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most citedA solar C/O and sub-solar metallicity in a hot Jupiter atmosphere

186 citations · 338 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

eess.SY2026

A Critical Review of Grid Integration Challenges and Flexibility Opportunities for Large-Scale Data Centers

Bibek Dhakal, Manohar Chamana, Biswambhar Gayen +8

The rapid proliferation of cloud computing and artificial intelligence workloads is fundamentally reshaping the magnitude, spatial concentration, and electrical characteristics of…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 2 cited

Magnetic field strengths of hot giant exoplanets consistent with Solar System values

Julia V. Seidel, Vivien Parmentier, Bibiana Prinoth +29

Magnetic fields are ubiquitous in the universe. They play a key role in shaping the activity of stars, the habitability of rocky planets, and the long-term retention of planetary a…

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.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

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.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

Peering into the black box: forward-modeling the uncertainty budget of high-resolution spectroscopy of exoplanet atmospheres

Arjun B. Savel, Megan Bedell, Eliza M. -R. Kempton +6

Ground-based high-resolution cross-correlation spectroscopy (HRCCS; R >~ 15,000) is a powerful complement to space-based studies of exoplanet atmospheres. By resolving individual s…

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★ 42 cited

CRIRES+ and ESPRESSO reveal an atmosphere enriched in volatiles relative to refractories on the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-121b

Stefan Pelletier, Björn Benneke, Yayaati Chachan +11

One of the outstanding goals of the planetary science community is to measure the present-day atmospheric composition of planets and link this back to formation. As giant planets a…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 1 cited

Phase-resolving the absorption signatures of water and carbon monoxide in the atmosphere of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-121b with GEMINI-S/IGRINS

Joost P. Wardenier, Vivien Parmentier, Michael R. Line +12

Ultra-hot Jupiters are among the best targets for atmospheric characterization at high spectral resolution. Resolving their transmission spectra as a function of orbital phase offe…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 1 cited

The metallicity and carbon-to-oxygen ratio of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-76b from Gemini-S/IGRINS

Megan Weiner Mansfield, Michael R. Line, Joost P. Wardenier +11

Measurements of the carbon-to-oxygen (C/O) ratios of exoplanet atmospheres can reveal details about their formation and evolution. Recently, high-resolution cross-correlation analy…

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

Confirmation of sub-solar metallicity for WASP-77Ab from JWST thermal emission spectroscopy

Prune C. August, Jacob L. Bean, Michael Zhang +4

We present the dayside thermal emission spectrum of WASP-77Ab from 2.8 -- 5.2 m as observed with the NIRSpec instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). WASP-77Ab was p…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 79 cited

The Roasting Marshmallows Program with IGRINS on Gemini South I: Composition and Climate of the Ultra Hot Jupiter WASP-18 b

Matteo Brogi, Vanessa Emeka-Okafor, Michael R. Line +19

We present high-resolution dayside thermal emission observations of the exoplanet WASP-18b using IGRINS on Gemini South. We remove stellar and telluric signatures using standard al…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 24 cited

Confirmation of Water Absorption in the Thermal Emission Spectrum of the Hot Jupiter WASP-77Ab with HST/WFC3

Megan Mansfield, Lindsey Wiser, Kevin B. Stevenson +11

Secondary eclipse observations of hot Jupiters can reveal both their compositions and thermal structures. Previous observations have shown a diversity of hot Jupiter eclipse spectr…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 186 cited

A solar C/O and sub-solar metallicity in a hot Jupiter atmosphere

Michael R. Line, Matteo Brogi, Jacob L. Bean +13

Measurements of the atmospheric carbon (C) and oxygen (O) relative to hydrogen (H) in hot Jupiters (relative to their host stars) provide insight into their formation location and…