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astro-ph.SR2025

Detection of Methane in the Closest Extreme Metal-poor T Dwarf WISEA J181006.18-101000.5

Jerry Jun-Yan Zhang, Nicolas Lodieu, Eduardo L. Martín +7

WISEA J181006.18-101000.5 (WISE1810) is the nearest metal-poor ultracool dwarf to the Sun. It has a low effective temperature and has been classified as extreme early-T subdwarf. H…

astro-ph.EP2023

The effect of a small amount of hydrogen in the atmosphere of ultrahot magma-ocean planets: atmospheric composition and escape

Sébastien Charnoz, Aurélien Falco, Pascal Tremblin +3

Here we investigate how small amounts of hydrogen (much smaller than the mass of the exoplanet) above a magma ocean on a rocky exoplanet may modify the atmospheric chemistry and at…

astro-ph.IM2021

Ariel: Enabling planetary science across light-years

Giovanna Tinetti, Paul Eccleston, Carole Haswell +313

Ariel, the Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey, was adopted as the fourth medium-class mission in ESA's Cosmic Vision programme to be launched in 2029. Durin…

astro-ph.SR2024

Medium Resolution 0.97-5.3 micron spectra of Very Young Benchmark Brown Dwarfs with NIRSpec onboard the James Webb Space Telescope

Elena Manjavacas, Pascal Tremblin, Stephan Birkmann +7

Spectra of young benchmark brown dwarfs with well-known ages are vital to characterize other brown dwarfs, for which ages are in general not known. These spectra are also crucial t…

astro-ph.SR2025

Exploration of the Near-Infrared Colors of Cold Y Dwarfs from the Ground and Space

S. K. Leggett, Mark W. Phillips, Pascal Tremblin

JWST has provided critical mid-infrared data for cold brown dwarfs. It has also provided low-resolution near-infrared spectra, and for faint sources these are the first spectra at…

astro-ph.EP2020

A library of ATMO forward model transmission spectra for hot Jupiter exoplanets

Jayesh M. Goyal, Nathan Mayne, David K. Sing +11

We present a grid of forward model transmission spectra, adopting an isothermal temperature-pressure profile, alongside corresponding equilibrium chemical abundances for 117 observ…

astro-ph.EP2018

The 3D thermal, dynamical and chemical structure of the atmosphere of HD 189733b: implications of wind-driven chemistry for the emission phase curve

Benjamin Drummond, Nathan J. Mayne, James Manners +5

In this paper we present three-dimensional atmospheric simulations of the hot Jupiter HD~189733b under two different scenarios: local chemical equilibrium and including advection o…

astro-ph.EP2017

HAT-P-26b: A Neptune-Mass Exoplanet with a Well Constrained Heavy Element Abundance

Hannah R. Wakeford, David K. Sing, Tiffany Kataria +11

A correlation between giant-planet mass and atmospheric heavy elemental abundance was first noted in the past century from observations of planets in our own Solar System, and has…

astro-ph.GA2016

Photoionisation Feedback in a Self-Gravitating, Magnetised, Turbulent Cloud

Sam Geen, Patrick Hennebelle, Pascal Tremblin +1

We present a new set of analytic models for the expansion of HII regions powered by UV photoionisation from massive stars and compare them to a new suite of radiative magnetohydrod…

astro-ph.SR2024

The JWST Weather Report from the Nearest Brown Dwarfs I: multi-period JWST NIRSpec + MIRI monitoring of the benchmark binary brown dwarf WISE 1049AB

