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 …

Early Release Science of the exoplanet WASP-39b with JWST NIRSpec G395H

L Alderson, HR Wakeford, MK Alam, NE Batalha… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Measuring the abundances of carbon and oxygen in exoplanet atmospheres is considered a
crucial avenue for unlocking the formation and evolution of exoplanetary systems,. Access to …

Synergies between Venus & exoplanetary observations: Venus and its extrasolar siblings

MJ Way, C Ostberg, BJ Foley, C Gillmann… - Space Science …, 2023 - Springer
Here we examine how our knowledge of present day Venus can inform terrestrial
exoplanetary science and how exoplanetary science can inform our study of Venus. In a …

A framework for prioritizing the TESS planetary candidates most amenable to atmospheric characterization

EMR Kempton, JL Bean, DR Louie… - Publications of the …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
A key legacy of the recently launched the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
mission will be to provide the astronomical community with many of the best transiting …

The near-infrared spectrograph (nirspec) on the james webb space telescope-iv. capabilities and predicted performance for exoplanet characterization

SM Birkmann, P Ferruit, G Giardino, LD Nielsen… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
The Near-Inrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is
a very versatile instrument, offering mul-tiobject and integral field spectroscopy with varying …

Trends in atmospheric properties of Neptune-size exoplanets

IJM Crossfield, L Kreidberg - The Astronomical Journal, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Precise atmospheric observations have been made for a growing sample of warm
Neptunes. Here, we investigate the correlations between these observations and a large …

The precision of mass measurements required for robust atmospheric characterization of transiting exoplanets

NE Batalha, T Lewis, JJ Fortney… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Two of Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite's major science goals are to measure
masses for 50 planets smaller than 4 Earth radii and to discover high-quality targets for …

Early insights for atmospheric retrievals of exoplanets using JWST transit spectroscopy

S Constantinou, N Madhusudhan… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We have entered the era of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). We use the first
JWST transmission spectrum of the hot Saturn-mass exoplanet, WASP-39 b, obtained with …

The transiting exoplanet community early release science program for JWST

JL Bean, KB Stevenson, NM Batalha… - Publications of the …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) presents the opportunity to transform
our understanding of planets and the origins of life by revealing the atmospheric …

On the application of Bayesian leave-one-out cross-validation to exoplanet atmospheric analysis

L Welbanks, P McGill, M Line… - The Astronomical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Over the last decade exoplanetary transmission spectra have yielded an unprecedented
understanding about the physical and chemical nature of planets outside our solar system …