Transiting exoplanet atmospheres in the era of JWST

EMR Kempton, HA Knutson - Reviews in Mineralogy …, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The field of exoplanet atmospheric characterization has recently made considerable
advances with the advent of high-resolution spectroscopy from large ground-based …

The James Webb space telescope mission

JP Gardner, JC Mather, R Abbott, JS Abell… - Publications of the …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We summarize the history, concept, scientific program, and technical performance of the
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST, Webb; Gardner et al. 2006). This paper points to and …

SO2, silicate clouds, but no CH4 detected in a warm Neptune

A Dyrek, M Min, L Decin, J Bouwman, N Crouzet… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
WASP-107b is a warm (approximately 740 K) transiting planet with a Neptune-like mass of
roughly 30.5 M⊕ and Jupiter-like radius of about 0.94 RJ (refs.,), whose extended …

Dynamics and clouds in planetary atmospheres from telescopic observations

A Sánchez-Lavega, P Irwin, A García Muñoz - The Astronomy and …, 2023 - Springer
This review presents an insight into our current knowledge of the atmospheres of the planets
Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, the satellite Titan, and those of …

Sulfur dioxide in the mid-infrared transmission spectrum of WASP-39b

D Powell, AD Feinstein, EKH Lee, M Zhang, SM Tsai… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The recent inference of sulfur dioxide (SO2) in the atmosphere of the hot (approximately
1,100 K), Saturn-mass exoplanet WASP-39b from near-infrared JWST observations …

[HTML][HTML] JWST-TST DREAMS: quartz clouds in the atmosphere of WASP-17b

D Grant, NK Lewis, HR Wakeford… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Clouds are prevalent in many of the exoplanet atmospheres that have been observed to
date. For transiting exoplanets, we know if clouds are present because they mute spectral …

The Sonora substellar atmosphere models. IV. Elf Owl: atmospheric mixing and chemical disequilibrium with varying metallicity and C/O ratios

S Mukherjee, JJ Fortney, CV Morley… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Disequilibrium chemistry due to vertical mixing in the atmospheres of many brown dwarfs
and giant exoplanets is well established. Atmosphere models for these objects typically …

β Pictoris b through the eyes of the upgraded CRIRES+-Atmospheric composition, spin rotation, and radial velocity

R Landman, T Stolker, IAG Snellen, J Costes… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
Context. High-resolution spectrographs fed by adaptive optics (AO) provide a unique
opportunity to characterize directly imaged exoplanets. Observations with such instruments …

The JWST Early Release Science Program for direct observations of exoplanetary systems I: High-contrast imaging of the exoplanet HIP 65426 b from 2 to 16 μm

AL Carter, S Hinkley, J Kammerer… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract We present JWST Early Release Science coronagraphic observations of the super-
Jupiter exoplanet, HIP 65426b, with the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) from 2 to 5 μm …

JWST Measurements of 13C, 18O, and 17O in the Atmosphere of Super-Jupiter VHS 1256 b

S Gandhi, S de Regt, I Snellen, Y Zhang… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Isotope ratios have recently been measured in the atmospheres of directly imaged and
transiting exoplanets from ground-based observations. The arrival of JWST allows us to …