Hot Jupiters: origins, structure, atmospheres

JJ Fortney, RI Dawson… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We provide a brief review of many aspects of the planetary physics of hot Jupiters. Our aim is
to cover most of the major areas of current study while providing the reader with additional …

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 …

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 …

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 …

An ultrahot gas-giant exoplanet with a stratosphere

TM Evans, DK Sing, T Kataria, J Goyal, N Nikolov… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Infrared radiation emitted from a planet contains information about the chemical composition
and vertical temperature profile of its atmosphere,,. If upper layers are cooler than lower …

TESS transit timing of hundreds of hot Jupiters

ES Ivshina, JN Winn - The Astrophysical Journal Supplement …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We provide a database of transit times and updated ephemerides for 382 planets based on
data from the NASA Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and previously reported …

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 …

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 …

Friends of hot Jupiters. I. A radial velocity search for massive, long-period companions to close-in gas giant planets

HA Knutson, BJ Fulton, BT Montet, M Kao… - The Astrophysical …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper we search for distant massive companions to known transiting gas giant
planets that may have influenced the dynamical evolution of these systems. We present new …

Thermal structure of an exoplanet atmosphere from phase-resolved emission spectroscopy

KB Stevenson, JM Désert, MR Line, JL Bean… - Science, 2014 - science.org
Exoplanets that orbit close to their host stars are much more highly irradiated than their solar
system counterparts. Understanding the thermal structures and appearances of these …