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McCarthy, A.M., Vos, J.M., Muirhead, P.S., Biller, B.A., Morley, C.V., Faherty, J., Burningham, B., Calamari, E., Cowan, N.B., Cruz, K.L., Gonzales, E., Limbach, M.A., Liu, P., Nasedkin, E., Suarez, G., Tan, X., O’Toole, C., Visscher, C., Whiteford, N., Zhou, Y. (2024) The JWST Weather Report from the Isolated Exoplanet Analog SIMP 0136+0933: Pressure-Dependent Variability Driven by Multiple Mechanisms. Astrophysical Journal Letters, accepted. arXiv

Rowland, M.J., Morley, C.V., Miles, B.E., Suárez, G., Faherty, J.K., Skemer, A.J., Beiler, S.A., Line, M.R., Bjoraker, G.L., Fortney, J.J., Vos, J.M., Merchan, S.A., Marley, M., Burningham, B., Freedman, R., Gharib-Nezhad, E., Batalha, N., Lupu, R., Visscher, C., Schneider, A.C., Geballe, T.R., Carter, A., Allers, K., Mang, J., Apai, D., Limbach, M.A., Wilson, M.J. (2024) Protosolar D-to-H abundance and one part-per-billion PH₃ in the coldest brown dwarf. Astrophysical Journal Letters, accepted. arXiv

Lee, E.K.H., Tsai, S.-M. Moses, J.I., Plane, J.M.C., Visscher, C., Klippenstein, S.J. (2024) A photochemical PHO network for hydrogen-dominated exoplanet atmospheres. Astrophysical Journal, accepted. arXiv

Morley, C.V., Mukherjee, S., Marley, M.S., Fortney, J.J., Visscher, C., Lupu, R., Gharib-Nezhad, E., Thorngren, D., Freedman, R., Batalha, N. (2024) The Sonora Substellar Atmosphere Models. III. Diamondback: Atmospheric Properties, Spectra, and Evolution for Warm Cloudy Substellar Objects. Astrophysical Journal, 975(1), 59. arXiv ADS journal

Beiler, S.A., Mukherjee, S., Cushing, M.C., Kirkpatrick, J.D., Schneider, A.C., Kothari, H. Marley, M.S., Visscher, C. (2024) A Tale of Two Molecules: The Underprediction of CO₂ and Overprediction of PH₃ in Late T and Y Dwarf Atmospheric Models. Astrophysical Journal, 973(1), 60. arXiv ADS journal

Phillips, C.L., Faherty, J.K., Burningham, B., Vos, J.M., Gonzales, E., Griffith, E.J., Merchan, S.A., Calamari, E., Visscher, C., Morley, C.V., Whiteford, N., Gaarn, J., Ilyin, I., Strassmeier, K. (2024) Retrieving Young Cloudy L-Dwarfs: A Nearby Planetary-Mass Companion BD+60 1417B and Its Isolated Red Twin W0047. Astrophysical Journal, 972(2), 172. arXiv ADS journal

Mukherjee, S., Fortney, J.J., Morley, C.V., Batalha, N.E., Marley, M.S., Karalidi, T., Visscher, C., Lupu, R., Freedman, R., Gharib-Nezhad, E. (2024) The Sonora Substellar Atmosphere Models. IV. Elf Owl: Atmospheric Mixing and Chemical Disequilibrium with Varying Metallicity and C/O Ratios, Astrophysical Journal, 963(1), 73. arXiv ADS journal

Calamari, E., B., Faherty, J.K., Visscher, C., Gemma, M.E., Burningham, B., and Rothermich, A. (2024) Predicting Cloud Conditions in Substellar Mass Objects Using Ultracool Dwarf Companions, Astrophysical Journal, 963(1), 67. arXiv ADS journal

Grant, D. et al. (41 co-authors including Visscher, C.) (2023) JWST-TST DREAMS: Quartz Clouds in the Atmosphere of WASP-17, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 956(2), L29. arXiv ADS journal

Gaarn, J., Burningham, B., Faherty, J.K., Visscher, C., Marley, M.S., Gonzales, E.C., Calamari, E., Bardalez Gagliuffi, D., Lupu, R., Freedman, R. (2023) The puzzle of the formation of T8 dwarf Ross 458c, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 521(4), 5761-5775. arXiv ADS journal

