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Interactions of Sublimated Frost With Volcanic Plumes: Modeling Io's SO2 Atmosphere Using the DSMC Method

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, Volume 131, Issue 7, July 2026.
Abstract Io's tenuous atmosphere consists primarily of sulfur dioxide (SO2 ${\text{SO}}_{2}$) with observed column densities of approximately 1016−1017 $1{0}^{16}-1{0}^{17}$ cm−2 ${\text{cm}}^{-2}$. However, it remains uncertain whether the sublimation of SO2 ${\text{SO}}_{2}$ surface frost or volcanic outgassing is the primary source of the SO2 ...
Leander Schlarmann, Audrey Vorburger, Tim Mosimann, Nicolas Thomas, Peter Wurz   +4 more
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The Impact of the Explicit Representation of Convection on the Climate of a Tidally Locked Planet in Global Stretched-mesh Simulations

The Astrophysical Journal
Convective processes are crucial in shaping exoplanetary atmospheres but are computationally expensive to simulate directly. A novel technique of simulating moist convection on tidally locked exoplanets is to use a global 3D model with a stretched mesh ...
Denis E. Sergeev, Ian A. Boutle, F. Hugo Lambert, Nathan J. Mayne, Thomas Bendall, Krisztian Kohary, Enrico Olivier, Ben Shipway   +7 more
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The Roasting Marshmallows Program with IGRINS on Gemini South I: Composition and Climate of the Ultrahot Jupiter WASP-18 b

The Astronomical Journal, 2023
We present high-resolution dayside thermal emission observations of the exoplanet WASP-18 b using IGRINS on Gemini South. We remove stellar and telluric signatures using standard algorithms, and we extract the planet signal via cross-correlation with ...
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   +21 more
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Weakening Tropical West Pacific Ascent Strength Reduces East Pacific Low Clouds via Lower Free‐Tropospheric Moisture Convergence

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, Volume 18, Issue 7, July 2026.
Abstract Low clouds (LC) are the largest source of uncertainty in the climate response to increased CO2 ${\text{CO}}_{2}$ in global climate models. This is due to the multitude of factors that affect their behavior and how these are characterized across models.
Danny McCulloch, Mark J. Webb, F. Hugo Lambert, Geoffrey K. Vallis   +3 more
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How Landmass Distribution Influences the Atmospheric Dynamics of Tidally Locked Terrestrial Exoplanets

The Astrophysical Journal
Abstract Interpretation of the ongoing efforts to simulate the atmospheres of potentially habitable terrestrial exoplanets requires that we understand the underlying dynamics and chemistry of such objects to a much greater degree than 1D or even simple 3D models enable.
Sainsbury-Martinez, F., Walsh, C., Cooke, G.J., Marsh, D.R.   +3 more
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Up, Up, and Away: Winds and Dynamical Structure as a Function of Altitude in the Ultrahot Jupiter WASP-76b

The Astrophysical Journal
Due to the unprecedented signal strengths offered by the newest high-resolution spectrographs on 10 m class telescopes, exploring the 3D nature of exoplanets is possible with an unprecedented level of precision.
Aurora Y. Kesseli, Hayley Beltz, Emily Rauscher, I. A. G. Snellen   +3 more
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Transmission Spectroscopy of the Lowest-density Gas Giant: Metals and a Potential Extended Outflow in HAT-P-67b

The Astronomical Journal, 2023
Extremely low-density exoplanets are tantalizing targets for atmospheric characterization because of their promisingly large signals in transmission spectroscopy.
Aaron Bello-Arufe, Heather A. Knutson, João M. Mendonça, Michael M. Zhang, Samuel H. C. Cabot, Alexander D. Rathcke, Ana Ulla, Shreyas Vissapragada, Lars A. Buchhave   +8 more
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Mercury's Eccentric Orbit as a Driver of Significant “Seasonal” Change in Upstream Solar Wind Forcing

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 53, Issue 12, 28 June 2026.
Abstract Mercury experiences the most intense and variable solar wind (SW) conditions in the solar system due to its close, eccentric orbit about the Sun. In addition to variation driven by coronal source and solar cycle, the SW arriving at Mercury varies periodically as the planet's heliocentric distance changes by over 50% per orbit.
Ryan M. Dewey, Caitriona Mary Jackman, Mathias Rojo, Lina Z. Hadid, Beatriz Sánchez‐Cano, Charles F. Bowers, Jim M. Raines, Susan T. Lepri, Stefano Livi, Jesse T. Coburn, Sae Aizawa, Yeimy J. Rivera, Weijie Sun, Jiutong Zhao, James A. Slavin, Daniel Heyner, Daragh M. Hollman, Alexander D. Shane   +17 more
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The Response of Planetary Atmospheres to the Impact of Icy Comets. II. Exo-Earth Analogs

The Astrophysical Journal
The orbital regime of a terrestrial planet plays a significant role in shaping its atmospheric dynamics, climate, and hence potential habitability. The orbit is also likely to play a role in shaping the response of a planetary atmosphere to the influx of
F. Sainsbury-Martinez, C. Walsh
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Effects of Hot Oxygen Corona on Ion Escape From Venus‐Like Planets

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, Volume 131, Issue 6, June 2026.
Abstract Due to the lack of a significant planetary magnetic field, the upper atmospheres of Venus‐like planets interact directly with the stellar wind. Therefore, thermal atomic oxygen in the thermosphere and hot oxygen in the corona produced by non‐thermal processes in the upper atmosphere act as a source of ion pickup loss.
T. Nishioka, K. Seki, R. Sakata, N. Terada, S. Sakai, H. Shinagawa, A. Nakayama   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source