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A search for transit timing variations in the transiting hot Jupiter systems HIP 65, NGTS-6, NGTS-10 and WASP-173
A. W. Griffiths, J. Southworth, L. Alegre +30
Hot Jupiters are Jupiter-mass planets with orbital periods of less than ten days. Their short orbital separations make tidal dissipation within the stellar host especially efficien…
The Orbit of WASP-4 b is in Decay
Ö. Baştürk, A. C. Kutluay, A. Barker +25
WASP-4 b is a hot Jupiter exhibiting a decreasing orbital period, prompting investigations into potential mechanisms driving its evolution. We analyzed 173 transit light curves, in…
Shape and spin state model of contact binary (388188) 2006 DP14 using combined radar and optical observations
Richard E. Cannon, Agata Rozek, Marina Brozović +36
Contact binaries are found throughout the solar system. The recent discovery of Selam, the satellite of MBA (152830) Dinkinesh, by the NASA LUCY mission has made it clear that the…
TOI-2015b: a sub-Neptune in strong gravitational interaction with an outer non-transiting planet
K. Barkaoui, J. Korth, E. Gaidos +119
TOI-2015 is a known exoplanetary system around an M4 dwarf star, consisting of a transiting sub-Neptune planet in a 3.35-day orbital period, TOI-2015b, accompanied by a non-transit…
OGLE-2015-BLG-1609Lb: Sub-jovian planet orbiting a low-mass stellar or brown dwarf host
M. J. Mróz, R. Poleski, A. Udalski +70
We present a comprehensive analysis of a planetary microlensing event OGLE-2015-BLG-1609. The planetary anomaly was detected by two survey telescopes, OGLE and MOA. Each of these s…
Looking For Timing Variations in the Transits of 16 Exoplanets
S. Yalçınkaya, E. M. Esmer, Ö. Baştürk +27
We update the ephemerides of 16 transiting exoplanets using our ground-based observations, new TESS data, and previously published observations including those of amateur astronome…
The GAPS Programme at TNG LV. Multiple molecular species in the atmosphere of HAT-P-11 b and review of the HAT-P-11 planetary system
M. Basilicata, P. Giacobbe, A. S. Bonomo +29
The atmospheric characterisation of hot and warm Neptune-size exoplanets is challenging due to their small radius and atmospheric scale height. The warm-Neptune HAT-P-11b is a rema…
Star-spot activity, orbital obliquity, transmission spectrum, physical properties, and TTVs of the HATS-2 planetary system
F. Biagiotti, L. Mancini, J. Southworth +23
Our aim in this paper is to refine the orbital and physical parameters of the HATS-2 planetary system and study transit timing variations and atmospheric composition thanks to tran…
OGLE-2019-BLG-0825: Constraints on the Source System and Effect on Binary-lens Parameters arising from a Five Day Xallarap Effect in a Candidate Planetary Microlensing Event
Yuki K. Satoh, Naoki Koshimoto, David P. Bennett +86
We present an analysis of microlensing event OGLE-2019-BLG-0825. This event was identified as a planetary candidate by preliminary modeling. We find that significant residuals from…
TOI-2084 b and TOI-4184 b: two new sub-Neptunes around M dwarf stars
K. Barkaoui, M. Timmermans, A. Soubkiou +67
We present the discovery and validation of two TESS exoplanets orbiting nearby M dwarfs: TOI-2084b, and TOI-4184b. We characterized the host stars by combining spectra from Shane/K…
A precise blue-optical transmission spectrum from the ground: Evidence for haze in the atmosphere of WASP-74b
Petros Spyratos, Nikolay K. Nikolov, Savvas Constantinou +5
We report transmission spectroscopy of the bloated hot Jupiter WASP-74b in the wavelength range from 4000 to 6200 Å. We observe two transit events with the Very Large Telescope FOc…
Early Release Science of the exoplanet WASP-39b with JWST NIRSpec PRISM
Z. Rustamkulov, D. K. Sing, S. Mukherjee +91
