Helium in the eroding atmosphere of an exoplanet

JJ Spake, DK Sing, TM Evans, A Oklopčić, V Bourrier… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Helium is the second-most abundant element in the Universe after hydrogen and is one of
the main constituents of gas-giant planets in our Solar System. Early theoretical models …

A new set of atmosphere and evolution models for cool T–Y brown dwarfs and giant exoplanets

MW Phillips, P Tremblin, I Baraffe, G Chabrier… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
We present a new set of solar metallicity atmosphere and evolutionary models for very cool
brown dwarfs and self-luminous giant exoplanets, which we term ATMO 2020. Atmosphere …

[HTML][HTML] Retrieving scattering clouds and disequilibrium chemistry in the atmosphere of HR 8799e

P Mollière, T Stolker, S Lacour, G Otten… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
Context. Clouds are ubiquitous in exoplanet atmospheres and they represent a challenge
for the model interpretation of their spectra. When generating a large number of model …

An ultrahot gas-giant exoplanet with a stratosphere

TM Evans, DK Sing, T Kataria, J Goyal, N Nikolov… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Infrared radiation emitted from a planet contains information about the chemical composition
and vertical temperature profile of its atmosphere,,. If upper layers are cooler than lower …

[HTML][HTML] Diurnal variations in the stratosphere of the ultrahot giant exoplanet WASP-121b

T Mikal-Evans, DK Sing, JK Barstow, T Kataria… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The temperature profile of a planetary atmosphere is a key diagnostic of radiative and
dynamical processes governing the absorption, redistribution and emission of energy …

Aerosols in exoplanet atmospheres

P Gao, HR Wakeford, SE Moran, V Parmentier - 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Observations of exoplanet atmospheres have shown that aerosols, like in the solar system,
are common across a variety of temperatures and planet types. The formation and …

The complete transmission spectrum of WASP-39b with a precise water constraint

HR Wakeford, DK Sing, D Deming… - The Astronomical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
WASP-39b is a hot Saturn-mass exoplanet with a predicted clear atmosphere based on
observations in the optical and infrared. Here, we complete the transmission spectrum of the …

Population properties of brown dwarf analogs to exoplanets

JK Faherty, AR Riedel, KL Cruz, J Gagne… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a kinematic analysis of 152 low surface gravity M7-L8 dwarfs by adding 18 new
parallaxes (including 10 for comparative field objects), 38 new radial velocities, and 19 new …

HAT-P-26b: A Neptune-mass exoplanet with a well-constrained heavy element abundance

HR Wakeford, DK Sing, T Kataria, D Deming, N Nikolov… - Science, 2017 - science.org
A correlation between giant-planet mass and atmospheric heavy elemental abundance was
first noted in the past century from observations of planets in our own Solar System and has …

CO or no CO? Narrowing the CO abundance constraint and recovering the H2O detection in the atmosphere of WASP-127 b using SPIRou

A Boucher, D Lafreniére, S Pelletier… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Precise measurements of chemical abundances in planetary atmospheres are necessary to
constrain the formation histories of exoplanets. A recent study of WASP-127 b, a close-in …