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Euclid preparation: I. The Euclid Wide Survey
R. Scaramella, J. Amiaux, Y. Mellier +238
Euclid is an ESA mission designed to constrain the properties of dark energy and gravity via weak gravitational lensing and galaxy clustering. It will carry out a wide area imaging…
Detection of a Westward Hotspot Offset in the Atmosphere of a Hot Gas Giant CoRoT-2b
Lisa Dang, Nicolas B. Cowan, Joel C. Schwartz +9
Short-period planets exhibit day-night temperature contrasts of hundreds to thousands of degrees K. They also exhibit eastward hotspot offsets whereby the hottest region on the pla…
Phase curves of WASP-33b and HD 149026b and a New Correlation Between Phase Curve Offset and Irradiation Temperature
Michael Zhang, Heather A. Knutson, Tiffany Kataria +9
We present new 3.6 and 4.5 Spitzer phase curves for the highly irradiated hot Jupiter WASP-33b and the unusually dense Saturn-mass planet HD 149026b. As part of this analysis,…
The Very Low Albedo of WASP-12b From Spectral Eclipse Observations with
Taylor J. Bell, Nikolay Nikolov, Nicolas B. Cowan +11
We present an optical eclipse observation of the hot Jupiter WASP-12b using the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph on board the Hubble Space Telescope. These spectra allow us to…
Phase Offsets and the Energy Budgets of Hot Jupiters
Joel C. Schwartz, Zane Kashner, Diana Jovmir +1
Thermal phase curves of short-period planets on circular orbits provide joint constraints on the fraction of incoming energy that is reflected (Bond albedo) and the fraction of abs…
Knot a Bad Idea: Testing BLISS Mapping for Spitzer Space Telescope Photometry
Joel C. Schwartz, Nicolas B. Cowan
Much of transiting exoplanet science relies on high-precision photometry. The current generation of instruments can exhibit sensitivity variations greater than the astrophysical si…
3.6 and 4.5 m Phase Curves of the Highly-Irradiated Hot Jupiters WASP-19b and HAT-P-7b
Ian Wong, Heather A. Knutson, Tiffany Kataria +15
We analyze full-orbit phase curve observations of the transiting hot Jupiters WASP-19b and HAT-P-7b at 3.6 and 4.5 m obtained using the Spitzer Space Telescope. For WASP-19b, we…
Inferring Planetary Obliquity Using Rotational & Orbital Photometry
Joel C. Schwartz, Clara Sekowski, Hal M. Haggard +2
The obliquity of a terrestrial planet is an important clue about its formation and critical to its climate. Previous studies using simulated photometry of Earth show that continuou…
3.6 and 4.5 m Phase Curves of the Highly-Irradiated Eccentric Hot Jupiter WASP-14b
Ian Wong, Heather A. Knutson, Nikole K. Lewis +14
We present full-orbit phase curve observations of the eccentric () transiting hot Jupiter WASP-14b obtained in the 3.6 and 4.5 m bands using the \textit{Spitzer Spac…
Balancing the Energy Budget of Short-Period Giant Planets: Evidence for Reflective Clouds and Optical Absorbers
Joel C. Schwartz, Nicolas B. Cowan
We consider fifty transiting short-period giant planets for which eclipse depths have been measured at multiple infrared wavelengths. The aggregate dayside emission spectrum of the…
Features in the Broadband Eclipse Spectra of Exoplanets: Signal or Noise?
C. J. Hansen, J. C. Schwartz, N. B. Cowan
A planet's emission spectrum contains information about atmospheric composition and structure. We compare the Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC) of blackbody fits and idealized s…