Publications

My ADS library and Google Scholar.

  1. Shin, et al.: “UV-Irradiation-Driven Thermal Inversion, Disequilibrium Chemistry, and a Cloud-Free Atmosphere in a Strongly Irradiated Brown Dwarf Probed by JWST/NIRSpec Phase-Resolved Spectroscopy”. Submitted.
  2. Zhong, W., et al.: “Irradiated Atmospheres VII. Effect of Mixing Energy Flux on Atmosphere-Interior Coupling”. Accepted to ApJ.
  3. Fuda, et al.: “Polar Vortices on Ultracool Atmospheres I: Modeling the Time-Evolving Cloud-Coverage of Brown Dwarfs and Directly-Imaged Planets with \texttt{maymo}”. Submitted.
  4. Wang, R. et al.: “Rotational Mapping and Regional Atmospheric Retrievals of Variable Brown Dwarfs: Application to Luhman 16B and SIMP 0136”. Submitted.
  5. Bull, J., et al.: “The Pressure-dependent Weather on the Cold, Planetary-mass Companion, Ross 458c”. Submitted.
  6. Zhang, ZJ, et al.: “ELemental abundances of Planets and brown dwarfs Imaged around Stars (ELPIS): III. Patchy Sulfide and Salt Clouds and Hot Spots in Ross 458c from Joint Two-Column Atmospheric Retrievals of JWST/NIRSpec Spectroscopy and Variability Amplitudes”. Submitted.
  7. Lai, Y., Tan, X., et al.: “Dynamically Coupled Three-dimensional Cloud-Chemistry in Rapidly Rotating Irradiated Atmospheres: an Application to the Compact White Dwarf-Brown Dwarf system ZTFJ0038+2030”. Accepted to ApJ.
  8. Manjavacas E., et al.: “Multi-Epoch Stability in the Rotational Modulation of the Planetary-Mass Companion Ross 458C”. Accepted to ApJL.
  9. Coulombe et al.: “Inhomogeneous Cloud Coverage and Altitude-Dependent Heat Transport on the Hot-Jupiter NGTS-10 Ab from its Optical-to-Infrared Phase Curve”. Accepted to PASP.
  10. Zhou, Y, et al.: “Photometric Variability and Rotation of $\beta$ Pictoris b from JWST NIRCam Coronagraphic Imaging”. ApJ.
  11. Fromont et al.: “The coupled impacts of atmospheric dynamics and cloud microphysics on hot Jupiter atmospheres. I. An application to WASP-43b”. Submitted.
  12. Broski-Laing et al.: “Asymmetric CO2 distribution, inefficient heat transport, and precise evolutionary constraints: Spectroscopic phase curves reveal the past and present of a white dwarf-brown dwarf binary”. Accepted to ApJ.
  13. Mehta, et al.: “The tale of the 3 planets: 3D cloud feedback enhances the spectral diversity of warm Jupiters”. Accepted to A&A.
  14. Tan, X., et al.: “The Atmospheric Circulation of Cloudy Hot and Ultra-hot Jupiters: the Need for Dissipation of Large-scale Flows to Reduce the Nightside Brightness Temperatures of Ultra-hot Jupiters”. Submitted.
  15. Schrader, M., et al. (2026): “The JWST Weather Report: Unravelling the atmospheric variability of isolated worlds using Principal Component Analysis”. Accepted to Astronomy & Astrophysics.
  16. Yang, Y.H, et al. (2026): “A Physically Driven Parameterization of Multidimensional Atmospheres: Application to the JWST Phase Curve of WASP-121b”. ApJ.
  17. Whiteford, N., et al. (2026): “The JWST Early Release Science Program for Direct Observations of Exoplanetary Systems VI: patchy forsterite and enstatite clouds in the atmosphere of VHS 1256 b, retrieval lessons learned and outlook to the future”. Accepted to ApJ.
  18. Steinrueck, M., et al. (2026): “Limb Asymmetries on WASP-39b: A Multi-GCM Comparison of Chemistry, Clouds, and Hazes”. Accepted.
  19. Sutlieff et al. (2026): “Direct Imaging Discovery of Giant Exoplanet $\beta$ Pictoris d: A Decade-Long Game of Hide-and-Seek”. ApJL.
  20. Frazier, et al. (2026): “The Days Drag On on WASP-121 b: Interpreting its NIRISS Spectroscopic Phase Curve with General Circulation Models”. ApJ.
