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 …
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 …

Nightside condensation of iron in an ultrahot giant exoplanet

D Ehrenreich, C Lovis, R Allart, MR Zapatero Osorio… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Ultrahot giant exoplanets receive thousands of times Earth's insolation,. Their high-
temperature atmospheres (greater than 2,000 kelvin) are ideal laboratories for studying …

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 …

Ground-based detection of an extended helium atmosphere in the Saturn-mass exoplanet WASP-69b

L Nortmann, E Pallé, M Salz, J Sanz-Forcada, E Nagel… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Hot gas giant exoplanets can lose part of their atmosphere due to strong stellar irradiation,
and these losses can affect their physical and chemical evolution. Studies of atmospheric …

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 …