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astro-ph.EP2017★ 37 cited

Exo-Milankovitch Cycles I: Orbits and Rotation States

Russell Deitrick, Rory Barnes, Thomas R. Quinn +3

The obliquity of the Earth, which controls our seasons, varies by only ~2.5 degrees over ~40,000 years, and its eccentricity varies by only ~0.05 over 100,000 years. Nonetheless, t…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 6 cited

Rotationally-resolved spectroscopy of Jupiter Trojans (624) Hektor and (911) Agamemnon

Davide Perna, Nicolas Bott, Tetiana Hromakina +3

We present the first-ever rotationally resolved spectroscopic investigation of (624) Hektor and (911) Agamemnon, the two largest Jupiter Trojans. The visible and near-infrared spec…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 3 cited

Photometric observations of nine Transneptunian objects and Centaurs

T. Hromakina, D. Perna, I. Belskaya +3

We present the results of photometric observations of six Transneptunian objects and three Centaurs, estimations of their rotational periods and corresponding amplitudes. For six o…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 74 cited

Simultaneous, Multi-Wavelength Variability Characterization of the Free-Floating Planetary Mass Object PSO J318.5-22

Beth Biller, Johanna Vos, Esther Buenzli +15

We present simultaneous HST WFC3 + Spitzer IRAC variability monitoring for the highly-variable young (20 Myr) planetary-mass object PSO J318.5-22. Our simultaneous HST + Spit…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 101 cited

Chromium isotopic homogeneity between the Moon, the Earth, and enstatite chondrites

Berengere Mougel, Frederic Moynier, Christa Gopel

Among the elements exhibiting non-mass dependent isotopic variations in meteorites, chromium (Cr) has been central in arguing for an isotopic homogeneity between the Earth and the…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 178 cited

A self-consistent cloud model for brown dwarfs and young giant exoplanets: comparison with photometric and spectroscopic observations

Benjamin Charnay, Bruno Bézard, Jean-Loup Baudino +3

We developed a simple, physical and self-consistent cloud model for brown dwarfs and young giant exoplanets. We compared different parametrisations for the cloud particle size, by…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 36 cited

OGLE-2016-BLG-1190Lb: First Spitzer Bulge Planet Lies Near the Planet/Brown-Dwarf Boundary

Y. -H. Ryu, J. C. Yee, A. Udalski +106

We report the discovery of OGLE-2016-BLG-1190Lb, which is likely to be the first Spitzer microlensing planet in the Galactic bulge/bar, an assignation that can be confirmed by two…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 16 cited

Comment on 'Radiative transfer in CO2-rich atmospheres: 1. Collisional line mixing implies a colder early Mars'

Martin Turbet, Ha Tran

Ozak et al. [2016] claimed that explicitly including the effect of CO collisional line mixing (LM) in their radiative transfer calculations yield CO atmospheres that are mo…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 46 cited

Solar System Science with ESA Euclid

Benoit Carry

The ESA Euclid mission has been designed to map the geometry of the dark Universe. Scheduled for launch in 2020, it will conduct a six-years visible and NIR imaging and spectroscop…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 46 cited

Hubble PanCET: An isothermal day-side atmosphere for the bloated gas-giant HAT-P-32Ab

N. Nikolov, D. K. Sing, J. Goyal +20

We present a thermal emission spectrum of the bloated hot Jupiter HAT-P-32Ab from a single eclipse observation made in spatial scan mode with the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) aboard…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 48 cited

On the contribution of PRIDE-JUICE to Jovian system ephemerides

Dominic Dirkx, Leonid I. Gurvits, Valery Lainey +5

The JUICE mission will perform detailed measurements of the properties of the Galilean moons, with a nominal in-system science-mission duration of about 3.5 years. Using both the r…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 63 cited

Evidence of sub-surface energy storage in comet 67P from the outburst of 2016 July 3

