Exoplanet atmospheres

S Seager, D Deming - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2010 - annualreviews.org
At the dawn of the first discovery of exoplanets orbiting Sun-like stars in the mid-1990s, few
believed that observations of exoplanet atmospheres would ever be possible. After the 2002 …

[HTML][HTML] Exoplanetary atmospheres—chemistry, formation conditions, and habitability

N Madhusudhan, M Agúndez, JI Moses, Y Hu - Space science reviews, 2016 - Springer
Characterizing the atmospheres of extrasolar planets is the new frontier in exoplanetary
science. The last two decades of exoplanet discoveries have revealed that exoplanets are …

[HTML][HTML] A chemical survey of exoplanets with ARIEL

G Tinetti, P Drossart, P Eccleston, P Hartogh… - Experimental …, 2018 - Springer
Thousands of exoplanets have now been discovered with a huge range of masses, sizes
and orbits: from rocky Earth-like planets to large gas giants grazing the surface of their host …

Characterizing transiting exoplanet atmospheres with JWST

TP Greene, MR Line, C Montero… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We explore how well spectra from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will likely
constrain bulk atmospheric properties of transiting exoplanets. We start by modeling the …

[HTML][HTML] Five key exoplanet questions answered via the analysis of 25 hot-Jupiter atmospheres in eclipse

Q Changeat, B Edwards, AF Al-Refaie… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Population studies of exoplanets are key to unlocking their statistical properties. So far, the
inferred properties have been mostly limited to planetary, orbital, and stellar parameters …

A precise water abundance measurement for the hot Jupiter WASP-43b

L Kreidberg, JL Bean, JM Désert, MR Line… - The Astrophysical …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
The water abundance in a planetary atmosphere provides a key constraint on the planet's
primordial origins because water ice is expected to play an important role in the core …

The orbital motion, absolute mass and high-altitude winds of exoplanet HD 209458b

IAG Snellen, RJ De Kok, EJW De Mooij, S Albrecht - Nature, 2010 - nature.com
For extrasolar planets discovered using the radial velocity method, the spectral
characterization of the host star leads to a mass estimate of the star and subsequently of the …

C/O ratio as a dimension for characterizing exoplanetary atmospheres

N Madhusudhan - The Astrophysical Journal, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Until recently, infrared observations of exoplanetary atmospheres have typically been
interpreted using models that assumed solar elemental abundances. With the chemical …

ExoMol line lists – XXXIX. Ro-vibrational molecular line list for CO2

SN Yurchenko, TM Mellor, RS Freedman… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT A new hot line list for the main isotopologue of CO2, 12C16O2 is presented. The
line list consists of almost 2.5 billion transitions between 3.5 million rotation-vibration states …

Disequilibrium carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen chemistry in the atmospheres of HD 189733b and HD 209458b

JI Moses, C Visscher, JJ Fortney… - The Astrophysical …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
We have developed a one-dimensional photochemical and thermochemical kinetics and
diffusion model to study the effects of disequilibrium chemistry on the atmospheric …