2026-04-22T09:13:05Zivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/164/1152025-06-13T15:25:00ZJ.AJIVOATESS Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets. VII.The public, all-sky surveys Gaia and TESS provide the ability to identify new young associations and determine their ages. These associations enable study of planetary evolution by providing new opportunities to discover young exoplanets. A young association was recently identified by Tang et al. and Furnkranz et al. using astrometry from Gaia (called "Group-X" by the former). In this work, we investigate the age and membership of this association, and we validate the exoplanet TOI 2048b, which was identified to transit a young, late G-dwarf in Group-X using photometry from TESS. We first identified new candidate members of Group-X using Gaia EDR3 data. To infer the age of the association, we measured rotation periods for candidate members using TESS data. The clear color-period sequence indicates that the association is the same age as the 300{+/-}50Myr old NGC3532. We obtained optical spectra for candidate members that show lithium absorption consistent with this young age. Further, we serendipitously identify a new, small association nearby Group-X, which we call MELANGE-2. Lastly, we statistically validate TOI2048b, which is a 2.1{+/-}0.2R{Earth} radius planet on a 13.8day orbit around its 300Myr old host star.open-star-clustersexoplanetsproper-motionsinfrared-photometryvisible-astronomyphotometrytrigonometric-parallaxradial-velocityexoplanet-astronomygalactic-and-extragalactic-astronomystellar-astronomyobservational-astronomyhttps://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/lp/custom/CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/164/115http://doi.org/10.26093/cds/vizier.51640115https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/AJ/164/1152022AJ....164..115Nhttps://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/AJ/164/115Cone search capability for table J/AJ/164/115/table5 (Combined Group-X members)Cone search capability for table J/AJ/164/115/table6 (Rotation periods for Group-X members)Cone search capability for table J/AJ/164/115/table7 (Li EW measurements for candidate Group-X members)Cone search capability for table J/AJ/164/115/table10 (Friends of MELANGE-2)Cone search capability for table J/AJ/164/115/table11 (Rotation periods for MELANGE-2 friends)Cone search capability for table J/AJ/164/115/table9 (*Provenance of data for transiting planets in associations <1Gyr in age, plotted in Figure 13)Newton E.R.Rampalli R.Kraus A.L.Mann A.W.Curtis J.L.Vanderburg A.,Krolikowski D.M.Huber D.Petter G.C.Bieryla A.Tofflemire B.M.,Thao Pa C.Wood M.L.Kerr R.Safanov B.S.Strakhov I.A.Ciardi D.R.,Giacalone S.Dressing C.D.Gill H.Savel A.B.Collins K.A.Brown P.,Murgas F.Isogai K.Narita N.Palle E.Quinn S.N.Eastman J.D.,Furesz G.Shiao B.Daylan T.Caldwell D.A.Ricker G.R.Vanderspek R.,Seager S.Winn J.N.Jenkins J.M.Latham D.W.CDS2022https://cds.unistra.fr/vizier-org/licences_vizier.htmlCDS support team <cds-question@unistra.fr>DatasetAstroObjectsastronomy