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most citedEscaping Helium and a Highly Muted Spectrum Suggest a Metal-Enriched Atmosphere on Sub-Neptune GJ3090b from JWST Transit Spectroscopy

37 citations · 47 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

astro-ph.EP2026

Evidence for an Extended Hydrogen Outflow on WASP-12 b

Morgan Saidel, Shreyas Vissapragada, Heather A. Knutson +6

Recent observations of atmospheric escape from planets orbiting early-type stars indicate that planets with higher Roche filling factors have significantly higher mass loss rates.…

astro-ph.EP2026

WINERED Detects a Strong Atmospheric Outflow on the Sub-Neptune GJ 3090b

Shreyas Vissapragada, Zifan Lin, Annabella Meech +12

Sub-Neptunes are the most common short-period ( d) planets known. A major goal for the field is to build a comprehensive understanding of their compositions and evolutionary…

astro-ph.EP2025

From Earths to Super-Earths: Five New Small Planets Transiting M Dwarf Stars

Jonathan Gomez Barrientos, Heather A. Knutson, Morgan Saidel +39

Earth-sized planets transiting M dwarf stars present one of the best opportunities with current facilities for studying the atmospheric and bulk compositions of terrestrial worlds.…

astro-ph.EP2025

Validation of a Third Earth-sized Planet in the TOI-2267 Binary System

Michael Greklek-McKeon, Jonathan Gomez Barrientos, Heather A. Knutson +13

We report the validation of a third terrestrial exoplanet in the nearby (22 pc) TOI-2267 system. TOI-2267 is a binary system with stellar components TOI-2267A (M5, 3030 K) and TOI-…

astro-ph.EP2025

Kepler-1624b Has No Significant Transit Timing Variations

Haedam Im, Morgan Saidel, Heather A. Knutson +9

It is relatively rare for gas giant planets to have resonant or near-resonant companions, but these systems are particularly useful for constraining planet formation and migration…

astro-ph.EP2025

The First Dedicated Survey of Atmospheric Escape from Planets Orbiting F Stars

Morgan Saidel, Shreyas Vissapragada, Heather Knutson +9

Hydrodynamic escape can strip the envelopes of close-in exoplanets, but most observations of atmospheric mass loss to date have been confined to planets orbiting K and M dwarfs. A…

astro-ph.EP2025

Stringent Upper Bounds on Atmospheric Mass Loss from Three Neptune-Sized Planets in the TOI-4010 System

Morgan Saidel, Shreyas Vissapragada, Michael Zhang +6

Photoevaporative models predict that the lower edge of the Neptune desert is sculpted by atmospheric mass loss. However, the stellar high energy fluxes that power hydrodynamic esca…

astro-ph.EP2025

Validation of TESS Planet Candidates with Multi-Color Transit Photometry and TRICERATOPS+

Jonathan Gomez Barrientos, Michael Greklek-McKeon, Heather A. Knutson +33

We present an upgraded version of TRICERATOPS, a software package designed to calculate false positive probabilities for planet candidates identified by the Transiting Exoplanet Su…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 37 cited

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…

astro-ph.EP2025

Updated Mass, Eccentricity, and Tidal Heating Constraints for the Earth-sized Planet LP 791-18 d

Michael Greklek-McKeon, Heather A. Knutson, W. Garrett Levine +5

LP 791-18 d is a temperate Earth-sized planet orbiting a late M dwarf, surrounded by an interior super-Earth (LP 791-18 b, = 1.2 , days) and an exterior…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 4 cited

Tidally Heated Sub-Neptunes, Refined Planetary Compositions, and Confirmation of a Third Planet in the TOI-1266 System

Michael Greklek-McKeon, Shreyas Vissapragada, Heather A. Knutson +38

TOI-1266 is a benchmark system of two temperate ( 450 K) sub-Neptune-sized planets orbiting a nearby M dwarf exhibiting a rare inverted architecture with a larger interior plane…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 5 cited

Atmospheric Mass Loss from TOI-1259 A b, a Gas Giant Planet With a White Dwarf Companion

Morgan Saidel, Shreyas Vissapragada, Jessica Spake +6

The lack of close-in Neptune-mass exoplanets evident in transit surveys has largely been attributed either to photoevaporative mass loss or high-eccentricity migration. To distingu…

astro-ph.EP2024

Helium in the Extended Atmosphere of the Warm Super-Puff TOI-1420b

Shreyas Vissapragada, Michael Greklek-McKeon, Dion Linssen +11

Super-puffs are planets with exceptionally low densities (~g~cm) and core masses (). Many lower-mass () super-…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 1 cited

Detection of an Atmospheric Outflow from the Young Hot Saturn TOI-1268b

Jorge Pérez González, Michael Greklek-McKeon, Shreyas Vissapragada +4

Photoevaporative mass-loss rates are expected to be highest when planets are young and the host star is more active, but to date there have been relatively few measurements of mass…