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TESS Giants Transiting Giants. VI. Newly Discovered Hot Jupiters Provide Evidence for Efficient Obliquity Damping after the Main Sequence

The Astronomical Journal
The degree of alignment between a star’s spin axis and the orbital plane of its planets (the stellar obliquity) is related to interesting and poorly understood processes that occur during planet formation and evolution.
Nicholas Saunders, Samuel K. Grunblatt, Ashley Chontos, Fei Dai, Daniel Huber, Jingwen Zhang, Guđmundur Stefánsson, Jennifer L. van Saders, Joshua N. Winn, Daniel Hey, Andrew W. Howard, Benjamin Fulton, Howard Isaacson, Corey Beard, Steven Giacalone, Judah Van Zandt, Joseph M. Akana Murphey, Malena Rice, Sarah Blunt, Emma Turtelboom, Paul A. Dalba, Jack Lubin, Casey Brinkman, Emma M. Louden, Emma Page, Cristilyn N. Watkins, Karen A. Collins, Chris Stockdale, Thiam-Guan Tan, Richard P. Schwarz, Bob Massey, Steve B. Howell, Andrew Vanderburg, George R. Ricker, Jon M. Jenkins, Sara Seager, Jessie L. Christiansen, Tansu Daylan, Ben Falk, Max Brodheim, Steven R. Gibson, Grant M. Hill, Bradford Holden, Aaron Householder, Stephen Kaye, Russ R. Laher, Kyle Lanclos, Erik A. Petigura, Arpita Roy, Ryan A. Rubenzahl, Christian Schwab, Abby P. Shaum, Martin M. Sirk, Christopher L. Smith, Josh Walawender, Sherry Yeh   +55 more
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Water Evolution and Inventories of Super-Earths Orbiting Late M Dwarfs

The Astrophysical Journal
Super-Earths orbiting M dwarf stars may be the most common habitable planets in the Universe. However, their habitability is threatened by intense irradiation from their host stars, which drives the escape of water to space and can lead to surface ...
Keavin Moore, Benjamin David, Albert Yian Zhang, Nicolas B. Cowan   +3 more
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WASP-69b’s Escaping Envelope Is Confined to a Tail Extending at Least 7 Rp

The Astrophysical Journal
Studying the escaping atmospheres of highly irradiated exoplanets is critical for understanding the physical mechanisms that shape the demographics of close-in planets.
Dakotah Tyler, Erik A. Petigura, Antonija Oklopčić, Trevor J. David   +3 more
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The Epoch of Giant Planet Migration Planet Search Program. II. A Young Hot Jupiter Candidate around the AB Dor Member HS Psc

The Astronomical Journal
We report the discovery of a hot Jupiter candidate orbiting HS Psc, a K7 (≈0.7 M _⊙ ) member of the ≈130 Myr AB Doradus moving group. Using radial velocities over 4 yr from the Habitable-zone Planet Finder spectrograph at the Hobby–Eberly Telescope, we ...
Quang H. Tran, Brendan P. Bowler, William D. Cochran, Samuel Halverson, Suvrath Mahadevan, Joe P. Ninan, Paul Robertson, Guđmundur Stefánsson, Ryan C. Terrien   +8 more
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Magma Ocean Interactions Can Explain JWST Observations of the Sub-Neptune TOI-270 d

The Astrophysical Journal
Sub-Neptunes with substantial atmospheres may possess magma oceans in contact with the overlying gas, with chemical interactions between the atmosphere and magma playing an important role in shaping atmospheric composition.
Matthew C. Nixon, R. Sander Somers, Arjun B. Savel, Jegug Ih, Eliza M.-R. Kempton, Edward D. Young, Hilke E. Schlichting, Tim Lichtenberg, Luis Welbanks, William Misener, Anjali A. A. Piette, Nicholas F. Wogan   +11 more
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The Cosmic Shoreline Revisited: A Metric for Atmospheric Retention Informed by Hydrodynamic Escape

The Astrophysical Journal
The “cosmic shoreline,” a semi-empirical relation that separates airless worlds from worlds with atmospheres as proposed by K. J. Zahnle & D. C. Catling, is now guiding large-scale JWST surveys aimed at detecting rocky exoplanet atmospheres.
Xuan Ji, Richard D. Chatterjee, Brandon Park Coy, Edwin Kite   +3 more
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The Age and High-energy Environment of the Very Young Transiting Exoplanet TOI 1227b

The Astrophysical Journal
The mid-M star TOI 1227 hosts among the youngest known transiting exoplanets. We have conducted new X-ray imaging and optical spectroscopic observations of TOI 1227 aimed at ascertaining its age and the influence of its high-energy radiation on the ...
Attila Varga, Joel H. Kastner, Alexander S. Binks, Hans Moritz Günther, Simon J. Murphy   +4 more
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Where Are the Water Worlds? Identifying Exo-water-worlds Using Models of Planet Formation and Atmospheric Evolution

The Astrophysical Journal
Planet formation models suggest that the small exoplanets that migrate from beyond the snowline of the protoplanetary disk likely contain water-ice-rich cores (∼50% by mass), also known as water worlds.
Aritra Chakrabarty, Gijs D. Mulders
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Exo-Geoscience Perspectives Beyond Habitability. [PDF]

Space Sci Rev
Spohn T, Roberge A, Way MJ, Duarte JC, Miozzi F, Baumeister P, Byrne P, Lineweaver CH.   +7 more
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A young progenitor for the most common planetary systems in the Galaxy. [PDF]

Nature
Livingston JH, Petigura EA, David TJ, Masuda K, Owen J, Nesvorný D, Batygin K, de Leon J, Mori M, Ikuta K, Fukui A, Watanabe N, Orell Miquel J, Murgas F, Parviainen H, Korth J, Libotte F, Abreu García N, Gallardo PPM, Narita N, Pallé E, Tamura M, Yonehara A, Ridden-Harper A, Bieryla A, Trani AA, Mamajek EE, Ciardi DR, Gorjian V, Hillenbrand LA, Rebull LM, Newton ER, Mann AW, Vanderburg A, Stefánsson G, Mahadevan S, Cañas C, Ninan J, Higuera J, Todorov K, Désert JM, Pino L.   +41 more
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