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Atmospheric Reconnaissance of TRAPPIST-1 f with JWST NIRISS SOSS: No Evidence for the Transit Light Source Effect
Olivia Lim, René Doyon, Ryan J. MacDonald +25
In just over three years of operation, JWST has observed all seven planets of the TRAPPIST-1 system. The two innermost planets were found to have little to no atmosphere, barring t…
Stellar Flares Rather than High As Possible Cause for the Missing Methane in Young Exoplanets: The Case Study of V1298~Tau\,b
Danica Adams, Pierre-Alexis Roy, Hilke Schlichting +1
Recent observations of V1298~Tau\,b, a warm sub-Neptune (R, M, TK) orbiting a young (10-30\,Myr) K star, sho…
GJ 3929 b as the First Complete Rocky Worlds DDT Data Set
Nicholas J. Connors, Christopher Monaghan, Björn Benneke +2
Despite their large abundance, it is still unknown whether and under what conditions rocky planets around M dwarf stars can host atmospheres. This open question motivated the on-go…
Uniform Reinterpretation of Rocky Exoplanet Secondary Eclipse Observations and the Impact of Stellar and Orbital Uncertainties
Christopher Monaghan, Björn Benneke, Nicholas J. Connors +2
Secondary eclipse observations are a powerful way to investigate whether or not a rocky exoplanet hosts an atmosphere, as an atmospheric presence would transport heat to the nights…
Diversity in the haziness and chemistry of temperate sub-Neptunes
Pierre-Alexis Roy, Björn Benneke, Marylou Fournier-Tondreau +17
Recent transit observations of K2-18b and TOI-270d revealed strong molecular absorption signatures, lending credence to the idea that temperate sub-Neptunes (T=250-40…
Possible Evidence for the Presence of Volatiles on the Warm Super-Earth TOI-270 b
Louis-Philippe Coulombe, Björn Benneke, Joshua Krissansen-Totton +25
The search for atmospheres on rocky exoplanets is a crucial step in understanding the processes driving atmosphere formation, retention, and loss. Past studies have revealed the ex…
Strict limits on potential secondary atmospheres on the temperate rocky exo-Earth TRAPPIST-1 d
Caroline Piaulet-Ghorayeb, Björn Benneke, Martin Turbet +23
The nearby TRAPPIST-1 system, with its seven small rocky planets orbiting a late-type M8 star, offers an unprecedented opportunity to search for secondary atmospheres on temperate…
Detailed Architecture of the L 98-59 System and Confirmation of a Fifth Planet in the Habitable Zone
Charles Cadieux, Alexandrine L'Heureux, Caroline Piaulet-Ghorayeb +12
The L 98-59 system, identified by TESS in 2019, features three transiting exoplanets in compact orbits of 2.253, 3.691, and 7.451 days around an M3V star, with an outer 12.83-day n…
A water-rich interior in the temperate sub-Neptune K2-18 b revealed by JWST
Renyu Hu, Aaron Bello-Arufe, Armen Tokadjian +7
Temperate sub-Neptunes are compelling targets for detecting liquid-water oceans beyond the Solar System. If water-rich and lacking massive hydrogen-helium envelopes, these planets…
JWST NIRISS Transmission Spectroscopy of the Super-Earth GJ 357b, a Favourable Target for Atmospheric Retention
Jake Taylor, Michael Radica, Richard D. Chatterjee +18
We present a JWST NIRISS/SOSS transmission spectrum of the super-Earth GJ 357 b: the first atmospheric observation of this exoplanet. Despite missing the first 40 % of the tr…
Continuous helium absorption from the leading and trailing tails of WASP-107b
Vigneshwaran Krishnamurthy, Yann Carteret, Caroline Piaulet-Ghorayeb +19
The detection of helium escaping the atmosphere of exoplanets has revolutionized our understanding of atmospheric escape and exoplanetary evolution. Using high-precision spectrosco…
Escaping Helium and a Highly Muted Spectrum Suggest a Metal-Enriched Atmosphere on Sub-Neptune GJ3090b from JWST Transit Spectroscopy
Eva-Maria Ahrer, Michael Radica, Caroline Piaulet-Ghorayeb +27
Sub-Neptunes, the most common planet type, remain poorly understood. Their atmospheres are expected to be diverse, but their compositions are challenging to determine, even with JW…