  21. Sun, Q, et al (2026): “JWST Exoplanetary Worlds and Elemental Survey (JEWELS) II: High-Precision Stellar Abundances of JWST Cycle 3 Planet Hosts with Improved Treatment of Cool Dwarfs”. ApJS.
  22. Lai, Y., et al. (2026): “Three-dimensional Tidally Locked Lava Dynamics and Detectability”. ApJ.
  23. Parmentier, V., et al. (2026): “Circulation-driven disequilibrium chemistry on the nightside of a hot exoplanet”. Nature Astronomy.
  24. Oliveros-Gomez, et al. (2026): “The JWST weather report from the nearest brown dwarfs III: Heterogeneous clouds and Thermochemical instabilities as possible drivers of WISE 1049AB’s spectroscopic variability”. ApJ.
  25. Lai, Y., Tan, X. & Su, Y. (2026): “Atmospheric Circulation of High-Obliquity Mini-Neptunes”. ApJ.
  26. Mehta, et al. (2026): “How clear are the skies of WASP-80b?: 3D Cloud feedback on the atmosphere and spectra of the warm Jupiter”. Astronomy & Astrophysics.
  27. Zhong, W. et al. (2026): “Irradiated Atmosphere V: Effects of Vertical-Mixing induced Energy Transport on the Inhomogeneity”. ApJ.
  28. Zhang, Z. et al. (2025): “Irradiated Atmospheres IV: Effect of Mixing Energy Flux on Chemistry”. ApJ.
  29. Adams, et al. (2025): “Characterizing the Time Variability of 2M1207 A+b, the First Directly-Imaged Planetary-Mass System with JWST NIRSpec/PRISM IFU Observations”. ApJ.
  30. Householder, A., et al. (2025): “Sensitivity to Sub-Io-sized Exosatellite Transits in the MIRI LRS Lightcurve of the Nearest Substellar Worlds”. ApJL.
  31. Nasedkin, E., et al. (2025): “The JWST Weather Report: retrieving temperature variations, auroral heating, and static cloud coverage on SIMP-0136”. Astronomy & Astrophysics.
  32. JWST Transiting Exoplanet Community Early Release Science Team (2025): “Horizontal and vertical exoplanet thermal structure from a JWST spectroscopic eclipse map”. Nature Astronomy.
  33. Tan, X., et al. (2025): “Large-amplitude Variability Driven by Giant Dust Storms on a Planetary-mass Companion”. Science Advances.
  34. Chen, X., et al. (2025): “The JWST weather report from the nearest brown dwarfs II: Consistent variability mechanisms over 7 months revealed by 1–14 $\mu$m NIRSpec + MIRI monitoring of WISE 1049AB”. MNRAS.
  35. Zhong, W., et al. (2025): “Irradiated Atmospheres III: Radiative-Convective-Mixing Equilibrium for Non-Grey Picket-Fence Model”. ApJ.
  36. Chen, Z., et al. (2025): “Asymmetry and Dynamical Constraints in 2-Limbs Retrieval of WASP-39 b Inferring from JWST Data”. AJ.
  37. Simonnin, A., et al. (2025): “Time Resolved Absorption of Six Chemical Species With MAROON-X Point to a Strong Drag in the Ultra Hot Jupiter TOI-1518 b”. Astronomy & Astrophysics.
  38. Zhang, Z., et al. (2025): “Irradiated Atmospheres II: Interplay Between Non-isotropic/isotropic Scattering and Vertical-Mixing Induced Energy Transport”. ApJ.
  39. Amaro, R., et al. (2025): “Phase-resolved Hubble Space Telescope WFC3 Spectroscopy of Weakly-Irradiated Brown Dwarf GD1400 and Energy Redistribution–Irradiation Trends in Six WD–BD Binaries”. ApJ.
  40. McCarthy, A., et al. (2025): “The JWST Weather Report from the Isolated Exoplanet Analog SIMP 0136+0933: Pressure-Dependent Variability Driven by Multiple Mechanisms”. ApJL.
  41. Zhong, W., et al. (2025): “Irradiated Atmospheres: Thermal Inversions by Vertical-Mixing Induced Energy Transport”. ApJ.
  42. JWST High Contrast Imaging Early Release Science Team (2025): “The JWST Early Release Science Program for Direct Observations of Exoplanetary Systems III: Aperture Masking Interferometric Observations of the star HIP 65426 at 3.8 µm”. ApJ.
