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 …

Detection of Fe i in the atmosphere of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-121b, and a new likelihood-based approach for Doppler-resolved spectroscopy

NP Gibson, S Merritt, SK Nugroho… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
High-resolution Doppler-resolved spectroscopy has opened up a new window into the
atmospheres of both transiting and non-transiting exoplanets. Here, we present VLT/UVES …

A spectral survey of an ultra-hot Jupiter-Detection of metals in the transmission spectrum of KELT-9 b

HJ Hoeijmakers, D Ehrenreich, D Kitzmann… - Astronomy & …, 2019 - aanda.org
Context. KELT-9 b exemplifies a newly emerging class of short-period gaseous exoplanets
that tend to orbit hot, early type stars–termed ultra-hot Jupiters. The severe stellar irradiation …

Masses and compositions of three small planets orbiting the nearby M dwarf L231-32 (TOI-270) and the M dwarf radius valley

V Van Eylen, N Astudillo-Defru, X Bonfils… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We report on precise Doppler measurements of L231-32 (TOI-270), a nearby M dwarf (d= 22
pc, M⋆= 0.39 M⊙, R⋆= 0.38 R⊙), which hosts three transiting planets that were recently …

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 …

A warm Neptune's methane reveals core mass and vigorous atmospheric mixing

DK Sing, Z Rustamkulov, DP Thorngren, JK Barstow… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Observations of transiting gas giant exoplanets have revealed a pervasive depletion of
methane,,–, which has only recently been identified atmospherically,. The depletion is …

TauREx 3: A fast, dynamic, and extendable framework for retrievals

AF Al-Refaie, Q Changeat, IP Waldmann… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
TauREx 3 is the next generation of the TauREx exoplanet atmospheric retrieval framework
for Windows, Mac, and Linux. It is a complete rewrite with a full Python stack that makes it …

Observability of signatures of transport-induced chemistry in clear atmospheres of hot gas giant exoplanets

M Zamyatina, E Hébrard, B Drummond… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Transport-induced quenching, ie the homogenization of chemical abundances by
atmospheric advection, is thought to occur in the atmospheres of hot gas giant exoplanets …

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 …

Retrieval analysis of 38 WFC3 transmission spectra and resolution of the normalization degeneracy

C Fisher, K Heng - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
A comprehensive analysis of 38 previously published Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3)
transmission spectra is performed using a hierarchy of nested-sampling retrievals: with …