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astro-ph.EP2026

Euclid: Asteroid rotation periods from the Euclid Ecliptic Survey

B. Y. Irureta-Goyena, B. Altieri, J. -P. Kneib +142

The Euclid Ecliptic Survey was conducted during the calibration phase of the mission, 23-31 December 2023, as a campaign to study Solar System objects. We used data from this surve…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 1 cited

Hot Rocks Survey V: Secondary Eclipse Photometry of GJ 3473 b with JWST/MIRI

Måns Holmberg, Hannah Diamond-Lowe, João M. Mendonça +16

JWST is transforming our ability to characterise small exoplanets, from sub-Neptunes to rocky worlds. A key open question is whether highly irradiated rocky planets can retain atmo…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 1 cited

Gas-depleted planet formation occurred in the four-planet system around the red dwarf LHS 1903

Thomas G. Wilson, Anna M. Simpson, Andrew Collier Cameron +173

Small exoplanet radii show two populations, referred to as super-Earths and sub-Neptunes, separated by a gap known as the radius valley. This may be produced by the removal of atmo…

astro-ph.EP2025

Discovery of a multi-planetary system orbiting the aged Sun-like star HD 224018

M. Damasso, L. Naponiello, A. Anna John +22

In 2016, Kepler/K2 detected a system of two sub-Neptunes transiting the star HD 224018, one of them showing a mono-transit event. In 2017, we began a spectroscopic follow-up with H…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 6 cited

Venus Cloud Research: Progress and Perspectives

Longkang Dai, Dmitrij V. Titov, Wencheng D. Shao +3

Venus has regained attention on the international stage with the approval of three new missions by ESA and NASA. As the twin sister of Earth, Venus exhibits a distinct atmosphere,…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 2 cited

Is Ozone a Reliable Proxy for Molecular Oxygen? II. The impact of NO on the O-O relationship for Earth-like atmospheres

Thea Kozakis, João M. Mendonça, Lars A. Buchhave +1

Molecular oxygen (O2) will be an important molecule in the search for biosignatures in terrestrial planetary atmospheres in the coming decades. In particular, O2 combined with a re…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 6 cited

The Hot-Neptune Initiative (HONEI) I. Two hot sub-Neptunes on a close-in, eccentric orbit (TOI-5800 b) and a farther-out, circular orbit (TOI-5817 b)

L. Naponiello, S. Vissapragada, A. S. Bonomo +37

Neptune-sized exoplanets are key targets for atmospheric studies, yet their formation and evolution remain poorly understood due to their diverse characteristics and limited sample…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 6 cited

In-depth characterization of the Kepler-10 three-planet system with HARPS-N radial velocities and Kepler transit timing variations

A. S. Bonomo, L. Borsato, V. M. Rajpaul +25

The old G3V star Kepler-10 is known to host two transiting planets, the ultra-short-period super-Earth Kepler-10b ( d; ) and the long-period s…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 3 cited

TESS and HARPS-N unveil two planets transiting TOI-1453. A super-Earth and one of the lowest mass sub-Neptunes

M. Stalport, A. Mortier, M. Cretignier +37

We report on the validation and characterisation of two transiting planets around TOI-1453, a K-dwarf star in the TESS northern continuous viewing zone. In addition to the TESS dat…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 32 cited

Hot Rocks Survey I : A possible shallow eclipse for LHS 1478 b

Prune C. August, Lars A. Buchhave, Hannah Diamond-Lowe +18

M dwarf systems offer an opportunity to study terrestrial exoplanetary atmospheres due to their small size and cool temperatures. However, the extreme conditions imposed by these h…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 15 cited

High-energy spectra of LTT 1445A and GJ 486 reveal flares and activity

H. Diamond-Lowe, G. W. King, A. Youngblood +19

The high-energy radiative output, from the X-ray to the ultraviolet, of exoplanet host stars drives photochemical reactions and mass loss in the upper regions of planetary atmosphe…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 1 cited

Three-Dimensional Venus Cloud Structure Simulated by a General Circulation Model

Wencheng D. Shao, João M. Mendonça, Longkang Dai

The clouds have a great impact on Venus's energy budget and climate evolution, but its three-dimensional structure is still not well understood. Here we incorporate a simple Venus…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 7 cited

