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The Pandora SmallSat: post-launch operations and mission update
Trevor O. Foote, Elisa V. Quintana, Jessie L. Dotson +41
The Pandora SmallSat is a NASA flight project designed to study the atmospheres of exoplanets. Transmission spectroscopy of transiting exoplanets provides our best opportunity to i…
A New Method for Constraining 3D Exoplanet Atmospheres: Application to WASP-94A b's Panchromatic Spectrum
Sagnick Mukherjee, Luis Welbanks, Guangwei Fu +2
A growing number of transiting exoplanets exhibit spectroscopic evidence that their leading and trailing limbs differ. Interpreting these observations is now the limiting step. The…
Enhancing the Interpretability of Radial Velocity Analysis Using Leave-one-out Cross-validation
Matthew C. Nixon, Ritvik Basant, Rafael Luque +2
Radial velocity (RV) observations are reaching increasingly high precision, enabling the targeting of low-amplitude signals. Assessing results obtained at the limits of our capabil…
JWST MEP - A World Under Spotty Starlight: Detection of CO2 and H2O in the Hot Saturn WASP-52b with JWST NIRSpec G395H
JWST GO 3969 Team, Yanbo Pan, Ryan J. MacDonald +21
Exoplanets orbiting active stars offer distinct challenges for atmospheric characterization with the JWST. Among such worlds, the hot Saturn WASP-52b (Teq 1300 K) orbits an…
Inhomogeneous Cloud Coverage and Altitude-Dependent Heat Transport on the Hot-Jupiter NGTS-10 Ab from its Optical-to-Infrared Phase Curve
Louis-Philippe Coulombe, Vivien Parmentier, Kevin B. Stevenson +15
Hot-Jupiters, gas giant planets with equilibrium temperatures above 1,000 K, host large temperature gradients between their permanent day- and nightsides, resulting in circulation…
New and Updated Rossiter-McLaughlin Measurements for Three Hot Jupiter-Hosting M Dwarfs
Drew Weisserman, Ryan Cloutier, Alexandra Rochon +12
Evidence suggests that Kozai-Lidov high-eccentricity migration (HEM) is the dominant migration channel for short-period Giant Exoplanets around M dwarf Stars (GEMS). However, it is…
Nautilus Space Observatory: Unveiling the Diversity and Origin of Sub-Neptunes with the Nautilus Space Observatory
Luis Welbanks, Kylie E. Hall, Julien de Wit +10
Sub-Neptunes are the most common class of planets in the Galaxy, yet they have no Solar System analog and remain poorly understood as a population. JWST observations have revealed…
Mapping Stellar Heterogeneities with the Nautilus Space Observatory
Adina D. Feinstein, Jeff Valenti, Julien de Wit +9
Stellar photospheric heterogeneities, such as starspots and faculae, are a fundamental limitation for exoplanet transmission spectroscopy. Inhomogeneous surfaces can imprint wavele…
C, N, O, S, and photochemistry in a temperate giant planet orbiting a late M dwarf
Michael Zhang, Qiao Xue, Jeehyun Yang +20
We report the JWST NIRSpec/PRISM transit spectrum of TOI-6894b, an exceptional 420 K sub-Saturn that is one of the rare giant planets transiting a late M dwarf. Remarkably, both th…
Nautilus Space Observatory: The Evolution of Planets and their Atmospheres
Ilaria Pascucci, Noah Tuchow, Yifan Zhou +11
We are just beginning to explore the billion-year evolution from nascent planets in disks to mature planetary systems. Recent discoveries hint at demographic and atmospheric differ…
KRONOS I: The m JWST Transmission Spectrum of the 23 Myr V1298 Tau c
Matthew M. Murphy, Matthew C. Nixon, Adina D. Feinstein +16
While recent JWST observations of mature super-Earths and sub-Neptunes have frequently revealed featureless transmission spectra, their inflated progenitors offer a unique window i…
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…
Photochemical Production of CS2 in Temperate-to-Warm Gas Giant Exoplanet Atmospheres
Jeehyun Yang, Vighnesh Nagpal, Michael Zhang +16
Sulfur chemistry has emerged as an important probe of exoplanet atmospheres in the JWST era, although observational constraints have thus far been largely limited to SO2 and H2S in…
KRONOS II: Solar-like Umbra and Penumbra Properties on the Young Sun V1298~Tau
Matthew M. Murphy, Adina D. Feinstein, Meir E. Schochet +14
Transiting exoplanets provide a unique laboratory for studying stellar surface heterogeneities via starspot or facular occultations. When observed at multiple wavelengths, this con…
Impact of Clouds on the Atmosphere-Mantle Interface of Sub-Neptunes
Sagnick Mukherjee, Matthew C. Nixon, Luis Welbanks +4
Sub-Neptunes are among the most common type of close-in planets found in our galaxy, yet their bulk composition remains largely uncertain; H-rich envelopes overlaying rocky cores,…
Horizontal transport as a source of disequilibrium chemistry on the nightside of a hot exoplanet
Vivien Parmentier, Kevin B. Stevenson, Luis Welbanks +15
Hot Jupiters have temperature gradients of several hundreds of degrees between their permanent day and nightsides. In equilibrium, the primary carbon reservoir is expected to trans…
The tale of the 3 planets: 3D cloud feedback enhances the spectral diversity of warm Jupiters
Nishil Mehta, Vivien Parmentier, Xianyu Tan +14
JWST has shown a large diversity in warm Jupiter spectra, despite only small variations in the planetary parameters. However, the main driver of this diversity remains unclear. We…
NASA's Pandora SmallSat Mission: Simulating the Impact of Stellar Photospheric Heterogeneity and Its Correction
Benjamin V. Rackham, Aishwarya R. Iyer, Dániel Apai +28
Stellar photospheric heterogeneity is a dominant astrophysical systematic impacting exoplanet transmission spectroscopy. NASA's Pandora SmallSat Mission is designed to address this…
Super-Solar Metallicity and Tentative Evidence for Photochemistry on WASP-96b from JWST and Ground-Based VLT Transmission Spectroscopy
Michael Radica, Jake Taylor, Yoav Rotman +13
With its expanded wavelength coverage and increased precision compared to previous space-based observatories, JWST provides the opportunity to revisit benchmark planets and view th…
The Identification of CS2 and Evidence for Carbon-Sulfur Chemical Coupling in a Warm Giant Exoplanet Atmosphere
Anastasia Triantafillides, Thomas G. Beatty, Matthew C. Nixon +14
Transmission spectroscopy with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is revealing growing chemical complexity in giant exoplanet atmospheres. Of particular interest is sulfur, whic…
NASA's Pandora SmallSat Mission: Simulated Modeling and Retrieval of Near-Infrared Exoplanet Transmission Spectra
Yoav Rotman, Peter McGill, Luis Welbanks +22
Pandora is a SmallSat mission dedicated to understanding exoplanets and their host stars by disentangling the impact of stellar heterogeneity on exoplanet transmission spectra. Sel…
A Panchromatic JWST Spectrum of a Giant Starspot on the Fully Convective M-dwarf TOI-3884
C. A. Murray, L. Garcia, B. V. Rackham +18
TOI-3884 b is a rare super-Neptune transiting a fully convective M dwarf that hosts a persistent giant polar spot. Because the planet occults this active region during every transi…
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…
Methane on the temperate exo-Saturn TOI-199b
Aaron Bello-Arufe, Renyu Hu, Mantas Zilinskas +10
Temperate ( K) gas giants represent an unexplored frontier in exoplanet atmospheric spectroscopy. Orbiting a G-type star every days, the Saturn-mass exopl…