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astro-ph.EP2023★ 8 cited

NIGHT: a compact, near-infrared, high-resolution spectrograph to survey helium in exoplanet systems

C. Farret Jentink, V. Bourrier, C. Lovis +5

Among highly irradiated exoplanets, some have been found to undergo significant hydrodynamic expansion traced by atmospheric escape. To better understand these processes in the con…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 10 cited

An ESPRESSO view of HD 189733 system. Broadband transmission spectrum, differential rotation, and system architecture

E. Cristo, E. Esparza Borges, N. C. Santos +25

The development of state-of-the-art spectrographs has ushered in a new era in the detection and characterization of exoplanetary systems. Our objective is to utilize the high-resol…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 2 cited

New Mass and Radius Constraints on the LHS 1140 Planets -- LHS 1140 b is Either a Temperate Mini-Neptune or a Water World

Charles Cadieux, Mykhaylo Plotnykov, René Doyon +43

The two-planet transiting system LHS 1140 has been extensively observed since its discovery in 2017, notably with , HST, TESS, and ESPRESSO, placing strong constraints on…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 64 cited

Near-Infrared Transmission Spectroscopy of HAT-P-18b with NIRISS: Disentangling Planetary and Stellar Features in the Era of JWST

Marylou Fournier-Tondreau, Ryan J. MacDonald, Michael Radica +24

The JWST Early Release Observations (ERO) included a NIRISS/SOSS (0.6-2.8m) transit of the 850K Saturn-mass exoplanet HAT-P-18b. Initial analysis of these data…

astro-ph.EP2023

ExoGemS High-Resolution Transmission Spectroscopy of WASP-76b with GRACES

Emily K. Deibert, Ernst J. W. de Mooij, Ray Jayawardhana +9

We present high-resolution transmission spectroscopy of WASP-76b with GRACES/Gemini North obtained as part of the ExoGemS survey. With a broad spectral range of 400-1050 nm and a r…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 25 cited

DREAM: III.A helium survey in exoplanets on the edge of the hot Neptune desert with GIANO-B@TNG

G. Guilluy, V. Bourrier, Y. Jaziri +9

The population of close-in exoplanets features a desert of hot Neptunes whose origin is uncertain. These planets may have lost their atmosphere, eroding into mini-Neptunes and supe…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 40 cited

Homogeneous search for helium in the atmosphere of 11 gas giant exoplanets with SPIRou

R. Allart, P. -B. Lemée-Joliecoeur, A. Y. Jaziri +31

The metastable helium triplet in the near-infrared (10833Å) is among the most important probes of exoplanet atmospheres. It can trace their extended outer layers and constrain mass…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 81 cited

Awesome SOSS: Transmission Spectroscopy of WASP-96b with NIRISS/SOSS

Michael Radica, Luis Welbanks, Néstor Espinoza +30

The future is now - after its long-awaited launch in December 2021, JWST began science operations in July 2022 and is already revolutionizing exoplanet astronomy. The Early Release…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 56 cited

The Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph for the James Webb Space Telescope -- III. Single Object Slitless Spectroscopy

Loic Albert, David Lafreniere, Rene Doyon +37

The Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph instrument (NIRISS) is the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) contribution to the suite of four science instruments of JWST. As one of t…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 15 cited

WASP-131 b with ESPRESSO I: A bloated sub-Saturn on a polar orbit around a differentially rotating solar-type star

L. Doyle, H. M. Cegla, D. R. Anderson +17

In this paper, we present observations of two high-resolution transit datasets obtained with ESPRESSO of the bloated sub-Saturn planet WASP-131~b. We have simultaneous photometric…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 8 cited

Exploring the stellar surface phenomena of WASP-52 and HAT-P-30 with ESPRESSO

H. M. Cegla, N. Roguet-Kern, M. Lendl +21

We analyse spectroscopic and photometric transits of the hot Jupiters WASP-52b and HAT-P30b obtained with ESPRESSO, Eulercam and NGTS for both targets, and additional TESS data for…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 41 cited

Detection of a high-velocity sodium feature on the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-121 b

J. V. Seidel, F. Borsa, L. Pino +19

Ultra-hot Jupiters, with their high equilibrium temperatures and resolved spectral lines, have emerged as a perfect testbed for new analysis techniques in the study of exoplanet at…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 45 cited

CO or no CO? Narrowing the CO abundance constraint and recovering the H2O detection in the atmosphere of WASP-127 b using SPIRou

Anne Boucher, David Lafrenière, Stefan Pelletier +24

Precise measurements of chemical abundances in planetary atmospheres are necessary to constrain the formation histories of exoplanets. A recent study of WASP-127b, a close-in puffy…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 19 cited

The hot Neptune WASP-166 b with ESPRESSO III: A blue-shifted tentative water signal constrains the presence of clouds

M. Lafarga, M. Brogi, S. Gandhi +8

With high-resolution spectroscopy we can study exoplanet atmospheres and learn about their chemical composition, temperature profiles, and presence of clouds and winds, mainly in h…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 73 cited

DREAM I. Orbital architecture orrery

V. Bourrier, O. Attia, M. Mallonn +28

The distribution of close-in exoplanets is shaped by a complex interplay between atmospheric and dynamical processes. The Desert-Rim Exoplanets Atmosphere and Migration (DREAM) pro…