Atmospheres of rocky exoplanets

R Wordsworth, L Kreidberg - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Rocky planets are common around other stars, but their atmospheric properties remain
largely unconstrained. Thanks to a wealth of recent planet discoveries and upcoming …

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 …

A reflective, metal-rich atmosphere for GJ 1214b from its JWST phase curve

EMR Kempton, M Zhang, JL Bean, ME Steinrueck… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
There are no planets intermediate in size between Earth and Neptune in our Solar System,
yet these objects are found around a substantial fraction of other stars. Population statistics …

A sub-Neptune exoplanet with a low-metallicity methane-depleted atmosphere and Mie-scattering clouds

B Benneke, HA Knutson, J Lothringer… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
With no analogues in the Solar System, the discovery of thousands of exoplanets with
masses and radii intermediate between Earth and Neptune was one of the big surprises of …

Aerosols in exoplanet atmospheres

P Gao, HR Wakeford, SE Moran, V Parmentier - 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Observations of exoplanet atmospheres have shown that aerosols, like in the solar system,
are common across a variety of temperatures and planet types. The formation and …

Double trouble: two transits of the super-Earth GJ 1132 b observed with JWST NIRSpec G395H

EM May, RJ MacDonald, KA Bennett… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The search for rocky planet atmospheres with JWST has focused on planets transiting M
dwarfs. Such planets have favorable planet-to-star size ratios, enhancing the amplitude of …

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 …

UV absorption by silicate cloud precursors in ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-178b

JD Lothringer, DK Sing, Z Rustamkulov, HR Wakeford… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Aerosols have been found to be nearly ubiquitous in substellar atmospheres,–. The precise
temperature at which these aerosols begin to form in exoplanets has yet to be …

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs-Two planets on opposite sides of the radius gap transiting the nearby M dwarf LTT 3780

G Nowak, R Luque, H Parviainen, E Pallé… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
We present the discovery and characterisation of two transiting planets observed by the
Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) orbiting the nearby (d⋆≈ 22 pc), bright (J≈ 9 …

Atmospheric regimes and trends on exoplanets and brown dwarfs

X Zhang - Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
A planetary atmosphere is the outer gas layer of a planet. Besides its scientific significance
among the first and most accessible planetary layers observed from space, it is closely …