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 …

Decomposing the iron cross-correlation signal of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-76b in transmission using 3D Monte Carlo radiative transfer

JP Wardenier, V Parmentier, EKH Lee… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Ultra-hot Jupiters are tidally locked gas giants with dayside temperatures high enough to
dissociate hydrogen and other molecules. Their atmospheres are vastly non-uniform in …

Observability of signatures of transport-induced chemistry in clear atmospheres of hot gas giant exoplanets

M Zamyatina, E Hébrard, B Drummond… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Transport-induced quenching, ie the homogenization of chemical abundances by
atmospheric advection, is thought to occur in the atmospheres of hot gas giant exoplanets …

The hazy and metal-rich atmosphere of GJ 1214 b constrained by near-and mid-infrared transmission spectroscopy

P Gao, AAA Piette, ME Steinrueck… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The near-infrared transmission spectrum of the warm sub-Neptune exoplanet GJ 1214 b has
been observed to be flat and featureless, implying a high metallicity atmosphere with …

[HTML][HTML] Patchy nightside clouds on ultra-hot Jupiters: general circulation model simulations with radiatively active cloud tracers

TD Komacek, X Tan, P Gao… - The Astrophysical Journal, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The atmospheres of ultra-hot Jupiters have been characterized in detail through recent
phase curve and low-and high-resolution emission and transmission spectroscopic …

Awesome SOSS: atmospheric characterization of WASP-96 b using the JWST early release observations

J Taylor, M Radica, L Welbanks… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The newly operational JWST offers the potential to study the atmospheres of distant worlds
with precision that has not been achieved before. One of the first exoplanets observed by …

On atmospheric retrievals of exoplanets with inhomogeneous terminators

L Welbanks, N Madhusudhan - The Astrophysical Journal, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The complexity of atmospheric retrieval models is largely data-driven, and one-dimensional
models have generally been considered adequate with current data quality. However …

Exploring the deep atmospheres of HD 209458b and WASP-43b using a non-gray general circulation model

AD Schneider, L Carone, L Decin… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Simulations with a 3D general circulation model (GCM) suggest that one potential driver
behind the observed radius inflation in hot Jupiters may be the downward advection of …

Grid of pseudo-2D chemistry models for tidally locked exoplanets–II. The role of photochemistry

R Baeyens, T Konings, O Venot… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Photochemistry is expected to change the chemical composition of the upper atmospheres
of irradiated exoplanets through the dissociation of species, such as methane and ammonia …

A mini-chemical scheme with net reactions for 3D general circulation models-II. 3D thermochemical modelling of WASP-39b and HD 189733b

EKH Lee, SM Tsai, M Hammond, X Tan - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. The chemical inventory of hot Jupiter (HJ) exoplanet atmospheres continues to be
observed by various ground-and space-based instruments in increasing detail and …