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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…
Precise Determination of the Metallicity and C/O of WASP-39~b From a Single JWST Instrument Mode with Phase-Resolved Cross-Correlation Retrievals
Arjun B. Savel, Eliza M. -R. Kempton, Erin M. May +4
Measuring atmospheric metallicities and C/O ratios is a key goal of JWST exoplanet science, given their proposed link to planet formation. Achieving this goal has previously been s…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
Magma ocean interactions can explain JWST observations of the sub-Neptune TOI-270 d
Matthew C. Nixon, R. Sander Somers, Arjun B. Savel +9
Sub-Neptunes with substantial atmospheres may possess magma oceans in contact with the overlying gas, with chemical interactions between the atmosphere and magma playing an importa…
Not All Sub-Neptune Exoplanets Have Magma Oceans
Bodie Breza, Matthew C. Nixon, Eliza M. -R. Kempton
The evolution and structure of sub-Neptunes may be strongly influenced by interactions between the outer gaseous envelope of the planet and a surface magma ocean. However, given th…
A carbon-rich atmosphere on a windy pulsar planet
Michael Zhang, Maya Beleznay, Timothy D. Brandt +17
A handful of enigmatic Jupiter-mass objects have been discovered orbiting pulsars. One such object, PSR\,J2322-2650b, uniquely resembles a hot Jupiter exoplanet due to its minimum…
Do Rocky Planets around M Stars Have Atmospheres? A Statistical Approach to the Cosmic Shoreline
Jegug Ih, Eliza M. -R. Kempton, Hannah Diamond-Lowe +6
Answering the question "do rocky exoplanets around M stars have atmospheres?" is a key science goal of the JWST mission, with 500 hours of Director's Discretionary Time (DDT) award…
An Earth-like Density for the Temperate Earth-sized Planet GJ 12b
Madison Brady, Jacob Bean, Ritvik Basant +9
While JWST has provided us with the opportunity to probe the atmospheres of potentially-habitable planets, observations of the TRAPPIST-1 system have shown us that active stars sev…
Challenges in the detection of gases in exoplanet atmospheres
Luis Welbanks, Matthew C. Nixon, Peter McGill +12
Claims of detections of gases in exoplanet atmospheres often rely on comparisons between models including and excluding specific chemical species. However, the space of molecular c…
The radiative effects of photochemical hazes on the atmospheric circulation and phase curves of sub-Neptunes
Maria E. Steinrueck, Vivien Parmentier, Laura Kreidberg +13
Measuring the atmospheric composition of hazy sub-Neptunes like GJ~1214b through transmission spectroscopy is difficult because of the degeneracy between mean molecular weight and…
Enabling Robust Exoplanet Atmospheric Retrievals with Gaussian Processes
Yoav Rotman, Luis Welbanks, Michael R. Line +3
Atmospheric retrievals are essential tools for interpreting exoplanet transmission and eclipse spectra, enabling quantitative constraints on the chemical composition, aerosol prope…
TOI-421 b: A Hot Sub-Neptune with a Haze-Free, Low Mean Molecular Weight Atmosphere
Brian Davenport, Eliza M. -R. Kempton, Matthew C. Nixon +8
Common features of sub-Neptunes atmospheres observed to date include signatures of aerosols at moderate equilibrium temperatures (~500-800 K), and a prevalence of high mean molecul…
A Fourth Planet in the Kepler-51 System Revealed by Transit Timing Variations
Kento Masuda, Jessica E. Libby-Roberts, John H. Livingston +49
Kepler-51 is a -old Sun-like star hosting three transiting planets with radii - and orbital periods -$130\,\mathrm{day…
A Benchmark JWST Near-Infrared Spectrum for the Exoplanet WASP-39b
A. L. Carter, E. M. May, N. Espinoza +77
Observing exoplanets through transmission spectroscopy supplies detailed information on their atmospheric composition, physics, and chemistry. Prior to JWST, these observations wer…
New insights into the internal structure of GJ 1214 b informed by JWST
Matthew C. Nixon, Anjali A. A. Piette, Eliza M. -R. Kempton +7
Recent JWST observations of the sub-Neptune GJ 1214 b suggest that it hosts a high-metallicity (>100x solar), hazy atmosphere. Emission spectra of the planet show molecular absorpt…
Sulphur dioxide in the mid-infrared transmission spectrum of WASP-39b
Diana Powell, Adina D. Feinstein, Elspeth K. H. Lee +70
The recent inference of sulphur dioxide (SO) in the atmosphere of the hot (1100 K), Saturn-mass exoplanet WASP-39b from near-infrared JWST observations suggests that phot…
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…
Simultaneous retrieval of orbital phase resolved JWST/MIRI emission spectra of the hot Jupiter WASP-43b: evidence of water, ammonia and carbon monoxide
Jingxuan Yang, Mark Hammond, Anjali A. A. Piette +14
Spectroscopic phase curves of hot Jupiters measure their emission spectra at multiple orbital phases, thus enabling detailed characterisation of their atmospheres. Precise constrai…