Exoplanetary atmospheres: key insights, challenges, and prospects

N Madhusudhan - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Exoplanetary science is on the verge of an unprecedented revolution. The thousands of
exoplanets discovered over the past decade have most recently been supplemented by …

Hot Jupiters: origins, structure, atmospheres

JJ Fortney, RI Dawson… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We provide a brief review of many aspects of the planetary physics of hot Jupiters. Our aim is
to cover most of the major areas of current study while providing the reader with additional …

Detection of two interstellar polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons via spectral matched filtering

BA McGuire, RA Loomis, AM Burkhardt, KLK Lee… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Unidentified infrared emission bands are ubiquitous in many astronomical sources. These
bands are widely, if not unanimously, attributed to collective emissions from polycyclic …

A solar C/O and sub-solar metallicity in a hot Jupiter atmosphere

MR Line, M Brogi, JL Bean, S Gandhi, J Zalesky… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Measurements of the atmospheric carbon (C) and oxygen (O) relative to hydrogen (H) in hot
Jupiters (relative to their host stars) provide insight into their formation location and …

[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 …

ExoMol molecular line lists XXX: a complete high-accuracy line list for water

OL Polyansky, AA Kyuberis, NF Zobov… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT A new line list for HO is presented. This line list, which is called POKAZATEL,
includes transitions between rotational–vibrational energy levels up to 41 000 cm− 1 and is …

A chemical survey of exoplanets with ARIEL

G Tinetti, P Drossart, P Eccleston, P Hartogh… - Experimental …, 2018 - Springer
Thousands of exoplanets have now been discovered with a huge range of masses, sizes
and orbits: from rocky Earth-like planets to large gas giants grazing the surface of their host …

The ExoMol database: molecular line lists for exoplanet and other hot atmospheres

J Tennyson, SN Yurchenko, AF Al-Refaie… - Journal of Molecular …, 2016 - Elsevier
The ExoMol database (www. exomol. com) provides extensive line lists of molecular
transitions which are valid over extended temperature ranges. The status of the current …

Retrieving temperatures and abundances of exoplanet atmospheres with high-resolution cross-correlation spectroscopy

M Brogi, MR Line - The Astronomical Journal, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
High-resolution spectroscopy (R≥ 25,000) has recently emerged as one of the leading
methods for detecting atomic and molecular species in the atmospheres of exoplanets …

Detection of Fe i in the atmosphere of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-121b, and a new likelihood-based approach for Doppler-resolved spectroscopy

NP Gibson, S Merritt, SK Nugroho… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
High-resolution Doppler-resolved spectroscopy has opened up a new window into the
atmospheres of both transiting and non-transiting exoplanets. Here, we present VLT/UVES …