The effect of stellar contamination on low-resolution transmission spectroscopy: needs identified by NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program Study Analysis Group 21

BV Rackham, N Espinoza… - RAS Techniques …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Study Analysis Group 21 (SAG21) of NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program
Analysis Group was organized to study the effect of stellar contamination on space-based …

Five key exoplanet questions answered via the analysis of 25 hot-Jupiter atmospheres in eclipse

Q Changeat, B Edwards, AF Al-Refaie… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Population studies of exoplanets are key to unlocking their statistical properties. So far, the
inferred properties have been mostly limited to planetary, orbital, and stellar parameters …

TESS transit timing of hundreds of hot Jupiters

ES Ivshina, JN Winn - The Astrophysical Journal Supplement …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We provide a database of transit times and updated ephemerides for 382 planets based on
data from the NASA Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and previously reported …

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

A Boucher, D Lafreniére, S Pelletier… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Precise measurements of chemical abundances in planetary atmospheres are necessary to
constrain the formation histories of exoplanets. A recent study of WASP-127 b, a close-in …

Exploring the ability of Hubble Space Telescope WFC3 G141 to uncover trends in populations of exoplanet atmospheres through a homogeneous transmission survey …

B Edwards, Q Changeat, A Tsiaras… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present analysis of the atmospheres of 70 gaseous extrasolar planets via transit
spectroscopy with Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3). For over half of these, we …

Hubble WFC3 spectroscopy of the habitable-zone super-Earth LHS 1140 b

B Edwards, Q Changeat, M Mori… - The Astronomical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Atmospheric characterization of temperate, rocky planets is the holy grail of exoplanet
studies. These worlds are at the limits of our capabilities with current instrumentation in …

Cloud property trends in hot and ultra-hot giant gas planets (WASP-43b, WASP-103b, WASP-121b, HAT-P-7b, and WASP-18b)

C Helling, D Lewis, D Samra, L Carone… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
Context. Ultra-hot Jupiters are the hottest exoplanets that have been discovered so far.
Observations begin to provide insight into the composition of their extended atmospheres …

ARES.* V. No evidence for molecular absorption in the HST WFC3 spectrum of GJ 1132 b

LV Mugnai, D Modirrousta-Galian… - The Astronomical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a study on the spatially scanned spectroscopic observations of the transit of GJ
1132 b, a warm (∼ 500 K) super-Earth (1.13 R⊕) that was obtained with the G141 grism …

ExoClock Project. II. A large-scale integrated study with 180 updated exoplanet ephemerides

A Kokori, A Tsiaras, B Edwards… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The ExoClock project is an inclusive, integrated, and interactive platform that was developed
to monitor the ephemerides of the Ariel targets to increase the mission efficiency. The project …

ExoGemS Detection of a metal hydride in an exoplanet atmosphere at high spectral resolution

L Flagg, JD Turner, E Deibert… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Exoplanet atmosphere studies are often enriched by synergies with brown dwarf analogs.
However, many key molecules commonly seen in brown dwarfs have yet to be confirmed in …