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 …

[HTML][HTML] The 2024 release of the ExoMol database: molecular line lists for exoplanet and other hot atmospheres

J Tennyson, SN Yurchenko, J Zhang… - Journal of Quantitative …, 2024 - Elsevier
The ExoMol database (www. exomol. com) provides molecular data for spectroscopic
studies of hot atmospheres. These data are widely used to model atmospheres of …

Outstanding challenges of exoplanet atmospheric retrievals

JK Barstow, K Heng - Space science reviews, 2020 - Springer
Spectral retrieval has long been a powerful tool for interpreting planetary remote sensing
observations. Flexible, parameterised, agnostic models are coupled with inversion …

A unique hot Jupiter spectral sequence with evidence for compositional diversity

M Mansfield, MR Line, JL Bean, JJ Fortney… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The emergent spectra of close-in, giant exoplanets ('hot Jupiters') are expected to be distinct
from those of self-luminous objects with similar effective temperatures because hot Jupiters …

H− opacity and water dissociation in the dayside atmosphere of the very hot gas giant WASP-18b

J Arcangeli, JM Désert, MR Line, JL Bean… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We present one of the most precise emission spectra of an exoplanet observed so far. We
combine five secondary eclipses of the hot Jupiter WASP-18b (T day∼ 2900 K) that we …

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 …

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 …

The intrinsic temperature and radiative–convective boundary depth in the atmospheres of hot Jupiters

D Thorngren, P Gao, JJ Fortney - The Astrophysical Journal …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
In giant planet atmosphere modeling, the intrinsic temperature T int and radiative–
convective boundary (RCB) are important lower boundary conditions. Often in one …

3D modelling of the impact of stellar activity on tidally locked terrestrial exoplanets: atmospheric composition and habitability

RJ Ridgway, M Zamyatina, NJ Mayne… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Stellar flares present challenges to the potential habitability of terrestrial planets orbiting M
dwarf stars through inducing changes in the atmospheric composition and irradiating the …

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 …