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most citedA reflective, metal-rich atmosphere for GJ 1214b from its JWST phase curve

164 citations · 655 across the 33 of their papers we have counts for

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34 papers

astro-ph.EP2026

The coupled impacts of atmospheric dynamics and cloud microphysics on hot Jupiter atmospheres. I. An application to WASP-43b

Emeline F. Fromont, Thaddeus D. Komacek, Peter Gao +9

Understanding the influence of cloud-circulation feedback on planetary climates is crucial to interpreting solar system and extrasolar planet observations. Hot Jupiter phase curve…

astro-ph.EP2026

Accelerating Chemical Kinetics for Exoplanet Atmospheres using Neural Networks

Isaac Malsky, Xi Zhang, Tiffany Kataria +5

Observations increasingly reveal the coupled radiative, chemical, and dynamical processes that shape exoplanet atmospheres. Interpreting these atmospheres requires models that can…

astro-ph.EP2026

The Days Drag On on WASP-121 b: Interpreting its NIRISS Spectroscopic Phase Curve with General Circulation Models

Robert C. Frazier, Emily Rauscher, Jared Splinter +18

Ultra-hot Jupiters present extreme atmospheric phenomena not found in the Solar System. These planets' daysides experience strong temperature inversions, molecular species (includi…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 8 cited

PICASO 4.0: Clouds and Photochemistry in Climate Models of Brown Dwarfs and Exoplanets

James Mang, Natasha E. Batalha, Caroline V. Morley +8

We present a major update to the open-source atmospheric modeling package \texttt{PICASO}, designed for simulating the thermal structure and spectra of hydrogen-rich atmospheres of…

astro-ph.EP2025

Accelerating Radiative Transfer for Planetary Atmospheres by Orders of Magnitude with a Transformer-Based Machine Learning Model

Isaac Malsky, Tiffany Kataria, Natasha E. Batalha +1

Radiative transfer calculations are essential for modeling planetary atmospheres. However, standard methods are computationally demanding and impose accuracy-speed trade-offs. High…

astro-ph.EP2025

Surprise non-detection of Upsilon Andromedae b with MIRC-X and MYSTIC at the CHARA Array

Tyler Gardner, John D. Monnier, Stefan Kraus +11

Ground-based long baseline interferometry is a powerful tool for characterizing exoplanets which are too close to their host star to be imaged with single-dish telescopes. The CHAR…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 1 cited

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

Lennart van Sluijs, Emily Rauscher, Eliza M. -R. Kempton +9

Ground and space-based observations have revealed that Ultra Hot Jupiters (UHJs,~) typically have inverted thermal profiles, while cooler hot Jupiters…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 1 cited

Assessing robustness and bias in 1D retrievals of 3D Global Circulation Models at high spectral resolution: a WASP-76 b simulation case study in emission

Lennart van Sluijs, Hayley Beltz, Isaac Malsky +4

High-resolution spectroscopy (HRS) of exoplanet atmospheres has successfully detected many chemical species and is quickly moving toward detailed characterization of the chemical a…

astro-ph.EP2025

Out on a Limb: The Signatures of East-West Asymmetries in Transmission Spectra from General Circulation Models

Kenneth E. Arnold, Arjun B. Savel, Eliza M. -R. Kempton +5

In the era of JWST, observations of hot Jupiter atmospheres are becoming increasingly precise. As a result, the signature of limb asymmetries due to temperature or abundance differ…

astro-ph.EP2025

The radiative effects of photochemical hazes on the atmospheric circulation and phase curves of sub-Neptunes

Maria E. Steinrueck, Vivien Parmentier, Laura Kreidberg +13

Measuring the atmospheric composition of hazy sub-Neptunes like GJ~1214b through transmission spectroscopy is difficult because of the degeneracy between mean molecular weight and…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 14 cited

Clouds and Hazes in GJ 1214b's Metal-Rich Atmosphere

Isaac Malsky, Emily Rauscher, Kevin Stevenson +10

The sub-Neptune GJ 1214b 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 add…

astro-ph.EP2025

An Analysis of Spitzer Phase Curves for WASP-121b and WASP-77Ab

Brian Davenport, Thomas Kennedy, E. M. May +6

We present analyses of Spitzer InfraRed Array Camera (IRAC) 3.6 m and 4.5 m phase curve observations of hot Jupiters WASP-77Ab and WASP-121b. For WASP-121b, we find amplitude…

astro-ph.EP2024

Radiatively Active Clouds and Magnetic Effects Explored in a Grid of Hot Jupiter GCMs

