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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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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The Atmospheric Evolution of Small, Close-In Exoplanets
, 2022 Submitted in part fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Imperial College London, July 2022.
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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 +7 more
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On the relative importance of AGN winds for the evolution of exoplanet atmospheres
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2022 ABSTRACT Recent work investigating the impact of winds and outflows from active galactic nuclei (AGNs) on the habitability of exoplanets suggests that such activity could be deleterious for the long-term survival of planetary atmospheres and the habitability of planets subject to such winds.
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Spectral evolution of gaseous exoplanet atmospheres due to hydrodynamic escape
, 2023 The evolution of stars on grand time-scales affect their surroundings in many ways. Due to their intrinsic rotation, causing strong magnetic activity, they vary greatly in radiative activity in X-ray and ultraviolet (XUV) throughout their lifetime. Planets orbiting these stars close-in could, consequently, be affected by these drastic radiative changes.
Amy Louca, Yamila Miguel
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Zodiacal exoplanets in time – XIII. Planet orbits and atmospheres in the V1298 Tau system, a keystone in studies of early planetary evolution [PDF]
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2021 ABSTRACT Studies of planetary systems of stars in star-forming regions and young clusters open a window on the formative stages of planetary evolution. We obtained high-cadence high-resolution infrared spectroscopy of the solar-mass Taurus association-member V1298 Tau during a transit of its 10R⊕-size ‘b’ planet. We measured the systemic
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Spin evolution of Earth-sized exoplanets, including atmospheric tides and core–mantle friction [PDF]
International Journal of Astrobiology, 2014 AbstractPlanets with masses between 0.1 and 10 M⊕are believed to host dense atmospheres. These atmospheres can play an important role on the planet's spin evolution, since thermal atmospheric tides, driven by the host star, may counterbalance gravitational tides. In this work, we study the long-term spin evolution of Earth-sized exoplanets.
Cunha, Diana +2 more
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A new set of atmosphere and evolution models for cool T–Y brown dwarfs and giant exoplanets [PDF]
Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2020 We present a new set of solar metallicity atmosphere and evolutionary models for very cool brown dwarfs and self-luminous giant exoplanets, which we term ATMO 2020. Atmosphere models are generated with our state-of-the-art 1D radiative-convective equilibrium code ATMO, and are used as surface boundary conditions to calculate the interior structure and ...
M. W. Phillips +8 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 +8 more
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