Beth A. Biller, Johanna M. Vos, Yifan Zhou +22

We report results from 8 hours of JWST/MIRI LRS spectroscopic monitoring directly followed by 7 hours of JWST/NIRSpec prism spectroscopic monitoring of the benchmark binary brown d…

astro-ph.EP2025

Silicate Precursor Silane detected in Cold Low-Metallicity Brown Dwarf

Jacqueline K. Faherty, Aaron M. Meisner, Ben Burningham +28

Within 20 pc of the Sun there are currently 29 known cold brown dwarfs, sources with measured distances and an estimated effective temperature between that of Jupiter (170K) and ~5…

astro-ph.EP2025

SO2, silicate clouds, but no CH4 detected in a warm Neptune

Achrene Dyrek, Michiel Min, Leen Decin +44

WASP-107b is a warm (~740 K) transiting planet with a Neptune-like mass of ~30.5 Earth masses and Jupiter-like radius of ~0.94 Jupiter radius, whose extended atmosphere is eroding.…

astro-ph.EP2022

Identification of carbon dioxide in an exoplanet atmosphere

The JWST Transiting Exoplanet Community Early Release Science Team, Eva-Maria Ahrer, Lili Alderson +129

Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a key chemical species that is found in a wide range of planetary atmospheres. In the context of exoplanets, CO2 is an indicator of the metal enrichment (i.…

astro-ph.EP2020

A Library of Self-Consistent Simulated Exoplanet Atmospheres

Jayesh M. Goyal, Nathan Mayne, Benjamin Drummond +7

We present a publicly available library of model atmospheres with radiative-convective equilibrium Pressure-Temperature (-) profiles fully consistent with equilibrium chemica…

astro-ph.EP2017

Toward the analysis of JWST exoplanet spectra: Identifying troublesome model parameters

Jean-Loup Baudino, Paul Molliere, Olivia Venot +3

Given the forthcoming launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) which will allow observ- ing exoplanet atmospheres with unprecedented signal-over-noise ratio, spectral covera…

astro-ph.EP2024

A warm Neptune's methane reveals core mass and vigorous atmospheric mixing

David K. Sing, Zafar Rustamkulov, Daniel P. Thorngren +18

Observations of transiting gas giant exoplanets have revealed a pervasive depletion of methane, which has only recently been identified atmospherically. The depletion is thought to…

astro-ph.SR2025

The JWST weather report from the nearest brown dwarfs III: Heterogeneous clouds and Thermochemical instabilities as possible drivers of WISE 1049AB's spectroscopic variability

Natalia Oliveros-Gomez, Elena Manjavacas, Theodora Karalidi +17

We present a new analysis of the spectroscopic variability of WISE~J104915.57531906.1AB (WISE~1049AB, L7.5+T0.5), observed using the NIRSpec instrument onboard the James Webb Sp…

astro-ph.EP2023

Photochemically-produced SO in the atmosphere of WASP-39b

Shang-Min Tsai, Elspeth K. H. Lee, Diana Powell +82

Photochemistry is a fundamental process of planetary atmospheres that regulates the atmospheric composition and stability. However, no unambiguous photochemical products have been…

math.NA2022

Towards a multigrid method for the M1 model for radiative transfer

Hélène Bloch, Pascal Tremblin, Matthias González +1

We present a geometric multigrid solver for the M1 model of radiative transfer without source terms. In radiative hydrodynamics applications, the radiative transfer needs to be sol…

astro-ph.EP2021

Chemical variation with altitude and longitude on exo-Neptunes: Predictions for Ariel phase-curve observations

Julianne I. Moses, Pascal Tremblin, Olivia Venot +1

Using 2D thermal structure models and pseudo-2D chemical kinetics models, we explore how atmospheric temperatures and composition change as a function of altitude and longitude wit…

astro-ph.SR2025

Redshifting the Study of Cold Brown Dwarfs and Exoplanets: the Mid-Infrared Wavelength Region as an Indicator of Surface Gravity and Mass

S. K. Leggett, Pascal Tremblin

JWST is opening many avenues for exploration. For cold brown dwarfs and exoplanets, JWST has opened the door to the mid-infrared wavelength region, where such objects emit signific…

astro-ph.EP2019

An independent analysis of the Spitzer/IRAC phase curves of WASP43 b

Giuseppe Morello, Camilla Danielski, Daniel Dicken +2

We present here a reanalysis of the Spitzer Space Telescope phase curves of the hot Jupiter WASP43 b, using the wavelet pixel-Independent Component Analysis, a blind signal-source…

math.NA2023

Recasting an operator splitting solver into a standard finite volume flux-based algorithm. The case of a Lagrange-Projection-type method for gas dynamics

