Optical properties of organic haze analogues in water-rich exoplanet atmospheres observable with JWST [PDF]
Nature Astronomy, 2023 The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has begun its scientific mission, which includes the atmospheric characterization of transiting exoplanets. Some of the first exoplanets to be observed by JWST have equilibrium temperatures below 1,000 K, which is a ...
Chao He +11 more
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The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2023 We present the first exoplanet phase-curve measurement made with the JWST NIRSpec instrument, highlighting the exceptional stability of this newly commissioned observatory for exoplanet climate studies.
Thomas Mikal-Evans +12 more
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ExoMDN: Rapid characterization of exoplanet interior structures with Mixture Density Networks [PDF]
Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2023 Characterizing the interior structure of exoplanets is essential for understanding their diversity, formation, and evolution. As the interior of exoplanets is inaccessible to observations, an inverse problem must be solved, where numerical structure ...
Philipp Baumeister, N. Tosi
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Classification of Trajectories in a Two-planet Exosystem Using the Generalized Three-body Problem
The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 We deploy the theory of the generalized three-body problem to describe an exosystem composed of a host star, a transiting Jupiter-sized exoplanet, and an Earth-sized exoplanet.
Eman M. Moneer +5 more
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Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE). IX. Assessing the impact of clouds on atmospheric retrievals at mid-infrared wavelengths with a Venus-twin exoplanet [PDF]
Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2023 The Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE) initiative aims to develop a space based mid-infrared (MIR) nulling interferometer to measure the thermal emission spectra of temperate terrestrial exoplanets. We investigate how well LIFE could characterize
B. Konrad +12 more
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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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The Astronomical Journal, 2023 A microlensing event is mainly used to search for free-floating planets (FFPs). To estimate the FFP mass and distance via the microlensing effect, a microlensing parallax is one of the key parameters.
M. Ban
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Fizzy Super-Earths: Impacts of Magma Composition on the Bulk Density and Structure of Lava Worlds
The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 Lava worlds are a potential emerging population of Super-Earths that are on close-in orbits around their host stars, with likely partially molten mantles. To date, few studies have addressed the impact of magma on the observed properties of a planet.
Kiersten M. Boley +5 more
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Prebiosignature Molecules Can Be Detected in Temperate Exoplanet Atmospheres with JWST [PDF]
Astronomical Journal, 2023 The search for biosignatures on exoplanets connects the fields of biology and biochemistry to astronomical observation, with the hope that we might detect evidence of active biological processes on worlds outside the solar system.
A. Claringbold +3 more
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Classify and Explore the Diversity of Planetary Population and Interior Properties
The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 Classification is an essential method and has been developed widely in astronomy. However, planets still lack a universal classification framework, because the solar system planet sample is too small for statistical analysis.
Xiaoming Jiang +3 more
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