Thomas D. Kennedy, Emily Rauscher, Isaac Malsky +2

Cloud formation and magnetic effects are both expected to significantly impact the structures and observable properties of hot Jupiter atmospheres. For some hot Jupiters, thermal i…

astro-ph.EP2024

The Roasting Marshmallows Program with IGRINS on Gemini South II -- WASP-121 b has super-stellar C/O and refractory-to-volatile ratios

Peter C. B. Smith, Jorge A. Sanchez, Michael R. Line +19

A primary goal of exoplanet science is to measure the atmospheric composition of gas giants in order to infer their formation and migration histories. Common diagnostics for planet…

astro-ph.EP2024

Two-Dimensional Eclipse Mapping of the Hot Jupiter WASP-43b with JWST MIRI/LRS

Mark Hammond, Taylor J. Bell, Ryan C. Challener +21

We present eclipse maps of the two-dimensional thermal emission from the dayside of the hot Jupiter WASP-43b, derived from an observation of a phase curve with the JWST MIRI/LRS in…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 1 cited

The XUV-driven escape of the planets around TOI-431 & Lupi

George W. King, Lía R. Corrales, Jorge Fernández Fernández +4

One of the leading mechanisms invoked to explain the existence of the radius valley is atmospheric mass loss driven by X-ray and extreme-ultraviolet irradiation, with this process…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 5 cited

Nightside clouds and disequilibrium chemistry on the hot Jupiter WASP-43b

Taylor J. Bell, Nicolas Crouzet, Patricio E. Cubillos +80

Hot Jupiters are among the best-studied exoplanets, but it is still poorly understood how their chemical composition and cloud properties vary with longitude. Theoretical models pr…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 16 cited

A Direct Comparison between the use of Double Gray and Multiwavelength Radiative Transfer in a General Circulation Model with and without Radiatively Active Clouds

Isaac Malsky, Emily Rauscher, Michael T. Roman +5

Inhomogeneous cloud formation and wavelength-dependent phenomena are expected to shape hot Jupiter atmospheres. We present a General Circulation Model (GCM) with multiwavelength "p…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 27 cited

Helium Enhanced Planets Along the Upper Edge of the Radius Valley

Isaac Malsky, Leslie Rogers, Eliza M. R. Kempton +1

The low mean densities of sub-Neptunes imply that they formed within a few million years and accreted primordial envelopes. Because these planets receive a total X-ray and extreme…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 164 cited

A reflective, metal-rich atmosphere for GJ 1214b from its JWST phase curve

Eliza M. -R. Kempton, Michael Zhang, Jacob L. Bean +30

There are no planets intermediate in size between Earth and Neptune in our Solar System, yet these objects are found around a substantial fraction of other stars. Population statis…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 79 cited

The Hazy and Metal-Rich Atmosphere of GJ 1214 b Constrained by Near and Mid-Infrared Transmission Spectroscopy

Peter Gao, Anjali A. A. Piette, Maria E. Steinrueck +12

The near-infrared transmission spectrum of the warm sub-Neptune exoplanet GJ 1214 b has been observed to be flat and featureless, implying a high metallicity atmosphere with abunda…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 24 cited

Magnetic Effects and 3D Structure in Theoretical High-Resolution Transmission Spectra of Ultrahot Jupiters: the Case of WASP-76b

Hayley Beltz, Emily Rauscher, Eliza Kempton +2

High resolution spectroscopy has allowed for unprecedented levels of atmospheric characterization, especially for the hottest gas giant exoplanets known as ultrahot Jupiters (UHJs)…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 27 cited

Diagnosing limb asymmetries in hot and ultra-hot Jupiters with high-resolution transmission spectroscopy

Arjun B. Savel, Eliza M. -R. Kempton, Emily Rauscher +4

Due to their likely tidally synchronized nature, (ultra)hot Jupiter atmospheres should experience strongly spatially heterogeneous instellation. The large irradiation contrast and…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 20 cited

A Lack of Variability Between Repeated Spitzer Phase Curves of WASP-43b

Matthew M. Murphy, Thomas G. Beatty, Michael T. Roman +8

Though the global atmospheres of hot Jupiters have been extensively studied using phase curve observations, the level of time variability in these data is not well constrained. To…