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Ghachoui Mourad

Département d'astrophys., géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > Exotic

COMets METeors and Asteroids (COMETA)

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ORCID
0000-0003-3986-0297
Main Referenced Co-authors
Barkaoui, Khalid  (26)
Gillon, Michaël  (25)
Jehin, Emmanuel  (24)
Timmermans, Mathilde  (24)
Benkhaldoun, Z. (12)
Main Referenced Keywords
Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (8); techniques: photometric (8); Exoplanets (4); Transit photometry (4); Radial velocity (3);
Main Referenced Unit & Research Centers
Astrobiology Research Unit, Université de Liège, Allée du 6 Août 19C, 4000 Liège, Belgium (1)
Main Referenced Disciplines
Space science, astronomy & astrophysics (27)

Publications (total 27)

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Gillon, M., Pedersen, P. P., Rackham, B. V., Dransfield, G., Ducrot, E., Barkaoui, K., Burdanov, A. Y., Schroffenegger, U., Gómez Maqueo Chew, Y., Lederer, S. M., Alonso, R., Burgasser, A. J., Howell, S. B., Narita, N., de Wit, J., Demory, B.-O., Queloz, D., Triaud, A. H. M. J., Delrez, L., ... Zong Lang, F. (2024). Detection of an Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting the nearby ultracool dwarf star SPECULOOS-3. Nature Astronomy. doi:10.1038/s41550-024-02271-2 https://hdl.handle.net/2268/319750

The most cited

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Jordán, A., Hartman, J. D., Bayliss, D., Bakos, G. Á., Brahm, R., Bryant, E. M., Csubry, Z., Henning, T., Hobson, M., Mancini, L., Penev, K., Rabus, M., Suc, V., de Val-Borro, M., Wallace, J., Barkaoui, K., Ciardi, D. R., Collins, K. A., Esparza-Borges, E., ... Waalkes, W. C. (01 March 2022). HATS-74Ab, HATS-75b, HATS-76b, and HATS-77b: Four Transiting Giant Planets Around K and M Dwarfs. Astronomical Journal, 163, 125. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/ac4a77 https://hdl.handle.net/2268/289480

Yalçinkaya, S., Barkaoui, K., Baştürk, Ö., Gillon, M., Pozuelos, F. J., Timmermans, M., Rackham, B. V., Burgasser, A. J., Mistry, P., Peláez-Torres, A., Morello, G., Pass, E. K., Bieryla, A., Latham, D. W., Collins, K. A., Akar, F., Benkhaldoun, Z., Burdanov, A., Brande, J., ... Zúñiga Fernández, S. G. (01 October 2025). TOI-1743 b, TOI-5799 b, TOI-5799 c, and TOI-6223 b: TESS discovery and validation of four super-Earth to Neptune-sized planets around M dwarfs. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 702, 209. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202556293
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Zúñiga Fernández, S. G., Pozuelos, F. J., Dévora-Pajares, M., Cuello, N., Greklek-McKeon, M., Stassun, K. G., Van Grootel, V., Rojas-Ayala, B., Korth, J., Günther, M. N., Burgasser, A. J., Hsu, C., Rackham, B. V., Barkaoui, K., Timmermans, M., Cadieux, C., Alonso, R., Strakhov, I. A., Howell, S. B., ... Gillon, M. (2025). Two warm Earth-sized exoplanets and an Earth-sized candidate in the M5V-M6V binary system TOI-2267. Astronomy and Astrophysics. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202554419
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Bourrier, V., Steiner, M., Castro-González, A., Armstrong, D. J., Attia, M., Gill, S., Timmermans, M., Fernandez, J., Hawthorn, F., Triaud, A. H. M. J., Murgas, F., Palle, E., Chakraborty, H., Poppenhaeger, K., Lendl, M., Anderson, D. R., Bryant, E. M., Friden, E., Seidel, J. V., ... Pietrow, A. G. M. (01 September 2025). ATREIDES: I. Embarking on a trek across the exo-Neptunian landscape with the TOI-421 system. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 701, 190. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202554856
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Janó Muñoz, C., Hooton, M. J., Pedersen, P. P., Barkaoui, K., Rackham, B. V., Burgasser, A. J., Pozuelos, F. J., Stassun, K. G., Queloz, D., Triaud, A. H. M. J., Ziegler, C., Almenara, J. M., Timmermans, M., Bonfils, X., Collins, K. A., Demory, B. O., Dransfield, G., Ghachoui, M., Gillon, M., ... Zúñiga Fernández, S. G. (01 July 2025). TOI-2407 b: a warm Neptune in the desert. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 541, 630-641. doi:10.1093/mnras/staf946
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Barkaoui, K., Van Grootel, V., Stalport, M., Gillon, M., Timmermans, M., Davoudi, F., Ghachoui, M., Jehin, E., Sohy, S., & Zúñiga Fernández, S. G. (03 April 2025). TOI-2015 b: A sub-Neptune in strong gravitational interaction with an outer non-transiting planet. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 695, 281. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202452916
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Castro-González, A., Lillo-Box, J., Armstrong, D. J., Acuña, L., Aguichine, A., Bourrier, V., Gandhi, S., Sousa, S. G., Delgado-Mena, E., Moya, A., Adibekyan, V., Correia, A. C. M., Barrado, D., Damasso, M., Winn, J. N., Santos, N. C., Barkaoui, K., Barros, S. C. C., Benkhaldoun, Z., ... Ziegler, C. (01 November 2024). TOI-5005 b: A super-Neptune in the savanna near the ridge. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 691, 233. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202451656
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Ghachoui, M. (2024). Contribution to the detection of exoplanets transiting nearby stars by the mission TESS [Doctoral thesis, ULg - University of Liège]. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/323854

