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Publications (8)

astro-ph.EP2025

Enriched volatiles and refractories but deficient titanium on the dayside atmosphere of WASP-121b revealed by JWST/NIRISS

Stefan Pelletier, Louis-Philippe Coulombe, Jared Splinter +21

With dayside temperatures elevated enough for all atmospheric constituents to be present in gas form, ultra-hot Jupiters offer a unique opportunity to probe the composition of gian…

astro-ph.EP2025

Continuous helium absorption from the leading and trailing tails of WASP-107b

Vigneshwaran Krishnamurthy, Yann Carteret, Caroline Piaulet-Ghorayeb +19

The detection of helium escaping the atmosphere of exoplanets has revolutionized our understanding of atmospheric escape and exoplanetary evolution. Using high-precision spectrosco…

astro-ph.EP2022

ATOCA: an algorithm to treat order contamination. Application to the NIRISS SOSS mode

Antoine Darveau-Bernier, Loïc Albert, Geert Jan Talens +20

After a successful launch, the James Webb Space Telescope is preparing to undertake one of its principal missions, the characterization of the atmospheres of exoplanets. The Single…

astro-ph.EP2025

Heat Reveals What Clouds Conceal: Global Carbon & Longitudinally Asymmetric Chemistry on LTT 9779 b

Reza Ashtari, Sean Collins, Jared Splinter +17

LTT-9779 b is an ultra-hot Neptune (Rp ~ 4.7 Re, Mp ~ 29 Me) orbiting its Sun-like host star in just 19 hours, placing it deep within the "hot Neptune desert," where Neptunian plan…

astro-ph.EP2025

A complex structure of escaping helium spanning more than half the orbit of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-121\,b

Romain Allart, Louis-Philippe Coulombe, Yann Carteret +19

Atmospheric escape of planets on short orbital periods, driven by the host star's irradiation, influences their evolution, composition, and atmospheric dynamics. Our main avenue to…

astro-ph.EP2026

The Days Drag On on WASP-121 b: Interpreting its NIRISS Spectroscopic Phase Curve with General Circulation Models

Robert C. Frazier, Emily Rauscher, Jared Splinter +18

Ultra-hot Jupiters present extreme atmospheric phenomena not found in the Solar System. These planets' daysides experience strong temperature inversions, molecular species (includi…

astro-ph.EP2025

Precise Constraints on the Energy Budget of WASP-121 b from its JWST NIRISS/SOSS Phase Curve

Jared Splinter, Louis-Philippe Coulombe, Robert C. Frazier +20

Ultra-hot Jupiters exhibit day-to-night temperature contrasts upwards of 1000 K due to competing effects of strong winds, short radiative timescales, magnetic drag, and H2 dissocia…

astro-ph.EP2025

Seasonal Changes in the Atmosphere of HD 80606b Observed with JWST's NIRSpec/G395H

James T. Sikora, Jason F. Rowe, Jared Splinter +11

High-eccentricity gas giant planets serve as unique laboratories for studying the thermal and chemical properties of H/He-dominated atmospheres. One of the most extreme cases is HD…