High definition and time-resolved studies of exoplanet atmospheres: a new window on the extreme diversity of the exoplanet zoo

Project Information

exoZoo

Grant agreement ID: 805445

DOI

10.3030/805445

Project closed

EC signature date 3 October 2018

Start date 1 September 2019

End date 31 August 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 500 000,00

EU contribution

€ 1 500 000,00

Coordinated by

THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
United Kingdom

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (30)

Observability of ultraviolet Ni lines in the atmosphere of transiting Earth‐like planets

Author(s): Mitchell E. Young; Mitchell E. Young; Luca Fossati; Colin P. Johnstone; M. Salz; Herbert Lichtenegger; Helmut Lammer; Patricio Cubillos
Published in: Astronomische Nachrichten, Issue 341, 2020, Page(s) 879-886, ISSN 1521-3994
Publisher: Wiley-VCH GmbH
DOI: 10.1002/asna.202013842

Water observed in the atmosphere of τ Boötis Ab with CARMENES/CAHA

Author(s): Rebecca K Webb; Siddharth Gandhi; Matteo Brogi; Jayne L Birkby; Ernst de Mooij; Ignas Snellen; Yapeng Zhang
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 514, 2022, Page(s) 4160-4172, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac1512

Phase-resolving the Absorption Signatures of Water and Carbon Monoxide in the Atmosphere of the Ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-121b with GEMINI-S/IGRINS

Author(s): Joost P. Wardenier, Vivien Parmentier, Michael R. Line, Megan Weiner Mansfield, Xianyu Tan, Shang-Min Tsai, Jacob L. Bean, Jayne L. Birkby, Matteo Brogi, Jean-Michel Désert, Siddharth Gandhi, Elspeth K. H. Lee, Colette I. Levens, Lorenzo Pino, Peter C. B. Smith
Published in: Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Issue 136, 2024, Page(s) 084403, ISSN 0004-6280
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
DOI: 10.1088/1538-3873/ad5c9f

BOWIE-ALIGN: A <i>JWST</i> comparative survey of aligned versus misaligned hot Jupiters to test the dependence of atmospheric composition on migration history

Author(s): James Kirk, Eva-Maria Ahrer, Anna B T Penzlin, James E Owen, Richard A Booth, Lili Alderson, Duncan A Christie, Alastair B Claringbold, Emma Esparza-Borges, Chloe E Fisher, Mercedes López-Morales, N J Mayne, Mason McCormack, Annabella Meech, Vatsal Panwar, Diana Powell, Denis E Sergeev, Jake Taylor, Shang-Min Tsai, Daniel Valentine, Hannah R Wakeford, Peter J Wheatley, Maria Zamyatina
Published in: RAS Techniques and Instruments, Issue 3, 2025, Page(s) 691-704, ISSN 2752-8200
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/rasti/rzae043

High-resolution detection of neutral oxygen and non-LTE effects in the atmosphere of KELT-9b

Author(s): Francesco Borsa, Luca Fossati, Tommi Koskinen, Mitchell E. Young, Denis Shulyak
Published in: Nature Astronomy, Issue 6, 2024, Page(s) 226-231, ISSN 2397-3366
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1038/s41550-021-01544-4

Detecting life outside our solar system with a large high-contrast-imaging mission

Author(s): Ignas A. G. Snellen, F. Snik, M. Kenworthy, S. Albrecht, G. Anglada-Escudé, I. Baraffe, P. Baudoz, W. Benz, J.-L. Beuzit, B. Biller, J. L. Birkby, A. Boccaletti, R. van Boekel, J. de Boer, Matteo Brogi, L. Buchhave, L. Carone, M. Claire, R. Claudi, B.-O. Demory, J.-M. Désert, S. Desidera, B. S. Gaudi, R. Gratton, M. Gillon, J. L. Grenfell, O. Guyon, T. Henning, S. Hinkley, E. Huby, M. Janson, C.
Published in: Experimental Astronomy, 2021, ISSN 0922-6435
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10686-021-09803-y

A Spectroscopic Thermometer: Individual Vibrational Band Spectroscopy with the Example of OH in the Atmosphere of WASP-33b

Author(s): Sam O. M. Wright, Stevanus K. Nugroho, Matteo Brogi, Neale P. Gibson, Ernst J. W. de Mooij, Ingo Waldmann, Jonathan Tennyson, Hajime Kawahara, Masayuki Kuzuhara, Teruyuki Hirano, Takayuki Kotani, Yui Kawashima, Kento Masuda, Jayne L. Birkby, Chris A. Watson, Motohide Tamura, Konstanze Zwintz, Hiroki Harakawa, Tomoyuki Kudo, Klaus Hodapp, Shane Jacobson, Mihoko Konishi, Takashi Kurokawa, Jun Nishik
Published in: The Astronomical Journal, Issue 166, 2024, Page(s) 41, ISSN 0004-6256
Publisher: American Astronomical Society
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/acdb75

