April 15, 2026

Caption: An artist rendering of the system. Credit: Tedi Vick

Graduate student Ismael Mireles led a research team which published an article confirming three bodies orbiting the dynamic exoplanet system TOI-201.

They include a super-earth (TOI-201 d), a warm Jupiter (TOI-201 b) and a brown dwarf (TOI-201 c).

Ismael is advised by Professor Diana Dragomir.

See the UNM Newsroom story

See the article from The DeBrief, Just Two Centuries From Now, This Newly Discovered Exoplanet System Will look Vastly Different—Here’s Why

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