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astro-ph.EP2019★ 62 cited

A new chemical scheme for giant planet thermochemistry. Update of the methanol chemistry and new reduced chemical scheme

Olivia Venot, Thibault Cavalié, Roda Bounaceur +3

Several chemical networks have been developed to study warm (exo)planetary atmospheres. The kinetics of the reactions related to the methanol chemistry included in these schemes ha…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 231 cited

Mass-Metallicity Trends in Transiting Exoplanets from Atmospheric Abundances of HO, Na, and K

Luis Welbanks, Nikku Madhusudhan, Nicole F. Allard +3

Atmospheric compositions can provide powerful diagnostics of formation and migration histories of planetary systems. We investigate constraints on atmospheric abundances of HO,…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 141 cited

Peering into the formation history of beta Pictoris b with VLTI/GRAVITY long baseline interferometry

GRAVITY Collaboration, M. Nowak, S. Lacour +65

Our objective is to estimate the C/O ratio in the atmosphere of beta Pictoris b and obtain an estimate of the dynamical mass of the planet, as well as to refine its orbital paramet…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 14 cited

Debris Disks in Multi-Planet Systems: Are Our Inferences Compromised by Unseen Planets?

Jiayin Dong, Rebekah I. Dawson, Andrew Shannon +1

Resolved debris disk features (e.g., warps, offsets, edges and gaps, azimuthal asymmetries, radially thickened rings, scale heights) contain valuable information about the underlyi…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 24 cited

A dusty benchmark brown dwarf near the ice line of HD 72946

A. -L. Maire, J. -L. Baudino, S. Desidera +12

Context. HD72946 is a bright and nearby solar-type star hosting a low-mass companion at long period (P~16 yr) detected with the radial velocities (RV) method. The companion has a m…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 21 cited

RefPlanets: Search for reflected light from extra-solar planets with SPHERE/ZIMPOL

S. Hunziker, H. M. Schmid, D. Mouillet +55

RefPlanets is a guaranteed time observation (GTO) programme that uses the Zurich IMaging POLarimeter (ZIMPOL) of SPHERE/VLT for a blind search for exoplanets in wavelengths from 60…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 30 cited

TOI-132 b: A short-period planet in the Neptune desert transiting a G-type star

Matías R. Díaz, James S. Jenkins, Davide Gandolfi +45

The Neptune desert is a feature seen in the radius-mass-period plane, whereby a notable dearth of short period, Neptune-like planets is found. Here we report the {\it TESS} discove…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 73 cited

Idealised simulations of the deep atmosphere of hot jupiters: Deep, hot, adiabats as a robust solution to the radius inflation problem

F. Sainsbury-Martinez, P. Wang, S. Fromang +10

Context: The anomalously large radii of hot Jupiters has long been a mystery. However, by combining both theoretical arguments and 2D models, a recent study has suggested that the…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 27 cited

Circumbinary exoplanets and brown dwarfs with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna

Camilla Danielski, Valeriya Korol, Nicola Tamanini +1

We explore the prospects for the detection of giant circumbinary exoplanets and brown dwarfs (BDs) orbiting Galactic double white dwarfs binaries (DWDs) with the Laser Interferomet…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 5 cited

Debris disks around stars in the NIKA2 era

J. -F. Lestrade, J. -C. Augereau, M. Booth +42

The new NIKA2 camera at the IRAM 30m radiotelescope was used to observe three known debris disks in order to constrain the SED of their dust emission in the millimeter wavelength d…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 4 cited

Probing the subsurface of the two faces of Iapetus

Léa E. Bonnefoy, Jean-François Lestrade, Emmanuel Lellouch +4

Saturn's moon Iapetus, which is in synchronous rotation, is covered by an optically dark material mainly on its leading side, while its trailing side is significantly brighter. Bec…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 18 cited

HD 117214 debris disk: scattered-light images and constraints on the presence of planets

N. Engler, C. Lazzoni, R. Gratton +34

We performed observations of the Sco-Cen F star HD 117214 aiming at a search for planetary companions and the characterization of the debris disk structure. HD 117214 was observed…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 32 cited