Tsai, S.M. et al. (84 co-authors including C. Visscher) (2023) Direct Evidence of Photochemistry in an Exoplanet Atmosphere Nature, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-05902-2. arXiv journal

Vos, J.M., Burningham, B., Faherty, J.K., Alejandro, S., Gonzales, E., Calamari, E., Gagliuffi, D.B., Visscher, C., Tan, X., Morley, C.V., Marley, M., Gemma, M.E., Whiteford, N., Gaarn, J., Park, G. (2023) Patchy Forsterite Clouds in the Atmospheres of Two Highly Variable Exoplanet Analogs. Astrophysical Journal, 944(2), 138. arXiv ADS journal

Gonzales, E.C, Burningham, B., Faherty, J.K., Lewis, N.K., Visscher, C., Marley, M.S. (2022) A Comparative L-dwarf Sample Exploring the Interplay Between Atmospheric Assumptions and Data Properties. Astrophysical Journal, 938(1), 56. arXiv ADS journal

Mukherjee, S., Fortney, J.J., Batalha, N.E., Karalidi, T., Marley, M.S, Visscher, C., Miles, B.E., Skemer, A.J.I. (2022) Probing the Extent of Vertical Mixing in Brown Dwarf Atmospheres with Disequilibrium Chemistry. Astrophysical Journal, 938(2), 107. arXiv ADS journal Model files available at zenodo.

Visscher, C. (2022) Planetary atmospheres: chemistry and composition. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Planetary Science article link ADS

Dauphas, N., Nie, N.X., Blanchard, M., Zhang, Z.J., Zeng, H., Hu, J.Y., Meheut, M., Visscher, C., Canup, R., Hopp, T. (2022) The Extent, Nature, and Origin of K and Rb Depletions and Isotopic Fractionations in Earth, the Moon, and Other Planetary Bodies. Planetary Science Journal, 3(2). ADS journal

Karalidi, T., Marley, M., Fortney, J.J., Morley, C., Saumon, D., Lupu, R., Visscher, C., Freedman, R. (2021) The Sonora Substellar Atmosphere Models. II. Cholla: A Grid of Cloud-free, Solar Metallicity Models in Chemical Disequilibrium for the JWST Era. Astrophysical Journal, 923(2), 269. ADS arXiv journal

Gonzales, E.C., Burningham, B., Faherty, J.K., Visscher, C., Marley, M., Lupu, R., Freedman, R., Lewis, N.K. (2021) The first retrieval of a substellar subdwarf: A cloud-free SDSS J125637.13-022452.4. Astrophysical Journal, 923(1), 19. ADS arXiv

Marley, M.S., Saumon, D., Visscher, C., Lupu, R., Freedman, R., Morley, C., Fortney, J.J., Seay, C., Smith, A.J.R.W., Teal, D.J., Wang, R. (2021) The Sonora Brown Dwarf Atmosphere and Evolution Models I. Model Description and Application to Cloudless Atmospheres in Rainout Chemical Equilibrium. Astrophysical Journal, 920(2), 85. ADS arXiv
Models available at zenodo

Gharib-Nezhad, E., Marley, M.S., Batalha, N.E., Visscher, C., Freedman, R.S., Lupu, R.E. (2021) Following the Lithium: Tracing Li-bearing Molecules Across Age, Mass, and Gravity in Brown Dwarfs. Astrophysical Journal, 919, 1. ADS arXiv journal

Burningham, B., Faherty, J.K., Gonzales, E.C., Marley, M.S., Visscher, C., Lupu, R., Gaarn, J., Fabienne Bieger, M., Freedman, R., Saumon, D. (2021) Cloud busting: enstatite and quartz clouds in the atmosphere of 2M2224-0158. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 506(2), 1944. ADS arXiv journal

Gonzales, E., Burningham, B., Faherty, J., Cleary, C., Visscher, C., Marley, M., Lupu, R., Freedman, R. (2020) Retrieval of SDSS J1416+1348AB. Astrophysical Journal, 905(1), 46. ADS arXiv journal

Fortney, J.J., Visscher, C., Marley, M.S., Hood, C.E., Line, M.R., Thorngren, D.P., Freedman, R.S., Lupu, R. (2020). Beyond Equilibrium Temperature: How the Atmosphere/Interior Connection Affects the Onset of Methane, Ammonia, and Clouds in Warm Transiting Giant Planets, Astronomical Journal 160(6) 288 ADS arXiv journal

