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astro-ph.EP2021★ 21 cited

Signs of late infall and possible planet formation around DR Tau using VLT/SPHERE and LBTI/LMIRCam

D. Mesa, C. Ginski, R. Gratton +31

Context. Protoplanetary disks around young stars often contain substructures like rings, gaps, and spirals that could be caused by interactions between the disk and forming planets…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 36 cited

Direct emission spectroscopy of exoplanets with the medium resolution imaging spectrometer on board JWST MIRI: I. Molecular mapping and sensitivity to instrumental effects

P. Patapis, E. Nasedkin, G. Cugno +6

The Medium Resolution Spectrometer on board JWST/MIRI will give access to mid-IR spectra while retaining spatial information. With the unparalleled sensitivity of JWST and the MIRI…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 20 cited

EXPRES. III. Revealing the Stellar Activity Radial Velocity Signature of Eridani with Photometry and Interferometry

Rachael M. Roettenbacher, Samuel H. C. Cabot, Debra A. Fischer +20

The distortions of absorption line profiles caused by photospheric brightness variations on the surfaces of cool, main-sequence stars can mimic or overwhelm radial velocity (RV) sh…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 56 cited

3D radiative-transfer for exoplanet atmospheres. gCMCRT: a GPU accelerated MCRT code

Elspeth K. H. Lee, Joost P. Wardenier, Bibiana Prinoth +10

Radiative-transfer (RT) is a key component for investigating atmospheres of planetary bodies. With the 3D nature of exoplanet atmospheres being important in giving rise to their ob…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 68 cited

The PLATO field selection process I. Identification and content of the long-pointing fields

V. Nascimbeni, G. Piotto, A. Börner +26

PLATO (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars) is an ESA M-class satellite planned for launch by end 2026 and dedicated to the wide-field search of transiting planets around…

astro-ph.EP2021

TOI-1201 b: A mini-Neptune transiting a bright and moderately young M dwarf

D. Kossakowski, J. Kemmer, P. Bluhm +62

We present the discovery of a transiting mini-Neptune around TOI-1201, a relatively bright and moderately young early M dwarf ( 9.5 mag, 600-800 Myr) in an equal-m…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 7 cited

Unveiling wide-orbit companions to K-type stars in Sco-Cen with Gaia EDR3

Alexander J. Bohn, Christian Ginski, Matthew A. Kenworthy +12

Abbreviated. We aim to identify new low-mass companions to young stars using the astrometric measurements provided by the Gaia space mission and complementary VLT/SPHERE data. We i…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 91 cited

How drifting and evaporating pebbles shape giant planets II: Volatiles and refractories in atmospheres

Aaron David Schneider, Bertram Bitsch

Upcoming studies of extrasolar gas giants will give precise insights into the composition of planetary atmospheres with the ultimate goal to link it to the formation history of the…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 77 cited

The all-sky PLATO input catalogue

M. Montalto, G. Piotto, P. M. Marrese +29

Context. The ESA PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO) mission will search for terrestrial planets in the habitable zone of solar-type stars. Because of telemetry li…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 10 cited

Dust in brown dwarfs and extra-solar planets. VIII. TiO seed formation: 3D Monte Carlo versus kinetic approach

C. Köhn, Ch. Helling, M. Bødker Enghoff +4

We aim to understand the onset of cloud formation {and study the formation of} TiO-CCNs. The formation of (TiO) clusters as precursors to extrasolar cloud formati…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 46 cited

Refined physical parameters for Chariklo's body and rings from stellar occultations observed between 2013 and 2020

B. E. Morgado, B. Sicardy, F. Braga-Ribas +78

The Centaur (10199) Chariklo has the first rings system discovered around a small object. It was first observed using stellar occultation in 2013. Stellar occultations allow the de…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 120 cited

The 13O-rich atmosphere of a young accreting super-Jupiter

Yapeng Zhang, Ignas Snellen, Alexander J. Bohn +8

Isotope abundance ratios play an important role in astronomy and planetary sciences, providing insights in the origin and evolution of the Solar System, interstellar chemistry, and…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 6 cited

