Water vapor and clouds on the habitable-zone sub-Neptune exoplanet K2-18b

B Benneke, I Wong, C Piaulet, HA Knutson… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Results from the Kepler mission indicate that the occurrence rate of small planets (< 3 R⊕)
in the habitable zone of nearby low-mass stars may be as high as 80%. Despite this …

Evidence for disequilibrium chemistry from vertical mixing in hot Jupiter atmospheres-A comprehensive survey of transiting close-in gas giant exoplanets with warm …

C Baxter, JM Désert, SM Tsai, KO Todorov… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
Aims. We present a large atmospheric study of 49 gas giant exoplanets using infrared
transmission photometry with Spitzer/IRAC at 3.6 and 4.5 μm. Methods. We uniformly …

The GAPS programme with HARPS-N at TNG-XIV. Investigating giant planet migration history via improved eccentricity and mass determination for 231 transiting …

AS Bonomo, S Desidera, S Benatti, F Borsa… - Astronomy & …, 2017 - aanda.org
We carried out a Bayesian homogeneous determination of the orbital parameters of 231
transiting giant planets (TGPs) that are alone or have distant companions; we employed …

A unique hot Jupiter spectral sequence with evidence for compositional diversity

M Mansfield, MR Line, JL Bean, JJ Fortney… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The emergent spectra of close-in, giant exoplanets ('hot Jupiters') are expected to be distinct
from those of self-luminous objects with similar effective temperatures because hot Jupiters …

A sub-Neptune exoplanet with a low-metallicity methane-depleted atmosphere and Mie-scattering clouds

B Benneke, HA Knutson, J Lothringer… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
With no analogues in the Solar System, the discovery of thousands of exoplanets with
masses and radii intermediate between Earth and Neptune was one of the big surprises of …

Model atmospheres of irradiated exoplanets: the influence of stellar parameters, metallicity, and the C/O ratio

P Mollière, R van Boekel, C Dullemond… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Many parameters constraining the spectral appearance of exoplanets are still poorly
understood. We therefore study the properties of irradiated exoplanet atmospheres over a …

Beyond equilibrium temperature: how the atmosphere/interior connection affects the onset of methane, ammonia, and clouds in warm transiting giant planets

JJ Fortney, C Visscher, MS Marley… - The Astronomical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The atmospheric pressure–temperature profiles for transiting giant planets cross a range of
chemical transitions. Here we show that the particular shapes of these irradiated profiles for …

Observing transiting planets with JWST-prime targets and their synthetic spectral observations

P Mollière, R van Boekel, J Bouwman… - Astronomy & …, 2017 - aanda.org
Context. The James Webb Space Telescope will enable astronomers to obtain exoplanet
spectra of unprecedented precision. The MIRI instrument especially may shed light on the …

The atmospheric circulation of a nine-hot-Jupiter sample: probing circulation and chemistry over a wide phase space

T Kataria, DK Sing, NK Lewis, C Visscher… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We present results from an atmospheric circulation study of nine hot Jupiters that compose a
large transmission spectral survey using the Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes. These …

Inhomogeneous terminators on the exoplanet WASP-39 b

N Espinoza, ME Steinrueck, J Kirk, RJ MacDonald… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Transmission spectroscopy has been a workhorse technique used over the past two
decades to constrain the physical and chemical properties of exoplanet atmospheres …