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WASP-43b TESS Phase Curve Mapping: Evidence for a Hot Interior
Maura Lally, Ryan C. Challener, Elspeth Lee +1
Phase-curve mapping probes various atmospheric properties depending on wavelength: thermal phase curves are dominated by atmospheric emission, while visible and near-infrared phase…
Eclipse Timing of the Eccentric Planet HD 80606b with JWST: Constraints on a Second Planet and other Dynamical Effects
Charles Beichman, Billy Quarles, B. J. Fulton +6
A variety of effects can perturb the orbital properties of single planets in close orbits around their host stars. HD80606 b is a highly eccentric (=0.93) exoplanet orbiting its…
The EXoplanet Climate Infrared TElescope (EXCITE): A balloon-borne mission to measure spectroscopic phase curves of transiting hot Jupiters
Timothy D. Rehm, Caitlyn Altermatt, Lee Bernard +26
The EXoplanet Climate Infrared TElescope (EXCITE) is a balloon-borne mission dedicated to measuring spectroscopic phase curves of hot Jupiter-type exoplanets. Phase curve measureme…
Eclipse Mapping with Ariel: Future Prospects for a Population-Level Mapping Survey
Daniel Valentine, Hannah R. Wakeford, Mark Hammond +4
Eclipse mapping is a powerful tool for measuring 3D profiles of exoplanet atmospheres. To date, only JWST has been capable of widely applying this technique, but as a general obser…
Horizontal and vertical exoplanet thermal structure from a JWST spectroscopic eclipse map
Ryan C. Challener, Megan Weiner Mansfield, Patricio E. Cubillos +33
Highly-irradiated giant exoplanets known as "ultra-hot Jupiters" are anticipated to exhibit large variations of atmospheric temperature and chemistry as a function of longitude, la…
JWST-TST DREAMS: The Nightside Emission and Chemistry of WASP-17b
Jacob Lustig-Yaeger, Kristin S. Sotzen, Kevin B. Stevenson +24
Theoretical studies have suggested using planetary infrared excess (PIE) to detect and characterize the thermal emission of transiting and non-transiting exoplanets, however the PI…
JWST-TST DREAMS: Sulfur dioxide in the atmosphere of the Neptune-mass planet HAT-P-26 b from NIRSpec G395H transmission spectroscopy
Amélie Gressier, Natasha E. Batalha, Nicholas Wogan +24
We present the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) transmission spectrum of the exoplanet HAT-P-26 b (18.6 Earth masses, 6.33 Earth radii), based on a single transit observed with th…
JWST-TST DREAMS: NIRSpec/PRISM Transmission Spectroscopy of the Habitable Zone Planet TRAPPIST-1 e
Néstor Espinoza, Natalie H. Allen, Ana Glidden +32
TRAPPIST-1 e is one of the very few rocky exoplanets that is both amenable to atmospheric characterization and that resides in the habitable zone of its star -- located at a distan…
JWST-TST DREAMS: Secondary Atmosphere Constraints for the Habitable Zone Planet TRAPPIST-1 e
Ana Glidden, Sukrit Ranjan, Sara Seager +25
The TRAPPIST-1 system offers one of the best opportunities to characterize temperate terrestrial planets beyond our own solar system. Within the TRAPPIST-1 system, planet e stands…
Eclipse Mapping with MIRI: 2D Map of HD 189733b from JWST MIRI LRS Observations
Maura Lally, Ryan Challener, Nikole Lewis +13
Observations and models of transiting hot Jupiter exoplanets indicate that atmospheric circulation features may cause large spatial flux contrasts across their daysides. Previous s…
JWST-TST DREAMS: A Precise Water Abundance for Hot Jupiter WASP-17b from the NIRISS SOSS Transmission Spectrum
Dana R. Louie, Elijah Mullens, Lili Alderson +27
Water has proven to be ubiquitously detected in near-infrared (NIR) transmission spectroscopy observations of hot Jupiter atmospheres, including WASP-17b. However, previous analyse…
Spectroscopically resolved partial phase curve of the rapid heating and cooling of the highly-eccentric Hot Jupiter HAT-P-2b with WFC3
Bob Jacobs, Jean-Michel Désert, Nikole Lewis +10
