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20242026
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36 papers

astro-ph.EP2026

Helium escaping from the atmosphere of a nearby rocky exoplanet orbiting in a habitable zone

Collin Cherubim, Shreyas Vissapragada, Tim Cunningham +13

The study reports the detection of helium escaping from the atmosphere of the rocky exoplanet LHS 1140b using near‑infrared transit spectroscopy, showing time‑variable escape and s…

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Spin-Orbit Geometry of AU Mic b and c from Back-to-Back Transits Observed Contemporaneously with Magellan PFS, LCOGT, and CHEOPS

Zitao Lin, Gyula M. Szabó, Krzysztof Sz. Zieliński +37

Young planets offer a unique window into the early stages of planetary evolution. AU Mic is one of the nearest (9.8 pc) pre-main sequence stars (~20 Myr), hosting two transiting Ne…

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Discovery of an Inflated Hot Neptune and Its Formation from Jovian Mass Loss

Grant C. Weldon, Samuel W. Yee, Bradley M. S. Hansen +17

The production of Neptune-like planets with orbital periods of 3--6 days is challenging for conventional models of high-eccentricity migration. We present the discovery and charact…

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POSEIDON I: The Dynamical Origins of Transiting Neptunes

Juan I. Espinoza-Retamal, Joshua N. Winn, Rafael Brahm +17

We present the first results from the POSEIDON survey, aimed at constraining the dynamical origins of transiting Neptunes through stellar obliquity measurements. We report Rossiter…

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JWST COMPASS Program: The 3--5m transmission spectrum of LTT 1445 A b

Natasha E. Batalha, Nicole Wallack, Tyler Gordon +16

The search for an atmosphere on the closest rocky M dwarf planet, LTT 1445 A b, has been the subject of intense investigation from both the ground and space. Here, we present the f…

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The T16 Planet Hunt: 10,000 New Planet Candidates from TESS Cycle 1 and the Confirmation of a Hot Jupiter Around TIC 183374187

Joshua T. Roth, Joel D. Hartman, Gáspár Á. Bakos +12

The T16 project has produced a uniformly detrended and systematics-corrected set of 83,717,159 TESS Cycle 1 full-frame image light curves for stars observed by TESS in its primary…