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Mercedes López‐Morales

Space Telescope Science Institute

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Cloudy mornings and clear evenings on a gas giant exoplanet
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errSagnick Mukherjee; David K. Sing; Guangwei Fu; Kevin B. Stevenson; Stephen P. Schmidt; Harry Baskett; Mei Ting Mak; Patrick McCreery; Natalie H. Allen; Katherine A. Bennett; Duncan A. Christie; Carlos Gascón; Jayesh Goyal; Éric Hébrard; Joshua D. Lothringer; Mercedes López-Morales; Jacob Lustig-Yaeger; Erin M. May; L. C. Mayorga; Nathan Mayne; Lakeisha M. Ramos Rosado; Henrique Reggiani; Zafar Rustamkulov; Kevin C. Schlaufman; Kristin S. Sotzen; Daniel Thorngren; Le-Chris Wang; Maria Zamyatina
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JWST COMPASS: A NIRSpec G395H Transmission Spectrum of Radius Valley Dweller TOI-260 b
err2026-04-09
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errAnnabella Meech; Peter Gao; Nicole L. Wallack; Mercedes López-Morales; Dominic Oddo; Johanna Teske; Diana Dragomir; Angie Wolfgang; Nicholas Wogan; Hannah R. Wakeford; Sarah E. Moran; James Kirk; Tyler A. Gordon; Anna Gagnebin; Natasha E. Batalha; Natalie M. Batalha; Lili Alderson; Munazza K. Alam; Artyom Aguichine
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JWST COMPASS: NIRSpec/G395H Transmission Observations of the Sub-Neptune HD 15337 c
err2026-02-27
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errNicole L. Wallack; Peter Gao; Michael Greklek-McKeon; Annabella Meech; Artyom Aguichine; Munazza K. Alam; Lili Alderson; Natasha E. Batalha; Natalie M. Batalha; Anna Gagnebin; Tyler A. Gordon; James Kirk; Mercedes López-Morales; Sarah E. Moran; Jea Iyanla Redai; Nicholas Scarsdale; Johanna Teske; Hannah R. Wakeford; Nicholas F. Wogan; Angie Wolfgang
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JWST COMPASS: Insights into the Systematic Noise Properties of NIRSpec/G395H from a Uniform Reanalysis of Seven Transmission Spectra
err2026-02-20
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errTyler A. Gordon; Natalie M. Batalha; Natasha E. Batalha; Artyom Aguichine; Anna Gagnebin; James Kirk; Mercedes López-Morales; Annabella Meech; Nicholas Scarsdale; Johanna Teske; Nicole L. Wallack; Nicholas Wogan
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Gas-depleted planet formation occurred in the four-planet system around the red dwarf LHS 1903
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err2026-02-12
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errThomas G. Wilson; Anna M. Simpson; Andrew Collier Cameron; Ryan Cloutier; Vardan Adibekyan; Ancy Anna John; Yann Alibert; Manu Stalport; Jo Ann Egger; Andrea Bonfanti; Nicolas Billot; Pascal Guterman; Pierre F. L. Maxted; Attila E. Simon; Sérgio G. Sousa; Malcolm Fridlund; Mathias Beck; Anja Bekkelien; Sébastien Salmon; Valérie Van Grootel; Luca Fossati; Alexander James Mustill; Hugh P. Osborn; Tiziano Zingales; Matthew J. Hooton; Laura Affer; Suzanne Aigrain; Roi Alonso; Guillem