The extreme environments of transiting close-in exoplanets in highly-eccentric orbits are ideal for testing exo-climate physics. Spectroscopically resolved phase curves not only al…
JWST-TST DREAMS: A Super-Solar Metallicity in WASP-17 b Dayside Atmosphere from NIRISS SOSS Eclipse Spectroscopy
Amélie Gressier, Ryan J. MacDonald, Néstor Espinoza +26
We present the first emission spectrum of the hot Jupiter WASP-17 b using one eclipse observation from the JWST Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) Single Objec…
JWST-TST DREAMS: Non-Uniform Dayside Emission for WASP-17b from MIRI/LRS
Daniel Valentine, Hannah R. Wakeford, Ryan C. Challener +23
We present the first spectroscopic characterisation of the dayside atmosphere of WASP-17b in the mid-infrared using a single JWST MIRI/LRS eclipse observation. From forward-model f…
Hints of a sulfur-rich atmosphere around the 1.6 R Super-Earth L98-59 d from JWST NIRSpec G395H transmission spectroscopy
Amélie Gressier, Néstor Espinoza, Natalie H. Allen +11
Detecting atmospheres around planets with a radius below 1.6 R, commonly referred to as rocky planets (Rogers_2015, Rogers_2021), has proven to be challenging. However,…
Atmospheric retrievals suggest the presence of a secondary atmosphere and possible sulfur species on L 98-59 d from JWST NIRSpec G395H transmission spectroscopy
Agnibha Banerjee, Joanna K. Barstow, Amélie Gressier +10
L 98-59 d is a Super-Earth planet orbiting an M-type star. We performed retrievals on the transmission spectrum of L 98-59 d obtained using NIRSpec G395H during a single transit, f…
Multiple Clues for Dayside Aerosols and Temperature Gradients in WASP-69 b from a Panchromatic JWST Emission Spectrum
Everett Schlawin, Sagnick Mukherjee, Kazumasa Ohno +16
WASP-69 b is a hot, inflated, Saturn-mass planet 0.26 Mjup with a zero-albedo equilibrium temperature of 963 K. Here, we report the JWST 2 to 12 um emission spectrum of the planet…
Latitudinal Asymmetry in the Dayside Atmosphere of WASP-43b
Ryan C. Challener, Zafar Rustamkulov, Elspeth K. H. Lee +9
We present two-dimensional near-infrared temperature maps of the canonical hot Jupiter WASP-43b using a phase-curve observation with JWST NIRSpec/G395H. From the white-light planet…
A warm Neptune's methane reveals core mass and vigorous atmospheric mixing
David K. Sing, Zafar Rustamkulov, Daniel P. Thorngren +18
Observations of transiting gas giant exoplanets have revealed a pervasive depletion of methane, which has only recently been identified atmospherically. The depletion is thought to…
Two-Dimensional Eclipse Mapping of the Hot Jupiter WASP-43b with JWST MIRI/LRS
Mark Hammond, Taylor J. Bell, Ryan C. Challener +21
We present eclipse maps of the two-dimensional thermal emission from the dayside of the hot Jupiter WASP-43b, derived from an observation of a phase curve with the JWST MIRI/LRS in…
Nightside clouds and disequilibrium chemistry on the hot Jupiter WASP-43b
Taylor J. Bell, Nicolas Crouzet, Patricio E. Cubillos +80
Hot Jupiters are among the best-studied exoplanets, but it is still poorly understood how their chemical composition and cloud properties vary with longitude. Theoretical models pr…
Bringing 2D Eclipse Mapping out of the Shadows with Leave-one-out Cross-validation
Ryan C. Challener, Luis Welbanks, Peter McGill
Eclipse mapping is a technique for inferring 2D brightness maps of transiting exoplanets from the shape of an eclipse light curve. With JWST's unmatched precision, eclipse mapping…
The Eclipse Mapping Null Space: Comparing Theoretical Predictions with Observed Maps
Ryan C. Challener, Emily Rauscher
High-precision exoplanet eclipse light curves, like those possible with JWST, enable flux and temperature mapping of exoplanet atmospheres. These eclipse maps will have unprecedent…
Planet Eclipse Mapping with Long-Term Baseline Drifts
Everett Schlawin, Ryan Challener, Megan Mansfield +3
High precision lightcurves combined with eclipse mapping techniques can reveal the horizontal and vertical structure of a planet's thermal emission and the dynamics of hot Jupiters…