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20192026
most citedCRIRES transmission spectroscopy of WASP-127b. Detection of the resolved signatures of a supersonic equatorial jet and cool poles in a hot planet

30 citations · 64 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

astro-ph.EP2026

Exploring the ultrahot Neptune LTT 9779 b with CRIRES+. Non-detection of helium transmission spectra and detection of HO on the dayside

S. Liu, F. Yan, L. Nortmann +15

Ultrahot Neptunes reside in the most extreme irradiation regime of the hot Neptune desert and remain challenging targets for atmospheric characterization because of their low plane…

astro-ph.EP2026

The capability of CSST in characterizing planetary atmospheres. I. transmission spectroscopy of hot Jupiters

Zibo Liu, Wei Wang, Meng Zhai +9

Transmission spectroscopy has become a primary tool for probing exoplanetary atmospheres, enabling constraints on their chemical compositions and providing limited information on t…

astro-ph.EP2026

Detection of CO, HO, and OH in WASP-18b with JWST/NIRISS using Direct-Extracted Spectra and Cross-Correlation

Qinglin Ouyang, Fei Yan, Shuo Liu +7

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revolutionized the characterization of exoplanetary atmospheres, offering unprecedented sensitivity to probe their chemical and physical p…

astro-ph.EP2026

Optical transmission spectrum of HAT-P-47b: evidence for aerosols and tentative TiO absorption

Wan-Hao Wang, Guo Chen, Fei Yan +5

Transmission spectroscopy enables the characterization of exoplanet atmospheres by probing absorption features in their terminator regions. In the optical, it is particularly sensi…

astro-ph.EP2026

Spinning out of focus: The challenge of rotational line broadening in exoplanet reflection spectroscopy

T. O. Winterhalder, K. Molaverdikhani, D. Cont +17

Detecting light reflected off the dayside of an exoplanet in high-resolution spectroscopic data has proved to be a notoriously difficult endeavour. Despite several attempts, the fa…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 1 cited

Revisiting the atmosphere of HAT-P-70b with CARMENES high-resolution transmission spectroscopy

Tianjun Gan, Jaume Orell-Miquel, Fei Yan +19

Owing to hot and inflated envelopes that facilitate atmospheric studies, ultra-hot Jupiters (UHJs) have attracted much attention. Significant progress has been achieved, from enlar…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 5 cited

Tighter constraints on the atmosphere of GJ 436 b from combined high-resolution CARMENES and CRIRES observations

A. Peláez-Torres, A. Sánchez-López, L. Nortmann +23

We aim to study the atmospheric properties of the warm Neptune GJ 436 b by combining a set of five transit events observed with the CARMENES spectrograph with one transit from CRIR…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 3 cited

Upper limits on atmospheric abundances of KELT-11b and WASP-69b from a retrieval approach

F. Lesjak, L. Nortmann, D. Cont +18

WASP-69b and KELT-11b are two low-density hot Jupiters, which are expected to show strong atmospheric features in their transmission spectra. Such features offer valuable insights…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 1 cited

VLT/CRIRES+ observations of warm Neptune WASP-107 b: Challenges in detecting molecules with ground-based transmission spectroscopy of cooler and cloudy exoplanets

Linn Boldt-Christmas, Adam D. Rains, Nikolai Piskunov +15

Atmospheres of transiting exoplanets can be studied spectroscopically using space-based or ground-based observations. Each has its own strengths and weaknesses, so there are benefi…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 8 cited

Retrieving day- and nightside atmospheric properties of the ultra-hot Jupiter TOI-2109b. Detection of Fe and CO emission lines and evidence for inefficient heat transport

D. Cont, L. Nortmann, F. Lesjak +32

The ultra-hot Jupiter (UHJ) TOI-2109b marks the lower edge of the equilibrium temperature gap between 3500 K and 4500 K, an unexplored thermal regime that separates KELT-9b, the ho…

astro-ph.EP2024

Retrieving wind properties from the ultra-hot dayside of WASP-189b with CRIRES

F. Lesjak, L. Nortmann, D. Cont +12

The extreme temperature gradients from day- to nightside in the atmospheres of hot Jupiters generate fast winds in the form of equatorial jets or day-to-night flows. Observations o…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 1 cited

Exploring the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-178b. Constraints on atmospheric chemistry and dynamics from a joint retrieval of VLT/CRIRES and space photometric data

D. Cont, L. Nortmann, F. Yan +14

Despite recent progress in the spectroscopic characterization of individual exoplanets, the atmospheres of key ultra-hot Jupiters (UHJs) still lack comprehensive investigations. Th…

astro-ph.EP2024

Evidence for Nightside Water Emission Found in Transit of Ultrahot Jupiter WASP-33b

Yuanheng Yang, Guo Chen, Fei Yan +2

To date, the dayside thermal structure of ultrahot Jupiters (UHJs) is generally considered to be inverted, but their nightside thermal structure has been less explored. Here we exp…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 30 cited

CRIRES transmission spectroscopy of WASP-127b. Detection of the resolved signatures of a supersonic equatorial jet and cool poles in a hot planet

L. Nortmann, F. Lesjak, F. Yan +14

General circulation models of gas giant exoplanets predict equatorial jets that drive inhomogeneities in the atmospheric physical parameters across the planetary surface. We studie…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 15 cited

Remote sensing of exoplanetary atmospheres with ground-based high-resolution near-infrared spectroscopy

D. Shulyak, M. Rengel, A. Reiners +2

Thanks to the advances in modern instrumentation we have learned about many exoplanets that span a wide range of masses and composition. Studying their atmospheres provides insight…