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astro-ph.EP2026

Destructuring the disk of AB Aurigae: Dynamics and accretion

Anthony Boccaletti, Emmanuel Di Folco, Anne Dutrey +23

In this paper, we present near-IR polarized images of the AB Aur disk at three epochs spanning 3.85 years with SPHERE/IRDIS, as well as Halpha images obtained with SPHERE/ZIMPOL at…

astro-ph.EP2026

Exploration of the inner region of the system HD 142527

T. M. H. Tran, M. Langlois, O. Flasseur +6

HD 142527 is a well-studied intermediate-mass T Tauri star surrounded by a transitional disk with a large dust cavity, spiral structures, and an accreting low-mass companion. Despi…

astro-ph.EP2026

Panchromatic View of the Frigid Jovian Exoplanet COCONUTS-2 b

Matthieu Ravet, Mickaël Bonnefoy, Gaël Chauvin +24

We use a high signal-to-noise MIRI-LRS spectrum (5.45 - 11 m, R ) of COCONUTS-2~b revealing prominent molecular features of HO, CH and NH. This dataset…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 1 cited

TOI-4552 b: A new ultra-short period rocky world revealed by NIRPS and TESS

Avidaan Srivastava, René Doyon, François Bouchy +57

A particularly intriguing subclass of rocky exoplanets are the ultra-short period (USP) worlds that orbit their host stars in less than a day. These planets are particularly rare a…

astro-ph.EP2026

Hidden Gems in TESS: sherlock finds two new rocky planets around nearby M dwarfs

M. Timmermans, M. Dévora-Pajares, F. J. Pozuelos +25

The Hidden Gems project searches the TESS data for additional planets transiting low-mass stars in confirmed systems. Our goal is to identify planet candidates that are below the d…

astro-ph.EP2025

Detecting false positives with PLATO using double-aperture photometry and centroid shifts

F. Gutiérrez-Canales, R. Samadi, A. Birch +6

PLATO will discover exoplanets around Sun-like stars through transit photometry and characterize their host stars using asteroseismology. Since photometry for most PLATO targets wi…

astro-ph.EP2025

The MATISSE view of the inner region of the RY Tau protoplanetary disk

J. S. Martin, J. Kobus, J. Varga +44

The T-Tauri type young stellar object RY Tau exhibits a dust depleted inner cavity characteristic of a transition disk. We constrain the spatial distribution and mineralogy of dust…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 7 cited

MINDS. Strong oxygen depletion in the inner regions of a very low-mass star disk?

Jayatee Kanwar, Inga Kamp, Peter Woitke +10

JWST is discovering a plethora of species in planet-forming disks around very low-mass stars such as C2H2, C6H6, C4H2, CH3 etc. The column densities of these species retrieved from…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 13 cited

The vertical structure of debris discs and the role of disc gravity: A primer using a simplified model

Antranik A. Sefilian, Kaitlin M. Kratter, Mark C. Wyatt +4

Debris discs provide valuable insights into the formation and evolution of exoplanetary systems. Their structures are commonly attributed to planetary perturbations, serving as pro…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 12 cited

Stellar Models Also Limit Exoplanet Atmosphere Studies in Emission

Thomas J. Fauchez, Elsa Ducrot, Benjamin V. Rackham +3

Stellar contamination has long been recognized as a major bottleneck in transmission spectroscopy, limiting our ability to accurately characterize exoplanet atmospheres-particularl…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 27 cited

The PLATO field selection process. II. Characterization of LOPS2, the first long-pointing field

V. Nascimbeni, G. Piotto, J. Cabrera +26

PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO) is an ESA M-class mission to be launched by the end of 2026 to discover and characterize transiting planets around bright and n…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 19 cited

Stellar occultations by Trans-Neptunian Objects

Bruno Sicardy, Felipe Braga-Ribas, Marc W. Buie +2

Stellar occultations provide a powerful tool to explore objects of the outer solar system. The Gaia mission now provides milli-arcsec accuracy on the predictions of these events an…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 6 cited

