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astro-ph.EP2026

Upside down: GJ3090 b the first retrograde exoplanet around an M dwarf detected with NIRPS

Y. Carteret, V. Bourrier, L. Parc +57

The angle between stellar spin axis and planetary orbital plane can provide key insights into the formation and dynamical evolution of planetary systems. In particular, this measur…

astro-ph.EP2026

Potential sublimating exocomets around the young star PDS 70

Aline Novais, H. Jens Hoeijmakers, Alexandra Stockwell Murphy +4

Recent observations by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have indicated the presence of water in the inner regions of the disc around the young protostar PDS 70, but the origin…

astro-ph.EP2026

CORALIE radial-velocity search for companions around evolved stars (CASCADES) V. Three planetary companions and achievable precision

P. Figueira, E. Fontanet, J. P. Faria +9

Aims. We expand the planetary census around massive stellar hosts through a long-term campaign of high-precision radial velocity (RV) measurements on evolved stars. Methods. We ana…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 1 cited

Planetary-Mass Exosatellite Detected Around the Substellar Companion of a Star

Kevin Hoy, Alice Zurlo, Pablo A. Peña R. +10

Despite more than 6000 exoplanets being discovered to date, no satellite orbiting an exoplanet, an exomoon, has ever been confidently detected. While there are some candidates, the…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 2 cited

Magnetic field strengths of hot giant exoplanets consistent with Solar System values

Julia V. Seidel, Vivien Parmentier, Bibiana Prinoth +29

Magnetic fields are ubiquitous in the universe. They play a key role in shaping the activity of stars, the habitability of rocky planets, and the long-term retention of planetary a…

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The breaking of cold traps and onset of titanium in ultra-hot Jupiter atmospheres: WASP-189b in context

Stefan Pelletier, Romain Allart, Valentina Vaulato +56

Condensates are ubiquitous to all Solar System planets with significant (10mbar) atmospheres. The same is true for most exoplanets with characterised atmospheres, with even ultr…

astro-ph.EP2026

The small transiting planet population revealed by ESPRESSO with extreme precision radial velocities

M. J. Hobson, B. Lavie, F. Bouchy +35

Small planets are extremely common in the Galaxy, including planets with masses and radii between those of Earth and Neptune. Characterizing these planets' masses requires ultra-pr…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 1 cited

Direct Images of CO2 Absorption in the Atmosphere of a Super-Jupiter: Enhanced Metallicity Suggestive of Formation in a Disk

William O. Balmer, Laurent Pueyo, Ashley Messier +15

It is unclear how directly imaged substellar companions with masses near the deuterium burning limit form, because these objects are rare and their bulk properties are not diagnost…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 3 cited

Super-Earth masses and stellar abundances from NIRPS reveal tentative evidence for water-rich formation around M dwarfs

Drew Weisserman, Nicole Gromek, Ryan Cloutier +98

Tracing the compositional link between terrestrial super-Earths and their host stars provides clues to their dominant formation pathway. By constraining the stellar abundances of r…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 1 cited

A distant brown dwarf coplanar to a warm Jupiter and a hot super-Earth

Matías I. Jones, Luca Naponiello, Trifon Trifonov +21

In transiting planetary systems, in which planetary sizes are accurately determined from transit observations, the presence of transit-timing variations (TTVs), especially when com…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 1 cited

Large Dust Grains and a Possible Dust Trap in the Polar Circumbinary Disc of HD 98800B

Álvaro Ribas, Thomas Lack, Francesco Zagaria +6

HD 98800 is a nearby hierarchical quadruple system comprising two binaries orbiting each other. Surprisingly, despite its 10 Myr age and dynamic environment, the Ba-Bb compo…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 1 cited

exoALMA XX: Tomographic Detection of Embedded Planets in Protoplanetary Disks

Andres F. Izquierdo, Jaehan Bae, Stefano Facchini +32

The exoALMA Large Program has revealed a wealth of substructures in the dust and molecular line emission of several protoplanetary discs, suggesting that planet formation may unfol…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 1 cited

exoALMA XXIII. Estimating Disk and Planet Properties from Dust Morphologies with DBNets2.0

Alessandro Ruzza, Giuseppe Lodato, Giovanni Rosotti +21

The exoALMA large program provided an unprecedented view of the morphology and kinematics of 15 circumstellar disks, offering a biased but homogenous and well-characterized sample…

astro-ph.EP2026

Long-term monitoring of WASP-19 b: Signs of apsidal precession and molecular signatures

A. R. Rajkumar, A. Bayo, P. Peng +30

With more than 6000 exoplanets discovered so far, about 12 percent are hot Jupiters. Their large sizes and short orbital periods make them valuable targets for studying planetary f…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 1 cited

Confirmation of the hot super-Neptune TOI-672 b with NIRPS and HARPS and Insights into the Neptunian desert around M dwarfs

Ares Osborn, Ryan Cloutier, Vincent Bourrier +65

The Neptunian desert is a distinct lack of Neptune-sized planets at short orbital periods, purportedly carved by photoevaporation and tidal circularization following high-eccentric…

astro-ph.EP2026

PLATOSpec's first results: Three new transiting warm Jupiters from the WINE survey TIC 147027702, TIC 245076932 and TIC 87422071

Pavol Gajdoš, Rafael Brahm, Lorena Acuña-Aguirre +33

We report the discovery and characterisation of three transiting warm Jupiters: TIC 147027702b, TIC 245076932b and TIC 87422071b. These systems were initially identified as transit…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 4 cited

Apophis source population and Earth encounter frequency of Apophis-like bodies

M. Brož, R. P. Binzel, P. Vernazza +4

We provide context for Apophis' 2029 Earth passage by analyzing its possible source populations, in particular, the Flora family, which has a similar composition, corresponding to…

astro-ph.EP2026

The GAPS Programme at the TNG: LXX. TOI-5734b: A hot sub-Neptune orbiting a relatively young K dwarf with an Earth-like density

S. Filomeno, T. Trifonov, M. Damasso +40

Increasing interest in young exoplanets is leading to a growing effort to understand the formation and evolutionary processes responsible for their different architectures. One int…

astro-ph.EP2026

NIRPS tightens the mass estimate of GJ 3090 b and detects a planet near the stellar rotation period

Pierrot Lamontagne, Drew Weisserman, Charles Cadieux +148

We present an updated characterization of the planetary system orbiting the nearby M2 dwarf GJ 3090 (TOI-177; pc), based on new high-precision radial velocity (RV) observa…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 4 cited

Astrometric follow-up of near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 during a Torino scale level 3 alert

Marco Micheli, Maxime Devogèle, Larry Denneau +38

The discovery of 2024 YR4 presented the planetary defense community with the most significant impact threat in almost two decades, reaching level 3 on the Torino scale. The communi…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 3 cited

A second planetesimal collision in the Fomalhaut system

Paul Kalas, Jason J. Wang, Maxwell A. Millar-Blanchaer +7

The nearby star Fomalhaut is orbited by a compact source, Fomalhaut b, which has previously been interpreted as either a dust-enshrouded exoplanet or a dust cloud generated by the…

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

Zooming into the water snowline: high resolution water observations of the HL Tau disk

M. Leemker, S. Facchini, P. Curone +4

Water is one of the central molecules for the formation and habitability of planets. In particular, the region where water freezes-out, the water snowline, could be a favorable loc…