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A Spatial Map of the Atmospheric Limb of a Hot Jupiter
Lili Alderson, Hannah R. Wakeford, David Grant +18
Planets are inherently three-dimensional objects shaped by their thermal structure and dynamics. Observations of transiting exoplanets have begun to uncover this three-dimensional…
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Wide Field Instrument: Grism Saturation Response to Bright Sources during Thermal-Vacuum Testing
Lipika Chatur, Dana R. Louie, Joshua E. Schlieder +3
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched on August 30th, 2026 and is expected to begin its science mission in 2027. Although Roman's core science will focus primarily on fain…
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Wide Field Instrument: Characterization of the Brighter-Fatter Effect in a Roman H4RG-10 Detector using the Talbot Effect
Jennie Paine, Ami Choi, Christopher Merchant +14
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will conduct several community-driven surveys using its Wide Field Instrument (WFI), which contains 18 Teledyne H4RG-10 near-infrared detector…
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Wide Field Instrument: Bright Point Source Saturation Response and Persistence Properties from Thermal-Vacuum Testing
Dana R. Louie, Robert F. Wilson, Thomas Barclay +19
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's Wide Field Instrument (WFI) will observe hundreds of thousands of bright stars across its Core Community Surveys, particularly in the dense…
JWST TRAPPIST-1 e/b Program: Motivation and first observations
Natalie H. Allen, Néstor Espinoza, V. A. Boehm +24
One of the forefront goals in the field of exoplanets is the detection of an atmosphere on a temperate terrestrial exoplanet, and among the best suited systems to do so is TRAPPIST…
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…
GEMS JWST: Transmission spectroscopy of TOI-5205b reveals significant stellar contamination and a metal-poor atmosphere
Caleb I. Cañas, Jacob Lustig-Yaeger, Shang-Min Tsai +21
Recent discoveries of transiting giant exoplanets () around M dwarfs (GEMS) present an opportunity to investigate their atmospheric compositions and…
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…
Detection of H2O and CO2 in the Atmosphere of the Hot Super-Neptune WASP-166b with JWST
Andrew W. Mayo, Charles D. Fortenbach, Dana R. Louie +4
We characterize the atmosphere of the hot super-Neptune WASP-166b ( d, R, M, K) o…
MAUVE: An Ultraviolet Astrophysics Probe Mission Concept
Mayura Balakrishnan, Rory Bowens, Fernando Cruz Aguirre +18
We present the mission concept "Mission to Analyze the UltraViolet universE" (MAUVE), a wide-field spectrometer and imager conceived during the inaugural NASA Astrophysics Mission…
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…
Hydrogen sulfide and metal-enriched atmosphere for a Jupiter-mass exoplanet
Guangwei Fu, Luis Welbanks, Drake Deming +15
As the closest transiting hot Jupiter to Earth, HD 189733b has been the benchmark planet for atmospheric characterization. It has also been the anchor point for much of our theoret…
JWST-TST High Contrast: Achieving direct spectroscopy of faint substellar companions next to bright stars with the NIRSpec IFU
Jean-Baptiste Ruffio, Marshall D. Perrin, Kielan K. W. Hoch +33
The JWST NIRSpec integral field unit (IFU) presents a unique opportunity to observe directly imaged exoplanets from 3-5 um at moderate spectral resolution (R~2,700) and thereby bet…
JWST-TST DREAMS: Quartz Clouds in the Atmosphere of WASP-17b
David Grant, Nikole K. Lewis, Hannah R. Wakeford +39
Clouds are prevalent in many of the exoplanet atmospheres that have been observed to date. For transiting exoplanets, we know if clouds are present because they mute spectral featu…
JWST-TST Proper Motions: I. High-Precision NIRISS Calibration and Large Magellanic Cloud Kinematics
M. Libralato, A. Bellini, R. P. van der Marel +27
We develop and disseminate effective point-spread functions and geometric-distortion solutions for high-precision astrometry and photometry with the JWST NIRISS instrument. We corr…
Two Warm Super-Earths Transiting the Nearby M Dwarf TOI-2095
Elisa V. Quintana, Emily A. Gilbert, Thomas Barclay +55
We report the detection and validation of two planets orbiting TOI-2095 (TIC 235678745). The host star is a 3700K M1V dwarf with a high proper motion. The star lies at a distance o…
Stellar surface inhomogeneities as a potential source of the atmospheric signal detected in the K2-18 b transmission spectrum
Thomas Barclay, Veselin B. Kostov, Knicole D. Colón +5
Transmission spectroscopy of transiting exoplanets is a proven technique that can yield information on the composition and structure of a planet's atmosphere. However, transmission…
TOI-1431b/MASCARA-5b: A Highly Irradiated Ultra-Hot Jupiter Orbiting One of the Hottest & Brightest Known Exoplanet Host Stars
Brett Christopher Addison, Emil Knudstrup, Ian Wong +70
We present the discovery of a highly irradiated and moderately inflated ultra-hot Jupiter, TOI-1431b/MASCARA-5b (HD 201033b), first detected by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey S…
The TESS Objects of Interest Catalog from the TESS Prime Mission
Natalia M. Guerrero, S. Seager, Chelsea X. Huang +102
We present 2,241 exoplanet candidates identified with data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) during its two-year prime mission. We list these candidates in the…
A hot mini-Neptune in the radius valley orbiting solar analogue HD 110113
H. P. Osborn, D. J. Armstrong, L. D. Nielsen +53
We report the discovery of HD 110113 b (TOI-755.01), a transiting mini-Neptune exoplanet on a 2.5-day orbit around the solar-analogue HD 110113 (Teff = 5730K). Using TESS photometr…