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The First Dedicated Survey of Atmospheric Escape from Planets Orbiting F Stars

  • Authors: Morgan Saidel, Shreyas Vissapragada, Heather A. Knutson, Ethan Schreyer, Michael Greklek-McKeon, Jonathan Gomez Barrientos, W. Garrett Levine, Carlos Gascón, George W. King, Morgan MacLeod, Haedam Im, Nick Tusay

Morgan Saidel et al 2026 The Astronomical Journal 171 .

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Caption: Figure 8.

Figure adapted from M. MacLeod et al. (2025) and compiled using PWMorphology. Colored circles represent confirmed exoplanets with radii >1.6 R from the sunset catalog shown as a function of gravitational potential and the ratio of the Hill to planet radius. Survey targets as well as HAT-P-32 b, HAT-P-67 b, KELT-9 b, WASP-33 b, WASP-94 A b, and WASP-121 b are indicated with circles outlined in black and labeled appropriately. The different colors represent the predicted hill sphere Rossby number ﹩\mathrm{ln}({R}_{o,H})﹩, where ﹩\mathrm{ln}({R}_{o,H})\gt 0﹩ indicates a bubble-like outflow geometry, and ﹩\mathrm{ln}({R}_{o,H})\lt 0﹩ indicates a stream or tail-like outflow geometry. We note that values of ﹩\mathrm{ln}({R}_{o,H})﹩ for HAT-P-32 b, HAT-P-67 b, KELT-9 b, WASP-33 b, WASP-94 A b, and WASP-121 b are calculated using the sunset photoevaporative outflow models for these planets. The dashed gray line indicates photoevaporative outflows with sound speeds of 10 km s−1 and Ro,H = 1.

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