Anglada; Alexandros Antoniadis-Karnavas; Tamas Bárczy; David Barrado Navascues; Susana C. C. Barros; Wolfgang Baumjohann; Thomas Beck; Willy Benz; Federico Biondi; Xavier Bonfils; Luca Borsato; Alexis Brandeker; Christopher Broeg; Lars A. Buchhave; Maximilian Buder; Juan Cabrera; Sebastian Carrazco Gaxiola; David Charbonneau; Sébastien Charnoz; David R. Ciardi; Karen A. Collins; Kevin I. Collins; Rosario Cosentino; Szilard Csizmadia; Patricio E. Cubillos; Shweta Dalal; Mario Damasso; James R. A. Davenport; Melvyn B. Davies; Magali Deleuil; Laetitia Delrez; Olivier D. S. Demangeon; Brice-Olivier Demory; Victoria DiTomasso; Diana Dragomir; Courtney D. Dressing; Xavier Dumusque; David Ehrenreich; Anders Erikson; Emma Esparza-Borges; Andrea Fortier; Izuru Fukuda; Akihiko Fukui; Davide Gandolfi; Adriano Ghedina; Steven Giacalone; Holden Gill; Michaël Gillon; Yilen Gómez Maqueo Chew; Manuel Güdel; Pere Guerra; Maximilian N. Günther; Nathan Hara; Avet Harutyunyan; Yuya Hayashi; Raphaëlle D. Haywood; Rae Holcomb; Keith Horne; Sergio Hoyer; Chelsea X. Huang; Masahiro Ikoma; Kate G. Isaak; James A. G. Jackman; Jon M. Jenkins; Eric L. N. Jensen; Daniel Jontof-Hutter; Yugo Kawai; Laszlo L. Kiss; Ben S. Lakeland; Jacques Laskar; David W. Latham; Alain Lecavelier des Etangs; Adrien Leleu; Monika Lendl; Jerome de Leon; Florian Lienhard; Mercedes López-Morales; Christophe Lovis; Michael B. Lund; Rafael Luque; Demetrio Magrin; Luca Malavolta; Aldo F. Martínez Fiorenzano; Andrew W. Mayo; Michel Mayor; Christoph Mordasini; Annelies Mortier; Felipe Murgas; Norio Narita; Valerio Nascimbeni; Belinda A. Nicholson; Göran Olofsson; Roland Ottensamer; Isabella Pagano; Larissa Palethorpe; Enric Pallé; Hannu Parviainen; Marco Pedani; Francesco A. Pepe; Gisbert Peter; Matteo Pinamonti; Giampaolo Piotto; Don Pollacco; Ennio Poretti; Didier Queloz; Samuel N. Quinn; Roberto Ragazzoni; Nicola Rando; David Rapetti; Francesco Ratti; Heike Rauer; Federica Rescigno; Ignasi Ribas; Ken Rice; George R. Ricker; Paul Robertson; Thierry de Roche; Laurence Sabin; Nuno C. Santos; Dimitar D. Sasselov; Arjun B. Savel; Gaetano Scandariato; Nicole Schanche; Urs Schroffenegger; Richard P. Schwarz; Sara Seager; Ramotholo Sefako; Damien Ségransan; Avi Shporer; André M. Silva; Alexis M. S. Smith; Alessandro Sozzetti; Manfred Steller; Gyula M. Szabó; Motohide Tamura; Nicolas Thomas; Amy Tuson; Stéphane Udry; Andrew Vanderburg; Roland K. Vanderspek; Julia Venturini; Francesco Verrecchia; Nicholas A. Walton; Christopher A. Watson; Robert D. Wells; Joshua N. Winn; Roberto Zambelli; Carl Ziegler
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A Comprehensive Reanalysis of K2-18 b's JWST NIRISS plus NIRSpec Transmission Spectrum
err2025-12-01
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errSchmidt, Stephen P.; Macdonald, Ryan J.; Tsai, Shang-Min; Radica, Michael; Wang, Le-Chris; Ahrer, Eva-Maria; Bell, Taylor J.; Fisher, Chloe; Thorngren, Daniel P.; Wogan, Nicholas; May, Erin M.; Ferrari, Piero; Bennett, Katherine A.; Rustamkulov, Zafar; Lopez-Morales, Mercedes; Sing, David K.
