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 …

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 …

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 …

Five carbon-and nitrogen-bearing species in a hot giant planet's atmosphere

P Giacobbe, M Brogi, S Gandhi, PE Cubillos… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The atmospheres of gaseous giant exoplanets orbiting close to their parent stars (hot
Jupiters) have been probed for nearly two decades,. They allow us to investigate the …

The 2020 release of the ExoMol database: Molecular line lists for exoplanet and other hot atmospheres

J Tennyson, SN Yurchenko, AF Al-Refaie… - Journal of Quantitative …, 2020 - Elsevier
The ExoMol database (www. exomol. com) provides molecular data for spectroscopic
studies of hot atmospheres. While the data are intended for studies of exoplanets and other …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Fast spin of the young extrasolar planet β Pictoris b

IAG Snellen, BR Brandl, RJ De Kok, M Brogi, J Birkby… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
The spin of a planet arises from the accretion of angular momentum during its formation,,,
but the details of this process are still unclear. In the Solar System, the equatorial rotation …