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 …

A solar C/O and sub-solar metallicity in a hot Jupiter atmosphere

MR Line, M Brogi, JL Bean, S Gandhi, J Zalesky… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Measurements of the atmospheric carbon (C) and oxygen (O) relative to hydrogen (H) in hot
Jupiters (relative to their host stars) provide insight into their formation location and …

The JWST Early-release Science Program for Direct Observations of Exoplanetary Systems II: a 1 to 20 μm spectrum of the planetary-mass companion VHS 1256 …

BE Miles, BA Biller, P Patapis, K Worthen… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the highest fidelity spectrum to date of a planetary-mass object. VHS 1256 b is
a< 20 M Jup widely separated (∼ 8'', a= 150 au), young, planetary-mass companion that …

Vanadium oxide and a sharp onset of cold-trapping on a giant exoplanet

S Pelletier, B Benneke, M Ali-Dib, B Prinoth, D Kasper… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The abundance of refractory elements in giant planets can provide key insights into their
formation histories. Owing to the low temperatures of the Solar System giants, refractory …

[HTML][HTML] From thermal dissociation to condensation in the atmospheres of ultra hot Jupiters: WASP-121b in context

V Parmentier, MR Line, JL Bean, M Mansfield… - Astronomy & …, 2018 - aanda.org
Context. A new class of exoplanets has emerged: the ultra hot Jupiters, the hottest close-in
gas giants. The majority of them have weaker-than-expected spectral features in the 1.1− 1.7 …

Habitability and biosignatures of Hycean worlds

N Madhusudhan, AAA Piette… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate a new class of habitable planets composed of water-rich interiors with
massive oceans underlying H 2-rich atmospheres, referred to here as Hycean worlds. With …

The field substellar mass function based on the full-sky 20 pc census of 525 L, T, and Y dwarfs

JD Kirkpatrick, CR Gelino, JK Faherty… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present final Spitzer trigonometric parallaxes for 361 L, T, and Y dwarfs. We combine
these with prior studies to build a list of 525 known L, T, and Y dwarfs within 20 pc of the …

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 …

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 …