Rémi Bourgeois, Pascal Tremblin, Samuel Kokh +1

In this paper, we propose a modification of an acoustic-transport operator splitting Lagrange-projection method for simulating compressible flows with gravity. The original method…

astro-ph.SR2023

The First Y Dwarf Data From JWST Show That Dynamic and Diabatic Processes Regulate Cold Brown Dwarf Atmospheres

S. K. Leggett, Pascal Tremblin

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is now observing Y dwarfs, the coldest known brown dwarfs, with effective temperatures T_eff <= 475 K. The first published observations provid…

astro-ph.EP2022

The JWST Early Release Science Program for the Direct Imaging & Spectroscopy of Exoplanetary Systems

Sasha Hinkley, Aarynn L. Carter, Shrishmoy Ray +83

The direct characterization of exoplanetary systems with high contrast imaging is among the highest priorities for the broader exoplanet community. As large space missions will be…

astro-ph.EP2016

The Effects of Consistent Chemical Kinetics Calculations on the Pressure-Temperature Profiles and Emission Spectra of Hot Jupiters

Benjamin Drummond, Pascal Tremblin, Isabelle Baraffe +4

In this work we investigate the impact of calculating non-equilibrium chemical abundances consistently with the temperature structure for the atmospheres of highly-irradiated, clos…

astro-ph.EP2019

A new chemical scheme for giant planet thermochemistry. Update of the methanol chemistry and new reduced chemical scheme

Olivia Venot, Thibault Cavalié, Roda Bounaceur +3

Several chemical networks have been developed to study warm (exo)planetary atmospheres. The kinetics of the reactions related to the methanol chemistry included in these schemes ha…

astro-ph.GA2016

Feedback in Clouds II: UV Photoionisation and the first supernova in a massive cloud

Sam Geen, Patrick Hennebelle, Pascal Tremblin +1

Molecular cloud structure is regulated by stellar feedback in various forms. Two of the most important feedback processes are UV photoionisation and supernovae from massive stars.…

astro-ph.GA2017

Clustering the Orion B giant molecular cloud based on its molecular emission

Emeric Bron, Chloé Daudon, Jérôme Pety +12

Previous attempts at segmenting molecular line maps of molecular clouds have focused on using position-position-velocity data cubes of a single line to separate the spatial compone…

astro-ph.EP2022

X-SHYNE: X-shooter spectra of young exoplanet analogs. I. A medium-resolution 0.65-2.5 one-shot spectrum of VHS\,1256-1257 b

Simon Petrus, Gaël Chauvin, Mickaël Bonnefoy +10

We present simultaneous 0.65-2.5 microns medium resolution (3300 < R < 8100) VLT/X-Shooter spectra of the young low-mass (19+/-5MJup) L-T transition object VHS 1256-1257 b, a known…

astro-ph.EP2014

Accuracy tests of radiation schemes used in hot Jupiter global circulation models

David Skålid Amundsen, Isabelle Baraffe, Pascal Tremblin +4

The treatment of radiation transport in global circulation models (GCMs) is crucial to correctly describe Earth and exoplanet atmospheric dynamics processes. The two-stream approxi…

astro-ph.GA2017

Dissecting the molecular structure of the Orion B cloud: Insight from Principal Component Analysis

Pierre Gratier, Emeric Bron, Maryvonne Gerin +12

Context. The combination of wideband receivers and spectrometers currently available in (sub-)millimeter observatories deliver wide- field hyperspectral imaging of the interstellar…

astro-ph.EP2025

Panchromatic characterization of the Y0 brown dwarf WISEP J173835.52+273258.9 using JWST/MIRI

Malavika Vasist, Paul Mollire, Helena Kühnle +9

Cold brown dwarf atmospheres are good training grounds for analyzing temperate giant planets. WISEP J173835.52+273258.9 (WISE 1738) is an isolated Y0 brown dwarf with a temperature…

astro-ph.EP2018

Simulating the cloudy atmospheres of HD 209458 b and HD 189733 b with the 3D Met Office Unified Model

