3 papers
astro-ph.EP2025
Clouds as the driver of variability and colour changes in brown dwarf atmospheres
Lucas Teinturier, Benjamin Charnay, Aymeric Spiga +1
Brown dwarfs are massive, giant exoplanet analogues subject to variability and colour changes, known as the L/T transition, fundamental for their thermal evolution. The drivers of…
astro-ph.EP2025
The Atmosphere of Titan in Late Northern Summer from JWST and Keck Observations
Conor A. Nixon, Bruno Bézard, Thomas Cornet +42
Saturn's moon Titan undergoes a long annual cycle of 29.45 Earth years. Titan's northern winter and spring were investigated in detail by the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft (2004-2017)…
astro-ph.EP2024
The D/H ratio in Titan's acetylene from high spectral resolution IRTF/TEXES observations
B. Bézard, C. A. Nixon, S. Vinatier +5
We report observations of deuterated acetylene (CHD) at 19.3 m (519 cm) with the Texas Echelon Cross Echelle Spectrograph on the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility in…