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20182024
most citedA Hubble PanCET Study of HAT-P-11b: A Cloudy Neptune with a Low Atmospheric Metallicity

55 citations · 106 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

astro-ph.EP2024

Impacting Atmospheres: How Late-Stage Pollution Alters Exoplanet Composition

Emilia Vlahos, Yayaati Chachan, Vincent Savignac +1

Atmospheric composition of exoplanets is often considered as a probe of the planet's formation condition. How exactly the initial chemical memory may be altered from the birth to t…

astro-ph.EP2024

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…

astro-ph.EP202146 cited

Metastable Helium Reveals an Extended Atmosphere for the Gas Giant HAT-P-18b

Kimberly Paragas, Shreyas Vissapragada, Heather A. Knutson +6

The metastable helium line at 1083 nm can be used to probe the extended upper atmospheres of close-in exoplanets and thus provide insight into their atmospheric mass loss, which is…

astro-ph.EP2021

Radial Gradients in Dust-to-Gas Ratio Lead to Preferred Region for Giant Planet Formation

Yayaati Chachan, Eve J. Lee, Heather A. Knutson

The Rosseland mean opacity of dust in protoplanetary disks is often calculated assuming the interstellar medium (ISM) size distribution and a constant dust-to-gas ratio. However, t…

astro-ph.EP2020

A Featureless Infrared Transmission Spectrum for the Super-Puff Planet Kepler-79d

Yayaati Chachan, Daniel Jontof-Hutter, Heather A. Knutson +12

Extremely low density planets ('super-puffs') are a small but intriguing subset of the transiting planet population. With masses in the super-Earth range ( M) and…

astro-ph.EP2020

PLATON II: New Capabilities And A Comprehensive Retrieval on HD 189733b Transit and Eclipse Data

Michael Zhang, Yayaati Chachan, Eliza M. -R. Kempton +3

Recently, we introduced PLanetary Atmospheric Tool for Observer Noobs (PLATON), a Python package that calculates model transmission spectra for exoplanets and retrieves atmospheric…