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most citedThe PLATO 2.0 Mission

1.3k citations

238 papers

astro-ph.EP2023★ 145 cited

A broadband thermal emission spectrum of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-18b

Louis-Philippe Coulombe, Björn Benneke, Ryan Challener +73

Close-in giant exoplanets with temperatures greater than 2,000 K (''ultra-hot Jupiters'') have been the subject of extensive efforts to determine their atmospheric properties using…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 18 cited

GJ 806 (TOI-4481): A bright nearby multi-planetary system with a transiting hot, low-density super-Earth

E. Palle, J. Orell-Miquel, M. Brady +63

One of the main scientific goals of the TESS mission is the discovery of transiting small planets around the closest and brightest stars in the sky. Here, using data from the CARME…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 15 cited

Interior heating of rocky exoplanets from stellar flares with application to TRAPPIST-1

Alexander Grayver, Dan J. Bower, Joachim Saur +2

Many stars of different spectral types with planets in the habitable zone are known to emit flares. Until now, studies that address the long-term impact of stellar flares and assoc…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 18 cited

The mid-infrared molecular inventory towards Orion IRc2

Sarah Nickerson, Naseem Rangwala, Sean W. J. Colgan +8

We present the first high spectral resolution mid-infrared survey in the Orion BN/KL region, covering 7.2 to 28.3 micron. With SOFIA/EXES we target the enigmatic source Orion IRc2.…

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.SR2022★ 42 cited

Astrometric Accelerations as Dynamical Beacons: Discovery and Characterization of HIP 21152 B, the First T-Dwarf Companion in the Hyades

Kyle Franson, Brendan P. Bowler, Mariangela Bonavita +28

Benchmark brown dwarf companions with well-determined ages and model-independent masses are powerful tools to test substellar evolutionary models and probe the formation of giant p…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 29 cited

Examining the orbital decay targets KELT-9 b, KELT-16 b and WASP-4 b, and the transit-timing variations of HD 97658 b

J. -V. Harre, A. M. S. Smith, S. C. C. Barros +87

Tidal orbital decay is suspected to occur especially for hot Jupiters, with the only observationally confirmed case of this being WASP-12 b. By examining this effect, information o…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 22 cited

55 Cancri e's occultation captured with CHEOPS

B. -O. Demory, S. Sulis, E. Meier Valdes +73

Past occultation and phase-curve observations of the ultra-short period super-Earth 55 Cnc e obtained at visible and infrared wavelengths have been challenging to reconcile with a…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 25 cited

Connecting photometric and spectroscopic granulation signals with CHEOPS and ESPRESSO

S. Sulis, M. Lendl, H. Cegla +83

Stellar granulation generates fluctuations in photometric and spectroscopic data whose properties depend on the stellar type, composition, and evolutionary state. In this study, we…

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.GA2022★ 33 cited

An ever-present snail shell triggered by a dark matter wake

Robert J. J. Grand, Rüdiger Pakmor, Francesca Fragkoudi +5

We utilize a novel numerical technique to model star formation in cosmological simulations of galaxy formation - called Superstars - to simulate a Milky Way-like galaxy with $\gtrs…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 23 cited

Radio-Loud Exoplanet-Exomoon Survey (RLEES): GMRT Search for Electron Cyclotron Maser Emission

Mayank Narang, Apurva V. Oza, Kaustubh Hakim +3

We conducted the first dedicated search for signatures of exoplanet-exomoon interactions using the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) as part of the radio-loud exoplanet-exomoo…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 21 cited

TOI-969: a late-K dwarf with a hot mini-Neptune in the desert and an eccentric cold Jupiter

J. Lillo-Box, D. Gandolfi, D. J. Armstrong +60

The current architecture of a given multi-planetary system is a key fingerprint of its past formation and dynamical evolution history. Long-term follow-up observations are key to c…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 10 cited

Characterization of the HD 108236 system with CHEOPS and TESS. Confirmation of a fifth transiting planet

S. Hoyer, A. Bonfanti, A. Leleu +87

The HD108236 system was first announced with the detection of four small planets based on TESS data. Shortly after, the transit of an additional planet with a period of 29.54d was…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 14 cited

A CHEOPS-enhanced view of the HD3167 system

V. Bourrier, A. Deline, A. Krenn +92

Much remains to be understood about the nature of exoplanets smaller than Neptune, most of which have been discovered in compact multi-planet systems. With its inner ultra-short pe…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 20 cited

CHEOPS finds KELT-1b darker than expected in visible light: Discrepancy between the CHEOPS and TESS eclipse depths

H. Parviainen, T. G. Wilson, M. Lendl +78

Recent TESS-based studies have suggested that the dayside of KELT-1b, a strongly-irradiated brown dwarf, is significantly brighter in visible light than what would be expected base…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 27 cited

Hot Exoplanet Atmospheres Resolved with Transit Spectroscopy (HEARTS) VII. Detection of sodium on the long-transiting inflated sub-Saturn KELT-11 b

Dany Mounzer, Christophe Lovis, Julia V. Seidel +19

KELT-11b is an inflated sub-Saturn with a hot atmosphere and that orbits a bright evolved subgiant star, making it a prime choice for atmospheric characterization, but that transit…

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-836: A super-Earth and mini-Neptune transiting a nearby K-dwarf

Faith Hawthorn, Daniel Bayliss, Thomas G. Wilson +137

We present the discovery of two exoplanets transiting TOI-836 (TIC 440887364) using data from TESS Sector 11 and Sector 38. TOI-836 is a bright ( mag), high proper motion…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 31 cited

VapoRock: Thermodynamics of vaporized silicate melts for modeling volcanic outgassing and magma ocean atmospheres

Aaron S. Wolf, Noah Jäggi, Paolo A. Sossi +1

Silicate vapors play a key role in planetary evolution, especially dominating early stages of rocky planet formation through outgassed magma ocean atmospheres. Our open-source ther…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 79 cited

Direct discovery of the inner exoplanet in the HD206893 system. Evidence for deuterium burning in a planetary-mass companion

S. Hinkley, S. Lacour, G. -D. Marleau +110

Long term precise radial velocity (RV) monitoring of the nearby star HD206893, as well as anomalies in the system proper motion, have suggested the presence of an additional, inner…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 12 cited

How do we optimally sample model grids of exoplanet spectra?

Chloe Fisher, Kevin Heng

The construction and implementation of atmospheric model grids is a popular tool in exoplanet characterisation. These typically vary a number of parameters linearly, containing one…

astro-ph.SR2022

The Properties of Fast Yellow Pulsating Supergiants: FYPS Point the Way to Missing Red Supergiants

Trevor Z. Dorn-Wallenstein, Emily M. Levesque, James R. A. Davenport +3

Fast yellow pulsating supergiants (FYPS) are a recently-discovered class of evolved massive pulsator. As candidate post-red supergiant objects, and one of the few classes of pulsat…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 113 cited

FastChem 2: An improved computer program to determine the gas-phase chemical equilibrium composition for arbitrary element distributions

Joachim W. Stock, Daniel Kitzmann, A. Beate C. Patzer

The computation of complex neutral/ionised chemical equilibrium compositions is invaluable to obtain scientific insights of, for example, the atmospheres of extrasolar planets and…