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Investigating potential causes for high inferred intrinsic temperatures of warm transiting Neptune and Sub-Neptune planets
Saugata Barat, Jean-Michel Désert, Allona Vazan +7
Atmospheric characterization of a warm 10-30 Myr old sub-Neptune progenitor (V1298 Tau b) and a 3.4 Gyr old warm super-Neptune (WASP-107b) using JWST have revealed extremely…
Water Cloud and Chemical Modulations in the Coldest Brown Dwarf
Brittany E. Miles, James Mang, Caroline V. Morley +24
We present high signal-to-noise, medium resolution (R ~ 1000), time-series JWST/NIRSpec spectra of WISE 0855 (265K), the coldest known brown dwarf. Medium resolution, time-series s…
Inhomogeneous Cloud Coverage and Altitude-Dependent Heat Transport on the Hot-Jupiter NGTS-10 Ab from its Optical-to-Infrared Phase Curve
Louis-Philippe Coulombe, Vivien Parmentier, Kevin B. Stevenson +15
Hot-Jupiters, gas giant planets with equilibrium temperatures above 1,000 K, host large temperature gradients between their permanent day- and nightsides, resulting in circulation…
Quantitative Links between Formation and Atmospheric Composition for Giant Planets
Yayaati Chachan, Ruth Murray-Clay, Jonathan J. Fortney
Precise atmospheric abundances of giant exoplanets are becoming increasingly prevalent and there is a need to systematically convert these measurements into metrics that inform us…
A Sulfur-Rich Atmosphere for the Young Jupiter Analog AF Lep b Reveals Significant Solid Accretion
Jerry W. Xuan, William O. Balmer, Yayaati Chachan +25
AF Lep b is one of the closest analogs to Jupiter in terms of mass () and semi-major axis ( AU) amenable to spectroscopic characterization. We present JWST/NIR…
The JWST Early Release Science Program for Direct Observations of Exoplanetary Systems VIII: patchy forsterite and enstatite clouds in the atmosphere of VHS 1256 b, retrieval lessons learned and outlook to the future
Niall Whiteford, Jacqueline K. Faherty, Ben Burningham +123
JWST defines a new era for the data-driven approach of retrieval modelling, which has become a cornerstone tool for the statistical inference of exoplanetary and brown dwarf proper…
The Sonora Substellar Atmosphere Models. VII. Flame Skimmer: Cloud-free Atmospheric and Evolutionary Models for the Coldest Substellar Objects
James Mang, Yayaati Chachan, Caroline V. Morley +7
JWST has provided unprecedented access to ultra-cool brown dwarfs and has pushed the boundaries of directly imaging temperate giant planets. As we continue to push toward detecting…
Chemical Abundances of the Bioessential Elements C, O and S, and the Refractory Elements Fe and Ni, in Solar-type Exoplanet-hosting Stars from HARPS North and South
E. Costa-Almeida, L. Ghezzi, K. Cunha +2
We determined atmospheric and evolutionary parameters, along with chemical abundances of C, O, S, Fe, and Ni for 290 solar-type exoplanet hosting stars using high-resolution HARPS-…
C, N, O, S, and photochemistry in a temperate giant planet orbiting a late M dwarf
Michael Zhang, Qiao Xue, Jeehyun Yang +20
We report the JWST NIRSpec/PRISM transit spectrum of TOI-6894b, an exceptional 420 K sub-Saturn that is one of the rare giant planets transiting a late M dwarf. Remarkably, both th…
A Spitzer Space Telescope Exploration Science Program to Search for Y Dwarf Variability
Michael C. Cushing, Jesica L. Trucks, Kevin K. Hardegree-Ullman +10
We present the results of a Spitzer Space Telescope Exploration Science Program to search for and characterize variability in Y dwarfs. We observed 14 Y dwarfs over a 24 hr period…
Hydrogen and Helium Dissolution, Outgassing, and Loss in Evolving Sub-Neptune Magma Oceans: Examining Demographic Features and Radius Evolution
Yao Tang, Jonathan J. Fortney, Laura K. Schaefer +1
Sub-Neptunes' molten interiors are expected to accommodate large quantities of volatiles, potentially altering their radius evolution. Previous studies have examined this effect in…
Photochemical Production of CS2 in Temperate-to-Warm Gas Giant Exoplanet Atmospheres
Jeehyun Yang, Vighnesh Nagpal, Michael Zhang +16
Sulfur chemistry has emerged as an important probe of exoplanet atmospheres in the JWST era, although observational constraints have thus far been largely limited to SO2 and H2S in…
