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astro-ph.EP2024★ 23 cited

MINDS. JWST-MIRI reveals a peculiar CO-rich chemistry in the drift-dominated disk CX Tau

Marissa Vlasblom, Milou Temmink, Sierra L. Grant +20

Radial drift of icy pebbles can have a large impact on the chemistry of the inner regions of protoplanetary disks. Compact dust disks (50 au) are suggested to have a high…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 53 cited

Combined analysis of the 12.8 and 15 JWST/MIRI eclipse observations of TRAPPIST-1 b

Elsa Ducrot, Pierre-Olivier Lagage, Michiel Min +36

The first JWST/MIRI photometric observations of TRAPPIST-1 b allowed for the detection of the thermal emission of the planet at 15 , suggesting that the planet could be a bare…

astro-ph.EP2024

The effect of a biosphere on the habitable timespan of stagnant-lid planets and implications for the atmospheric spectrum

Dennis Höning, Ludmila Carone, Philipp Baumeister +6

Temperature-dependent biological productivity controls silicate weathering and thereby extends the potential habitable timespan of Earth. Models and theoretical considerations indi…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 3 cited

A joint effort to discover and characterize two resonant mini Neptunes around TOI-1803 with TESS, HARPS-N and CHEOPS

T. Zingales, L. Malavolta, L. Borsato +130

We present the discovery of two mini Neptunes near a 2:1 orbital resonance configuration orbiting the K0 star TOI-1803. We describe their orbital architecture in detail and suggest…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 2 cited

DARWEN: Data-driven Algorithm for Reduction of Wide Exoplanetary Networks

A. Lira-Barria, J. N. Harvey, T. Konings +5

Exoplanet atmospheric modeling is advancing from chemically diverse one-dimensional (1D) models to three-dimensional (3D) global circulation models (GCMs), which are crucial for in…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 4 cited

A new pathway to SO: Revealing the NUV driven sulfur chemistry in hot gas giants

Wiebe de Gruijter, Shang-Min Tsai, Michiel Min +3

Context. Photochemistry is a key process driving planetary atmospheres away from local thermodynamic equilibrium. Recent observations of the H dominated atmospheres of hot gas…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 11 cited

Detection of faculae in the transit and transmission spectrum of WASP-69b

D. J. M. Petit dit de la Roche, H. Chakraborty, M. Lendl +9

Context: Transmission spectroscopy is a powerful tool for understanding exoplanet atmospheres. At optical wavelengths, it makes it possible to infer the composition and the presenc…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 6 cited

Under the magnifying glass: A combined 3D model applied to cloudy warm Saturn type exoplanets around M-dwarfs

Sven Kiefer, Nanna Bach-Møller, Dominic Samra +8

Warm Saturn type exoplanets orbiting M-dwarfs are particularly suitable for in-depth cloud characterisation through transmission spectroscopy due to their favourable stellar to pla…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 5 cited

Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE). XIV. Finding terrestrial protoplanets in the galactic neighborhood

Lorenzo Cesario, Tim Lichtenberg, Eleonora Alei +62

The increased brightness temperature of young rocky protoplanets during their magma ocean epoch makes them potentially amenable to atmospheric characterization to distances from th…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 26 cited

Water depletion and 15NH3 in the atmosphere of the coldest brown dwarf observed with JWST/MIRI

H. Kühnle, P. Patapis, P. Mollière +21

With a temperature of K WISE0855 is the coldest brown dwarf observed so far. Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) we obtained observations that allow us to charac…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 5 cited

The K2-24 planetary system revisited by CHEOPS

V. Nascimbeni, L. Borsato, P. Leonardi +82

K2-24 is a planetary system composed of two transiting low-density Neptunians locked in an almost perfect 2:1 resonance and showing large TTVs, i.e., an excellent laboratory to sea…

astro-ph.EP2024

Panopticon: a novel deep learning model to detect single transit events with no prior data filtering in PLATO light curves

H. G. Vivien, M. Deleuil, N. Jannsen +4

To prepare for the analyses of the future PLATO light curves, we develop a deep learning model, Panopticon, to detect transits in high precision photometric light curves. Since PLA…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 13 cited