Vector-apodizing phase plate coronagraph: design, current performance, and future development

Author(s): D. S. Doelman, F. Snik, E. H. Por, S. P. Bos, G.P.P.L. Otten, M. Kenworthy, S. Y. Haffert, M. Wilby, A. J. Bohn, B. J. Sutlieff, K. Miller, M. Ouellet, J. de Boer, C. U. Keller, M. J. Escuti, S. Shi, N.Z. Warriner, K. J. Hornburg, J. L. Birkby, J. Males, K. M. Morzinski, L.M. Close, J. Codona, J. Long, L. Schatz, J. Lumbres, A. Rodack, K. Van Gorkom, A Hedglen, O. Guyon, J. Lozi, T. Groff, J. Chil
Published in: Applied Optics, Issue 60, 2021, Page(s) 52, ISSN 1559-128X
Publisher: Optica Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1364/ao.422155

Mass Loss by Atmospheric Escape from Extremely Close-in Planets

Author(s): Tommi T. Koskinen, Panayotis Lavvas, Chenliang Huang, Galen Bergsten, Rachel B. Fernandes, Mitchell E. Young
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 929, 2024, Page(s) 52, ISSN 0004-637X
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac4f45

Molecular cross-sections for high-resolution spectroscopy of super-Earths, warm Neptunes, and hot Jupiters

Author(s): Siddharth Gandhi; Matteo Brogi; Matteo Brogi; Sergei N. Yurchenko; Jonathan Tennyson; Phillip A. Coles; Rebecca K Webb; Jayne Birkby; G. Guilluy; G. Guilluy; George A. Hawker; Nikku Madhusudhan; Aldo S. Bonomo; Alessandro Sozzetti
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 495, 2020, Page(s) 224–237, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.17863/cam.63373

Applications of a Gaussian Process Framework for Modelling of High-Resolution Exoplanet Spectra

Author(s): Annabella Meech; Suzanne Aigrain; Matteo Brogi; Jayne L Birkby
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 512, 2022, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac662

A weak spectral signature of water vapour in the atmosphere of HD 179949 b at high spectral resolution in the L band

Author(s): Rebecca K Webb; Matteo Brogi; Matteo Brogi; Siddharth Gandhi; Michael R. Line; Jayne Birkby; Katy L. Chubb; Ignas Snellen; Sergey N. Yurchenko
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 494, 2020, Page(s) 108-119, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa715

Non-local thermodynamic equilibrium effects determine the upper atmospheric temperature structure of the ultra-hot Jupiter KELT-9b

Author(s): L. Fossati; M. E. Young; D. Shulyak; T. Koskinen; C. Huang; P. E. Cubillos; K. France; A. G. Sreejith
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 653, 2021, Page(s) 23, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202140813

High-contrast observations of brown dwarf companion HR 2562 B with the vector Apodizing Phase Plate coronagraph

Author(s): Sutlieff, Ben J; Bohn, Alexander J; Birkby, Jayne L; Kenworthy, Matthew A; Morzinski, Katie M; Doelman, David S; Males, Jared R; Snik, Frans; Close, Laird M; Hinz, Philip M; Charbonneau, David
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 506, 2021, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab1893

Applying a temporal systematics model to vector Apodizing Phase Plate coronagraphic data: TRAP4vAPP

Author(s): Liu, Pengyu; Bohn, Alexander J.; Doelman, David S.; Sutlieff, Ben J.; Samland, Matthias; Kenworthy, Matthew A.; Snik, Frans; Birkby, Jayne L.; Biller, Beth A.; Males, Jared R.; Morzinski, Katie M.; Close, Laird M.; Otten, Gilles P. P. L.
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 674, 2023, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202245333

Exploring the directly imaged HD 1160 system through spectroscopic characterization and high-cadence variability monitoring

Author(s): Ben J Sutlieff, Jayne L Birkby, Jordan M Stone, Annelotte Derkink, Frank Backs, David S Doelman, Matthew A Kenworthy, Alexander J Bohn, Steve Ertel, Frans Snik, Charles E Woodward, Ilya Ilyin, Andrew J Skemer, Jarron M Leisenring, Klaus G Strassmeier, Ji Wang, David Charbonneau, Beth A Biller
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 531, 2024, Page(s) 2168-2189, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae1315

Measuring the variability of directly imaged exoplanets using vector Apodizing Phase Plates combined with ground-based differential spectrophotometry

Author(s): Ben J Sutlieff; Jayne L Birkby; Jordan M Stone; David S Doelman; Matthew A Kenworthy; Vatsal Panwar; Alexander J Bohn; Steve Ertel; Frans Snik; Charles E Woodward; Andrew J Skemer; Jarron M Leisenring; Klaus G Strassmeier; David Charbonneau
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 520, 2023, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2301.08689