S. Lines, N. J. Mayne, Ian A. Boutle +9

To understand and compare the 3D atmospheric structure of HD 209458 b and HD 189733 b, focusing on the formation and distribution of cloud particles, as well as their feedback on t…

astro-ph.EP2024

Flows, Circulations, and Energy Transport in the Outer and Deep Atmospheres of Synchronous and Non-synchronous Hot Jupiters

Felix Sainsbury-Martinez, Pascal Tremblin

Recent studies have shown that vertical enthalpy transport can explain the inflated radii of highly irradiated gaseous exoplanets. They have also shown that rotation can influence…

astro-ph.EP2016

Treatment of overlapping gaseous absorption with the correlated-k method in hot Jupiter and brown dwarf atmosphere models

David S. Amundsen, Pascal Tremblin, James Manners +2

The correlated-k method is frequently used to speed up radiation calculations in both one-dimensional and three-dimensional atmosphere models. An inherent difficulty with this meth…

astro-ph.EP2025

High-temperature measurements of acetylene VUV absorption cross sections and application to warm exoplanet atmospheres

Benjamin Fleury, Mathilde Poveda, Yves Benilan +9

Most observed exoplanets have high equilibrium temperatures. Understanding the chemistry of their atmospheres and interpreting their observations requires the use of chemical kinet…

astro-ph.SR2020

The Parallax of VHS J1256-1257 from CFHT and Pan-STARRS 1

Trent J. Dupuy, Michael C. Liu, Eugene A. Magnier +6

We present new parallax measurements from the CFHT Infrared Parallax Program and the Pan-STARRS 3 Steradian Survey for the young ( Myr) triple system VHS J12560…

astro-ph.EP2015

A uniform analysis of HD209458b Spitzer/IRAC lightcurves with Gaussian process models

Thomas M. Evans, Suzanne Aigrain, Neale Gibson +4

We present an analysis of Spitzer/IRAC primary transit and secondary eclipse lightcurves measured for HD209458b, using Gaussian process models to marginalise over the intrapixel se…

astro-ph.EP2018

The effect of metallicity on the atmospheres of exoplanets with fully coupled 3D hydrodynamics, equilibrium chemistry, and radiative transfer

Benjamin Drummond, N. J. Mayne, Isabelle Baraffe +5

In this work we have performed a series of simulations of the atmosphere of GJ~1214b assuming different metallicities using the Met Office Unified Model (UM). The UM is a general c…

astro-ph.EP2024

The JWST Early Release Science Program for Direct Observations of Exoplanetary Systems V: Do Self-Consistent Atmospheric Models Represent JWST Spectra? A Showcase With VHS 1256 b

Simon Petrus, Niall Whiteford, Polychronis Patapis +119

The unprecedented medium-resolution (R~1500-3500) near- and mid-infrared (1-18um) spectrum provided by JWST for the young (140+/-20Myr) low-mass (12-20MJup) L-T transition (L7) com…

astro-ph.EP2024

Transiting exoplanets with the Mid-InfraRed Instrument on board the James Webb Space Telescope: From simulations to observations

Achrène Dyrek, Elsa Ducrot, Pierre-Olivier Lagage +4

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has now started its exploration of exoplanetary worlds. In particular, the Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI) with its Low-Resolution Spectrometer…

astro-ph.EP2019

A reduced chemical scheme for modelling warm to hot hydrogen-dominated atmospheres

Olivia Venot, Roda Bounaceur, Michel Dobrijevic +5

Three dimensional models that account for chemistry are useful tools to predict the chemical composition of (exo)planet and brown dwarf atmospheres and interpret observations of fu…

astro-ph.EP2012

Colliding Planetary and Stellar Winds: Charge Exchange and Transit Spectroscopy in Neutral Hydrogen

Pascal Tremblin, Eugene Chiang

When transiting their host stars, hot Jupiters absorb about 10% of the light in the wings of the stellar Lyman-alpha emission line. The absorption occurs at wavelengths Doppler-shi…

astro-ph.EP2018

Observable signatures of wind--driven chemistry with a fully consistent three dimensional radiative hydrodynamics model of HD 209458b

