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astro-ph.EP2025★ 2 cited

The Flying Saucer edge-on disc's Near Infrared silhouette revealed by the JWST JEDIce program

Emmanuel Dartois, Jennifer A. Noble, Jennifer B. Bergner +17

Edge-on discs offer a unique opportunity to probe radial and vertical dust and gas distributions in the protoplanetary phase. This study aims to investigate the distribution of mic…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 8 cited

Characterization of debris disks observed with SPHERE

N. Engler, J. Milli, N. Pawellek +33

This study aims to characterize debris disks observed with SPHERE across multiple programs, with the goal of identifying systematic trends in disk morphology, dust mass, and grain…

astro-ph.EP2025

Giant Outer Transiting Exoplanet Mass (GOTEM) Survey.VII. TOI-6041: a multi-planet system including a warm Neptune exhibiting strong TTVs

N. Heidari, A. Alnajjarine, H. P. Osborn +101

We present the characterization of the TOI-6041 system, a bright () G7-type star hosting at least two planets. The inner planet, TOI-6041b, is a warm Neptune wit…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 4 cited

Astrometric view of companions in the inner dust cavities of protoplanetary disks

Miguel Vioque, Richard A. Booth, Enrico Ragusa +16

Protoplanetary disks with inner dust cavities (often referred to as "transition disks") are potential signposts of planet formation. We use Gaia astrometry to search for planetary…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 8 cited

Exomoon search with VLTI/GRAVITY around the substellar companion HD 206893 B

Q. Kral, J. Wang, J. Kammerer +130

Direct astrometric detection of exomoons remains unexplored. This study presents the first application of high-precision astrometry to search for exomoons around substellar compani…

astro-ph.EP2025

Observational evidence for a possible link between PAH emission and dust trap locations in protoplanetary disks

Nienke van der Marel, Niels F. W. Ligterink, Ryan van der Werf +4

Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) are commonly detected in protoplanetary disks, but it is unclear what causes the wide range of intensities across the samples. In this work,…

astro-ph.EP2025

Mass determination of the three long-period Neptune- and sub-Neptune-sized planets transiting TOI-282

A. Barone, F. Rodler, D. Gandolfi +16

TOI-282 is a bright (V=9.38) F8 main-sequence star known to host three transiting long-period (=22.9 d, =56.0 d, and =84.3 d) small ( 2-4 ) p…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 1 cited

Chasing the storm: Investigating the application of high-contrast imaging techniques in producing precise exoplanet light curves

Ben J. Sutlieff, David S. Doelman, Jayne L. Birkby +10

Substellar companions such as exoplanets and brown dwarfs exhibit changes in brightness arising from top-of-atmosphere inhomogeneities, providing insights into their atmospheric st…

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★ 5 cited

Photoevaporation Can Reproduce Extended Emission from Protoplanetary Disks Imaged by JWST MIRI

R. Nakatani, G. Rosotti, B. Tabone +1

Understanding dispersal of protoplanetary disks remains a central challenge in planet formation theory. Disk winds, driven by magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) and/or photoevaporation, ar…

astro-ph.EP2025

The effects of stellar activity cycles on planetary atmospheric escape and the HeI 1083nm transit signature

Andrew P. Allan, Aline A. Vidotto, Jorge Sanz-Forcada +1

The HeI 1083nm transit signature is commonly used in tracing escaping planetary atmospheres. However, it can be affected by stellar activity, complicating detections and interpreta…

astro-ph.EP2025

Molecular line emission from 1000 au scales outflows to <30 au compact structures in NGC1333 IRAS4A2

Osmar M. Guerra-Alvarado, N. van der Marel, P. Nazari +6

Aims. Studying protostellar objects in their earliest stages, particularly during the Class 0 phase, provides key insight into the beginnings of planet formation and dust evolution…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 4 cited

From gas to ice giants: A unified mechanism for equatorial jets

Keren Duer-Milner, Nimrod Gavriel, Eli Galanti +2

The equatorial jets dominating the dynamics of the Jovian planets exhibit two distinct types of zonal flows: strongly eastward in the gas giants (superrotation) and strongly westwa…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 6 cited