  43. Liu, T., et al, (2024) “Optical system of Jiao Tong University Spectroscopic Telescope (JUST)”. SPIE Digital Library as part of the proceedings of the 13094 conference.
  44. French, J. et al. (2024): “The only inflated brown dwarf in an eclipsing white dwarf–brown dwarf binary: WD1032+011B”. MNRAS.
  45. Chen, X., et al. (2024): “Global weather map reveals persistent top-of-atmosphere feature on the nearest brown dwarfs”. MNRAS.
  46. Yang, Chen, Yan, Tan & Ji (2024): “Evidence for Nightside Water Emission Found in Transit of Ultrahot Jupiter WASP-33b”. ApJL.
  47. Wardenier, J., et al. (2024): “Phase-resolving the absorption signatures of water and carbon monoxide in the atmosphere of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-121b with GEMINI-S/IGRINS”. PASP.
  48. Amaro, R., et al. (2024): “Time-resolved Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Camera 3 Spectrophotometry Reveals Inefficient Day-to-Night Heat Redistribution in the Highly Irradiated Brown Dwarf SDSS1557B”. ApJ.
  49. Biller, B., et al. (2024): “JWST reveals the Weather on the Nearest Brown Dwarfs  I: multi-period NIRSpec + MIRI monitoring of the benchmark binary brown dwarf WISE 1049AB”. MNRAS.
  50. Lothringer, J, et al. (2024): “Atmospheric Retrievals of the Phase-resolved Spectra of Irradiated Brown Dwarfs WD-0137B and EPIC-2122B”. ApJ.
  51. E. Kleisioti, D. Dirkx, X. Tan, M. E. Kenworthy (2024): “Direct detection of Tidally Heated ExoMoons by photometric orbital modulation”. Astronomy & Astrophysics.
  52. JWST Transiting Exoplanet Community Early Release Science Team (2024): “Two-Dimensional Eclipse Mapping of the Hot Jupiter WASP-43b with JWST MIRI/LRS”. ApJ.
  53. Feng et al. (2024): “Tianyu project: search for long period transiting planets, fast transients, rare variable sources and beyond”. Acta Astronomica Sinica.
  54. Nguyen Fuda, et al. (2024): “Latitude-dependent Atmospheric Waves and Long-period Modulations in Luhman 16 B from the Longest Lightcurve of an Extrasolar World”. ApJ.
  55. JUST team (2024): “The Jiao-tong University Spectroscopic Telescope (JUST) Project”. Astronomical Techniques and Instruments, Volume 1, Issue 1.
  56. Lee, E.K.H, Tan, X, and Tsai, S.M. (2024): “Dynamically coupled kinetic chemistry in brown dwarf atmospheres – II. cloud and chemistry connections in directly imaged sub-Jupiter exoplanets”. MNRAS.
  57. JWST High Contrast Imaging Early Release Science Team (2024): “The JWST Early Release Science Program for Direct Observations of Exoplanetary Systems IV: NIRISS Aperture Masking Interferometry Performance and Lessons Learned”. ApJL.
  58. JWST High Contrast Imaging Early Release Science Team (2024): “The JWST Early Release Science Program for Direct Observations of Exoplanetary Systems V: Do Self-Consistent Atmospheric Models Represent JWST Spectra? A Showcase With VHS 1256 b”. ApJ.
  59. JWST Transiting Exoplanet Community Early Release Science Team (2024): “Nightside clouds and disequilibrium chemistry revealed with a JWST MIRI phase curve of the hot Jupiter WASP-43b”, Nature Astronomy.
  60. Tan, X., Komacek, T.D., et al. (2024): “Modeling the day-night temperature variations of ultra-hot Jupiters: confronting non-grey general circulation models and observations”. MNRAS.
  61. Tsai, S.M., et al. (2024): “Global Chemical Transport on Hot Jupiters: Insights from 2D VULCAN photochemical model”. ApJ.
  62. Lian, Y.C., Tan, X., and Hu, Y.Y. (2023): “Jupiter’s equatorial quasi-quadrennial oscillation forced by internal thermal forcing”. The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 958, Issue 1.
  63. Hammond, M., et al. (2023): “Shallow-Water Modelling of the Atmospheric Circulation Regimes of Brown Dwarfs and their Observable Features”. MNRAS.
