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 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 …

ARES.* V. No evidence for molecular absorption in the HST WFC3 spectrum of GJ 1132 b

LV Mugnai, D Modirrousta-Galian… - The Astronomical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a study on the spatially scanned spectroscopic observations of the transit of GJ
1132 b, a warm (∼ 500 K) super-Earth (1.13 R⊕) that was obtained with the G141 grism …

Hubble Space Telescope transmission spectroscopy for the temperate sub-Neptune TOI-270 d: a possible hydrogen-rich atmosphere containing water vapor

T Mikal-Evans, N Madhusudhan… - The Astronomical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
TOI-270 d is a temperate sub-Neptune discovered by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey
Satellite (TESS) around a bright (J= 9.1 mag) M3V host star. With an approximate radius of 2 …

Photochemistry and spectral characterization of temperate and gas-rich exoplanets

R Hu - The Astrophysical Journal, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Exoplanets that receive stellar irradiance approximately equal to Earth's or less have been
discovered and many are suitable for spectral characterization. Here, we focus on the …

TESS-Keck Survey. IX. Masses of three sub-Neptunes orbiting HD 191939 and the discovery of a warm Jovian plus a distant substellar companion

J Lubin, J Van Zandt, R Holcomb… - The Astronomical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Exoplanet systems with multiple transiting planets are natural laboratories for testing
planetary astrophysics. One such system is HD 191939 (TOI 1339), a bright (V= 9) and Sun …

Detecting the proposed CH4–CO2 biosignature pair with the James Webb Space Telescope: TRAPPIST-1e and the effect of cloud/haze

T Mikal-Evans - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
It is widely anticipated that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will be transformative
for exoplanet studies. It has even been suggested that JWST could provide the first …

Clouds and Clarity: Revisiting Atmospheric Feature Trends in Neptune-size Exoplanets

J Brande, IJM Crossfield, L Kreidberg… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Over the last decade, precise exoplanet transmission spectroscopy has revealed the
atmospheres of dozens of exoplanets, driven largely by observatories like the Hubble Space …

TESS-Keck Survey. V. Twin Sub-Neptunes Transiting the Nearby G Star HD 63935

N Scarsdale, JMA Murphy, NM Batalha… - The Astronomical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the discovery of two nearly identically sized sub-Neptune transiting planets
orbiting HD 63935, a bright (V= 8.6 mag), Sun-like (T eff= 5560 K) star at 49 pc. TESS …

ATOCA: an algorithm to treat order contamination. Application to the NIRISS SOSS mode

A Darveau-Bernier, L Albert, GJ Talens… - Publications of the …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
After a successful launch, the James Webb Space Telescope is preparing to undertake one
of its principal mission objectives, the characterization of the atmospheres of exoplanets …