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astro-ph.EP2019★ 28 cited

The Detectability and Constraints of Biosignature Gases in the Near & Mid-Infrared from Transit Transmission Spectroscopy

Luke Tremblay, Michael R Line, Kevin B Stevenson +4

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is expected to revolutionize our understanding of Jovian worlds over the coming decade. However, as we push towards characterizing cooler, sma…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 18 cited

TOI 564 b and TOI 905 b: Grazing and Fully Transiting Hot Jupiters Discovered by TESS

Allen B. Davis, Songhu Wang, Matias Jones +46

We report the discovery and confirmation of two new hot Jupiters discovered by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS): TOI 564 b and TOI 905 b. The transits of these two…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 67 cited

Evidence for a Dichotomy in the Interior Structures of Jupiter and Saturn from Helium Phase Separation

Christopher R. Mankovich, Jonathan J. Fortney

We examine the comparative thermal evolution of Jupiter and Saturn applying recent theoretical results for helium's immiscibility in fluid metallic hydrogen. The redistribution of…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 38 cited

Saturn's Probable Interior: An Exploration of Saturn's Potential Interior Density Structures

Naor Movshovitz, Jonathan J. Fortney, Chris Mankovich +2

The gravity field of a giant planet is typically our best window into its interior structure and composition. Through comparison of a model planet's calculated gravitational potent…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 53 cited

Do Metal-Rich Stars Make Metal-Rich Planets? New Insights on Giant Planet Formation from Host Star Abundances

Johanna K. Teske, Daniel Thorngren, Jonathan J. Fortney +2

The relationship between the compositions of giant planets and their host stars is of fundamental interest in understanding planet formation. The solar system giant planets are enh…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 10 cited

Single particle triboelectrification of Titan sand analogs

Xinting Yu, Sarah M. Horst, Chao He +1

Sand electrification is important for aeolian sediment transportation on terrestrial bodies with silicate sand as the main sediment composition. However, it has not been thoroughly…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 49 cited

The Gemini Planet Imager Exoplanet Survey: Dynamical Mass of the Exoplanet beta Pictoris b from Combined Direct Imaging and Astrometry

Eric L. Nielsen, Robert J. De Rosa, Jason J. Wang +51

We present new observations of the planet beta Pictoris b from 2018 with GPI, the first GPI observations following conjunction. Based on these new measurements, we perform a joint…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 9 cited

Detecting and Characterizing Water Vapor in the Atmospheres of Earth Analogs through Observation of the 0.94 Micron Feature in Reflected Light

Adam J. R. W. Smith, Y. Katherina Feng, Jonathan J. Fortney +4

The characterization of rocky, Earth-like planets is an important goal for future large ground- and space-based telescopes. In support of developing an efficient observational stra…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 22 cited

Detailed Calculations of the Efficiency of Planetesimal Accretion in the Core-Accretion Model

Morris Podolak, Nader Haghighipour, Peter Bodenheimer +2

We present results of a detailed study of the rate of the accretion of planetesimals by a growing proto-Jupiter in the core-accretion model. Using a newly developed code, we accura…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 23 cited

OSSOS XVIII: Constraining migration models with the 2:1 resonance using the Outer Solar System Origins Survey

Ying-Tung Chen, Brett Gladman, Kathryn Volk +13

Resonant dynamics plays a significant role in the past evolution and current state of our outer Solar System. The population ratios and spatial distribution of Neptune's resonant p…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 114 cited

The Featureless Transmission Spectra of Two Super-Puff Planets

Jessica E. Libby-Roberts, Zachory K. Berta-Thompson, Jean-Michel Desert +9

The Kepler mission revealed a class of planets known as ''super-puffs,'' with masses only a few times larger than Earth's but radii larger than Neptune, giving them very low mean d…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 24 cited

An updated visual orbit of the directly-imaged exoplanet 51 Eridani b and prospects for a dynamical mass measurement with Gaia

Robert J. De Rosa, Eric L. Nielsen, Jason J. Wang +52

We present a revision to the visual orbit of the young, directly-imaged exoplanet 51 Eridani b using four years of observations with the Gemini Planet Imager. The relative astromet…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 104 cited

