[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 …

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 …

SO2, silicate clouds, but no CH4 detected in a warm Neptune

A Dyrek, M Min, L Decin, J Bouwman, N Crouzet… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
WASP-107b is a warm (approximately 740 K) transiting planet with a Neptune-like mass of
roughly 30.5 M⊕ and Jupiter-like radius of about 0.94 RJ (refs.,), whose extended …

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 …

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 …

The hazy and metal-rich atmosphere of GJ 1214 b constrained by near-and mid-infrared transmission spectroscopy

P Gao, AAA Piette, ME Steinrueck… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The near-infrared transmission spectrum of the warm sub-Neptune exoplanet GJ 1214 b has
been observed to be flat and featureless, implying a high metallicity atmosphere with …

Confirmation of Subsolar Metallicity for WASP-77Ab from JWST Thermal Emission Spectroscopy

PC August, JL Bean, M Zhang, J Lunine… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the dayside thermal emission spectrum of WASP-77Ab from 2.8 to 5.2 μm as
observed with the NIRSpec instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) …

Awesome SOSS: transmission spectroscopy of WASP-96b with NIRISS/SOSS

M Radica, L Welbanks, N Espinoza… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The future is now–after its long-awaited launch in 2021 December, JWST began science
operations in 2022 July and is already revolutionizing exoplanet astronomy. The Early …

JWST-TST DREAMS: quartz clouds in the atmosphere of WASP-17b

D Grant, NK Lewis, HR Wakeford… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Clouds are prevalent in many of the exoplanet atmospheres that have been observed to
date. For transiting exoplanets, we know if clouds are present because they mute spectral …