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most citedA Framework for Prioritizing the TESS Planetary Candidates Most Amenable to Atmospheric Characterization

593 citations · 4.8k across the 58 of their papers we have counts for

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60 papers

astro-ph.EP2026

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…

astro-ph.EP2026

JWST MIRI reveals a potential atmosphere on the ultra-hot rocky planet TOI-431b

Cole Smith, Brandon Park Coy, Megan Weiner Mansfield +13

An open question in exoplanet science is whether rocky exoplanets extremely close in to their host stars, `lava worlds', can retain significant atmospheres. Thermal emission observ…

astro-ph.EP2026

No Helium Detected in LHS 1140 b from Four JWST NIRISS/SOSS Transits

Katherine A. Bennett, Carlos Gascón, Jacob Lustig-Yaeger +13

In the effort to determine which low-mass exoplanets have atmospheres, LHS 1140 b remains one of the most favorable targets. Its large size (5.6 and 1.7 $\rm R_{\o…

astro-ph.EP2026

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…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 1 cited

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…

astro-ph.EP2026

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…

astro-ph.EP2026

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…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 2 cited

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…

astro-ph.EP2025

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…

astro-ph.EP2025

The Roasting Marshmallows Program with IGRINS on Gemini South III: Seeing deeper into the metal depleted atmosphere of a gas-giant on the cusp of the hot to ultra-hot Jupiter transition

Vatsal Panwar, Matteo Brogi, Krishna Kanumalla +17

Ultra-hot Jupiters are a class of gas-giant exoplanets that show a peculiar combination of thermochemical properties in the form of molecular dissociation, atomic ionization, and i…

astro-ph.EP2025

An Analysis of Spitzer Phase Curves for WASP-121b and WASP-77Ab

Brian Davenport, Thomas Kennedy, E. M. May +6

We present analyses of Spitzer InfraRed Array Camera (IRAC) 3.6 m and 4.5 m phase curve observations of hot Jupiters WASP-77Ab and WASP-121b. For WASP-121b, we find amplitude…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 1 cited

A Measurement of the Water Abundance in the Atmosphere of the Hot Jupiter WASP-43b with High-resolution Cross-correlation Spectroscopy

Dare Bartelt, Megan Weiner Mansfield, Michael R. Line +8

Measuring the abundances of carbon- and oxygen-bearing molecules has been a primary focus in studying the atmospheres of hot Jupiters, as doing so can help constrain the carbon-to-…

astro-ph.EP2024

The Roasting Marshmallows Program with IGRINS on Gemini South II -- WASP-121 b has super-stellar C/O and refractory-to-volatile ratios

Peter C. B. Smith, Jorge A. Sanchez, Michael R. Line +19

A primary goal of exoplanet science is to measure the atmospheric composition of gas giants in order to infer their formation and migration histories. Common diagnostics for planet…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 50 cited

JWST Thermal Emission of the Terrestrial Exoplanet GJ 1132b

Qiao Xue, Jacob L. Bean, Michael Zhang +9

We present thermal emission measurements of GJ 1132b spanning 5--12 um obtained with the Mid-Infrared Instrument Low-Resolution Spectrometer (MIRI/LRS) on the James Webb Space Tele…

astro-ph.EP2024

A Comprehensive Analysis Spitzer 4.5 m Phase Curve of Hot Jupiters

Lisa Dang, Taylor J. Bell, Ying +19

Although exoplanetary science was not initially projected to be a substantial part of the Spitzer mission, its exoplanet observations set the stage for current and future surveys w…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 5 cited

Lessons from Hubble and Spitzer: 1D Self-Consistent Model Grids for 19 Hot Jupiter Emission Spectra

Lindsey S. Wiser, Michael R. Line, Luis Welbanks +4

We present a population-level analysis of the dayside thermal emission spectra of 19 planets observed with Hubble WFC3 and Spitzer IRAC 3.6 and 4.5 microns, spanning equilibrium te…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 5 cited

Nightside clouds and disequilibrium chemistry on the hot Jupiter WASP-43b

Taylor J. Bell, Nicolas Crouzet, Patricio E. Cubillos +80

Hot Jupiters are among the best-studied exoplanets, but it is still poorly understood how their chemical composition and cloud properties vary with longitude. Theoretical models pr…

astro-ph.EP2023

A Combined Ground-based and JWST Atmospheric Retrieval Analysis: Both IGRINS and NIRSpec Agree The Atmosphere of WASP-77A b is Metal-Poor

Peter Smith, Michael Line, Jacob Bean +12

Ground-based, high-resolution and space-based, low-resolution spectroscopy are the two main avenues through which transiting exoplanet atmospheres are studied. Both methods provide…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 1 cited

A Non-Detection of Iron in the First High-Resolution Emission Study of the Lava Planet 55 Cnc e

Kaitlin C. Rasmussen, Miles H. Currie, Celeste Hagee +17

Close-in lava planets represent an extreme example of terrestrial worlds, but their high temperatures may allow us to probe a diversity of crustal compositions. The brightest and m…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 164 cited

A reflective, metal-rich atmosphere for GJ 1214b from its JWST phase curve

Eliza M. -R. Kempton, Michael Zhang, Jacob L. Bean +30

There are no planets intermediate in size between Earth and Neptune in our Solar System, yet these objects are found around a substantial fraction of other stars. Population statis…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 4 cited

Planet Eclipse Mapping with Long-Term Baseline Drifts

Everett Schlawin, Ryan Challener, Megan Mansfield +3

High precision lightcurves combined with eclipse mapping techniques can reveal the horizontal and vertical structure of a planet's thermal emission and the dynamics of hot Jupiters…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 21 cited

Elemental Abundances of the Super-Neptune WASP-107b's Host Star Using High-resolution, Near-infrared Spectroscopy

Neda Hejazi, Ian Crossfield, Thomas Nordlander +8

We present the first elemental abundance measurements of the K dwarf (K7V) exoplanet-host star WASP-107 using high-resolution (R = 45,000), near-infrared (H- and K-band) spectra ta…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 57 cited

High atmospheric metal enrichment for a Saturn-mass planet

Jacob L. Bean, Qiao Xue, Prune C. August +9

Atmospheric metal enrichment (i.e., elements heavier than helium, also called "metallicity") is a key diagnostic of the formation of giant planets. The giant planets of the solar s…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 145 cited

A broadband thermal emission spectrum of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-18b

Louis-Philippe Coulombe, Björn Benneke, Ryan Challener +73

Close-in giant exoplanets with temperatures greater than 2,000 K (''ultra-hot Jupiters'') have been the subject of extensive efforts to determine their atmospheric properties using…