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astro-ph.EP2026★ 3 cited

Aerosols and hydrocarbons in the atmosphere of a white dwarf planet

Ryan J. MacDonald, Christopher E. O'Connor, Victoria A. Boehm +15

Most stars, including our Sun, will one day evolve into red giants and, subsequently, white dwarfs. Several planet candidates have recently been identified orbiting white dwarfs, d…

astro-ph.EP2026

JWST-TST High Contrast: First Direct Spectroscopy of GJ 504 b reveals Clouds and Possible Metal Enrichment

Aneesh Baburaj, Jean-Baptiste Ruffio, Marshall Perrin +27

Characterizing the coldest directly imaged companions through direct spectroscopy has only recently become possible with the James Webb Space Telescope. We present moderate-resolut…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 10 cited

Additional JWST/NIRSpec Transits of the Rocky M Dwarf Exoplanet GJ 1132 b Reveal a Featureless Spectrum

Katherine A. Bennett, Ryan J. MacDonald, Sarah Peacock +17

As an archetypal M-dwarf rocky exoplanet, GJ 1132 b has a varied history of atmospheric measurements. At 1.13 , 1.66 , and 580 K, it orbits a bright…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 48 cited

Hints of a sulfur-rich atmosphere around the 1.6 R Super-Earth L98-59 d from JWST NIRSpec G395H transmission spectroscopy

Amélie Gressier, Néstor Espinoza, Natalie H. Allen +11

Detecting atmospheres around planets with a radius below 1.6 R, commonly referred to as rocky planets (Rogers_2015, Rogers_2021), has proven to be challenging. However,…

astro-ph.EP2024

Latitudinal Asymmetry in the Dayside Atmosphere of WASP-43b

Ryan C. Challener, Zafar Rustamkulov, Elspeth K. H. Lee +9

We present two-dimensional near-infrared temperature maps of the canonical hot Jupiter WASP-43b using a phase-curve observation with JWST NIRSpec/G395H. From the white-light planet…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 92 cited

A warm Neptune's methane reveals core mass and vigorous atmospheric mixing

David K. Sing, Zafar Rustamkulov, Daniel P. Thorngren +18

Observations of transiting gas giant exoplanets have revealed a pervasive depletion of methane, which has only recently been identified atmospherically. The depletion is thought to…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 44 cited

Into the UV: The Atmosphere of the Hot Jupiter HAT-P-41b Revealed

Nikole K. Lewis, Hannah R. Wakeford, Ryan J. MacDonald +19

For solar-system objects, ultraviolet spectroscopy has been critical in identifying sources for stratospheric heating and measuring the abundances of a variety of hydrocarbon and s…