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A Panchromatic Characterization of the Evening and Morning Atmosphere of WASP-107 b: Composition and Cloud Variations, and Insight into the Effect of Stellar Contamination

The Astronomical Journal
Limb-resolved transmission spectroscopy has the potential to transform our understanding of exoplanetary atmospheres. By separately measuring the transmission spectra of the evening and morning limbs, these atmospheric regions can be individually ...
Matthew M. Murphy, Thomas G. Beatty, Everett Schlawin, Taylor J. Bell, Michael Radica, Thomas D. Kennedy, Nishil Mehta, Luis Welbanks, Michael R. Line, Vivien Parmentier, Thomas P. Greene, Sagnick Mukherjee, Jonathan J. Fortney, Kazumasa Ohno, Lindsey Wiser, Kenneth Arnold, Emily Rauscher, Isaac R. Edelman, Marcia J. Rieke   +18 more
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Transiting Exoplanets with JWST

, 2008
The era of exoplanet characterization is upon us. For a subset of exoplanets -- the transiting planets -- physical properties can be measured, including mass, radius, and atmosphere characteristics.
A. Burrows, A. Burrows, A. Vidal-Madjar, A. Wolszczan, A.P. Showman, B.S. Gaudi, D. Charbonneau, D. Charbonneau, D. Deming, D. Deming, D. Ehrenreich, D. Ehrenreich, D. Valencia, D.J. Des Marais, G. Basri, G. Chauvin, G. Chauvin, G. Tinetti, G.G. Fazio, G.H. Rieke, H.A. Knutson, H.A. Knutson, I. Hubeny, J. Harrington, J. Harrington, J. Lederberg, J.A. Valenti, J.E. Lovelock, J.P. Gardner, J.R. Houck, L. Zeng, L.J. Richardson, M. Gillon, M. Gillon, M. Morales-Calderòn, M.R. Swain, N.B. Cowan, P. Nutzman, P.H. Hauschildt, P.R. Christensen, R. Neuhäuser, R. Silvotti, R.L. Kurucz, R.P. Butler, R.P. Butler, S. Redfield, S. Seager, S. Seager, T.M. Brown, T.M. Brown   +49 more
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Cation Disorder of Mg2SiO4 ${\text{Mg}}_{\mathbf{2}}{\text{SiO}}_{\mathbf{4}}$ in Super‐Earth Mantles

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 52, Issue 24, 28 December 2025.
Abstract Understanding the mineralogy of exoplanets is essential for unraveling their interior structures, dynamics, and evolution. For large super‐Earths, the post‐post spinel Mg2SiO4 ${\text{Mg}}_{2}{\text{SiO}}_{4}$, one of the major mantle phases, may undergo the order‐disorder transition (ODT) at high temperatures.
Donghao Zheng, Yifan Li, Yihang Peng, Rushi Gong, Zi‐Kui Liu, Jie Deng   +5 more
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Effects of Planetary Parameters on Disequilibrium Chemistry in Irradiated Planetary Atmospheres: From Gas Giants to Sub-Neptunes

The Astrophysical Journal
A primary goal of characterizing exoplanet atmospheres is to constrain planetary bulk properties, such as their metallicity, C/O ratio, and intrinsic heat.
Sagnick Mukherjee, Jonathan J. Fortney, Nicholas F. Wogan, David K. Sing, Kazumasa Ohno   +4 more
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Refraction in exoplanet atmospheres: Photometric signatures, implications for transmission spectroscopy, and search in Kepler data

, 2017
Refraction deflects photons that pass through atmospheres, which affects transit light curves. Refraction thus provides an avenue to probe physical properties of exoplanet atmospheres and to constrain the presence of clouds and hazes.
B.-O. Demory, Benneke, Berta-Thompson, Bétrémieux, Bétrémieux, Bétrémieux, Bétrémieux, Bétrémieux, Charbonneau, Claret, D. Alp, Dalba, Demory, Demory, Fressin, García Muñoz, Gillon, Hippke, Hubbard, Huber, Hui, Jenkins, Kaltenegger, Kipping, Koch, Luger, Mandel, Misra, Misra, Robitaille, Seager, Seiff, Sheets, Sidis, Smith, Stumpe, Sudarsky, Weiss, Witteborn   +38 more
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Altitude Profile and Isotopic Composition for N2 From Pioneer Venus Mass Spectra

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 52, Issue 23, 16 December 2025.
Abstract We report the highest resolution altitude profile and isotopic composition for N2 at Venus, to date. These results were obtained through re‐analysis of data acquired by the Pioneer Venus Large Probe Neutral Mass Spectrometer (LNMS). The N2 is non‐uniformly mixed across the clouds and sub‐cloud atmosphere (∼59–15 km) yet uniformly mixed across ...
R. Mogul, S. S. Limaye, M. J. Way
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Fleeting but Not Forgotten: The Imprint of Escaping Hydrogen Atmospheres on Super-Earth Interiors

The Astrophysical Journal
Small, close-in exoplanets are divided into two subpopulations: super-Earths and sub-Neptunes. Most super-Earths are thought to have lost their primordially accreted hydrogen-dominated atmospheres via thermally driven winds.
James G. Rogers, Hilke E. Schlichting, Edward D. Young   +2 more
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Nitrogen as a Tracer of Giant Planet Formation. II. Comprehensive Study of Nitrogen Photochemistry and Implications for Observing NH3 and HCN in Transmission and Emission Spectra

The Astrophysical Journal, 2023
Atmospheric nitrogen may provide important constraints on giant planet formation. Following our semianalytical work, we further pursue the relation between observable NH _3 and an atmosphere’s bulk nitrogen abundance by applying the photochemical ...
Kazumasa Ohno, Jonathan J. Fortney
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Satellites and Small Bodies With ALMA: Insights Into Solar System Formation and Evolution

AGU Advances, Volume 6, Issue 6, December 2025.
Abstract Our understanding of the formation and evolution of planetary systems has made major advances in the past decade. This progress has been driven in large part by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), which has given us an unprecedented view of solar system bodies themselves, and of the structure and chemistry of forming ...
Katherine de Kleer, Michael E. Brown, Martin Cordiner, Richard Teague   +3 more
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Clouds and Hazes in GJ 1214 b’s Metal-rich Atmosphere

The Astronomical Journal
The sub-Neptune GJ 1214 b has an infamously flat transmission spectrum, likely due to thick aerosols in its atmosphere. A recent JWST/MIRI spectroscopic phase curve of GJ 1214 b added to this picture, suggesting a highly reflective and metal-rich ...
Isaac Malsky, Emily Rauscher, Kevin Stevenson, Arjun B. Savel, Maria E. Steinrueck, Peter Gao, Eliza M.-R. Kempton, Michael T. Roman, Jacob L. Bean, Michael Zhang, Vivien Parmentier, Anjali A. A. Piette, Tiffany Kataria   +12 more
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