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 escape and the evolution of close-in exoplanets

JE Owen - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Exoplanets with substantial hydrogen/helium atmospheres have been discovered in
abundance, many residing extremely close to their parent stars. The extreme irradiation …

Helium in the eroding atmosphere of an exoplanet

JJ Spake, DK Sing, TM Evans, A Oklopčić, V Bourrier… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Helium is the second-most abundant element in the Universe after hydrogen and is one of
the main constituents of gas-giant planets in our Solar System. Early theoretical models …

A spectral survey of an ultra-hot Jupiter-Detection of metals in the transmission spectrum of KELT-9 b

HJ Hoeijmakers, D Ehrenreich, D Kitzmann… - Astronomy & …, 2019 - aanda.org
Context. KELT-9 b exemplifies a newly emerging class of short-period gaseous exoplanets
that tend to orbit hot, early type stars–termed ultra-hot Jupiters. The severe stellar irradiation …
A Oklopčić, CM Hirata - The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Observational evidence for esca** exoplanet atmospheres has been obtained for a few
exoplanets to date. It comes from strong transit signals detected in the ultraviolet, most …