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 …

Hot Jupiters: origins, structure, atmospheres

JJ Fortney, RI Dawson… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We provide a brief review of many aspects of the planetary physics of hot Jupiters. Our aim is
to cover most of the major areas of current study while providing the reader with additional …

Retrieving temperatures and abundances of exoplanet atmospheres with high-resolution cross-correlation spectroscopy

M Brogi, MR Line - The Astronomical Journal, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
High-resolution spectroscopy (R≥ 25,000) has recently emerged as one of the leading
methods for detecting atomic and molecular species in the atmospheres of exoplanets …

Detection of Fe i in the atmosphere of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-121b, and a new likelihood-based approach for Doppler-resolved spectroscopy

NP Gibson, S Merritt, SK Nugroho… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
High-resolution Doppler-resolved spectroscopy has opened up a new window into the
atmospheres of both transiting and non-transiting exoplanets. Here, we present VLT/UVES …

A spectral survey of an ultra-hot Jupiter-Detection of metals in the transmission spectrum of KELT-9 b

HJ Hoeijmakers, D Ehrenreich, D Kitzmann… - Astronomy & …, 2019 - aanda.org
Context. KELT-9 b exemplifies a newly emerging class of short-period gaseous exoplanets
that tend to orbit hot, early type stars–termed ultra-hot Jupiters. The severe stellar irradiation …

An accurate, extensive, and practical line list of methane for the HITEMP database

RJ Hargreaves, IE Gordon, M Rey… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
A methane line list for the HITEMP spectroscopic database, covering 0–13,400 cm− 1 (> 746
nm), is presented. To create this compilation, ab initio line lists of 12 CH 4 from Rey et al …

Aerosols in exoplanet atmospheres

P Gao, HR Wakeford, SE Moran, V Parmentier - 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Observations of exoplanet atmospheres have shown that aerosols, like in the solar system,
are common across a variety of temperatures and planet types. The formation and …

Equilibrium chemistry down to 100 K-Impact of silicates and phyllosilicates on the carbon to oxygen ratio

P Woitke, C Helling, GH Hunter, JD Millard… - Astronomy & …, 2018 - aanda.org
We have introduced a fast and versatile computer code, GGCHEM, to determine the
chemical composition of gases in thermo-chemical equilibrium down to 100 K, with or …

Where is the water? Jupiter-like C/H ratio but strong H2O depletion found on τ Boötis b using SPIRou

S Pelletier, B Benneke, A Darveau-Bernier… - The Astronomical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The present-day envelope of gaseous planets is a relic of how these giant planets originated
and evolved. Measuring their elemental composition therefore presents a powerful …

High-resolution Spectroscopic Detection of TiO and a Stratosphere in the Day-side of WASP-33b

SK Nugroho, H Kawahara, K Masuda… - The Astronomical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We report high-resolution spectroscopic detection of TiO molecular signature in the day-side
spectra of WASP-33b, the second hottest known hot Jupiter. We used the High Dispersion …