Ghachoui, M., Rackham, B. V., Dévora-Pajares, M., Chouqar, J., Timmermans, M., Kaltenegger, L., Sebastian, D., Pozuelos, F. J., Eastman, J. D., Burgasser, A. J., Murgas, F., Stassun, K. G., Gillon, M., Benkhaldoun, Z., Palle, E., Delrez, L., Jenkins, J. M., Barkaoui, K., Narita, N., ... Davoudi, F. (01 October 2024). TESS discovery of two super-Earths orbiting the M-dwarf stars TOI-6002 and TOI-5713 near the radius valley. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 690, 263. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202451120
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Barkaoui, K., Pozuelos, F. J., Hellier, C., Smalley, B., Nielsen, L. D., Niraula, P., Gillon, M., de Wit, J., Müller, S., Dorn, C., Helled, R., Jehin, E., Demory, B.-O., Van Grootel, V., Soubkiou, A., Ghachoui, M., Anderson, D. R., Benkhaldoun, Z., Bouchy, F., ... West, R. G. (01 July 2024). An extended low-density atmosphere around the Jupiter-sized planet WASP-193 b. Nature Astronomy, 8, 909-919. doi:10.1038/s41550-024-02259-y
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Hori, Y., Fukui, A., Hirano, T., Narita, N., de Leon, J. P., Ishikawa, H. T., Hartman, J. D., Morello, G., García, N. A., Álvarez Hernández, L., Béjar, V. J. S., Calatayud-Borras, Y., Carleo, I., Enoc, G., Esparza-Borges, E., Fukuda, I., Galán, D., Geraldía-González, S., Hayashi, Y., ... Winn, J. N. (01 June 2024). The Discovery and Follow-up of Four Transiting Short-period Sub-Neptunes Orbiting M Dwarfs. Astronomical Journal, 167, 289. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/ad4115
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Hord, B. J., Kempton, E. M.-R., Evans-Soma, T. M., Latham, D. W., Ciardi, D. R., Dragomir, D., Colón, K. D., Ross, G., Vanderburg, A., de Beurs, Z. L., Collins, K. A., Watkins, C. N., Bean, J., Cowan, N. B., Daylan, T., Morley, C. V., Ih, J., Baker, D., Barkaoui, K., ... Zucker, S. (01 May 2024). Identification of the Top TESS Objects of Interest for Atmospheric Characterization of Transiting Exoplanets with JWST. Astronomical Journal, 167, 233. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/ad3068
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Timmermans, M., Dransfield, G., Gillon, M., Triaud, A. H. M. J., Rackham, B. V., Aganze, C., Barkaoui, K., Briceño, C., Burgasser, A. J., Collins, K. A., Cointepas, M., Dévora-Pajares, M., Ducrot, E., Zúñiga Fernández, S. G., Howell, S. B., Kaltenegger, L., Murray, C. A., Pass, E. K., Quinn, S. N., ... Winn, J. N. (01 April 2024). TOI-4336 A b: A temperate sub-Neptune ripe for atmospheric characterization in a nearby triple M-dwarf system. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 687, 48. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202347981
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Parviainen, H., Murgas, F., Esparza-Borges, E., Peláez-Torres, A., Palle, E., Luque, R., Zapatero-Osorio, M. R., Korth, J., Fukui, A., Narita, N., Collins, K. A., Béjar, V. J. S., Morello, G., Monelli, M., Garcia, N. A., Chen, G., Crouzet, N., de Leon, J. P., Isogai, K., ... Dragomir, D. (March 2024). TOI-2266 b: A keystone super-Earth at the edge of the M dwarf radius valley. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 683, 170. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202347431
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Gillon, M., Pedersen, P. P., Rackham, B. V., Dransfield, G., Ducrot, E., Barkaoui, K., Burdanov, A. Y., Schroffenegger, U., Gómez Maqueo Chew, Y., Lederer, S. M., Alonso, R., Burgasser, A. J., Howell, S. B., Narita, N., de Wit, J., Demory, B.-O., Queloz, D., Triaud, A. H. M. J., Delrez, L., ... Zong Lang, F. (2024). Detection of an Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting the nearby ultracool dwarf star SPECULOOS-3. Nature Astronomy. doi:10.1038/s41550-024-02271-2
