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 …

Atmospheric regimes and trends on exoplanets and brown dwarfs

X Zhang - Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
A planetary atmosphere is the outer gas layer of a planet. Besides its scientific significance
among the first and most accessible planetary layers observed from space, it is closely …

Patchy Forsterite Clouds in the Atmospheres of Two Highly Variable Exoplanet Analogs

JM Vos, B Burningham, JK Faherty… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present an atmospheric retrieval analysis of a pair of highly variable,∼ 200 Myr old,
early T type planetary-mass exoplanet analogs SIMP J01365662+ 0933473 and 2MASS …

Unexpected long-term variability in Jupiter's tropospheric temperatures

GS Orton, A Antuñano, LN Fletcher, JA Sinclair… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
An essential component of planetary climatology is knowledge of the tropospheric
temperature field and its variability. Previous studies of Jupiter hinted at non-seasonal …

Obliquity constraints on an extrasolar planetary-mass companion

ML Bryan, E Chiang, BP Bowler… - The Astronomical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We place the first constraints on the obliquity of a planetary-mass companion outside of the
solar system. Our target is the directly imaged system 2MASS J01225093–2439505 …

On the detection of exomoons transiting isolated planetary-mass objects

MA Limbach, JM Vos, JN Winn, R Heller… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
All-sky imaging surveys have identified several dozen isolated planetary-mass objects
(IPMOs) far away from any star. Here we examine the prospects for detecting transiting …

Obliquity Constraints on the Planetary-mass Companion HD 106906 b

ML Bryan, E Chiang, CV Morley, GN Mace… - The Astronomical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We constrain the angular momentum architecture of HD 106906, a 13±2 Myr old system in
the ScoCen complex composed of a compact central binary, a widely separated planetary …

Strong Near-infrared Spectral Variability of the Young Cloudy L Dwarf Companion VHS J1256–1257 b

BP Bowler, Y Zhou, CV Morley, T Kataria… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Rotationally modulated variability of brown dwarfs and giant planets provides unique
information about their surface brightness inhomogeneities, atmospheric circulation, cloud …

The inhomogeneity effect. ii. Rotational and orbital states impact planetary cooling

X Zhang - The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We generalize the theory of the inhomogeneity effect to enable comparison among different
inhomogeneous planets. A metric of inhomogeneity based on the cumulative distribution …

Giant planets from the inside-out

T Guillot, LN Fletcher, R Helled, M Ikoma… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Giant planets acquire gas, ices and rocks during the early formation stages of planetary
systems and thus inform us on the formation process itself. Proceeding from inside out …