Exoplanetary atmospheres: key insights, challenges, and prospects

N Madhusudhan - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Exoplanetary science is on the verge of an unprecedented revolution. The thousands of
exoplanets discovered over the past decade have most recently been supplemented by …

Hot Jupiters: origins, structure, atmospheres

JJ Fortney, RI Dawson… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We provide a brief review of many aspects of the planetary physics of hot Jupiters. Our aim is
to cover most of the major areas of current study while providing the reader with additional …

The Sonora brown dwarf atmosphere and evolution models. I. Model description and application to cloudless atmospheres in rainout chemical equilibrium

MS Marley, D Saumon, C Visscher… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a new generation of substellar atmosphere and evolution models, appropriate
for application to studies of L-, T-, and Y-type brown dwarfs and self-luminous extrasolar …

Methane throughout the atmosphere of the warm exoplanet WASP-80b

TJ Bell, L Welbanks, E Schlawin, MR Line, JJ Fortney… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The abundances of main carbon-and oxygen-bearing gases in the atmospheres of giant
exoplanets provide insights into atmospheric chemistry and planet formation processes …

[HTML][HTML] From thermal dissociation to condensation in the atmospheres of ultra hot Jupiters: WASP-121b in context

V Parmentier, MR Line, JL Bean, M Mansfield… - Astronomy & …, 2018 - aanda.org
Context. A new class of exoplanets has emerged: the ultra hot Jupiters, the hottest close-in
gas giants. The majority of them have weaker-than-expected spectral features in the 1.1− 1.7 …

Detection of Fe i in the atmosphere of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-121b, and a new likelihood-based approach for Doppler-resolved spectroscopy

NP Gibson, S Merritt, SK Nugroho… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
High-resolution Doppler-resolved spectroscopy has opened up a new window into the
atmospheres of both transiting and non-transiting exoplanets. Here, we present VLT/UVES …

Extremely irradiated hot Jupiters: non-oxide inversions, H− opacity, and thermal dissociation of molecules

JD Lothringer, T Barman, T Koskinen - The Astrophysical Journal, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Extremely irradiated hot Jupiters, exoplanets reaching dayside temperatures> 2000 K,
stretch our understanding of planetary atmospheres and the models we use to interpret …

Global climate and atmospheric composition of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-103b from HST and Spitzer phase curve observations

L Kreidberg, MR Line, V Parmentier… - The Astronomical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We present thermal phase curve measurements for the hot Jupiter WASP-103b observed
with Hubble/WFC3 and Spitzer/IRAC. The phase curves have large amplitudes and …

An atomic spectral survey of WASP-76b: resolving chemical gradients and asymmetries

AY Kesseli, IAG Snellen… - The Astronomical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Ultrahot Jupiters are gas giants that orbit so close to their host star that they are tidally
locked, causing a permanent hot dayside and a cooler nightside. Signatures of their …

Signatures of strong magnetization and a metal-poor atmosphere for a Neptune-sized exoplanet

L Ben-Jaffel, GE Ballester, AG Muñoz, P Lavvas… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The magnetosphere of an exoplanet has yet to be unambiguously detected. Investigations of
star–planet interaction and neutral atomic hydrogen absorption during transit to detect …