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astro-ph.EP2021★ 11 cited

Sensitivity of the Roman Coronagraph Instrument to Exozodiacal Dust

Ewan S Douglas, John Debes, Bertrand Mennesson +7

Exozodiacal dust, warm debris from comets and asteroids in and near the habitable zone of stellar systems, reveals the physical processes that shape planetary systems. Scattered li…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 24 cited

Distant formation and differentiation of outer main belt asteroids and carbonaceous chondrite parent bodies

H. Kurokawa, T. Shibuya, Y. Sekine +4

Volatile compositions of asteroids provide information on the Solar System history and the origins of Earth's volatiles. Visible to near-infrared observations at wavelengths of $<2…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 1 cited

Characterizing microlensing planetary system OGLE-2014-BLG-0676Lb with adaptive optics imaging

Xiao-Jia Xie, Subo Dong, Yossi Shvartzvald +10

We constrain the host-star flux of the microlensing planet OGLE-2014-BLG-0676Lb using adaptive optics (AO) images taken by the Magellan and Keck telescopes. We measure the flux of…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 8 cited

Polarization spectrum of near infrared zodiacal light observed with CIBER

Kohji Takimoto, Toshiaki Arai, Shuji Matsuura +14

We report the first measurement of the zodiacal light (ZL) polarization spectrum in the near-infrared between 0.8 and 1.8 m. Using the low-resolution spectrometer (LRS) on board…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 3 cited

An Imaging Search for Post-Main-Sequence Planets of Sirius B

Miles Lucas, Michael Bottom, Garreth Ruane +1

We present deep imaging of Sirius B, the closest and brightest white dwarf, to constrain post-main-sequence planetary evolution in the Sirius system. We use Keck/NIRC2 in L'-band (…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 52 cited

A wide-orbit giant planet in the high-mass b Centauri binary system

Markus Janson, Raffaele Gratton, Laetitia Rodet +24

Planet formation occurs around a wide range of stellar masses and stellar system architectures. An improved understanding of the formation process can be achieved by studying it ac…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 15 cited

Hypotheses for Triton's Plumes: New Analyses and Future Remote Sensing Tests

Jason D. Hofgartner, Samuel P. D. Birch, Julie Castillo +14

At least two active plumes were observed on Neptune's moon Triton during the Voyager 2 flyby in 1989. Models for Triton's plumes have previously been grouped into five hypotheses,…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 11 cited

A hot Mars-sized exoplanet transiting an M dwarf

Caleb I. Cañas, Suvrath Mahadevan, William D. Cochran +21

We validate the planetary nature of an ultra-short period planet orbiting the M dwarf KOI-4777. We use a combination of space-based photometry from Kepler, high-precision, near-inf…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 28 cited

Kepler-167e as a Probe of the Formation Histories of Cold Giants with Inner Super-Earths

Yayaati Chachan, Paul A. Dalba, Heather A. Knutson +6

The observed correlation between outer giant planets and inner super-Earths is emerging as an important constraint on planet formation theories. In this study we focus on Kepler-16…

astro-ph.EP2021

Mars: new insights and unresolved questions

Hitesh G. Changela, Elias Chatzitheodoridis, Andre Antunes +33

Mars exploration motivates the search for extraterrestrial life, the development of space technologies, and the design of human missions and habitations. Here we seek new insights…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 28 cited

Spatially Resolved Modeling of Optical Albedos for a Sample of Six Hot Jupiters

Danica Adams, Tiffany Kataria, Natasha Batalha +2

Optical secondary eclipse measurements made by \emph{Kepler} reveal a diverse set of geometric albedos for hot Jupiters with equilibrium temperatures between K. The pre…

astro-ph.EP2021

Saturn's icy satellites investigated by Cassini -- VIMS. V. Spectrophotometry

G. Filacchione, M. Ciarniello, E. D'Aversa +6

Albedo, spectral slopes, and water ice band depths maps for the five midsized saturnian satellites Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione, and Rhea have been derived from Cassini-Visual a…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 11 cited

