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 …

Early Release Science of the exoplanet WASP-39b with JWST NIRSpec G395H

L Alderson, HR Wakeford, MK Alam, NE Batalha… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Measuring the abundances of carbon and oxygen in exoplanet atmospheres is considered a
crucial avenue for unlocking the formation and evolution of exoplanetary systems,. Access to …

Photochemically produced SO2 in the atmosphere of WASP-39b

SM Tsai, EKH Lee, D Powell, P Gao, X Zhang, J Moses… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Photochemistry is a fundamental process of planetary atmospheres that regulates the
atmospheric composition and stability. However, no unambiguous photochemical products …

Early Release Science of the exoplanet WASP-39b with JWST NIRISS

AD Feinstein, M Radica, L Welbanks, CA Murray… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The Saturn-mass exoplanet WASP-39b has been the subject of extensive efforts to
determine its atmospheric properties using transmission spectroscopy,,–. However, these …

Early Release Science of the exoplanet WASP-39b with JWST NIRCam

EM Ahrer, KB Stevenson, M Mansfield, SE Moran… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Measuring the metallicity and carbon-to-oxygen (C/O) ratio in exoplanet atmospheres is a
fundamental step towards constraining the dominant chemical processes at work and, if in …

Carbon-bearing molecules in a possible Hycean atmosphere

N Madhusudhan, S Sarkar… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The search for habitable environments and biomarkers in exoplanetary atmospheres is the
holy grail of exoplanet science. The detection of atmospheric signatures of habitable Earth …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] The 2024 release of the ExoMol database: molecular line lists for exoplanet and other hot atmospheres

J Tennyson, SN Yurchenko, J Zhang… - Journal of Quantitative …, 2024 - Elsevier
The ExoMol database (www. exomol. com) provides molecular data for spectroscopic
studies of hot atmospheres. These data are widely used to model atmospheres of …

SO2, silicate clouds, but no CH4 detected in a warm Neptune

A Dyrek, M Min, L Decin, J Bouwman, N Crouzet… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
WASP-107b is a warm (approximately 740 K) transiting planet with a Neptune-like mass of
roughly 30.5 M⊕ and Jupiter-like radius of about 0.94 RJ (refs.,), whose extended …

A roadmap for the atmospheric characterization of terrestrial exoplanets with JWST

Nature Astronomy, 2024 - nature.com
Ultracool dwarf stars are abundant, long-lived and uniquely suited to enable the
atmospheric study of transiting terrestrial companions with the JWST. Among them, the most …