Uncovering the ultimate planet impostor. An eclipsing brown dwarf in a hierarchical triple with two evolved stars

J. Lillo-Box, Á. Ribas, B. Montesinos +14

Exoplanet searches through space-based photometric time series have shown to be very efficient in recent years. However, follow-up efforts on the detected planet candidates have be…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 11 cited

Planet Hunters TESS III: two transiting planets around the bright G dwarf HD 152843

Nora L. Eisner, Belinda A. Nicholson, Oscar Barragán +37

We report on the discovery and validation of a two-planet system around a bright (V = 8.85 mag) early G dwarf (1.43 , 1.15 , TOI 2319) using data from NASA's…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 54 cited

Dry or water world? How the water contents of inner sub-Neptunes constrain giant planet formation and the location of the water ice line

Bertram Bitsch, Sean N. Raymond, Lars A. Buchhave +3

In the pebble accretion scenario, the pebbles that form planets drift inward from the outer disk regions, carrying water ice with them. At the water ice line, the water ice on the…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 62 cited

ARES V: No Evidence For Molecular Absorption in the HST WFC3 Spectrum of GJ 1132 b

Lorenzo V. Mugnai, Darius Modirrousta-Galian, Billy Edwards +25

We present a study on the spatially scanned spectroscopic observations of the transit of GJ 1132 b, a warm (500 K) Super-Earth (1.13 R) that was obtained with the G1…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 174 cited

How drifting and evaporating pebbles shape giant planets I: Heavy element content and atmospheric C/O

Aaron David Schneider, Bertram Bitsch

Recent observations of extrasolar gas giants suggest super-stellar C/O ratios in planetary atmospheres, while interior models of observed extrasolar giant planets additionally sugg…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 57 cited

Grid of Pseudo-2D Chemistry Models for Tidally-Locked Exoplanets. I. The Role of Vertical and Horizontal Mixing

Robin Baeyens, Leen Decin, Ludmila Carone +3

The atmospheres of synchronously rotating exoplanets are intrinsically three-dimensional, and fast vertical and horizontal winds are expected to mix the atmosphere, driving the che…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 24 cited

A near-infrared interferometric survey of debris-disk stars. VII. The hot/warm dust connection

O. Absil, L. Marion, S. Ertel +10

(abridged) Context. The origin of hot exozodiacal dust and its connection with outer dust reservoirs remains unclear. Aims. We aim to explore the possible connection between hot ex…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 44 cited

Discovery of a directly imaged planet to the young solar analog YSES 2

Alexander J. Bohn, Christian Ginski, Matthew A. Kenworthy +8

Abbreviated. By selecting stars with similar ages and masses, the Young Suns Exoplanet Survey (YSES) aims to detect and characterize planetary-mass companions to solar-type host st…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 55 cited

A dusty filament and turbulent CO spirals in HD135344B-SAO206462

Simon Casassus, Valentin Christiaens, Miguel Carcamo +16

Planet-disc interactions build up local pressure maxima that may halt the radial drift of protoplanetary dust, and pile it up in rings and crescents. ALMA observations of the HD135…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 13 cited

The HOSTS survey: evidence for an extended dust disk and constraints on the presence of giant planets in the Habitable Zone of Leo

D. Defrère, P. M. Hinz, G. M. Kennedy +38

The young (50-400 Myr) A3V star Leo is a primary target to study the formation history and evolution of extrasolar planetary systems as one of the few stars with known hot ($\s…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 15 cited

A faint companion around CrA-9: protoplanet or obscured binary?

V. Christiaens, M. -G. Ubeira-Gabellini, H. Cánovas +16

Understanding how giant planets form requires observational input from directly imaged protoplanets. We used VLT/NACO and VLT/SPHERE to search for companions in the transition disc…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 3 cited

A Readily Implemented Atmosphere Sustainability Constraint for Terrestrial Exoplanets Orbiting Magnetically Active Stars

Evangelia Samara, Spiros Patsourakos, Manolis K. Georgoulis

With more than 4,300 confirmed exoplanets and counting, the next milestone in exoplanet research is to determine which of these newly found worlds could harbor life. Coronal Mass E…