Revealing the Shiny Nature of Lava Worlds: Small Planet Phase Curves with TESS

arXiv:2609.26874 · astro-ph.EP · Submitted 2026-09-22 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-22

Updated: 2026-09-22

Terminology

• Aperture — 7× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Degeneracy — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Aperture Photometry — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adaptive Algorithm — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Gaussian Processes (GPs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Metallicity — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Pre-search Data Conditioning Simple Aperture Photometry — 1× in this paper
• Simple Harmonic Oscillator — 1× in this paper
• Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite — 1× in this paper

Sources

• A Highly Reflective Atmosphere on the Lava World TOI-561b Revealed by JWST/NIRSpec Phase Curve
• The PLATO Input Catalogue of targets (tPIC) for the first Long Pointing Field
• Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Wide Field Instrument: Bright Point Source Saturation Response and Persistence Properties from Thermal-Vacuum Testing
• JWST MIRI reveals a potential atmosphere on the ultra-hot rocky planet TOI-431b
• Strong and variable stratospheric CO emission from lava-planet 55 Cnc e observed with NIRCam/JWST

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