Carbon monoxide emission lines reveal an inverted atmosphere in the ultra hot Jupiter WASP-33 b consistent with an eastward hot spot

Author(s): Lennart van Sluijs; Jayne L Birkby; Joshua Lothringer; Elspeth K H Lee; Ian J M Crossfield; Vivien Parmentier; Matteo Brogi; Craig Kulesa; Don McCarthy; David Charbonneau
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 522, 2023, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad1103

JWST/NIRISS and HST: Exploring the improved ability to characterize exoplanet atmospheres in the JWST era

Author(s): Chloe Fisher, Jake Taylor, Vivien Parmentier, Daniel Kitzmann, Jayne L Birkby, Michael Radica, Joanna Barstow, Jingxuan Yang, Giuseppe Morello
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 535, 2024, Page(s) 27-46, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae2240

VLT/CRIRES Science Verification Observations: A hint of C18O in the Young Brown Dwarf 2M0355

Author(s): Zhang, Yapeng; Snellen, Ignas A. G.; Brogi, Matteo; Birkby, Jayne L.
Published in: Research Notes of the AAS, Issue 6, 2022, ISSN 2515-5172
Publisher: American Astronomical Society
DOI: 10.3847/2515-5172/ac9309

First Detection of Hydroxyl Radical Emission from an Exoplanet Atmosphere: High-dispersion Characterization of WASP-33b Using Subaru/IRD

Author(s): Stevanus K. Nugroho; Hajime Kawahara; Neale P. Gibson; Ernst J. W. de Mooij; Teruyuki Hirano; Takayuki Kotani; Yui Kawashima; Kento Masuda; Matteo Brogi; Matteo Brogi; Jayne Birkby; Christopher A. Watson; Motohide Tamura; Konstanze Zwintz; Hiroki Harakawa; Tomoyuki Kudo; Masayuki Kuzuhara; Klaus W. Hodapp; Masato Ishizuka; Shane Jacobson; Mihoko Konishi; Takashi Kurokawa; Jun Nishikawa; Masashi Om
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Issue 910, 2021, Page(s) 9, ISSN 2041-8205
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/abec71

Origins space telescope: from first light to life

Author(s): M. C. Wiedner, S. Aalto, L. Armus, E. Bergin, J. Birkby, C. M. Bradford, D. Burgarella, P. Caselli, V. Charmandaris, A. Cooray, E. De Beck, J. M. Desert, M. Gerin, J. Goicoechea, M. Griffin, P. Hartogh, F. Helmich, M. Hogerheijde, L. Hunt, A. Karska, Q. Kral, D. Leisawitz, G. Melnick, M. Meixner, M. Matsuura, S. Milam, C. Pearson, D. W. Pesce, K. M. Pontoppidan, A. Pope, D. Rigopoulou, T. Roellig,
Published in: Experimental Astronomy, Issue 51, 2021, Page(s) 595-624, ISSN 0922-6435
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10686-021-09782-0

The Mantis Network

Author(s): H. J. Hoeijmakers, D. Kitzmann, B. M. Morris, B. Prinoth, N. W. Borsato, B. Thorsbro, L. Pino, E. K. H. Lee, C. Akın, J. V. Seidel, J. L. Birkby, R. Allart, Kevin Heng
Published in: Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics, Issue 685, 2024, Page(s) A139, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202244968

Chasing rainbows and ocean glints: Inner working angle constraints for the Habitable Worlds Observatory

Author(s): Sophia R Vaughan, Timothy D Gebhard, Kimberly Bott, Sarah L Casewell, Nicolas B Cowan, David S Doelman, Matthew Kenworthy, Johan Mazoyer, Maxwell A Millar-Blanchaer, Victor J H Trees, Daphne M Stam, Olivier Absil, Lisa Altinier, Pierre Baudoz, Ruslan Belikov, Alexis Bidot, Jayne L Birkby, Markus J Bonse, Bernhard Brandl, Alexis Carlotti, Elodie Choquet, Dirk van Dam, Niyati Desai, Kevin Fogarty,
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 524, 2023, Page(s) 5477-5485, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad2127

Behind the mask: can HARMONI@ELT detect biosignatures in the reflected light of Proxima b?

