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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…
HST/WFC3 Light Curve Supports a Terrestrial Composition for the Closest Exoplanet to Transit an M Dwarf
Emily K Pass, Jennifer G Winters, David Charbonneau +6
Previous studies of the exoplanet LTT 1445Ac concluded that the light curve from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) was consistent with both grazing and non-grazing g…
Identification of the Top TESS Objects of Interest for Atmospheric Characterization of Transiting Exoplanets with JWST
Benjamin J. Hord, Eliza M. -R. Kempton, Thomas Mikal-Evans +142
JWST has ushered in an era of unprecedented ability to characterize exoplanetary atmospheres. While there are over 5,000 confirmed planets, more than 4,000 TESS planet candidates a…
Outflowing helium from a mature mini-Neptune
Michael Zhang, Fei Dai, Jacob L. Bean +2
We announce the detection of escaping helium from TOI 2134b, a mini-Neptune a few Gyr old. The average in-transit absorption spectrum shows a peak of 0.37 +- 0.05% and an equivalen…
Time-resolved transmission spectroscopy of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-189 b
Bibiana Prinoth, H. Jens Hoeijmakers, Stefan Pelletier +14
Ultra-hot Jupiters are tidally locked with their host stars dividing their atmospheres into a hot dayside and a colder nightside. As the planet moves through transit, different reg…
Probing reflection from aerosols with the near-infrared dayside spectrum of WASP-80b
Bob Jacobs, Jean-Michel Désert, Peter Gao +9
The presence of aerosols is intimately linked to the global energy budget and the composition of a planet's atmospheres. Their ability to reflect incoming light prevents energy fro…
Awesome SOSS: Transmission Spectroscopy of WASP-96b with NIRISS/SOSS
Michael Radica, Luis Welbanks, Néstor Espinoza +30
The future is now - after its long-awaited launch in December 2021, JWST began science operations in July 2022 and is already revolutionizing exoplanet astronomy. The Early Release…
Vanadium oxide and a sharp onset of cold-trapping on a giant exoplanet
Stefan Pelletier, Björn Benneke, Mohamad Ali-Dib +15
The abundance of refractory elements in giant planets can provide key insights into their formation histories. Due to the Solar System giants' low temperatures, refractory elements…
Awesome SOSS: Atmospheric Characterisation of WASP-96 b using the JWST Early Release Observations
Jake Taylor, Michael Radica, Luis Welbanks +13
The newly operational JWST offers the potential to study the atmospheres of distant worlds with precision that has not been achieved before. One of the first exoplanets observed by…
The 14 Her Planetary System: Companion Masses and Architecture from Radial Velocities and Astrometry
G. F. Benedict, B. E. McArthur, E. P. Nelan +1
We combine Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Fine Guidance Sensor, Hipparcos, and Gaia DR3 astrometric observations of the K0 V star 14 Her with the results of an analysis of extensive…
Mass Derivation of planets K2-21b and K2-21c from Transit Timing Variations
Maryame El Moutamid, Kevin B. Stevenson, Billy Quarles +5
While various indirect methods are used to detect exoplanets, one of the most effective and accurate methods is the transit method, which measures the brightness of a given star fo…
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…
The Hazy and Metal-Rich Atmosphere of GJ 1214 b Constrained by Near and Mid-Infrared Transmission Spectroscopy
Peter Gao, Anjali A. A. Piette, Maria E. Steinrueck +12
The near-infrared transmission spectrum of the warm sub-Neptune exoplanet GJ 1214 b has been observed to be flat and featureless, implying a high metallicity atmosphere with abunda…
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…
Detection of carbon monoxide's 4.6 micron fundamental band structure in WASP-39b's atmosphere with JWST NIRSpec G395H
David Grant, Joshua D. Lothringer, Hannah R. Wakeford +28
Carbon monoxide (CO) is predicted to be the dominant carbon-bearing molecule in giant planet atmospheres, and, along with water, is important for discerning the oxygen and therefor…
Updated Planetary Mass Constraints of the Young V1298 Tau System Using MAROON-X
James Sikora, Jason Rowe, Saugata Barat +14
The early K-type T-Tauri star, V1298 Tau (, ) hosts four transiting planets with radii ranging from . The thre…
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…
A Jupiter analogue and a cold Super-Neptune orbiting the solar-twin star HIP 104045
Thiago Ferreira, Jorge Meléndez, Diego Lorenzo-Oliveira +3
We present the discovery of two planets around the solar twin HIP 104045 via radial velocity data obtained with the ESO/HARPS spectrograph as part of the Solar Twin Planet Search o…
C14 Automatic Imaging Telescope Photometry of GJ1214
Gregory W. Henry, Jacob L. Bean
GJ1214b is the highest signal-to-noise sub-Neptune for atmospheric studies. Although most previous transmission spectroscopy measurements have revealed a frustratingly featureless…
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…
Diagnosing limb asymmetries in hot and ultra-hot Jupiters with high-resolution transmission spectroscopy
Arjun B. Savel, Eliza M. -R. Kempton, Emily Rauscher +4
Due to their likely tidally synchronized nature, (ultra)hot Jupiter atmospheres should experience strongly spatially heterogeneous instellation. The large irradiation contrast and…
Measuring the Obliquities of the TRAPPIST-1 Planets with MAROON-X
Madison Brady, Jacob Bean, Andreas Seifahrt +6
A star's obliquity with respect to its planetary system can provide us with insight into the system's formation and evolution, as well as hinting at the presence of additional obje…
Early Release Science of the exoplanet WASP-39b with JWST NIRISS
Adina D. Feinstein, Michael Radica, Luis Welbanks +86
Transmission spectroscopy provides insight into the atmospheric properties and consequently the formation history, physics, and chemistry of transiting exoplanets. However, obtaini…
Early Release Science of the exoplanet WASP-39b with JWST NIRCam
Eva-Maria Ahrer, Kevin B. Stevenson, Megan Mansfield +96
Measuring the metallicity and carbon-to-oxygen (C/O) ratio in exoplanet atmospheres is a fundamental step towards constraining the dominant chemical processes at work and, if in eq…