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 …

Atmospheric dynamics of hot giant planets and brown dwarfs

AP Showman, X Tan, V Parmentier - Space Science Reviews, 2020 - Springer
Groundbased and spacecraft telescopic observations, combined with an intensive modeling
effort, have greatly enhanced our understanding of hot giant planets and brown dwarfs over …

Early Release Science of the exoplanet WASP-39b with JWST NIRSpec G395H

L Alderson, HR Wakeford, MK Alam, NE Batalha… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Measuring the abundances of carbon and oxygen in exoplanet atmospheres is considered a
crucial avenue for unlocking the formation and evolution of exoplanetary systems,. Access to …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Five key exoplanet questions answered via the analysis of 25 hot-Jupiter atmospheres in eclipse

Q Changeat, B Edwards, AF Al-Refaie… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Population studies of exoplanets are key to unlocking their statistical properties. So far, the
inferred properties have been mostly limited to planetary, orbital, and stellar parameters …

Extremely irradiated hot Jupiters: non-oxide inversions, H− opacity, and thermal dissociation of molecules

JD Lothringer, T Barman, T Koskinen - The Astrophysical Journal, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Extremely irradiated hot Jupiters, exoplanets reaching dayside temperatures> 2000 K,
stretch our understanding of planetary atmospheres and the models we use to interpret …

H2O abundances and cloud properties in ten hot giant exoplanets

A Pinhas, N Madhusudhan, S Gandhi… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Transmission spectroscopy of exoplanets has the potential to provide precise
measurements of atmospheric chemical abundances, in particular of hot Jupiters whose …

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 …