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 …

Retrieval survey of metals in six ultrahot Jupiters: trends in chemistry, rain-out, ionization, and atmospheric dynamics

S Gandhi, A Kesseli, Y Zhang, A Louca… - The Astronomical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Ground-based high-resolution spectroscopy (HRS) has detected numerous chemical
species and atmospheric dynamics in exoplanets, most notably ultrahot Jupiters (UHJs) …

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 …

Exploring the ability of Hubble Space Telescope WFC3 G141 to uncover trends in populations of exoplanet atmospheres through a homogeneous transmission survey …

B Edwards, Q Changeat, A Tsiaras… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present analysis of the atmospheres of 70 gaseous extrasolar planets via transit
spectroscopy with Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3). For over half of these, we …

[HTML][HTML] Patchy nightside clouds on ultra-hot Jupiters: general circulation model simulations with radiatively active cloud tracers

TD Komacek, X Tan, P Gao… - The Astrophysical Journal, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The atmospheres of ultra-hot Jupiters have been characterized in detail through recent
phase curve and low-and high-resolution emission and transmission spectroscopic …

High-resolution atmospheric retrievals of WASP-121b transmission spectroscopy with ESPRESSO: Consistent relative abundance constraints across multiple epochs …

C Maguire, NP Gibson, SK Nugroho… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Recent progress in high-resolution transmission spectroscopy has offered new avenues in
which to characterize the atmospheres of transiting exoplanets. High-resolution cross …

Carbon monoxide emission lines reveal an inverted atmosphere in the ultra hot Jupiter WASP-33 b consistent with an eastward hot spot

L van Sluijs, JL Birkby, J Lothringer… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We report the first detection of CO emission at high spectral resolution in the day-side
infrared thermal spectrum of an exoplanet. These emission lines, found in the atmosphere of …

The GAPS Programme at TNG-XLI. The climate of KELT-9b revealed with a new approach to high-spectral-resolution phase curves

L Pino, M Brogi, JM Désert, V Nascimbeni… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Aims. We present a novel method for studying the thermal emission of exoplanets as a
function of orbital phase at very high spectral resolution, and use it to investigate the climate …

A JWST NIRSpec Phase Curve for WASP-121b: Dayside Emission Strongest Eastward of the Substellar Point and Nightside Conditions Conducive to Cloud …

T Mikal-Evans, DK Sing, J Dong… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the first exoplanet phase-curve measurement made with the JWST NIRSpec
instrument, highlighting the exceptional stability of this newly commissioned observatory for …