Benjamin Drummond, N. J. Mayne, James Manners +8

We present a study of the effect of wind-driven advection on the chemical composition of hot Jupiter atmospheres using a fully-consistent 3D hydrodynamics, chemistry and radiative…

astro-ph.EP2024

Combined analysis of the 12.8 and 15 JWST/MIRI eclipse observations of TRAPPIST-1 b

Elsa Ducrot, Pierre-Olivier Lagage, Michiel Min +36

The first JWST/MIRI photometric observations of TRAPPIST-1 b allowed for the detection of the thermal emission of the planet at 15 , suggesting that the planet could be a bare…

astro-ph.EP2020

Implications of three-dimensional chemical transport in hot Jupiter atmospheres: results from a consistently coupled chemistry-radiation-hydrodynamics model

Benjamin Drummond, Eric Hebrard, Nathan J. Mayne +9

We present results from a set of simulations using a fully coupled three-dimensional (3D) chemistry-radiation-hydrodynamics model and investigate the effect of transport of chemica…

astro-ph.EP2026

Panchromatic View of the Frigid Jovian Exoplanet COCONUTS-2 b

Matthieu Ravet, Mickaël Bonnefoy, Gaël Chauvin +24

We use a high signal-to-noise MIRI-LRS spectrum (5.45 - 11 m, R ) of COCONUTS-2~b revealing prominent molecular features of HO, CH and NH. This datase…

astro-ph.EP2017

An ultrahot gas-giant exoplanet with a stratosphere

Thomas M. Evans, David K. Sing, Tiffany Kataria +24

Infrared radiation emitted from a planet contains information about the chemical composition and vertical temperature profile of its atmosphere. If upper layers are cooler than low…

astro-ph.EP2020

Global Chemistry and Thermal Structure Models for the Hot Jupiter WASP-43b and Predictions for JWST

Olivia Venot, Vivien Parmentier, Jasmina Blecic +17

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is expected to revolutionize the field of exoplanets. The broad wavelength coverage and the high sensitivity of its instruments will allow cha…

astro-ph.SR2026

The Y Dwarf Companion to the White Dwarf WD 0806-66: Resolving the Discrepancy Between Atmospheric and Evolutionary Models

S. K. Leggett, Pascal Tremblin

James Webb Space Telescope near- and mid-infrared spectroscopy has been published by Voyer et al. (2025) and Lew et al. (2026) for the Y dwarf which is a distant companion to the w…

astro-ph.EP2024

Hydrogenated atmospheres of lava planets: atmospheric structure and emission spectra

Aurélien Falco, Pascal Tremblin, Sébastien Charnoz +2

Hot rocky super-Earths are thought to be sufficiently irradiated by their host star to melt their surface and thus allow for long-lasting magma oceans. Some processes have been pro…

astro-ph.EP2021

Idealised 3D simulations of diabatically-forced Ledoux convection. Application to the atmosphere of hot rocky exoplanets

Simon Daley-Yates, Thomas Padioleau, Pascal Tremblin +2

We investigate the impact on convective numerical simulations of thermo-compositional diabatic processes. We focus our study on simulations with a stabilizing temperature gradient…

astro-ph.EP2024

A new atmospheric characterization of the sub-stellar companion HR\,2562\,B with JWST/MIRI observations

Nicolás Godoy, Elodie Choquet, Eugene Serabyn +8

Context: HR2562B is a planetary-mass companion located 0.56arcsec (19au) from its host star. It is one of a few L/T transitional objects orbiting a young star. This companion provi…

astro-ph.SR2020

A new set of atmosphere and evolution models for cool T-Y brown dwarfs and giant exoplanets

Mark W. Phillips, Pascal Tremblin, Isabelle Baraffe +6

We present a new set of solar metallicity atmosphere and evolutionary models for very cool brown dwarfs and self-luminous giant exoplanets, which we term ATMO 2020. Atmosphere mode…

astro-ph.GA2022

Gas kinematics around filamentary structures in the Orion B cloud

Mathilde Gaudel, Jan H. Orkisz, Maryvonne Gerin +27

Understanding the initial properties of star-forming material and how they affect the star formation process is key. From an observational point of view, the feedback from young hi…

astro-ph.EP2023

Emission line variability of young 10-30 Mjup companions : I. The case of GQ Lup b and GSC 06214-00210 b

