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 …

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] JWST-TST DREAMS: quartz clouds in the atmosphere of WASP-17b

D Grant, NK Lewis, HR Wakeford… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Clouds are prevalent in many of the exoplanet atmospheres that have been observed to
date. For transiting exoplanets, we know if clouds are present because they mute spectral …

Retrieving temperatures and abundances of exoplanet atmospheres with high-resolution cross-correlation spectroscopy

M Brogi, MR Line - The Astronomical Journal, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
High-resolution spectroscopy (R≥ 25,000) has recently emerged as one of the leading
methods for detecting atomic and molecular species in the atmospheres of exoplanets …

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 …

H2O abundances and cloud properties in ten hot giant exoplanets

A Pinhas, N Madhusudhan, S Gandhi… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Transmission spectroscopy of exoplanets has the potential to provide precise
measurements of atmospheric chemical abundances, in particular of hot Jupiters whose …

A continuum from clear to cloudy hot-Jupiter exoplanets without primordial water depletion

DK Sing, JJ Fortney, N Nikolov, HR Wakeford, T Kataria… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Thousands of transiting exoplanets have been discovered, but spectral analysis of their
atmospheres has so far been dominated by a small number of exoplanets and data …

A consistent retrieval analysis of 10 hot Jupiters observed in transmission

JK Barstow, S Aigrain, PGJ Irwin… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a consistent optimal estimation retrieval analysis of 10 hot Jupiter exoplanets,
each with transmission spectral data spanning the visible to near-infrared wavelength range …

Observations of transiting exoplanets with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

C Beichman, B Benneke, H Knutson… - Publications of the …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
This article summarizes a workshop held on March, 2014, on the potential of the James
Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to revolutionize our knowledge of the physical properties of …

Water vapor in the spectrum of the extrasolar planet HD 189733b. I. The transit

PR McCullough, N Crouzet, D Deming… - The Astrophysical …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We report near-infrared spectroscopy of the gas giant planet HD 189733b in transit. We
used the Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Camera 3 (HST WFC3) with its G141 grism …