Exoplanetary atmospheres: key insights, challenges, and prospects

N Madhusudhan - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Exoplanetary science is on the verge of an unprecedented revolution. The thousands of
exoplanets discovered over the past decade have most recently been supplemented by …

Exoplanetary atmospheres—chemistry, formation conditions, and habitability

N Madhusudhan, M Agúndez, JI Moses, Y Hu - Space science reviews, 2016 - Springer
Characterizing the atmospheres of extrasolar planets is the new frontier in exoplanetary
science. The last two decades of exoplanet discoveries have revealed that exoplanets are …

ExoMol molecular line lists XXX: a complete high-accuracy line list for water

OL Polyansky, AA Kyuberis, NF Zobov… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT A new line list for HO is presented. This line list, which is called POKAZATEL,
includes transitions between rotational–vibrational energy levels up to 41 000 cm− 1 and is …

A chemical survey of exoplanets with ARIEL

G Tinetti, P Drossart, P Eccleston, P Hartogh… - Experimental …, 2018 - Springer
Thousands of exoplanets have now been discovered with a huge range of masses, sizes
and orbits: from rocky Earth-like planets to large gas giants grazing the surface of their host …

batman: basic transit model calculation in Python

L Kreidberg - Publications of the Astronomical Society of the …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
I introduce batman, a Python package for modeling exoplanet transit and eclipse light
curves. The batman package supports calculation of light curves for any radially symmetric …

Water vapour in the atmosphere of the habitable-zone eight-Earth-mass planet K2-18 b

A Tsiaras, IP Waldmann, G Tinetti, J Tennyson… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
In the past decade, observations from space and the ground have found water to be the
most abundant molecular species, after hydrogen, in the atmospheres of hot, gaseous …

The transit light source effect: false spectral features and incorrect densities for M-dwarf transiting planets

BV Rackham, D Apai, MS Giampapa - The Astrophysical Journal, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Transmission spectra are differential measurements that utilize stellar illumination to probe
transiting exoplanet atmospheres. Any spectral difference between the illuminating light …

Characterizing transiting exoplanet atmospheres with JWST

TP Greene, MR Line, C Montero… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We explore how well spectra from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will likely
constrain bulk atmospheric properties of transiting exoplanets. We start by modeling the …

Spectrally resolved helium absorption from the extended atmosphere of a warm Neptune-mass exoplanet

R Allart, V Bourrier, C Lovis, D Ehrenreich, JJ Spake… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Stellar heating causes atmospheres of close-in exoplanets to expand and escape. These
extended atmospheres are difficult to observe because their main spectral signature …

A population study of gaseous exoplanets

A Tsiaras, IP Waldmann, T Zingales… - The Astronomical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We present here the analysis of 30 gaseous extrasolar planets, with temperatures between
600 and 2400 K and radii between 0.35 and 1.9 R Jup. The quality of the HST/WFC3 …