Visscher, C. (2020) Mapping Jupiter’s Mischief, JGR-Planets, 125(8), e06526 ADS journal preprint

Miles, B., Skemer, A.J.I., Morley, C.V., Marley, M.S., Fortney, J.J., Allers, K.N., Faherty, J.K., Geballe, T.R., Visscher, C., Schneider, A.C., Lupu, R., Freedman, R.S., Bjoraker, G.L. (2020). Observations of Disequilibrium CO Chemistry in the Coldest Brown Dwarfs, Astronomical Journal, 160(2), 63. ADS arXiv journal

Marley, M. et al. (2019) Imaging Cool Giant Planets in Reflected Light: Science Investigations and Synergy with Habitable Planets. White paper submitted to the Astro 2020 Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics. arXiv

Parmentier, V., Line, M.R., Bean, J.L., Mansfield, M., Kreidberg, L., Lupu, R., Visscher, C., Desert, J-M., Fortney, J.J.; Deleuil, M., Arcangeli, J., Showman, A.P., Marley, M.S. (2018) From thermal dissociation to condensation in the atmospheres of ultra hot Jupiters: WASP-121b in context, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 617, A110. [ADS](http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018arXiv180500096P) arXiv journal

Morley, C.V., Skemer, A.J., Allers, K.N., Marley, M.S., Faherty, J.K., Visscher, C., Beiler, S.A., Miles, B.E., Lupu, R., Freedman, R.S., Fortney, J.J., Geballe, T.R., Bjoraker, G.L. (2018) An L Band Spectrum of the Coldest Brown Dwarf. Astrophysical Journal, 858(2), 97 ADS arXiv journal

Burningham, B., Marley, M. S., Line, M. R., Lupu, R., Visscher, C., Morley, C. V., Saumon, D., Freedman, R. (2017) Retrieval of atmospheric properties of cloudy L dwarfs. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 470(1), 1177 ADS arXiv journal

Wakeford, H. R., Visscher, C., Lewis, N. K., Kataria, T., Marley, M.S., Fortney, J.J., Mandell, A.M. (2017) High temperature condensate clouds in super-hot Jupiter atmospheres. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 464(4), 4247-4254 ADS arXiv journal

Moses, J.I., Marley, M.S., Zahnle, K., Line, M.R., Fortney, J.J., Barman, T.S., Visscher, C., Lewis, N.K., Wolff, M.J. (2016) On the Composition of Young, Directly Imaged Giant Planets. Astrophysical Journal, 829, 66 ADS arXiv journal

Rodovská, Z., Magna, T., Žák, K., Skála, R., Brachaniec, T., Visscher, C. (2016) The fate of moderately volatile elements in impact events—Lithium connection between the Ries sediments and central European tektites. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 51(12), 2403-2415. doi: 10.1111/maps.12733 ADS journal

Fortney, J.J., Marley, M.S., Laughlin, G., Nettelmann, N., Morley, C.V., Lupu, R.E., Visscher, C., Jeremic, P., Khadder, W.G., and Hargrave, M. (2016) The Hunt for Planet Nine: Atmosphere, Spectra, Evolution, and Detectability. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 824, 2 ADS arXiv journal

Kataria, T., Sing, D.K., Lewis, N.K., Visscher, C., Showman, A.P., Fortney, J.J., and Marley, M.S. (2016) The atmospheric circulation of a nine-hot Jupiter sample: Probing circulation and chemistry over a wide phase space. Astrophysical Journal, 821, 9 ADS arXiv journal

Skemer, A.J. et al. (2016) The LEECH Exoplanet Imaging Survey: Characterization of the Coldest Directly Imaged Exoplanet, GJ 504 b, and Evidence for Super-Stellar Metallicity. Astrophysical Journal 817(2), 166 ADS arXiv journal

Canup, R.M., Visscher, C., Salmon, J. and Fegley, B., Jr. (2015) Lunar volatile depletion due to incomplete accretion within an impact-generated disk. Nature Geoscience 8, 918-921. doi:10.1038/ngeo2574 ADS journal

Joy, K.H., Visscher, C., Zolensky, M.E., Mikouchi, T., Hagiya, K., Ohsumi, K., and Kring, D. (2015) Identification of magnetite in lunar regolith breccia 60016: Evidence for oxidized conditions at the lunar surface. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 50(7), 1157–1172. doi: 10.1111/maps.12462 ADS preprint journal

