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astro-ph.EP2025

Detecting false positives with PLATO using double-aperture photometry and centroid shifts

F. Gutiérrez-Canales, R. Samadi, A. Birch +6

PLATO will discover exoplanets around Sun-like stars through transit photometry and characterize their host stars using asteroseismology. Since photometry for most PLATO targets wi…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 1 cited

Time-resolved X-ray spectra of Proxima Centauri as seen by XMM-Newton

A. Damonte, I. Pillitteri, A. Maggio +2

Stellar soft X-ray ([1, 100] Angstrom) and Extreme Ultraviolet (also EUV, [100, 920] Angstrom; jointly, XUV) radiation affects the evolution and chemistry of exoplanet atmospheres.…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 8 cited

Characterization of debris disks observed with SPHERE

N. Engler, J. Milli, N. Pawellek +33

This study aims to characterize debris disks observed with SPHERE across multiple programs, with the goal of identifying systematic trends in disk morphology, dust mass, and grain…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 1 cited

Interstellar Ices as Carriers of Supernova Material to the Early Solar System

Martin Bizzarro, Martin Schiller, Jesper Holst +10

Planetary materials show systematic variations in their nucleosynthetic isotope compositions that resonate with orbital distance. The origin of this pattern remains debated, limiti…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 8 cited

Exomoon search with VLTI/GRAVITY around the substellar companion HD 206893 B

Q. Kral, J. Wang, J. Kammerer +130

Direct astrometric detection of exomoons remains unexplored. This study presents the first application of high-precision astrometry to search for exomoons around substellar compani…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 3 cited

Rapid-response characterization of near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 during a Torino Scale 3 alert

Maxime Devogèle, Olivier R. Hainaut, Marco Micheli +32

On 27 December 2024, near-Earth object (NEO) 2024 YR was discovered by the ATLAS survey and identified as a virtual impactor. A few weeks later, it eventually reached level 3 o…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 2 cited

Ringed versus Ringless Worlds: How Poynting-Robertson Drag Shapes Rings across the Solar System

Ryuki Hyodo, Shigeru Ida

Planetary rings are not only ubiquitous around the giant planets in the outer Solar System, but have also been discovered around several small distant bodies. In contrast, no rings…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 15 cited

Experiments reveal extreme water generation during planet formation

Francesca Miozzi, Anat Shahar, Edward D. Young +7

The most abundant type of planet discovered in the Galaxy has no analogue in our Solar System and is believed to consist of a rocky interior with an overlying thick H2 dominated en…

astro-ph.EP2025

The MATISSE view of the inner region of the RY Tau protoplanetary disk

J. S. Martin, J. Kobus, J. Varga +44

The T-Tauri type young stellar object RY Tau exhibits a dust depleted inner cavity characteristic of a transition disk. We constrain the spatial distribution and mineralogy of dust…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 14 cited

The rings of (2060) Chiron: Evidence of an evolving system

C. L. Pereira, F. Braga-Ribas, B. Sicardy +54

The centaur (2060) Chiron has long been a candidate for hosting material in orbit, based on occultation and photometric and spectroscopic data. Here, we present a multichord stella…

astro-ph.EP2025

The resilience of the sailboat stable region

Rafael Sfair, Tiago F. L. L. Pinheiro, Giovana Ramon +1

Binary systems host complex orbital dynamics where test particles can occupy stable regions despite strong gravitational perturbations. The sailboat region, discovered in the Pluto…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 8 cited

Rings around irregular bodies I. Structure of the resonance mesh, applications to Chariklo, Haumea and Quaoar

Bruno Sicardy, Heikki Salo, Maryame El Moutamid +2

Three ring systems have been discovered to date around small irregular objects of the solar system (Chariklo, Haumea and Quaoar). For the three bodies, material is observed near th…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 1 cited

Impact of Charge Transfer Inefficiency on transit light-curves: A correction strategy for PLATO

Shaunak Mishra, Reza Samadi, Diane Bérard

PLATO is designed to detect Earth-sized exoplanets around solar-type stars and to measure their radii with accuracy better than \(2\%\) via the transit method. Charge transfer inef…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 2 cited

Discovery of carbon monoxide emission from five debris disks around young A-type stars

A. Moór, P. Ábrahám, Á +7

Over the past fifteen years, surveys mainly at millimeter wavelengths have led to the discovery of 20 gas-bearing debris disks, most of them surrounding young intermediate-ma…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 9 cited

ATREIDES I. Embarking on a trek across the exo-Neptunian landscape with the TOI-421 system

V. Bourrier, M. Steiner, A. Castro-González +75

The distribution of close-in exoplanets is shaped by the interplay between atmospheric and dynamical processes. The Neptunian Desert, Ridge, and Savanna illustrate the sensitivity…

astro-ph.EP2025

A high geometric albedo and small size of the Haumea cluster member (24835) 1995 SM55 from a stellar occultation and photometric observations

J. L. Ortiz, N. Morales, B. Sicardy +98

Trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) are among the most ancient bodies of the solar system. Understanding their physical properties is key to constraining their origin and the evolution…

astro-ph.EP2025

Deimos photometric properties: analysis of 20 years of observations (2004-2024) by the Mars Express HRSC camera

A. Wargnier, P. N. Simon, S. Fornasier +6

The goal of this study is to analyze the photometric properties of Deimos using Mars Express (MEX) observations, to improve the photometric properties and provide new insights into…

astro-ph.EP2025

New constraint on Europa's ice shell: magnetic signature from the ocean

Florentin Daniel, Ludovic Petitdemange, Christophe Gissinger

Jupiter's icy moons are believed to host subsurface liquid oceans, and among them, Europa stands out as one of the most promising candidates for extraterrestrial life. Yet, the pro…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 2 cited

YSES 2b is a background star: Differential astrometric M-dwarf measurements in time

Matthew Kenworthy, Tomas Stolker, Jens Kammerer +13

We wish to confirm the nature of YSES 2b, a purportedly faint companion of the young star YSES 2. We used on-sky observations from SPHERE and GRAVITY to measure the astrometric pos…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 1 cited

Particle dynamics in TOI-178 planetary system

J. Boskovic, R. Sfair, C. M. Schäfer

The TOI-178 system hosts six planets with five of them locked in a :4:6:9:12 Laplace resonance chain. We perform N-body simulations to investigate the dynamics of test particles in…

astro-ph.EP2025

Optimising reference library selection for reference-star differential imaging of discs with SPHERE/IRDIS

S. Stasevic, J. Milli, J. Mazoyer +2

The direct detection of circumstellar discs through high-contrast imaging provides key insights into the history and dynamics of planetary systems. Pole-on discs, especially faint…

astro-ph.EP2025

Isotopic composition of cometary water and the origin of Earth's oceans

Dariusz C. Lis, Martin Cordiner, Nicolas Biver +4

Studies of the water content and isotopic composition of water-rich asteroids and comets are of key interest for understanding the late accretion stage of the Solar System cometary…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 7 cited

MINDS. Strong oxygen depletion in the inner regions of a very low-mass star disk?

Jayatee Kanwar, Inga Kamp, Peter Woitke +10

JWST is discovering a plethora of species in planet-forming disks around very low-mass stars such as C2H2, C6H6, C4H2, CH3 etc. The column densities of these species retrieved from…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 5 cited

The SPACE Program. I. The featureless spectrum of HD 86226 c challenges sub-Neptune atmosphere trends

K. Angelique Kahle, Jasmina Blecic, Reza Ashtari +26

Sub-Neptune exoplanets are the most abundant type of planet known today. As they do not have a Solar System counterpart, many open questions exist about their composition and forma…