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 …

Exoplanetary atmospheres—chemistry, formation conditions, and habitability

N Madhusudhan, M Agúndez, JI Moses, Y Hu - Space science reviews, 2016 - Springer
Characterizing the atmospheres of extrasolar planets is the new frontier in exoplanetary
science. The last two decades of exoplanet discoveries have revealed that exoplanets are …

[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 …

New evolutionary models for pre-main sequence and main sequence low-mass stars down to the hydrogen-burning limit

I Baraffe, D Homeier, F Allard, G Chabrier - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2015 - aanda.org
We present new models for low-mass stars down to the hydrogen-burning limit that
consistently couple atmosphere and interior structures, thereby superseding the widely used …

The ExoMol database: molecular line lists for exoplanet and other hot atmospheres

J Tennyson, SN Yurchenko, AF Al-Refaie… - Journal of Molecular …, 2016 - Elsevier
The ExoMol database (www. exomol. com) provides extensive line lists of molecular
transitions which are valid over extended temperature ranges. The status of the current …

Titanium oxide and chemical inhomogeneity in the atmosphere of the exoplanet WASP-189 b

B Prinoth, HJ Hoeijmakers, D Kitzmann, E Sandvik… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The temperature of an atmosphere decreases with increasing altitude, unless a shortwave
absorber that causes a temperature inversion exists. Ozone plays this role in the Earth's …

Atomic iron and titanium in the atmosphere of the exoplanet KELT-9b

HJ Hoeijmakers, D Ehrenreich, K Heng, D Kitzmann… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
To constrain the formation history of an exoplanet, we need to know its chemical
composition,–. With an equilibrium temperature of about 4,050 kelvin, the exoplanet KELT …

Extremely irradiated hot Jupiters: non-oxide inversions, H− opacity, and thermal dissociation of molecules

JD Lothringer, T Barman, T Koskinen - The Astrophysical Journal, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Extremely irradiated hot Jupiters, exoplanets reaching dayside temperatures> 2000 K,
stretch our understanding of planetary atmospheres and the models we use to interpret …

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 …

ExoMol molecular line lists–XXXIII. The spectrum of Titanium Oxide

LK McKemmish, T Masseron… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Accurate line lists are crucial for correctly modelling a variety of astrophysical phenomena,
including stellar photospheres and the atmospheres of extrasolar planets. This paper …