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We present a preliminary analysis of the cool pulsating white dwarf (WD) GD 1212, enabled by more than 11.5 days of space-based photometry obtained during an engineering test of the two-reaction-wheel-controlled Kepler spacecraft. We detect at least 19 independent pulsation modes, ranging from 828.2-1220.8 s, and at least 17 nonlinear combination frequencies of those independent pulsations. Our longest uninterrupted light curve, 9.0 days in length, evidences coherent difference frequencies at periods inaccessible from the ground, up to 14.5 hr, the longest-period signals ever detected in a pulsating WD. These results mark some of the first science to come from a two-wheel-controlled Kepler spacecraft, proving the capability for unprecedented discoveries afforded by extending Kepler observations to the ecliptic. ; European Research Council under the European Union 320964 ; NSF AST-0909107, AST-1312678 ; Norman Hackerman Advanced Research Program 003658-0252-2009 ; NASA NNX12AC96G, NNX13AC23G, NNX14AB92G ; Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM), Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) ; McDonald Observatory

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite mission was designed to find transiting planets around bright, nearby stars. Here, we present the detection and mass measurement of a small, short-period (≈4 days) transiting planet around the bright (V=7.9), solar-type star HD 86226 (TOI-652, TIC 22221375), previously known to host a long-period (∼1600 days) giant planet. HD 86226c (TOI-652.01) has a radius of 2.16±0.08R⊕ and a mass of - 7.25+1.12 1.19 M⊕, based on archival and new radial velocity data. We also update the parameters of the longer-period, not-known-to-transit planet, and find it to be less eccentric and less massive than previously reported. The density of the transiting planet is 3.97 gcm−3, which is low enough to suggest that the planet has at least a small volatile envelope, but the mass fractions of rock, iron, and water are not well-constrained. Given the host star brightness, planet period, and location of the planet near both the "radius gap" and the "hot Neptune desert," HD 86226c is an interesting candidate for transmission spectroscopy to further refine its composition. ; NASA's Science Mission directorate NASA through Hubble Fellowship grant - Space Telescope Science Institute HST-HF2-51399.001 National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) NAS5-26555 18-XRP18_2-0048 CONICYT-PFCHA/Doctorado Nacional, Chile 21140646 European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant 713673 "la Caixa" INPhINIT Fellowship grant LCF/BQ/IN17/11620033 European Research Council (ERC) 724427 Comision Nacional de Investigacion Cientifica y Tecnologica (CONICYT) CONICYT FONDECYT 1161218 Comision Nacional de Investigacion Cientifica y Tecnologica (CONICYT) Basal AFB-170002 Spanish Ministry of Economics and Competitiveness PGC2018-098153-B-C31 Heising-Simons Foundation Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) European Commission 200020_172746 National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA)