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 …

Conclusive evidence for a population of water worlds around M dwarfs remains elusive

JG Rogers, HE Schlichting… - The Astrophysical Journal …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The population of small, close-in exoplanets is bifurcated into super-Earths and sub-
Neptunes. We calculate physically motivated mass–radius relations for sub-Neptunes, with …

Detection of atmospheric escape from four young mini-Neptunes

M Zhang, HA Knutson, F Dai, L Wang… - The Astronomical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We use Keck/NIRSPEC to survey a sample of of young (< 1 Gyr), short-period mini-
Neptunes orbiting nearby K dwarfs to measure their mass loss via the metastable helium …

Keck/NIRSPEC studies of He I in the atmospheres of two inflated hot gas giants orbiting K dwarfs: WASP-52b and WASP-177b

J Kirk, LA Dos Santos, M López-Morales… - The Astronomical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the detection of neutral helium at 10833 Å in the atmosphere of WASP-52b and
tentative evidence of helium in the atmosphere of the grazing WASP-177b, using high …

DREAM-III. A helium survey in exoplanets on the edge of the hot Neptune desert with GIANO-B at TNG

G Guilluy, V Bourrier, Y Jaziri, W Dethier… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. The population of close-in exoplanets features a desert of hot Neptunes whose
origin remains uncertain. These planets may have lost their atmosphere, eroding into mini …

Characterisation of the upper atmospheres of HAT-P-32 b, WASP-69 b, GJ 1214 b, and WASP-76 b through their He I triplet absorption

M Lampón, M López-Puertas, J Sanz-Forcada… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Characterisation of atmospheres undergoing photo-evaporation is key to understanding the
formation, evolution, and diversity of planets. However, only a few upper atmospheres that …

The GAPS Programme at TNG-XXXII. The revealing non-detection of metastable He I in the atmosphere of the hot Jupiter WASP-80b

L Fossati, G Guilluy, IF Shaikhislamov, I Carleo… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Context. Because of its proximity to an active K-type star, the hot Jupiter WASP-80b has
been identified as a possible excellent target for detecting and measuring He I absorption in …

Confirmation of an He I evaporating atmosphere around the 650-Myr-old sub-Neptune HD 235088 b (TOI-1430 b) with CARMENES

J Orell-Miquel, M Lampón, M López-Puertas… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
HD 235088 (TOI-1430) is a young star known to host a sub-Neptune-sized planet candidate.
We validated the planetary nature of HD 235088 b with multiband photometry, refined its …

TESS Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets (THYME). XI. An Earth-sized Planet Orbiting a Nearby, Solar-like Host in the 400 Myr Ursa Major Moving Group

BK Capistrant, M Soares-Furtado… - The Astronomical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Young terrestrial worlds are critical test beds to constrain prevailing theories of planetary
formation and evolution. We present the discovery of HD 63433 d—a nearby (22 pc), Earth …

Planet(esimal)s around stars with TESS (PAST) III: A search for triplet He i in the atmospheres of two 200 Myr-old planets

E Gaidos, T Hirano, RA Lee, H Harakawa… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We report a search for excess absorption in the 1083.2 nm line of ortho (triplet) helium
during transits of TOI-1807b and TOI-2076b, 1.25 and 2.5-R⊕ planets on 0.55-and 10.4-d …