Hot Jupiters: origins, structure, atmospheres

JJ Fortney, RI Dawson… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We provide a brief review of many aspects of the planetary physics of hot Jupiters. Our aim is
to cover most of the major areas of current study while providing the reader with additional …

Atmospheric dynamics of hot giant planets and brown dwarfs

AP Showman, X Tan, V Parmentier - Space Science Reviews, 2020 - Springer
Groundbased and spacecraft telescopic observations, combined with an intensive modeling
effort, have greatly enhanced our understanding of hot giant planets and brown dwarfs over …

Five key exoplanet questions answered via the analysis of 25 hot-Jupiter atmospheres in eclipse

Q Changeat, B Edwards, AF Al-Refaie… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Population studies of exoplanets are key to unlocking their statistical properties. So far, the
inferred properties have been mostly limited to planetary, orbital, and stellar parameters …

A comparative study of atmospheric chemistry with VULCAN

SM Tsai, M Malik, D Kitzmann, JR Lyons… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present an update of the open-source photochemical kinetics code VULCAN to include
C–H–N–O–S networks and photochemistry. The additional new features are advection …

Retrieval survey of metals in six ultrahot Jupiters: trends in chemistry, rain-out, ionization, and atmospheric dynamics

S Gandhi, A Kesseli, Y Zhang, A Louca… - The Astronomical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Ground-based high-resolution spectroscopy (HRS) has detected numerous chemical
species and atmospheric dynamics in exoplanets, most notably ultrahot Jupiters (UHJs) …

The cloudy shape of hot Jupiter thermal phase curves

V Parmentier, AP Showman… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Hot Jupiters have been predicted to have a strong day/night temperature contrast and a
hotspot shifted eastward of the substellar point. This was confirmed by numerous phase …

Decomposing the iron cross-correlation signal of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-76b in transmission using 3D Monte Carlo radiative transfer

JP Wardenier, V Parmentier, EKH Lee… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Ultra-hot Jupiters are tidally locked gas giants with dayside temperatures high enough to
dissociate hydrogen and other molecules. Their atmospheres are vastly non-uniform in …

Bound-state breaking and the importance of thermal exchange–correlation effects in warm dense hydrogen

Z Moldabekov, S Schwalbe, MP Böhme… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Hydrogen at extreme temperatures and pressures is of key relevance for cutting-edge
technological applications, with inertial confinement fusion research being a prime example …

Exploring the effects of active magnetic drag in a general circulation model of the ultrahot Jupiter WASP-76b

H Beltz, E Rauscher, MT Roman… - The Astronomical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Ultrahot Jupiters represent an exciting avenue for testing extreme physics and observing
atmospheric circulation regimes not found in our solar system. Their high temperatures …

Spatially resolving the terminator: variation of Fe, temperature, and winds in WASP-76 b across planetary limbs and orbital phase

S Gandhi, A Kesseli, I Snellen, M Brogi… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Exoplanet atmospheres are inherently three-dimensional systems in which thermal/chemical
variation and winds can strongly influence spectra. Recently, the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-76 …