Transmission Spectroscopy of the Habitable Zone Exoplanet LHS 1140 b with JWST/NIRISS

C Cadieux, R Doyon, RJ MacDonald… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
LHS 1140 b is the second-closest temperate transiting planet to Earth with an equilibrium
temperature low enough to support surface liquid water. At 1.730±0.025 R⊕, LHS 1140 b …

Possible Hycean conditions in the sub-Neptune TOI-270 d

M Holmberg, N Madhusudhan - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2024 - aanda.org
The JWST has ushered in a new era in atmospheric characterisations of temperate low-
mass exoplanets with recent detections of carbon-bearing molecules in the candidate …

High-energy spectra of LTT 1445A and GJ 486 reveal flares and activity

H Diamond-Lowe, GW King, A Youngblood… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
The high-energy radiative output, from the X-ray to the ultraviolet, of exoplanet host stars
drives photochemical reactions and mass loss in the upper regions of planetary …

Hints of a Sulfur-rich Atmosphere around the 1.6 R⊕ Super-Earth L98-59 d from JWST NIRspec G395H Transmission Spectroscopy

A Gressier, N Espinoza, NH Allen… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Detecting atmospheres around planets with a radius below 1.6 R⊕, commonly referred to as
rocky planets, has proven to be challenging. However, rocky planets orbiting M dwarfs are …

Slow Rotation for the Super-Puff Planet Kepler-51d

C Lammers, JN Winn - The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Super-puffs are low-density planets of unknown origin and composition. If they form by
accreting nebular gas through a circumplanetary disk, one might expect super-puffs to be …

Atmospheric Retrievals Suggest the Presence of a Secondary Atmosphere and Possible Sulfur Species on L98-59 d from JWST Nirspec G395H Transmission …

A Banerjee, JK Barstow, A Gressier… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
L 98-59 d is a Super-Earth planet orbiting an M-type star. We performed retrievals on the
transmission spectrum of L 98-59 d obtained using NIRSpec G395H during a single transit …

JWST COMPASS: The 3–5 μm Transmission Spectrum of the Super-Earth L 98-59 c

N Scarsdale, N Wogan, HR Wakeford… - The Astronomical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a JWST Near-InfraRed Spectrograph (NIRSpec) transmission spectrum of the
super-Earth exoplanet L 98-59 c. This small (R p= 1.385±0.085R⊕, M p= 2.22±0.26 R⊕) …

First comparative exoplanetology within a transiting multi-planet system: Comparing the atmospheres of V1298 Tau b and c

S Barat, JM Désert, JM Goyal, A Vazan… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
The V1298 Tau system is a multi-planet system that provides the opportunity to perform
comparative exoplanetology between planets orbiting the same star. Because of its young …

Biases in Exoplanet Transmission Spectra Introduced by Limb-darkening Parametrization

LP Coulombe, PA Roy, B Benneke - The Astronomical Journal, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
One of the main endeavors of the field of exoplanetary sciences is the characterization of
exoplanet atmospheres on a population level. The current method of choice to accomplish …

Geodynamics of super‐Earth GJ 486b

TG Meier, DJ Bower, T Lichtenberg… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Many super‐Earths are on very short orbits around their host star and, therefore, more likely
to be tidally locked. Because this locking can lead to a strong contrast between the dayside …