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Metastable Helium Reveals an Extended Atmosphere for the Gas Giant HAT-P-18b
Kimberly Paragas, Shreyas Vissapragada, Heather A. Knutson +6
The metastable helium line at 1083 nm can be used to probe the extended upper atmospheres of close-in exoplanets and thus provide insight into their atmospheric mass loss, which is…
No escaping helium from 55 Cnc e
Michael Zhang, Heather A. Knutson, Lile Wang +3
We search for escaping helium from the hot super Earth 55 Cnc e by taking high-resolution spectra of the 1083 nm line during two transits using Keck/NIRSPEC. We detect no helium ab…
Non-detection of Helium in the Upper Atmospheres of Three Sub-Neptune Exoplanets
David Kasper, Jacob L. Bean, Antonija Oklopčić +5
We present a search for helium in the upper atmospheres of three sub-Neptune size planets to investigate the origins of these ubiquitous objects. The detection of helium for a low…
Constraints on Metastable Helium in the Atmospheres of WASP-69b and WASP-52b with Ultra-Narrowband Photometry
Shreyas Vissapragada, Heather A. Knutson, Nemanja Jovanovic +7
Infrared observations of metastable 2S helium absorption with ground- and space-based spectroscopy are rapidly maturing, as this species is a unique probe of exoplanet atmosphe…
The multi-planet system TOI-421 -- A warm Neptune and a super puffy mini-Neptune transiting a G9 V star in a visual binary
Ilaria Carleo, Davide Gandolfi, Oscar Barragán +110
We report the discovery of a warm Neptune and a hot sub-Neptune transiting TOI-421 (BD-14 1137, TIC 94986319), a bright (V=9.9) G9 dwarf star in a visual binary system observed by…
Detecting Magnetic Fields in Exoplanets with Spectropolarimetry of the Helium Line at 1083 nm
Antonija Oklopčić, Makana Silva, Paulo Montero-Camacho +1
The magnetic fields of the solar system planets provide valuable insights into the planets' interiors and can have dramatic consequences for the evolution of their atmospheres and…