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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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Extracting starspot structures from exoplanet transit photometry

Astronomy & Astrophysics
Context . Future space-based transit photometry can provide empirical comparisons of solar and stellar spot structures with high precision. Spot transit mapping provides a way to directly observe and characterize the location, size, intensity, and evolution of starspots to infer stellar rotation rates and ...
S. M. Zaleski, A. Valio, B. Carter
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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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Asteroseismology of Exoplanet Host Stars [PDF]

, 2016
Exoplanet studies are one of the most interesting and attractive topics in astrophysics. Besides of ground-based observations, Kepler and CoRoT space missions improved our knowledge by providing unprecedented data of exoplanets and host stars ...
Çelik Orhan, Zeynep, Kayhan, Cenk, Yildiz, Mutlu   +2 more
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Helium Depletion in Escaping Atmospheres of Sub-Neptunes: A Signature of Primary-to-secondary Transition

The Astrophysical Journal
Short-period sub-Neptunes are common in extrasolar systems. These sub-Neptunes are generally thought to have primary atmospheres of protoplanetary-disk gas origin.
Issei Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Kurokawa, Laura Schaefer, Satoshi Okuzumi   +3 more
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Effects of Planetary Parameters on Disequilibrium Chemistry in Irradiated Planetary Atmospheres: From Gas Giants to Sub-Neptunes

The Astrophysical Journal
A primary goal of characterizing exoplanet atmospheres is to constrain planetary bulk properties, such as their metallicity, C/O ratio, and intrinsic heat.
Sagnick Mukherjee, Jonathan J. Fortney, Nicholas F. Wogan, David K. Sing, Kazumasa Ohno   +4 more
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Exoplanet characterization across the mass-radius space using machine learning [PDF]

Characterizing the internal composition of exoplanets is an essential part in understanding the diversity of observed exoplanets and the processes that govern their formation and evolution.
Baumeister, Philipp, Bahrenberg, Johannes, Charly, Aleeda, Tosi, Nicola   +3 more
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Precise Constraints on the Energy Budget of WASP-121 b from Its JWST NIRISS/SOSS Phase Curve

The Astronomical Journal
Ultra-hot Jupiters exhibit day-to-night temperature contrasts upwards of 1000 K due to competing effects of strong winds, short radiative timescales, magnetic drag, and H _2 dissociation/recombination. Spectroscopic phase curves provide critical insights
Jared Splinter, Louis-Philippe Coulombe, Robert C. Frazier, Nicolas B. Cowan, Emily Rauscher, Lisa Dang, Michael Radica, Sean Collins, Stefan Pelletier, Romain Allart, Ryan J. MacDonald, David Lafrenière, Loïc Albert, Björn Benneke, René Doyon, Ray Jayawardhana, Doug Johnstone, Vigneshwaran Krishnamurthy, Caroline Piaulet-Ghorayeb, Lisa Kaltenegger, Michael R. Meyer, Jake Taylor, Jake D. Turner   +22 more
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From Underground Oceans to Continents: A Glimpse into the Water Inventory on Rocky Planets Using Host Star Abundances

The Astrophysical Journal
The amount of surface water is thought to be critical for a planet’s climate stability and thus habitability. However, the probability that a rocky planet may exhibit surface water at any point in its evolution is dependent on multiple factors, such as ...
Kiersten M. Boley, Wendy R. Panero, Francesca Miozzi, Ashika Capirala, Johanna K. Teske   +4 more
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Early Time Small-scale Structures in Hot Exoplanet Atmosphere Simulations

The Astrophysical Journal
Abstract We report on the critical influence of small-scale flow structures (e.g., fronts, vortices, and waves) that immediately arise in hot exoplanet atmosphere simulations initialized with a resting state. A hot, 1:1 spin–orbit synchronized Jupiter is used here as a clear example; but, the phenomenon is generic and important for any ...
J. W. Skinner, J. Y-K. Cho
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