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Transiting Exoplanet Studies and Community Targets for JWST's Early Release Science Program [PDF]

, 2016
This is a white paper that originated from an open discussion at the Enabling Transiting Exoplanet Science with JWST workshop held November 16 - 18, 2015 at STScI (http://www.stsci.edu/jwst/science/exoplanets). Accepted for publication in PASPThis is the
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Outward Migration of a Gas Accreting Planet: A Semianalytical Formula

The Astrophysical Journal
Type II orbital migration is a key process to regulate the mass and semimajor axis distribution of exoplanetary giant planets. The conventional formula of Type II migration generally predicts too rapid inward migration to reconcile with the observed ...
Shigeru Ida, Ya-Ping Li, Jun-Peng Pan, Yi-Xian Chen, Douglas N. C. Lin   +4 more
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Deciphering the “Missing Xenon Paradox” in Celestial Bodies: A Multifaceted Perspective Toward Demystifying This Enigma

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, Volume 131, Issue 4, April 2026.
Abstract Xenon (Xe) is a heavy noble gas with intriguing chemical properties, such as having several stable isotopes and the ability to form compounds under extreme conditions. Despite the predictions based on cosmochemical models that suggest xenon should be relatively abundant in planetary reservoirs, empirical data indicate a significant depletion ...
Avinash Kumar Both, Avradip Ghosh, Chin Li Cheung   +2 more
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Exploring Warm Jupiter Migration Pathways with Eccentricities. I. Catalog of Uniform Keplerian Fits to Radial Velocities of 200 Warm Jupiters

The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
Giant planets are expected to predominantly form beyond the water-ice line and occasionally undergo inward migration. Unlike hot Jupiters, which can result from high-eccentricity tidal migration, warm Jupiters between 0.1 and 1 au (≈10–365 days) are in ...
Marvin Morgan, Brendan P. Bowler, Quang H. Tran, Robert A. Wittenmyer, Duncan J. Wright, George Zhou, Tyler R. Fairnington   +6 more
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Effects of Planetesimal Scattering: Explaining the Observed Offsets from Period Ratios 3:2 and 2:1

The Astrophysical Journal, 2023
The observed deficit and excess of adjacent planet pairs with period ratios narrow and wide of 3:2 and 2:1, the nominal values for the corresponding mean-motion resonances (MMRs), have intrigued many. Previously, using a suite of simulations, Chatterjee &
Tuhin Ghosh, Sourav Chatterjee
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Effects of Hydrogen on Fe‐S Alloys and Their Implications for the Martian Core

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, Volume 131, Issue 3, March 2026.
Abstract Meteorites suggest the Martian core comprises iron (Fe) or iron‐nickel (Fe‐Ni) alloy with sulfur (S) identified as the primary light element. The InSight data revealed a larger, less dense Martian core than previously estimated, indicating additional light elements.
Xuehui Wei, Stella Chariton, Vitali B. Prakapenka, Yingwei Fei, Sang‐Heon Shim   +4 more
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An Outer Giant Planet or Brown Dwarf in the 51 Pegasi System?

The Astronomical Journal
51 Pegasi harbors the first confirmed extrasolar planet orbiting a Sun-like star. Decades of continued radial velocity (RV) observations have since uncovered signatures of an additional distant companion in the system from a shallow radial acceleration ...
Marvin Morgan, Brendan P. Bowler, Kyle Franson, Lillian Jiang, Eric Gaidos, Quang H. Tran, Jingwen Zhang, Judah Van Zandt, Katie E. Painter, Erik A. Petigura, Darryl Z. Seligman, Adina D. Feinstein, David R. Ciardi, Rocio Kiman, Benjamin J. Fulton, Howard Isaacson, Andrew W. Howard, Stefan Dreizler   +17 more
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Magnetic Evolution of Super‐Earth Exoplanets With a Basal Magma Ocean

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, Volume 131, Issue 3, March 2026.
Abstract Habitability of super‐Earths likely requires self‐sustained magnetic fields to shield their atmospheres from stellar forcing. Extreme pressures and temperatures probably produce a long‐lived basal magma ocean (BMO), a potential source for these fields.
Victor Lherm, Miki Nakajima, Eric G. Blackman   +2 more
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Formation of Asteroid (16) Psyche by a Giant Impact

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, Volume 131, Issue 1, January 2026.
Abstract Asteroid (16) Psyche is the largest likely metal‐rich asteroid in the Solar System and the target of the NASA Psyche mission. The mission aims to determine whether the asteroid is the core of a differentiated planetesimal that lost its mantle via a giant impact.
Saverio Cambioni, Benjamin P. Weiss, Namya Baijal, Robert Melikyan, Erik Asphaug, John B. Biersteker, Richard P. Binzel, William F. Bottke, Samuel W. Courville, Linda T. Elkins‐Tanton, David J. Lawrence, José M. G. Merayo, Carol A. Raymond, Mark A. Wieczorek, Maria T. Zuber   +14 more
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The Prevalence of Resonance Among Young, Close-in Planets

The Astronomical Journal
Multiple planets undergoing disk migration may be captured into a chain of mean-motion resonances with the innermost planet parked near the disk’s inner edge.
Fei Dai, Max Goldberg, Konstantin Batygin, Jennifer van Saders, Eugene Chiang, Nick Choksi, Rixin Li, Erik A. Petigura, Gregory J. Gilbert, Sarah C. Millholland, Yuan-Zhe Dai, Luke Bouma, Lauren M. Weiss, Joshua N. Winn   +13 more
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