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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★ 18 cited

New spectro-photometric characterization of the substellar object HR 2562 B using SPHERE

D. Mesa, J. -L. Baudino, B. Charnay +32

HR2562 is an F5V star located at ~33 pc from the Sun hosting a substellar companion that was discovered using the GPI instrument. The main objective of the present paper is to prov…

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★ 7 cited

Habitability in Brown Dwarf Systems

Emeline Bolmont

The very recent discovery of planets orbiting very low mass stars sheds light on these exotic objects. Planetary systems around low-mass stars and brown dwarfs are very different f…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 106 cited

Discovery of a point-like source and a third spiral arm in the transition disk around the Herbig Ae star MWC 758

M. Reggiani, V. Christiaens, O. Absil +20

Transition disks offer the extraordinary opportunity to look for newly born planets and investigate the early stages of planet formation. In this context we observed the Herbig A5…

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★ 35 cited

Laboratory simulations of the Vis-NIR spectra of comet 67P using sub-μm sized cosmochemical analogues

Batiste Rousseau, Stéphane Érard, Pierre Beck +15

Laboratory spectral measurements of relevant analogue materials were performed in the framework of the Rosetta mission in order to explain the surface spectral properties of comet…

astro-ph.EP2017

Refurbishing Voyager 1 & 2 Planetary Radio Astronomy (PRA) Data

Baptiste Cecconi, Anaïs Pruvot, Laurent Lamy +5

Voyager/PRA (Planetary Radio Astronomy) data from digitized tapes archived at CNES have been reprocessed and recalibrated. The data cover the Jupiter and Saturn flybys of both Voya…

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★ 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★ 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★ 50 cited

The thermal emission of Centaurs and Trans-Neptunian objects at millimeter wavelengths from ALMA observations

E. Lellouch, R. Moreno, T. Müller +9

The sensitivity of ALMA makes it possible to detect thermal mm/submm emission from small/distant Solar System bodies at the sub-mJy level. Measured fluxes are primarily sensitive t…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 45 cited

The HIP 79977 debris disk in polarized light

N. Engler, H. M. Schmid, Ch. Thalmann +40

We present observations of the known edge-on debris disk around HIP 79977 (HD 146897, F star in Upper Sco, 123 pc), taken with the ZIMPOL differential polarimeter of the SPHERE ins…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 76 cited

Investigation of the inner structures around HD169142 with VLT/SPHERE

R. Ligi, A. Vigan, R. Gratton +47

We present observations of the Herbig Ae star HD169142 with VLT/SPHERE instruments InfraRed Dual-band Imager and Spectrograph (IRDIS) ( and bands) and the Integral Fie…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 59 cited

Size and shape of Chariklo from multi-epoch stellar occultations

R Leiva, B Sicardy, J I B Camargo +28

We use data from five stellar occultations observed between 2013 and 2016 to constrain Chariklo's size and shape, and the ring reflectivity. We consider four possible models for Ch…

astro-ph.EP2017

Early formation of planetary building blocks inferred from Pb isotopic ages of chondrules

Jean Bollard, James N. Connelly, Martin J. Whitehouse +6

The most abundant components of primitive meteorites (chondrites) are millimeter-sized glassy spherical chondrules formed by transient melting events in the solar protoplanetary di…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 100 cited

Scientific rationale for Uranus and Neptune in situ explorations

O. Mousis, D. H. Atkinson, T. Cavalié +53

The ice giants Uranus and Neptune are the least understood class of planets in our solar system but the most frequently observed type of exoplanets. Presumed to have a small rocky…