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 …

Dynamics and clouds in planetary atmospheres from telescopic observations

A Sánchez-Lavega, P Irwin, A García Muñoz - The Astronomy and …, 2023 - Springer
This review presents an insight into our current knowledge of the atmospheres of the planets
Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, the satellite Titan, and those of …

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 …

Retrieval survey of metals in six ultrahot Jupiters: trends in chemistry, rain-out, ionization, and atmospheric dynamics

S Gandhi, A Kesseli, Y Zhang, A Louca… - The Astronomical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Ground-based high-resolution spectroscopy (HRS) has detected numerous chemical
species and atmospheric dynamics in exoplanets, most notably ultrahot Jupiters (UHJs) …

FastChem 2 : an improved computer program to determine the gas-phase chemical equilibrium composition for arbitrary element distributions

JW Stock, D Kitzmann… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The computation of complex neutral/ionized chemical equilibrium compositions is invaluable
to obtain scientific insights of, for example, the atmospheres of extrasolar planets and cool …

[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 …

Time-resolved transmission spectroscopy of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-189 b

B Prinoth, HJ Hoeijmakers, S Pelletier… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Ultra-hot Jupiters are tidally locked with their host stars, dividing their atmospheres into a hot
dayside and a colder nightside. As the planet moves through transit, different regions of the …

The roasting marshmallows program with IGRINS on Gemini South I: composition and climate of the ultrahot Jupiter WASP-18 b

M Brogi, V Emeka-Okafor, MR Line… - The Astronomical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present high-resolution dayside thermal emission observations of the exoplanet WASP-
18 b using IGRINS on Gemini South. We remove stellar and telluric signatures using …

Breaking degeneracies in formation histories by measuring refractory content in gas giants

Y Chachan, HA Knutson, J Lothringer… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Relating planet formation to atmospheric composition has been a long-standing goal of the
planetary science community. So far, most modeling studies have focused on predicting the …

ExoMol line lists – LV: hyperfine-resolved molecular line list for vanadium monoxide (51V16O)

CA Bowesman, Q Qu, LK McKemmish… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The new hyperfine-resolved HyVO line lists for vanadium monoxide (51V16O) are
presented. The new line list considers 15 electronic states and comprises almost 59 billion …