Search Results - "Spake, J"
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Helium in the eroding atmosphere of an exoplanet
Published in Nature (London) (01-05-2018)“…Helium is the second-most abundant element in the Universe after hydrogen and is one of the main constituents of gas-giant planets in our Solar System. Early…”
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Spectrally resolved helium absorption from the extended atmosphere of a warm Neptune-mass exoplanet
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (21-12-2018)“…Stellar heating causes atmospheres of close-in exoplanets to expand and escape. These extended atmospheres are difficult to observe because their main spectral…”
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Detection of Fe i in the atmosphere of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-121b, and a new likelihood-based approach for Doppler-resolved spectroscopy
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-04-2020)“…ABSTRACT High-resolution Doppler-resolved spectroscopy has opened up a new window into the atmospheres of both transiting and non-transiting exoplanets. Here,…”
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Confirmation of water emission in the dayside spectrum of the ultrahot Jupiter WASP-121b
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-08-2020)“…ABSTRACT We present four new secondary eclipse observations for the ultrahot Jupiter WASP-121b acquired using the Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Camera 3…”
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Single transit candidates from K2: detection and period estimation
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-04-2016)“…Photometric surveys such as Kepler have the precision to identify exoplanet and eclipsing binary candidates from only a single transit. K2, with its 75 d…”
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An absolute sodium abundance for a cloud-free ‘hot Saturn’ exoplanet
Published in Nature (London) (01-05-2018)“…Broad absorption signatures from alkali metals, such as the sodium (Na i ) and potassium (K i ) resonance doublets, have long been predicted in the optical…”
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K2 variable catalogue – II. Machine learning classification of variable stars and eclipsing binaries in K2 fields 0–4
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (21-02-2016)“…We are entering an era of unprecedented quantities of data from current and planned survey telescopes. To maximize the potential of such surveys, automated…”
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Diurnal variations in the stratosphere of the ultrahot giant exoplanet WASP-121b
Published in Nature astronomy (01-04-2022)“…The temperature profile of a planetary atmosphere is a key diagnostic of radiative and dynamical processes governing the absorption, redistribution and…”
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Abundance measurements of H2O and carbon-bearing species in the atmosphere of WASP-127b confirm its supersolar metallicity
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-01-2021)“…ABSTRACT The chemical abundances of exoplanet atmospheres may provide valuable information about the bulk compositions, formation pathways, and evolutionary…”
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WASP-166b: a bloated super-Neptune transiting a V = 9 star
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (21-09-2019)“…Abstract We report the discovery of WASP-166b, a super-Neptune planet with a mass of 0.1 MJup (1.9 MNep) and a bloated radius of 0.63 RJup. It transits a…”
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Photodynamical mass determination of the multiplanetary system K2-19
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (21-12-2015)“…K2-19 is the second multiplanetary system discovered with K2 observations. The system is composed of two Neptune size planets close to the 3:2 mean-motion…”
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WASP-135b: A Highly Irradiated, Inflated Hot Jupiter Orbiting a G5V Star
Published in Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (01-02-2016)“…We report the discovery of a new transiting planet from the WASP survey. WASP-135b is a hot Jupiter with radius 1.30 0.09 RJup, mass 1.90 0.08 MJup, and an…”
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Using helium 10 830 Å transits to constrain planetary magnetic fields
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-01-2024)“…ABSTRACT Planetary magnetic fields can affect the predicted mass-loss rate for close-in planets that experience large amounts of ultraviolet irradiation. In…”
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The Upper Edge of the Neptune Desert Is Stable Against Photoevaporation
Published in The Astronomical journal (01-12-2022)“…Abstract Transit surveys indicate that there is a deficit of Neptune-sized planets on close-in orbits. If this “Neptune desert” is entirely cleared out by…”
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UV absorption by silicate cloud precursors in ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-178b
Published in Nature (London) (07-04-2022)“…Aerosols have been found to be nearly ubiquitous in substellar atmospheres 1 – 3 . The precise temperature at which these aerosols begin to form in exoplanets…”
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Non-detection of He I in the Atmosphere of GJ 1214b with Keck/NIRSPEC, at a Time of Minimal Telluric Contamination
Published in Astrophysical journal. Letters (01-11-2022)“…Abstract Observations of helium in exoplanet atmospheres may reveal the presence of large gaseous envelopes and indicate ongoing atmospheric escape…”
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Solar-to-supersolar sodium and oxygen absolute abundances for a ‘hot Saturn’ orbiting a metal-rich star
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (04-08-2022)“…ABSTRACT We present new analysis of infrared transmission spectroscopy of the cloud-free hot-Saturn WASP-96b performed with the Hubble and Spitzer Space…”
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The post-transit tail of WASP-107b observed at 10830A
Published 19-07-2021“…Understanding the effects of high-energy radiation and stellar winds on planetary atmospheres is vital for explaining the observed properties of close-in…”
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The Transiting Exoplanet Community Early Release Science Program for JWST
Published in Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (01-11-2018)“…The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) presents the opportunity to transform our understanding of planets and the origins of life by revealing the atmospheric…”
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High-resolution confirmation of an extended helium atmosphere around WASP-107b
Published 23-01-2019“…A&A 623, A58 (2019) Probing the evaporation of exoplanet atmospheres is key to understanding the formation and evolution of exoplanetary systems. The main…”
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