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astro-ph.EP2025★ 5 cited

The Impact of Irradiation on the Radius and Thermal Evolution of Transiting Brown Dwarfs

Sagnick Mukherjee, Jonathan J. Fortney, Theron W. Carmichael +2

Masses and radii of transiting brown dwarfs can be measured directly in contrast to isolated field brown dwarfs, whose mass and radius inferences are model dependent. Therefore, tr…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 5 cited

Physicochemical Controls on the Compositions of the Earth and Planets

Paolo A. Sossi, Remco C. Hin, Thorsten Kleine +2

Despite the fact that the terrestrial planets formed from the protoplanetary disk, their compositions show marked departures from that of solar nebula condensates. Metallic cores f…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 3 cited

Large-amplitude Variability Driven by Giant Dust Storms on a Planetary-mass Companion

Xianyu Tan, Xi Zhang, Mark S. Marley +17

Large-amplitude variations are commonly observed in the atmospheres of directly imaged exoplanets and brown dwarfs. VHS 1256B, the most variable known planet-mass object, exhibits…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 1 cited

Chasing the storm: Investigating the application of high-contrast imaging techniques in producing precise exoplanet light curves

Ben J. Sutlieff, David S. Doelman, Jayne L. Birkby +10

Substellar companions such as exoplanets and brown dwarfs exhibit changes in brightness arising from top-of-atmosphere inhomogeneities, providing insights into their atmospheric st…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 1 cited

Methane on the temperate exo-Saturn TOI-199b

Aaron Bello-Arufe, Renyu Hu, Mantas Zilinskas +10

Temperate ( K) gas giants represent an unexplored frontier in exoplanet atmospheric spectroscopy. Orbiting a G-type star every days, the Saturn-mass exopl…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 6 cited

Horizontal and vertical exoplanet thermal structure from a JWST spectroscopic eclipse map

Ryan C. Challener, Megan Weiner Mansfield, Patricio E. Cubillos +33

Highly-irradiated giant exoplanets known as "ultra-hot Jupiters" are anticipated to exhibit large variations of atmospheric temperature and chemistry as a function of longitude, la…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 8 cited

Direct Spectroscopy of 51 Eridani b with JWST NIRSpec

Alexander Madurowicz, Jean-Baptiste Ruffio, Bruce Macintosh +4

We present high-contrast direct spectroscopy of the low-mass, cool exoplanet 51 Eridani b (2-4 M, 750 K) using JWST / NIRSpec in a fixed-slit configuration (F2…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 2 cited

Nonuniform Water Distribution in Jupiter's Mid Latitudes: Influence of Precipitation and Planetary Rotation

Huazhi Ge, Cheng Li, Xi Zhang +2

Knowing the composition of Jupiter's atmosphere is crucial for constraining Jupiter's bulk metallicity and formation history. Yet, constraining Jupiter's atmospheric water abundanc…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 21 cited

Revising the Giant Planet Mass-Metallicity Relation: Deciphering the Formation Sequence of Giant Planets

Yayaati Chachan, Jonathan J. Fortney, Kazumasa Ohno +2

The rate at which giant planets accumulate solids and gas is a critical component of planet formation models, yet it is extremely challenging to predict from first principles. Char…

astro-ph.EP2025

A multi-object approach for studying exoplanet atmospheres using high-resolution spectrographs

Manjunath Bestha, Athira Unni, T. Sivarani +5

Atmospheric characterization of exoplanets has traditionally relied on Low-Resolution Transmission Spectroscopy (LRTS), obtained from both space- and ground-based facilities, as we…

astro-ph.EP2025

An Initial Assessment of the Hanle Echelle Spectrograph for Exoplanet Atmosphere Studies

Manjunath Bestha, Athira Unni, T. Sivarani +6

Transmission spectroscopy is an effective technique for probing exoplanetary atmospheres. While most observations have relied on space facilities such as HST and JWST, ground-based…

astro-ph.EP2025

New Orbital Constraints for YSES 1 b and HR 2562 B from High-Precision Astrometry and Planetary Radial Velocities

