The JWST Early Release Science Program for Direct Observations of Exoplanetary Systems I: High-contrast Imaging of the Exoplanet HIP 65426 b from 2 to 16 μm [PDF]
Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2022 We present JWST Early Release Science coronagraphic observations of the super-Jupiter exoplanet, HIP 65426b, with the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) from 2 to 5 μm, and with the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) from 11 to 16 μm.
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Exoplanet Statistics and Theoretical Implications [PDF]
Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2021 In the past few years, significant advances have been made in understanding the distributions of exoplanet populations and the architecture of planetary systems.
Wei Zhu, S. Dong
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Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE). I. Improved exoplanet detection yield estimates for a large mid-infrared space-interferometer mission [PDF]
Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2021 One of the long-term goals of exoplanet science is the atmospheric characterization of dozens of small exoplanets in order to understand their diversity and search for habitable worlds and potential biosignatures.
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Five Key Exoplanet Questions Answered via the Analysis of 25 Hot-Jupiter Atmospheres in Eclipse [PDF]
Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 2022 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 extracted from, e.g., Kepler, radial velocity, and Gaia data.
Q. Changeat +13 more
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The Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) on the James Webb Space Telescope. IV. Capabilities and predicted performance for exoplanet characterization [PDF]
Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2022 The Near-Inrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a very versatile instrument, offering multiobject and integral field spectroscopy with varying spectral resolution ($\sim$30 to $\sim$3000) over a wide wavelength range ...
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The case and context for atmospheric methane as an exoplanet biosignature [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2022 Significance Astronomers will soon begin searching for biosignatures, atmospheric gases or surface features produced by life, on potentially habitable planets.
M. Thompson +4 more
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Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE). II. Signal simulation, signal extraction, and fundamental exoplanet parameters from single-epoch observations [PDF]
Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2022 The Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE) initiative is developing the science and a technology roadmap for an ambitious space mission featuring a space-based mid-infrared (MIR) nulling interferometer in order to detect the thermal emission of ...
F. Dannert +15 more
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Plausible Constraints on the Range of Bulk Terrestrial Exoplanet Compositions in the Solar Neighborhood [PDF]
Astrophysical Journal, 2022 Rocky planet compositions regulate planetary evolution by affecting core sizes, mantle properties, and melting behaviors. Yet, quantitative treatments of this aspect of exoplanet studies remain generally underexplored.
R. Spaargaren +4 more
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Universe, 2021 The growing database of exoplanets has shown us the statistical characteristics of various exoplanet populations, providing insight towards their origins.
Jonathan H. Jiang +4 more
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Nightside condensation of iron in an ultra-hot giant exoplanet [PDF]
Nature, 2020 Ultrahot giant exoplanets receive thousands of times Earth’s insolation 1 , 2 . Their high-temperature atmospheres (greater than 2,000 kelvin) are ideal laboratories for studying extreme planetary climates and chemistry 3 – 5 .
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