  64. Lee, E.K.H., Tan, X. and Tsai, S.M. (2023): “Dynamically coupled kinetic chemistry in brown dwarf atmospheres I. Performing global scale kinetic modeling”. MNRAS.
  65. Steinrueck, M., et al. (2023): “Photochemical hazes dramatically alter temperature structure and atmospheric circulation in 3D simulations of hot Jupiters”. ApJ.
  66. JWST Transiting Exoplanet Community Early Release Science Team (2023): “A broadband thermal emission spectrum of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-18b” Nature.
  67. Carter, A., and the JWST High Contrast Imaging Early Release Science Team (2023): “JWST Early Release Science: High Contrast Imaging of the Exoplanet HIP 65426b from 2-16 um”. ApJ.
  68. Amaro, R., et al. (2023): “Hotter than expected: atmospheric characterization of a rare irradiated brown dwarf with strong internal heat flux”. The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 948, Issue 2.
  69. Lee, E.K.H., Tsai, S.M., Hammond, M. and Tan, X. (2023): “A mini-Chemical Scheme with Net Reactions for 3D GCMs IB.: 3D thermochemical modelling of WASP-39b and HD 189733b”. Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 672, A110.
  70. JWST Transiting Exoplanet Community Early Release Science Team (2023): “Identification of carbon dioxide in an exoplanet atmosphere”. Nature, 614, 649-652.
  71. Vos, J., et al. (2023): “Patchy Forsterite Clouds in the Atmospheres of Two Highly Variable Exoplanet Analogs”. The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 944, Issue 2.
  72. JWST Transiting Exoplanet Community Early Release Science Team (2023): “Early Release Science of the exoplanet WASP-39b with JWST NIRISS” Nature, 614, 670-675.
  73. JWST Transiting Exoplanet Community Early Release Science Team (2023): “Early Release Science of the Exoplanet WASP-39b with JWST NIRSpec G395H” Nature, 614, 664-669
  74. Miles, B., and the JWST High Contrast Imaging Early Release Science Team (2023): “A 1 um to 20 um spectrum of the planetary companion VHS1256b”. ApJL 964 L6.
  75. Komacek, T.D., et al. (2022): “The effect of interior heat flux on the atmospheric circulation of hot and ultra-hot Jupiters”. ApJL 941 L40.
  76. (* Co-first-authors) *Komacek, T.D., *Tan, X., Gao, P. and Lee, E.K.H. (2022):“Patchy nightside clouds on ultra-hot Jupiters: General Circulation Model simulations with radiatively active cloud tracers”, The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 934, Issue 1.
  77. Lefevre, M., Tan, X., Lee, E.K.H. and Pierrehumbert, R. (2022):“Cloud-convection feedback in brown dwarfs atmosphere.” The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 929, Issue 2.
  78. Tan, X. (2022): “Jet streams and tracer mixing in the atmospheres of brown dwarfs and isolated young giant planets.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 511, Issue 4, 21pp.
  79. Tan, X. (2022): “Weak seasonality on temperate exoplanets around low-mass stars.” The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 926, Issue 2, 13pp.
  80. Manjavacas, E., Karalidi, T., Tan, X., et al. (2022):“Tracing the top-of-the-atmosphere and vertical cloud structure of a fast-rotating late T-dwarf”. The Astronomical Journal, Volume 164, Issue 2.
  81. Lian, Y., Showman, A.P., Tan, X. and Hu Y. (2022): “Influence of internal forcing on the atmospheric circulation of irradiated giant planets.” The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 928, Issue 2.
  82. Zhou, Y., et al. (2022): “HST/WFC3 Time-resolved Spectroscopy of White Dwarf Brown Dwarf Binaries WD 0137 and EPIC 2122.” The Astronomical Journal, Volume 163, Issue 1.
  83. Lew, B., et al. (2022): “Mapping the pressure-dependent day-night temperature contrast of a strongly irradiated atmosphere with HST spectroscopic phase curve.” The Astronomical Journal, Volume 163, Issue 1
  84. Tan, X., Lefevre, M., and Pierrehumbert, R.P. (2021):“Conevction modeling of pure-steam atmospheres.” The Astrophysical Journal Letter, Volume 923, Issue 1, 10 pp.
