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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…
Glossy Silicate Clouds on the Scorched Dayside of LTT9779b
Suman Saha, James S. Jenkins, Jonathan Brande +10
Discovered deep within the "Neptunian desert", LTT9779b remains the only known ultra-hot Neptune, prompting significant speculation regarding its unique formation and evolutionary…
Effects of Super-rotating Jets on Phase-Resolved Transmission Spectra at High Spectral Resolution
Hayley Beltz, Arjun B. Savel
Hot Jupiter atmospheric circulation can be shaped by a range of processes and planetary parameters, including rotation rate, irradiation gradients from tidal synchronization, magne…
Magnetic field strengths of hot giant exoplanets consistent with Solar System values
Julia V. Seidel, Vivien Parmentier, Bibiana Prinoth +29
Magnetic fields are ubiquitous in the universe. They play a key role in shaping the activity of stars, the habitability of rocky planets, and the long-term retention of planetary a…
Unraveling the Mystery of the Peculiar and Young Hot Jupiter CoRoT-2b II: Phase Resolved Emission Spectroscopy with VLT/CRIRES+ and Gemini-S/IGRINS
Aurora Y. Kesseli, Siddharth Gandhi, Lisa Dang +8
Hot Jupiters are expected to be tidally locked and synchronously rotating due to their short orbital periods. These conditions create large day-night temperature contrasts and are…
The Roasting Marshmallows Program with IGRINS on Gemini South V: Atmosphere of MASCARA-1b is Enriched in Refractory Elements
Krishna Kanumalla, Michael R. Line, Martina Chiarella +75
Ultra-hot Jupiters (UHJs; K) enable simultaneous detection of volatile (ice-forming) and refractory (rock-forming) species in planetary atmospheres, provi…
Exploring the Impact of Tilted Magnetic Dipoles on the Atmospheric Dynamics of Hot Jupiters: Towards an Improved Magnetohydrodynamic Framework
James Fecanin, Hayley Beltz, John Allen +1
The atmospheres of hot Jupiters lie in a dynamical regime without a solar system analogue. The strongly irradiated daysides reach temperatures sufficiently hot for substantial ther…
Horizontal and vertical exoplanet thermal structure from a JWST spectroscopic eclipse map
Ryan C. Challener, Megan Weiner Mansfield, Patricio E. Cubillos +33
Highly-irradiated giant exoplanets known as "ultra-hot Jupiters" are anticipated to exhibit large variations of atmospheric temperature and chemistry as a function of longitude, la…
Limb Asymmetries on WASP-39b: A Multi-GCM Comparison of Chemistry, Clouds, and Hazes
Maria E. Steinrueck, Arjun B. Savel, Duncan A. Christie +28
With JWST, observing separate spectra of the morning and evening limbs of hot Jupiters has finally become a reality. The first such observation was reported for WASP-39b, where the…
A carbon-rich atmosphere on a windy pulsar planet
Michael Zhang, Maya Beleznay, Timothy D. Brandt +17
A handful of enigmatic Jupiter-mass objects have been discovered orbiting pulsars. One such object, PSR\,J2322-2650b, uniquely resembles a hot Jupiter exoplanet due to its minimum…
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…
The Roasting Marshmallows Program with IGRINS on Gemini South III: Seeing deeper into the metal depleted atmosphere of a gas-giant on the cusp of the hot to ultra-hot Jupiter transition
Vatsal Panwar, Matteo Brogi, Krishna Kanumalla +17
Ultra-hot Jupiters are a class of gas-giant exoplanets that show a peculiar combination of thermochemical properties in the form of molecular dissociation, atomic ionization, and i…
Non-ideal MHD simulations of hot Jupiter atmospheres
Clàudia Soriano-Guerrero, Daniele Viganò, Rosalba Perna +2
In Hot Jupiters (HJs), atmospherically induced magnetic fields are expected to play an important role in controlling the wind circulation and in determining their inflated radii. H…
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…
The Effects of Kinematic MHD on the Atmospheric Circulation of Eccentric Hot Jupiters
Hayley Beltz, Willow Houck, Laura C. Mayorga +3
Hot Jupiters are typically considered to be tidally locked due to their short orbital periods. The extreme irradiation can result in atmospheric species becoming thermally ionized…
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…
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…
Comparative Planetology of Magnetic Effects in Ultrahot Jupiters: Trends in High Resolution Spectroscopy
Hayley Beltz, Emily Rauscher
Ultrahot Jupiters (UHJs), being the hottest class of exoplanets known, provide a unique laboratory for testing atmospheric interactions with internal planetary magnetic fields at a…
Up, Up, and Away: Winds and Dynamical Structure as a Function of Altitude in the Ultra-Hot Jupiter WASP-76b
Aurora Y. Kesseli, Hayley Beltz, Emily Rauscher +1
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 un…
A new lever on exoplanetary B fields: measuring heavy ion velocities
Arjun B. Savel, Hayley Beltz, Thaddeus D. Komacek +2
Magnetic fields connect an array of planetary processes, from atmospheric escape to interior convection. Despite their importance, exoplanet magnetic fields are largely unconstrain…
The metallicity and carbon-to-oxygen ratio of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-76b from Gemini-S/IGRINS
Megan Weiner Mansfield, Michael R. Line, Joost P. Wardenier +11
Measurements of the carbon-to-oxygen (C/O) ratios of exoplanet atmospheres can reveal details about their formation and evolution. Recently, high-resolution cross-correlation analy…
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…
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)…
A broadband thermal emission spectrum of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-18b
Louis-Philippe Coulombe, Björn Benneke, Ryan Challener +73
Close-in giant exoplanets with temperatures greater than 2,000 K (''ultra-hot Jupiters'') have been the subject of extensive efforts to determine their atmospheric properties using…