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20242026
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10 papers

astro-ph.EP2026

51 Peg b revisited with VLT/CRIRES+. Constraints on atmospheric thermal structure, chemical composition, and an alternative orbital solution

D. Cont, L. Nortmann, F. Lesjak +18

So far, the atmospheres of non-transiting exoplanets remain poorly explored, and the potential of high-resolution spectroscopy for determining key planetary parameters beyond their…

astro-ph.EP2026

VLT/CRIRES+ observations of warm Neptune WASP-107 b: Challenges in detecting molecules with ground-based transmission spectroscopy of cooler and cloudy exoplanets

Linn Boldt-Christmas, Adam D. Rains, Nikolai Piskunov +15

Atmospheres of transiting exoplanets can be studied spectroscopically using space-based or ground-based observations. Each has its own strengths and weaknesses, so there are benefi…

astro-ph.EP2026

Cloudy with a chance of metals: Indications of CO in the atmosphere of GJ 1214 b from high-resolution K-band spectroscopy

L. Nortmann, D. Cont, F. Lesjak +13

Sub-Neptune exoplanets frequently exhibit muted transmission spectra, with GJ 1214 b being the most prominent example. Following years of intense observing campaigns yielding featu…

astro-ph.EP2026

Mass determination of the ultra-short-period planet LHS 3844 b. First K-band radial velocity measurements with CRIRES+

E. Nagel, J. Köhler, M. Zechmeister +21

We present the first planet mass measurement obtained with CRIRES+ radial velocity (RV) observations using the K-band gas cell. Our target, LHS 3844 b (TOI-136), is a transiting su…

astro-ph.EP2026

Cold and eccentric: a high-spectral resolution view of 51 Eri b with VLT/HiRISE

A. Denis, A. Vigan, G. Chauvin +35

Discovered almost 10 years ago, the giant planet 51 Eridani b is one of the least separated (0.2 arcsec) and faintest (J = 19.74 mag) directly imaged exoplanets known to date. Its…

astro-ph.IM2025

viper: High-precision radial velocities from the optical to the infrared (Reaching 3 m/s in the K band of CRIRES+ with telluric modelling)

J. Köhler, M. Zechmeister, A. Hatzes +18

In recent years, a number of new instruments and data reduction pipelines have been developed to obtain high-precision radial velocities (RVs). In particular in the optical, consid…