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The Spectroscopic Frontier: A Comprehensive Review of Exoplanet Atmospheric Characterization in the JWST Era
Abstract This literature review examines the dramatic advancements in exoplanet atmospheric characterization, charting the field’s transition from initial detections to detailed, high-fidelity spectroscopic analyses in the era of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The foundational observational techniques—Transmission Spectroscopy (Charbonneau et al. ) and Secondary Eclipse/Emission Spectroscopy (Deming et al. )—have been augmented by the…
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Impact of Circumstellar Debris Disk on the Atmosphere of Exoplanet WASP-39b
Even faint debris disks can contaminate MIRI exoplanet spectra. WASP-39b is a gas giant exoplanet orbiting a G-type star, located about 700 light-years away in the constellation Virgo. It has a mass of approximately 0.28 times that of Jupiter and a radius 1.27 times that of Jupiter. The planet orbits its star every 4.1 days…