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most citedA Framework for Prioritizing the TESS Planetary Candidates Most Amenable to Atmospheric Characterization

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astro-ph.EP2026

Recovering the Morning and Evening Limbs of WASP-94Ab from Its Limb-Averaged JWST Transmission Spectrum

Tyler R. Fairnington, Michael Radica, Michael Zhang +5

Recent JWST observations have revealed that the morning and evening limbs of the hot Jupiter WASP-94Ab have very different transmission spectra. An analysis of these resolved limb…

astro-ph.EP2026

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…

astro-ph.EP2026

JWST MIRI reveals a potential atmosphere on the ultra-hot rocky planet TOI-431b

Cole Smith, Brandon Park Coy, Megan Weiner Mansfield +13

An open question in exoplanet science is whether rocky exoplanets extremely close in to their host stars, `lava worlds', can retain significant atmospheres. Thermal emission observ…

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Precise Determination of the Metallicity and C/O of WASP-39~b From a Single JWST Instrument Mode with Phase-Resolved Cross-Correlation Retrievals

Arjun B. Savel, Eliza M. -R. Kempton, Erin M. May +4

Measuring atmospheric metallicities and C/O ratios is a key goal of JWST exoplanet science, given their proposed link to planet formation. Achieving this goal has previously been s…

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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…

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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…