Exoplanetary atmospheres: key insights, challenges, and prospects

N Madhusudhan - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2019‏ - annualreviews.org
Exoplanetary science is on the verge of an unprecedented revolution. The thousands of
exoplanets discovered over the past decade have most recently been supplemented by …

The nature and origins of sub‐Neptune size planets

JL Bean, SN Raymond, JE Owen - Journal of Geophysical …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Planets intermediate in size between the Earth and Neptune, and orbiting closer to their host
stars than Mercury does the Sun, are the most common type of planet revealed by exoplanet …

A secondary atmosphere on the rocky exoplanet 55 Cancri e

R Hu, A Bello-Arufe, M Zhang, K Paragas, M Zilinskas… - Nature, 2024‏ - nature.com
Characterizing rocky exoplanets is a central aim of astronomy, and yet the search for
atmospheres on rocky exoplanets has so far resulted in either tight upper limits on the …

A compositional link between rocky exoplanets and their host stars

V Adibekyan, C Dorn, SG Sousa, NC Santos, B Bitsch… - Science, 2021‏ - science.org
Stars and planets both form by accreting material from a surrounding disk. Because they
grow from the same material, theory predicts that there should be a relationship between …

A chemical survey of exoplanets with ARIEL

G Tinetti, P Drossart, P Eccleston, P Hartogh… - Experimental …, 2018‏ - Springer
Thousands of exoplanets have now been discovered with a huge range of masses, sizes
and orbits: from rocky Earth-like planets to large gas giants grazing the surface of their host …

Absence of a thick atmosphere on the terrestrial exoplanet LHS 3844b

L Kreidberg, DDB Koll, C Morley, R Hu, L Schaefer… - Nature, 2019‏ - nature.com
Most known terrestrial planets orbit small stars with radii less than 60 per cent of that of the
Sun,. Theoretical models predict that these planets are more vulnerable to atmospheric loss …

A population study of gaseous exoplanets

A Tsiaras, IP Waldmann, T Zingales… - The Astronomical …, 2018‏ - iopscience.iop.org
We present here the analysis of 30 gaseous extrasolar planets, with temperatures between
600 and 2400 K and radii between 0.35 and 1.9 R Jup. The quality of the HST/WFC3 …

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 …

Atmospheres of rocky exoplanets

R Wordsworth, L Kreidberg - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2022‏ - annualreviews.org
Rocky planets are common around other stars, but their atmospheric properties remain
largely unconstrained. Thanks to a wealth of recent planet discoveries and upcoming …

Impact of space weather on climate and habitability of terrestrial-type exoplanets

VS Airapetian, R Barnes, O Cohen… - International Journal of …, 2020‏ - cambridge.org
The search for life in the Universe is a fundamental problem of astrobiology and modern
science. The current progress in the detection of terrestrial-type exoplanets has opened a …