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Nitrogen as a Tracer of Giant Planet Formation. I. A Universal Deep Adiabatic Profile and Semianalytical Predictions of Disequilibrium Ammonia Abundances in Warm Exoplanetary Atmospheres

The Astrophysical Journal, 2023
A major motivation of spectroscopic observations of giant exoplanets is to unveil planet formation processes from atmospheric compositions. Several recent studies suggested that atmospheric nitrogen, like carbon and oxygen, can provide important ...
Kazumasa Ohno, Jonathan J. Fortney
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Emergent Exoplanet Flux: Review of the Spitzer Results [PDF]

, 2008
Observations using the Spitzer Space Telescope provided the first detections of photons from extrasolar planets. Spitzer observations are allowing us to infer the temperature structure, composition, and dynamics of exoplanet atmospheres.
Bouchy, Charbonneau, Demory, Drake Deming, Gillon, Morales-Calderon, Showman   +6 more
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Vertical structure of an exoplanet’s atmospheric jet stream

Nature
Ultra-hot Jupiters, an extreme class of planets not found in our solar system, provide a unique window into atmospheric processes. The extreme temperature contrasts between their day- and night-sides pose a fundamental climate puzzle: how is energy distributed?
Julia V. Seidel, Bibiana Prinoth, Lorenzo Pino, Leonardo A. dos Santos, Hritam Chakraborty, Vivien Parmentier, Elyar Sedaghati, Joost P. Wardenier, Casper Farret Jentink, Maria Rosa Zapatero Osorio, Romain Allart, David Ehrenreich, Monika Lendl, Giulia Roccetti, Yuri Damasceno, Vincent Bourrier, Jorge Lillo-Box, H. Jens Hoeijmakers, Enric Pallé, Nuno Santos, Alejandro Suárez Mascareño, Sergio G. Sousa, Hugo M. Tabernero, Francesco A. Pepe   +23 more
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Gliese 581g as a scaled-up version of Earth: atmospheric circulation simulations

, 2011
We use three-dimensional simulations to study the atmospheric circulation on the first Earth-sized exoplanet discovered in the habitable zone of an M star.
Anderson, Charbonneau, Cho, Cho, Cooper, Cooper, Cowan, Dvorak, Edwards, Edwards, Fraser, Gold, Gordon, Held, Heng, Joshi, Joshi, Kevin Heng, Kraucunas, Lammer, Mayor, Menou, Merlis, Mitchell, Peixóto, Pierrehumbert, Roeckner, Saravanan, Scalo, Selsis, Shapiro, Shell, Showman, Showman, Smagorinsky, Smagorinsky, Snellen, Stauffer, Stephenson, Steven S. Vogt, Suarez, Tarter, Thrastarson, Vallis, Vogt, Washington, Watkins, Wordsworth, Wordsworth   +48 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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Early Time Small-scale Structures in Hot Exoplanet Atmosphere Simulations

The Astrophysical Journal
Abstract We 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. A hot, 1:1 spin–orbit synchronized Jupiter is used here as a clear example; but, the phenomenon is generic and important for any ...
J. W. Skinner, J. Y-K. Cho
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Observations of Exoplanet Atmospheres

, 2015
Detailed characterization of an extrasolar planet's atmosphere provides the best hope for distinguishing the makeup of its outer layers, and the only hope for understanding the interplay between initial composition, chemistry, dynamics & circulation, and
Crossfield, Ian J. M.
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A Multiple Scattering Polarized Radiative Transfer Model: Application to HD 189733b [PDF]

, 2015
We present a multiple scattering vector radiative transfer model which produces disk integrated, full phase polarized light curves for reflected light from an exoplanetary atmosphere.
Kopparla, Pushkar, Natraj, Vijay, Swain, Mark R., Wiktorowicz, Sloane J., Yung, Yuk L., Zhang, Xi   +5 more
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Magnetic Scaling Laws for the Atmospheres of Hot Giant Exoplanets

, 2011
We present scaling laws for advection, radiation, magnetic drag and ohmic dissipation in the atmospheres of hot giant exoplanets. In the limit of weak thermal ionization, ohmic dissipation increases with the planetary equilibrium temperature (T_eq ...
Agol, Baraffe, Batygin, Batygin, Burrows, Burrows, Charbonneau, Cowan, Crossfield, Dobbs-Dixon, Fortney, Goody, Hansen, Knutson, Knutson, Kristen Menou, Laughlin, Lewis, Liu, Miller, Miller, Perna, Perna, Rauscher, Rauscher, Showman, Showman, Showman, Showman, Winn   +29 more
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Atmospheric C/O Ratios of Sub-Neptunes with Magma Oceans: Homemade rather than Inherited

The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Recently, the James Webb Space Telescope has enabled detailed spectroscopic characterization of sub-Neptune atmospheres. With detections of carbon- and oxygen-bearing species such as CO, CO _2 , CH _4 , and H _2 O, a central question is whether the ...
Aaron Werlen, Caroline Dorn, Hilke E. Schlichting, Simon L. Grimm, Edward D. Young   +4 more
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