The JWST early release observations

KM Pontoppidan, J Barrientes, C Blome… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Early Release Observations (EROs) is
a set of public outreach products created to mark the end of commissioning and the …

The effect of stellar contamination on low-resolution transmission spectroscopy: needs identified by NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program Study Analysis Group 21

BV Rackham, N Espinoza… - RAS Techniques …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Study Analysis Group 21 (SAG21) of NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program
Analysis Group was organized to study the effect of stellar contamination on space-based …

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 …

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 …

Nightside condensation of iron in an ultrahot giant exoplanet

D Ehrenreich, C Lovis, R Allart, MR Zapatero Osorio… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Ultrahot giant exoplanets receive thousands of times Earth's insolation 1, 2. Their high-
temperature atmospheres (greater than 2,000 kelvin) are ideal laboratories for studying …

juliet: a versatile modelling tool for transiting and non-transiting exoplanetary systems

N Espinoza, D Kossakowski… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Here we present juliet, a versatile tool for the analysis of transits, radial velocities, or both.
juliet is built over many available tools for the modelling of transits, radial velocities, and …

[HTML][HTML] Limb and gravity-darkening coefficients for the TESS satellite at several metallicities, surface gravities, and microturbulent velocities

A Claret - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2017 - aanda.org
Aims. We present new gravity and limb-darkening coefficients for a wide range of effective
temperatures, gravities, metallicities, and microturbulent velocities. These coefficients can be …

Analytic planetary transit light curves and derivatives for stars with polynomial limb darkening

E Agol, R Luger, D Foreman-Mackey - The Astronomical Journal, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We derive analytic, closed-form solutions for the light curve of a planet transiting a star with a
limb-darkening profile that is a polynomial function of the stellar elevation, up to an arbitrary …

ldtk: Limb Darkening Toolkit

H Parviainen, S Aigrain - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We present a python package ldtk that automates the calculation of custom stellar limb-
darkening (LD) profiles and model-specific limb-darkening coefficients using the library of …

Atmospheric characterization of the ultra-hot Jupiter MASCARA-2b/KELT-20b-Detection of CaII, FeII, NaI, and the Balmer series of H (Hα, Hβ, and Hγ) with high …

N Casasayas-Barris, E Pallé, F Yan, G Chen… - Astronomy & …, 2019 - aanda.org
Ultra-hot Jupiters orbit very close to their host star and consequently receive strong
irradiation, causing their atmospheric chemistry to be different from the common gas giants …