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 …

The JWST Early-release Science Program for Direct Observations of Exoplanetary Systems II: a 1 to 20 μm spectrum of the planetary-mass companion VHS 1256 …

BE Miles, BA Biller, P Patapis, K Worthen… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the highest fidelity spectrum to date of a planetary-mass object. VHS 1256 b is
a< 20 M Jup widely separated (∼ 8'', a= 150 au), young, planetary-mass companion that …

Clouds and hazes in exoplanet atmospheres

MS Marley, AS Ackerman, JN Cuzzi… - … of terrestrial planets, 2013 - books.google.com
Clouds and hazes are commonplace in the atmospheres of solar system planets and are
likely ubiquitous in the atmospheres of extrasolar planets as well. Clouds affect every aspect …

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 …

Aerosol composition of hot giant exoplanets dominated by silicates and hydrocarbon hazes

P Gao, DP Thorngren, EKH Lee, JJ Fortney… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Aerosols are common in the atmospheres of exoplanets across a wide swath of
temperatures, masses and ages,–. These aerosols strongly impact observations of …

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 …

Constraining the Nature of the PDS 70 Protoplanets with VLTI/GRAVITY∗

JJ Wang, A Vigan, S Lacour, M Nowak… - The Astronomical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present K-band interferometric observations of the PDS 70 protoplanets along with their
host star using VLTI/GRAVITY. We obtained K-band spectra and 100 μas precision …

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 …

Direct confirmation of the radial-velocity planet β Pictoris c

M Nowak, S Lacour, AM Lagrange, P Rubini… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
Context. Methods used to detect giant exoplanets can be broadly divided into two
categories: indirect and direct. Indirect methods are more sensitive to planets with a small …

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 …