Atmospheres of rocky exoplanets

R Wordsworth, L Kreidberg - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Rocky planets are common around other stars, but their atmospheric properties remain
largely unconstrained. Thanks to a wealth of recent planet discoveries and upcoming …

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 …

Thermal emission from the Earth-sized exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 b using JWST

TP Greene, TJ Bell, E Ducrot, A Dyrek, PO Lagage… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The TRAPPIST-1 system is remarkable for its seven planets that are similar in size, mass,
density and stellar heating to the rocky planets Venus, Earth and Mars in the Solar System …

The TESS objects of interest catalog from the TESS prime mission

NM Guerrero, S Seager, CX Huang… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present 2241 exoplanet candidates identified with data from the Transiting Exoplanet
Survey Satellite (TESS) during its 2 yr Prime Mission. We list these candidates in the TESS …

No thick carbon dioxide atmosphere on the rocky exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 c

S Zieba, L Kreidberg, E Ducrot, M Gillon, C Morley… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Seven rocky planets orbit the nearby dwarf star TRAPPIST-1, providing a unique opportunity
to search for atmospheres on small planets outside the Solar System. Thanks to the recent …

A JWST transmission spectrum of the nearby Earth-sized exoplanet LHS 475 b

J Lustig-Yaeger, G Fu, EM May, KNO Ceballos… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The critical first step in the search for life on exoplanets over the next decade is to determine
whether rocky planets transiting small M-dwarf stars possess atmospheres and, if so, what …

Hidden water in magma ocean exoplanets

C Dorn, T Lichtenberg - The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We demonstrate that the deep volatile storage capacity of magma oceans has significant
implications for the bulk composition, interior, and climate state inferred from exoplanet mass …

Warm terrestrial planet with half the mass of Venus transiting a nearby star

ODS Demangeon, MRZ Osorio, Y Alibert… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
In recent years, the advent of a new generation of radial velocity instruments has allowed us
to detect planets with increasingly lower mass and to break the one Earth-mass barrier. Here …

Aerosols in exoplanet atmospheres

P Gao, HR Wakeford, SE Moran, V Parmentier - 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Observations of exoplanet atmospheres have shown that aerosols, like in the solar system,
are common across a variety of temperatures and planet types. The formation and …

Potential Atmospheric Compositions of TRAPPIST-1 c Constrained by JWST/MIRI Observations at 15 μm

AP Lincowski, VS Meadows, S Zieba… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The first James Webb Space Telescope observations of TRAPPIST-1 c showed a
secondary eclipse depth of 421±94 ppm at 15 μm, which is consistent with a bare rock …