Dorian Demars, Mickael Bonnefoy, Catherine Dougados +10

Emission lines indicative of active accretion have been seen on a handful of low-mass companions (M < 30 MJup) to stars. Line variability is ubiquitous on stellar accretors but has…

astro-ph.EP2016

The UK Met Office GCM with a sophisticated radiation scheme applied to the hot Jupiter HD 209458b

David S. Amundsen, Nathan J. Mayne, Isabelle Baraffe +6

To study the complexity of hot Jupiter atmospheres revealed by observations of increasing quality, we have adapted the UK Met Office global circulation model (GCM), the Unified Mod…

astro-ph.EP2023

15NH3 in the atmosphere of a cool brown dwarf

David Barrado, Paul Mollière, Polychronis Patapis +40

Brown dwarfs serve as ideal laboratories for studying the atmospheres of giant exoplanets on wide orbits as the governing physical and chemical processes in them are nearly identic…

astro-ph.EP2025

First unambiguous detection of ammonia in the atmosphere of a planetary mass companion with JWST/MIRI coronagraphs

Mathilde Mâlin, Anthony Boccaletti, Clément Perrot +28

The newly accessible mid-infrared (MIR) window offered by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) for exoplanet imaging is expected to provide valuable information to characterize th…

astro-ph.EP2023

Evidence of Radius Inflation in Radiative GCM Models of WASP-76b due to the Advection of Potential Temperature

Felix Sainsbury-Martinez, Pascal Tremblin, Aaron David Schneider +6

Understanding the discrepancy between the radii of observed hot Jupiters and standard 'radiative-convective' models remains a hotly debated topic in the exoplanet community. One me…

astro-ph.EP2019

An emission spectrum for WASP-121b measured across the 0.8-1.1 micron wavelength range using the Hubble Space Telescope

Thomas Mikal-Evans, David K. Sing, Jayesh M. Goyal +11

WASP-121b is a transiting gas giant exoplanet orbiting close to its Roche limit, with an inflated radius nearly double that of Jupiter and a dayside temperature comparable to a lat…

astro-ph.EP2025

Worlds Next Door: A Candidate Giant Planet Imaged in the Habitable Zone of Cen A. I. Observations, Orbital and Physical Properties, and Exozodi Upper Limits

Charles Beichman, Aniket Sanghi, Dimitri Mawet +27

We report on coronagraphic observations of the nearest solar-type star, Cen A, using the MIRI instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope. With three epochs of observation (A…

physics.comp-ph2024

A multi-dimensional, robust, and cell-centered finite-volume scheme for the ideal MHD equations

Pascal Tremblin, Rémi Bourgeois, Solène Bulteau +6

We present a new multi-dimensional, robust, and cell-centered finite-volume scheme for the ideal MHD equations. This scheme relies on relaxation and splitting techniques and can be…

astro-ph.EP2021

Pseudo-2D Modelling of Heat Redistribution Through H Thermal Dissociation/Recombination: Consequences for Ultra-Hot Jupiters

Alexander Roth, Benjamin Drummond, Eric Hébrard +3

Thermal dissociation and recombination of molecular hydrogen, H_2, in the atmospheres of ultra-hot Jupiters (UHJs) has been shown to play an important role in global heat redistrib…

astro-ph.EP2022

Observability of signatures of transport-induced chemistry in clear atmospheres of hot gas giant exoplanets