Abundances of trace constituents in Jupiter's atmosphere inferred from Herschel/PACS observations

Cyril Gapp, Miriam Rengel, Paul Hartogh +4

On October 31, 2009, the Photodetector Array Camera and Spectrometer (PACS) on board the Herschel Space Observatory observed far-infrared spectra of Jupiter between 50 a…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 3 cited

Artificial Greenhouse Gases as Exoplanet Technosignatures

Edward W. Schwieterman, Thomas J. Fauchez, Jacob Haqq-Misra +6

Atmospheric pollutants such as CFCs and NO have been proposed as potential remotely detectable atmospheric technosignature gases. Here we investigate the potential for artifi…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 40 cited

A chaotic long-lived vortex at Venus southern pole

I. Garate-Lopez, R. Hueso, A. Sánchez-Lavega +3

Polar vortices are common in the atmospheres of rapidly rotating planets [1-4]. On Earth and Mars they are tied to the surface and their existence follows the seasonal insolation c…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 13 cited

On Earth's habitability over the Sun's main-sequence history: joint influence of space weather and Earth's magnetic field evolution

J. Varela, A. S. Brun, A. Strugarek +3

The aim of this study is to analyze the Earth habitability with respect to the direct exposition of the Earth atmosphere to the solar wind along the Suns evolution on the main sequ…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 31 cited

Imaging detection of the inner dust belt and the four exoplanets in the HR8799 system with JWST's MIRI coronagraph

Boccaletti A., Mâlin M., Baudoz P. +35

The multi planet system HR8799 is the first target observed with MIRI's coronagraphs as part of the MIRI-EC Guaranteed Time Observations exoplanets programme in Nov. 2022. We obtai…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 24 cited

Saturn's Atmosphere in Northern Summer Revealed by JWST/MIRI

Leigh N. Fletcher, Oliver R. T. King, Jake Harkett +8

Saturn's northern summertime hemisphere was mapped by JWST/MIRI (4.9-27.9 m) in November 2022, tracing the seasonal evolution of temperatures, aerosols, and chemical species in…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 23 cited

A large topographic feature on the surface of the trans-Neptunian object (307261) 2002 MS measured from stellar occultations

F. L. Rommel, F. Braga-Ribas, J. L. Ortiz +201

This work aims at constraining the size, shape, and geometric albedo of the dwarf planet candidate 2002 MS4 through the analysis of nine stellar occultation events. Using multichor…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 21 cited

Constraints on (2060) Chiron's size, shape, and surrounding material from the November 2018 and September 2019 stellar occultations

Felipe Braga-Ribas, C. L. Pereira, B. Sicardy +24

After the discovery of rings around the largest known Centaur object, (10199) Chariklo, we carried out observation campaigns of stellar occultations produced by the second-largest…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 16 cited

Spitzer thermal phase curve of WASP-121 b

Giuseppe Morello, Quentin Changeat, Achrène Dyrek +2

Aims. We analyse unpublished Spitzer observations of the thermal phase-curve of WASP-121 b, a benchmark ultra-hot Jupiter. Methods. We adopted the wavelet pixel-independent compone…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 6 cited

An extended low-density atmosphere around the Jupiter-sized planet WASP-193 b

Khalid Barkaoui, Francisco J. Pozuelos, Coel Hellier +32

Gas giants transiting bright nearby stars provide crucial insights into planetary system formation and evolution mechanisms. Most of these planets exhibit certain average character…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 14 cited

Activity time series of old stars from late F to early K VI. Exoplanet mass characterisation and detectability in radial velocity

Nadège Meunier, Romain Pous, Sophia Sulis +2

Stellar variability impacts radial velocities at various timescales and therefore the detectability of exoplanets and the mass determination based on this technique. It is necessar…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 27 cited

Primordial or Secondary? Testing models of debris disk gas with ALMA

Gianni Cataldi, Yuri Aikawa, Kazunari Iwasaki +13

The origin and evolution of gas in debris disks is still not well understood. Secondary gas production from cometary material or a primordial origin have been proposed. So far, obs…