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astro-ph.EP2021★ 73 cited

TRIDENT: A Rapid 3D Radiative Transfer Model for Exoplanet Transmission Spectra

Ryan J. MacDonald, Nikole K. Lewis

Transmission spectroscopy is one of the premier methods used to probe the temperature, composition, and cloud properties of exoplanet atmospheres. Recent studies have demonstrated…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 11 cited

Sensitivity of the Roman Coronagraph Instrument to Exozodiacal Dust

Ewan S Douglas, John Debes, Bertrand Mennesson +7

Exozodiacal dust, warm debris from comets and asteroids in and near the habitable zone of stellar systems, reveals the physical processes that shape planetary systems. Scattered li…

astro-ph.EP2021

Characterizing the WASP-4 system with TESS and radial velocity data: Constraints on the cause of the hot Jupiter's changing orbit and evidence of an outer planet

Jake D. Turner, Laura Flagg, Andrew Ridden-Harper +1

Orbital dynamics provide valuable insights into the evolution and diversity of exoplanetary systems. Currently, only one hot Jupiter, WASP-12b, is confirmed to have a decaying orbi…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 17 cited

Dust Accumulation near the Magnetospheric Truncation of Protoplanetary Discs around T Tauri Stars

Rixin Li, Yi-Xian Chen, Douglas N. C. Lin

The prevalence of short-period super-Earths that are independent of host metallicity challenges the theoretical construction of their origin. We propose that dust trapping in the g…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 52 cited

A wide-orbit giant planet in the high-mass b Centauri binary system

Markus Janson, Raffaele Gratton, Laetitia Rodet +24

Planet formation occurs around a wide range of stellar masses and stellar system architectures. An improved understanding of the formation process can be achieved by studying it ac…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 15 cited

Hypotheses for Triton's Plumes: New Analyses and Future Remote Sensing Tests

Jason D. Hofgartner, Samuel P. D. Birch, Julie Castillo +14

At least two active plumes were observed on Neptune's moon Triton during the Voyager 2 flyby in 1989. Models for Triton's plumes have previously been grouped into five hypotheses,…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 18 cited

Non-Trivial Oblique Spin Equilibria of Super-Earths in Multi-planetary Systems

Yubo Su, Dong Lai

Many Sun-like stars are observed to host close-in super-Earths (SEs) as part of a multi-planetary system. In such a system, the spin of the SE evolves due to spin-orbit resonances…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 29 cited

Dynamical tidal Love numbers of rapidly rotating planets and stars

Janosz W. Dewberry, Dong Lai

Tidal interactions play an important role in many astrophysical systems, but uncertainties regarding the tides of rapidly rotating, centrifugally distorted stars and gaseous planet…

astro-ph.EP2021

Saturn's icy satellites investigated by Cassini -- VIMS. V. Spectrophotometry

G. Filacchione, M. Ciarniello, E. D'Aversa +6

Albedo, spectral slopes, and water ice band depths maps for the five midsized saturnian satellites Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione, and Rhea have been derived from Cassini-Visual a…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 11 cited

Hiding in plain sight: observing planet-starspot crossings with the James Webb Space Telescope

Giovanni Bruno, Nikole K. Lewis, Jeff A. Valenti +9

Transiting exoplanets orbiting active stars frequently occult starspots and faculae on the visible stellar disc. Such occultations are often rejected from spectrophotometric transi…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 14 cited

Thermal Phase Curves of XO-3b: an Eccentric Hot Jupiter at the Deuterium Burning Limit

Lisa Dang, Taylor J. Bell, Nicolas B. Cowan +15

We report \textit{Spitzer} full-orbit phase observations of the eccentric hot Jupiter XO-3b at 3.6 and 4.5 m. Our new eclipse depth measurements of ppm at 3.6 …

astro-ph.EP2021★ 24 cited

Secular chaos in white-dwarf planetary systems: origins of metal pollution and short-period planetary companions

Christopher E. O'Connor, Jean Teyssandier, Dong Lai

Secular oscillations in multi-planet systems can drive chaotic evolution of a small inner body through non-linear resonant perturbations. This "secular chaos" readily pushes the in…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 3 cited

