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Transmission spectroscopy enables the detection of atmospheres on extrasolar planets.
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Is it true that transmission spectroscopy enables the detection of atmospheres on extrasolar planets?
Yes. Transmission spectroscopy is a foundational and proven observational technique that enables the detection and characterization of extrasolar planet atmospheres.
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The retrieved papers consistently demonstrate that transmission spectroscopy is widely used and mathematically modeled to detect, retrieve, and analyze the atmospheric compositions of transiting exoplanets, supported by major space missions such as Hubble, TESS, ARIEL, and JWST.
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TESS provides transiting exoplanet targets optimized for follow-up atmospheric studies.
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Ricker, G., Winn, J. N., Vanderspek, R., Latham, D. W., Bakos, G. Á., Bean, J. L., Berta-Thompson, Z. K., Brown, T. M., Buchhave, L. A., Butler, N., Butler, R. P., Chaplin, W. J., Charbonneau, D., Christensen‐Dalsgaard, J., Clampin, M., Deming, D., Doty, J., Lee, N. D., Dressing, C. D., Dunham, E. W., Endl, M., Fressin, F., Ge, J., Henning, T., Holman, M. J., Howard, A. W., Ida, S., Jenkins, J. M., Jernigan, G., Johnson, J. A., Kaltenegger, L., Kawai, N., Kjeldsen, H., Laughlin, G., Levine, A. M., Lin, D. N. C., Lissauer, J. J., MacQueen, P. J., Marcy, G. W., McCullough, P. R., Morton, T. D., Narita, N., Paegert, M., Πάλλη, Ε., Pepe, F., Pepper, J., Quirrenbach, A., Rinehart, S. A., Sasselov, D., Sato, B., Seager, S., Sozzetti, A., Stassun, K. G., Sullivan, P., Szentgyorgyi, A., Torres, G., Udry, S., & Villaseñor, J. (2014). Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. doi.org. https://doi.org/10.1117/1.jatis.1.1.014003
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Analytic metrics confirm that transmission spectroscopy is a primary method for characterizing TESS planet candidates.
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Kempton, E. M., Bean, J. L., Louie, D. R., Deming, D., Koll, D. D. B., Mansfield, M., Christiansen, J. L., López‐Morales, M., Swain, M. R., Zellem, R. T., Ballard, S., Barclay, T., Barstow, J. K., Batalha, N. E., Beatty, T. G., Berta-Thompson, Z. K., Birkby, J., Buchhave, L. A., Charbonneau, D., Cowan, N. B., Crossfield, I. J. M., Val-Borro, M. d., Doyon, R., Dragomir, D., Gaidos, E., Heng, K., Hu, R., Kane, S. R., Kreidberg, L., Mallonn, M., Morley, C., Narita, N., Nascimbeni, V., Πάλλη, Ε., Quintana, E. V., Rauscher, E., Seager, S., Shkolnik, E. L., Sing, D. K., Sozzetti, A., Stassun, K. G., Valenti, J. A., & Essen, C. v. (2018). A Framework for Prioritizing the <i>TESS</i> Planetary Candidates Most Amenable to Atmospheric Characterization. doi.org. https://doi.org/10.1088/1538-3873/aadf6f
Transmission spectroscopy measurements with the Hubble Space Telescope successfully reveal atmospheric features and hazes on extrasolar planets.
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Pont, F., Knutson, H. A., Gilliland, R. L., Moutou, C., & Charbonneau, D. (2008). Detection of atmospheric haze on an extrasolar planet: the 0.55-1.05 μm transmission spectrum of HD 189733b with the Hubble Space Telescope. doi.org. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.12852.x
ARIEL utilizes transmission spectroscopy to survey the chemical composition of approximately 1000 transiting exoplanet atmospheres.
