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astro-ph.EP2024★ 2 cited

Journey of complex organic molecules: Formation and transport in protoplanetary disks

T. Benest Couzinou, O. Mousis, G. Danger +3

Complex organic molecules serve as indicators of molecular diversity. Their detection on comets, planets, and moons has prompted inquiries into their origins, particularly the cond…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 3 cited

A joint effort to discover and characterize two resonant mini Neptunes around TOI-1803 with TESS, HARPS-N and CHEOPS

T. Zingales, L. Malavolta, L. Borsato +130

We present the discovery of two mini Neptunes near a 2:1 orbital resonance configuration orbiting the K0 star TOI-1803. We describe their orbital architecture in detail and suggest…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 13 cited

Evolution of steam worlds: energetic aspects

Artyom Aguichine, Natalie Batalha, Jonathan J. Fortney +3

Sub-Neptunes occupy an intriguing region of planetary mass-radius space, where theoretical models of interior structure predict that they could be water-rich, where water is in ste…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 5 cited

The GAPS Programme at TNG. LXV. Precise density measurement of TOI-1430 b, a young planet with an evaporating atmosphere

D. Nardiello, J. M. Akana Murphy, R. Spinelli +34

Small-sized exoplanets in tight orbits around young stars (10-1000 Myr) give us the opportunity to investigate the mechanisms that led to their formation, the evolution of their ph…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 2 cited

PEPSI's non-detection of escaping hydrogen and metal lines adds to the enigma of WASP-12 b

Anusha Pai Asnodkar, Ji Wang, Madelyn Broome +5

WASP-12 b is an ultra-hot Jupiter (UHJ) of special interest for atmospheric studies since it is on an inspiraling orbit in an extreme environment of intense radiation and circumste…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 14 cited

H-HO demixing in Uranus and Neptune: Adiabatic structure models

Marina Cano Amoros, Nadine Nettelmann, Nicola Tosi +2

Demixing properties of planetary major constituents influence the interior structure and evolution of planets. Comparing experimental and computational data on the miscibility of h…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 6 cited

The Polar Stratosphere of Jupiter

Vincent Hue, Thibault Cavalié, James A. Sinclair +13

Observations of the Jovian upper atmosphere at high latitudes in the UV, IR and mm/sub-mm all indicate that the chemical distributions and thermal structure are broadly influenced…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 42 cited

CRIRES+ and ESPRESSO reveal an atmosphere enriched in volatiles relative to refractories on the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-121b

Stefan Pelletier, Björn Benneke, Yayaati Chachan +11

One of the outstanding goals of the planetary science community is to measure the present-day atmospheric composition of planets and link this back to formation. As giant planets a…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 1 cited

Effects of Planetary Parameters on Disequilibrium Chemistry in Irradiated Planetary Atmospheres: From Gas Giants to Sub-Neptunes

Sagnick Mukherjee, Jonathan J. Fortney, Nicholas F. Wogan +2

A primary goal of characterizing exoplanet atmospheres is to constrain planetary bulk properties, such as their metallicity, C/O ratio, and intrinsic heat. However, there are signi…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 8 cited

Formation of free-floating planetary mass objects via circumstellar disk encounters

Zhihao Fu, Hongping Deng, Douglas N. C. Lin +1

The origin of planetary mass objects (PMOs) wandering in young star clusters remains enigmatic, especially when they come in pairs. They could represent the lowest-mass object form…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 6 cited

Cold day-side winds shape large leading streams in evaporating exoplanet atmospheres

F. Nail, M. MacLeod, A. Oklopčić +3

Recent observations of planetary atmospheres in HAT-P-32 b and HAT-P-67 b reveal extensive outflows reaching up to hundreds of planetary radii. The helium 1083 nm light curves for…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 44 cited

The erosion of large primary atmospheres typically leaves behind substantial secondary atmospheres on temperate rocky planets

Joshua Krissansen-Totton, Nicholas Wogan, Maggie Thompson +1

Exoplanet exploration has revealed that many$\unicode{x2013}$perhaps most$\unicode{x2013}$terrestrial exoplanets formed with substantial H-rich envelopes, seemingly in contrast…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 11 cited

Validation of up to seven TESS planet candidates through multi-colour transit photometry using MuSCAT2 data

