Publications (14)
Report of the Working Group on Strategic Exoplanet Initiatives with HST and JWST
Seth Redfield, Natasha Batalha, Björn Benneke +7
This STScI Working Group (WG) was charged with soliciting community feedback and evaluating the strategic planning for exoplanet science with JWST and HST given the high quality of…
The UV-SCOPE Mission: Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Characterization Of Planets and their Environments
David R. Ardila, Evgenya Shkolnik, John Ziemer +22
UV-SCOPE is a mission concept to determine the causes of atmospheric mass loss in exoplanets, investigate the mechanisms driving aerosol formation in hot Jupiters, and study the in…
The Hubble PanCET program: Transit and Eclipse Spectroscopy of the Hot Jupiter WASP-74b
Guangwei Fu, Drake Deming, Erin May +12
Planets are like children with each one being unique and special. A better understanding of their collective properties requires a deeper understanding of each planet. Here we add…
Eclipse Mapping with MIRI: 2D Map of HD 189733b from JWST MIRI LRS Observations
Maura Lally, Ryan Challener, Nikole Lewis +13
Observations and models of transiting hot Jupiter exoplanets indicate that atmospheric circulation features may cause large spatial flux contrasts across their daysides. Previous s…
Challenges in the detection of gases in exoplanet atmospheres
Luis Welbanks, Matthew C. Nixon, Peter McGill +12
Claims of detections of gases in exoplanet atmospheres often rely on comparisons between models including and excluding specific chemical species. However, the space of molecular c…
Strong NUV Refractory Absorption and Dissociated Water in the Hubble Transmission Spectrum of the Ultra Hot Jupiter KELT-20 b
Yayaati Chachan, Joshua Lothringer, Julie Inglis +8
Ultra hot Jupiters (UHJs) present a promising pathway for drawing a link between a planet's composition and formation history. They retain both refractory and volatiles species in…
ExoGemS Detection of a Metal Hydride in an Exoplanet Atmosphere
Laura Flagg, Jake D. Turner, Emily Deibert +7
Exoplanet atmosphere studies are often enriched by synergies with brown dwarf analogs. However, many key molecules commonly seen in brown dwarfs have yet to be confirmed in exoplan…
Analysis of a JWST NIRSpec Lab Time Series: Characterizing Systematics, Recovering Exoplanet Transit Spectroscopy, and Constraining a Noise Floor
Zafar Rustamkulov, David Sing, Rongrong Liu +1
The James Webb Space Telescope's NIRSpec instrument will unveil the nature of exoplanet atmospheres across the wealth of planet types, from temperate terrestrial worlds to ultrahot…
Implications of three-dimensional chemical transport in hot Jupiter atmospheres: results from a consistently coupled chemistry-radiation-hydrodynamics model
Benjamin Drummond, Eric Hebrard, Nathan J. Mayne +9
We present results from a set of simulations using a fully coupled three-dimensional (3D) chemistry-radiation-hydrodynamics model and investigate the effect of transport of chemica…
The Science Performance of JWST as Characterized in Commissioning
Jane Rigby, Marshall Perrin, Michael McElwain +623
This paper characterizes the actual science performance of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), as determined from the six month commissioning period. We summarize the performanc…
WASP-52b. The effect of starspot correction on atmospheric retrievals
Giovanni Bruno, Nikole K. Lewis, Munazza K. Alam +13
We perform atmospheric retrievals on the full optical to infrared () transmission spectrum of the inflated hot Jupiter WASP-52b by combining HST/STIS, WFC3 I…
The Clear Sky Corridor: Insights Towards Aerosol Formation in Exoplanets Using An AI-based Survey of Exoplanet Atmospheres
Reza Ashtari, Kevin B. Stevenson, David Sing +4
Producing optimized and accurate transmission spectra of exoplanets from telescope data has traditionally been a manual and labor-intensive procedure. Here we present the results o…
HARPS3 for a Roboticized Isaac Newton Telescope
Samantha J. Thompson, Didier Queloz, Isabelle Baraffe +25
We present a description of a new instrument development, HARPS3, planned to be installed on an upgraded and roboticized Isaac Newton Telescope by end-2018. HARPS3 will be a high r…
Observations of Transiting Exoplanets with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (PASP), December 2014
Charles Beichman, Bjoern Benneke, Heather Knutson +44
This article summarizes a workshop held on March, 2014, on the potential of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to revolutionize our knowledge of the physical properties of exopl…