The young HD 73583 (TOI-560) planetary system: two 10-M mini-Neptunes transiting a 500-Myr-old, bright, and active K dwarf

O Barragán, DJ Armstrong, D Gandolfi… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We present the discovery and characterization of two transiting planets observed by TESS in
the light curves of the young and bright (V= 9.67) star HD73583 (TOI-560). We perform an …

Possible origin of the non-detection of metastable He I in the upper atmosphere of the hot Jupiter WASP-80b

L Fossati, I Pillitteri, IF Shaikhislamov… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Aims. We aim to constrain the origin of the non-detection of the metastable He I triplet at≈
10 830 Å obtained for the hot Jupiter WASP-80b. Methods. We measure the X-ray flux of …

Stellar wind effects on the atmospheres of close-in giants: a possible reduction in escape instead of increased erosion

AA Vidotto, A Cleary - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The atmospheres of highly irradiated exoplanets are observed to undergo hydrodynamic
escape. However, due to strong pressures, stellar winds can confine planetary atmospheres …

Precise photoionisation treatment and hydrodynamic effects in atmospheric modelling of warm and hot Neptunes

D Kubyshkina, L Fossati, NV Erkaev - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2024 - aanda.org
Context. Observational breakthroughs in the field of exoplanets in the last decade have
motivated the development of numerous theoretical models, such as those describing …

The impact of coronal mass ejections and flares on the atmosphere of the hot Jupiter HD189733b

G Hazra, AA Vidotto, S Carolan… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
High-energy stellar irradiation can photoevaporate planetary atmospheres, which can be
observed in spectroscopic transits of hydrogen lines. For the exoplanet HD189733b …

The fundamentals of Lyman α exoplanet transits

JE Owen, RA Murray-Clay, E Schreyer… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Lyman α transits have been detected from several nearby exoplanets and are one of our
best insights into the atmospheric escape process. However, due to ISM absorption, we …

Irradiation-driven escape of primordial planetary atmospheres-I. The ATES photoionization hydrodynamics code

A Caldiroli, F Haardt, E Gallo, R Spinelli… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
Intense X-ray and ultraviolet stellar irradiation can heat and inflate the atmospheres of
closely orbiting exoplanets, driving mass outflows that may be significant enough to …

Evolution of atmospheric escape in close-in giant planets and their associated Ly α and H α transit predictions

A Allan, AA Vidotto - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Strong atmospheric escape has been detected in several close-in exoplanets. As these
planets consist mostly of hydrogen, observations in hydrogen lines, such as Ly α and H α …

Metastable helium absorptions with 3D hydrodynamics and self-consistent photochemistry. II. WASP-107b, stellar wind, radiation pressure, and shear instability

L Wang, F Dai - The Astrophysical Journal, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper presents simulations of the metastable helium (He*) observations of WASP-107b,
so far the highest signal-to-noise ratio detection that is confirmed by three different …

The effects of magnetic fields on observational signatures of atmospheric escape in exoplanets: Double tail structures

S Carolan, AA Vidotto, G Hazra… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Using 3D radiative MHD simulations and Lyman-α transit calculations, we investigate the
effect of magnetic fields on the observational signatures of atmospheric escape in …