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astro-ph.EP2018★ 88 cited

Volatile loss following cooling and accretion of the Moon revealed by chromium isotopes

Paolo A. Sossi, Frédéric Moynier, Kirsten van Zuilen

Terrestrial and lunar rocks share chemical and isotopic similarities in refractory elements, suggestive of a common precursor. By contrast, the marked depletion of volatile element…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 7 cited

ROSETTA/OSIRIS observations of the 67P nucleus during the April 2016 flyby: high-resolution spectrophotometry

C. Feller, S. Fornasier, S. Ferrari +35

In April 2016, the Rosetta spacecraft performed a low-altitude low-phase-angle flyby over the Imhotep-Khepry transition of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko's nucleus. The OSIRIS/Narrow-An…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 16 cited

Asteroid cratering families: recognition and collisional interpretation

Andrea Milani, Zoran Knežević, Federica Spoto +1

We continue our investigation of the bulk properties of asteroid dynamical families identified using only asteroid proper elements (Milani et al. 2014) to provide plausible collisi…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 52 cited

Spectral and orbital characterisation of the directly imaged giant planet HIP 65426 b

A. C. Cheetham, M. Samland, S. S. Brems +38

HIP 65426 b is a recently discovered exoplanet imaged during the course of the SPHERE-SHINE survey. Here we present new and observations of the planet from the NACO instr…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 70 cited

Probable detection of hydrogen sulphide (HS) in Neptune's atmosphere

Patrick G. J. Irwin, Daniel Toledo, Ryan Garland +4

Recent analysis of Gemini-North/NIFS H-band (1.45 - 1.8 m) observations of Uranus, recorded in 2010, with recently updated line data has revealed the spectral signature of hydro…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 206 cited

Hubble PanCET: An extended upper atmosphere of neutral hydrogen around the warm Neptune GJ 3470 b

V. Bourrier, A. Lecavelier des Etangs, D. Ehrenreich +16

GJ 3470b is a warm Neptune transiting an M-dwarf star at the edge of the evaporation desert. It offers the possibility of investigating how low-mass, close-in exoplanets evolve und…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 47 cited

Listening to the gravitational wave sound of circumbinary exoplanets

Nicola Tamanini, Camilla Danielski

To date more than 3500 exoplanets have been discovered orbiting a large variety of stars. Due to the sensitivity limits of the currently used detection techniques, these planets po…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 34 cited

Detectability of shape deformation in short-period exoplanets

B. Akinsanmi, S. C. C. Barros, N. C. Santos +4

Short-period planets suffer from extreme tidal forces from their parent stars causing them to deform and attain non-spherical shapes. The planet shapes, modeled here as triaxial el…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 243 cited

Spectrally resolved helium absorption from the extended atmosphere of a warm Neptune-mass exoplanet

R. Allart, V. Bourrier, C. Lovis +7

Stellar heating causes atmospheres of close-in exoplanets to expand and escape. These extended atmospheres are difficult to observe because their main spectral signature - neutral…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 53 cited

Ring dynamics around non-axisymmetric bodies with application to Chariklo and Haumea

B. Sicardy, R. Leiva, S. Renner +4

Dense and narrow rings have been discovered recently around the small Centaur object Chariklo and the dwarf planet Haumea, while being suspected around the Centaur Chiron. They are…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 55 cited

Imaging [CI] around HD 131835: reinterpreting young debris discs with protoplanetary disc levels of CO gas as shielded secondary discs

Quentin Kral, Sebastian Marino, Mark C. Wyatt +2

Despite being Myr, there are 10 debris discs with as much CO gas as in protoplanetary discs. Such discs have been assumed to be "hybrid", i.e., with secondary dust but p…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 72 cited

The Ring Structure in the MWC 480 Disk Revealed by ALMA

Yao Liu, Giovanni Dipierro, Enrico Ragusa +20

Gap-like structures in protoplanetary disks are likely related to planet formation processes. In this paper, we present and analyze high resolution (0.17*0.11 arcsec) 1.3 mm ALMA c…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 18 cited

