Publications (6)
Clouds as the driver of variability and colour changes in brown dwarf atmospheres
Lucas Teinturier, Benjamin Charnay, Aymeric Spiga +1
Brown dwarfs are massive, giant exoplanet analogues subject to variability and colour changes, known as the L/T transition, fundamental for their thermal evolution. The drivers of…
Detection of Propene in Titan's Stratosphere
Conor A. Nixon, Donald E. Jennings, Bruno Bezard +9
The Voyager 1 flyby of Titan in 1980 gave a first glimpse of the chemical complexity of Titan's atmosphere, detecting many new molecules with the infrared spectrometer (IRIS). Thes…
Cassini Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS) Observations of Titan 2004--2017
Conor A. Nixon, Todd M. Ansty, Nicholas A. Lombardo +16
From 2004 to 2017, the Cassini spacecraft orbited Saturn, completing 127 close flybys of its largest moon, Titan. Cassini's Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS), one of 12 instru…
ISO-SWS observations of Jupiter: measurement of the ammonia tropospheric profile and of the 15N/14N isotopic ratio
Thierry Fouchet, Emmanuel Lellouch, Bruno Bezard +4
We present the results of the Infrared Space Observatory Short Wavelength Spectrometer (ISO-SWS) observations of Jupiter related to ammonia. We focus on two spectral regions; the f…
Titan Science with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Conor A. Nixon, Richard K. Achterberg, Mate Adamkovics +12
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scheduled for launch in 2018, is the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) but with a significantly larger aperture (6.5 m) and advan…
Toward the analysis of JWST exoplanet spectra: Identifying troublesome model parameters
Jean-Loup Baudino, Paul Molliere, Olivia Venot +3
Given the forthcoming launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) which will allow observ- ing exoplanet atmospheres with unprecedented signal-over-noise ratio, spectral covera…