The James Webb space telescope mission

JP Gardner, JC Mather, R Abbott, JS Abell… - Publications of the …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We summarize the history, concept, scientific program, and technical performance of the
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST, Webb; Gardner et al. 2006). This paper points to and …

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

Z Rustamkulov, DK Sing, S Mukherjee, EM May, J Kirk… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Transmission spectroscopy,–of exoplanets has revealed signatures of water vapour,
aerosols and alkali metals in a few dozen exoplanet atmospheres,. However, these previous …

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 …

Photochemically produced SO2 in the atmosphere of WASP-39b

SM Tsai, EKH Lee, D Powell, P Gao, X Zhang, J Moses… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Photochemistry is a fundamental process of planetary atmospheres that regulates the
atmospheric composition and stability. However, no unambiguous photochemical products …

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

AD Feinstein, M Radica, L Welbanks, CA Murray… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The Saturn-mass exoplanet WASP-39b has been the subject of extensive efforts to
determine its atmospheric properties using transmission spectroscopy,,–. However, these …

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

EM Ahrer, KB Stevenson, M Mansfield, SE Moran… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Measuring the metallicity and carbon-to-oxygen (C/O) ratio in exoplanet atmospheres is a
fundamental step towards constraining the dominant chemical processes at work and, if in …

Carbon-bearing molecules in a possible Hycean atmosphere

N Madhusudhan, S Sarkar… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The search for habitable environments and biomarkers in exoplanetary atmospheres is the
holy grail of exoplanet science. The detection of atmospheric signatures of habitable Earth …

No thick carbon dioxide atmosphere on the rocky exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 c

S Zieba, L Kreidberg, E Ducrot, M Gillon, C Morley… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Seven rocky planets orbit the nearby dwarf star TRAPPIST-1, providing a unique opportunity
to search for atmospheres on small planets outside the Solar System. Thanks to the recent …

[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 …

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 …