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Performance of AutoRegressive Planet Search methodology on simulated PLATO lightcurves
Eric D. Feigelson, Marco Montalto, Geert Jan Talens +4
AIM. This study examines the PLATO mission sensitivity to small transiting planets (radii between 0.5 and 2.0 R) using Autoregressive Planet Search (ARPS) methodology base…
Detecting transiting exoplanets in simulated PLATO data: A comparison of light curve filter and transit search algorithms
Geert Jan Talens, Leigh C. Smith, Luca Malavolta +3
Aims: Our goal is to test and compare transit search methodologies, and provide recommendations as to the best practices to be implemented by the upcoming ESA PLATO mission, in ord…
Assessment of PLATO Science Performance
Juan Cabrera, Heike Rauer, Reza Samadi +121
The PLATO mission is scheduled for launch early 2027. In this paper we present an overview of the performance drivers for the mission at the time where all flight models of the cam…
HATPI Pre-Perihelion Time-series Photometry of the Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS
Joel D. Hartman, Gáspár Á. Bakos, Andrés Jordán +10
HATPI is a recently commissioned time-domain facility at Las Campanas Observatory, Chile, that uses 64 wide-angle, 9.6 cm diameter lenses and back-illuminated CCDs, yielding a mosa…
TIC65910228b: A single-transit discovery of a massive long-period warm Jupiter with TESS
Felipe I. Rojas, Rafael Brahm, Matías I. Jones +27
Context. Warm Jupiters are excellent case studies for the investigation of giant planet internal structures and formation theories. However, the sample of long-period transiting gi…
A Compact Multi-Planet System of Three Transiting Giant Planets Around TIC118798035
Rafael Brahm, Trifon Trifonov, Andrés Jordán +20
We report the discovery and characterization of three transiting giant planets in the TIC118798035 system. The three planets were identified as transiting candidates from data of t…
The Pictoris b Hill sphere transit campaign. Paper II: Searching for the signatures of the Pictoris exoplanets through time delay analysis of the Scuti pulsations
Sebastian Zieba, Konstanze Zwintz, Matthew Kenworthy +34
The Pictoris system is the closest known stellar system with directly detected gas giant planets, an edge-on circumstellar disc, and evidence of falling sublimating bodies and…
Giant Outer Transiting Exoplanet Mass (GOT 'EM) Survey: III. Recovery and Confirmation of a Temperate, Mildly Eccentric, Single-Transit Jupiter Orbiting TOI-2010
Christopher R. Mann, Paul A. Dalba, David Lafrenière +48
Large-scale exoplanet surveys like the TESS mission are powerful tools for discovering large numbers of exoplanet candidates. Single-transit events are commonplace within the resul…
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…
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…
The Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph for the James Webb Space Telescope -- I. Instrument Overview and in-Flight Performance
Rene Doyon, C. J Willott, John B. Hutchings +60
The Near-Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) is the science module of the Canadian-built Fine Guidance Sensor (FGS) onboard the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). NI…
ATOCA: an algorithm to treat order contamination. Application to the NIRISS SOSS mode
Antoine Darveau-Bernier, Loïc Albert, Geert Jan Talens +20
After a successful launch, the James Webb Space Telescope is preparing to undertake one of its principal missions, the characterization of the atmospheres of exoplanets. The Single…
APPLESOSS: A Producer of ProfiLEs for SOSS. Application to the NIRISS SOSS Mode
Michael Radica, Loïc Albert, Jake Taylor +12
The SOSS mode of the NIRISS instrument is poised to be one of the workhorse modes for exoplanet atmosphere observations with the newly launched James Webb Space Telescope. One of t…
The Pictoris b Hill sphere transit campaign. Paper I: Photometric limits to dust and rings
M. A. Kenworthy, S. N. Mellon, J. I. Bailey +33
Photometric monitoring of Beta Pictoris in 1981 showed anomalous fluctuations of up to 4% over several days, consistent with foreground material transiting the stellar disk. The su…
Properties of the Hyades, the eclipsing binary HD27130, and the oscillating red giant Tau
K. Brogaard, E. Pakštienė, F. Grundahl +21
Eclipsing binary stars allow derivation of accurate and precise masses and radii. When they reside in star clusters, properties of even higher precision, along with additional info…
Gravity-Darkening Analysis of Misaligned Hot Jupiter MASCARA-4 b
John P. Ahlers, Ethan Kruse, Knicole D. Colon +17
MASCARA-4 b is a hot Jupiter in a highly-misaligned orbit around a rapidly-rotating A3V star that was observed for 54 days by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (\tess). We…
An unusually large gaseous transit in a debris disc
Daniela P. Iglesias, Johan Olofsson, Amelia Bayo +9
We present the detection of an unusually large transient gas absorption in several ionized species in the debris disc star HD 37306 using high-resolution optical spectra. We have b…
MASCARA-3b: A hot Jupiter transiting a bright F7 star in an aligned orbit
M. Hjorth, S. Albrecht, G. J. J. Talens +12
We report the discovery of MASCARA-3b, a hot Jupiter orbiting its bright (V = 8.33) late F-type host every days in an almost circular orbit ($e = 0.050^{+0.020…
Revisiting the pulsational characteristics of the exoplanet host star Pictoris
K. Zwintz, D. R. Reese, C. Neiner +22
Exoplanet properties crucially depend on their host stars' parameters. In case the exoplanet host star shows pulsations, asteroseismology can be used for an improved description of…
MASCARA-4 b/bRing-1b - A retrograde hot Jupiter around the bright A3V star HD 85628
P. Dorval, G. J. J. Talens, G. P. P. L. Otten +25
In this paper, we aim to characterize a transiting planetary candidate in the southern skies found in the combined MASCARA and bRing data sets of HD 85628, an A3V star of V = 8.2 m…
The relationship between the morphology and kinematics of galaxies and its dependence on dark matter halo structure in EAGLE
Adrien C. R. Thob, Robert A. Crain, Ian G. McCarthy +7
We investigate the connection between the morphology and internal kinematics of the stellar component of central galaxies with mass in the EAGL…
Studying bright variable stars with the Multi-site All-Sky CAmeRA (MASCARA)
O. Burggraaff, G. J. J. Talens, J. Spronck +6
The Multi-site All-Sky CAmeRA (MASCARA) aims to find the brightest transiting planet systems by monitoring the full sky at magnitudes , taking data every 6.4 seconds. The…
Na I and H absorption features in the atmosphere of MASCARA-2b/KELT-20b
N. Casasayas-Barris, E. Palle, F. Yan +9
We have used the HARPS-North high resolution spectrograph (=115 000) at TNG to observe one transit of the highly irradiated planet MASCARA-2b/KELT-20b. Using only one…
bRing: An observatory dedicated to monitoring the Pictoris b Hill sphere transit
R. Stuik, J. I. Bailey, P. Dorval +8
Aims. We describe the design and first light observations from the Pictoris b Ring ("bRing") project. The primary goal is to detect photometric variability from the young star…