Early Release Science of the exoplanet WASP-39b with JWST NIRSpec PRISM

Z Rustamkulov, DK Sing, S Mukherjee, EM May, J Kirk… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Transmission spectroscopy,–of exoplanets has revealed signatures of water vapour,
aerosols and alkali metals in a few dozen exoplanet atmospheres,. However, these previous …

Early Release Science of the exoplanet WASP-39b with JWST NIRSpec G395H

L Alderson, HR Wakeford, MK Alam, NE Batalha… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Measuring the abundances of carbon and oxygen in exoplanet atmospheres is considered a
crucial avenue for unlocking the formation and evolution of exoplanetary systems,. Access to …

Photochemically produced SO2 in the atmosphere of WASP-39b

SM Tsai, EKH Lee, D Powell, P Gao, X Zhang, J Moses… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Photochemistry is a fundamental process of planetary atmospheres that regulates the
atmospheric composition and stability. However, no unambiguous photochemical products …

Early Release Science of the exoplanet WASP-39b with JWST NIRCam

EM Ahrer, KB Stevenson, M Mansfield, SE Moran… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Measuring the metallicity and carbon-to-oxygen (C/O) ratio in exoplanet atmospheres is a
fundamental step towards constraining the dominant chemical processes at work and, if in …

A broadband thermal emission spectrum of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-18b

LP Coulombe, B Benneke, R Challener, AAA Piette… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Close-in giant exoplanets with temperatures greater than 2,000 K ('ultra-hot Jupiters') have
been the subject of extensive efforts to determine their atmospheric properties using thermal …

SO2, silicate clouds, but no CH4 detected in a warm Neptune

A Dyrek, M Min, L Decin, J Bouwman, N Crouzet… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
WASP-107b is a warm (approximately 740 K) transiting planet with a Neptune-like mass of
roughly 30.5 M⊕ and Jupiter-like radius of about 0.94 RJ (refs.,), whose extended …

A warm Neptune's methane reveals core mass and vigorous atmospheric mixing

DK Sing, Z Rustamkulov, DP Thorngren, JK Barstow… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Observations of transiting gas giant exoplanets have revealed a pervasive depletion of
methane,,–, which has only recently been identified atmospherically,. The depletion is …

PICASO 3.0: a one-dimensional climate model for giant planets and brown dwarfs

S Mukherjee, NE Batalha, JJ Fortney… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Upcoming James Webb Space Telescope observations will allow us to study
exoplanet and brown dwarf atmospheres in great detail. The physical interpretation of these …

Hydrogen sulfide and metal-enriched atmosphere for a Jupiter-mass exoplanet

G Fu, L Welbanks, D Deming, J Inglis, M Zhang… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
As the closest transiting hot Jupiter to Earth, HD 189733b has been the benchmark planet
for atmospheric characterization,–. It has also been the anchor point for much of our …

Sulfur dioxide in the mid-infrared transmission spectrum of WASP-39b

D Powell, AD Feinstein, EKH Lee, M Zhang, SM Tsai… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The recent inference of sulfur dioxide (SO2) in the atmosphere of the hot (approximately
1,100 K), Saturn-mass exoplanet WASP-39b from near-infrared JWST observations …