Enhancing 3D Planetary Atmosphere Simulations with a Surrogate Radiative Transfer Model

Tara P. A. Tahseen, João M. Mendonça, Kai Hou Yip +1

This work introduces an approach to enhancing the computational efficiency of 3D atmospheric simulations by integrating a machine-learned surrogate model into the OASIS global circ…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 17 cited

Euclid: Early Release Observations -- A glance at free-floating new-born planets in the sigma Orionis cluster

E. L. Martín, M. {Ž}erjal, H. Bouy +175

We provide an early assessment of the imaging capabilities of the Euclid space mission to probe deeply into nearby star-forming regions and associated very young open clusters, and…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 2 cited

Confronting compositional confusion through the characterisation of the sub-Neptune orbiting HD 77946

L. Palethorpe, A. Anna John, A. Mortier +29

We report on the detailed characterization of the HD 77946 planetary system. HD 77946 is an F5 ( = 1.17 M, = 1.31 R) star, which hosts a transiting p…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 8 cited

A hot mini-Neptune and a temperate, highly eccentric sub-Saturn around the bright K-dwarf TOI-2134

F. Rescigno, G. Hébrard, A. Vanderburg +64

We present the characterisation of an inner mini-Neptune in a 9.22920050.0000063 day orbit and an outer mono-transiting sub-Saturn planet in a 95.50 day orbi…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 15 cited

Euclid: Identification of asteroid streaks in simulated images using deep learning

M. Pöntinen, M. Granvik, A. A. Nucita +114

Up to 150000 asteroids will be visible in the images of the ESA Euclid space telescope, and the instruments of Euclid offer multiband visual to near-infrared photometry and slitles…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 19 cited

Global Chemical Transport on Hot Jupiters: Insights from 2D VULCAN photochemical model

Shang-Min Tsai, Vivien Parmentier, João M. Mendonça +7

The atmospheric dynamics of tidally-locked hot Jupiters is characterized by strong equatorial winds. Understanding the interaction between global circulation and chemistry is cruci…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 36 cited

A roadmap for the atmospheric characterization of terrestrial exoplanets with JWST

TRAPPIST-1 JWST Community Initiative, :, Julien de Wit +80

Ultra-cool dwarf stars are abundant, long-lived, and uniquely suited to enable the atmospheric study of transiting terrestrial companions with JWST. Amongst them, the most prominen…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 10 cited

A review of planetary systems around HD 99492, HD 147379 and HD 190007 with HARPS-N

M. Stalport, M. Cretignier, S. Udry +26

The Rocky Planet Search (RPS) program is dedicated to a blind radial velocity (RV) search of planets around bright stars in the Northern hemisphere, using the high-resolution echel…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 16 cited

Source of radio emissions induced by the Galilean moons Io, Europa and Ganymede: in situ measurements by Juno

C. K. Louis, P. Louarn, B. Collet +13

At Jupiter, part of the auroral radio emissions are induced by the Galilean moons Io, Europa and Ganymede. Until now, except for Ganymede, they have been only remotely detected, us…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 28 cited

Sub-m s upper limits from a deep HARPS-N radial-velocity search for planets orbiting HD 166620 and HD 144579

Ancy Anna John, Andrew Collier Cameron, João P. Faria +3

Minimising the impact of stellar variability in Radial Velocity (RV) measurements is a critical challenge in achieving the 10 cm s precision needed to hunt for Earth twins.…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 100 cited

Water in the terrestrial planet-forming zone of the PDS 70 disk

G. Perotti, V. Christiaens, Th. Henning +42

Terrestrial and sub-Neptune planets are expected to form in the inner (AU) regions of protoplanetary disks. Water plays a key role in their formation, although it is yet uncl…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 22 cited

Transmission spectroscopy of the lowest-density gas giant: metals and a potential extended outflow in HAT-P-67b

Aaron Bello-Arufe, Heather A. Knutson, João M. Mendonça +6

Extremely low-density exoplanets are tantalizing targets for atmospheric characterization because of their promisingly large signals in transmission spectroscopy. We present the fi…