SPIRou is a near-infrared spectropolarimeter and a high-precision velocimeter. The SPIRou Legacy Survey collected data from February 2019 to June 2022, half of the time devoted to a blind search […]
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CO or no CO? Narrowing the CO Abundance Constraint and Recovering the H2O Detection in the Atmosphere of WASP-127 b using SPIRou
Precise measurements of chemical abundances in planetary atmospheres are necessary to constrain the formation histories of exoplanets. A recent study of WASP-127b, a close-in puffy sub-Saturn orbiting its solar-type host […]
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TOI-1452 b: SPIRou And TESS Reveal A Super-Earth In A Temperate Orbit Transiting An M4 Dwarf
Exploring the properties of exoplanets near or inside the radius valley provides insights on the transition from the rocky super-Earths to the larger, hydrogen-rich atmosphere mini-Neptunes. Here, we report the […]