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Rescigno, F., Hébrard, G., Vanderburg, A., Mann, A. W., Mortier, A., Morrell, S., Buchhave, L. A., Collins, K. A., Mann, C. R., Hellier, C., Haywood, R. D., West, R., Stalport, M., Heidari, N., Anderson, D., Huang, C. X., López-Morales, M., Cortés-Zuleta, P., Lewis, H. M., ... Forés-Toribio, R. (2024). A hot mini-Neptune and a temperate, highly eccentric sub-Saturn around the bright K-dwarf TOI-2134. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 527 (3), 5385-5407. doi:10.1093/mnras/stad3255
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Triaud, A. H. M. J., Dransfield, G., Kagetani, T., Timmermans, M., Narita, N., Barkaoui, K., Hirano, T., Rackham, B. V., Mori, M., Baycroft, T., Benkhaldoun, Z., Burgasser, A. J., Caldwell, D. A., Collins, K. A., Davis, Y. T., Delrez, L., Demory, B.-O., Ducrot, E., Fukui, A., ... Zúñiga Fernández, S. G. (01 October 2023). An M dwarf accompanied by a close-in giant orbiter with SPECULOOS. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 525, 98-L104. doi:10.1093/mnrasl/slad097
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Ghachoui, M., Soubkiou, A., Wells, R. D., Rackham, B. V., Triaud, A. H. M. J., Sebastian, D., Giacalone, S., Stassun, K. G., Ciardi, D. R., Collins, K. A., Liu, A., Gómez Maqueo Chew, Y., Gillon, M., Benkhaldoun, Z., Delrez, L., Eastman, J. D., Demangeon, O., Barkaoui, K., Burdanov, A., ... Schwarz, R. P. (01 September 2023). TESS discovery of a super-Earth orbiting the M-dwarf star TOI-1680. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 677, 31. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202347040
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Barkaoui, K., Timmermans, M., Soubkiou, A., Rackham, B. V., Burgasser, A. J., Chouqar, J., Pozuelos, F. J., Collins, K. A., Howell, S. B., Simcoe, R., Melis, C., Stassun, K. G., Tregloan-Reed, J., Cointepas, M., Gillon, M., Bonfils, X., Furlan, E., Gnilka, C. L., Almenara, J. M., ... Zúñiga Fernández, S. G. (01 September 2023). TOI-2084 b and TOI-4184 b: Two new sub-Neptunes around M dwarf stars. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 677, 38. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202346838
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Mistry, P., Pathak, K., Prasad, A., Lekkas, G., Bhattarai, S., Gharat, S., Maity, M., Kumar, D., Collins, K. A., Schwarz, R. P., Mann, C. R., Furlan, E., Howell, S. B., Ciardi, D., Bieryla, A., Matthews, E. C., Gonzales, E., Ziegler, C., Crossfield, I., ... Triaud, A. H. M. J. (01 July 2023). VaTEST. II. Statistical Validation of 11 TESS-detected Exoplanets Orbiting K-type Stars. Astronomical Journal, 166, 9. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/acd548
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Barkaoui, K., Pozuelos, F. J., Hellier, C., Smalley, B., Nielsen, L. D., Dorn, C., Niraula, P., Gillon, M., de Wit, J., Helled, R., Müller, S., Jehin, E., Demory, B.-O., Van Grootel, V., Soubkiou, A., Ghachoui, M., Anderson, D. R., Benkhaldoun, Z., Bouchy, F., ... West, R. G. (2023). WASP-193b: An extremely low-density super-Neptune. Nature Astronomy, 2307.08350. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2307.08350
