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The Origin of Chondrules: Constraints from Matrix-Chondrule Complementarity: One of the major unresolved problems in cosmochemistry is the origin of chondrules, once molten, spherical silicate droplets with diameters of 0.2 to 2 mm. Chondrules are an essential component of primitive meteorites and perhaps of all earl...
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Binary planetesimals and their role in planet formation: One of the main evolutionary stages of planet formation is the dynamical evolution of planetesimal disks. These disks are thought to evolve through gravitational encounters and physical collisions between single planetesimals. In recent years, many binary planete...
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AKARI/IRC Near-Infrared Asteroid Spectroscopic Survey: AcuA-spec: Knowledge of water in the solar system is important for understanding of a wide range of evolutionary processes and the thermal history of the solar system. To explore the existence of water in the solar system, it is indispensable to investigate hydrate...
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Transit of Exomoon Plasma Tori: New Diagnosis: In the solar system, moons largely exceed planets in number. The Kepler database has been shown to be sensitive to exomoon detection down to the mass of Mars, but the first search has been unsuccessful. Here, we use a particles-in-cell code to predict the transit of the pl...
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Tidal spin down rates of homogeneous triaxial viscoelastic bodies: We use numerical simulations to measure the sensitivity of the tidal spin down rate of a homogeneous triaxial ellipsoid to its axis ratios by comparing the drift rate in orbital semi-major axis to that of a spherical body with the same mass, volume and ...
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The secondary eclipse of the transiting exoplanet CoRoT-2b: We present a study of the light curve of the transiting exoplanet CoRoT-2b, aimed at detecting the secondary eclipse and measuring its depth. The data were obtained with the CoRoT satellite during its first run of more than 140 days. After filtering the low fr...
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Extreme asteroids in the Pan-STARRS 1 Survey: Using the first 18 months of the Pan-STARRS 1 survey we have identified 33 candidate high-amplitude objects for follow-up observations and carried out observations of 22 asteroids. 4 of the observed objects were found to have observed amplitude $A_{obs}\geq 1.0$ mag. We fin...
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The late accretion and erosion of Vesta's crust recorded by eucrites and diogenites as an astrochemical window into the formation of Jupiter and the early evolution of the Solar System: For decades the limited thickness of Vesta's basaltic crust, revealed by the link between the asteroid and the howardite-eucrite-d...
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Turbulence in the TW Hya Disk: Turbulence is a fundamental parameter in models of grain growth during the early stages of planet formation. As such, observational constraints on its magnitude are crucial. Here we self-consistently analyze ALMA CO(2-1), SMA CO(3-2), and SMA CO(6-5) observations of the disk around TW Hya...
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A Substellar Companion in a 1.3 yr Nearly-circular Orbit of HD 16760: We report the detection of a substellar companion orbiting the G5 dwarf HD 16760 from the N2K sample. Precise Doppler measurements of the star from Subaru and Keck revealed a Keplerian velocity variation with a period of 466.47+-0.35 d, a semiamplitu...
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Performance of near-infrared high-contrast imaging methods with JWST from commissioning: The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will revolutionize the field of high-contrast imaging and enable both the direct detection of Saturn-mass planets and the characterization of substellar companions in the mid-infrared. While ...
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The secondary eclipse of CoRoT-1b: The transiting planet CoRoT-1b is thought to belong to the pM-class of planets, in which the thermal emission dominates in the optical wavelengths. We present a detection of its secondary eclipse in the CoRoT white channel data, whose response function goes from ~400 to ~1000 nm. We u...
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A Lyman-alpha transit left undetected: the environment and atmospheric behavior of K2-25b: K2-25b is a Neptune-sized exoplanet (3.45 Earth radii) that orbits its M4.5 host with a period of 3.48 days. Due to its membership in the Hyades Cluster, the system has a known age (727 +/- 75 Myr). K2-25b's youth and its simil...
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Vital Signs: Seismology of ocean worlds: Ice-covered ocean worlds possess diverse energy sources and associated mechanisms that are capable of driving significant seismic activity, but to date no measurements of their seismic activity have been obtained. Such investigations could probe their transport properties and ra...
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Seismometer Detection of Dust Devil Vortices by Ground Tilt: We report seismic signals on a desert playa caused by convective vortices and dust devils. The long-period (10-100s) signatures, with tilts of ~10$^{-7}$ radians, are correlated with the presence of vortices, detected with nearby sensors as sharp temporary pr...
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Asteroid 4 Vesta: dynamical and collisional evolution during the Late Heavy Bombardment: Vesta is the only currently identified asteroid for which we possess samples, which revealed us that the asteroid is differentiated and possesses a relatively thin basaltic crust that survived to the evolution of the asteroid bel...
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Resonance locking in giant planets indicated by the rapid orbital expansion of Titan: Tidal effects in planetary systems are the main driver in the orbital migration of natural satellites. They result from physical processes occurring deep inside celestial bodies, whose effects are rarely observable from surface imag...
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Four Small Planets Buried in K2 Systems: What Can We Learn for TESS?: The Kepler, K2, and Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) missions have provided a wealth of confirmed exoplanets, benefiting from a huge effort from the planet-hunting and follow-up community. With careful systematics mitigation, these missio...
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NGTS-13b: A hot 4.8 Jupiter-mass planet transiting a subgiant star: We report the discovery of the massive hot Jupiter NGTS-13b by the Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS). The V = 12.7 host star is likely in the subgiant evolutionary phase with log g$_{*}$ = 4.04 $\pm$ 0.05, T$_{eff}$ = 5819 $\pm$ 73 K, M$_{*}$ = 1.3...
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The Complex History of Trojan Asteroids: The Trojan asteroids provide a unique perspective on the history of Solar System. As a large population of small bodies, they record important gravitational interactions and dynamical evolution of the Solar System. In the past decade, significant advances have been made in under...
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Radiation hydrodynamical models of the inner rim in protoplanetary disks: Many stars host planets orbiting within a few astronomical units (AU). The occurrence rate and distributions of masses and orbits vary greatly with the host stars mass. These close planets origins are a mystery that motivates investigating protop...
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The GAPS Programme at TNG XXXVIII. Five molecules in the atmosphere of the warm giant planet WASP-69b detected at high spectral resolution: The field of exo-atmospheric characterisation is progressing at an extraordinary pace. Atmospheric observations are now available for tens of exoplanets, mainly hot and warm infl...
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Preparing an unsupervised massive analysis of SPHERE high contrast data with the PACO algorithm: We aim at searching for exoplanets on the whole ESO/VLT-SPHERE archive with improved and unsupervised data analysis algorithm that could allow to detect massive giant planets at 5 au. To prepare, test and optimize our app...
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Super-Eccentric Migrating Jupiters: An important class of formation theories for hot Jupiters involves the excitation of extreme orbital eccentricity (e=0.99 or even larger) followed by tidal dissipation at periastron passage that eventually circularizes the planetary orbit at a period less than 10 days. In a steady st...
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Stellar wind effects on the atmospheres of close-in giants: a possible reduction in escape instead of increased erosion: The atmospheres of highly irradiated exoplanets are observed to undergo hydrodynamic escape. However, due to strong pressures, stellar winds can confine planetary atmospheres, reducing their escape...
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Meta-modelling the climate of dry tide locked rocky planets: Rocky planets hosted by close-in extrasolar systems are likely to be tidally locked in 1:1 spin-orbit resonance, a configuration where they exhibit permanent dayside and nightside. Because of the resulting day-night temperature gradient, the climate and large...
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Polarized microwave emission from space particles in the upper atmosphere of the Earth: Tons of space particles enter the Earth atmosphere every year, being detected when they produce fireballs, meteor showers, or when they impact the Earth surface. Particle detection in the showers could also be attempted from space...
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Complete Tidal Evolution of Pluto-Charon: Both Pluto and its satellite Charon have rotation rates synchronous with their orbital mean motion. This is the theoretical end point of tidal evolution where transfer of angular momentum has ceased. Here we follow Pluto's tidal evolution from an initial state having the curren...
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Statistical-likelihood Exo-Planetary Habitability Index (SEPHI): A new Statistical-likelihood Exo-Planetary Habitability Index (SEPHI) is presented. It has been developed to cover the current and future features required for a classification scheme disentangling whether any discovered exoplanet is potentially habitable...
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XX. CoRoT-20b: A very high density, high eccentricity transiting giant planet: We report the discovery by the CoRoT space mission of a new giant planet, CoRoT-20b. The planet has a mass of 4.24 +/- 0.23 MJ and a radius of 0.84 +/- 0.04 RJ. With a mean density of 8.87 +/- 1.10 g/cm^3, it is among the most compact plan...
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Impact Erosion Model for Gravity-Dominated Planetesimals: Disruptive collisions have been regarded as an important process for planet formation, while non-disruptive, small-scale collisions (hereafter called erosive collisions) have been underestimated or neglected by many studies. However, recent studies have suggeste...
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Listening to the gravitational wave sound of circumbinary exoplanets: To date more than 3500 exoplanets have been discovered orbiting a large variety of stars. Due to the sensitivity limits of the currently used detection techniques, these planets populate zones restricted either to the solar neighbourhood or towards t...
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Modeling Indications of Technology in Planetary Transit Light Curves -- Dark-side illumination: We analyze potential effects of an extraterrestrial civilization's use of orbiting mirrors to illuminate the dark side of a synchronously rotating planet on planetary transit light curves. Previous efforts to detect civili...
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Constraining High Speed Winds in Exoplanet Atmospheres Through Observations of Anomalous Doppler Shifts During Transit: Three-dimensional (3-D) dynamical models of hot Jupiter atmospheres predict very strong wind speeds. For tidally locked hot Jupiters, winds at high altitude in the planet's atmosphere advect heat fr...
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An enhanced slope in the transmission spectrum of the hot Jupiter WASP-104b: We present the optical transmission spectrum of the hot Jupiter WASP-104b based on one transit observed by the blue and red channels of the DBSP spectrograph at the Palomar 200-inch telescope and 14 transits observed by the MuSCAT2 four-chan...
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Where does Titan Sand Come From: Insight from Mechanical Properties of Titan Sand Candidates: Extensive equatorial linear dunes exist on Titan, but the origin of the sand, which appears to be organic, is unknown. We used nanoindentation to study the mechanical properties of a few Titan sand candidates, several natura...
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Computing Apparent Planetary Magnitudes for The Astronomical Almanac: Improved equations for computing planetary magnitudes are reported. These formulas model V-band observations acquired from the time of the earliest filter photometry in the 1950s up to the present era. The new equations incorporate several terms that...
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Q-type asteroids: Possibility of non-fresh weathered surfaces: Itokawa particles, which are the recovered samples from the S-complex asteroid 25143 Itokawa by the Hayabusa spacecraft, demonstrate that S-complex asteroids are parent bodies of ordinary chondrite meteorites. Furthermore, they clarify that the space weathe...
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An N-body Integrator for Gravitating Planetary Rings, and the Outer Edge of Saturn's B Ring: A new symplectic N-body integrator is introduced, one designed to calculate the global 360 degree evolution of a self-gravitating planetary ring that is in orbit about an oblate planet. This freely-available code is called ep...
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Gap carving by a migrating planet embedded in a massive debris disc: When considering gaps in debris discs, a typical approach is to invoke clearing by an unseen planet within the gap, and derive the planet mass using Wisdom overlap or Hill radius arguments. However, this approach can be invalid if the disc is massive,...
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Investigating the Temperature Distribution of Diatomic Carbon in Comets using the Swan Bands: We present high spectral-resolution observations of comets 122P/de Vico and 153P/Ikeya-Zhang obtained with the Tull Coud\'{e} spectrograph on the 2.7m Harlan J. Smith telescope of McDonald Observatory. We used these data to ...
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Capture of interstellar objects II: by the Solar system: Capture of interstellar objects (ISOs) into the Solar system is dominated by ISOs with asymptotic incoming speeds $v_\infty<4\,$km\,s$^{-1}$. The capture rate is proportional to the ISO phase-space density in the Solar vicinity and does not vary along the Sun's G...
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Behaviour of electron content in the ionospheric D-region during solar X-ray flares: One of the most important parameters in ionospheric plasma research also having a wide practical application in wireless satellite telecommunications is the total electron content (TEC) representing the columnal electron number densi...
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Layer formation in a stably-stratified fluid cooled from above. Towards an analog for Jupiter and other gas giants: In 1D evolution models of gas giant planets, an outer convection zone advances into the interior as the surface cools, and multiple convective layers form beneath that convective front. To study layer f...
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The Runaway Greenhouse Effect on Hycean Worlds: Hycean worlds are a proposed subset of sub-Neptune exoplanets with substantial water inventories, liquid surface oceans and extended hydrogen-dominated atmospheres that could be favourable for habitability. In this work, we aim to quantitatively define the inner edge of t...
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Effects of an eccentric inner Jupiter on the dynamical evolution of icy body reservoirs in a planetary scattering scenario: We analyze the process of planetary scattering around M0-type stars. To do this, we carry out N-body simulations with three Jupiter-mass planets close to their instability limit together with an...
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The abundance and thermal history of water ice in the disk surrounding HD142527 from the DIGIT Herschel Key Program: The presence or absence of ice in protoplanetary disks is of great importance for the formation of planets. By enhancing the solid surface density and increasing the sticking efficiency, ice catalyzes ...
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Migrating super-Earths in low-viscosity discs: unveiling the roles of feedback, vortices, and laminar accretion flows: We present the highest resolution study to date of super-Earths migrating in inviscid and low-viscosity discs, motivated by the connection to laminar, wind-driven models of protoplanetary discs. Our ...
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A photochemical model for the carbon-rich planet WASP-12b: The hot Jupiter WASP-12b is a heavily irradiated exoplanet in a short period orbit around a G0-star with twice the metallicity of the Sun. A recent thermochemical equilibrium analysis based on Spitzer and ground-based infrared observations suggests that the pre...
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Volatile transport on inhomogeneous surfaces: II. Numerical calculations (VT3D): Several distant icy worlds have atmospheres that are in vapor-pressure equilibrium with their surface volatiles, including Pluto, Triton, and, probably, several large KBOs near perihelion. Studies of the volatile and thermal evolution of...
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Transmission Spectroscopy of the Hot-Jupiter WASP-12b from 0.7 to 5 microns: Since the first report of a potentially non-solar carbon-to-oxygen ratio (C/O) in its dayside atmosphere, the highly irradiated exoplanet WASP-12b has been under intense scrutiny and the subject of many follow-up observations. Additionally, ...
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A Framework for Prioritizing the TESS Planetary Candidates Most Amenable to Atmospheric Characterization: A key legacy of the recently launched TESS mission will be to provide the astronomical community with many of the best transiting exoplanet targets for atmospheric characterization. However, time is of the essenc...
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Combining astrometry and JUICE -- Europa Clipper radio science to improve the ephemerides of the Galilean moons: The upcoming JUICE and Europa Clipper missions to Jupiter's Galilean satellites will provide radio science tracking measurements of both spacecraft. Such data are expected to significantly help estimating ...
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Formation of dust-rich planetesimals from sublimated pebbles inside of the snow line: Content: For up to a few millions of years, pebbles must provide a quasi-steady inflow of solids from the outer parts of protoplanetary disks to their inner regions. Aims: We wish to understand how a significant fraction of the pebb...
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Large eccentricity, low mutual inclination: the three-dimensional architecture of a hierarchical system of giant planets: We establish the three-dimensional architecture of the Kepler-419 (previously KOI-1474) system to be eccentric yet with a low mutual inclination. Kepler-419b is a warm Jupiter at semi-major axis a...
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Asteroid Photometry: Asteroid photometry has three major applications: providing clues about asteroid surface physical properties and compositions, facilitating photometric corrections, and helping design and plan ground-based and spacecraft observations. The most significant advances in asteroid photometry in the past...
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Electrostatic lofting of dust grains from the surfaces of Thebe and Amalthea: Energetic electrons from the inner radiation belt provide significant electric charging of the surfaces of Jupiter's moons Thebe and Amalthea whose orbits are located within this radiation belt. We estimate theoretically the electric fields...
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Constraining the origin of the planetary debris surrounding ZTF J0139+5245 through rotational fission of a triaxial asteroid: White dwarfs containing orbiting planetesimals or their debris represent crucial benchmarks by which theoretical investigations of post-main-sequence planetary systems may be calibrated. The p...
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HAT-P-28b and HAT-P-29b: Two Sub-Jupiter Mass Transiting Planets: We present the discovery of two transiting exoplanets. HAT-P-28b orbits a V=13.03 G3 dwarf star with a period P = 3.2572 d and has a mass of 0.63 +- 0.04 MJ and a radius of 1.21 + 0.11 -0.08 RJ yielding a mean density of 0.44 +- 0.09 g cm-3. HAT-P-29b or...
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Constraining spatial pattern of early activity of comet 67P/C-G with 3D modeling of the MIRO observations: Our aim is to investigate early activity (July 2014) of 67P/CG with 3D coma and radiative transfer modeling of MIRO measurements, accounting for nucleus shape, illumination, and orientation of the comet. We inve...
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Detection of an atmosphere around the super-Earth 55 Cancri e: We report the analysis of two new spectroscopic observations of the super-Earth 55 Cancri e, in the near infrared, obtained with the WFC3 camera onboard the HST. 55 Cancri e orbits so close to its parent star, that temperatures much higher than 2000 K are e...
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Hypotheses for near-surface exchange of methane on Mars: The Curiosity rover recently detected a background of 0.7 ppb and spikes of 7 ppb of methane on Mars. This in situ measurement reorients our understanding of the Martian environment and its potential for life, as the current theories do not entail any geological ...
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Insights into planet formation from debris disks: II. Giant impacts in extrasolar planetary systems: Giant impacts refer to collisions between two objects each of which is massive enough to be considered at least a planetary embryo. The putative collision suffered by the proto-Earth that created the Moon is a prime e...
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Outburst activity in comets: II. A multi-band photometric monitoring of comet 29p/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1: We have carried out a continuous multi-band photometric monitoring of the nuclear activity of comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 from 2008 to 2010. Our main aim has been to study the outburst mechanism on the basis...
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The Radial Distribution of Dust Particles in the HL Tau Disk from ALMA and VLA Observations: Understanding planet formation requires to discern how dust grows in protoplanetary disks. An important parameter to measure in disks is the maximum dust grain size present. This is usually estimated through measurements of t...
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Instantaneous Three-dimensional Thermal Structure of the South Polar Vortex of Venus: The Venus thermal radiation spectrum exhibits the signature of $CO_2$ absorption bands. By means of inversion techniques, those bands enable the retrieval of atmospheric temperature profiles. We have analyzed VIRTIS-M-IR night-side ...
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Gravito-turbulence in irradiated protoplanetary discs: Using radiation hydrodynamics simulations in a local stratified shearing box with realistic equations of state and opacities, we explored the outcome of self-gravity at 50 AU in a protoplanetary disc irradiated by the central star. We found that gravito-turbulence ...
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The Architecture of the V892 Tau System: the Binary and its Circumbinary Disk: We present high resolution millimeter continuum and CO line observations for the circumbinary disk around V892 Tau to constrain the stellar and disk properties. The total mass of the two near-equal-mass A stars is estimated to be $6.0\pm0....
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XO-2b: a Prograde Planet with a Negligible Eccentricity, and an Additional Radial Velocity Variation: We present precise radial velocities of XO-2 taken with the Subaru HDS, covering two transits of XO-2b with an interval of nearly two years. The data suggest that the orbital eccentricity of XO-2b is consistent with ...
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Particle transport in evolving protoplanetary disks: Implications for results from Stardust: Samples returned from comet 81P/Wild 2 by Stardust confirm that substantial quantities of crystalline silicates were incorporated into the comet at formation. We investigate the constraints that this observation places upon p...
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Ground-based detections of thermal emission from CoRoT-1b and WASP-12b: We report a new detection of the H-band thermal emission of CoRoT-1b and two confirmation detections of the Ks-band thermal emission of WASP-12b at secondary eclipses. The H-band measurement of CoRoT-1b shows an eclipse depth of 0.145%\pm0.049% wit...
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Shedding Light on the Eccentricity Valley: Gap Heating and Eccentricity Excitation of Giant Planets in Protoplanetary Disks: We show that the first order (non co-orbital) corotation torques are significantly modified by entropy gradients in a non-barotropic protoplanetary disk. Such non-barotropic torques can dramati...
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Origin Scenarios for the Kepler 36 Planetary System: We explore scenarios for the origin of two different density planets in the Kepler 36 system in adjacent orbits near the 7:6 mean motion resonance. We find that fine tuning is required in the stochastic forcing amplitude, the migration rate and planet eccentricities ...
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Friends of Hot Jupiters II: No Correspondence Between Hot-Jupiter Spin-Orbit Misalignment and the Incidence of Directly Imaged Stellar Companions: Multi-star systems are common, yet little is known about a stellar companion's influence on the formation and evolution of planetary systems. For instance, stellar compa...
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Identification of a new spectral signature at 3 $μ$m over Martian northern high latitudes: implications for surface composition: Mars northern polar latitudes are known to harbor an enhanced 3 ${\mu}$m spectral signature when observed from orbit. This may indicate a greater amount of surface adsorbed or bound water, ...
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Direct Imaging of Extra-solar Planets - Homogeneous Comparison of Detected Planets and Candidates: Searching the literature, we found 25 stars with directly imaged planets and candidates. We gathered photometric and spectral information for all these objects to derive their luminosities in a homogeneous way, taking a...
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On the co-orbital asteroids in the solar system: medium-term timescale analysis of the quasi-coplanar objects: The focus of this work is the current distribution of asteroids in co-orbital motion with Venus, Earth and Jupiter, under a quasi-coplanar configuration and for a medium-term timescale of the order of 900 ye...
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Giant Impact onto a Vesta-Like Asteroid and Formation of Mesosiderites through Mixing of Metallic Core and Surface Crust: Mesosiderites are a type of stony-iron meteorites composed of a mixture of silicates and Fe-Ni metals. The mesosiderite silicates and metals are considered to have originated from the crust and me...
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The giant nature of WD 1856 b implies that transiting rocky planets are rare around white dwarfs: White dwarfs (WDs) have roughly Earth-sized radii - a fact long recognized to facilitate the potential discovery of sub-Earth sized planets via transits, as well atmospheric characterization including biosignatures. Desp...
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Cometary glycolaldehyde as a source of pre-RNA molecules: Over 200 molecules have been detected in multiple extraterrestrial environments, including glycolaldehyde (C2(H2O)2, GLA), a two-carbon sugar precursor that has been detected in regions of the interstellar medium. Its recent in situ detection on the nucleus of c...
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Asteroseismology of iota Draconis and Discovery of an Additional Long-Period Companion: Giant stars as known exoplanet hosts are relatively rare due to the potential challenges in acquiring precision radial velocities and the small predicted transit depths. However, these giant host stars are also some of the brighte...
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Dynamic Limits on Planar Libration-Orbit Coupling Around an Oblate Primary: This paper explores the dynamic properties of the planar system of an ellipsoidal satellite in an equatorial orbit about an oblate primary. In particular, we investigate the conditions for which the satellite is bound in librational motion or...
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Accessible Carbon on the Moon: Carbon is one of the most essential elements to support a sustained human presence in space, and more immediately, several large-scale methalox-based transport systems will begin operating in the near future. This raises the question of whether indigenous carbon on the Moon is abundant an...
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The Absence of Cold Dust around Warm Debris Disk Star HD 15407A: We report Herschel and AKARI photometric observations at far-infrared (FIR) wavelengths of the debris disk around the F3V star HD 15407A, in which the presence of an extremely large amount of warm dust (~500-600 K) has been suggested by mid-infrared (MIR)...
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Information Content Analysis for Selection of Optimal JWST Observing Modes for Transiting Exoplanet Atmospheres: The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is nearing its launch date of 2018, and will undoubtedly revolutionize our knowledge of exoplanet atmospheres. While several studies have explored what the limits of t...
