6 papers
Horizontal transport as a source of disequilibrium chemistry on the nightside of a hot exoplanet
Vivien Parmentier, Kevin B. Stevenson, Luis Welbanks +15
Hot Jupiters have temperature gradients of several hundreds of degrees between their permanent day and nightsides. In equilibrium, the primary carbon reservoir is expected to trans…
Heat Reveals What Clouds Conceal: Global Carbon & Longitudinally Asymmetric Chemistry on LTT 9779 b
Reza Ashtari, Sean Collins, Jared Splinter +17
LTT-9779 b is an ultra-hot Neptune (Rp ~ 4.7 Re, Mp ~ 29 Me) orbiting its Sun-like host star in just 19 hours, placing it deep within the "hot Neptune desert," where Neptunian plan…
The SPACE Program. I. The featureless spectrum of HD 86226 c challenges sub-Neptune atmosphere trends
K. Angelique Kahle, Jasmina Blecic, Reza Ashtari +26
Sub-Neptune exoplanets are the most abundant type of planet known today. As they do not have a Solar System counterpart, many open questions exist about their composition and forma…
A first look at rocky exoplanets with JWST
Laura Kreidberg, Kevin B. Stevenson
Rocky exoplanet characterization has been a top priority for early James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) science operations. Several milestones have been achieved, including the most p…
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…
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 amplitu…