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NIRPS joining HARPS at ESO 3.6 m. On-sky performance and science objectives
Francois Bouchy, Rene Doyon, Francesco Pepe +131
The Near-InfraRed Planet Searcher (NIRPS) is a high-resolution, high-stability near-infrared (NIR) spectrograph equipped with an AO system. Installed on the ESO 3.6-m telescope, it…
Phase Curves of Hot Neptune LTT 9779b Suggest a High-Metallicity Atmosphere
Ian J. M. Crossfield, Diana Dragomir, Nicolas B. Cowan +20
Phase curve measurements provide a global view of the composition, thermal structure, and dynamics of exoplanet atmospheres. Although most of the dozens of phase curve measurements…
A TESS Dress Rehearsal: Planetary Candidates and Variables from K2 Campaign 17
Ian J. M. Crossfield, Natalia Guerrero, Trevor David +38
We produce light curves for all ~34,000 targets observed with K2 in Campaign 17 (C17), identifying 34 planet candidates, 184 eclipsing binaries, and 222 other periodic variables. T…
K2-66b and K2-106b: Two extremely hot sub-Neptune-size planets with high densities
Evan Sinukoff, Andrew W. Howard, Erik A. Petigura +20
We report precise mass and density measurements of two extremely hot sub-Neptune-size planets from the K2 mission using radial velocities, K2 photometry, and adaptive optics imagin…
Mass Constraints of the WASP-47 Planetary System from Radial Velocities
Evan Sinukoff, Andrew W. Howard, Erik A. Petigura +19
We report precise radial velocity (RV) measurements of WASP-47, a G star that hosts three transiting planets in close proximity (a hot Jupiter, a super-Earth and a Neptune-sized pl…
Hubble Space Telescope search for the transit of the Earth-mass exoplanet Alpha Centauri Bb
Brice-Olivier Demory, David Ehrenreich, Didier Queloz +13
Results from exoplanet surveys indicate that small planets (super-Earth size and below) are abundant in our Galaxy. However, little is known about their interiors and atmospheres.…
Observations of Transiting Exoplanets with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (PASP), December 2014
Charles Beichman, Bjoern Benneke, Heather Knutson +44
This article summarizes a workshop held on March, 2014, on the potential of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to revolutionize our knowledge of the physical properties of exopl…
Spitzer Transits of the Super-Earth GJ1214b and Implications for Its Atmosphere
Jonathan D. Fraine, Drake Deming, Michaël Gillon +7
We observed the transiting super-Earth exoplanet GJ1214b using Warm Spitzer at 4.5 microns wavelength during a 20-day quasi-continuous sequence in May 2011. The goals of our long o…
Mission to the Trojan Asteroids: lessons learned during a JPL Planetary Science Summer School mission design exercise
Serina Diniega, Kunio M. Sayanagi, Jeffrey Balcerski +16
The 2013 Planetary Science Decadal Survey identified a detailed investigation of the Trojan asteroids occupying Jupiter's L4 and L5 Lagrange points as a priority for future NASA mi…
Detection of Thermal Emission from a Super-Earth
Brice-Olivier Demory, Michael Gillon, Sara Seager +3
We report on the detection of infrared light from the super-Earth 55 Cnc e, based on four occultations obtained with Warm Spitzer at 4.5 microns. Our data analysis consists of a tw…
Atmospheric Retrieval for Super-Earths: Uniquely Constraining the Atmospheric Composition with Transmission Spectroscopy
Bjoern Benneke, Sara Seager
We present a retrieval method based on Bayesian analysis to infer the atmospheric compositions and surface or cloud-top pressures from transmission spectra of exoplanets with gener…