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Probing Exoplanetary Chemistry with Ariel: Scientific Priorities and Observational Strategies
Olivia Venot, Yamila Miguel, Robin Baeyens +30
Over the past two decades, increasingly precise observations have revealed that exoplanet atmospheres are chemically diverse and often far from equilibrium, with processes such as…
Graph neural networks for exoplanet atmospheres
Antonia Vojtekova, Kai Hou Yip, Ingo P. Waldmann +4
Calculating disequilibrium chemistry in exoplanet atmospheres remains a significant computational bottleneck in atmospheric retrievals. The increasing observational precision from…
Phase-dependent chemistry of WASP-43 b revealed with a suite of one-, two-, and three-dimensional models
Robin Baeyens, Julianne I. Moses, Jasmina Blecic +17
Our goal is to investigate the chemistry of the hot Jupiter WASP-43 b in detail using theoretical models, considering the constraints of the James Webb Space Telescope MIRI phase c…
Comission Femmes et Astronomie de la SF2A : Women participation in french astronomy 2025
N. Lagarde, R. -M. Ouazzani, J. Malzac +10
The Commission Femmes et Astronomie of the French Astronomical Society, has conducted a statistical study aimed at mapping the current presence of women in French professional astr…
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…
On the synergetic use of Ariel and JWST for exoplanet atmospheric science
Quentin Changeat, Pierre-Olivier Lagage, Giovanna Tinetti +27
This paper explores the potential for strategic synergies between the JWST and the Ariel telescopes, two flagship observatories poised to revolutionise the study of exoplanet atmos…
Unraveling the non-equilibrium chemistry of the temperate sub-Neptune K2-18 b
A. Y. Jaziri, O. Sohier, O. Venot +1
The search for habitable, Earth-like exoplanets faces major observational challenges due to their small size and faint signals. M-dwarf stars offer a promising avenue to detect and…
Re-analysis of 10 Hot-Jupiter Atmospheres with disequilibrium chemistry retrieval
Deborah Bardet, Quentin Changeat, Olivia Venot +1
Constraining the chemical structure of exoplanetary atmospheres is pivotal for interpreting spectroscopic data and understanding planetary evolution. Traditional retrieval methods…
Cloud and Haze Parameterization in Atmospheric Retrievals: Insights from Titan's Cassini Data and JWST Observations of Hot Jupiters
Quentin Changeat, Deborah Bardet, Katy Chubb +4
Context: Before JWST, telescope observations were not sensitive enough to constrain the nature of clouds in exo-atmospheres. Recent observations, however, have inferred cloud signa…
ExoPhoto: A Database of Temperature-Dependent Photodissociation Cross Sections
Qing-He Ni, Christian Hill, Sergei N. Yurchenko +5
We present the ExoPhoto database (https://exomol.com/exophoto/), an extension of the ExoMol database, specifically developed to address the growing need for high-accuracy, temperat…
Inclusion of sulfur chemistry in a validated C/H/O/N chemical network: identification of key C/S coupling pathways
R. Veillet, O. Venot, B. Sirjean +6
The detection of SO2 in both WASP-39 b and WASP-107 b recently brought more attention to the modeling of photochemistry in exoplanets. However, sulfur kinetics data is lacking in t…
The Impact of Extended CO Cross Sections on Temperate Anoxic Planet Atmospheres
Wynter Broussard, Edward W. Schwieterman, Clara Sousa-Silva +3
Our interpretation of terrestrial exoplanet atmospheric spectra will always be limited by the accuracy of the data we use as input in our forward and retrieval models. Ultraviolet…
High-temperature measurements of acetylene VUV absorption cross sections and application to warm exoplanet atmospheres
Benjamin Fleury, Mathilde Poveda, Yves Benilan +9
Most observed exoplanets have high equilibrium temperatures. Understanding the chemistry of their atmospheres and interpreting their observations requires the use of chemical kinet…
DARWEN: Data-driven Algorithm for Reduction of Wide Exoplanetary Networks
A. Lira-Barria, J. N. Harvey, T. Konings +5
Exoplanet atmospheric modeling is advancing from chemically diverse one-dimensional (1D) models to three-dimensional (3D) global circulation models (GCMs), which are crucial for in…
Sulphur dioxide in the mid-infrared transmission spectrum of WASP-39b
Diana Powell, Adina D. Feinstein, Elspeth K. H. Lee +70
The recent inference of sulphur dioxide (SO) in the atmosphere of the hot (1100 K), Saturn-mass exoplanet WASP-39b from near-infrared JWST observations suggests that phot…
Probing atmospheric escape through metastable He I triplet lines in 15 exoplanets observed with SPIRou
A. Masson, S. Vinatier, B. Bézard +23
For several years, the metastable helium triplet line has been successfully used as a tracer to probe atmospheric escape in transiting exoplanets. This absorption in the near-infra…
A low-mass sub-Neptune planet transiting the bright active star HD 73344
S. Sulis, I. J. M. Crossfield, A. Santerne +33
Context. Planets with radii of between 2-4 RE closely orbiting solar-type stars are of significant importance for studying the transition from rocky to giant planets. Aims. Our goa…
Data availability and requirements relevant for the Ariel space mission and other exoplanet atmosphere applications
Katy L. Chubb, Séverine Robert, Clara Sousa-Silva +52
The goal of this white paper is to provide a snapshot of the data availability and data needs primarily for the Ariel space mission, but also for related atmospheric studies of exo…
ATMOSPHERIX: III- Estimating the C/O ratio and molecular dynamics at the limbs of WASP-76 b with SPIRou
Thea Hood, Florian Debras, Claire Moutou +13
Measuring the abundances of C- and O-bearing species in exoplanet atmospheres enables us to constrain the C/O ratio, that contains indications about the planet formation history. W…
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…
ARES VI: Viability of one-dimensional retrieval models for transmission spectroscopy characterization of exo-atmospheres in the era of JWST and Ariel
Adam Yassin Jaziri, William Pluriel, Andrea Bocchieri +10
Observed exoplanet transit spectra are usually retrieved using 1D models to determine atmospheric composition while planetary atmospheres are 3D. With the JWST and future space tel…
Is the atmosphere of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-121b variable?
Quentin Changeat, Jack W. Skinner, James Y-K. Cho +12
We present a comprehensive analysis of the Hubble Space Telescope observations of the atmosphere of WASP-121 b, a ultra-hot Jupiter. After reducing the transit, eclipse, and phase-…
The SOPHIE search for northern extrasolar planets-XIX. A system including a cold sub-Neptune potentially transiting a V = 6.5 star HD88986
N. Heidari, I. Boisse, N. C. Hara +51
Transiting planets with orbital periods longer than 40 d are extremely rare among the 5000+ planets discovered so far. The lack of discoveries of this population poses a challenge…
Experimental Investigation of the Photochemical Production of Hydrocarbons in Warm Gas Giant Exoplanet Atmospheres
Benjamin Fleury, Yves Benilan, Olivia Venot +3
In warm (equilibrium temperature <1000 K) gas giant exoplanet atmospheres, the observation of trace species in abundances deviating from thermochemical equilibrium predictions coul…