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 …

Graphene–metal oxide nanohybrids for toxic gas sensor: A review

SG Chatterjee, S Chatterjee, AK Ray… - Sensors and Actuators B …, 2015 - Elsevier
Sensing of gas molecules is critical to environmental monitoring, control of chemical
processes, agricultural, and medical applications. In particular, the detection of industrial …

The JWST early-release science program for direct observations of exoplanetary systems II: A 1 to 20 μm spectrum of the planetary-mass companion VHS 1256–1257 …

BE Miles, BA Biller, P Patapis, K Worthen… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the highest fidelity spectrum to date of a planetary-mass object. VHS 1256 b is
a< 20 M Jup widely separated (∼ 8'', a= 150 au), young, planetary-mass companion that …

Retrieving scattering clouds and disequilibrium chemistry in the atmosphere of HR 8799e

P Mollière, T Stolker, S Lacour, G Otten… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
Context. Clouds are ubiquitous in exoplanet atmospheres and they represent a challenge
for the model interpretation of their spectra. When generating a large number of model …

Direct imaging and astrometric detection of a gas giant planet orbiting an accelerating star

T Currie, GM Brandt, TD Brandt, B Lacy, A Burrows… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Direct imaging of gas giant exoplanets provides information on their atmospheres and the
architectures of planetary systems. However, few planets have been detected in blind …

Imaging extrasolar giant planets

BP Bowler - Publications of the Astronomical Society of the …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
High-contrast adaptive optics (AO) imaging is a powerful technique to probe the
architectures of planetary systems from the outside-in and survey the atmospheres of self …

A population study of gaseous exoplanets

A Tsiaras, IP Waldmann, T Zingales… - The Astronomical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We present here the analysis of 30 gaseous extrasolar planets, with temperatures between
600 and 2400 K and radii between 0.35 and 1.9 R Jup. The quality of the HST/WFC3 …

Characterizing transiting exoplanet atmospheres with JWST

TP Greene, MR Line, C Montero… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We explore how well spectra from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will likely
constrain bulk atmospheric properties of transiting exoplanets. We start by modeling the …

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 mass–metallicity relation for giant planets

DP Thorngren, JJ Fortney… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Exoplanet discoveries of recent years have provided a great deal of new data for studying
the bulk compositions of giant planets. Here we identify 47 transiting giant planets (20 M⊕< …