From the automated calculation of potential energy surfaces to accurate infrared spectra

B Schröder, G Rauhut - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Advances in the development of quantum chemical methods and progress in multicore
architectures in computer science made the simulation of infrared spectra of isolated …

Early Release Science of the exoplanet WASP-39b with JWST NIRSpec G395H

L Alderson, HR Wakeford, MK Alam, NE Batalha… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Measuring the abundances of carbon and oxygen in exoplanet atmospheres is considered a
crucial avenue for unlocking the formation and evolution of exoplanetary systems,. Access to …

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 …

A solar C/O and sub-solar metallicity in a hot Jupiter atmosphere

MR Line, M Brogi, JL Bean, S Gandhi, J Zalesky… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Measurements of the atmospheric carbon (C) and oxygen (O) relative to hydrogen (H) in hot
Jupiters (relative to their host stars) provide insight into their formation location and …

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 …

MARVEL analysis of high‐resolution rovibrational spectra of CO

MTI Ibrahim, D Alatoom, T Furtenbacher… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
A set of empirical rovibrational energy levels, obtained through the MARVEL (measured
active rotational‐vibrational energy levels) procedure, is presented for the 13 C 16 O 2 …

Nightside clouds and disequilibrium chemistry on the hot Jupiter WASP-43b

TJ Bell, N Crouzet, PE Cubillos, L Kreidberg… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Hot Jupiters are among the best-studied exoplanets, but it is still poorly understood how their
chemical composition and cloud properties vary with longitude. Theoretical models predict …

[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 …

The ExoMolOP database: Cross sections and k-tables for molecules of interest in high-temperature exoplanet atmospheres

KL Chubb, M Rocchetto, SN Yurchenko, M Min… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
Here we present a publicly available database of opacities for molecules of astrophysical
interest named ExoMolOP that has been compiled for over 80 species, and is based on the …

A unique hot Jupiter spectral sequence with evidence for compositional diversity

M Mansfield, MR Line, JL Bean, JJ Fortney… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The emergent spectra of close-in, giant exoplanets ('hot Jupiters') are expected to be distinct
from those of self-luminous objects with similar effective temperatures because hot Jupiters …