The Radiation Environment of Exoplanet Atmospheres [PDF]
Exoplanets are born and evolve in the radiation and particle environment created by their host star. The host star’s optical and infrared radiation heats the exoplanet’s lower atmosphere and surface, while the ultraviolet, extreme ultraviolet and X ...
Jeffrey L. Linsky
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Lightning and charge processes in brown dwarf and exoplanet atmospheres. [PDF]
The study of the composition of brown dwarf atmospheres helped to understand their formation and evolution. Similarly, the study of exoplanet atmospheres is expected to constrain their formation and evolutionary states. We use results from 3D simulations,
Helling C, Rimmer PB.
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Illusion and Reality in the Atmospheres of Exoplanets [PDF]
The atmospheres of exoplanets reveal all their properties beyond mass, radius, and orbit. Based on bulk densities, we know that exoplanets larger than 1.5 Earth radii must have gaseous envelopes, hence atmospheres.
Drake Deming, Sara Seager
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Can Isotopologues Be Used as Biosignature Gases in Exoplanet Atmospheres? [PDF]
Isotopologue ratios are anticipated to be one of the most promising signs of life that can be observed remotely. On Earth, carbon isotopes have been used for decades as evidence of modern and early metabolic processes. In fact, carbon isotopes may be the
Ana Glidden+3 more
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HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION SPECTROSCOPY AS A DIAGNOSTIC FOR JOVIAN EXOPLANET ATMOSPHERES: CONSTRAINTS FROM THEORETICAL MODELS [PDF]
We present high resolution transmission spectra of giant planet atmospheres from a coupled 3-D atmospheric dynamics and transmission spectrum model that includes Doppler shifts which arise from winds and planetary motion. We model jovian planets covering
Eliza M.-R. Kempton+2 more
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The Role of Atmospheric Composition in Defining the Habitable Zone Limits and Supporting E. coli Growth [PDF]
Studying exoplanet atmospheres is essential for assessing their potential to host liquid water and their capacity to support life (their habitability).
Asena Kuzucan+6 more
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Biological, Equilibrium and Photochemical Signatures of C, N and S Isotopes in the Early Earth and Exoplanet Atmospheres [PDF]
The unambiguous detection of biosignatures in exoplanet atmospheres is a primary objective for astrobiologists and exoplanet astronomers. The primary methodology is the observation of combinations of gases considered unlikely to coexist in an atmosphere ...
James R. Lyons
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High Accuracy Molecular Line Lists for Studies of Exoplanets and Other Hot Atmospheres
The desire to characterize and model the atmospheres of the many extrasolar planets that have been discovered over the last three decades is a major driver of current astronomy.
Jonathan Tennyson, Sergey N. Yurchenko
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Simulations of idealised 3D atmospheric flows on terrestrial planets using LFRic-Atmosphere [PDF]
We demonstrate that LFRic-Atmosphere, a model built using the Met Office's GungHo dynamical core, is able to reproduce idealised large-scale atmospheric circulation patterns specified by several widely used benchmark recipes.
D. E. Sergeev+16 more
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A Geologic Si‐O‐C Pathway to Incorporate Carbon in Silicates
This book is Open Access. A digital copy can be downloaded for free from Wiley Online Library.
Explores the behavior of carbon in minerals, melts, and fluids under extreme conditions
Carbon trapped in diamonds and carbonate-bearing rocks in subduction zones are examples of the continuing exchange of substantial carbon ...
Alexandra Navrotsky+2 more
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