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Characterizing a World Within the Hot-Neptune Desert: Transit Observations of LTT 9779 b with the Hubble Space Telescope/WFC3

  • Authors: Billy Edwards, Quentin Changeat, Angelos Tsiaras, Andrew Allan, Patrick Behr, Simone R. Hagey, Michael D. Himes, Sushuang Ma, Keivan G. Stassun, Luis Thomas, Alexandra Thompson, Aaron Boley, Luke Booth, Jeroen Bouwman, Kevin France, Nataliea Lowson, Annabella Meech, Caprice L. Phillips, Aline A. Vidotto, Kai Hou Yip, Michelle Bieger, Amélie Gressier, Estelle Janin, Ing-Guey Jiang, Pietro Leonardi, Subhajit Sarkar, Nour Skaf, Jake Taylor, Ming Yang, Derek Ward-Thompson

Billy Edwards et al 2023 The Astronomical Journal 166 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

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LTT 9779 b in context with the known population of transiting planets. In the period–mass and period–radius spaces, LTT 9779 b occupies a region which is sparsely populated. The majority of other planets on such a short orbital period are either stripped rocky cores or Jupiter-sized worlds.

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