Transit Signatures of Inhomogeneous Clouds on Hot Jupiters: Insights From Microphysical Cloud Modeling

Diana Powell, Tom Louden, Laura Kreidberg +3

We determine the observability in transmission of inhomogeneous cloud cover on the limbs of hot Jupiters through post processing a general circulation model to include cloud distri…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 19 cited

On the Dust Signatures Induced by Eccentric Super-Earths in Protoplanetary Disks

Ya-Ping Li, Hui Li, Shengtai Li +1

We investigate the impact of a highly eccentric 10 (where is the Earth mass) planet embedded in a dusty protoplanetary disk on the dust dynamics a…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 79 cited

Evidence for H Dissociation and Recombination Heat Transport in the Atmosphere of KELT-9b

Megan Mansfield, Jacob L. Bean, Kevin B. Stevenson +19

Phase curve observations provide an opportunity to study the full energy budgets of exoplanets by quantifying the amount of heat redistributed from their daysides to their nightsid…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 20 cited

Constraints on terrestrial planet formation timescales and equilibration processes in the Grand Tack scenario from Hf-W isotopic evolution

Nicholas G. Zube, Francis Nimmo, Rebecca Fischer +1

We examine 141 N-body simulations of terrestrial planet late-stage accretion that use the Grand Tack scenario, coupling the collisional results with a hafnium-tungsten (Hf-W) isoto…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 119 cited

The Precision of Mass Measurements Required for Robust Atmospheric Characterization of Transiting Exoplanets

Natasha E. Batalha, Taylor Lewis, Jonathan J. Fortney +4

Two of TESS's major science goals are to measure masses for 50 planets smaller than 4 Earth radii and to discover high-quality targets for atmospheric characterization efforts. It…

astro-ph.EP2019

An Empirical Mass-Radius Relation for Cool Giant Planets

Daniel P. Thorngren, Mark S. Marley, Jonathan J. Fortney

Probabilistic relationships between the mass and radius of planets are useful for a variety of purposes, including estimating the yields of planet discovery efforts and the radii o…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 119 cited

Near-equilibrium isotope fractionation during planetesimal evaporation

E. D. Young, A. Shahar, F. Nimmo +4

Silicon and Mg in differentiated rocky bodies exhibit heavy isotope enrichments that have been attributed to evaporation of partially or entirely molten planetesimals. We evaluate…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 27 cited

Radial Velocity Discovery of an Eccentric Jovian World Orbiting at 18 au

Sarah Blunt, Michael Endl, Lauren M. Weiss +25

Based on two decades of radial velocity (RV) observations using Keck/HIRES and McDonald/Tull, and more recent observations using the Automated Planet Finder, we found that the near…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 61 cited

Diverse outcomes of planet formation and composition around low-mass stars and brown dwarfs

Y. Miguel, A. Cridland, C. W. Ormel +2

The detection of Earth-size exoplanets around low-mass stars -- in stars such as Proxima Centauri and TRAPPIST-1 -- provide an exceptional chance to improve our understanding of th…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 297 cited

Water Vapor and Clouds on the Habitable-Zone Sub-Neptune Exoplanet K2-18b

Björn Benneke, Ian Wong, Caroline Piaulet +13

Results from the Kepler mission indicate that the occurrence rate of small planets ( ) in the habitable zone of nearby low-mass stars may be as high as 80%. Despite t…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 40 cited

Trans-Neptunian objects found in the first four years of the Dark Energy Survey

Pedro H. Bernardinelli, Gary M. Bernstein, Masao Sako +61

We present a catalog of 316 trans-Neptunian bodies detected by the Dark Energy Survey (DES). These objects include 245 discoveries by DES (139 not previously published) detected in…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 5 cited

Measuring the Orbital Parameters of Radial Velocity Systems in Mean Motion Resonance---a Case Study of HD 200964

M. M. Rosenthal, W. Jacobson-Galan, B. Nelson +8

The presence of mean motion resonances (MMRs) complicates analysis and fitting of planetary systems observed through the radial velocity (RV) technique. MMR can allow planets to re…