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astro-ph.EP2021★ 19 cited

Has the impact flux of small and large asteroids varied through time on Mars, the Earth and the Moon?

Anthony Lagain, Mikhail Kreslavsky, David Baratoux +6

The impact flux over the last 3 Ga in the inner Solar System is commonly assumed to be constant through time. However, asteroid break-up events in the main belt may have been respo…

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★ 5 cited

An Investigation of Libration Heating and the Thermal State of Enceladus's Ice Shell

Wencheng D. Shao, Francis Nimmo

Tidal dissipation is thought to be responsible for the observed high heat loss on Enceladus. Forced librations can enhance tidal dissipation in the ice shell, but how such libratio…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 19 cited

A new method to measure the spectra of transiting exoplanet atmospheres using multi-object spectroscopy

Vatsal Panwar, Jean-Michel Désert, Kamen O. Todorov +5

Traditionally, ground-based spectrophotometric observations probing transiting exoplanet atmospheres have employed a linear map between comparison and target star light curves (e.g…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 33 cited

Cleaning our Hazy Lens: Exploring Trends in Transmission Spectra of Warm Exoplanets

Austin H. Dymont, Xinting Yu, Kazumasa Ohno +3

Relatively little is understood about the atmospheric composition of temperate to warm exoplanets (equilibrium temperature 1000 K), as many of them are found to have…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 60 cited

Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE): III. Spectral resolution, wavelength range and sensitivity requirements based on atmospheric retrieval analyses of an exo-Earth

B. S. Konrad, E. Alei, D. Angerhausen +9

Temperate terrestrial exoplanets are likely common objects, but their discovery and characterization is very challenging. Concepts for optimized space missions to overcome these ch…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 28 cited

Kepler-167e as a Probe of the Formation Histories of Cold Giants with Inner Super-Earths

Yayaati Chachan, Paul A. Dalba, Heather A. Knutson +6

The observed correlation between outer giant planets and inner super-Earths is emerging as an important constraint on planet formation theories. In this study we focus on Kepler-16…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 28 cited

Spatially Resolved Modeling of Optical Albedos for a Sample of Six Hot Jupiters

Danica Adams, Tiffany Kataria, Natasha Batalha +2

Optical secondary eclipse measurements made by \emph{Kepler} reveal a diverse set of geometric albedos for hot Jupiters with equilibrium temperatures between K. The pre…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 367 cited

Models of the in situ formation of detected extrasolar giant planets

Peter Bodenheimer, Olenka Hubickyj, Jack J. Lissauer

(Abridged) We present numerical simulations of the formation of the planetary companions to 47 UMa, rho CrB, and 51 Peg. They are assumed to have formed in situ according to the ba…

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★ 46 cited

TOI-2076 and TOI-1807: Two young, comoving planetary systems within 50 pc identified by TESS that are ideal candidates for further follow-up

Christina Hedges, Alex Hughes, Steven Giacalone +42

We report the discovery of two planetary systems around comoving stars; TOI-2076 (TIC 27491137) and TOI-1807 (TIC 180695581). TOI-2076 is a nearby (41.9 pc) multi-planetary system…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 42 cited

The fundamentals of Lyman-alpha exoplanet transits

James E. Owen, Ruth A. Murray-Clay, Ethan Schreyer +7

Lyman- transits have been detected from several nearby exoplanets and are one of our best insights into the atmospheric escape process. However, due to ISM absorption, we typica…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 49 cited

Was Venus Ever Habitable? Constraints from a Coupled Interior-Atmosphere-Redox Evolution Model

Joshua Krissansen-Totton, Jonathan J. Fortney, Francis Nimmo

Venus's past climate evolution is uncertain. General circulation model simulations permit a habitable climate as late as ~0.7 Ga, and there is suggestive-albeit inconclusive-eviden…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 186 cited

A solar C/O and sub-solar metallicity in a hot Jupiter atmosphere

Michael R. Line, Matteo Brogi, Jacob L. Bean +13

Measurements of the atmospheric carbon (C) and oxygen (O) relative to hydrogen (H) in hot Jupiters (relative to their host stars) provide insight into their formation location and…

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★ 69 cited

The Sonora Substellar Atmosphere Models. II. Cholla: A Grid of Cloud-free, Solar Metallicity Models in Chemical Disequilibrium for the JWST Era

Theodora Karalidi, Mark Marley, Jonathan J. Fortney +5

Exoplanet and brown dwarf atmospheres commonly show signs of disequilibrium chemistry. In the James Webb Space Telescope era high resolution spectra of directly imaged exoplanets w…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 81 cited

A unique hot Jupiter spectral sequence with evidence for compositional diversity

Megan Mansfield, Michael R. Line, Jacob L. Bean +11

The emergent spectra of close-in, giant exoplanets ("hot Jupiters") are expected to be distinct from those of self-luminous objects with similar effective temperatures because hot…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 17 cited

HD207897 b: A dense sub-Neptune transiting a nearby and bright K-type star

N. Heidari, I. Boisse, J. Orell-Mique +90

We present the discovery and characterization of a transiting sub-Neptune orbiting with a 16.20 day period around a nearby (28 pc) and bright(V=8.37) K0V star HD207897 (TOI-1611).…

astro-ph.EP2021

The effect of late giant collisions on the atmospheres of protoplanets and the formation of cold sub-Saturns

Mohamad Ali-Dib, Andrew Cumming, Douglas N. C. Lin

We investigate the origins of cold sub-Saturns (CSS), an exoplanetary population inferred from microlensing surveys. If confirmed, these planets would rebut a theorised gap in plan…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 16 cited

The TESS-Keck Survey. VI. Two Eccentric sub-Neptunes Orbiting HIP-97166

Mason G. MacDougall, Erik A. Petigura, Isabel Angelo +45

We report the discovery of HIP-97166b (TOI-1255b), a transiting sub-Neptune on a 10.3-day orbit around a K0 dwarf 68 pc from Earth. This planet was identified in a systematic searc…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 13 cited

Another super-dense sub-Neptune in K2-182 b and refined mass measurements for K2-199 b and c

Joseph M. Akana Murphy, Molly R. Kosiarek, Natalie M. Batalha +10

We combine multiple campaigns of K2 photometry with precision radial velocity measurements from Keck-HIRES to measure the masses of three sub-Neptune-size planets. We confirm the p…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 41 cited

TOI-530b: A giant planet transiting an M dwarf detected by TESS

Tianjun Gan, Zitao Lin, Sharon Xuesong Wang +44

We report the discovery of TOI-530b, a transiting giant planet around an M0.5V dwarf, delivered by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). The host star is located at a d…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 2 cited

Precise Masses and Orbits for Nine Radial Velocity Exoplanets

Yiting Li, Timothy D. Brandt, G. Mirek Brandt +6

Radial velocity (RV) surveys have discovered hundreds of exoplanetary systems but suffer from a fundamental degeneracy between planet mass and orbital inclination . In thi…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 50 cited

The young HD 73583 (TOI-560) planetary system: Two 10-M mini-Neptunes transiting a 500-Myr-old, bright, and active K dwarf

O. Barragán, D. J. Armstrong, D. Gandolfi +103

We present the discovery and characterisation of two transiting planets observed by \textit{TESS} in the light curves of the young and bright (V=9.67) star HD73583 (TOI-560). We pe…