Why heterogeneous cloud particles matter: Iron-bearing species and cloud particle morphology affects exoplanet transmission spectra

Sven Kiefer, Dominic Samra, David A. Lewis +5

The possibility of observing spectral features in exoplanet atmospheres with space missions like JWST and ARIEL necessitates the accurate modelling of cloud particle opacities. In…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 29 cited

Dust mineralogy and variability of the inner PDS 70 disk

Hyerin Jang, Rens Waters, Till Kaeufer +17

The inner disk of the young star PDS 70 may be a site of rocky planet formation, with two giant planets detected further out. Solids in the inner disk may inform us about the origi…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 45 cited

MINDS. Hydrocarbons detected by JWST/MIRI in the inner disk of Sz28 consistent with a high C/O gas-phase chemistry

Jayatee Kanwar, Inga Kamp, Hyerin Jang +20

With the advent of JWST, we acquire unprecedented insights into the physical and chemical structure of the inner regions of planet-forming disks where terrestrial planet formation…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 62 cited

A Benchmark JWST Near-Infrared Spectrum for the Exoplanet WASP-39b

A. L. Carter, E. M. May, N. Espinoza +77

Observing exoplanets through transmission spectroscopy supplies detailed information on their atmospheric composition, physics, and chemistry. Prior to JWST, these observations wer…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 3 cited

A grid of self-consistent MSG (MARCS-StaticWeather-GGchem) cool stellar, sub-stellar, and exoplanetary model atmospheres

Uffe G. Jørgensen, Flavia Amadio, Beatriz Campos Estrada +8

Computation of a grid of self consistent 1D model atmospheres of cool stars, sub-stellar objects and exoplanets in the effective temperature range 300K to 3000K, including cloud fo…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 27 cited

MINDS. A multi-instrument investigation into the molecule-rich JWST-MIRI spectrum of the DF Tau binary system

Sierra L. Grant, Nicolas T. Kurtovic, Ewine F. van Dishoeck +26

Most stars form in multiple systems whose properties can significantly impact circumstellar disk evolution. We investigate the physical and chemical properties of the equal-mass, s…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 16 cited

Characterisation of the Warm-Jupiter TOI-1130 system with CHEOPS and photo-dynamical approach

L. Borsato, D. Degen, A. Leleu +93

Among the thousands of exoplanets discovered to date, approximately a few hundred gas giants on short-period orbits are classified as "lonely" and only a few are in a multi-planet…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 6 cited

A formation pathway for terrestrial planets with moderate water content involving atmospheric-volatile recycling

Jonas Müller, Bertram Bitsch, Aaron David Schneider

Of the many recently discovered terrestrial exoplanets, some are expected to harbor moderate water mass fractions of a few percent. The formation pathways that can produce planets…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 26 cited

Unveiling the internal structure and formation history of the three planets transiting HIP 29442 (TOI-469) with CHEOPS

J. A. Egger, H. P. Osborn, D. Kubyshkina +91

Multiplanetary systems spanning the radius valley are ideal testing grounds for exploring the proposed explanations for the observed bimodality in the radius distribution of close-…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 71 cited

Abundant hydrocarbons in the disk around a very-low-mass star

A. M. Arabhavi, I. Kamp, Th. Henning +40

Very low-mass stars (those <0.3 solar masses) host orbiting terrestrial planets more frequently than other types of stars, but the compositions of those planets are largely unknown…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 16 cited

Detection of an Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting the nearby ultracool dwarf star SPECULOOS-3

Michaël Gillon, Peter P. Pedersen, Benjamin V. Rackham +81

Located at the bottom of the main sequence, ultracool dwarf stars are widespread in the solar neighbourhood. Nevertheless, their extremely low luminosity has left their planetary p…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 10 cited

Use the 4S (Signal-Safe Speckle Subtraction): Explainable Machine Learning reveals the Giant Exoplanet AF Lep b in High-Contrast Imaging Data from 2011

Markus J. Bonse, Timothy D. Gebhard, Felix A. Dannert +10

The main challenge of exoplanet high-contrast imaging (HCI) is to separate the signal of exoplanets from their host stars, which are many orders of magnitude brighter. HCI for grou…