Seasonal Variability of the Daytime and Nighttime Atmospheric Turbulence Experienced by InSight on Mars

Audrey Chatain, Aymeric Spiga, Don Banfield +2

The InSight mission, featuring continuous high-frequency high-sensitivity pressure measurements, is in ideal position to study the active atmospheric turbulence of Mars. Data acqui…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 14 cited

Gemini/GMOS Transmission Spectroscopy of the Grazing Planet Candidate WD 1856+534 b

Siyi Xu, Hannah Diamond-Lowe, Ryan J. MacDonald +12

WD 1856+534 b is a Jupiter-sized, cool giant planet candidate transiting the white dwarf WD 1856+534. Here, we report an optical transmission spectrum of WD 1856+534 b obtained fro…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 1 cited

Science goals and new mission concepts for future exploration of Titan's atmosphere geology and habitability: Titan POlar Scout/orbitEr and In situ lake lander and DrONe explorer (POSEIDON)

Sébastien Rodriguez, Sandrine Vinatier, Daniel Cordier +61

In response to ESA Voyage 2050 announcement of opportunity, we propose an ambitious L-class mission to explore one of the most exciting bodies in the Solar System, Saturn largest m…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 44 cited

Evidence for multiple Ferrel-like cells on Jupiter

Keren Duer, Nimrod Gavriel, Eli Galanti +14

Jupiter's atmosphere is dominated by multiple jet streams which are strongly tied to its 3D atmospheric circulation. Lacking a rigid bottom boundary, several models exist for how t…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 40 cited

The Aligned Orbit of WASP-148b, the Only Known Hot Jupiter with a Nearby Warm Jupiter Companion, from NEID and HIRES

Xian-Yu Wang, Malena Rice, Songhu Wang +39

We present spectroscopic measurements of the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect for WASP-148b, the only known hot Jupiter with a nearby warm-Jupiter companion, from the WIYN/NEID and Keck/…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 16 cited

A comprehensive revisit of select Galileo/NIMS observations of Europa

Ishan Mishra, Nikole Lewis, Jonathan Lunine +4

The Galileo Near Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (NIMS) collected spectra of Europa in the 0.7-5.2 m wavelength region, which have been critical to improving our understanding of…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 86 cited

The mass of Beta Pictoris c from Beta Pictoris b orbital motion

S. Lacour, J. J. Wang, L. Rodet +96

We aim to demonstrate that the presence and mass of an exoplanet can now be effectively derived from the astrometry of another exoplanet. We combined previous astrometry of Pic…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 36 cited

Detection of Ionized Calcium in the Atmosphere of the Ultra-Hot Jupiter WASP-76b

Emily K. Deibert, Ernst J. W. de Mooij, Ray Jayawardhana +9

Recent observations of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-76b have revealed a diversity of atmospheric species. Here we present new high-resolution transit spectroscopy of WASP-76b with GR…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 2 cited

On the Utility of Transmission Color Analysis I: Differentiating Super-Earths and Sub-Neptunes

Kristin S. Sotzen, Kevin B. Stevenson, Erin M. May +9

The majority of exoplanets found to date have been discovered via the transit method, and transmission spectroscopy represents the primary method of studying these distant worlds.…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 37 cited

Characterizing exoplanetary atmospheres at high resolution with SPIRou: Detection of water on HD 189733 b

Anne Boucher, Antoine Darveau-Bernier, Stefan Pelletier +29

We present the first exoplanet atmosphere detection made as part of the SPIRou Legacy Survey, a Large Observing Program of 300 nights exploiting the capabilities of SPIRou, the new…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 17 cited

The nature and composition of Jupiter's building blocks derived from the water abundance measurements by the Juno spacecraft

Olivier Mousis, Jonathan I. Lunine, Artyom Aguichine

The microwave radiometer aboard the Juno spacecraft provided a measurement of the water abundance found to range between 1 and 5.1 times the protosolar abundance of oxygen in the n…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 3 cited

Spitzer phase curve observations and circulation models of the inflated ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-76b

Erin M. May, Thaddeus D. Komacek, Kevin B. Stevenson +15

The large radii of many hot Jupiters can only be matched by models that have hot interior adiabats, and recent theoretical work has shown that the interior evolution of hot Jupiter…