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astro-ph.EP2026

Upside down: GJ3090 b the first retrograde exoplanet around an M dwarf detected with NIRPS

Y. Carteret, V. Bourrier, L. Parc +57

The angle between stellar spin axis and planetary orbital plane can provide key insights into the formation and dynamical evolution of planetary systems. In particular, this measur…

astro-ph.EP2026

The atomic C/O ratio of KELT-9b

Stefan Pelletier, Nicholas W. Borsato, Jacob L. Bean +12

The carbon-to-oxygen (C/O) ratio of a giant planet's atmosphere has long been theorised to hold compositional information that can be traced back to its formation history. Typicall…

astro-ph.EP2026

The breaking of cold traps and onset of titanium in ultra-hot Jupiter atmospheres: WASP-189b in context

Stefan Pelletier, Romain Allart, Valentina Vaulato +56

Condensates are ubiquitous to all Solar System planets with significant (10mbar) atmospheres. The same is true for most exoplanets with characterised atmospheres, with even ultr…

astro-ph.EP2026

HAT-P-70b through the Eyes of MAROON-X: Constraining Elemental Abundances of Metals and Insights on Atmosphere Dynamics

Shi Lin Sun, Stefan Pelletier, Björn Benneke +6

Ultra-hot Jupiters (UHJs) are exceptional laboratories for studying planetary atmospheres under extreme irradiation conditions. With close-in tidally locked orbits, these planets c…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 3 cited

Super-Earth masses and stellar abundances from NIRPS reveal tentative evidence for water-rich formation around M dwarfs

Drew Weisserman, Nicole Gromek, Ryan Cloutier +98

Tracing the compositional link between terrestrial super-Earths and their host stars provides clues to their dominant formation pathway. By constraining the stellar abundances of r…

astro-ph.EP2026

NIRPS tightens the mass estimate of GJ 3090 b and detects a planet near the stellar rotation period

Pierrot Lamontagne, Drew Weisserman, Charles Cadieux +148

We present an updated characterization of the planetary system orbiting the nearby M2 dwarf GJ 3090 (TOI-177; pc), based on new high-precision radial velocity (RV) observa…

astro-ph.EP2026

Precise measurement of WASP-31 b's Rossiter-McLaughlin effect and characterization of the planet transmission spectra

M. Steiner, V. Bourrier, D. Ehrenreich +23

Context. Hot Jupiters are ideal natural laboratories to investigate atmospheric composition and dynamics. However, high-resolution transmission spectroscopy is currently limited by…

astro-ph.EP2026

Ultra-hot Jupiter atmospheres at high spectral resolution

Stefan Pelletier, Daniel Kitzmann, Valentina Vaulato +3

Observations of ultra-hot Jupiters offer an unprecedented opportunity to study the physics of some of the most extreme planetary atmospheres known. With exceedingly high amounts of…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 5 cited

NIRPS and TESS reveal a peculiar system around the M dwarf TOI-756: A transiting sub-Neptune and a cold eccentric giant

Léna Parc, François Bouchy, Neil J. Cook +148

The Near InfraRed Planet Searcher (NIRPS) joined HARPS on the 3.6-m ESO telescope at La Silla Observatory in April 2023, dedicating part of its Guaranteed Time Observations (GTO) p…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 4 cited

TOI-3288 b and TOI-4666 b: two gas giants transiting low-mass stars characterised by NIRPS

Yolanda G. C. Frensch, François Bouchy, Gaspare Lo Curto +62

Gas giant planets orbiting low-mass stars are uncommon outcomes of planet formation. Increasing the sample of well-characterised giants around early M dwarfs will enable population…

astro-ph.EP2025

Atmospheric composition and circulation of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-121b with joint NIRPS, HARPS and CRIRES+ transit spectroscopy

Valentina Vaulato, Melissa J. Hobson, Romain Allart +57

Ultra-hot Jupiters like WASP-121b provide unique laboratories for studying atmospheric chemistry and dynamics under extreme irradiation. Constraining their composition and circulat…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 2 cited

Quantifying thermal water dissociation in the dayside photosphere of WASP-121 b using NIRPS

Luc Bazinet, Romain Allart, Björn Benneke +119

The intense stellar irradiation of ultra-hot Jupiters results in some of the most extreme atmospheric environments in the planetary regime. On their daysides, temperatures can be s…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 11 cited

Diving into the planetary system of Proxima with NIRPS -- Breaking the metre per second barrier in the infrared

Alejandro Suárez Mascareño, Étienne Artigau, Lucile Mignon +138

We obtained 420 high-resolution spectra of Proxima, over 159 nights, using the Near Infra Red Planet Searcher (NIRPS). We derived 149 nightly binned radial velocity measurements wi…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 6 cited

NIRPS detection of delayed atmospheric escape from the warm and misaligned Saturn-mass exoplanet WASP-69b

Romain Allart, Yann Carteret, Vincent Bourrier +119

Near-infrared high-resolution echelle spectrographs unlock access to fundamental properties of exoplanets, from their atmospheric escape and composition to their orbital architectu…

astro-ph.EP2025

Blind search for activity-sensitive lines in the near-infrared using HARPS and NIRPS observations of Proxima and Gl 581

João Gomes da Silva, Elisa Delgado-Mena, Nuno C. Santos +145

Stellar activity variability is one of the main obstacles to the detection of Earth-like planets using the RV method. The aim of this work is to measure the effect of activity in t…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 8 cited

Hydride ion continuum hides absorption signatures in the NIRPS near-infrared transmission spectrum of the ultra-hot gas giant WASP-189b

Valentina Vaulato, Stefan Pelletier, David Ehrenreich +77

Ultra-hot Jupiters showcase extreme atmospheric conditions, including molecular dissociation, ionisation, and significant day-to-night temperature contrasts. Their close proximity…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 1 cited

Three Hot Jupiters transiting K-dwarfs with a significant heavy element mass

Y. G. C. Frensch, F. Bouchy, G. Lo Curto +50

Albeit at a lower frequency than around hotter stars, short-period gas giants around low-mass stars ( K) do exist, despite predictions from planetary populat…

astro-ph.EP2024

The ANTARESS workflow I. Optimal extraction of spatially resolved stellar spectra with high-resolution transit spectroscopy

V. Bourrier, J. -B. Delisle, C. Lovis +17

High-resolution spectrographs open a detailed window onto the atmospheres of stars and planets. As the number of systems observed with different instruments grows, it is crucial to…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 14 cited

The atmospheric composition of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-178 b observed with ESPRESSO

Y. C. Damasceno, J. V. Seidel, B. Prinoth +25

We search for atmospheric constituents for the UHJ WASP-178 b with two ESPRESSO transits using the narrow-band and cross-correlation techniques, focusing on the detections of NaI,…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 2 cited

New Mass and Radius Constraints on the LHS 1140 Planets -- LHS 1140 b is Either a Temperate Mini-Neptune or a Water World

Charles Cadieux, Mykhaylo Plotnykov, René Doyon +43

The two-planet transiting system LHS 1140 has been extensively observed since its discovery in 2017, notably with , HST, TESS, and ESPRESSO, placing strong constraints on…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 7 cited

TESS search for substellar companions through pulsation timing of Scuti stars. I. Discovery of companions around Chang 134 and V393 Car

V. Vaulato, V. Nascimbeni, G. Piotto

Early-type main-sequence pulsating stars such as \ds{} variables are one of the least explored class of targets in the search for exoplanets. Pulsation timing (PT) is an alternativ…