Toward Consistent Modeling of Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics in Exoplanets: Validation and Generalization of the Chemical Relaxation Method [PDF]
The Astrophysical Journal, 2018 Abstract Motivated by the work of Cooper & Showman, we revisit the chemical relaxation method, which seeks to enhance the computational efficiency of chemical kinetics calculations by replacing the chemical network with a handful of independent source/sink terms.
Shang-Min Tsai +5 more
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A Radiative-convective Model for Terrestrial Planets with Self-consistent Patchy Clouds
The Planetary Science Journal, 2023 Clouds are ubiquitous: they arise for every solar system planet that possesses an atmosphere and have also been suggested as a leading mechanism for obscuring spectral features in exoplanet observations.
James D. Windsor +5 more
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Magnetohydrodynamical Torsional Oscillations from Thermoresistive Instability in Hot Jupiters
The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 Hot Jupiter atmospheres may be subject to a thermoresistive instability where an increase in the electrical conductivity due to ohmic heating results in runaway of the atmospheric temperature.
Raphaël Hardy +2 more
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Geophysical Monograph Series, Page i-xiv., 2020 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 ...
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AURA-3D: Three-dimensional Atmospheric Retrieval of Exoplanet Transmission Spectra
, 2023 This poster provides a summary of the following paper: "Aura-3D: A Three-dimensional Atmospheric Retrieval Framework for Exoplanet Transmission Spectra", Nixon & Madhusudhan 2022, ApJ, 935, 73N It was presented at the STScI Spring Symposium ...
Nixon, Matthew Conor, Madhusudhan, Nikku
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Abiotic ozone and oxygen in atmospheres similar to prebiotic earth [PDF]
, 2014 The search for life on planets outside our solar system will use spectroscopic identification of atmospheric biosignatures. The most robust remotely detectable potential biosignature is considered to be the detection of oxygen (O2) or ozone (O3 ...
Domagal-Goldman, Shawn D. +10 more
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The Inhomogeneity Effect. III. Weather Impacts on the Heat Flow of Hot Jupiters
The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 The interior flux of a giant planet impacts atmospheric motion, and the atmosphere dictates the interior’s cooling. Here we use a non-hydrostatic general circulation model (Simulating Non-hydrostatic Atmospheres on Planets) coupled with a multi-stream ...
Xi Zhang +3 more
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A Test of the Dedalus Software for Exoplanet Atmospheric Dynamics
Research Notes of the AASAbstract Studying exoplanet flow and variability requires solving atmospheric dynamics equations accurately. Here we use the shallow-water equations to evaluate and employ Dedalus 3 , a spectral method-based software package for solving differential equations.
Rick Bonhof +2 more
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Dynamic mineral clouds on HD 189733b [PDF]
Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2017 Context. As the 3D spatial properties of exoplanet atmospheres are being observed in increasing detail by current and new generations of telescopes, the modelling of the 3D scattering effects of cloud forming atmospheres with inhomogeneous opacity structures becomes increasingly important to interpret observational data. Aims.
E. K. H. Lee +4 more
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Early Time Small-scale Structures in Hot Exoplanet Atmosphere Simulations
The Astrophysical JournalWe report on the critical influence of small-scale flow structures (e.g., fronts, vortices, and waves) that immediately arise in hot exoplanet atmosphere simulations initialized with a resting state.
J. W. Skinner, J. Y-K. Cho
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