Jonathan Roberts, William Thompson, Jason J. Wang +20

We present new VLTI/GRAVITY astrometry and updated orbit fits for the directly imaged companions YSES 1 b and HR 2562 B, substellar objects straddling the planet-brown dwarf bounda…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 1 cited

Cloudy solutions for the clear skies of WASP-80b: 3D cloud feedback on the atmosphere and spectra of a warm Jupiter

Nishil Mehta, Vivien Parmentier, Xianyu Tan +14

Close-in warm Jupiters orbiting M dwarf stars are expected to exhibit diverse atmospheric chemistry, with clouds playing a key role in shaping their albedo, heat distribution, and…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 3 cited

HD 143811 AB b: A Directly Imaged Planet Orbiting a Spectroscopic Binary in Sco-Cen

Nathalie K. Jones, Jason J. Wang, Eric L. Nielsen +51

We present confirmation of HD 143811 AB b, a substellar companion to spectroscopic binary HD 143811 AB through direct imaging with the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) and Keck NIRC2. HD…

astro-ph.EP2025

Characterization of the Host Binary of the Directly Imaged Exoplanet HD 143811 AB b

Anne E. Peck, William Roberson, Eric L. Nielsen +50

HD~143811~AB is the host star to the directly imaged planet HD~143811~AB~b, which was recently discovered using data from the Gemini Planet Imager and Keck NIRC2. A member of the S…

astro-ph.EP2025

Probing the Moon from Future Asteroid Impacts: A Review

Yifei Jiao, Bin Cheng, Hexi Baoyin

The Earth--Moon system has been experiencing impacts from asteroids and comets for billions of years. The Moon, as an airless body, has preserved a distinct record of these events…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 1 cited

Thermal-orbital evolution of Eris

Ryunosuke Akiba, Francis Nimmo

The large Kuiper Belt object (KBO) Eris is nearly as big as Pluto and has a small moon, Dysnomia. Constraints on the system's spin and orbit characteristics were recently used to a…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 26 cited

Silicate clouds and a circumplanetary disk in the YSES-1 exoplanet system

Kielan K. W. Hoch, Melanie Rowland, Simon Petrus +26

Young exoplanets provide a critical link between understanding planet formation and atmospheric evolution. Direct imaging spectroscopy allows us to infer the properties of young, w…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 5 cited

A high mutual inclination system around KOI-134 revealed by transit timing variations

Emma Nabbie, Chelsea X. Huang, Judith Korth +9

Few planetary systems have measured mutual inclinations, and even less are found to be non-coplanar. Observing the gravitational interactions between exoplanets is an effective too…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 8 cited

NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Observations of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS (C/2025 N1)

Colin Orion Chandler, Pedro H. Bernardinelli, Mario Jurić +305

We report on the observation and measurement of astrometry, photometry, morphology, and activityof the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, also designated C/2025 N1 (ATLAS) with the NSF-…

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★ 5 cited

Origin of moderately volatile elements in Earth inferred from mass-dependent Ge isotope variations among chondrites

Elias Wölfer, Christoph Burkhardt, Francis Nimmo +1

The bulk silicate Earth (BSE) is depleted in moderately volatile elements, indicating Earth formed from a mixture of volatile-rich and -poor materials. To better constrain the orig…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 7 cited

Cloudy mornings and clear evenings on a gas giant exoplanet

Sagnick Mukherjee, David K. Sing, Guangwei Fu +25

The spectra of exoplanet atmospheres are affected by aerosols (clouds and hazes) of uncertain origin. Proposed aerosol formation mechanisms include gas condensation or photochemica…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 20 cited

Challenges in the detection of gases in exoplanet atmospheres

Luis Welbanks, Matthew C. Nixon, Peter McGill +12

Claims of detections of gases in exoplanet atmospheres often rely on comparisons between models including and excluding specific chemical species. However, the space of molecular c…