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Morello, G., Parviainen, H., Murgas, F., Pallé, E., Oshagh, M., Fukui, A., Hirano, T., Ishikawa, H. T., Mori, M., Narita, N., Collins, K. A., Barkaoui, K., Lewin, P., Cadieux, C., de Leon, J. P., Soubkiou, A., Abreu Garcia, N., Crouzet, N., Esparza-Borges, E., ... Timmermans, M. (01 May 2023). TOI-1442 b and TOI-2445 b: Two potentially rocky ultra-short period planets around M dwarfs. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 673, 32. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202243592
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Pozuelos, F. J., Timmermans, M., Rackham, B. V., Garcia, L., Burgasser, A. J., Kane, S. R., Günther, M. N., Stassun, K. G., Van Grootel, V., Dévora-Pajares, M., Luque, R., Edwards, B., Niraula, P., Schanche, N., Wells, R. D., Ducrot, E., Howell, S., Sebastian, D., Barkaoui, K., ... Mancini, L. (01 April 2023). A super-Earth and a mini-Neptune near the 2:1 MMR straddling the radius valley around the nearby mid-M dwarf TOI-2096. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 672, 70. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202245440
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Yee, S. W., Winn, J. N., Hartman, J. D., Bouma, L. G., Zhou, G., Quinn, S. N., Latham, D. W., Bieryla, A., Rodriguez, J. E., Collins, K. A., Alfaro, O., Barkaoui, K., Beard, C., Belinski, A. A., Benkhaldoun, Z., Benni, P., Bernacki, K., Boyle, A. W., Butler, R. P., ... Ziegler, C. (01 March 2023). The TESS Grand Unified Hot Jupiter Survey. II. Twenty New Giant Planets. Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 265, 1. doi:10.3847/1538-4365/aca286
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Hobson, M. J., Jordán, A., Bryant, E. M., Brahm, R., Bayliss, D., Hartman, J. D., Bakos, G. Á., Henning, T., Almenara, J. M., Barkaoui, K., Benkhaldoun, Z., Bonfils, X., Bouchy, F., Charbonneau, D., Cointepas, M., Collins, K. A., Eastman, J. D., Ghachoui, M., Gillon, M., ... Winn, J. N. (01 March 2023). TOI-3235 b: A Transiting Giant Planet around an M4 Dwarf Star. Astrophysical Journal, 946, 4. doi:10.3847/2041-8213/acbd9a
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Jordán, A., Hartman, J. D., Bayliss, D., Bakos, G. Á., Brahm, R., Bryant, E. M., Csubry, Z., Henning, T., Hobson, M., Mancini, L., Penev, K., Rabus, M., Suc, V., de Val-Borro, M., Wallace, J., Barkaoui, K., Ciardi, D. R., Collins, K. A., Esparza-Borges, E., ... Waalkes, W. C. (01 March 2022). HATS-74Ab, HATS-75b, HATS-76b, and HATS-77b: Four Transiting Giant Planets Around K and M Dwarfs. Astronomical Journal, 163, 125. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/ac4a77
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Giacalone, S., Dressing, C. D., Hedges, C., Kostov, V. B., Collins, K. A., Jensen, E. L. N., Yahalomi, D. A., Bieryla, A., Ciardi, D. R., Howell, S. B., Lillo-Box, J., Rose, M. E., Rowden, P., Roy, A., Savel, A. B., Schlieder, J. E., Schnaible, C., Schwarz, R. P., Sefako, R., ... Robertson, P. (01 February 2022). Validation of 13 Hot and Potentially Terrestrial TESS Planets. Astronomical Journal, 163, 99. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/ac4334
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Gan, T., Soubkiou, A., Wang, S. X., Benkhaldoun, Z., Mao, S., Artigau, É., Fouqué, P., Giacalone, S., Theissen, C. A., Aganze, C., Collins, K. A., Shporer, A., Barkaoui, K., Ghachoui, M., Howell, S. B., Lamman, C., Olivier D. S. Demangeon, Burdanov, A., Cadieux, C., ... Jenkins, J. M. (2022). TESS discovery of a sub-Neptune orbiting a mid-M dwarf TOI-2136. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
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