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 …

The GAPS programme with HARPS-N at TNG-XIV. Investigating giant planet migration history via improved eccentricity and mass determination for 231 transiting …

AS Bonomo, S Desidera, S Benatti, F Borsa… - Astronomy & …, 2017 - aanda.org
We carried out a Bayesian homogeneous determination of the orbital parameters of 231
transiting giant planets (TGPs) that are alone or have distant companions; we employed …

Global climate and atmospheric composition of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-103b from HST and Spitzer phase curve observations

L Kreidberg, MR Line, V Parmentier… - The Astronomical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We present thermal phase curve measurements for the hot Jupiter WASP-103b observed
with Hubble/WFC3 and Spitzer/IRAC. The phase curves have large amplitudes and …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Laboratory spectra of hot molecules: Data needs for hot super-Earth exoplanets

J Tennyson, SN Yurchenko - Molecular Astrophysics, 2017 - Elsevier
The majority of stars are now thought to support exoplanets. Many of those exoplanets
discovered thus far are categorized as rocky objects with an atmosphere. Most of these …

Tidal dissipation in evolving low-mass and solar-type stars with predictions for planetary orbital decay

AJ Barker - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We study tidal dissipation in stars with masses in the range 0.1–1.6 M⊙ throughout their
evolution, including turbulent effective viscosity acting on equilibrium tides and inertial …

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 …

Detection of the tidal deformation of WASP-103b at 3 σ with CHEOPS

SCC Barros, B Akinsanmi, G Boué, AMS Smith… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Context. Ultra-short period planets undergo strong tidal interactions with their host star which
lead to planet deformation and orbital tidal decay. Aims. WASP-103b is the exoplanet with …

The transiting exoplanet community early release science program for JWST

JL Bean, KB Stevenson, NM Batalha… - Publications of the …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) presents the opportunity to transform
our understanding of planets and the origins of life by revealing the atmospheric …

Friends of hot Jupiters. IV. Stellar companions beyond 50 AU might facilitate giant planet formation, but most are unlikely to cause Kozai–lidov migration

H Ngo, HA Knutson, S Hinkley, M Bryan… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Stellar companions can influence the formation and evolution of planetary systems, but there
are currently few observational constraints on the properties of planet-hosting binary star …