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Searching for Exoplanets Born Outside the Milky Way: VOYAGERS Survey Design
err2025-11-24
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errRobert Aloisi; Andrew Vanderburg; Melinda Soares-Furtado; Phillip Cargile; Ke Zhang; Lina Necib; David W. Latham; Sam Quinn; Emily Pass; Anne Dattilo; Giacomo Mantovan; Francesco Amadori; Mariona Badenas-Agusti; Perry Berlind; Francesco Borsa; Walter Boschin; Lorenzo Cabona; Michael L. Calkins; Hans J. Deeg; Xavier Dumusque; Gilbert A. Esquerdo; Yoshi Nike Emilia Eschen; S. Filomeno; S. Geraldía-González; Natalia Guerrero; Sydney Jenkins; Gaia Lacedelli; Mercedes López- Morales; Paula Manuela Leguizamon-Pineda; Emilio Molinari; Juan Carlos Morales; Annelies Mortier; Rohan Naidu; Domenico Nardiello; Belinda Nicholson; Isabella Pagano; Enric Palle; Marco Pedani; Matteo Pinamonti; Jesus Maldonado; Monica Rainer; Ignasi Ribas; Ken Rice; GuÐmundur Kári Stefánsson; Daisy Turner; Thomas G. Wilson; Mathias Zechmeister
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Testing the performance of cross-correlation techniques to search for molecular features in JWST NIRSpec G395H observations of transiting exoplanets
err2025-11-01
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errEsparza-Borges, Emma; Lopez-Morales, Mercedes; Palle, Enric; Makhnev, Vladimir; Gordon, Iouli; Hargreaves, Robert; Kirk, James; Caceres, Claudio; Crossfield, Ian J. M.; Crouzet, Nicolas; Decin, Leen; Desert, Jean-Michel; Flagg, Laura; Munoz, Antonio Garcia; Harrington, Joseph; Molaverdikhani, Karan; Morello, Giuseppe; Nikolov, Nikolay; Solmaz, Arif; Rackham, Benjamin, V; Redfield, Seth
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BOWIE-ALIGN: weak spectral features in KELT-7b's JWST NIRSpec/G395H transmission spectrum imply a high cloud deck or a low-metallicity atmosphere
err2025-11-01
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errAhrer, Eva-Maria; Fairman, Charlotte; Kirk, James; Wakeford, Hannah R.; Barstow, Joanna K.; Penzlin, Anna B. T.; Alderson, Lili; Booth, Richard A.; Christie, Duncan A.; Claringbold, Alastair B.; Esparza-Borges, Emma; Gascon, Carlos; Lopez-Morales, Mercedes; Mayne, N. J.; McCormack, Mason; Meech, Annabella; Molliere, Paul; Owen, James E.; Panwar, Vatsal; Sergeev, Denis E.; Valentine, Daniel; Wheatley, Peter J.; Zamyatina, Maria
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Modeling Tails of Escaping Gas in Exoplanet Atmospheres with Harmonica
err2025-09-29
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errCarlos Gascón; Mercedes López-Morales; Shreyas Vissapragada; Morgan MacLeod; Hannah R. Wakeford; David Grant; Ignasi Ribas; Guillem Anglada-Escudé
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JWST COMPASS: A NIRSpec G395H Transmission Spectrum of the Super-Earth GJ 357 b
err2025-09-12
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errJea Adams Redai; Nicholas Wogan; Nicole L. Wallack; Munazza K. Alam; Artyom Aguichine; Angie Wolfgang; Hannah R. Wakeford; Johanna Teske; Nicholas Scarsdale; Sarah E. Moran; Mercedes López-Morales; Annabella Meech; Peter Gao; Anna Gagnebin; Natasha E. Batalha; Natalie M. Batalha; Lili Alderson
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Additional JWST/NIRSpec Transits of the Rocky M Dwarf Exoplanet GJ 1132 b Reveal a Featureless Spectrum
err2025-09-09
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errKatherine A. Bennett; Ryan J. MacDonald; Sarah Peacock; Junellie Perez; E. M. May; Sarah E. Moran; Lili Alderson; Jacob Lustig-Yaeger; Hannah R. Wakeford; David K. Sing; Kevin B. Stevenson; Natasha E. Batalha; Mercedes López-Morales; Munazza K. Alam; Joshua D. Lothringer; Guangwei Fu; James Kirk; Jeff A. Valenti; L. C. Mayorga; Kristin S. Sotzen
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The HUSTLE Program: The UV to Near-IR Transmission Spectrum of the Hot Jupiter KELT-7b
err2025-08-21
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errC. Gascón; M. López-Morales; R. J. MacDonald; J. K. Barstow; V. A. Boehm; H. R. Wakeford; M. K. Alam; L. Alderson; N. E. Batalha; C. E. Fairman; D. Grant; N. K. Lewis; M. S. Marley; S. E. Moran; K. Ohno; G. Anglada-Escudé; I. Ribas
