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High-CO2 Climates and Observables in the Outer Habitable Zone
Daria Pidhorodetska, Edward W. Schwieterman, Thomas J. Fauchez +1
The habitable zone (HZ) is a fundamental concept used to guide our search for temperate exoplanets with stable surface liquid water that would sustain remotely detectable biosignat…
Atmospheric Reconnaissance of TRAPPIST-1 f with JWST NIRISS SOSS: No Evidence for the Transit Light Source Effect
Olivia Lim, René Doyon, Ryan J. MacDonald +25
In just over three years of operation, JWST has observed all seven planets of the TRAPPIST-1 system. The two innermost planets were found to have little to no atmosphere, barring t…
RISTRETTO: Assembly and Testing of the Seven-spaxel, High-resolution, Diffraction-limited Spectrograph
Leonie Hoerner, Bruno Chazelas, Nathanaël Restori +24
The RISTRETTO project aims at the direct detection of the reflected light of extra-solar planets to measure albedos and detect possible biosignatures, using the high-contrast / hig…
A broad exploration of climate and observability of close-in rocky exoplanets: applications to Ross 128 b
Mathilde Houelle, Emeline Bolmont, Christophe Lovis +4
VLT/RISTRETTO, ELT/ANDES and ELT/PCS will soon enable atmospheric characterization of non-transiting, small rocky exoplanets orbiting closer than the inner edge of the Habitable Zo…
DD4AO control law for RISTRETTO: robustness, real-time performance, and on-sky validation with PAPYRUS
Isaac Dinis, Muskan Schinde, Nicolas Blind +11
This study presents DD4AO progress towards its implementation in the RISTRETTO instrument. DD4AO is a novel frequency-domain, data-driven controller for adaptive optics that levera…
A Fast and Physically Grounded Ocean Model for GCMs: The Dynamical Slab Ocean Model of the Generic-PCM (rev. 3423)
Siddharth Bhatnagar, Francis Codron, Ehouarn Millour +5
Ocean dynamics are often sidelined in exoplanet climate studies due to the high computational cost of fully coupled atmosphere-ocean general circulation models (GCMs). However, oce…
Atmospheric Collapse and Habitability on Tidally-Locked Exoplanets
Keigo Taniguchi, Takanori Kodama, Martin Turbet +3
The habitability of terrestrial exoplanets orbiting M dwarfs is a key topic in the search for extraterrestrial life. The climates of these planets differ significantly from the Ear…
A Global High-Resolution Hydrological Model to Simulate the Dynamics of Surface Liquid Reservoirs: Application on Mars
Alexandre Gauvain, François Forget, Martin Turbet +3
Surface runoff shapes planetary landscapes, but global hydrological models often lack the resolution and flexibility to simulate dynamic surface water bodies beyond Earth. Recent s…
Climates of Terrestrial Exoplanets and Biosignatures
Siddharth Bhatnagar, Emeline Bolmont, Nikita J. Boeren +18
Understanding the climates of terrestrial exoplanets and the detectability of biosignatures is an inherently interdisciplinary challenge, requiring the integration of insights from…
Identifying rocky planets and water worlds among sub-Neptune-sized exoplanets with the Habitable Worlds Observatory
Renyu Hu, Michiel Min, Max Millar-Blanchaer +15
Astronomers are debating whether the plentiful "sub-Neptune" exoplanets -- worlds a bit larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune -- are predominantly rocky planets, water-rich "o…
Simulating RISTRETTO: Proxima b detectability in reflected light
Maddalena Bugatti, Christophe Lovis, Nicolas Billot +5
The characterization of exoplanet atmospheres is one of the key topics in modern astrophysics. To date, transmission spectroscopy has been the primary method used, but upcoming ins…
First JWST thermal phase curves of temperate terrestrial exoplanets reveal no thick atmosphere around TRAPPIST-1 b and c
Michaël Gillon, Elsa Ducrot, Taylor J. Bell +30
