Upper limits on exosatellites around beta Pictoris b

arXiv:2606.04685 · astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.SR · Submitted 2026-06-03 · Read on arXiv

M. A. Kenworthy, R. Landman, A. Vanderburg, J. E. Rodriguez, J. L. Birkby, I. Macias, D. González Picos, S. A. Jenkins, E. Kleisioti, T. Stolker, I. Koutalios

astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.SR

Submitted: 2026-06-03

Comments: 6 pages, 7 figures, 1 table, accepted for publication in MNRAS. This paper is in a reproducible workflow repository at https://github.com/mkenworthy/BetaPicbExomoons

Code: https://github.com/mkenworthy/BetaPicbExomoons

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Microlensing — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abundance — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• European Space Agency — 1× in this paper
• Initial Data — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Principal Component Analysis — 1× in this paper
• Principal Component Analysis (PCA) — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes

Sources

• A JWST Transit of a Jupiter Analog: II. A Search for Exomoons
• The JWST Search for Earth-Luna Analogs: Upper Limits on Exomoons and Refined Ephemerides for TOI 700 d and e
• Detecting and Characterizing Exomoons and Exorings (Handbook of Exoplanets, 2nd Edition)

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