A Moderate Albedo from Reflecting Aerosols on the Dayside of WASP-80 b Revealed by JWST/NIRISS Eclipse Spectroscopy
Kim Morel, Louis-Philippe Coulombe, Jason F. Rowe +18
Secondary eclipse observations of exoplanets at near-infrared wavelengths enable the detection of thermal emission and reflected stellar light, providing insights into the thermal…
Low 4.5 μm Dayside Emission Disfavors a Dark Bare-Rock scenario for the Hot Super-Earth TOI-431 b
Christopher Monaghan, Pierre-Alexis Roy, Björn Benneke +13
The full range of conditions under which rocky planets can host atmospheres remains poorly understood, especially in the regime of close-in orbits around late-type stars. One way t…
Highly reflective white clouds on the western dayside of an exo-Neptune
Louis-Philippe Coulombe, Michael Radica, Björn Benneke +19
Highly-irradiated gas giant exoplanets are predicted to show circulation patterns dominated by day-to-night heat transport and a spatial distribution of clouds that is driven by ad…
Transmission spectroscopy of WASP-52 b with JWST NIRISS: Water and helium atmospheric absorption, alongside prominent star-spot crossings
Marylou Fournier-Tondreau, Yanbo Pan, Kim Morel +20
In the era of exoplanet studies with JWST, the transiting, hot gas giant WASP-52 b provides an excellent target for atmospheric characterization through transit spectroscopy. WASP-…
JWST/NIRISS reveals the water-rich "steam world" atmosphere of GJ 9827 d
Caroline Piaulet-Ghorayeb, Bjorn Benneke, Michael Radica +30
With sizable volatile envelopes but smaller radii than the solar system ice giants, sub-Neptunes have been revealed as one of the most common types of planet in the galaxy. While t…
Biases in Exoplanet Transmission Spectra Introduced by Limb Darkening Parametrization
Louis-Philippe Coulombe, Pierre-Alexis Roy, Björn Benneke
One of the main endeavors of the field of exoplanetary sciences is the characterization of exoplanet atmospheres on a population level. The current method of choice to accomplish t…
JWST Reveals CH, CO, and HO in a Metal-rich Miscible Atmosphere on a Two-Earth-Radius Exoplanet
Björn Benneke, Pierre-Alexis Roy, Louis-Philippe Coulombe +28
Even though sub-Neptunes likely represent the most common outcome of planet formation, their natures remain poorly understood. In particular, planets near 1.5-2.5 often…
Muted Features in the JWST NIRISS Transmission Spectrum of Hot-Neptune LTT 9779 b
Michael Radica, Louis-Philippe Coulombe, Jake Taylor +13
The hot-Neptune desert is one of the most sparsely populated regions of the exoplanet parameter space, and atmosphere observations of its few residents can provide insights into ho…
Characterizing the Near-infrared Spectra of Flares from TRAPPIST-1 During JWST Transit Spectroscopy Observations
Ward S. Howard, Adam F. Kowalski, Laura Flagg +16
We present the first analysis of JWST near-infrared spectroscopy of stellar flares from TRAPPIST-1 during transits of rocky exoplanets. Four flares were observed from 0.6--2.8 m…
A roadmap for the atmospheric characterization of terrestrial exoplanets with JWST
TRAPPIST-1 JWST Community Initiative, :, Julien de Wit +80
Ultra-cool dwarf stars are abundant, long-lived, and uniquely suited to enable the atmospheric study of transiting terrestrial companions with JWST. Amongst them, the most prominen…
Water absorption in the transmission spectrum of the water-world candidate GJ9827d
Pierre-Alexis Roy, Björn Benneke, Caroline Piaulet +16
Recent work on the characterization of small exoplanets has allowed us to accumulate growing evidence that the sub-Neptunes with radii greater than often host H…
Atmospheric Reconnaissance of TRAPPIST-1 b with JWST/NIRISS: Evidence for Strong Stellar Contamination in the Transmission Spectra
Olivia Lim, Björn Benneke, René Doyon +22
TRAPPIST-1 is a nearby system of seven Earth-sized, temperate, rocky exoplanets transiting a Jupiter-sized M8.5V star, ideally suited for in-depth atmospheric studies. Each TRAPPIS…