Exoplanet biosignatures: a review of remotely detectable signs of life

EW Schwieterman, NY Kiang, MN Parenteau… - Astrobiology, 2018 - liebertpub.com
In the coming years and decades, advanced space-and ground-based observatories will
allow an unprecedented opportunity to probe the atmospheres and surfaces of potentially …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Mesospheric clouds and the physics of the mesopause region

GE Thomas - Reviews of Geophysics, 1991 - Wiley Online Library
During the last decade, new satellite observations of polar mesospheric clouds and ground‐
based radar and lidar sounding of the high‐latitude summertime mesosphere have …

Long-term drying of Mars by sequestration of ocean-scale volumes of water in the crust

EL Scheller, BL Ehlmann, R Hu, DJ Adams, YL Yung - Science, 2021 - science.org
Geological evidence shows that ancient Mars had large volumes of liquid water. Models of
past hydrogen escape to space, calibrated with observations of the current escape rate …

A comparative study of atmospheric chemistry with VULCAN

SM Tsai, M Malik, D Kitzmann, JR Lyons… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present an update of the open-source photochemical kinetics code VULCAN to include
C–H–N–O–S networks and photochemistry. The additional new features are advection …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Evolved climates and observational discriminants for the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system

AP Lincowski, VS Meadows, D Crisp… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The TRAPPIST-1 planetary system provides an unprecedented opportunity to study
terrestrial exoplanet evolution with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and ground …

[HTML][HTML] Photochemistry of the atmosphere of Titan-Comparison between model and observations

YL Yung, M Allen, JP Pinto - … Series (ISSN 0067-0049), vol. 55 …, 1984 - adsabs.harvard.edu
Updated chemical schemes and estimates of key rate coefficients are used in the present
investigation of the photochemistry of Titan atmosphere CH-and O-atom containing simple …