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 …

Exoplanet biosignatures: understanding oxygen as a biosignature in the context of its environment

VS Meadows, CT Reinhard, GN Arney… - Astrobiology, 2018 - liebertpub.com
We describe how environmental context can help determine whether oxygen (O2) detected
in extrasolar planetary observations is more likely to have a biological source. Here we …

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 …

Evolved climates and observational discriminants for the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system

AP Lincowski, VS Meadows, D Crisp… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The TRAPPIST-1 planetary system provides an unprecedented opportunity to study
terrestrial exoplanet evolution with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and ground …

Potential Atmospheric Compositions of TRAPPIST-1 c Constrained by JWST/MIRI Observations at 15 μm

AP Lincowski, VS Meadows, S Zieba… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The first James Webb Space Telescope observations of TRAPPIST-1 c showed a
secondary eclipse depth of 421±94 ppm at 15 μm, which is consistent with a bare rock …

The habitability of Proxima Centauri b: environmental states and observational discriminants

VS Meadows, GN Arney, EW Schwieterman… - Astrobiology, 2018 - liebertpub.com
Proxima Centauri b provides an unprecedented opportunity to understand the evolution and
nature of terrestrial planets orbiting M dwarfs. Although Proxima Cen b orbits within its star's …

Medium-resolution integral-field spectroscopy for high-contrast exoplanet imaging-Molecule maps of the β Pictoris system with SINFONI

HJ Hoeijmakers, H Schwarz, IAG Snellen… - Astronomy & …, 2018 - aanda.org
Context. Angular differential imaging (ADI) and spectral differential imaging (SDI) are well-
established high-contrast imaging techniques, but their application is challenging for …

Detecting ocean glint on exoplanets using multiphase map**

J Lustig-Yaeger, VS Meadows… - The Astronomical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Rotational map** and specular reflection (glint) are two proposed methods to directly
detect liquid water on the surface of habitable exoplanets. However, false positives for both …

Radio signatures of star–planet interactions, exoplanets and space weather

JR Callingham, BJS Pope, RD Kavanagh, S Bellotti… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Radio detections of stellar systems provide a window onto stellar magnetic activity and the
space weather conditions of extrasolar planets—information that is difficult to obtain at other …

MOVES–IV. Modelling the influence of stellar XUV-flux, cosmic rays, and stellar energetic particles on the atmospheric composition of the hot Jupiter HD 189733b

P Barth, C Helling, EE Stüeken… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Hot Jupiters provide valuable natural laboratories for studying potential contributions of high-
energy radiation to pre-biotic synthesis in the atmospheres of exoplanets. In this fourth paper …