Teamwork Across Timezones: The Transit of TOI-2180 b

Title: The TESS-Keck Survey. VIII. Confirmation of a Transiting Giant Planet on an Eccentric 261 day Orbit with the Automated Planet Finder Telescope

Authors:  Paul A. Dalba, Stephen R. Kane, Diana Dragomir, and 72 additional authors

First Author’s Institution: Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA and Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California Riverside, 900 University Ave, Riverside, CA 92521, USA

Status: Published in The Astronomical Journal [open access]

Slow Going

Few objects in this universe are more peaceful than giant, far-out, slow moving planets. Serenely cruising along on their wide orbits while their gorgeous clouds slowly churn, they aren’t as flashy as their close-in, Hot Jupiter cousins who whip around their host star getting blasted with intense radiation all the way. They mostly…