We report JWST/MIRI 15 m phase curves of TRAPPIST-1 b and c, revealing thermal emission consistent with their irradiation levels, assuming no efficient heat redistribution. We f…
Constraints on the possible atmospheres on TRAPPIST-1 b: insights from 3D climate modeling
Alice Maurel, Martin Turbet, Elsa Ducrot +13
JWST observations of the secondary eclipse of TRAPPIST-1 b at 12.8 and 15 microns revealed a very bright dayside. These measurements are consistent with an absence of atmosphere. P…
Strict limits on potential secondary atmospheres on the temperate rocky exo-Earth TRAPPIST-1 d
Caroline Piaulet-Ghorayeb, Björn Benneke, Martin Turbet +23
The nearby TRAPPIST-1 system, with its seven small rocky planets orbiting a late-type M8 star, offers an unprecedented opportunity to search for secondary atmospheres on temperate…
The RISTRETTO simulator: Exoplanet reflected spectra
M. Bugatti, C. Lovis, F. Pepe +4
The upcoming Ristretto spectrograph is dedicated to the detection and analysis of exoplanetary atmospheres, with a primary focus on the temperate rocky world Proxima b. This scient…
RISTRETTO: reflected-light exoplanet spectroscopy at the diffraction limit of the VLT
Christophe Lovis, Nicolas Blind, Bruno Chazelas +28
RISTRETTO is a visible high-resolution spectrograph fed by an extreme adaptive optics (AO) system, to be proposed as a visitor instrument on ESO VLT. The main science goal of RISTR…
RISTRETTO: Manufacturing of a single-mode visible high resolution spectrograph
Bruno Chazelas, Christophe Lovis, Nicolas Blind +13
The Spectrograph of the RISTRETTO instrument is now currently being manufactured. RISTETTO is an instrument designed to detect and characterize the reflected light of nearby exopla…
Transmission Spectroscopy of the Habitable Zone Exoplanet LHS 1140 b with JWST/NIRISS
Charles Cadieux, René Doyon, Ryan J. MacDonald +20
LHS 1140 b is the second-closest temperate transiting planet to the Earth with an equilibrium temperature low enough to support surface liquid water. At 1.7300.025 R,…
Detection of an Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting the nearby ultracool dwarf star SPECULOOS-3
Michaël Gillon, Peter P. Pedersen, Benjamin V. Rackham +81
Located at the bottom of the main sequence, ultracool dwarf stars are widespread in the solar neighbourhood. Nevertheless, their extremely low luminosity has left their planetary p…
ATMOSPHERIX: III- Estimating the C/O ratio and molecular dynamics at the limbs of WASP-76 b with SPIRou
Thea Hood, Florian Debras, Claire Moutou +13
Measuring the abundances of C- and O-bearing species in exoplanet atmospheres enables us to constrain the C/O ratio, that contains indications about the planet formation history. W…
Ground-breaking Exoplanet Science with the ANDES spectrograph at the ELT
Enric Palle, Katia Biazzo, Emeline Bolmont +56
In the past decade the study of exoplanet atmospheres at high-spectral resolution, via transmission/emission spectroscopy and cross-correlation techniques for atomic/molecular mapp…
A cool runaway greenhouse without surface magma ocean
Franck Selsis, Jérémy Leconte, Martin Turbet +2
Water vapour atmospheres with content equivalent to the Earth's oceans, resulting from impacts or a high insolation, were found to yield a surface magma ocean. This was, however, a…
3D Global climate model of an exo-Venus: a modern Venus-like atmosphere for the nearby super-Earth LP 890-9 c
Diogo Quirino, Gabriella Gilli, Lisa Kaltenegger +6
The recently discovered super-Earth LP 890-9 c is an intriguing target for atmospheric studies as it transits a nearby, low-activity late-type M-dwarf star at the inner edge of the…
A roadmap for the atmospheric characterization of terrestrial exoplanets with JWST
TRAPPIST-1 JWST Community Initiative, :, Julien de Wit +80
Ultra-cool dwarf stars are abundant, long-lived, and uniquely suited to enable the atmospheric study of transiting terrestrial companions with JWST. Amongst them, the most prominen…