On the cool side: modeling the atmospheres of brown dwarfs and giant planets

MS Marley, TD Robinson - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
The atmosphere of a brown dwarf or extrasolar giant planet controls the spectrum of
radiation emitted by the object and regulates its cooling over time. Although the study of …

Exoplanet clouds

C Helling - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Clouds, which are common features in Earth's atmosphere, form in atmospheres of planets
that orbit other stars than our Sun, in so-called extrasolar planets or exoplanets. Exoplanet …

A new set of atmosphere and evolution models for cool T–Y brown dwarfs and giant exoplanets

MW Phillips, P Tremblin, I Baraffe, G Chabrier… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
We present a new set of solar metallicity atmosphere and evolutionary models for very cool
brown dwarfs and self-luminous giant exoplanets, which we term ATMO 2020. Atmosphere …

The transit light source effect: false spectral features and incorrect densities for M-dwarf transiting planets

BV Rackham, D Apai, MS Giampapa - The Astrophysical Journal, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Transmission spectra are differential measurements that utilize stellar illumination to probe
transiting exoplanet atmospheres. Any spectral difference between the illuminating light …

Retrieving scattering clouds and disequilibrium chemistry in the atmosphere of HR 8799e

P Mollière, T Stolker, S Lacour, G Otten… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
Context. Clouds are ubiquitous in exoplanet atmospheres and they represent a challenge
for the model interpretation of their spectra. When generating a large number of model …

A continuum from clear to cloudy hot-Jupiter exoplanets without primordial water depletion

DK Sing, JJ Fortney, N Nikolov, HR Wakeford, T Kataria… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Thousands of transiting exoplanets have been discovered, but spectral analysis of their
atmospheres has so far been dominated by a small number of exoplanets and data …

Aerosols in exoplanet atmospheres

P Gao, HR Wakeford, SE Moran, V Parmentier - 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Observations of exoplanet atmospheres have shown that aerosols, like in the solar system,
are common across a variety of temperatures and planet types. The formation and …

Hubble Space Telescope transmission spectroscopy of the exoplanet HD 189733b: high-altitude atmospheric haze in the optical and near-ultraviolet with STIS

DK Sing, F Pont, S Aigrain… - Monthly Notices of …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Abstract We present Hubble Space Telescope (HST) optical and near-ultraviolet
transmission spectra of the transiting hot Jupiter HD 189733b, taken with the repaired Space …

Clouds and chemistry in the atmosphere of extrasolar planet HR8799b

TS Barman, B Macintosh, QM Konopacky… - The Astrophysical …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Using the integral field spectrograph OSIRIS, on the Keck II telescope, broad near-infrared H-
and K-band spectra of the young exoplanet HR8799b have been obtained. In addition, six …

The flat transmission spectrum of the super-Earth GJ1214b from wide field camera 3 on the Hubble Space Telescope

ZK Berta, D Charbonneau, JM Désert… - The Astrophysical …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Capitalizing on the observational advantage offered by its tiny M dwarf host, we present
Hubble Space Telescope/Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) grism measurements of the …