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most citedNeutral Iron Emission Lines From The Day-side Of KELT-9b -- The GAPS Programme With HARPS-N At TNG XX

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32 papers

astro-ph.EP2026

CHEOPS observations of V1298 Tau: updated planetary densities and implications on the early evolution of the young system

Hinna Shivkumar, Sérgio Gomes, Jean-Michel Désert +9

The young (10-30 Myr) multi-planet system V1298 Tau presents a unique opportunity to probe the early formation and evolution of young systems. We present new CHEOPS observations of…

astro-ph.EP2026

Unraveling the Mystery of the Peculiar and Young Hot Jupiter CoRoT-2b II: Phase Resolved Emission Spectroscopy with VLT/CRIRES+ and Gemini-S/IGRINS

Aurora Y. Kesseli, Siddharth Gandhi, Lisa Dang +8

Hot Jupiters are expected to be tidally locked and synchronously rotating due to their short orbital periods. These conditions create large day-night temperature contrasts and are…

astro-ph.EP2026

The Roasting Marshmallows Program with IGRINS on Gemini South V: Atmosphere of MASCARA-1b is Enriched in Refractory Elements

Krishna Kanumalla, Michael R. Line, Martina Chiarella +75

Ultra-hot Jupiters (UHJs; K) enable simultaneous detection of volatile (ice-forming) and refractory (rock-forming) species in planetary atmospheres, provi…

astro-ph.EP2026

The CRIMSON survey I: super-stellar SiO in the directly imaged companion TWA 5 B from high-resolution M-band spectroscopy

Luke T. Parker, Jayne L. Birkby, Siddharth Gandhi +4

Silicon is a key refractory element in giant planet atmospheres, which governs the formation of magnesium-silicate clouds, and reflects the quantity of silicates accreted during fo…

astro-ph.EP2026

BOWIE-ALIGN: Exploring degeneracies in the muted transmission spectrum of the aligned hot Jupiter NGTS-2b with NIRSpec/G395H

Charlotte Fairman, Hannah R. Wakeford, Alastair B. Claringbold +15

We present the first atmospheric observation and characterisation of the aligned, 1468 K hot Jupiter, NGTS-2b, with one JWST NIRSpec/G395H transit. These observations complete the…

astro-ph.SR2026

Synthetic disk-integrated absorption lines isolating stellar granulation for high-precision RV studies

Ginger Frame, Heather Cegla, Cis Lagae +6

We present a novel method for constructing high-accuracy, time-varying disk-integrated stellar absorption line profiles that isolate the effects of granulation alone. This framewor…

astro-ph.EP2026

BOWIE-ALIGN: Sub-solar C/O ratio and metallicity atmosphere of the misaligned hot Jupiter HAT-P-30b

Alastair B. Claringbold, Chloe E. Fisher, James Kirk +18

We present the JWST NIRSpec/G395H transmission spectrum of the misaligned hot Jupiter HAT-P-30b from 2.8--5.2 m as part of the BOWIE-ALIGN survey, a comparative survey designed…

astro-ph.IM2026

Transiting exoplanets as the immediate future for population-level atmospheric science

Joanna K. Barstow, Hannah R. Wakeford, Sarah L. Casewell +1

The transit method, during which a planet's presence is inferred by measuring the reduction in flux as it passes in front of its parent star, is a highly successful exoplanet detec…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 2 cited

A Stellar Magnesium to Silicon ratio in the atmosphere of an exoplanet

Jorge A. Sanchez, Peter C. B. Smith, Krishna Kanumalla +17

The elemental compositions of exoplanets encode information about their formation environments and internal structures. While volatile ratios such as carbon-to-oxygen (C/O) are use…

astro-ph.EP2025

Resolving star spots on WASP-85 A using high-resolution transit spectroscopy

Vedad Kunovac, Heather Cegla, Hritam Chakraborty +23

Stellar surface inhomogeneities such as spots and faculae introduce Doppler variations that challenge exoplanet detection via the radial velocity method. While their impact on disc…

astro-ph.EP2025

BOWIE-ALIGN: Weak spectral features in KELT-7b's JWST NIRSpec/G395H transmission spectrum imply a high cloud deck or a low-metallicity atmosphere

Eva-Maria Ahrer, Charlotte Fairman, James Kirk +20

Hot Jupiters and their atmospheres are prime targets for transmission spectroscopy due to their extended atmospheres and the corresponding large signal-to-noise, providing the best…

astro-ph.EP2025

The Roasting Marshmallows Program with IGRINS on Gemini South III: Seeing deeper into the metal depleted atmosphere of a gas-giant on the cusp of the hot to ultra-hot Jupiter transition

