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True Polar Wander of Lava Worlds

The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2023
As one of the most detectable types of terrestrial planets, lava worlds are highly prioritized targets for exoplanet atmosphere characterization since their atmospheres may reveal what they are made of and how.
Wanying Kang, Francis Nimmo, Feng Ding
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Conclusive Evidence for a Population of Water Worlds around M Dwarfs Remains Elusive

The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2023
The population of small, close-in exoplanets is bifurcated into super-Earths and sub-Neptunes. We calculate physically motivated mass–radius relations for sub-Neptunes, with rocky cores and H/He-dominated atmospheres, accounting for their thermal ...
James G. Rogers, Hilke E. Schlichting, James E. Owen   +2 more
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Atmospheric circulation of exoplanets

地球与行星物理论评, 2023
To date, more than 5000 exoplanets and more than 2000 brown dwarfs have been confirmed, which shows rich diversities in many aspects. With the rapid growth of the planet family, both observational and theoretical research on exoplanet atmosphere is ...
Yuchen Lian, Yongyun Hu
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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, Tyler D. Robinson, Ravi kumar Kopparapu, Amber V. Young, David E. Trilling, Joe LLama   +5 more
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Detection of Atmospheric Escape from Four Young Mini-Neptunes

The Astronomical Journal, 2023
We use Keck/NIRSPEC to survey a sample of of young (
Michael Zhang, Heather A. Knutson, Fei Dai, Lile Wang, George R. Ricker, Richard P. Schwarz, Christopher Mann, Karen Collins   +7 more
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Helium Atmospheres on Warm Neptune- and Sub-Neptune-Sized Exoplanets and Applications to GJ 436 b [PDF]

, 2015
Warm Neptune- and sub-Neptune-sized exoplanets in orbits smaller than Mercury's are thought to have experienced extensive atmospheric evolution. Here we propose that a potential outcome of this atmospheric evolution is the formation of helium-dominated ...
Hu, Renyu, Seager, Sara, Yung, Yuk L.
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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, Cheng Li, Huazhi Ge, Tianhao Le   +3 more
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Spectral Evolution of an Earth-Like Planet [PDF]

, 2006
We have developed a characterization of the geological evolution of the Earths atmosphere and surface in order to model the observable spectra of an Earth-like planet through its geological history.
Cloud P. E., Kenneth W. Jucks, Lisa Kaltenegger, Lovelock J. E., Wesley A. Traub   +4 more
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Scaling K2. VII. Evidence For a High Occurrence Rate of Hot Sub-Neptunes at Intermediate Ages

The Astronomical Journal, 2023
The NASA K2 mission obtained high-precision time-series photometry for four young clusters, including the near-twin 600–800 Myr old Praesepe and Hyades clusters. Hot sub-Neptunes are highly prone to mass-loss mechanisms, given their proximity to the host
Jessie L. Christiansen, Jon K. Zink, Kevin K. Hardegree-Ullman, Rachel B. Fernandes, Philip F. Hopkins, Luisa M. Rebull, Kiersten M. Boley, Galen J. Bergsten, Sakhee Bhure   +8 more
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SPECULOOS exoplanet search and its prototype on TRAPPIST [PDF]

, 2017
One of the most significant goals of modern science is establishing whether life exists around other suns. The most direct path towards its achievement is the detection and atmospheric characterization of terrestrial exoplanets with potentially habitable
A Burrows, A Collier Cameron, A Wolszczan, Adam J. Burgasser, AR Belu, B Goldman, C Hayashi, C Terquem, CH Blake, CP Johnstone, D Deming, D Kubas, E Agol, E Berger, E Bolmont, E Bolmont, E Jehin, EE Mamajek, ET Whelan, Eunkyu Han, GÁ Bakos, IN Reid, IN Reid, J Leconte, J Muzerolle, J Wit de, J Wit de, J. Schneider, JCB Papaloizou, JD Kirkpatrick, JD Kirkpatrick, JE Gizis, JE Owen, JE Owen, JK Barstow, JN Winn, JS Pineda, KL Luhman, KL Luhman, KL Luhman, L Kaltenegger, L Ricci, L Zeng, M Gillon, M Gillon, M Gillon, M Gillon, M Jura, M Mayor, MC Cushing, MJ Holman, MJ Payne, MY He, P Cresswell, P. Figueira, Philip S. Muirhead, PJ Wheatley, PS Muirhead, R Klein, R Luger, R Luger, R Montgomery, RK Kopparapu, RL Akeson, S Ballard, S Jin, S Seager, S Seager, Sergio B. Dieterich, SJ Schmidt, SN Raymond, SS Kumar, SS Kumar, Stanimir A. Metchev, V Bourrier, X Bonfils, Y Alibert, Y Shvartzvald, ZK Berta   +78 more
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