Search Results - "Beatty, Thomas G."
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A Framework for Prioritizing the TESS Planetary Candidates Most Amenable to Atmospheric Characterization
Published in Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (01-11-2018)“…A key legacy of the recently launched the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission will be to provide the astronomical community with many of the…”
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An Analytic Characterization of the Limb Asymmetry—Transit Time Degeneracy
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-10-2024)“…Abstract Atmospheres are not spatially homogeneous. This is particularly true for hot, tidally locked exoplanets with large day-to-night temperature…”
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A Lack of Variability between Repeated Spitzer Phase Curves of WASP-43b
Published in The Astronomical journal (01-03-2023)“…Abstract Though the global atmospheres of hot Jupiters have been extensively studied using phase curve observations, the level of time variability in these…”
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Multiple Clues for Dayside Aerosols and Temperature Gradients in WASP-69 b from a Panchromatic JWST Emission Spectrum
Published in The Astronomical journal (01-09-2024)“…Abstract WASP-69 b is a hot, inflated, Saturn-mass planet (0.26 M Jup ) with a zero-albedo equilibrium temperature of 963 K. Here, we report the JWST 2–12 μ m…”
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Multiwavelength Transit Observations of the Candidate Disintegrating Planetesimals Orbiting WD 1145+017
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-02-2017)“…We present multiwavelength, ground-based follow-up photometry of the white dwarf WD 1145+017, which has recently been suggested to be orbited by up to six or…”
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Sulfur Dioxide and Other Molecular Species in the Atmosphere of the Sub-Neptune GJ 3470 b
Published in Astrophysical journal. Letters (01-07-2024)“…Abstract We report observations of the atmospheric transmission spectrum of the sub-Neptune exoplanet GJ 3470 b taken using the Near-Infrared Camera on JWST…”
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Possible Carbon Dioxide above the Thick Aerosols of GJ 1214 b
Published in Astrophysical journal. Letters (01-10-2024)“…Abstract Sub-Neptune planets with radii smaller than Neptune (3.9 R ⊕ ) are the most common type of planet known to exist in the Milky Way, even though they…”
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Trials and Tribulations in the Reanalysis of KELT-24 b: A Case Study for the Importance of Stellar Modeling
Published in The Astronomical journal (01-09-2024)“…Abstract We present a new analysis of the KELT-24 system, comprising a well-aligned hot Jupiter, KELT-24 b, and a bright ( V = 8.3), nearby ( d = 96.9 pc)…”
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JWST/NIRISS Reveals the Water-rich “Steam World” Atmosphere of GJ 9827 d
Published in Astrophysical journal. Letters (01-10-2024)“…Abstract With sizable volatile envelopes but smaller radii than the solar system ice giants, sub-Neptunes have been revealed as one of the most common types of…”
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The detectability of nightside city lights on exoplanets
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-06-2022)“…ABSTRACT Next-generation missions designed to detect biosignatures on exoplanets will also be capable of placing constraints on technosignatures (evidence for…”
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The Mass and Radius of the Unseen M Dwarf Companion in the Single-Lined Eclipsing Binary HAT-TR-205-013
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-07-2007)“…We derive masses and radii for both components in the single lined eclipsing binary HAT-TR-205-013, which consists of an F7 V primary and a late M dwarf…”
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Methane throughout the atmosphere of the warm exoplanet WASP-80b
Published in Nature (London) (23-11-2023)“…The abundances of main carbon- and oxygen-bearing gases in the atmospheres of giant exoplanets provide insights into atmospheric chemistry and planet formation…”
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A giant planet undergoing extreme-ultraviolet irradiation by its hot massive-star host
Published in Nature (London) (22-06-2017)“…The giant planet KELT-9b has a dayside temperature of about 4,600 K, which is sufficiently high to dissociate molecules and to evaporate its atmosphere, owing…”
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KELT-1b: A STRONGLY IRRADIATED, HIGHLY INFLATED, SHORT PERIOD, 27 JUPITER-MASS COMPANION TRANSITING A MID-F STAR
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-12-2012)“…We present the discovery of KELT-1b, the first transiting low-mass companion from the wide-field Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope-North (KELT-North)…”
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Eigenspectra: a framework for identifying spectra from 3D eclipse mapping
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-12-2020)“…ABSTRACT Planetary atmospheres are inherently 3D objects that can have strong gradients in latitude, longitude, and altitude. Secondary eclipse mapping is a…”
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Reverberation Mapping of Optical Emission Lines in Five Active Galaxies
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-05-2017)“…We present the first results from an optical reverberation mapping campaign executed in 2014 targeting the active galactic nuclei (AGNs) MCG+08-11-011, NGC…”
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Astrophysical Sources of Statistical Uncertainty in Precision Radial Velocities and Their Approximations
Published in Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (01-12-2015)“…We investigate various astrophysical contributions to the statistical uncertainty of precision radial velocity measurements of stellar spectra. We first…”
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A high internal heat flux and large core in a warm Neptune exoplanet
Published in Nature (London) (27-06-2024)“…Interactions between exoplanetary atmospheres and internal properties have long been proposed to be drivers of the inflation mechanisms of gaseous planets and…”
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Spin–orbit alignment for KELT-7b and HAT-P-56b via Doppler tomography with TRES
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-08-2016)“…We present Doppler tomographic analyses for the spectroscopic transits of KELT-7b and HAT-P-56b, two hot-Jupiters orbiting rapidly rotating F-dwarf host stars…”
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Identification of Young Stellar Variables with KELT for K2. I. Taurus Dippers and Rotators
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-10-2017)“…One of the most well-studied young stellar associations, Taurus-Auriga, was observed by the extended Kepler mission, K2, in the spring of 2017. K2 Campaign 13…”
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