Horizontal transport as a source of disequilibrium chemistry on the nightside of a hot exoplanet
Vivien Parmentier, Kevin B. Stevenson, Luis Welbanks +15
Hot Jupiters have temperature gradients of several hundreds of degrees between their permanent day and nightsides. In equilibrium, the primary carbon reservoir is expected to trans…
The tale of the 3 planets: 3D cloud feedback enhances the spectral diversity of warm Jupiters
Nishil Mehta, Vivien Parmentier, Xianyu Tan +14
JWST has shown a large diversity in warm Jupiter spectra, despite only small variations in the planetary parameters. However, the main driver of this diversity remains unclear. We…
The Identification of CS2 and Evidence for Carbon-Sulfur Chemical Coupling in a Warm Giant Exoplanet Atmosphere
Anastasia Triantafillides, Thomas G. Beatty, Matthew C. Nixon +14
Transmission spectroscopy with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is revealing growing chemical complexity in giant exoplanet atmospheres. Of particular interest is sulfur, whic…
PICASO 4.0: Clouds and Photochemistry in Climate Models of Brown Dwarfs and Exoplanets
James Mang, Natasha E. Batalha, Caroline V. Morley +8
We present a major update to the open-source atmospheric modeling package \texttt{PICASO}, designed for simulating the thermal structure and spectra of hydrogen-rich atmospheres of…
JWST spectral retrieval of cold directly imaged planet WD0806 b and the first measurement of altitude-dependent K in exoplanet atmospheres
Ben W. P. Lew, Thomas Roellig, Natasha E. Batalha +10
WD0806 b is a rare exoplanet companion orbiting a white dwarf, currently with a projected orbital distance of 2500 au. The Spitzer mid-IR photometry suggests that the temperature i…
Uniform Forward-Modeling Analysis of Ultracool Dwarfs. IV. Benchmarking the Sonora Diamondback and Saumon & Marley (2008) Atmospheric Models Across Late-M, L, and T types with Low-Resolution 0.8-2.5 m Spectroscopy
Emily Mader, Zhoujian Zhang, Jonathan J. Fortney +6
(Abridged) We present a systematic assessment of two major cloudy atmospheric model grids -- SM08 (Saumon & Marley 2008) and Sonora Diamondback -- when applied to low-resolution ne…
The Impact of Irradiation on the Radius and Thermal Evolution of Transiting Brown Dwarfs
Sagnick Mukherjee, Jonathan J. Fortney, Theron W. Carmichael +2
Masses and radii of transiting brown dwarfs can be measured directly in contrast to isolated field brown dwarfs, whose mass and radius inferences are model dependent. Therefore, tr…
The SPHINX M dwarf Spectral Grid. II. New Model Atmospheres and Spectra to Derive Fundamental Properties of mid-to-late type M-dwarfs
Aishwarya R. Iyer, Michael R. Line, Philip S. Muirhead +2
M-dwarfs are the most dominant stars in the Galaxy. Their interiors and atmospheres exhibit complex processes including dust condensation, convective feedback, and magnetic activit…
Understanding the Origins of Super-Puff Planets: A New Mass-Loss Regime Coupled to Planetary Evolution
Yao Tang, Jonathan J. Fortney, Ruth Murray-Clay +1
Super-puffs are a class of low-mass, large-radius planets that have challenged planet formation and evolution models. Their high inferred H/He mass fractions, required to explain t…
The Sonora Substellar Atmosphere Models VI. Red Diamondback: Extending Diamondback with SPHINX for Brown Dwarf Early Evolution
C. Evan Davis, Jonathan J. Fortney, Aishwarya Iyer +5
We extend the Sonora Diamondback brown dwarf evolution models to higher effective temperatures to treat the evolution of younger, higher mass objects. Due to an upper temperature l…
Revising the Giant Planet Mass-Metallicity Relation: Deciphering the Formation Sequence of Giant Planets
Yayaati Chachan, Jonathan J. Fortney, Kazumasa Ohno +2
The rate at which giant planets accumulate solids and gas is a critical component of planet formation models, yet it is extremely challenging to predict from first principles. Char…
Multi-modal atmospheric characterization of Pictoris b: Adding high-resolution continuum spectra from GRAVITY
M. Ravet, M. Bonnefoy, G. Chauvin +24
We present the first VLTI/GRAVITY observations at R of Pic b. These four high S/N (20) K-band spectra conserve both the pseudo-continuum and molecular absorp…