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High-CO2 Climates and Observables in the Outer Habitable Zone
Daria Pidhorodetska, Edward W. Schwieterman, Thomas J. Fauchez +1
The habitable zone (HZ) is a fundamental concept used to guide our search for temperate exoplanets with stable surface liquid water that would sustain remotely detectable biosignat…
Atmospheric Reconnaissance of TRAPPIST-1 f with JWST NIRISS SOSS: No Evidence for the Transit Light Source Effect
Olivia Lim, René Doyon, Ryan J. MacDonald +25
In just over three years of operation, JWST has observed all seven planets of the TRAPPIST-1 system. The two innermost planets were found to have little to no atmosphere, barring t…
Modeling Volcanic Plume Heights Across Exoplanet Atmospheres: Insights from TRAPPIST-1
Prabal Saxena, Thomas Fauchez
Explosive volcanic eruptions play a fundamental role in the evolution and observability of rocky exoplanets, serving as a key mechanism for injecting volatiles into planetary atmos…
Functionality of Ice Line Latitudinal EBM Tenacity (FILLET). Protocol Version 1.1
Rory Barnes, Russell Deitrick, Jacob Haqq-Misra +5
The Functionality of Ice Line Latitudinal EBM Tenacity (FILLET) project is a CUISINES exoplanet model intercomparison project (exo-MIP) that compares various energy balance models…
Coupled atmospHere Interior modeL Intercomparison (CHILI) Protocol Version 1.0: A CUISINES Intercomparison Project of Magma Ocean Models
Tim Lichtenberg, Laura Schaefer, Joshua Krissansen-Totton +23
Spectroscopic characterization of rocky exoplanets with the James Webb Space Telescope has brought the origin and evolution of their atmospheres into the focus of exoplanet science…
Chemistry, Climate, and Transmission Spectra of TRAPPIST-1 e Explored with a Multimodel Sparse Sampled Ensemble
Eric T. Wolf, Edward W. Schwieterman, Jacob Haqq-Misra +6
TRAPPIST-1 e is one of a few habitable zone exoplanets that is amenable to characterization in the near term. In this study our motivations are both scientific and technical. Our t…
JWST-TST DREAMS: The Nightside Emission and Chemistry of WASP-17b
Jacob Lustig-Yaeger, Kristin S. Sotzen, Kevin B. Stevenson +24
Theoretical studies have suggested using planetary infrared excess (PIE) to detect and characterize the thermal emission of transiting and non-transiting exoplanets, however the PI…
K2-18b Does Not Meet The Standards of Evidence For Life
Kevin B. Stevenson, Jacob Lustig-Yaeger, E. M. May +7
K2-18b, a temperate sub-Neptune, has garnered significant attention due to claims of possible biosignatures in its atmosphere. Low-confidence detections of dimethyl sulfide (DMS) a…
First JWST thermal phase curves of temperate terrestrial exoplanets reveal no thick atmosphere around TRAPPIST-1 b and c
Michaël Gillon, Elsa Ducrot, Taylor J. Bell +30
We report JWST/MIRI 15 m phase curves of TRAPPIST-1 b and c, revealing thermal emission consistent with their irradiation levels, assuming no efficient heat redistribution. We f…
Constraints on the possible atmospheres on TRAPPIST-1 b: insights from 3D climate modeling
Alice Maurel, Martin Turbet, Elsa Ducrot +13
JWST observations of the secondary eclipse of TRAPPIST-1 b at 12.8 and 15 microns revealed a very bright dayside. These measurements are consistent with an absence of atmosphere. P…
Strict limits on potential secondary atmospheres on the temperate rocky exo-Earth TRAPPIST-1 d
Caroline Piaulet-Ghorayeb, Björn Benneke, Martin Turbet +23
The nearby TRAPPIST-1 system, with its seven small rocky planets orbiting a late-type M8 star, offers an unprecedented opportunity to search for secondary atmospheres on temperate…
A comprehensive spectroscopic reference of the solar system and its application to exoplanet direct imaging
Allison Payne, Geronimo L. Villanueva, Vincent Kofman +5
We present a calibrated database of reflectance spectra for the solar system planets (i.e., Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune) and for Titan, spanning f…