  85. Tan, X. and Showman, A.P. (2021):“Atmospheric circulation of brown dwarfs and directly imaged exoplanets driven by cloud radiative feedback: global and equatorial dynamics.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 502, Issue 2, 22 pp.
  86. Tan, X. and Showman, A.P. (2021):“Atmospheric circulation of brown dwarfs and directly imaged exoplanets driven by cloud radiative feedback: effects of rotation.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 502, Issue 1, 22 pp.
  87. Mukherjee, S., et al. (2021): “Modeling polarization signals from cloudy brown dwarfs: Luhman 16 A and B.” The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 162, Number 6.
  88. Wong, I., et al. (2021): “TOI-2109b: An Ultra-Hot Gas Giant on a 16-Hour Orbit.” The Astronomical Journal, Volume 162, Issue 6.
  89. Zube, N., et al. (2021): “Radiative-dynamical simulation of Jupiter’s stratosphere and upper troposphere.” The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 921, Number 2.
  90. Lee, E.K.H., et al. (2021): “Simulating gas giant exoplanet atmospheres with Exo-FMS: Comparing semi-grey, picket fence and correlated-k radiative-transfer schemes.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 506, Issue 2, 17 pp.
  91. Steinrueck, M., et al. (2021): “3D simulations of photochemical hazes in the atmosphere of hot Jupiter HD 189733b.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 504, Issue 2, 17 pp.
  92. Showman, A.P., Tan, X. and Parmentier, V. (2020):“Atmospheric Dynamics of Hot Giant Planets and Brown Dwarfs.” Space Science Reviews, Volume 216, Issue 8, 83 pp.
  93. Tan, X. and Showman, A.P. (2020):“Atmospheric Circulation of Tidally Locked Gas Giants With Increasing Rotation and Implications for White-dwarf-brown-dwarf Systems.” The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 902, Issue 1, id.27, 20 pp.
  94. Lee, E.K.H., et al. (2020): “Simplified 3D GCM Modeling of the Irradiated Brown Dwarf WD0137-349B.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 496, Issue 4, 14 pp.
  95. Mansfield, M., et al. (2020):“Evidence for H2 Dissociation and Recombination Heat Transport in the Atmosphere of KELT-9b.” The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 888, Issue 2, article id. L15, 6 pp.
  96. Tan, X. and Komacek, T.D. (2019):“The Atmospheric Circulation of Ultra-hot Jupiters.” The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 886, Issue 1, article id. 26, 20 pp.
  97. Showman, A. P., Tan, X., and Zhang, X. (2019): “Atmospheric Circulation of Brown Dwarfs and Jupiter and Saturn-like Planets: Zonal Jets, Long-term Variability and QBO- type Oscillations.” The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 883, Issue 1, article id. 4, 26 pp.
  98. Tan, X. and Showman, A.P. (2019): “Atmospheric Variability Driven by Radiative Cloud Feedback in Brown Dwarfs and Directly Imaged Extrasolar Giant Planets.” The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 874, Issue 2, article id. 111, 18 pp.
  99. Komacek, T.D. and Tan X. (2018): “Effects of Dissociation/Recombination on the Day-Night Temperature Contrasts of Ultra-hot Jupiters.” Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society, Volume 2, Issue 2, article id. 36.
  100. Tan, X. and Showman, A.P. (2017): “Effect of Latent Heating on Atmospheres of Brown Dwarfs and Directly Imaged Planets.” The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 835, Issue 2, article id. 186, 12 pp.
  101. Komacek, T. D., Showman, A.P., and Tan, X. (2017): “Atmospheric circulation of hot Jupiters: dayside-nightside temperature differences. II. comparison with observations.” The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 835, Issue 2, article id. 198, 14 pp.
  102. Trifonov, T., Reffert, S., Tan, X., Lee, M.H., and Quirrenbach, A. (2014): “Precise radial velocities of giant stars. VI. A possible 2:1 resonant planet pair around the K giant star η Cet.” Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 568, id.A64, 15 pp.
  103. Wittenmyer, R. A., Tan, X., et al. (2014): “A Detailed Analysis of the HD 73526 2:1 Resonant Planetary System.” The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 780, Issue 2, article id. 140, 9 pp.
  104. Tan, X., M. J. Payne, M. H. Lee, et al. (2013): “Characterizing the Orbital and Dynamical State of the HD82943 Planetary System with Keck Radial Velocity Data.” The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 777, Issue 2, article id. 101, 21 pp.