Moses, J.I., Line, M.R., Visscher, C., Richardson, M.R., Nettelmann, N., Fortney, J.J., Stevenson, K.B., and Madhusudhan, N. (2013) Compositional diversity in the atmospheres of hot Neptunes, with application to GJ 436b. Astrophysical Journal, 777, 34 ADS arXiv journal

Morley, C. V., Fortney, J. J., Kempton, E. M.-R., Marley, M. S., Visscher, C., and Zahnle, K. (2013) Quantitatively Assessing the Role of Clouds in the Transmission Spectrum of GJ 1214b. Astrophysical Journal, 775, 33 ADS arXiv journal

Visscher, C. and Fegley, B., Jr. (2013) Chemistry of Impact-Generated Silicate Melt-Vapor Debris Disks. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 767, L12 ADS arXiv journal

Leggett, S. K, Morley, C. V., Marley, M. S., Saumon, D., Fortney, J. J., and Visscher, C. (2013) A Comparison of Near-Infrared Photometry and Spectra for Y Dwarfs with a New Generation of Cool Cloudy Models. Astrophysical Journal, 763, 130. ADS arXiv journal

Moses, J.I., Madhusudhan, N., Visscher, C., and Freedman, R.S. (2013) Chemical Consequences of the C/O Ratio on Hot Jupiters: Examples from WASP-12b, CoRoT-2b, XO-1b, and HD 189733b. Astrophysical Journal, 763, 25. ADS arXiv journal

Visscher, C. (2012) Chemical Timescales in the Atmospheres of Highly Eccentric Exoplanets. Astrophysical Journal, 757, 5 ADS arXiv journal

Morley, C. V., Fortney, J. J., Marley, M. S., Visscher, C., Saumon, D., and Leggett, S.K. (2012) Neglected Clouds in T and Y Dwarf Atmospheres. Astrophysical Journal, 765, 172 ADS arXiv journal

Stevenson, K.B., Harrington, J., Lust, N.B., Lewis, N. K., Montagnier, G., Moses, J. I., Visscher, C., Blecic, J., Hardy, R.A., Cubillos, C., Campo, C. J. (2012) Two nearby sub-Earth-sized exoplanet candidates in the GJ 436 system. Astrophysical Journal, 755, 9 ADS arXiv journal

Visscher, C., and Moses, J.I. (2011) Quenching of Carbon Monoxide and Methane in the Atmospheres of Cool Brown Dwarfs and Hot Jupiters. Astrophysical Journal, 738, 72. ADS arXiv journal

Moses, J.I., Visscher, C., Fortney, J.J., Showman, A.P., Lewis, N.K., Griffith, C.A., Klippenstein, M., Shabram, M., Friedson A.J., Marley, M.S., Freedman, R.S. (2011) Disequilibrium Carbon, Oxygen, and Nitrogen Chemistry in the Atmospheres of HD 189733b and HD 209458b. Astrophysical Journal, 737, 15. ADS arXiv journal

Moses, J.I., Visscher, C., Keane, T.C., and Sperier, A. (2010) On the abundance of non-cometary HCN on Jupiter. Faraday Discussions, 147, 103-136. ADS arXiv journal

Visscher, C., Moses, J.I., and Saslow, S.A. (2010) The Deep Water Abundance on Jupiter: New Constraints from Thermochemical Kinetics and Diffusion Modeling. Icarus, 209, 602-615. ADS arXiv journal

Visscher, C., Lodders, K., and Fegley, B., Jr. (2010) Atmospheric Chemistry in Giant Planets, Brown Dwarfs, and Low-Mass Dwarf Stars III. Iron, Magnesium, and Silicon. Astrophysical Journal, 716, 1060-1075. ADS arXiv journal

Visscher, C., Lodders, K., and Fegley, B., Jr. (2006) Atmospheric Chemistry in Giant Planets, Brown Dwarfs, and Low-Mass Dwarf Stars II. Sulfur and Phosphorus. Astrophysical Journal, 648, 1181-1195. ADS arXiv journal

Visscher, C., and Fegley, B., Jr. (2005) Chemical Constraints on the Water and Total Oxygen Abundances in the Deep Atmosphere of Saturn. Astrophysical Journal, 623, 1221-1227. ADS arXiv journal