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Planetary Rings
Matthew S. Tiscareno
Planetary rings are the only nearby astrophysical disks, and the only disks that have been investigated by spacecraft. Although there are significant differences between rings and…
Characterizing the Cool KOIs II. The M Dwarf KOI-254 and its Hot Jupiter
John Asher Johnson, J. Zachary Gazak, Kevin Apps +12
We report the confirmation and characterization of a transiting gas giant planet orbiting the M dwarf KOI-254 every 2.455239 days, which was originally discovered by the Kepler mis…
The three-dimensional structure of Saturn's E ring
M. M. Hedman, J. A. Burns, D. P. Hamilton +1
Saturn's diffuse E ring consists of many tiny (micron and sub-micron) grains of water ice distributed between the orbits of Mimas and Titan. Various gravitational and non-gravitati…
Thermal Emission of WASP-14b Revealed with Three Spitzer Eclipses
Jasmina Blecic, Joseph Harrington, Nikku Madhusudhan +10
Exoplanet WASP-14b is a highly irradiated, transiting hot Jupiter. Joshi et al. calculate an equilibrium temperature Teq of 1866 K for zero albedo and reemission from the entire pl…
NEOWISE Observations of Near-Earth Objects: Preliminary Results
A. Mainzer, T. Grav, J. Bauer +34
With the NEOWISE portion of the \emph{Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer} (WISE) project, we have carried out a highly uniform survey of the near-Earth object (NEO) population at…
Carbon-rich Giant Planets: Atmospheric Chemistry, Thermal Inversions, Spectra, and Formation conditions
Nikku Madhusudhan, Olivier Mousis, Torrence V. Johnson +1
The recent inference of a carbon-rich atmosphere, with C/O >= 1, in the hot Jupiter WASP-12b motivates the exotic new class of carbon-rich planets (CRPs). We report a detailed stud…
Tidal Dissipation in Planet-Hosting Stars: Damping of Spin-Orbit Misalignment and Survival of Hot Jupiters
Dong Lai
Observations of hot Jupiters around solar-type stars with very short orbital periods (~day) suggest that tidal dissipation in such stars is not too efficient so that these planets…
The Canada-France Ecliptic Plane Survey - Full Data Release: The orbital structure of the Kuiper belt
Jean-Marc Petit, J. John Kavelaars, Brett J. Gladman +14
We report the orbital distribution of the trans-neptunian objects (TNOs) discovered during the Canada-France Ecliptic Plane Survey, whose discovery phase ran from early 2003 until…
Removal of Titan's Atmospheric Noble Gases by their Sequestration in Surface Clathrates
Olivier Mousis, Jonathan I. Lunine, Sylvain Picaud +3
A striking feature of the atmosphere of Titan is that no heavy noble gases other than argon were detected by the Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer (GCMS) aboard the Huygens probe…
"Retired" Planet Hosts: Not So Massive, Maybe Just Portly After Lunch
James P. Lloyd
Studies of the planet abundance as a function of stellar mass have suggested a strong increase in the frequency of planet occurrence around stars more massive than , a…
Transit and Eclipse Analyses of Exoplanet HD 149026b Using BLISS Mapping
Kevin B. Stevenson, Joseph Harrington, Jonathan J. Fortney +7
The dayside of HD 149026b is near the edge of detectability by the Spitzer Space Telescope. We report on eleven secondary-eclipse events at 3.6, 4.5, 3 x 5.8, 4 x 8.0, and 2 x 16 m…
Finding the trigger to Iapetus' odd global albedo pattern: Dynamics of dust from Saturn's irregular satellites
Daniel Tamayo, Joseph A. Burns, Douglas P. Hamilton +1
The leading face of Saturn's moon Iapetus, Cassini Regio, has an albedo only one tenth that on its trailing side. The origin of this enigmatic dichotomy has been debated for over f…
The Christiansen Effect in Saturn's narrow dusty rings and the spectral identification of clumps in the F ring
M. M. Hedman, P. D Nicholson, M. R. Showalter +5
Stellar occultations by Saturn's rings observed with the Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) onboard the Cassini spacecraft reveal that dusty features such as the F rin…
Upper limits for undetected trace species in the stratosphere of Titan
Conor A. Nixon, Richard K. Achterberg, Nicholas A. Teanby +15
In this paper we describe a first quantitative search for several molecules in Titan's stratosphere in Cassini CIRS infrared spectra. These are: ammonia (NH3), methanol (CH3OH), fo…
A Search for Additional Planets in Five of the Exoplanetary Systems Studied by the NASA EPOXI Mission
Sarah Ballard, Jessie L. Christiansen, David Charbonneau +13
We present time series photometry and constraints on additional planets in five of the exoplanetary systems studied by the EPOCh (Extrasolar Planet Observation and Characterization…
Remote Sensing D/H Ratios in Methane Ice: Temperature-Dependent Absorption Coefficients of CH3D in Methane Ice and in Nitrogen Ice
W. M. Grundy, S. J. Morrison, M. J. Bovyn +2
The existence of strong absorption bands of singly deuterated methane (CH3D) at wavelengths where normal methane (CH4) absorbs comparatively weakly could enable remote measurement…
Distorted, non-spherical transiting planets: impact on the transit depth and on the radius determination
Jérémy Leconte, Dong Lai, Gilles Chabrier
We quantify the systematic impact of the non-spherical shape of transiting planets and brown dwarfs, due to tidal forces and rotation, on the observed transit depth. Such a departu…