Transmission spectroscopy of exoplanets has revealed signatures of water vapor, aerosols, and alkali metals in a few dozen exoplanet atmospheres. However, these previous inferences…
Revisiting the Transit Timing Variations in the TrES-3 and Qatar-1 systems with TESS data
Vineet Kumar Mannaday, Parijat Thakur, John Southworth +12
We present and analyze 58 transit light curves of TrES-3b and 98 transit light curves of Qatar-1b observed by Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), plus two transit light c…
Identification of carbon dioxide in an exoplanet atmosphere
The JWST Transiting Exoplanet Community Early Release Science Team, Eva-Maria Ahrer, Lili Alderson +129
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a key chemical species that is found in a wide range of planetary atmospheres. In the context of exoplanets, CO2 is an indicator of the metal enrichment (i.…
The discovery and characterization of a kilometre sized asteroid inside the orbit of Venus
Bryce T. Bolin, T. Ahumada, P. van Dokkum +8
Near-Earth asteroid population models predict the existence of bodies located inside the orbit of Venus. Despite searches up to the end of 2019, none had been found. We report disc…
A search for transit timing variations in the HATS-18 planetary system
John Southworth, A. J. Barker, T. C. Hinse +23
HATS-18b is a transiting planet with a large mass and a short orbital period, and is one of the best candidates for the detection of orbital decay induced by tidal effects. We pres…
VLT, GROND and Danish Telescope observations of transits in the TRAPPIST-1 system
John Southworth, L. Mancini, M. Dominik +14
TRAPPIST-1 is an ultra-cool dwarf that hosts seven known transiting planets. We present photometry of the system obtained using three telescopes at ESO La Silla (the Danish 1.54-m…
Physical properties of near-Earth asteroid (2102) Tantalus from multi-wavelength observations
Agata Rożek, Stephen C. Lowry, Benjamin Rozitis +20
Between 2010 and 2017 we have collected new optical and radar observations of the potentially hazardous asteroid (2102)~Tantalus from the ESO NTT and Danish telescopes at the La Si…
Homogeneous Transit Timing Analyses of Ten Exoplanet Systems
Ö. Baştürk, E. M. Esmer, S. Yalçınkaya +19
We study the transit timings of 10 exoplanets in order to investigate potential Transit Timing Variations (TTVs) in them. We model their available ground-based light curves, some p…
The transiting planetary system WASP-86/KELT-12: TESS provides the casting vote
John Southworth, Francesca Faedi
A transiting planetary system was discovered independently by two groups, under the names WASP-86 (Faedi et al. 2016) and KELT-12 (Stevens et al. 2017). The properties of the syste…
Transmission spectroscopy with VLT FORS2: a featureless spectrum for the low-density transiting exoplanet WASP-88b
Petros Spyratos, Nikolay Nikolov, John Southworth +10
We present ground-based optical transmission spectroscopy of the low-density hot Jupiter WASP-88b covering the wavelength range 4413-8333 Å with the FORS2 spectrograph on the Very…
Six Outbursts of Comet 46P/Wirtanen
Michael S. P. Kelley, Tony L. Farnham, Jian-Yang Li +32
Cometary activity is a manifestation of sublimation-driven processes at the surface of nuclei. However, cometary outbursts may arise from other processes that are not necessarily d…
OGLE-2018-BLG-1185b : A Low-Mass Microlensing Planet Orbiting a Low-Mass Dwarf
Iona Kondo, Jennifer C. Yee, David P. Bennett +94
We report the analysis of planetary microlensing event OGLE-2018-BLG-1185, which was observed by a large number of ground-based telescopes and by the Space Telescope. The…
The ultra-hot-Jupiter KELT-16 b: Dynamical Evolution and Atmospheric Properties
L. Mancini, J. Southworth, L. Naponiello +15
We present broad-band photometry of 30 planetary transits of the ultra-hot Jupiter KELT-16b, using five medium-class telescopes. The transits were monitored through standard B, V,…