Vanadium oxide and a sharp onset of cold-trap** on a giant exoplanet

S Pelletier, B Benneke, M Ali-Dib, B Prinoth, D Kasper… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The abundance of refractory elements in giant planets can provide key insights into their
formation histories. Owing to the low temperatures of the Solar System giants, refractory …

[HTML][HTML] The 2024 release of the ExoMol database: molecular line lists for exoplanet and other hot atmospheres

J Tennyson, SN Yurchenko, J Zhang… - Journal of Quantitative …, 2024 - Elsevier
The ExoMol database (www. exomol. com) provides molecular data for spectroscopic
studies of hot atmospheres. These data are widely used to model atmospheres of …

An atomic spectral survey of WASP-76b: resolving chemical gradients and asymmetries

AY Kesseli, IAG Snellen… - The Astronomical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Ultrahot Jupiters are gas giants that orbit so close to their host star that they are tidally
locked, causing a permanent hot dayside and a cooler nightside. Signatures of their …

The upper edge of the Neptune desert is stable against photoevaporation

S Vissapragada, HA Knutson… - The Astronomical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Transit surveys indicate that there is a deficit of Neptune-sized planets on close-in orbits. If
this" Neptune desert" is entirely cleared out by atmospheric mass loss, then planets at its …

Modelling the effect of 3D temperature and chemistry on the cross-correlation signal of transiting ultra-hot Jupiters: a study of five chemical species on WASP-76b

JP Wardenier, V Parmentier, MR Line… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Ultra-hot Jupiters are perfect targets for transmission spectroscopy. However, their
atmospheres feature strong spatial variations in temperature, chemistry, dynamics, cloud …

Exploring the effects of active magnetic drag in a general circulation model of the ultrahot Jupiter WASP-76b

H Beltz, E Rauscher, MT Roman… - The Astronomical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Ultrahot Jupiters represent an exciting avenue for testing extreme physics and observing
atmospheric circulation regimes not found in our solar system. Their high temperatures …

[HTML][HTML] Patchy nightside clouds on ultra-hot Jupiters: general circulation model simulations with radiatively active cloud tracers

TD Komacek, X Tan, P Gao… - The Astrophysical Journal, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The atmospheres of ultra-hot Jupiters have been characterized in detail through recent
phase curve and low-and high-resolution emission and transmission spectroscopic …

Modelling the day–night temperature variations of ultra-hot Jupiters: confronting non-grey general circulation models and observations

X Tan, TD Komacek, NE Batalha… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT Ultra-hot Jupiters (UHJs) are natural laboratories to study extreme physics in
planetary atmospheres and their rich observational data sets are yet to be confronted with …

No umbrella needed: confronting the hypothesis of iron rain on WASP-76b with post-processed general circulation models

AB Savel, EMR Kempton, M Malik… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
High-resolution spectra are unique indicators of three-dimensional (3D) processes in
exoplanetary atmospheres. For instance, in 2020, Ehrenreich et al. reported transmission …

The Ariel target list: The impact of TESS and the potential for characterizing multiple planets within a system

B Edwards, G Tinetti - The Astronomical Journal, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The Ariel Target List: The Impact of TESS and the Potential for Characterizing Multiple
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