Evidence for disequilibrium chemistry from vertical mixing in hot Jupiter atmospheres-A comprehensive survey of transiting close-in gas giant exoplanets with warm …

C Baxter, JM Désert, SM Tsai, KO Todorov… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
Aims. We present a large atmospheric study of 49 gas giant exoplanets using infrared
transmission photometry with Spitzer/IRAC at 3.6 and 4.5 μm. Methods. We uniformly …

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 …

C/O ratio as a dimension for characterizing exoplanetary atmospheres

N Madhusudhan - The Astrophysical Journal, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Until recently, infrared observations of exoplanetary atmospheres have typically been
interpreted using models that assumed solar elemental abundances. With the chemical …

A systematic retrieval analysis of secondary eclipse spectra. I. A comparison of atmospheric retrieval techniques

MR Line, AS Wolf, X Zhang, H Knutson… - The Astrophysical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Exoplanet atmosphere spectroscopy enables us to improve our understanding of exoplanets
just as remote sensing in our own solar system has increased our understanding of the solar …

Observing transiting planets with JWST-prime targets and their synthetic spectral observations

P Molliere, R van Boekel, J Bouwman… - Astronomy & …, 2017 - aanda.org
Context. The James Webb Space Telescope will enable astronomers to obtain exoplanet
spectra of unprecedented precision. The MIRI instrument especially may shed light on the …

Spectroscopic evidence for a temperature inversion in the dayside atmosphere of hot Jupiter WASP-33b

K Haynes, AM Mandell, N Madhusudhan… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We present observations of two occultations of the extrasolar planet WASP-33b using the
Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) on the Hubble Space Telescope, which allow us to constrain …

HELIOS: an open-source, GPU-accelerated radiative transfer code for self-consistent exoplanetary atmospheres

M Malik, L Grosheintz, JM Mendonça… - The astronomical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the open-source radiative transfer code named HELIOS, which is constructed for
studying exoplanetary atmospheres. In its initial version, the model atmospheres of HELIOS …

Carbon monoxide emission lines reveal an inverted atmosphere in the ultra hot Jupiter WASP-33 b consistent with an eastward hot spot

L van Sluijs, JL Birkby, J Lothringer… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We report the first detection of CO emission at high spectral resolution in the day-side
infrared thermal spectrum of an exoplanet. These emission lines, found in the atmosphere of …

A transition between the hot and the ultra-hot Jupiter atmospheres

C Baxter, JM Désert, V Parmentier, M Line… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
A key hypothesis in the field of exoplanet atmospheres is the trend of atmospheric thermal
structure with planetary equilibrium temperature. We explore this trend and report here the …

Phase curves of WASP-33b and HD 149026b and a new correlation between phase curve offset and irradiation temperature

M Zhang, HA Knutson, T Kataria… - The Astronomical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract We present new 3.6 and 4.5 μm Spitzer phase curves for the highly irradiated hot
Jupiter WASP-33b and the unusually dense Saturn-mass planet HD 149026b. As part of this …