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 …

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 …

A high internal heat flux and large core in a warm Neptune exoplanet

L Welbanks, TJ Bell, TG Beatty, MR Line, K Ohno… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Interactions between exoplanetary atmospheres and internal properties have long been
proposed to be drivers of the inflation mechanisms of gaseous planets and apparent …

Interpreting the atmospheric composition of exoplanets: sensitivity to planet formation assumptions

P Mollière, T Molyarova, B Bitsch… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Constraining planet formation based on the atmospheric composition of exoplanets is a
fundamental goal of the exoplanet community. Existing studies commonly try to constrain …

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 …

petitRADTRANS-A Python radiative transfer package for exoplanet characterization and retrieval

P Mollière, JP Wardenier, R Van Boekel… - Astronomy & …, 2019 - aanda.org
We present the easy-to-use, publicly available, Python package petitRADTRANS, built for
the spectral characterization of exoplanet atmospheres. The code is fast, accurate, and …

[HTML][HTML] The HITRAN2016 molecular spectroscopic database

IE Gordon, LS Rothman, C Hill, RV Kochanov… - Journal of quantitative …, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper describes the contents of the 2016 edition of the HITRAN molecular
spectroscopic compilation. The new edition replaces the previous HITRAN edition of 2012 …

[HTML][HTML] The HITRAN2020 molecular spectroscopic database

IE Gordon, LS Rothman, RJ Hargreaves… - Journal of quantitative …, 2022 - Elsevier
The HITRAN database is a compilation of molecular spectroscopic parameters. It was
established in the early 1970s and is used by various computer codes to predict and …

Aerosol composition of hot giant exoplanets dominated by silicates and hydrocarbon hazes

P Gao, DP Thorngren, EKH Lee, JJ Fortney… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Aerosols are common in the atmospheres of exoplanets across a wide swath of
temperatures, masses and ages,–. These aerosols strongly impact observations of …

[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 …