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Tinetti, G., Drossart, P., Eccleston, P., Hartogh, P., Heske, A., Leconte, J., Micela, G., Ollivier, M., Pilbratt, G. L., Puig, L., Turrini, D., Vandenbussche, B., Wolkenberg, P., Beaulieu, J., Buchave, L. A., Ferus, M., Griffin, M., Guêdel, M., Justtanont, K., Lagage, P., Machado, P., Malaguti, G., Min, M., Nørgaard-Nielsen, H. U., Rataj, M., Ray, T., Ribas, I., Swain, M. G., Szabó, R., Werner, S., Barstow, J. K., Burleigh, M. R., Cho, J., Foresto, V. C. d., Coustenis, A., Decin, L., Encrenaz, T., Galand, M., Gillon, M., Helled, R., Morales, J. C., Muñoz, A. G., Moneti, A., Pagano, I., Pascale, E., Piccioni, G., Pinfield, D. J., Sarkar, S., Selsis, F., Tennyson, J., Triaud, A. H. M. J., Vénot, O., Waldmann, I., Waltham, D., Wright, G., Amiaux, J., Auguères, J., Berthé, M., Bezawada, N., Bishop, G., Bowles, N. E., Coffey, D., Colomé, J., Crook, M., Crouzet, P., Peppo, V. D., Sanz, I. E., Focardi, M., Frericks, M., Hunt, T., Kohley, R., Middleton, K., Morgante, G., Ottensamer, R., Pace, E., Pearson, C., Stamper, R., Symonds, K., Rengel, M., Renotte, É., Ade, P. A. R., Affer, L., Alard, C., Allard, N. F., Altieri, F., André, Y., Arena, C., Argyriou, I., Aylward, A. D., Baccani, C., Bakos, G. Á., Banaszkiewicz, M., Barlow, M., Batista, V., Bellucci, G., Benatti, S., Bernardi, P., Bézard, B., Błęcka, M. I., & Bolmont, É. (2018). A chemical survey of exoplanets with ARIEL. doi.org. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10686-018-9598-x
Transmission spectra and retrieval methods are established to constrain the atmospheric composition and molecular abundances of exoplanets.
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Benneke, B. & Seager, S. (2012). ATMOSPHERIC RETRIEVAL FOR SUPER-EARTHS: UNIQUELY CONSTRAINING THE ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION WITH TRANSMISSION SPECTROSCOPY. doi.org. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/753/2/100
Simulations demonstrate that transmission spectroscopy is optimal for detecting terrestrial exoplanet atmospheres using the James Webb Space Telescope.
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Lustig-Yaeger, J., Meadows, V. S., & Lincowski, A. P. (2019). The Detectability and Characterization of the TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanet Atmospheres with JWST. doi.org. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ab21e0
Transmission spectroscopy observations with JWST definitively identify carbon dioxide in an exoplanet atmosphere.
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Team, J. T. E. C. E. R. S., Ahrer, E., Alderson, L., Batalha, N. M., Batalha, N., Batalha, N. E., Batalha, N. E., Bean, J. L., Beatty, T. G., Bell, T. J., Benneke, B., Berta-Thompson, Z. K., Carter, A. L., Crossfield, I. J. M., Espinoza, N., Feinstein, A. D., Fortney, J. J., Gibson, N. P., Goyal, J., Kempton, E. M., Kirk, J., Kreidberg, L., López-Morales, M., Line, M. R., Lothringer, J. D., Moran, S. E., Mukherjee, S., Ohno, K., Parmentier, V., Piaulet, C., Rustamkulov, Z., Schlawin, E., Sing, D. K., Stevenson, K. B., Wakeford, H. R., Allen, N. H., Birkmann, S. M., Brande, J., Crouzet, N., Cubillos, P. E., Damiano, M., Désert, J., Peter, G., Harrington, J., Hu, R., Kendrew, S., Knutson, H. A., Lagage, P., Leconte, J., Lendl, M., MacDonald, R. J., May, E. M., Miguel, Y., Molaverdikhani, K., Moses, J. I., Murray, C. A., Nehring, M., Nikolov, N. K., Roche, D. J. M. P. d. d. l., Radica, M., Roy, P., Stassun, K. G., Taylor, J., Waalkes, W. C., Wachiraphan, P., Welbanks, L., Wheatley, P., Aggarwal, K., Alam, M. K., Banerjee, A., Barstow, J. K., Blecic, J., Casewell, S. L., Changeat, Q., Chubb, K. L., Colón, K. D., Coulombe, L., Daylan, T., Val-Borro, M. d., Decin, L., Santos, L. A. D., Flagg, L., France, K., Fu, G., Muñoz, A. G., Gizis, J. E., Glidden, A., Grant, D., Hong, Y., Henning, T., Hong, Y., Inglis, J., Iro, N., Kataria, T., Komacek, T. D., Krick, J., Lee, E. K. H., Lewis, N. K., Lillo-Box, J., & Lustig‐Yaeger, J. (2022). Identification of carbon dioxide in an exoplanet atmosphere. doi.org. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05269-w
What does the evidence say?
The retrieved papers consistently demonstrate that transmission spectroscopy is widely used and mathematically modeled to detect, retrieve, and analyze the atmospheric compositions of transiting exoplanets, supported by major space missions such as Hubble, TESS, ARIEL, and JWST.
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