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History and Habitability of the LP 890-9 Planetary System

Rory Barnes, Laura N. R. do Amaral, Jessica Birky +42

We present numerous aspects of the evolution of the LP 890-9 (SPECULOOS-2/TOI-4306) planetary system, focusing on the likelihood that planet c can support life. We find that the ho…

astro-ph.EP2024

The TESS-Keck Survey. XXII. A sub-Neptune Orbiting TOI-1437

Daria Pidhorodetska, Emily A. Gilbert, Stephen R. Kane +40

Exoplanet discoveries have revealed a dramatic diversity of planet sizes across a vast array of orbital architectures. Sub-Neptunes are of particular interest; due to their absence…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 3 cited

Artificial Greenhouse Gases as Exoplanet Technosignatures

Edward W. Schwieterman, Thomas J. Fauchez, Jacob Haqq-Misra +6

Atmospheric pollutants such as CFCs and NO have been proposed as potential remotely detectable atmospheric technosignature gases. Here we investigate the potential for artifi…

astro-ph.EP2024

Giant Outer Transiting Exoplanet Mass (GOT `EM) Survey. V. Two Giant Planets in Kepler-511 but Only One Ran Away

Yayaati Chachan, Paul A. Dalba, Daniel P. Thorngren +6

Systems hosting multiple giant planets are important laboratories for understanding planetary formation and migration processes. We present a nearly decade-long Doppler spectroscop…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 1 cited

An Overview of Exoplanet Biosignatures

Edward W. Schwieterman, Michaela Leung

This chapter reviews proposed exoplanet biosignatures, including their biological origins, observable features, atmospheric sinks, and potentially confounding abiotic sources. Emph…

astro-ph.EP2024

The Impact of Extended HO Cross-Sections on Temperate Anoxic Planet Atmospheres: Implications for Spectral Characterization of Habitable Worlds

Wynter Broussard, Edward W. Schwieterman, Sukrit Ranjan +3

JWST has created a new era of terrestrial exoplanet atmospheric characterization, and with it the possibility to detect potential biosignature gases like CH. Our interpretati…

astro-ph.EP2024

The effect of lightning on the atmospheric chemistry of exoplanets and potential biosignatures

Patrick Barth, Eva E. Stüeken, Christiane Helling +2

Lightning has been suggested to play a role in triggering the occurrence of bio-ready chemical species. Future missions (PLATO, ARIEL, HWO, LIFE) and ground-based ELTs will investi…

astro-ph.EP2024

Modeling Atmospheric Lines By the Exoplanet Community (MALBEC) version 1.0: A CUISINES radiative transfer intercomparison project

Geronimo L. Villanueva, Thomas J. Fauchez, Vincent Kofman +15

Radiative transfer (RT) models are critical in the interpretation of exoplanetary spectra, in simulating exoplanet climates and when designing the specifications of future flagship…

astro-ph.EP2024

Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE): XII. The Detectability of Capstone Biosignatures in the Mid-Infrared -- Sniffing Exoplanetary Laughing Gas and Methylated Halogens

Daniel Angerhausen, Daria Pidhorodetska, Michaela Leung +6

This study aims to identify exemplary science cases for observing NO, CHCl, and CHBr in exoplanet atmospheres at abundances consistent with biogenic production using a…

astro-ph.EP2024

Giant Outer Transiting Exoplanet Mass (GOT 'EM) Survey. IV. Long-term Doppler Spectroscopy for 11 Stars Thought to Host Cool Giant Exoplanets

Paul A. Dalba, Stephen R. Kane, Howard Isaacson +29

Discovering and characterizing exoplanets at the outer edge of the transit method's sensitivity has proven challenging owing to geometric biases and the practical difficulties asso…