Author(s): Sophia R Vaughan, Jayne L Birkby, Niranjan Thatte, Alexis Carlotti, Mathis Houllé, Miguel Pereira-Santaella, Fraser Clarke, Arthur Vigan, Zifan Lin, Lisa Kaltenegger
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 528, 2024, Page(s) 3509-3522, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae242

Into the red: an <i>M</i>-band study of the chemistry and rotation of β Pictoris b at high spectral resolution

Author(s): Luke T Parker, Jayne L Birkby, Rico Landman, Joost P Wardenier, Mitchell E Young, Sophia R Vaughan, Lennart van Sluijs, Matteo Brogi, Vivien Parmentier, Michael R Line
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 531, 2024, Page(s) 2356-2378, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae1277

The Roasting Marshmallows Program with IGRINS on Gemini South I: Composition and Climate of the Ultra Hot Jupiter WASP-18 b

Author(s): Matteo Brogi; Vanessa Emeka-Okafor; Michael R. Line; Siddharth Gandhi; Lorenzo Pino; Eliza M.-R. Kempton; Emily Rauscher; Vivien Parmentier; Jacob L. Bean; Gregory N. Mace; Nicolas B. Cowan; Evgenya Shkolnik; Joost P. Wardenier; Megan Mansfield; Luis Welbanks; Peter Smith; Jonathan J. Fortney; Jayne L. Birkby; Joseph A. Zalesky; Lisa Dang; Jennifer Patience; Jean-Michel Désert
Published in: The Astronomical Journal, Issue 165, 2023, ISSN 0004-6256
Publisher: American Astronomical Society
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2209.15548

Black Mirror: The impact of rotational broadening on the search for reflected light from 51 Pegasi b with high resolution spectroscopy

Author(s): Spring, E. F. ; Birkby, J. L. ; Pino, L.; Alonso, R. ; Hoyer, S.; Young, M. E. ; Coelho, P. R. T.; Nespral, D. ; López-Morales, M.
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 659, 2022, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202142314

Prospects for characterizing the haziest sub-Neptune exoplanets with high-resolution spectroscopy

Author(s): Callie Hood; Jonathan J. Fortney; Michael R. Line; Emily C. Martin; Caroline V. Morley; Jayne Birkby; Jayne Birkby; Zafar Rustamkulov; Zafar Rustamkulov; Roxana E. Lupu; Richard S. Freedman; Richard S. Freedman
Published in: The Astronomical Journal, Issue 160, 2020, Page(s) 16, ISSN 0004-6256
Publisher: American Astronomical Society
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/abb46b

Searching for NLTE effects in the high-resolution transmission spectrum of WASP-121 b with <scp>cloudy for exoplanets</scp>

Author(s): M E Young, E F Spring, J L Birkby
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 530, 2024, Page(s) 4356-4377, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae674

Conference proceedings (3)

Integrated photonic-based coronagraphic systems for future space telescopes

Author(s): Niyati Desai, Lorenzo König, Emiel H. Por, Roser Juanola-Parramon, Ruslan Belikov, Iva Laginja, Olivier Guyon, Laurent Pueyo, Kevin Fogarty, Olivier Absil, Lisa Altinier, Pierre Baudoz, Alexis Bidot, Markus Bonse, Kimberly Bott, Bernhard Brandl, Alexis Carlotti, Sarah L. Casewell, Élodie Choquet, Nicolas B. Cowan, David Doelman, Jules Fowler, Timothy Gebhard, Yann Gutierrez, Sebastiaan Haffert,
Published in: Techniques and Instrumentation for Detection of Exoplanets XI, 2023, Page(s) 65
Publisher: SPIE
DOI: 10.1117/12.2677210

ANDES, the high resolution spectrograph for the ELT: science case, baseline design and path to construction

Author(s): Alessandro Marconi, M. Abreu, V. Adibekyan, V. Alberti, S. Albrecht, J. Alcaniz, M. Aliverti, C. Allende Prieto, J. D. Alvarado Gómez, P. J. Amado, M. Amate, M. I. Andersen, E. Artigau, C. Baker, V. Baldini, A. Balestra, S. A. Barnes, F. Baron, S. C. C. Barros, S. M. Bauer, M. Beaulieu, O. Bellido-Tirado, B. Benneke, T. Bensby, E. A. Bergin, K. Biazzo, A. Bik, J. Birkby, N. Blind, I. Boisse, E. B
Published in: Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX, 2022, Page(s) 75
Publisher: SPIE
DOI: 10.1117/12.2628689

Visible extreme adaptive optics on extremely large telescopes: towards detecting oxygen in Proxima Centauri b and analogs

Author(s): Jules Fowler, Sebastiaan Haffert, Maaike van Kooten, Rico Landman, Alexis Bidot, Adrien Hours, Mamadou N'Diaye, Olivier Absil, Lisa Altinier, Pierre Baudoz, Ruslan Belikov, Markus Bonse, Kimberly Bott, Bernhard Brandl, Alexis Carlotti, Sarah L. Casewell, Élodie Choquet, Nicolas B. Cowan, Niyati Desai, David Doelman, Kevin Fogarty, Timothy D. Gebhard, Yann Gutierrez, Olivier Guyon, Olivier Herscov
Published in: Techniques and Instrumentation for Detection of Exoplanets XI, 2023, Page(s) 67
Publisher: SPIE
DOI: 10.1117/12.2677503