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astro-ph.EP2022★ 232 cited

Early Release Science of the exoplanet WASP-39b with JWST NIRISS

Adina D. Feinstein, Michael Radica, Luis Welbanks +86

Transmission spectroscopy provides insight into the atmospheric properties and consequently the formation history, physics, and chemistry of transiting exoplanets. However, obtaini…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 197 cited

Early Release Science of the exoplanet WASP-39b with JWST NIRCam

Eva-Maria Ahrer, Kevin B. Stevenson, Megan Mansfield +96

Measuring the metallicity and carbon-to-oxygen (C/O) ratio in exoplanet atmospheres is a fundamental step towards constraining the dominant chemical processes at work and, if in eq…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 274 cited

Early Release Science of the Exoplanet WASP-39b with JWST NIRSpec G395H

Lili Alderson, Hannah R. Wakeford, Munazza K. Alam +89

Measuring the abundances of carbon and oxygen in exoplanet atmospheres is considered a crucial avenue for unlocking the formation and evolution of exoplanetary systems. Access to a…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 327 cited

Early Release Science of the exoplanet WASP-39b with JWST NIRSpec PRISM

Z. Rustamkulov, D. K. Sing, S. Mukherjee +91

Transmission spectroscopy of exoplanets has revealed signatures of water vapor, aerosols, and alkali metals in a few dozen exoplanet atmospheres. However, these previous inferences…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 262 cited

Photochemically-produced SO in the atmosphere of WASP-39b

Shang-Min Tsai, Elspeth K. H. Lee, Diana Powell +82

Photochemistry is a fundamental process of planetary atmospheres that regulates the atmospheric composition and stability. However, no unambiguous photochemical products have been…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 26 cited

Clouds form on the hot Saturn JWST ERO target WASP-96b

Dominic Samra, Christiane Helling, Katy Chubb +3

WASP-96b is a hot Saturn exoplanet, with an equilibrium temperature well within the regime of thermodynamically expected extensive cloud formation. Prior observations with Hubble/W…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 10 cited

The effect of water and electron collisions in the rotational excitation of HF in comets

J. Loreau, A. Faure, F. Lique

We present the first set of rate coefficients for the rotational excitation of the 7 lowest levels of hydrogen fluoride (HF) induced by collision with water molecules, the dominant…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 22 cited

No evidence for radius inflation in hot Jupiters from vertical advection of heat

Aaron David Schneider, Ludmila Carone, Leen Decin +2

Understanding the radiative-dynamical coupling between upper photosphere and deeper atmosphere is a key in understanding the abnormal large radii of hot Jupiters. One needs very lo…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 23 cited

Lightning-induced chemistry on tidally-locked Earth-like exoplanets

Marrick Braam, Paul I. Palmer, Leen Decin +5

Determining the habitability and interpreting atmospheric spectra of exoplanets requires understanding their atmospheric physics and chemistry. We use a 3-D Coupled Climate-Chemist…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 26 cited

Impact of stellar flares on the chemical composition and transmission spectra of gaseous exoplanets orbiting M dwarfs

Thomas Konings, Robin Baeyens, Leen Decin

Stellar flares of active M dwarfs can affect the atmospheric composition of close-orbiting gas giants, and can result in time-dependent transmission spectra. We aim to examine the…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 193 cited

Identification of carbon dioxide in an exoplanet atmosphere

The JWST Transiting Exoplanet Community Early Release Science Team, Eva-Maria Ahrer, Lili Alderson +129

Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a key chemical species that is found in a wide range of planetary atmospheres. In the context of exoplanets, CO2 is an indicator of the metal enrichment (i.…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 29 cited

TOI-1468: A system of two transiting planets, a super-Earth and a mini-Neptune, on opposite sides of the radius valley

P. Chaturvedi, P. Bluhm, E. Nagel +67

We report the discovery and characterization of two small transiting planets orbiting the bright M3.0V star TOI-1468 (LSPM J0106+1913), whose transit signals were detected in the p…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 38 cited

