2014/09/17 by Adam Burrows
Physics and Astronomy · #Astro and Planetary Science #Astrobiology #Astronomy #Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies #Environmental science #Exoplanet #Physics #Planet #Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies #Yield (engineering) #astro-ph.EP
paper · pdf · doi:10.1038/nature13782
published as Nature, 513, pp. 345-352, 2014 · Published in Nature, September 18, 2014, as an Insight Review
openalex publication_date 2014/09/17 · arxiv created 2014/09/25 · arxiv updated 2015/06/23 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Exoplanets are now being discovered in profusion. However, to understand their character requires spectral models and data. These elements of remote sensing can yield temperatures, compositions, and even weather patterns, but only if significant improvements in both the parameter retrieval process and measurements are achieved. Despite heroic efforts to garner constraining data on exoplanet atmospheres and dynamics, reliable interpretation has oftimes lagged ambition. I summarize the most productive, and at times novel, methods employed to probe exoplanet atmospheres, highlight some of the most interesting results obtained, and suggest various broad theoretical topics in which further work could pay significant dividends.