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 …

TESS transit timing of hundreds of hot Jupiters

ES Ivshina, JN Winn - The Astrophysical Journal Supplement …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We provide a database of transit times and updated ephemerides for 382 planets based on
data from the NASA Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and previously reported …

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 …

Visible-light Phase Curves from the Second Year of the TESS Primary Mission

I Wong, D Kitzmann, A Shporer, K Heng… - The Astronomical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We carried out a systematic study of full-orbit phase curves for known transiting systems in
the northern ecliptic sky that were observed during Year 2 of the TESS primary mission. We …

[HTML][HTML] Patchy nightside clouds on ultra-hot Jupiters: general circulation model simulations with radiatively active cloud tracers

TD Komacek, X Tan, P Gao… - The Astrophysical Journal, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The atmospheres of ultra-hot Jupiters have been characterized in detail through recent
phase curve and low-and high-resolution emission and transmission spectroscopic …

Mass-loss rate and local thermodynamic state of the KELT-9 b thermosphere from the hydrogen Balmer series

A Wyttenbach, P Mollière, D Ehrenreich… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
KELT-9 b, the hottest known exoplanet, with T eq~ 4400 K, is the archetype of a new planet
class known as ultra-hot Jupiters. These exoplanets are presumed to have an atmosphere …

Clouds in three-dimensional models of hot Jupiters over a wide range of temperatures. I. Thermal structures and broadband phase-curve predictions

MT Roman, EMR Kempton, E Rauscher… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Using a general circulation model (GCM), we investigate trends in simulated hot Jupiter
atmospheres for a range of irradiation temperatures (1500–4000 K), surface gravities (10 …

The GAPS Programme at TNG-XLI. The climate of KELT-9b revealed with a new approach to high-spectral-resolution phase curves

L Pino, M Brogi, JM Désert, V Nascimbeni… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Aims. We present a novel method for studying the thermal emission of exoplanets as a
function of orbital phase at very high spectral resolution, and use it to investigate the climate …