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WALTzER: Wide-band Atmospheric Laboratory for Transiting Exoplanet Research
A. G. Sreejith, L. Fossati, M. Lendl +81
Understanding the origin and evolution of planetary atmospheres, and the connection between their lower and upper atmospheric layers, remains a fundamental challenge in exoplanet s…
Detection of escaping magnesium in the upper atmosphere of WASP-76b
Lakeisha M. Ramos Rosado, Leonardo A. Dos Santos, Joshua D. Lothringer +8
Near-ultraviolet (NUV) observations can uniquely probe low-density, high-altitude gas in ultra-hot Jupiters (UHJs) via strong resonance lines of metals. WASP-76b is a well-studied…
The atomic C/O ratio of KELT-9b
Stefan Pelletier, Nicholas W. Borsato, Jacob L. Bean +12
The carbon-to-oxygen (C/O) ratio of a giant planet's atmosphere has long been theorised to hold compositional information that can be traced back to its formation history. Typicall…
RISTRETTO: Assembly and Testing of the Seven-spaxel, High-resolution, Diffraction-limited Spectrograph
Leonie Hoerner, Bruno Chazelas, Nathanaël Restori +24
The RISTRETTO project aims at the direct detection of the reflected light of extra-solar planets to measure albedos and detect possible biosignatures, using the high-contrast / hig…
DD4AO control law for RISTRETTO: robustness, real-time performance, and on-sky validation with PAPYRUS
Isaac Dinis, Muskan Schinde, Nicolas Blind +11
This study presents DD4AO progress towards its implementation in the RISTRETTO instrument. DD4AO is a novel frequency-domain, data-driven controller for adaptive optics that levera…
Confirmation of the hot super-Neptune TOI-672 b with NIRPS and HARPS and Insights into the Neptunian desert around M dwarfs
Ares Osborn, Ryan Cloutier, Vincent Bourrier +65
The Neptunian desert is a distinct lack of Neptune-sized planets at short orbital periods, purportedly carved by photoevaporation and tidal circularization following high-eccentric…
Ultra-hot Jupiter atmospheres at high spectral resolution
Stefan Pelletier, Daniel Kitzmann, Valentina Vaulato +3
Observations of ultra-hot Jupiters offer an unprecedented opportunity to study the physics of some of the most extreme planetary atmospheres known. With exceedingly high amounts of…
Search for water vapor in the high-resolution transmission spectrum of HD189733b in the visible
R. Allart, C. Lovis, L. Pino +3
Ground-based telescopes equipped with state-of-the-art spectrographs are able to obtain high-resolution transmission and emission spectra of exoplanets that probe the structure and…
The Spitzer search for the transits of HARPS low-mass planets - II. Null results for 19 planets
M. Gillon, B. -O. Demory, C. Lovis +9
Short-period super-Earths and Neptunes are now known to be very frequent around solar-type stars. Improving our understanding of these mysterious planets requires the detection of…
Observations of Transiting Exoplanets with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (PASP), December 2014
Charles Beichman, Bjoern Benneke, Heather Knutson +44
This article summarizes a workshop held on March, 2014, on the potential of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to revolutionize our knowledge of the physical properties of exopl…
Impact of occultations of stellar active regions on transmission spectra: Can occultation of a plage mimic the signature of a blue sky?
M. Oshagh, N. C. Santos, D. Ehrenreich +4
Transmission spectroscopy during planetary transits, which is based on the measurements of the variations of planet-to-star radius ratio as a function of wavelength, is a powerful…
Extrasolar planets and brown dwarfs around A--F type stars. VIII. A giant planet orbiting the young star HD113337
S. Borgniet, I. Boisse, A. -M. Lagrange +19
In the frame of the search for extrasolar planets and brown dwarfs around early-type main-sequence stars, we present the detection of a giant planet around the young F-type star HD…
The PLATO 2.0 Mission
H. Rauer, C. Catala, C. Aerts +159
PLATO 2.0 has recently been selected for ESA's M3 launch opportunity (2022/24). Providing accurate key planet parameters (radius, mass, density and age) in statistical numbers, it…
CHEOPS: A Transit Photometry Mission for ESA's Small Mission Programme
C. Broeg, A. Fortier, D. Ehrenreich +18
Ground based radial velocity (RV) searches continue to discover exoplanets below Neptune mass down to Earth mass. Furthermore, ground based transit searches now reach milli-mag pho…
The Spitzer search for the transits of HARPS low-mass planets - I. No transit for the super-Earth HD 40307b
M. Gillon, D. Deming, B. -O. Demory +9
We have used Spitzer and its IRAC camera to search for the transit of the super-Earth HD 40307b. The transiting nature of the planet could not be firmly discarded from our first ph…