Transiting exoplanet atmospheres in the era of JWST

EMR Kempton, HA Knutson - Reviews in Mineralogy …, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The field of exoplanet atmospheric characterization has recently made considerable
advances with the advent of high-resolution spectroscopy from large ground-based …

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 …

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 …

Exploring the ability of Hubble Space Telescope WFC3 G141 to uncover trends in populations of exoplanet atmospheres through a homogeneous transmission survey …

B Edwards, Q Changeat, A Tsiaras… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present analysis of the atmospheres of 70 gaseous extrasolar planets via transit
spectroscopy with Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3). For over half of these, we …

New mass and radius constraints on the LHS 1140 planets: LHS 1140 b is either a temperate mini-Neptune or a water world

C Cadieux, M Plotnykov, R Doyon… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
The two-planet transiting system LHS 1140 has been extensively observed since its
discovery in 2017, notably with Spitzer, HST, TESS, and ESPRESSO, placing strong …

Visible-light Phase Curves from the Second Year of the TESS Primary Mission

I Wong, D Kitzmann, A Shporer, K Heng… - The Astronomical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We carried out a systematic study of full-orbit phase curves for known transiting systems in
the northern ecliptic sky that were observed during Year 2 of the TESS primary mission. We …

[HTML][HTML] Patchy nightside clouds on ultra-hot Jupiters: general circulation model simulations with radiatively active cloud tracers

TD Komacek, X Tan, P Gao… - The Astrophysical Journal, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The atmospheres of ultra-hot Jupiters have been characterized in detail through recent
phase curve and low-and high-resolution emission and transmission spectroscopic …

Eureka!: an end-to-end pipeline for JWST time-series observations

TJ Bell, EM Ahrer, J Brande, AL Carter… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
$\texttt {Eureka!} $ is a data reduction and analysis pipeline for exoplanet time-series
observations, with a particular focus on JWST data. Over the next 1-2 decades, JWST will …

A benchmark JWST near-infrared spectrum for the exoplanet WASP-39 b

AL Carter, EM May, N Espinoza, L Welbanks… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Observing exoplanets through transmission spectroscopy supplies detailed information
about their atmospheric composition, physics and chemistry. Before the James Webb Space …

Exoplanet atmosphere retrievals in 3D using phase curve data with ARCiS: application to WASP-43b

KL Chubb, M Min - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2022 - aanda.org
Aims. Our goal is to create a retrieval framework which encapsulates the three-dimensional
(3D) nature of exoplanet atmospheres, and to apply it to observed emission phase curve …