Vatsal Panwar, Matteo Brogi, Krishna Kanumalla +17

Ultra-hot Jupiters are a class of gas-giant exoplanets that show a peculiar combination of thermochemical properties in the form of molecular dissociation, atomic ionization, and i…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 13 cited

Tracing the formation and migration history: molecular signatures in the atmosphere of misaligned hot Jupiter WASP-94Ab using JWST NIRSpec/G395H

Eva-Maria Ahrer, Siddharth Gandhi, Lili Alderson +12

The discovery of hot Jupiters that orbit very close to their host stars has long challenged traditional models of planetary formation and migration. Characterising their atmospheri…

astro-ph.EP2025

BOWIE-ALIGN: Sub-stellar metallicity and carbon depletion in the aligned TrES-4b with JWST NIRSpec transmission spectroscopy

Annabella Meech, Alastair B. Claringbold, Eva-Maria Ahrer +19

The formation and migration history of a planet is expected to be imprinted in its atmosphere, in particular its carbon-to-oxygen (C/O) ratio and metallicity. The BOWIE-ALIGN progr…

astro-ph.EP2025

Detectability of oxygen fugacity regimes in the magma ocean world 55 Cancri e at high spectral resolution

Spandan Dash, Matteo Brogi, Fabian Lukas Seidler +5

Ultra-short Period exoplanets (USPs) like 55 Cnc e, hosting dayside magma oceans, present unique opportunities to study surface-atmosphere interactions. The composition of a vapori…

astro-ph.EP2024

The Roasting Marshmallows Program with IGRINS on Gemini South II -- WASP-121 b has super-stellar C/O and refractory-to-volatile ratios

Peter C. B. Smith, Jorge A. Sanchez, Michael R. Line +19

A primary goal of exoplanet science is to measure the atmospheric composition of gas giants in order to infer their formation and migration histories. Common diagnostics for planet…

astro-ph.EP2024

The mystery of water in the atmosphere of Boötis b continues: insights from revisiting archival CRIRES observations

Vatsal Panwar, Matteo Brogi, Siddharth Gandhi +2

The chemical abundances of gas-giant exoplanet atmospheres hold clues to the formation and evolution pathways that sculpt the exoplanet population. Recent ground-based high-resolut…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 23 cited

BOWIE-ALIGN: JWST reveals hints of planetesimal accretion and complex sulphur chemistry in the atmosphere of the misaligned hot Jupiter WASP-15b

James Kirk, Eva-Maria Ahrer, Alastair B. Claringbold +23

We present a transmission spectrum of the misaligned hot Jupiter WASP-15b from 2.8-5.2 microns observed with JWST's NIRSpec/G395H grating. Our high signal to noise data, which has…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 15 cited

First Comparative Exoplanetology Within a Transiting Multi-planet System: Comparing the atmospheres of V1298 Tau b and c

Saugata Barat, Jean-Michel Désert, Jayesh M. Goyal +13

The V1298 Tau system (20-30Myr), is a benchmark young multi-planet system that provides the opportunity to perform comparative exoplanetology between planets orbiting the same star…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 32 cited

BOWIE-ALIGN: How formation and migration histories of giant planets impact atmospheric compositions

Anna B. T. Penzlin, Richard A. Booth, James Kirk +15

Hot Jupiters present a unique opportunity for measuring how planet formation history shapes present-day atmospheric composition. However, due to the myriad pathways influencing com…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 16 cited

BOWIE-ALIGN: A JWST comparative survey of aligned vs misaligned hot Jupiters to test the dependence of atmospheric composition on migration history

James Kirk, Eva-Maria Ahrer, Anna B. T. Penzlin +19

A primary objective of exoplanet atmosphere characterisation is to learn about planet formation and evolution, however, this is challenged by degeneracies. To determine whether dif…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 11 cited

IGRINS observations of WASP-127 b: HO, CO, and super-Solar atmospheric metallicity in the inflated sub-Saturn

Krishna Kanumalla, Michael R. Line, Megan Weiner Mansfield +6

High resolution spectroscopy of exoplanet atmospheres provides insights into their composition and dynamics from the resolved line shape and depth of thousands of spectral lines. W…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 22 cited

The metal-poor atmosphere of a Neptune/Sub-Neptune planet progenitor

Saugata Barat, Jean-Michel Désert, Allona Vazan +12

Young transiting exoplanets offer a unique opportunity to characterize the atmospheres of fresh and evolving products of planet formation. We present the transmission spectrum of V…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 6 cited

Probing reflection from aerosols with the near-infrared dayside spectrum of WASP-80b

Bob Jacobs, Jean-Michel Désert, Peter Gao +9

The presence of aerosols is intimately linked to the global energy budget and the composition of a planet's atmospheres. Their ability to reflect incoming light prevents energy fro…