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 warm Neptune's methane reveals core mass and vigorous atmospheric mixing

DK Sing, Z Rustamkulov, DP Thorngren, JK Barstow… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Observations of transiting gas giant exoplanets have revealed a pervasive depletion of
methane,,–, which has only recently been identified atmospherically,. The depletion is …

[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 …

Methane throughout the atmosphere of the warm exoplanet WASP-80b

TJ Bell, L Welbanks, E Schlawin, MR Line, JJ Fortney… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The abundances of main carbon-and oxygen-bearing gases in the atmospheres of giant
exoplanets provide insights into atmospheric chemistry and planet formation processes …

SO2, silicate clouds, but no CH4 detected in a warm Neptune

A Dyrek, M Min, L Decin, J Bouwman, N Crouzet… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
WASP-107b is a warm (approximately 740 K) transiting planet with a Neptune-like mass of
roughly 30.5 M⊕ and Jupiter-like radius of about 0.94 RJ (refs.,), whose extended …

An Overview of Exoplanet Biosignatures

EW Schwieterman, M Leung - Reviews in Mineralogy …, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
In the last three decades, knowledge of planetary systems other than our own has increased
rapidly with the discovery of over 5,000 exoplanets (Christiansen 2022). These worlds vary …

Hydrogen sulfide and metal-enriched atmosphere for a Jupiter-mass exoplanet

G Fu, L Welbanks, D Deming, J Inglis, M Zhang… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
As the closest transiting hot Jupiter to Earth, HD 189733b has been the benchmark planet
for atmospheric characterization,–. It has also been the anchor point for much of our …

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 …

JWST/NIRISS reveals the water-rich “steam world” atmosphere of GJ 9827 d

C Piaulet-Ghorayeb, B Benneke… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
With sizable volatile envelopes but smaller radii than the solar system ice giants, sub-
Neptunes have been revealed as one of the most common types of planet in the galaxy …

Inhomogeneous terminators on the exoplanet WASP-39 b

N Espinoza, ME Steinrueck, J Kirk, RJ MacDonald… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Transmission spectroscopy has been a workhorse technique used over the past two
decades to constrain the physical and chemical properties of exoplanet atmospheres …