Atmospheres of rocky exoplanets

R Wordsworth, L Kreidberg - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Rocky planets are common around other stars, but their atmospheric properties remain
largely unconstrained. Thanks to a wealth of recent planet discoveries and upcoming …

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 …

Observations of exoplanet atmospheres

IJM Crossfield - Publications of the Astronomical Society of the …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Detailed characterization of an extrasolar planet's atmosphere provides the best hope for
distinguishing the makeup of its outer layers, and the only hope for understanding the …

Observing the atmospheres of known temperate Earth-sized planets with JWST

CV Morley, L Kreidberg, Z Rustamkulov… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Nine transiting Earth-sized planets have recently been discovered around nearby late-M
dwarfs, including the TRAPPIST-1 planets and two planets discovered by the MEarth survey …

Planetary Spectrum Generator: An accurate online radiative transfer suite for atmospheres, comets, small bodies and exoplanets

GL Villanueva, MD Smith, S Protopapa, S Faggi… - Journal of Quantitative …, 2018 - Elsevier
We have developed an online radiative-transfer suite (https://psg. gsfc. nasa. gov) applicable
to a broad range of planetary objects (eg, planets, moons, comets, asteroids, TNOs, KBOs …

A framework for prioritizing the TESS planetary candidates most amenable to atmospheric characterization

EMR Kempton, JL Bean, DR Louie… - Publications of the …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
A key legacy of the recently launched the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
mission will be to provide the astronomical community with many of the best transiting …

Creation and evolution of impact-generated reduced atmospheres of early Earth

KJ Zahnle, R Lupu, DC Catling… - The Planetary Science …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The origin of life on Earth seems to demand a highly reduced early atmosphere, rich in CH
4, H 2, and NH 3, but geological evidence suggests that Earth's mantle has always been …

Model atmospheres of irradiated exoplanets: the influence of stellar parameters, metallicity, and the C/O ratio

P Mollière, R van Boekel, C Dullemond… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Many parameters constraining the spectral appearance of exoplanets are still poorly
understood. We therefore study the properties of irradiated exoplanet atmospheres over a …

No thermal inversion and a solar water abundance for the hot Jupiter HD 209458b from HST/WFC3 spectroscopy

MR Line, KB Stevenson, J Bean… - The Astronomical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The nature of the thermal structure of hot Jupiter atmospheres is one of the key questions
raised by the characterization of transiting exoplanets over the past decade. There have …

The cosmic shoreline: The evidence that escape determines which planets have atmospheres, and what this may mean for Proxima Centauri B

KJ Zahnle, DC Catling - The Astrophysical Journal, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The Cosmic Shoreline: The Evidence that Escape Determines which Planets Have Atmospheres,
and what this May Mean for Proxima Centauri B - IOPscience This site uses cookies. By …