9 papers
Understanding the Energy Input Required for Methane Emission on CWISEP J193518.59-154620.3: A Comprehensive Analysis
Kayla J. Smith, Mark S. Marley, Tommi T. Koskinen +1
The Y dwarf WISE 1935 exhibits a thermal inversion in its radiative atmosphere, producing methane emission features in its JWST spectrum, but the physical mechanism responsible for…
ESCAPE: a small explorer mission to study the stellar drivers of exoplanet evolution
Allison Youngblood, Kevin France, Brian Fleming +37
The long-term stability of exoplanetary atmospheres depends critically on the extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) photon and high-energy particle fluxes from the host star, which are poorly…
The role of the Hubble Space Telescope in advancing our understanding of atmospheric escape in exoplanets
Leonardo A. Dos Santos, Arika Egan, Kevin France +14
An important evolutionary pathway for planetary atmospheres is escape to space, which has been studied on Earth and Mars for several decades and more recently in exoplanets. A part…
Helium escape in context: Comparative signatures of four close-in exoplanets
Anna Ruth Taylor, Tommi T. Koskinen, Chenliang Huang +2
Observations of escaping atmospheres on close-in exoplanets show a wide range in the strength and morphology of He I 10830 A and H I absorption. Scaling relations attempt to link t…
HST-COS Transit Spectroscopy of KELT-20b: First Detection of Excess Far-ultraviolet Absorption From an Ultra-hot Jupiter
Patrick R. Behr, Kevin France, Luca Fossati +4
KELT-20 b is an ultra-hot Jupiter with an equilibrium temperature of K orbiting a bright (V =7.6), fast-rotating (=117 km s) A2 V star. The atmosphere of KE…
The Photochemical Plausibility of Warm Exo-Titans Orbiting M-Dwarf Stars
Sukrit Ranjan, Nicholas F. Wogan, Ana Glidden +7
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has begun to spectrally characterize small exoplanets orbiting M-dwarf stars, but interpretation of these spectra is ambiguous, with stellar,…