleiades-age Association Harboring Two Transiting Planetary Systems from Kepler". The Astronomical Journal 164 (3): 88. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/ac7b28. ISSN 0004-6256. Bibcode: 2022AJ....164...88B.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Wood, Mackenna L.; Mann, Andrew W.; Barber, Madyson G.; Bush, Jonathan L.; Kraus, Adam L.; Tofflemire, Benjamin M.; Vanderburg, Andrew; Newton, Elisabeth R. et al. (2023-03-01). "TESS Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets (THYME). IX. A 27 Myr Extended Population of Lower Centaurus Crux with a Transiting Two-planet System". The Astronomical Journal 165 (3): 85. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/aca8fc. ISSN 0004-6256. Bibcode: 2023AJ....165...85W.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Thao, Pa Chia; Mann, Andrew W.; Barber, Madyson G.; Kraus, Adam L.; Tofflemire, Benjamin M.; Bush, Jonathan L.; Wood, Mackenna L.; Collins, Karen A. et al. (July 2024). "TESS Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets (THYME). X. A Two-planet System in the 210 Myr MELANGE-5 Association" (in en). The Astronomical Journal 168 (1): 41. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/ad4993. ISSN 0004-6256. Bibcode: 2024AJ....168...41T.
- ↑ Distler, Adam; Soares-Furtado, Melinda; Vanderburg, Andrew; Schulte, Jack; Becker, Juliette; Mann, Andrew W.; Howell, Steve B.; Kraus, Adam L. et al. (March 2025). "TESS Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets (THYME). XII. A Young Mini-Neptune on the Upper Edge of the Radius Valley in the Hyades Cluster" (in en). The Astronomical Journal 169 (3): 166. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/ada26a. ISSN 0004-6256. Bibcode: 2025AJ....169..166D.