Exoplanet weather and climate regimes with clouds and thermal ionospheres: A model grid study in support of large-scale observational campaigns

Christiane Helling, Dominic Samra, David Lewis +7

With observational efforts moving from the discovery into the characterisation mode, systematic campaigns that cover large ranges of global stellar and planetary parameters will be…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 38 cited

How drifting and evaporating pebbles shape giant planets III: The formation of WASP-77A b and Boötis b

Bertram Bitsch, Aaron David Schneider, Laura Kreidberg

Atmospheric abundances are thought to constrain the planet formation pathway, because different species evaporate at different temperatures leaving distinct signatures in the accre…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 16 cited

Revisiting fundamental properties of TiO nanoclusters as condensation seeds in astrophysical environments

J. P. Sindel, D. Gobrecht, Ch. Helling +1

The formation of inorganic cloud particles takes place in several atmospheric environments including those of warm, hot, rocky and gaseous exoplanets, brown dwarfs, and AGB stars.…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 47 cited

A detailed analysis of the Gl 486 planetary system

J. A. Caballero, E. Gonzalez-Alvarez, M. Brady +64

The Gl 486 system consists of a very nearby, relatively bright, weakly active M3.5 V star at just 8 pc with a warm transiting rocky planet of about 1.3 R_Terra and 3.0 M_Terra that…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 19 cited

Water, hydrogen cyanide, carbon monoxide, and dust production from distant comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1

D. Bockelée-Morvan, N. Biver, C. A. Schambeau +13

29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 is a distant Centaur/comet, showing persistent CO-driven activity and frequent outbursts. We used the Herschel space observatory in 2010, 2011, and 2013…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 2 cited

Interpreting the atmospheric composition of exoplanets: sensitivity to planet formation assumptions

Paul Mollière, Tamara Molyarova, Bertram Bitsch +13

Constraining planet formation based on the atmospheric composition of exoplanets is a fundamental goal of the exoplanet community. Existing studies commonly try to constrain atmosp…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 39 cited

Grid of pseudo-2D chemistry models for tidally locked exoplanets -- II. The role of photochemistry

Robin Baeyens, Thomas Konings, Olivia Venot +2

Photochemistry is expected to change the chemical composition of the upper atmospheres of irradiated exoplanets through the dissociation of species, such as methane and ammonia, an…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 56 cited

Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE): II. Signal simulation, signal extraction and fundamental exoplanet parameters from single epoch observations

Felix Dannert, Maurice Ottiger, Sascha P. Quanz +13

The Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE) initiative is developing the science and a technology roadmap for an ambitious space mission featuring a space-based mid-infrared (MI…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 5 cited

LBT search for companions and sub-structures in the (pre)transitional disk of AB Aurigae

Sebastián Jorquera, Mickaël Bonnefoy, Sarah Betti +18

Multi-wavelengths high-resolution imaging of protoplanetary disks has revealed the presence of multiple, varied substructures in their dust and gas components which might be signpo…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 27 cited

A transiting, temperate mini-Neptune orbiting the M dwarf TOI-1759 unveiled by TESS

Néstor Espinoza, Enric Pallé, Jonas Kemmer +66

We report the discovery and characterization of TOI-1759~b, a temperate (400 K) sub-Neptune-sized exoplanet orbiting the M~dwarf TOI-1759 (TIC 408636441). TOI-1759 b was observed b…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 24 cited

Investigating the detectability of hydrocarbons in exoplanet atmospheres with JWST

Danny Gasman, Michiel Min, Katy L. Chubb

We investigate at what abundances various hydrocarbon molecules (e.g. acetylene (CH), ethylene (CH), and methane (CH)) become detectable when observing the atmo…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 24 cited

Discovery and mass measurement of the hot, transiting, Earth-sized planet GJ 3929 b

J. Kemmer, S. Dreizler, D. Kossakowski +64

We report the discovery of GJ 3929 b, a hot Earth-sized planet orbiting the nearby M3.5 V dwarf star, GJ 3929 (G 180--18, TOI-2013). Joint modelling of photometric observations fro…