Dynamics and clouds in planetary atmospheres from telescopic observations

A Sánchez-Lavega, P Irwin, A García Muñoz - The Astronomy and …, 2023 - Springer
This review presents an insight into our current knowledge of the atmospheres of the planets
Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, the satellite Titan, and those of …

PICASO 3.0: a one-dimensional climate model for giant planets and brown dwarfs

S Mukherjee, NE Batalha, JJ Fortney… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Upcoming James Webb Space Telescope observations will allow us to study
exoplanet and brown dwarf atmospheres in great detail. The physical interpretation of these …

FastChem 2 : an improved computer program to determine the gas-phase chemical equilibrium composition for arbitrary element distributions

JW Stock, D Kitzmann… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The computation of complex neutral/ionized chemical equilibrium compositions is invaluable
to obtain scientific insights of, for example, the atmospheres of extrasolar planets and cool …

The atmosphere and architecture of WASP-189 b probed by its CHEOPS phase curve

A Deline, MJ Hooton, M Lendl, B Morris… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Context. Gas giants orbiting close to hot and massive early-type stars can reach dayside
temperatures that are comparable to those of the coldest stars. These 'ultra-hot Jupiters' …

CRIRES+ detection of CO emissions lines and temperature inversions on the dayside of WASP-18b and WASP-76b

F Yan, L Nortmann, A Reiners, N Piskunov… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
The dayside atmospheres of ultra-hot Jupiters (UHJs) are predicted to possess temperature
inversion layers with extremely high temperatures at high altitudes. We observed the …

The GAPS Programme at TNG-XLI. The climate of KELT-9b revealed with a new approach to high-spectral-resolution phase curves

L Pino, M Brogi, JM Désert, V Nascimbeni… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Aims. We present a novel method for studying the thermal emission of exoplanets as a
function of orbital phase at very high spectral resolution, and use it to investigate the climate …

Planetary evolution with atmospheric photoevaporation-II. Fitting the slope of the radius valley by combining boil-off and XUV-driven escape

L Affolter, C Mordasini, AV Oza, D Kubyshkina… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. Observations by the Kepler satellite have revealed a gap between larger sub-
Neptunes and smaller super-Earths that atmospheric escape models had predicted as an …

Magnetic drag and 3D effects in theoretical high-resolution emission spectra of ultrahot Jupiters: the case of WASP-76b

H Beltz, E Rauscher, EMR Kempton… - The Astronomical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Ultrahot Jupiters are ideal candidates to explore with high-resolution emission spectra.
Detailed theoretical studies are necessary to investigate the range of spectra that we can …

Constraining planetary mass-loss rates by simulating Parker wind profiles with Cloudy

DC Linssen, A Oklopčić, M MacLeod - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2022 - aanda.org
Models of exoplanet atmospheres based on Parker wind density and velocity profiles are a
common choice in fitting spectroscopic observations tracing planetary atmospheric escape …

Atmospheric characterization of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-33b-Detection of Ti and V emission lines and retrieval of a broadened line profile

D Cont, F Yan, A Reiners, L Nortmann… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Ultra-hot Jupiters are highly irradiated gas giant exoplanets on close-in orbits around their
host stars. The dayside atmospheres of these objects strongly emit thermal radiation due to …