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 …

The Sonora brown dwarf atmosphere and evolution models. I. Model description and application to cloudless atmospheres in rainout chemical equilibrium

MS Marley, D Saumon, C Visscher… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a new generation of substellar atmosphere and evolution models, appropriate
for application to studies of L-, T-, and Y-type brown dwarfs and self-luminous extrasolar …

Five carbon-and nitrogen-bearing species in a hot giant planet's atmosphere

P Giacobbe, M Brogi, S Gandhi, PE Cubillos… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The atmospheres of gaseous giant exoplanets orbiting close to their parent stars (hot
Jupiters) have been probed for nearly two decades,. They allow us to investigate the …

[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 …

A broadband thermal emission spectrum of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-18b

LP Coulombe, B Benneke, R Challener, AAA Piette… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Close-in giant exoplanets with temperatures greater than 2,000 K ('ultra-hot Jupiters') have
been the subject of extensive efforts to determine their atmospheric properties using thermal …

A reflective, metal-rich atmosphere for GJ 1214b from its JWST phase curve

EMR Kempton, M Zhang, JL Bean, ME Steinrueck… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
There are no planets intermediate in size between Earth and Neptune in our Solar System,
yet these objects are found around a substantial fraction of other stars. Population statistics …

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 …

The ExoMolOP database: Cross sections and k-tables for molecules of interest in high-temperature exoplanet atmospheres

KL Chubb, M Rocchetto, SN Yurchenko, M Min… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
Here we present a publicly available database of opacities for molecules of astrophysical
interest named ExoMolOP that has been compiled for over 80 species, and is based on the …

[HTML][HTML] Laboratory spectra of hot molecules: Data needs for hot super-Earth exoplanets

J Tennyson, SN Yurchenko - Molecular Astrophysics, 2017 - Elsevier
The majority of stars are now thought to support exoplanets. Many of those exoplanets
discovered thus far are categorized as rocky objects with an atmosphere. Most of these …

ESPRESSO high-resolution transmission spectroscopy of WASP-76 b

HM Tabernero, MRZ Osorio, R Allart, F Borsa… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
Aims. We report on ESPRESSO high-resolution transmission spectroscopic observations of
two primary transits of the highly irradiated, ultra-hot Jupiter-sized planet, WASP-76b. We …