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There have recently been detections of radio emission from low-mass stars, some of which are indicative of star-planet interactions. Motivated by these exciting new results, here we present stellar wind models for the active planet-hosting…

Detection of radio emission from Jupiter was identified quickly as being due to its planetary-scale magnetic field. Subsequent spacecraft investigations have revealed that many of the planets, and even some moons, either have or have had…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-25 T. Joseph W. Lazio

The majority of searches for radio emission from exoplanets have to date focused on short period planets, i.e., the so-called hot Jupiter type planets. However, these planets are likely to be tidally locked to their host stars and may not…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-02 Eamon O'Gorman , Colm P. Coughlan , Wouter Vlemmings , Eskil Varenius , Sandeep Sirothia , Tom P. Ray , Hans Olofsson

Exoplanets in extremely close-in orbits are immersed in a local interplanetary medium (i.e., the stellar wind) much denser than the local conditions encountered around the solar system planets. The environment surrounding these exoplanets…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 A. A. Vidotto , R. Fares , M. Jardine , C. Moutou , J. -F. Donati

Recent low-frequency radio observations suggest that some nearby M dwarfs could be interacting magnetically with undetected close-in planets, powering the emission via the electron cyclotron maser (ECM) instability. Confirmation of such a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-26 Robert D. Kavanagh , Harish K. Vedantham

We present the first systematic search for GHz frequency radio emission from directly imaged exoplanets using Very Large Array (VLA) observations of sufficient angular resolution to separate the planets from their host stars. We obtained…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 Yvette Cendes , Peter K. G. Williams , Edo Berger

We study the non-thermal emission from the interaction between magnetized Jupiter-like exoplanets and the wind from their host star. The supersonic motion of planets through the wind forms a bow shock that accelerates electrons which…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-10 Xiawei Wang , Abraham Loeb

Terrestrial exoplanets orbiting M-dwarf stars are promising targets for transmission spectroscopy with existing or near-future instrumentation. The atmospheric composition of such rocky planets remains an open question, especially given the…

We briefly review the various proposed scenarios that may lead to nonthermal radio emissions from exoplanetary systems (planetary magnetospheres, magnetosphere-ionosphere and magnetosphere-satellite coupling, and star-planet interactions),…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-03 Philippe Zarka , Di Li , Jean-Mathias Grießmeier , Laurent Lamy , Julien N. Girard , Sébastien L. G. Hess , T. Joseph W. Lazio , Gregg Hallinan

In this paper, we investigate the detectability of radio emission from exoplanets, especially hot Jupiters, which are magnified by gravitational microlensing. Because hot Jupiters have orbital periods much shorter than the characteristic…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-27 Yuta Shiohira , Yuka Terada , Den Mukuno , Yuka Fujii , Keitaro Takahashi

In this paper we provide the first consideration of magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling at Jupiter-like exoplanets with internal plasma sources such as volcanic moons. We estimate the radio power emitted by such systems under the condition of…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 J. D. Nichols

The search for exoplanets in the radio bands has been focused on detecting radio emissions produced by the interaction between magnetized planets and the stellar wind (auroral emission). Here we introduce a new tool, which is part of our…

This paper reports a blind search for magnetospheric emissions from planets around nearby stars. Young stars are likely to have much stronger stellar winds than the Sun, and because planetary magnetospheric emissions are powered by stellar…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 T. Joseph W. Lazio , S. Carmichael , J. Clark , E. Elkins , P. Gudmundsen , Z. Mott , M. Szwajkowski , L. A. Hennig

Radio detections of stellar systems provide a window onto stellar magnetic activity and the space weather conditions of extrasolar planets, information that is difficult to attain at other wavelengths. There have been recent advances…

We present radio observations made towards the exoplanets Qatar-1b and WASP-80b near 150~MHz with the Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope. These targets are relatively nearby irradiated giant exoplanets, a hot Jupiter and a hot Saturn, with…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-10 D. A. Green , N. Madhusudhan

We search for radio emission from star-planet interactions in the M-dwarf system GJ~486, which hosts an Earth-like planet. We observed the GJ~486 system with the upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (uGMRT) from 550 to 750 MHz in nine…

The first extrasolar planets were discovered serendipitously, by finding the slight variation in otherwise highly regular timing of the pulses, caused by the planets orbiting a millisecond pulsar. In analogy with the Solar system planets,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-12 Ruchi Mishra , Miljenko Čemeljić , Jacobo Varela , Maurizio Falanga

We investigate the detectability of atmospheric spectral features of Earth-like planets in the habitable zone (HZ) around M dwarfs with the future James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). We use a coupled 1D climate-chemistry-model to simulate…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-08 F. Wunderlich , M. Godolt , J. L. Grenfell , S. Städt , A. M. S. Smith , S. Gebauer , F. Schreier , P. Hedelt , H. Rauer

We present results from a search for radio emission in 77 stellar systems hosting 140 exoplanets, predominantly within 17.5 pc using the Very Large Array (VLA) at $4-8$ GHz. This is the largest and most sensitive search to date for radio…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-29 Kevin N. Ortiz Ceballos , Yvette Cendes , Edo Berger , Peter K. G. Williams

$\textit{Context.}$ The magnetized Solar System planets are strong radio emitters and theoretical studies suggest that the radio emission from nearby exoplanets in close-in orbits could reach intensity levels $10^{3}-10^{7}$ times higher…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-10 Jake D. Turner , Jean-Mathias Grießmeier , Philippe Zarka , Iaroslavna Vasylieva