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Where Are the Water Worlds? Identifying Exo-water-worlds Using Models of Planet Formation and Atmospheric Evolution

The Astrophysical Journal
Planet formation models suggest that the small exoplanets that migrate from beyond the snowline of the protoplanetary disk likely contain water-ice-rich cores (∼50% by mass), also known as water worlds.
Aritra Chakrabarty, Gijs D. Mulders
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Precise Constraints on the Energy Budget of WASP-121 b from Its JWST NIRISS/SOSS Phase Curve

The Astronomical Journal
Ultra-hot Jupiters exhibit day-to-night temperature contrasts upwards of 1000 K due to competing effects of strong winds, short radiative timescales, magnetic drag, and H _2 dissociation/recombination. Spectroscopic phase curves provide critical insights
Jared Splinter, Louis-Philippe Coulombe, Robert C. Frazier, Nicolas B. Cowan, Emily Rauscher, Lisa Dang, Michael Radica, Sean Collins, Stefan Pelletier, Romain Allart, Ryan J. MacDonald, David Lafrenière, Loïc Albert, Björn Benneke, René Doyon, Ray Jayawardhana, Doug Johnstone, Vigneshwaran Krishnamurthy, Caroline Piaulet-Ghorayeb, Lisa Kaltenegger, Michael R. Meyer, Jake Taylor, Jake D. Turner   +22 more
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The Impact of the Explicit Representation of Convection on the Climate of a Tidally Locked Planet in Global Stretched-mesh Simulations

The Astrophysical Journal
Convective processes are crucial in shaping exoplanetary atmospheres but are computationally expensive to simulate directly. A novel technique of simulating moist convection on tidally locked exoplanets is to use a global 3D model with a stretched mesh ...
Denis E. Sergeev, Ian A. Boutle, F. Hugo Lambert, Nathan J. Mayne, Thomas Bendall, Krisztian Kohary, Enrico Olivier, Ben Shipway   +7 more
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JWST/NIRISS Reveals the Water-rich “Steam World” Atmosphere of GJ 9827 d

The Astrophysical Journal Letters
With sizable volatile envelopes but smaller radii than the solar system ice giants, sub-Neptunes have been revealed as one of the most common types of planet in the galaxy. While the spectroscopic characterization of larger sub-Neptunes (2.5–4 R _⊕ ) has
Caroline Piaulet-Ghorayeb, Björn Benneke, Michael Radica, Eshan Raul, Louis-Philippe Coulombe, Eva-Maria Ahrer, Daria Kubyshkina, Ward S. Howard, Joshua Krissansen-Totton, Ryan J. MacDonald, Pierre-Alexis Roy, Amy Louca, Duncan Christie, Marylou Fournier-Tondreau, Romain Allart, Yamila Miguel, Hilke E. Schlichting, Luis Welbanks, Charles Cadieux, Caroline Dorn, Thomas M. Evans-Soma, Jonathan J. Fortney, Raymond Pierrehumbert, David Lafrenière, Lorena Acuña, Thaddeus Komacek, Hamish Innes, Thomas G. Beatty, Ryan Cloutier, René Doyon, Anna Gagnebin, Cyril Gapp, Heather A. Knutson   +32 more
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The Importance of Optical Wavelength Data on Atmospheric Retrievals of Exoplanet Transmission Spectra

The Astronomical Journal
Exoplanet transmission spectra provide rich information about the chemical composition, clouds, and temperature structure of exoplanet atmospheres. Most exoplanet transmission spectra only span infrared wavelengths (≳1 μ m), which can preclude crucial ...
Charlotte Fairman, Hannah R. Wakeford, Ryan J. MacDonald   +2 more
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A Next-generation Exoplanet Atmospheric Retrieval Framework for Transmission Spectroscopy (NEXOTRANS): Comparative Characterization for WASP-39 b Using JWST NIRISS, NIRSpec PRISM, and MIRI Observations

The Astrophysical Journal
The advent of JWST has marked a new era in exoplanetary atmospheric studies, offering higher-resolution data and greater precision across a broader spectral range than previous space-based telescopes.
Tonmoy Deka, Tasneem Basra Khan, Swastik Dewan, Priyankush Ghosh, Debayan Das, Liton Majumdar   +5 more
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Photochemical Hazes in Exoplanetary Skies with Diamonds: Microphysical Modeling of Haze Composition Evolution via Chemical Vapor Deposition

The Astrophysical Journal
Observational efforts in the last decade suggest the prevalence of photochemical hazes in exoplanetary atmospheres. Recent JWST observations raise growing evidence that exoplanetary hazes tend to have reflective compositions, unlike the conventionally ...
Kazumasa Ohno
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3D Modeling of Moist Convective Inhibition in Idealized Sub-Neptune Atmospheres

The Astrophysical Journal
Atmospheric convection behaves differently in hydrogen-rich atmospheres compared to higher mean molecular weight atmospheres due to compositional gradients of tracers.
Namrah Habib, Raymond T. Pierrehumbert
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Effects of the three-dimensional structure of hot exoplanet atmospheres on observations and retrieval models

, 2020
Nowdays, we are able to discover more and more exoplanets, and even more important we can observe their atmospheres and we are starting to get information on their physical, dynamic and, chemical properties. With the new generation of space telescopes such as the JWST or Ariel, we will be able to observe spectral features that are now unobservable ...
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First Results from WINERED: Detection of Emission Lines from Neutral Iron and a Combined Set of Trace Species on the Dayside of WASP-189 b

The Astronomical Journal
Ground- and space-based observations have revealed that ultrahot Jupiters (UHJs, T _eq  > 2200 K) typically have inverted thermal profiles, while cooler hot Jupiters have noninverted ones.
Lennart van Sluijs, Emily Rauscher, Eliza M.-R. Kempton, Thomas Kennedy, Isaac Malsky, Noriyuki Matsunaga, Michael Meyer, Andrew McWilliam, John D. Monnier, Shogo Otsubo, Yuki Sarugaku, Tomomi Takeuchi   +11 more
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