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 …

The effect of stellar contamination on low-resolution transmission spectroscopy: needs identified by NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program Study Analysis Group 21

BV Rackham, N Espinoza… - RAS Techniques …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Study Analysis Group 21 (SAG21) of NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program
Analysis Group was organized to study the effect of stellar contamination on space-based …

ESPRESSO at VLT-On-sky performance and first results

F Pepe, S Cristiani, R Rebolo, NC Santos… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
Context. ESPRESSO is the new high-resolution spectrograph of ESO's Very Large
Telescope (VLT). It was designed for ultra-high radial-velocity (RV) precision and extreme …

Extremely irradiated hot Jupiters: non-oxide inversions, H− opacity, and thermal dissociation of molecules

JD Lothringer, T Barman, T Koskinen - The Astrophysical Journal, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Extremely irradiated hot Jupiters, exoplanets reaching dayside temperatures> 2000 K,
stretch our understanding of planetary atmospheres and the models we use to interpret …

[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 …

Infrared transmission spectroscopy of the exoplanets HD 209458b and XO-1b using the Wide Field Camera-3 on the Hubble Space Telescope

D Deming, A Wilkins, P McCullough… - The Astrophysical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Exoplanetary transmission spectroscopy in the near-infrared using the Hubble Space
Telescope (HST) NICMOS is currently ambiguous because different observational groups …

[HTML][HTML] Spectrally resolved detection of sodium in the atmosphere of HD 189733b with the HARPS spectrograph

A Wyttenbach, D Ehrenreich, C Lovis, S Udry… - Astronomy & …, 2015 - aanda.org
Context. Atmospheric properties of exoplanets can be constrained with transit spectroscopy.
At low spectral resolution, this technique is limited by the presence of clouds. The signature …

ESPRESSO high-resolution transmission spectroscopy of WASP-76 b

HM Tabernero, MRZ Osorio, R Allart, F Borsa… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
Aims. We report on ESPRESSO high-resolution transmission spectroscopic observations of
two primary transits of the highly irradiated, ultra-hot Jupiter-sized planet, WASP-76b. We …

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 …

High-resolution Spectroscopic Detection of TiO and a Stratosphere in the Day-side of WASP-33b

SK Nugroho, H Kawahara, K Masuda… - The Astronomical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We report high-resolution spectroscopic detection of TiO molecular signature in the day-side
spectra of WASP-33b, the second hottest known hot Jupiter. We used the High Dispersion …