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Collisional Grooming Models of the Kuiper Belt Dust Cloud: We modeled the 3-D structure of the Kuiper Belt dust cloud at four different dust production rates, incorporating both planet-dust interactions and grain-grain collisions using the collisional grooming algorithm. Simulated images of a model with a face-on optic...
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The EChO science case: The discovery of almost 2000 exoplanets has revealed an unexpectedly diverse planet population. Observations to date have shown that our Solar System is certainly not representative of the general population of planets in our Milky Way. The key science questions that urgently need addressing are ...
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The Rate of Planet-star Coalescences Due to Tides and Stellar Evolution: Orbits of close-in planets can shrink significantly due to dissipation of tidal energy in a host star. This process can result in star-planet coalescence within the Galactic lifetime. In some cases, such events can be accompanied by an optical or/...
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Global Calculations of Density Waves and Gap Formation in Protoplanetary Disks using a Moving Mesh: We calculate the global quasi-steady state of a thin disk perturbed by a low-mass protoplanet orbiting at a fixed radius using extremely high-resolution numerical integrations of Euler's equations in two dimensions. Th...
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Millimetre spectral indices of transition disks and their relation to the cavity radius: Transition disks are protoplanetary disks with inner depleted dust cavities and excellent candidates to investigate the dust evolution under the existence of a pressure bump. A pressure bump at the outer edge of the cavity allows...
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Debiasing the Minimum-Mass Extrasolar Nebula: On the Diversity of Solid Disk Profiles: A foundational idea in the theory of in situ planet formation is the "minimum mass extrasolar nebula" (MMEN), a surface density profile ($\Sigma$) of disk solids that is necessary to form the planets in their present locations. Whi...
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The Far-Ultraviolet "Continuum" in Protoplanetary Disk Systems I: Electron-Impact H2 and Accretion Shocks: We present deep spectroscopic observations of the classical T Tauri stars DF Tau and V4046 Sgr in order to better characterize two important sources of far-ultraviolet continuum emission in protoplanetary disks....
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Water delivery to the TRAPPIST-1 planets: Three of the seven rocky planets (e, f, and g) in TRAPPIST-1 system orbit in the habitable zone of the host star. Therefore, water can be in liquid state at their surface being essential for life. Recent studies suggest that these planets formed beyond the snow line in a water-...
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Nebular history of an ultrarefractory phase bearing CAI from a reduced type CV chondrite: Ultrarefractory (UR) phases in CAIs could have formed at higher T compared to common CAI minerals and thus they potentially provide constraints on very high-T processes in the solar nebula. We report a detailed characterization ...
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LHS6343C: A Transiting Field Brown Dwarf Discovered by the Kepler Mission: We report the discovery of a brown dwarf that transits one member of the M+M binary system LHS6343AB every 12.71 days. The transits were discovered using photometric data from the Kelper public data release. The LHS6343 stellar system was prev...
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Radiative transfer models of mid-infrared H2O lines in the Planet-forming Region of Circumstellar Disks: The study of warm molecular gas in the inner regions of protoplanetary disks is of key importance for the study of planet formation and especially for the transport of H2O and organic molecules to the surfaces of ...
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Improvements on analytic modelling of stellar spots: In this work we present the solution of the stellar spot problem using the Kelvin-Stokes theorem. Our result is applicable for any given location and dimension of the spots on the stellar surface. We present explicitely the result up to the second degree in the limb ...
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Reconstructing the photometric light curves of Earth as a planet along its history: By utilizing satellite-based estimations of the distribution of clouds, we have studied the Earth's large-scale cloudiness behavior according to latitude and surface types (ice, water, vegetation and desert). These empirical relations...
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Following the TraCS of exoplanets with Pan-Planets: Wendelstein-1b and Wendelstein-2b: Hot Jupiters seem to get rarer with decreasing stellar mass. The goal of the Pan-Planets transit survey was the detection of such planets and a statistical characterization of their frequency. Here, we announce the discovery and va...
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How initial and boundary conditions affect protoplanetary migration in a turbulent sub-Keplerian accretion disc: 2D non viscous SPH simulations: Current theories on planetary formation establish that giant planet formation should be contextual to their quick migration towards the central star due to the protoplanets-...
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