Maria Zamyatina, Éric Hébrard, Benjamin Drummond +6

Transport-induced quenching, i.e., the homogenisation of chemical abundances by atmospheric advection, is thought to occur in the atmospheres of hot gas giant exoplanets. While som…

astro-ph.EP2021

A survey of exoplanet phase curves with Ariel

Benjamin Charnay, Joao M. Mendonça, Laura Kreidberg +12

The ESA-Ariel mission will include a tier dedicated to exoplanet phase curves corresponding to ~10% of the science time. We present here the current observing strategy for studying…

astro-ph.SR2021

Measuring and Replicating the 1-20 um Energy Distributions of the Coldest Brown Dwarfs: Rotating, Turbulent and Non-Adiabatic Atmospheres

S. K. Leggett, Pascal Tremblin, Mark W. Phillips +7

Cold, low-mass, field brown dwarfs are important for constraining the terminus of the stellar mass function, and also for optimizing atmospheric studies of exoplanets. In 2020 new…

astro-ph.EP2025

X-SHYNE: X-Shooter spectra of young exoplanet analogs II. Presentation and analysis of the full library

Simon Petrus, Gaël Chauvin, Mickaël Bonnefoy +29

The X-SHYNE library is a homogeneous sample of 43 medium-resolution (R=8000) infrared (0.3-2.5um) spectra of young (<500Myr), low-mass (<20Mjup), and cold (Teff=600-2000K) isolated…

astro-ph.SR2019

Astro2020 White Paper: The L/T Transition

Johanna M. Vos, Katelyn Allers, Daniel Apai +10

The L/T transition is an important evolutionary phase in brown dwarf atmospheres, providing us with a unique opportunity to explore the effects of clouds, convection, winds, gravit…

astro-ph.GA2017

Turbulence and star formation efficiency in molecular clouds: solenoidal versus compressive motions in Orion B

Jan H. Orkisz, Jérôme Pety, Maryvonne Gerin +13

The nature of turbulence in molecular clouds is one of the key parameters that control star formation efficiency: compressive motions, as opposed to solenoidal motions, can trigger…

astro-ph.IM2023

Deep learning denoising by dimension reduction: Application to the ORION-B line cubes

Lucas Einig, Jérôme Pety, Antoine Roueff +29

Context. The availability of large bandwidth receivers for millimeter radio telescopes allows the acquisition of position-position-frequency data cubes over a wide field of view an…

astro-ph.SR2019

WISE J072003.20-084651.2B Is A Massive T Dwarf

Trent J. Dupuy, Michael C. Liu, William M. J. Best +21

We present individual dynamical masses for the nearby M9.5+T5.5 binary WISE J072003.20084651.2AB, a.k.a. Scholz's star. Combining high-precision CFHT/WIRCam photocenter astromet…

astro-ph.GA2019

A dynamically young, gravitationally stable network of filaments in Orion B

Jan H. Orkisz, Nicolas Peretto, Jérôme Pety +15

Filaments are a key step on the path that leads from molecular clouds to star formation. However, their characteristics are heavily debated, and the exact processes that lead to th…

astro-ph.EP2018

The Transiting Exoplanet Community Early Release Science Program for JWST

Jacob L. Bean, Kevin B. Stevenson, Natalie M. Batalha +99

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) presents the opportunity to transform our understanding of planets and the origins of life by revealing the atmospheric compositions, structur…

astro-ph.EP2018

An optical transmission spectrum for the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-121b measured with the Hubble Space Telescope

Thomas M. Evans, David K. Sing, Jayesh Goyal +24

We present an atmospheric transmission spectrum for the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-121b, measured using the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) onboard the Hubble Space Telesco…

astro-ph.EP2024

ATMOSPHERIX: III- Estimating the C/O ratio and molecular dynamics at the limbs of WASP-76 b with SPIRou

Thea Hood, Florian Debras, Claire Moutou +13

Measuring the abundances of C- and O-bearing species in exoplanet atmospheres enables us to constrain the C/O ratio, that contains indications about the planet formation history. W…

astro-ph.EP2025

MIRI-LRS spectrum of a cold exoplanet around a white dwarf: water, ammonia, and methane measurements

Maël Voyer, Quentin Changeat, Pierre-Olivier Lagage +21

The study of the atmosphere of exoplanets orbiting white dwarfs is a largely unexplored field. With WD\,0806-661\,b, we present the first deep dive into the atmospheric physics and…