Transiting exoplanet atmospheres in the era of JWST

EMR Kempton, HA Knutson - Reviews in Mineralogy …, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The field of exoplanet atmospheric characterization has recently made considerable
advances with the advent of high-resolution spectroscopy from large ground-based …

Confirmation of Subsolar Metallicity for WASP-77Ab from JWST Thermal Emission Spectroscopy

PC August, JL Bean, M Zhang, J Lunine… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the dayside thermal emission spectrum of WASP-77Ab from 2.8 to 5.2 μm as
observed with the NIRSpec instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) …

Is the Atmosphere of the Ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-121 b Variable?

Q Changeat, JW Skinner, JYK Cho… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a comprehensive analysis of the Hubble Space Telescope observations of the
atmosphere of WASP-121 b, an ultra-hot Jupiter. After reducing the transit, eclipse, and …

A hydrodynamic study of the escape of metal species and excited hydrogen from the atmosphere of the hot Jupiter WASP-121b

C Huang, T Koskinen, P Lavvas… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
In the near-UV and optical transmission spectrum of the hot Jupiter WASP-121b, recent
observations have detected strong absorption features of Mg, Fe, Ca, and Hα, extending …

Constraining the atmospheric elements in hot Jupiters with Ariel

F Wang, Q Changeat, G Tinetti, D Turrini… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
One of the main objectives of the European Space Agency's Ariel telescope (launch 2029) is
to understand the formation and evolution processes of a large sample of planets in our …

Modelling the day–night temperature variations of ultra-hot Jupiters: confronting non-grey general circulation models and observations

X Tan, TD Komacek, NE Batalha… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT Ultra-hot Jupiters (UHJs) are natural laboratories to study extreme physics in
planetary atmospheres and their rich observational data sets are yet to be confronted with …

Spitzer thermal phase curve of WASP-121 b

G Morello, Q Changeat, A Dyrek, PO Lagage… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Aims. We analyse unpublished Spitzer observations of the thermal phase-curve of WASP-
121 b, a benchmark ultra-hot Jupiter. Methods. We adopted the wavelet pixel-independent …

Toward Exoplanet Transit Spectroscopy Using JWST/MIRI's Medium Resolution Spectrometer

D Deming, G Fu, J Bouwman, D Dicken… - Publications of the …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Mid-Infrared Instrument Medium Resolution Spectrometer (the MRS) on JWST
has potentially important advantages for transit and eclipse spectroscopy of exoplanets …

Hotter than Expected: Hubble Space Telescope (HST)/WFC3 Phase-resolved Spectroscopy of a Rare Irradiated Brown Dwarf with Strong Internal Heat Flux

RC Amaro, D Apai, Y Zhou, BWP Lew… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
With infrared flux contrasts larger than typically seen in hot Jupiter, tidally locked white dwarf–
brown dwarf binaries offer a superior opportunity to investigate atmospheric processes in …

[HTML][HTML] Warm Jupiters around M dwarfs are great opportunities for extensive chemical, cloud, and haze characterisation with JWST

L Teinturier, E Ducrot, B Charnay - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2024 - aanda.org
Context. The known population of short-period giant exoplanets around M-dwarf stars is
slowly growing. These planets present an extraordinary opportunity for atmospheric …