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 …

Early Release Science of the exoplanet WASP-39b with JWST NIRSpec G395H

L Alderson, HR Wakeford, MK Alam, NE Batalha… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Measuring the abundances of carbon and oxygen in exoplanet atmospheres is considered a
crucial avenue for unlocking the formation and evolution of exoplanetary systems,. Access to …

Early Release Science of the exoplanet WASP-39b with JWST NIRCam

EM Ahrer, KB Stevenson, M Mansfield, SE Moran… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Measuring the metallicity and carbon-to-oxygen (C/O) ratio in exoplanet atmospheres is a
fundamental step towards constraining the dominant chemical processes at work and, if in …

Interpreting the atmospheric composition of exoplanets: sensitivity to planet formation assumptions

P Mollière, T Molyarova, B Bitsch… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Constraining planet formation based on the atmospheric composition of exoplanets is a
fundamental goal of the exoplanet community. Existing studies commonly try to constrain …

Planet Mass and Metallicity: The Exoplanets and Solar System Connection

MR Swain, Y Hasegawa, DP Thorngren… - Space Science …, 2024 - Springer
Theoretical studies of giant planet formation suggest that substantial quantities of metals—
elements heavier than hydrogen and helium—can be delivered by solid accretion during the …

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) …

β Pictoris b through the eyes of the upgraded CRIRES+-Atmospheric composition, spin rotation, and radial velocity

R Landman, T Stolker, IAG Snellen, J Costes… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
Context. High-resolution spectrographs fed by adaptive optics (AO) provide a unique
opportunity to characterize directly imaged exoplanets. Observations with such instruments …

Five key exoplanet questions answered via the analysis of 25 hot-Jupiter atmospheres in eclipse

Q Changeat, B Edwards, AF Al-Refaie… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Population studies of exoplanets are key to unlocking their statistical properties. So far, the
inferred properties have been mostly limited to planetary, orbital, and stellar parameters …

Validation of elemental and isotopic abundances in late-M spectral types with the benchmark HIP 55507 AB system

JW Xuan, J Wang, L Finnerty, K Horstman… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
M dwarfs are common host stars to exoplanets but often lack atmospheric abundance
measurements. Late-M dwarfs are also good analogs to the youngest substellar …