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 …

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 …

The effects of snowlines on C/O in planetary atmospheres

KI Öberg, R Murray-Clay… - The Astrophysical Journal …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
The C/O ratio is predicted to regulate the atmospheric chemistry in hot Jupiters. Recent
observations suggest that some exoplanets, eg, Wasp 12-b, have atmospheric C/O ratios …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

An accurate, extensive, and practical line list of methane for the HITEMP database

RJ Hargreaves, IE Gordon, M Rey… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
A methane line list for the HITEMP spectroscopic database, covering 0–13,400 cm− 1 (> 746
nm), is presented. To create this compilation, ab initio line lists of 12 CH 4 from Rey et al …

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 …

A systematic retrieval analysis of secondary eclipse spectra. I. A comparison of atmospheric retrieval techniques

MR Line, AS Wolf, X Zhang, H Knutson… - The Astrophysical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Exoplanet atmosphere spectroscopy enables us to improve our understanding of exoplanets
just as remote sensing in our own solar system has increased our understanding of the solar …

A temperature and abundance retrieval method for exoplanet atmospheres

N Madhusudhan, S Seager - The Astrophysical Journal, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a new method to retrieve molecular abundances and temperature profiles from
exoplanet atmosphere photometry and spectroscopy. We run millions of one-dimensional …

HD 209458b in new light: evidence of nitrogen chemistry, patchy clouds and sub-solar water

RJ MacDonald, N Madhusudhan - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Interpretations of exoplanetary transmission spectra have been undermined by
apparent obscuration due to clouds/hazes. Debate rages on whether weak H2O features …