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astro-ph.EP2022★ 11 cited

Occurrence rate of hot Jupiters orbiting red giant stars

Milou Temmink, Ignas A. G. Snellen

Hot Jupiters form an enigmatic class of object with yet unclear formation pathways. Determination of their occurrence rates as function orbit, planet and stellar mass, and system a…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 8 cited

Discovery of TOI-1260d and the characterisation of the multi-planet system

Kristine W. F. Lam, J. Cabrera, M. J. Hooton +83

We report the discovery of a third planet transiting the star TOI-1260, previously known to host two transiting sub-Neptune planets with orbital periods of 3.127 and 7.493 days, re…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 8 cited

Observing Circumplanetary Disks with METIS

Nickolas Oberg, Inga Kamp, Stephanie Cazaux +2

Context: A full understanding of the planet and moon formation process requires observations that probe the circumplanetary environment of accreting giant planets. The mid-infrared…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 33 cited

Revisiting the atmosphere of the exoplanet 51 Eridani b with VLT/SPHERE

S. B. Brown-Sevilla, A. -L. Maire, P. Mollière +27

[Full abstract in the paper] We aim to better constrain the atmospheric properties of the directly imaged exoplanet 51~Eri~b by using a retrieval approach on higher signal-to-noise…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 11 cited

A dichotomy in group II Herbig disks: ALMA gas disk height measurements show both shadowed large vertically extended disks and compact flat disks

L. M. Stapper, M. R. Hogerheijde, E. F. van Dishoeck +1

Herbig stars can be classified into group I and group II depending on the shape of the far-IR excess from the spectral energy distribution. This separation may be evolutionary and…

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★ 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★ 16 cited

An analytic solution to measure the gas size in protoplanetary discs in the viscous self-similar scenario

Claudia Toci, Giuseppe Lodato, Francesco Gerardo Livio +2

In order to understand which mechanism is responsible for accretion in protoplanetary discs, a robust knowledge of the observed disc radius using gas tracers such as CO and…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 21 cited

Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE): VIII. Where is the phosphine? Observing exoplanetary PH3 with a space based MIR nulling interferometer

D. Angerhausen, M. Ottiger, F. Dannert +9

Phosphine could be a key molecule in the understanding of exotic chemistry happening in (exo)planetary atmospheres. While it has been detected in the Solar System's giant planets,…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 52 cited

Dynamical mass measurements of two protoplanetary discs

G. Lodato, L. Rampinelli, E. Viscardi +8

ALMA observations of line emission from planet forming discs have demonstrated to be an excellent tool to probe the internal disc kinematics, often revealing subtle effects related…

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.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★ 42 cited

Peering into the Young Planetary System AB Pic. Atmosphere, Orbit, Obliquity & Second Planetary Candidate

P. Palma-Bifani, G. Chauvin, M. Bonnefoy +24

We aim to revisit the system AB Pic which has a known companion at the exoplanet/ brown-dwarf boundary. We based this study on a rich set of observations to investigate the compani…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 48 cited

Sulphur monoxide emission tracing an embedded planet in the HD 100546 protoplanetary disk

Alice S. Booth, John D. Ilee, Catherine Walsh +4

Molecular line observations are powerful tracers of the physical and chemical conditions across the different evolutionary stages of star, disk and planet formation. Using the high…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 25 cited

A transmission spectrum of the sub-Earth planet L98-59~b in 1.1-1.7 m

Mario Damiano, Renyu Hu, Thomas Barclay +20

With the increasing number of planets discovered by TESS, the atmospheric characterization of small exoplanets is accelerating. L98-59 is a M-dwarf hosting a multi-planet system, a…

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★ 17 cited

TOI-179: a young system with a transiting compact Neptune-mass planet and a low-mass companion in outer orbit

S. Desidera, M. Damasso, R. Gratton +29

Transiting planets around young stars are key benchmarks for our understanding of planetary systems. One of such candidates was identified around the K dwarf HD 18599 by TESS, labe…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 35 cited

On the underestimation of dust mass in protoplanetary disks: Effects of disk structure and dust properties

Yao Liu, Hendrik Linz, Min Fang +6

The total amount of dust grains in protoplanetary disks is one of the key properties that characterize the potential for planet formation. With (sub-)millimeter flux measurements,…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 10 cited

Light curves of transneptunian objects from the K2 mission of the Kepler Space Telescope

Viktória Kecskeméthy, Csaba Kiss, Róbert Szakáts +10

The K2 mission of the Kepler Space Telescope allowed the observations of light curves of small solar system bodies throughout the whole Solar system. In this paper we present the r…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 58 cited

Directly tracing the vertical stratification of molecules in protoplanetary disks

T. Paneque-Carreño, A. Miotello, E. F. van Dishoeck +3

We aim to directly trace the vertical location of the emitting surface of multiple molecular tracers in protoplanetary disks. Our sample of disks includes Elias 2-27, WaOph 6 and t…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 17 cited

LavAtmos: An open source chemical equilibrium vaporisation code for lava worlds

Christiaan P. A. Van Buchem, Yamila Miguel, Mantas Zilinskas +1

To date, over 500 short-period rocky planets with equilibrium temperatures above 1500 K have been discovered. Such planets are expected to support magma oceans, providing a direct…