Effects of a fully 3D atmospheric structure on exoplanet transmission spectra: retrieval biases due to day–night temperature gradients [PDF]
Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2019 Transmission spectroscopy provides us with information on the atmospheric properties at the limb, which is often intuitively assumed to be a narrow annulus around the planet. Consequently, studies have focused on the effect of atmospheric horizontal heterogeneities along the limb.
Caldas, A. +6 more
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THE INFLUENCE OF THE EXTREME ULTRAVIOLET SPECTRAL ENERGY DISTRIBUTION ON THE STRUCTURE AND COMPOSITION OF THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE OF EXOPLANETS [PDF]
The Astrophysical Journal, 2016 ABSTRACT By varying the profiles of stellar extreme ultraviolet (EUV) spectral energy distributions (SEDs), we tested the influences of stellar EUV SEDs on the physical and chemical properties of an escaping atmosphere. We apply our model to study four exoplanets: HD 189733b, HD 209458b, GJ 436b, and Kepler-11b.
Guo, J. H., Ben-Jaffel, Lotfi
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The ARCiS framework for Exoplanet Atmospheres: The Cloud Transport Model [PDF]
, 2019 Understanding of clouds is instrumental in interpreting current and future spectroscopic observations of exoplanets. Modelling clouds consistently is complex, since it involves many facets of chemistry, nucleation theory, condensation physics ...
Min, Michiel, Ormel, Chris W.
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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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Theoretical Spectra of Terrestrial Exoplanet Surfaces [PDF]
, 2012 We investigate spectra of airless rocky exoplanets with a theoretical framework that self-consistently treats reflection and thermal emission. We find that a silicate surface on an exoplanet is spectroscopically detectable via prominent Si-O features in ...
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ATMOSPHERE EXPANSION AND MASS LOSS OF CLOSE-ORBIT GIANT EXOPLANETS HEATED BY STELLAR XUV. II. EFFECTS OF PLANETARY MAGNETIC FIELD; STRUCTURING OF INNER MAGNETOSPHERE [PDF]
The Astrophysical Journal, 2015 This is the second paper in a series where we build a self-consistent model to simulate the mass-loss process of a close-orbit magnetized giant exoplanet, so-called hot Jupiter (HJ). In this paper we generalize the hydrodynamic (HD) model of an HJ expanding hydrogen atmosphere, proposed in the first paper, to include the effects of intrinsic planetary ...
M. L. Khodachenko +3 more
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The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 In order to understand the results of recent observations of exoplanets, models have become increasingly complex. Unfortunately, this increases both the computational cost and output size of said models.
F. Sainsbury-Martinez +5 more
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EXONEST: The Bayesian Exoplanetary Explorer [PDF]
, 2017 The fields of astronomy and astrophysics are currently engaged in an unprecedented era of discovery as recent missions have revealed thousands of exoplanets orbiting other stars.
Angerhausen, Daniel +6 more
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Towards a Theory for the Atmospheres, Structure, and Evolution of Giant Exoplanets [PDF]
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 2011 AbstractIn this short review, I summarize some of the salient features of the emerging theory of exoplanets in general, and of giant exoplanets in particular. A focus is on the characterization of transiting planets at primary and secondary eclipse, but various other related topics are covered, if only briefly.
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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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