[HTML][HTML] The 2024 release of the ExoMol database: molecular line lists for exoplanet and other hot atmospheres

J Tennyson, SN Yurchenko, J Zhang… - Journal of Quantitative …, 2024 - Elsevier
The ExoMol database (www. exomol. com) provides molecular data for spectroscopic
studies of hot atmospheres. These data are widely used to model atmospheres of …

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 …

Diurnal variations in the stratosphere of the ultrahot giant exoplanet WASP-121b

T Mikal-Evans, DK Sing, JK Barstow, T Kataria… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The temperature profile of a planetary atmosphere is a key diagnostic of radiative and
dynamical processes governing the absorption, redistribution and emission of energy …

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 …

A decade with VAMDC: Results and ambitions

D Albert, BK Antony, YA Ba, YL Babikov, P Bollard… - Atoms, 2020 - mdpi.com
This paper presents an overview of the current status of the Virtual Atomic and Molecular
Data Centre (VAMDC) e-infrastructure, including the current status of the VAMDC-connected …

TauREx 3: A fast, dynamic, and extendable framework for retrievals

AF Al-Refaie, Q Changeat, IP Waldmann… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
TauREx 3 is the next generation of the TauREx exoplanet atmospheric retrieval framework
for Windows, Mac, and Linux. It is a complete rewrite with a full Python stack that makes it …

Direct imaging and astrometric detection of a gas giant planet orbiting an accelerating star

T Currie, GM Brandt, TD Brandt, B Lacy, A Burrows… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Direct imaging of gas giant exoplanets provides information on their atmospheres and the
architectures of planetary systems. However, few planets have been detected in blind …

JWST-TST DREAMS: quartz clouds in the atmosphere of WASP-17b

D Grant, NK Lewis, HR Wakeford… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Clouds are prevalent in many of the exoplanet atmospheres that have been observed to
date. For transiting exoplanets, we know if clouds are present because they mute spectral …

Simulating gas giant exoplanet atmospheres with Exo-FMS: comparing semigrey, picket fence, and correlated-k radiative-transfer schemes

EKH Lee, V Parmentier, M Hammond… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Radiative-transfer (RT) is a fundamental part of modelling exoplanet atmospheres with
general circulation models (GCMs). An accurate RT scheme is required for estimates of the …

Large interferometer for exoplanets (LIFE)-III. Spectral resolution, wavelength range, and sensitivity requirements based on atmospheric retrieval analyses of an exo …

BS Konrad, E Alei, SP Quanz, D Angerhausen… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Context. Temperate terrestrial exoplanets are likely to be common objects, but their
discovery and characterization is very challenging because of the small intrinsic signal …