Kojima-1Lb Is a Mildly Cold Neptune around the Brightest Microlensing Host Star

A. Fukui, D. Suzuki, N. Koshimoto +56

We report the analysis of additional multiband photometry and spectroscopy and new adaptive optics (AO) imaging of the nearby planetary microlensing event TCP J05074264+2447555 (Ko…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 14 cited

From the stellar properties of HD219134 to the internal compositions of its transiting exoplanets

Roxanne Ligi, Caroline Dorn, Aurélien Crida +8

The harvest of exoplanet discoveries has opened the area of exoplanet characterisation. But this cannot be achieved without a careful analysis of the host star parameters. The syst…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 43 cited

Seasonal changes in the middle atmosphere of Titan from Cassini/CIRS observations: temperature and trace species abundance profiles from 2004 to 2017

Christophe Mathé, Sandrine Vinatier, Bruno Bézard +6

The Cassini/Composite InfraRed Spectrometer (CIRS) instrument has been observing the middle atmosphere of Titan over almost half a Saturnian year. We used the CIRS dataset processe…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 84 cited

VLT/SPHERE exploration of the young multiplanetary system PDS70

D. Mesa, M. Keppler, F. Cantalloube +51

Context. PDS 70 is a young (5.4 Myr), nearby (~113 pc) star hosting a known transition disk with a large gap. Recent observations with SPHERE and NACO in the near-infrared (NIR) al…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 56 cited

Complex organic molecules in comets from remote-sensing observations at millimeter wavelengths

Nicolas Biver, Dominique Bockelée-Morvan

Remote observations of comets, especially using high spectral resolution millimeter spectroscopy, have enabled the detection of over 25 molecules in comets for the last twenty year…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 18 cited

Fingerprints of the protosolar cloud collapse in the Solar System I: Distribution of presolar short-lived Al

Francesco C. Pignatale, Emmanuel Jacquet, Marc Chaussidon +1

The short-lived radionuclide Al is widely used to determine the relative ages of chondrite components and timescales of physical and thermal events that attended the formati…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 9 cited

Size and density sorting of dust grains in SPH simulations of protoplanetary disc II: Fragmentation

Francesco C. Pignatale, Jean-François Gonzalez, Bernard Bourdon +1

Grain growth and fragmentation are important processes in building up large dust aggregates in protoplanetary discs. Using a 3D two-phase (gas-dust) SPH code, we investigate the co…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 21 cited

Near-Infrared Imaging of a Spiral in the CQ Tau Disk

Taichi Uyama, Takayuki Muto, Dimitri Mawet +28

We present -band Keck/NIRC2 imaging and -band Subaru/AO188+HiCIAO polarimetric observations of CQ Tau disk with a new spiral arm. Apart from the spiral feature our obs…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 13 cited

The fate of planetary cores in giant and ice-giant planets

S. Mazevet, R. Musella, F. Guyot

We used {\sl \textup{ab initio}} molecular dynamics simulations to calculate the high-pressure melting temperatures of the three potential core components. The planetary adiabats w…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 15 cited

On the H abundance and ortho-to-para ratio in Titan's troposphere

Bruno Bézard, Sandrine Vinatier

We have analyzed spectra recorded between 50 and 650 cm by the Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS) aboard the Cassini spacecraft at low and high emission angles to determ…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 82 cited

The Peculiar Volatile Composition of CO-Dominated Comet C/2016 R2 (PanSTARRS)

Adam McKay, Michael DiSanti, Michael Kelley +14

Comet C/2016 R2 (PanSTARRS) has a peculiar volatile composition, with CO being the dominant volatile as opposed to HO and one of the largest N/CO ratios ever observed in a…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 32 cited

Zinc isotope analyses of singularly small samples (<5 ng Zn): investigating chondrule-matrix complementarity in Leoville

Elishevah van Kooten, Frederic Moynier

The potential complementarity between chondrules and matrix of chondrites, the Solar System's building blocks, is still a highly debated subject. Complementary superchrondritic com…