APPROX -- Mutual approximations between the Galilean moons. The 2016-2018 observational campaign

B. Morgado, R. Vieira-Martins, M. Assafin +23

The technique of mutual approximations accurately gives the central instant at the maximum apparent approximation of two moving natural satellites in the sky plane. This can be use…

astro-ph.EP2018

VOEvent for Solar and Planetary Sciences

Baptiste Cecconi, Pierre Le Sidaner, Lukasz Tomasik +5

With its Planetary Space Weather Service (PSWS), the Europlanet-H2020 Research Insfrastructure (EPN2020RI) project is proposing a compelling set of databases and tools to that prov…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 56 cited

Global climate modeling of Saturn's atmosphere. Part II: multi-annual high-resolution dynamical simulations

Aymeric Spiga, Sandrine Guerlet, Ehouarn Millour +9

The Cassini mission unveiled the intense and diverse activity in Saturn's atmosphere: banded jets, waves, vortices, equatorial oscillations. To set the path towards a better unders…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 20 cited

Deep ALMA Search for CO Gas in the HD 95086 Debris Disc

Mark Booth, Luca Matrà, Kate Y. L. Su +7

One of the defining properties of debris discs compared to protoplanetary discs used to be their lack of gas, yet small amounts of gas have been found around an increasing number o…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 2 cited

Fe I in the Beta Pictoris circumstellar gas disk. II. The time variations in the iron circumstellar gas

Flavien Kiefer, Alfred Vidal-Madjar, Alain Lecavelier des Etangs +5

Beta Pictoris is a young planetary system surrounded by a debris disk of dust and gas. The gas source of this disk could be exocomets (or 'falling and evaporating bodies', FEBs), w…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 27 cited

Atmospheric characterization of directly imaged exoplanets with JWST/MIRI

C. Danielski, J. -L. Baudino, P. -O. Lagage +4

The Mid-Infrared instrument (MIRI) on board the James Webb Space Telescope will perform the first ever characterization of young giant exoplanets observed by direct imaging in the…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 28 cited

Models of Rosetta/OSIRIS 67P dust coma phase function

Fernando Moreno, Daniel Guirado, Olga Muñoz +39

The phase function of the dust coma of comet 67P has been determined from Rosetta/OSIRIS images \citep{Bertini17}. This function show a deep minimum at phase angles near 100$^\circ…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 72 cited

The extraordinary composition of the "blue comet" C/2016 R2 (PanSTARRS)

N. Biver, D. Bockelée-Morvan, G. Paubert +9

We present a multi-wavelength study of comet C/2016 R2 (PanSTARRS). This comet was observed on 23-24 January 2018 with the IRAM 30m telescope, and in January to March 2018 with the…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 9 cited

The Draconid meteoroid stream 2018: prospects for satellite impact detection

Auriane Egal, Paul Wiegert, Peter G. Brown +3

Predictions of the 2018 Draconid activity at the Earth and the Sun-Earth L1 and L2 Lagrange points are presented. Numerical simulations of the meteoroids' ejection and evolution fr…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 35 cited

Linking surface morphology, composition, and activity on the nucleus of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

S. Fornasier, V. H. Hoang, P. H. Hasselmann +37

The Rosetta space probe accompanied comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko for more than two years, obtaining an unprecedented amount of unique data of the comet nucleus and inner coma. T…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 48 cited

Modeling the albedo of Earth-like magma ocean planets with H2O-CO2 atmospheres

William Pluriel, Emmanuel Marcq, Martin Turbet

During accretion, the young rocky planets are so hot that they become endowed with a magma ocean. From that moment, the mantle convective thermal flux control the cooling of the pl…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 53 cited

A Hexagon in Saturn's Northern Stratosphere Surrounding the Emerging Summertime Polar Vortex

L. N. Fletcher, G. S. Orton, J. A. Sinclair +13

Saturn's polar stratosphere exhibits the seasonal growth and dissipation of broad, warm, vortices poleward of latitude, which are strongest in the summer and absent…