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most citedThe Pandora SmallSat: A Low-Cost, High Impact Mission to Study Exoplanets and Their Host Stars

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astro-ph.IM2026

The Pandora SmallSat: post-launch operations and mission update

Trevor O. Foote, Elisa V. Quintana, Jessie L. Dotson +41

The Pandora SmallSat is a NASA flight project designed to study the atmospheres of exoplanets. Transmission spectroscopy of transiting exoplanets provides our best opportunity to i…

astro-ph.EP2026

NASA's Pandora SmallSat Mission: Simulating the Impact of Stellar Photospheric Heterogeneity and Its Correction

Benjamin V. Rackham, Aishwarya R. Iyer, Dániel Apai +28

Stellar photospheric heterogeneity is a dominant astrophysical systematic impacting exoplanet transmission spectroscopy. NASA's Pandora SmallSat Mission is designed to address this…

astro-ph.EP2026

NASA's Pandora SmallSat Mission: Simulated Modeling and Retrieval of Near-Infrared Exoplanet Transmission Spectra

Yoav Rotman, Peter McGill, Luis Welbanks +22

Pandora is a SmallSat mission dedicated to understanding exoplanets and their host stars by disentangling the impact of stellar heterogeneity on exoplanet transmission spectra. Sel…

astro-ph.SR2025

The TESS Ten Thousand Catalog: 10,001 uniformly-vetted and -validated Eclipsing Binary Stars detected in Full-Frame Image data by machine learning and analyzed by citizen scientists

Veselin B. Kostov, Brian P. Powell, Aline U. Fornear +36

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has surveyed nearly the entire sky in Full-Frame Image mode with a time resolution of 200 seconds to 30 minutes and a temporal base…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 5 cited

The Pandora SmallSat: A Low-Cost, High Impact Mission to Study Exoplanets and Their Host Stars

Thomas Barclay, Elisa V. Quintana, Knicole Colón +19

The Pandora SmallSat is a NASA flight project aimed at studying the atmospheres of exoplanets -- planets orbiting stars outside our Solar System. Pandora will provide the first dat…

astro-ph.EP2024

The VSPEC Collection: A suite of utilities to model spectroscopic phase curves of 3D exoplanet atmospheres in the presence of stellar variability

Ted M Johnson, Cameron Kelahan, Avi M. Mandell +5

We present the Variable Star PhasE Curve (VSPEC) Collection, a set of Python packages for simulating combined-light spectroscopic observations of 3-dimensional exoplanet atmosphere…