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Confirmation of a Non‐Transiting Planet in the Habitable Zone of the Nearby M Dwarf L 98‐59

Astronomische Nachrichten, Volume 347, Issue 2, February 2026.
ABSTRACT Only 40 exoplanetary systems with five or more planets are currently known. These systems are crucial for our understanding of planet formation and planet‐planet interaction. The M dwarf L 98‐59 has previously been found to show evidence of five planets, three of which are transiting.
Paul I. Schwarz, Stefan Dreizler, René Heller   +2 more
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Distinguishing Oceans of Water from Magma on Mini-Neptune K2-18b

The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Mildly irradiated mini-Neptunes have densities potentially consistent with them hosting substantial liquid-water oceans (“Hycean” planets). The presence of CO _2 and simultaneous absence of ammonia (NH _3 ) in their atmospheres has been proposed as a ...
Oliver Shorttle, Sean Jordan, Harrison Nicholls, Tim Lichtenberg, Dan J. Bower   +4 more
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Galactic Cosmic Ray Ionization on Uranus; Geomagnetic Latitude Dependencies

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, Volume 131, Issue 2, February 2026.
Abstract Galactic Cosmic Rays (GCRs) are a major source of atmospheric ionization, influencing ion abundance, aerosol formation, and electrical processes. GCR‐induced effects are expected to be more pronounced on Uranus than planets closer to the Sun for two reasons; reduced solar irradiance, and weaker solar modulation of incident GCR.
Ola Al‐Khuraybi, Karen L. Aplin, Alberto Gambaruto   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Titan solar occultation observations reveal transit spectra of a hazy world

, 2014
High altitude clouds and hazes are integral to understanding exoplanet observations, and are proposed to explain observed featureless transit spectra. However, it is difficult to make inferences from these data because of the need to disentangle effects ...
Fortney, Jonathan J., Maltagliati, Luca, Marley, Mark S., Robinson, Tyler D.   +3 more
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Diurnal Variability Modulates Episodic Convection in Hothouse Climates Over Ocean and Swamp‐Like Surface Conditions

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, Volume 18, Issue 2, February 2026.
Abstract Hot and moist “hothouse” climates occurred in Earth's past and are expected in Earth's far future climate, driven by increasing solar luminosity. In hothouse climate regimes, precipitation transitions from a quasi‐steady state, as in present‐day tropical convection, to an “episodic deluge” or relaxation‐oscillator (RO) regime where ...
Namrah Habib, Guy Dagan, Nathan Steiger
wiley   +1 more source

JWST-TST DREAMS: Nonuniform Dayside Emission for WASP-17b from MIRI/LRS

The Astronomical Journal
We present the first spectroscopic characterization of the dayside atmosphere of WASP-17b in the mid-infrared using a single JWST MIRI/LRS eclipse observation.
Daniel Valentine, Hannah R. Wakeford, Ryan C. Challener, Natasha E. Batalha, Nikole K. Lewis, David Grant, Elijah Mullens, Lili Alderson, Jayesh Goyal, Ryan J. MacDonald, Erin M. May, Sara Seager, Kevin B. Stevenson, Jeff A. Valenti, Natalie H. Allen, Néstor Espinoza, Ana Glidden, Amélie Gressier, Jingcheng Huang, Zifan Lin, Douglas Long, Dana R. Louie, Mark Clampin, Marshall Perrin, Roeland P. van der Marel, C. Matt Mountain   +25 more
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Exoplanet Research with the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA)

, 2017
When the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) was conceived and its first science cases defined, exoplanets had not been detected. Later studies, however, showed that optical and near-infrared photometric and spectrophotometric follow-
B Placek, B Placek, D Angerhausen, D Angerhausen, D Angerhausen, D Angerhausen, EW Dunham, F Pont, H Rauer, H Zinnecker, J Eastman, JZ Gazak, M Hippke, MJ Person, MR Swain, PW Sullivan, RD Gehrz, RT Zellem, Sz. Csizmadia, Sz. Csizmadia   +19 more
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Bridging Clarity and Accuracy: A Simple Spectral Longwave Radiation Scheme for Idealized Climate Modeling

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, Volume 18, Issue 2, February 2026.
Abstract Parameterizing radiative transfer in climate models means navigating trade‐offs between physical accuracy and conceptual clarity. However, currently available schemes sit at the extremes of this spectrum: correlated‐k schemes are fast and accurate but rely on lookup tables which obscure the underlying physics and make such schemes difficult to
Andrew I. L. Williams
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Peas-in-a-pod across the Radius Valley: Rocky Systems Are Less Uniform in Mass but More Uniform in Size and Spacing

The Astrophysical Journal Letters
The ubiquity of “peas-in-a-pod” architectural patterns and the existence of the radius valley each presents a striking population-level trend for planets with R _p ≤ 4 R _⊕ that serves to place powerful constraints on the formation and evolution of these
Armaan V. Goyal, Songhu Wang
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Removing systematic errors for exoplanet search via latent causes

, 2015
We describe a method for removing the effect of confounders in order to reconstruct a latent quantity of interest. The method, referred to as half-sibling regression, is inspired by recent work in causal inference using additive noise models.
Foreman-Mackey, Daniel, Hogg, David W., Janzing, Dominik, Peters, Jonas, Schölkopf, Bernhard, Simon-Gabriel, Carl-Johann, Wang, Dun   +6 more
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