The demographics of Kepler planets provide a key testbed for models of planet formation and evolution, particularly for explaining the radius valley separating super-Earths and sub-Neptunes.
hot Neptune desert
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Heat Reveals What Clouds Conceal: Global Carbon & Longitudinally Asymmetric Chemistry on LTT 9779 b
LTT-9779 b is an ultra-hot Neptune (Rp ~ 4.7 Re, Mp ~ 29 Me) orbiting its Sun-like host star in just 19 hours, placing it deep within the “hot Neptune […]
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Detection of H2O and CO2 in the Atmosphere of the Hot Super-Neptune WASP-166b with JWST
We characterize the atmosphere of the hot super-Neptune WASP-166b (P=5.44 d, Rp=6.9±0.3 R⊕, Mp=32.1±1.6 M⊕, Teq=1270±30 K) orbiting an F9V star using JWST transmission spectroscopy observations obtained with NIRISS SOSS […]
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Hot Neptune TOI-3261 b Is In A Tight Orbit Around Its Host Star
The Discovery A Neptune-sized planet, TOI-3261 b, makes a scorchingly close orbit around its host star. Only the fourth object of its kind ever found, the planet could reveal clues […]