Exoplanetary atmospheres: key insights, challenges, and prospects

N Madhusudhan - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Exoplanetary science is on the verge of an unprecedented revolution. The thousands of
exoplanets discovered over the past decade have most recently been supplemented by …

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 …

Ground-based detection of an extended helium atmosphere in the Saturn-mass exoplanet WASP-69b

L Nortmann, E Pallé, M Salz, J Sanz-Forcada, E Nagel… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Hot gas giant exoplanets can lose part of their atmosphere due to strong stellar irradiation,
and these losses can affect their physical and chemical evolution. Studies of atmospheric …

SPIRou: NIR velocimetry and spectropolarimetry at the CFHT

JF Donati, D Kouach, C Moutou… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
This paper presents an overview of SPIRou, the new-generation near-infrared
spectropolarimeter/precision velocimeter recently installed on the 3.6-m Canada–France …

Retrieving temperatures and abundances of exoplanet atmospheres with high-resolution cross-correlation spectroscopy

M Brogi, MR Line - The Astronomical Journal, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
High-resolution spectroscopy (R≥ 25,000) has recently emerged as one of the leading
methods for detecting atomic and molecular species in the atmospheres of exoplanets …

Titanium oxide and chemical inhomogeneity in the atmosphere of the exoplanet WASP-189 b

B Prinoth, HJ Hoeijmakers, D Kitzmann, E Sandvik… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The temperature of an atmosphere decreases with increasing altitude, unless a shortwave
absorber that causes a temperature inversion exists. Ozone plays this role in the Earth's …

Atomic iron and titanium in the atmosphere of the exoplanet KELT-9b

HJ Hoeijmakers, D Ehrenreich, K Heng, D Kitzmann… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
To constrain the formation history of an exoplanet, we need to know its chemical
composition,–. With an equilibrium temperature of about 4,050 kelvin, the exoplanet KELT …

A spectral survey of an ultra-hot Jupiter-Detection of metals in the transmission spectrum of KELT-9 b

HJ Hoeijmakers, D Ehrenreich, D Kitzmann… - Astronomy & …, 2019 - aanda.org
Context. KELT-9 b exemplifies a newly emerging class of short-period gaseous exoplanets
that tend to orbit hot, early type stars–termed ultra-hot Jupiters. The severe stellar irradiation …

[HTML][HTML] Atmospheric Rossiter–McLaughlin effect and transmission spectroscopy of WASP-121b with ESPRESSO

F Borsa, R Allart, N Casasayas-Barris… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
Context. Ultra-hot Jupiters are excellent laboratories for the study of exoplanetary
atmospheres. WASP-121b is one of the most studied; many recent analyses of its …

Retrieval survey of metals in six ultrahot Jupiters: trends in chemistry, rain-out, ionization, and atmospheric dynamics

S Gandhi, A Kesseli, Y Zhang, A Louca… - The Astronomical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Ground-based high-resolution spectroscopy (HRS) has detected numerous chemical
species and atmospheric dynamics in exoplanets, most notably ultrahot Jupiters (UHJs) …