Improving Planet Detection with Disk Modeling: Keck/NIRC2 Imaging of the HD 34282 Single-armed Protoplanetary Disk

Juan Quiroz, Nicole L. Wallack, Bin Ren +5

Formed in protoplanetary disks around young stars, giant planets can leave observational features such as spirals and gaps in their natal disks through planet-disk interactions. Al…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 42 cited

Accreting protoplanets: Spectral signatures and magnitude of gas and dust extinction at H alpha

G. -D. Marleau, Y. Aoyama, R. Kuiper +14

Accreting planets have been seen at Ha (H alpha), but targeted searches have not been fruitful. For planets, accretion tracers should come from the shock itself, exposing them to e…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 3 cited

Internal-Current Lorentz-Force Heating of Astrophysical Objects

Christopher F. Chyba, Kevin P. Hand

Two forms of ohmic heating of astrophysical secondaries have received particular attention: unipolar-generator heating with currents running between the primary and secondary; and…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 14 cited

Thermal Phase Curves of XO-3b: an Eccentric Hot Jupiter at the Deuterium Burning Limit

Lisa Dang, Taylor J. Bell, Nicolas B. Cowan +15

We report \textit{Spitzer} full-orbit phase observations of the eccentric hot Jupiter XO-3b at 3.6 and 4.5 m. Our new eclipse depth measurements of ppm at 3.6 …

astro-ph.EP2021★ 26 cited

TOI-2257 b: A highly eccentric long-period sub-Neptune transiting a nearby M dwarf

N. Schanche, F. J. Pozuelos, M. N. Günther +61

Thanks to the relative ease of finding and characterizing small planets around M dwarf stars, these objects have become cornerstones in the field of exoplanet studies. The current…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 42 cited

The fundamentals of Lyman-alpha exoplanet transits

James E. Owen, Ruth A. Murray-Clay, Ethan Schreyer +7

Lyman- transits have been detected from several nearby exoplanets and are one of our best insights into the atmospheric escape process. However, due to ISM absorption, we typica…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 86 cited

The Warm Neptune GJ 3470b has a Polar Orbit

Gudmundur Stefansson, Suvrath Mahadevan, Cristobal Petrovich +34

The warm Neptune GJ 3470b transits a nearby (pc) bright slowly rotating M1.5-dwarf star. Using spectroscopic observations during two transits with the newly commissioned NEID…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 3 cited

K2 Discovery of a Circumsecondary Disk Transiting EPIC 220208795

L. van der Kamp, D. M. van Dam, M. A. Kenworthy +2

Observations of the star EPIC 220208795 (2MASS J01105556+0018507) reveal a single, deep and asymmetric eclipse, which we hypothesize is due to an eclipsing companion surrounded by…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 14 cited

Volatile transport modeling on Triton with new observational constraints

T. Bertrand, E. Lellouch, B. J. Holler +18

Neptune's moon Triton shares many similarities with Pluto, including volatile cycles of N2, CH4 and CO, and represents a benchmark case for the study of surface-atmosphere interact…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 37 cited

Jupiter's Temperate Belt/Zone Contrasts Revealed at Depth by Juno Microwave Observations

L. N. Fletcher, F. A. Oyafuso, M. Allison +12

Juno Microwave Radiometer (MWR) observations of Jupiter's mid-latitudes reveal a strong correlation between brightness temperature contrasts and zonal winds, confirming that the ba…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 81 cited

A unique hot Jupiter spectral sequence with evidence for compositional diversity

Megan Mansfield, Michael R. Line, Jacob L. Bean +11

The emergent spectra of close-in, giant exoplanets ("hot Jupiters") are expected to be distinct from those of self-luminous objects with similar effective temperatures because hot…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 1 cited

Science goals and new mission concepts for future exploration of Titan's atmosphere geology and habitability: Titan POlar Scout/orbitEr and In situ lake lander and DrONe explorer (POSEIDON)

Sébastien Rodriguez, Sandrine Vinatier, Daniel Cordier +61

In response to ESA Voyage 2050 announcement of opportunity, we propose an ambitious L-class mission to explore one of the most exciting bodies in the Solar System, Saturn largest m…