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 …

[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 …

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 …

Sulfur dioxide in the mid-infrared transmission spectrum of WASP-39b

D Powell, AD Feinstein, EKH Lee, M Zhang, SM Tsai… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The recent inference of sulfur dioxide (SO2) in the atmosphere of the hot (approximately
1,100 K), Saturn-mass exoplanet WASP-39b from near-infrared JWST observations …

Hydrogen sulfide and metal-enriched atmosphere for a Jupiter-mass exoplanet

G Fu, L Welbanks, D Deming, J Inglis, M Zhang… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
As the closest transiting hot Jupiter to Earth, HD 189733b has been the benchmark planet
for atmospheric characterization,–. It has also been the anchor point for much of our …

Multiple Clues for Dayside Aerosols and Temperature Gradients in WASP-69 b from a Panchromatic JWST Emission Spectrum

E Schlawin, S Mukherjee, K Ohno, TJ Bell… - The Astronomical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
WASP-69 b is a hot, inflated, Saturn-mass planet (0.26 M Jup) with a zero-albedo
equilibrium temperature of 963 K. Here, we report the JWST 2–12 μm emission spectrum of …

Outflowing helium from a mature mini-Neptune

M Zhang, F Dai, JL Bean, HA Knutson… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We announce the detection of escaping helium from TOI 2134b, a mini-Neptune a few
gigayears old. The average in-transit absorption spectrum shows a peak of 0.37%±0.05 …

Clouds and Clarity: Revisiting Atmospheric Feature Trends in Neptune-size Exoplanets

J Brande, IJM Crossfield, L Kreidberg… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Over the last decade, precise exoplanet transmission spectroscopy has revealed the
atmospheres of dozens of exoplanets, driven largely by observatories like the Hubble Space …

Nightside clouds and disequilibrium chemistry on the hot Jupiter WASP-43b

TJ Bell, N Crouzet, PE Cubillos, L Kreidberg… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Hot Jupiters are among the best-studied exoplanets, but it is still poorly understood how their
chemical composition and cloud properties vary with longitude. Theoretical models predict …

GJ 367b is a dark, hot, airless sub-Earth

M Zhang, R Hu, J Inglis, F Dai, JL Bean… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the mid-infrared (5–12 μm) phase curve of GJ 367b observed by the Mid-
Infrared Instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). GJ 367b is a hot (T eq …