A. Peláez-Torres, E. Esparza-Borges, E. Pallé +62

The TESS mission searches for transiting exoplanets by monitoring the brightness of hundreds of thousands of stars across the entire sky. M-type planet hosts are ideal targets for…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 33 cited

TOI-5005 b: A super-Neptune in the savanna near the ridge

A. Castro-González, J. Lillo-Box, D. J. Armstrong +38

The Neptunian desert and savanna have recently been found to be separated by a ridge, an overdensity of planets in the period range of 3-5 days. These features are thought…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 14 cited

Global weather map reveals persistent top-of-atmosphere features on the nearest brown dwarfs

Xueqing Chen, Beth A. Biller, Johanna M. Vos +10

Brown dwarfs and planetary-mass companions display rotationally modulated photometric variability, especially those near the L/T transition. This variability is commonly attributed…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 5 cited

Lessons from Hubble and Spitzer: 1D Self-Consistent Model Grids for 19 Hot Jupiter Emission Spectra

Lindsey S. Wiser, Michael R. Line, Luis Welbanks +4

We present a population-level analysis of the dayside thermal emission spectra of 19 planets observed with Hubble WFC3 and Spitzer IRAC 3.6 and 4.5 microns, spanning equilibrium te…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 6 cited

Fringing analysis and forward modeling of Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer (KPIC) spectra

Katelyn A. Horstman, Jean-Baptiste Ruffio, Jason J. Wang +27

The Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer (KPIC) combines high contrast imaging with high resolution spectroscopy (R~35,000 in K band) to study directly imaged exoplanets and brown…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 2 cited

Nitrogen Loss from Pluto's Birth to the Present Day via Atmospheric Escape, Photochemical Destruction, and Impact Erosion

Perianne E. Johnson, Leslie A. Young, David Nesvorny +1

We estimate the loss of nitrogen from Pluto over its lifetime, including the giant planet instability period, which we term the "Wild Years." We analyze the orbital migration of 53…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 15 cited

Atmospheric characterization of the super-Jupiter HIP 99770 b with KPIC

Yapeng Zhang, Jerry W. Xuan, Dimitri Mawet +28

Young, self-luminous super-Jovian companions discovered by direct imaging provide a challenging test of planet formation and evolution theories. By spectroscopically characterizing…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 62 cited

A Benchmark JWST Near-Infrared Spectrum for the Exoplanet WASP-39b

A. L. Carter, E. M. May, N. Espinoza +77

Observing exoplanets through transmission spectroscopy supplies detailed information on their atmospheric composition, physics, and chemistry. Prior to JWST, these observations wer…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 96 cited

Sulphur dioxide in the mid-infrared transmission spectrum of WASP-39b

Diana Powell, Adina D. Feinstein, Elspeth K. H. Lee +70

The recent inference of sulphur dioxide (SO) in the atmosphere of the hot (1100 K), Saturn-mass exoplanet WASP-39b from near-infrared JWST observations suggests that phot…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 15 cited

First Comparative Exoplanetology Within a Transiting Multi-planet System: Comparing the atmospheres of V1298 Tau b and c

Saugata Barat, Jean-Michel Désert, Jayesh M. Goyal +13

The V1298 Tau system (20-30Myr), is a benchmark young multi-planet system that provides the opportunity to perform comparative exoplanetology between planets orbiting the same star…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 17 cited

Revising Properties of Planet-Host Binary Systems. IV. The Radius Distribution of Small Planets in Binary Star Systems is Dependent on Stellar Separation

Kendall Sullivan, Adam L. Kraus, Travis A. Berger +10

Small planets () are divided into rocky super-Earths and gaseous sub-Neptunes separated by a radius gap, but the mechanisms that produce these distinct pla…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 31 cited

Multiple Clues for Dayside Aerosols and Temperature Gradients in WASP-69 b from a Panchromatic JWST Emission Spectrum

Everett Schlawin, Sagnick Mukherjee, Kazumasa Ohno +16

WASP-69 b is a hot, inflated, Saturn-mass planet 0.26 Mjup with a zero-albedo equilibrium temperature of 963 K. Here, we report the JWST 2 to 12 um emission spectrum of the planet…