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Spectral Image Models of Planetary Systems for Simulating Exoplanet Observations

, 2015
Future missions to characterize exoplanets will require instruments tailored to finding a habitable exoplanet: suppressing the bright star while still directly observing planets at small angular separations.
Lincowski, Andrew Peter
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Not All Sub-Neptune Exoplanets Have Magma Oceans

The Astrophysical Journal Letters
The evolution and structure of sub-Neptunes may be strongly influenced by interactions between the outer gaseous envelope of the planet and a surface magma ocean.
Bodie Breza, Matthew C. Nixon, Eliza M.-R. Kempton   +2 more
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The influence of galactic cosmic rays on ion-neutral hydrocarbon chemistry in the upper atmospheres of free-floating exoplanets

, 2014
The authors highlight financial support of the European Community under the FP7 by an ERC starting grant.Cosmic rays may be linked to the formation of volatiles necessary for prebiotic chemistry.
P. B. Rimmer, C. Bilger, Rimmer, P.B., Helling, C., Bilger, C., Ch. Helling   +5 more
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Characterisation of exoplanet atmospheres using high-resolution spectroscopy

The characterisation of exoplanet atmospheres is crucial to understanding planet formation, the exploration of extreme atmospheric physics, finding habitable worlds, and searching for extraterrestrial life, but challenged by the overwhelming star-to ...
van Sluijs, Lennart
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: Enabling self-consistent exoplanet atmospheric retrievals with machine learning [PDF]

Context. Interpreting the observations of exoplanet atmospheres to constrain physical and chemical properties is typically done using Bayesian retrieval techniques.
P. I. Palmer, D. Huppenkothen, Palmer, P. I., F. Ardévol Martínez, I. Kamp, Min, M., Ardévol Martínez, F.; id_orcid, Kamp, I.; id_orcid, Huppenkothen, D., M. Min   +9 more
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Up, Up, and Away: Winds and Dynamical Structure as a Function of Altitude in the Ultrahot Jupiter WASP-76b

The Astrophysical Journal
Due to the unprecedented signal strengths offered by the newest high-resolution spectrographs on 10 m class telescopes, exploring the 3D nature of exoplanets is possible with an unprecedented level of precision.
Aurora Y. Kesseli, Hayley Beltz, Emily Rauscher, I. A. G. Snellen   +3 more
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JWST Transmission Spectroscopy of HD 209458b: A Supersolar Metallicity, a Very Low C/O, and No Evidence of CH4, HCN, or C2H2

The Astrophysical Journal Letters
We present the transmission spectrum of the original transiting hot Jupiter HD 209458b from 2.3 to 5.1 μ m as observed with the NIRCam instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Previous studies of HD 209458b’s atmosphere have given conflicting
Qiao Xue, Jacob L. Bean, Michael Zhang, Luis Welbanks, Jonathan Lunine, Prune August   +5 more
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Magma Ocean Interactions Can Explain JWST Observations of the Sub-Neptune TOI-270 d

The Astrophysical Journal
Sub-Neptunes with substantial atmospheres may possess magma oceans in contact with the overlying gas, with chemical interactions between the atmosphere and magma playing an important role in shaping atmospheric composition.
Matthew C. Nixon, R. Sander Somers, Arjun B. Savel, Jegug Ih, Eliza M.-R. Kempton, Edward D. Young, Hilke E. Schlichting, Tim Lichtenberg, Luis Welbanks, William Misener, Anjali A. A. Piette, Nicholas F. Wogan   +11 more
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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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Exoplanet atmospheres: physical processes

, 2010
Over the past twenty years, astronomers have identified hundreds of extrasolar planets--planets orbiting stars other than the sun. Recent research in this burgeoning field has made it possible to observe and measure the atmospheres of these exoplanets ...
Seager, Sara
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