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 …

[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 …

[HTML][HTML] The 2024 release of the ExoMol database: molecular line lists for exoplanet and other hot atmospheres

J Tennyson, SN Yurchenko, J Zhang… - Journal of Quantitative …, 2024 - Elsevier
The ExoMol database (www. exomol. com) provides molecular data for spectroscopic
studies of hot atmospheres. These data are widely used to model atmospheres of …

Awesome SOSS: atmospheric characterization of WASP-96 b using the JWST early release observations

J Taylor, M Radica, L Welbanks… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The newly operational JWST offers the potential to study the atmospheres of distant worlds
with precision that has not been achieved before. One of the first exoplanets observed by …

Inhomogeneous terminators on the exoplanet WASP-39 b

N Espinoza, ME Steinrueck, J Kirk, RJ MacDonald… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Transmission spectroscopy has been a workhorse technique used over the past two
decades to constrain the physical and chemical properties of exoplanet atmospheres …

Modelling the day–night temperature variations of ultra-hot Jupiters: confronting non-grey general circulation models and observations

X Tan, TD Komacek, NE Batalha… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT Ultra-hot Jupiters (UHJs) are natural laboratories to study extreme physics in
planetary atmospheres and their rich observational data sets are yet to be confronted with …

A mini-chemical scheme with net reactions for 3D general circulation models-II. 3D thermochemical modelling of WASP-39b and HD 189733b

EKH Lee, SM Tsai, M Hammond, X Tan - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. The chemical inventory of hot Jupiter (HJ) exoplanet atmospheres continues to be
observed by various ground-and space-based instruments in increasing detail and …

Dynamically coupled kinetic chemistry in brown dwarf atmospheres–II. Cloud and chemistry connections in directly imaged sub-Jupiter exoplanets

EKH Lee, X Tan, SM Tsai - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
With JWST slated to gain high-fidelity time-dependent data on brown dwarf atmospheres, it
is highly anticipated to do the same for directly imaged, sub-Jupiter exoplanets. With this …

Stratospheric dayside-to-nightside circulation drives the 3D ozone distribution on synchronously rotating rocky exoplanets

M Braam, PI Palmer, L Decin, M Cohen… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Determining the habitability and interpreting future atmospheric observations of exoplanets
requires understanding the atmospheric dynamics and chemistry from a 3D perspective …

Global chemical transport on hot Jupiters: Insights from the 2D VULCAN photochemical model

SM Tsai, V Parmentier, JM Mendonça… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
The atmospheric dynamics of tidally locked hot Jupiters is characterized by strong equatorial
winds. Understanding the interaction between global circulation and chemistry is crucial in …