From Global Climate Models (GCMs) to Exoplanet Spectra with the Global Emission Spectra (GlobES)
Thomas J. Fauchez, Geronimo L. Villanueva, Vincent Kofman +2
In the quest to understand the climates and atmospheres of exoplanets, 3D global climate models (GCMs) have become indispensable. The ability of GCMs to predict atmospheric conditi…
The climates and thermal emission spectra of prime nearby temperate rocky exoplanet targets
Tobi Hammond, Thaddeus D. Komacek, Ravi K. Kopparapu +9
Over the course of the past decade, advances in the radial velocity and transit techniques have enabled the detection of rocky exoplanets in the habitable zones of nearby stars. Fu…
Stellar Models Also Limit Exoplanet Atmosphere Studies in Emission
Thomas J. Fauchez, Elsa Ducrot, Benjamin V. Rackham +3
Stellar contamination has long been recognized as a major bottleneck in transmission spectroscopy, limiting our ability to accurately characterize exoplanet atmospheres-particularl…
The pale blue dot: using the Planetary Spectrum Generator to simulate signals from hyper realistic exo-Earths
Vincent Kofman, Geronimo Villanueva, Thomas Fauchez +5
The atmospheres and surfaces of planets show tremendous amount of spatial variation, which has a direct effect on the spectrum of the object, even if this may not be spatially reso…
The Spin Zone: Synchronously and Asynchronously Rotating Exoplanets Have Spectral Differences in Transmission
Nicholas Scarsdale, C. E. Harman, Thomas J. Fauchez
New observational facilities are beginning to enable insights into the three-dimensional (3D) nature of exoplanets. Transmission spectroscopy is the most widely used method for cha…
Transmission Spectroscopy of the Habitable Zone Exoplanet LHS 1140 b with JWST/NIRISS
Charles Cadieux, René Doyon, Ryan J. MacDonald +20
LHS 1140 b is the second-closest temperate transiting planet to the Earth with an equilibrium temperature low enough to support surface liquid water. At 1.7300.025 R,…
The CUISINES Framework for Conducting Exoplanet Model Intercomparison Projects, Version 1.0
Linda E. Sohl, Thomas J. Fauchez, Shawn Domagal-Goldman +10
As JWST begins to return observations, it is more important than ever that exoplanet climate models can consistently and correctly predict the observability of exoplanets, retrieva…
Interpolation and synthesis of sparse samples in exoplanet atmospheric modeling
Jacob Haqq-Misra, Eric T. Wolf, Thomas J. Fauchez +1
This paper highlights methods from geostatistics that are relevant to the interpretation, intercomparison, and synthesis of atmospheric model data, with a specific application to e…
Artificial Greenhouse Gases as Exoplanet Technosignatures
Edward W. Schwieterman, Thomas J. Fauchez, Jacob Haqq-Misra +6
Atmospheric pollutants such as CFCs and NO have been proposed as potential remotely detectable atmospheric technosignature gases. Here we investigate the potential for artifi…
Modeling Atmospheric Lines By the Exoplanet Community (MALBEC) version 1.0: A CUISINES radiative transfer intercomparison project
Geronimo L. Villanueva, Thomas J. Fauchez, Vincent Kofman +15
Radiative transfer (RT) models are critical in the interpretation of exoplanetary spectra, in simulating exoplanet climates and when designing the specifications of future flagship…
3D Global climate model of an exo-Venus: a modern Venus-like atmosphere for the nearby super-Earth LP 890-9 c
Diogo Quirino, Gabriella Gilli, Lisa Kaltenegger +6
The recently discovered super-Earth LP 890-9 c is an intriguing target for atmospheric studies as it transits a nearby, low-activity late-type M-dwarf star at the inner edge of the…
A roadmap for the atmospheric characterization of terrestrial exoplanets with JWST
TRAPPIST-1 JWST Community Initiative, :, Julien de Wit +80
Ultra-cool dwarf stars are abundant, long-lived, and uniquely suited to enable the atmospheric study of transiting terrestrial companions with JWST. Amongst them, the most prominen…