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Overcast Mornings and Clear Evenings in Hot Jupiter Exoplanet Atmospheres
err2025-08-08
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errGuangwei Fu; Sagnick Mukherjee; Kevin B. Stevenson; David K. Sing; Reza Ashtari; Nathan Mayne; Joshua D. Lothringer; Maria Zamyatina; Stephen P. Schmidt; Carlos Gascón; Natalie H. Allen; Katherine A. Bennett; Mercedes López-Morales
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Tidally Heated Sub-Neptunes, Refined Planetary Compositions, and Confirmation of a Third Planet in the TOI-1266 System
err2025-05-06
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errGreklek-McKeon, Michael; Vissapragada, Shreyas; Knutson, Heather A.; Fukui, Akihiko; Saidel, Morgan; Gomez Barrientos, Jonathan; Levine, W. Garrett; Behmard, Aida; Batygin, Konstantin; Chachan, Yayaati; Vasisht, Gautam; Hu, Renyu; Cloutier, Ryan; Latham, David; Lopez-Morales, Mercedes; Vanderburg, Andrew; Heffner, Carolyn; Nied, Paul; Milburn, Jennifer; Wilson, Isaac; Roderick, Diana; Koviak, Kathleen; Barlow, Tom; Stone, John F.; Kiman, Rocio; Korth, Judith; de Leon, Jerome P.; Fukuda, Izuru; Hayashi, Yuya; Ikoma, Masahiro; Ikuta, Kai; Isogai, Keisuke; Kawai, Yugo; Kawauchi, Kiyoe; Kusakabe, Nobuhiko; Livingston, John H.; Mori, Mayuko; Narita, Norio; Tamura, Motohide; Watanabe, Noriharu; Fernandez-Rodriguez, Gareb
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BOWIE-ALIGN: substellar metallicity and carbon depletion in the aligned TrES-4b with JWST NIRSpec transmission spectroscopy
err2025-05-01
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errMeech, Annabella; Claringbold, Alastair B.; Ahrer, Eva-Maria; Kirk, James; Lopez-Morales, Mercedes; Taylor, Jake; Booth, Richard A.; Penzlin, Anna B. T.; Alderson, Lili; Christie, Duncan A.; Esparza-Borges, Emma; Fairman, Charlotte; Mayne, Nathan J.; McCormack, Mason; Owen, James E.; Panwar, Vatsal; Powell, Diana; Sergeev, Denis E.; Valentine, Daniel; Wakeford, Hannah R.; Wheatley, Peter J.; Zamyatina, Maria
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JWST COMPASS: NIRSpec/G395H Transmission Observations of TOI-776 c, a 2 R⊕ M Dwarf Planet
err2025-04-07
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errTeske, Johanna; Batalha, Natasha E.; Wallack, Nicole L.; Kirk, James; Wogan, Nicholas F.; Gordon, Tyler A.; Alam, Munazza K.; Aguichine, Artyom; Wolfgang, Angie; Wakeford, Hannah R.; Scarsdale, Nicholas; Adams Redai, Jea; Moran, Sarah E.; Lopez-Morales, Mercedes; Meech, Annabella; Gao, Peter; Batalha, Natalie M.; Alderson, Lili; Gagnebin, Anna
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A closer look at LTT 9779b:The ESPRESSO endeavour to pierce the atmospheric veil
err2025-02-28
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errRamirez Reyes, R.; Jenkins, J. S.; Sedaghati, E.; Seidel, J. V.; Pavlenko, Y.; Palle, E.; Lopez-Morales, M.; Alves, D.; Vines, J.; Pena, P. A. R.; Diaz, M. R.; Rojo, P.
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JWST COMPASS: NIRSpec/G395H Transmission Observations of the Super-Earth TOI-776 b
err2025-02-12
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errAlderson, Lili; Moran, Sarah E.; Wallack, Nicole L.; Batalha, Natasha E.; Wogan, Nicholas F.; Dattilo, Anne; Wakeford, Hannah R.; Redai, Jea Adams; Alam, Munazza K.; Aguichine, Artyom; Batalha, Natalie M.; Gagnebin, Anna; Gao, Peter; Kirk, James; Lopez-Morales, Mercedes; Meech, Annabella; Teske, Johanna; Wolfgang, Angie
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BOWIE-ALIGN: JWST reveals hints of planetesimal accretion and complex sulphur chemistry in the atmosphere of the misaligned hot Jupiter WASP-15b
err2025-02-05
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errKirk, James; Ahrer, Eva-Maria; Claringbold, Alastair B.; Zamyatina, Maria; Fisher, Chloe; Mccormack, Mason; Panwar, Vatsal; Powell, Diana; Taylor, Jake; Thorngren, Daniel P.; Christie, Duncan A.; Esparza-Borges, Emma; Tsai, Shang-Min; Alderson, Lili; Booth, Richard A.; Fairman, Charlotte; Lopez-Morales, Mercedes; Mayne, N. J.; Meech, Annabella; Molliere, Paul; Owen, James E.; Penzlin, Anna B. T.; Sergeev, Denis E.; Valentine, Daniel; Wakeford, Hannah R.; Wheatley, Peter J.
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