J. Agarwal, V. Della Corte, P. D. Feldman +67

On 3 July 2016, several instruments on board ESA's Rosetta spacecraft detected signs of an outburst event on comet 67P, at a heliocentric distance of 3.32 AU from the sun, outbound…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 24 cited

CASTAway: An Asteroid Main Belt Tour and Survey

N. E. Bowles, C. Snodgrass, A Gibbings +42

CASTAway is a mission concept to explore our Solar System's main asteroid belt. Asteroids and comets provide a window into the formation and evolution of our Solar System and the c…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 83 cited

Toward the analysis of JWST exoplanet spectra: Identifying troublesome model parameters

Jean-Loup Baudino, Paul Molliere, Olivia Venot +3

Given the forthcoming launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) which will allow observ- ing exoplanet atmospheres with unprecedented signal-over-noise ratio, spectral covera…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 43 cited

A history of violence: insights into post-accretionary heating in carbonaceous chondrites from volatile element abundances, Zn isotopes, and water contents

Brandon Mahan, Frederic Moynier, Pierre Beck +2

Carbonaceous chondrites (CCs) may have been the carriers of water, volatile and moderately volatile elements to Earth. Investigating the abundances of these elements, their relativ…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 93 cited

The circumstellar disk HD169142: gas, dust and planets acting in concert?

A. Pohl, M. Benisty, P. Pinilla +33

HD169142 is an excellent target to investigate signs of planet-disk interaction due to the previous evidence of gap structures. We performed J-band (~1.2μm) polarized intensity…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 18 cited

Three years of SPHERE: the latest view of the morphology and evolution of protoplanetary discs

Antonio Garufi, Myriam Benisty, Tomas Stolker +11

Spatially resolving the immediate surroundings of young stars is a key challenge for the planet formation community. SPHERE on the VLT represents an important step forward by incre…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 15 cited

Asteroid (21) Lutetia: Disk-resolved Photometric Analysis of Baetica Region

P. H. Hasselmann, M. A. Barucci, S. Fornasier +4

(21) Lutetia has been visited by Rosetta mission on July 2010 and observed with a phase angle ranging from 0.15 to 156.8 degrees. The Baetica region, located at the north pole has…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 8 cited

Characterizing spectral continuity in SDSS u'g'r'i'z' asteroid photometry

P. H. Hasselmann, M. Fulchignoni, J. M. Carvano +2

Context. The 4th release of the SDSS Moving Object Catalog (SDSSMOC) is presently the largest photometric dataset of asteroids. Up to this point, the release of large asteroid data…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 36 cited

The TROY project: Searching for co-orbital bodies to known planets. I. Project goals and first results from archival radial velocity

J. Lillo-Box, D. Barrado, P. Figueira +5

The detection of Earth-like planets, exocomets or Kuiper belts show that the different components found in the solar system should also be present in other planetary systems. Troja…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 12 cited

RoboTAP - target priorities for robotic microlensing observations

M. Hundertmark, R. A. Street, Y. Tsapras +21

Context. The ability to automatically select scientifically-important transient events from an alert stream of many such events, and to conduct follow-up observations in response,…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 6 cited

Atmospheric thermal tides and planetary spin I. The complex interplay between stratification and rotation

Pierre Auclair-Desrotour, Stéphane Mathis, Jacques Laskar

Thermal atmospheric tides can torque telluric planets away from spin-orbit synchronous rotation, as observed in the case of Venus. They thus participate to determine the possible c…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 41 cited

Seasonal evolution of , , and abundances in Titan's lower stratosphere

M. Sylvestre, N. A. Teanby, S. Vinatier +2

We study the seasonal evolution of Titan's lower stratosphere (around 15~mbar) in order to better understand the atmospheric dynamics and chemistry in this part of the atmosphere.…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 2 cited

Atmospheric tides and their consequences on the rotational dynamics of terrestrial planets

Pierre Auclair-Desrotour, Jacques Laskar, Stéphane Mathis

Atmospheric tides can have a strong impact on the rotational dynamics of planets. They are of most importance for terrestrial planets located in the habitable zone of their host st…