Toward Exoplanet Transit Spectroscopy Using JWST/MIRI’s Medium Resolution Spectrometer

• Published in: Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Vol. 136; no. 8; pp. 84402 - 84420
• Main Authors: Deming, Drake, Fu, Guangwei, Bouwman, Jeroen, Dicken, Daniel, Espinoza, Nestor, Glasse, Alistair, Greene, Thomas, Kendrew, Sarah, Law, David, Lustig-Yaeger, Jacob, Garcia Marin, Macarena, Schlawin, Everett
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Philadelphia The Astronomical Society of the Pacific 01.08.2024; IOP Publishing
• Subjects: Atmospheric absorption; Carbon dioxide; Data analysis; Eclipsing binary stars; Emission lines; Exoplanet atmospheres; Exoplanets; Extrasolar planets; Hydrogen atoms; Irradiation; Roche lobe; Spectrometers; Spectroscopy; Spectrum analysis; Stars; Time series; Transits; Transmission spectroscopy; Wavelengths

Abstract The Mid-Infrared Instrument Medium Resolution Spectrometer (the MRS) on JWST has potentially important advantages for transit and eclipse spectroscopy of exoplanets, including lack of saturation for bright host stars, wavelength span to longward of 20 µ m, and JWST’s highest spectral resolv...