The ExoGRAVITY survey: A K-band spectral library of giant exoplanet and brown dwarf companions

J. Kammerer, T. O. Winterhalder, S. Lacour +106

Direct observations of exoplanet and brown dwarf companions with near-infrared interferometry, first enabled by the dual-field mode of VLTI/GRAVITY, provide unique measurements of…

astro-ph.EP2025

MINDS: The very low-mass star and brown dwarf sample II. Probing disk settling, dust properties, and dust-gas interplay with JWST/MIRI

Hyerin Jang, Aditya M. Arabhavi, Till Kaeufer +11

Disks around very low-mass stars (VLMS) provide environments for the formation of Earth-like planets. Mid-infrared observations have revealed that these disks exhibit weak silicate…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 3 cited

New migration patterns in high planet-star mass ratio systems in disks with low viscosity

Mariana Sánchez, Sijme-Jan Paardekooper, Nienke van der Marel +2

Migration of giant planets remains a complex topic. While significant progress has been made for high-viscosity disks, the migration of planets with large planet-star mass ratios i…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 3 cited

Detection and characterisation of a 106-day transiting Jupiter : TOI-2449 b / NGTS-36 b

S. Ulmer-Moll, S. Gill, R. Brahm +64

Only a handful of transiting giant exoplanets with orbital periods longer than 100 days are known. These warm exoplanets are valuable objects as their radius and mass can be measur…

astro-ph.EP2025

New Orbital Constraints for YSES 1 b and HR 2562 B from High-Precision Astrometry and Planetary Radial Velocities

Jonathan Roberts, William Thompson, Jason J. Wang +20

We present new VLTI/GRAVITY astrometry and updated orbit fits for the directly imaged companions YSES 1 b and HR 2562 B, substellar objects straddling the planet-brown dwarf bounda…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 5 cited

Disentangling disc and atmospheric signatures of young brown dwarfs with JWST/NIRSpec

D. González Picos, S. de Regt, S. Gandhi +2

Young brown dwarfs serve as analogues of giant planets and provide benchmarks for atmospheric and formation models. JWST has enabled access to near-infrared spectra of brown dwarfs…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 2 cited

YSES 2b is a background star: Differential astrometric M-dwarf measurements in time

Matthew Kenworthy, Tomas Stolker, Jens Kammerer +13

We wish to confirm the nature of YSES 2b, a purportedly faint companion of the young star YSES 2. We used on-sky observations from SPHERE and GRAVITY to measure the astrometric pos…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 9 cited

Understanding JWST water spectra: what can thermochemical models tell us about the (cold) water in protoplanetary disks?

Marissa Vlasblom, Milou Temmink, Andrew D. Sellek +1

(Abridged) Rotational HO spectra as observed with JWST/MIRI provide a good probe of the temperature and column density structure of the inner disk. HO emission can also be…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 11 cited

Multi-modal atmospheric characterization of Pictoris b: Adding high-resolution continuum spectra from GRAVITY

M. Ravet, M. Bonnefoy, G. Chauvin +24

We present the first VLTI/GRAVITY observations at R of Pic b. These four high S/N (20) K-band spectra conserve both the pseudo-continuum and molecular absorp…

astro-ph.EP2025

Improved characterization of the TOI-2141 system: a dense sub-Neptune with non-transiting inner and outer companions

R. Luque, K. W. F. Lam, J. Cabrera +87

We aim to refine the fundamental parameters of the TOI-2141 planetary system, which includes a transiting sub-Neptune orbiting a Sun-like star in a relatively long orbit of 18.26 d…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 4 cited

Dissociation and destruction of PAHs and PAH clusters induced by absorption of X-rays in protoplanetary discs around T Tauri stars

K. Lange, C. Dominik, A. G. G. M. Tielens

Only 8% of the protoplanetary discs orbiting a T Tauri star show emission features of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). As PAHs are strong absorbers of UV radiation, they co…