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Mineralogy, Structure, and Habitability of Carbon-Enriched Rocky Exoplanets: A Laboratory Approach [PDF]

Astrobiology, 2019
Carbon-enriched rocky exoplanets have been proposed around dwarf stars as well as around binary stars, white dwarfs and pulsars. However, the mineralogical make up of such planets is poorly constrained. We performed high-pressure high-temperature laboratory experiments ($P$ = 1$-$2 GPa, $T$ = 1523$-$1823 K) on carbon-enriched chemical mixtures to ...
Hakim, K., Spaargaren, R., Grewal, D.S., Rohrbach, A., Berndt, J., Dominik, C., van Westrenen, W.   +6 more
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Impact of the measured parameters of exoplanets on the inferred internal structure [PDF]

Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2020
Context. Exoplanet characterization is one of the main foci of current exoplanetary science. For super-Earths and sub-Neptunes, we mostly rely on mass and radius measurements, which allow us to derive the mean density of the body and give a rough estimate of the bulk composition of the planet. However, the determination of planetary interiors is a very
Jon Fernandez Otegi, Caroline Dorn, Ravit Helled, François Bouchy, Jonas Haldemann, Yann Alibert   +5 more
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Photochemical Hazes Dramatically Alter Temperature Structure and Atmospheric Circulation in 3D Simulations of Hot Jupiters

The Astrophysical Journal, 2023
Photochemical hazes are expected to form in hot Jupiter atmospheres and may explain the strong scattering slopes and muted spectral features observed in the transmission spectra of many hot Jupiters.
Maria E. Steinrueck, Tommi Koskinen, Panayotis Lavvas, Vivien Parmentier, Sebastian Zieba, Xianyu Tan, Xi Zhang, Laura Kreidberg   +7 more
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The Structure of Exoplanets

, 2013
The hundreds of exoplanets that have been discovered in the past two decades offer a new perspective on planetary structure. Instead of being the archetypal examples of planets, those of our Solar System are merely possible outcomes of planetary system formation and evolution, and conceivably not even terribly common outcomes (although this remains an ...
Spiegel, David S., Fortney, Jonathan J., Sotin, Christophe   +2 more
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TEMPERATURE STRUCTURE AND ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION OF DRY TIDALLY LOCKED ROCKY EXOPLANETS [PDF]

The Astrophysical Journal, 2016
ABSTRACT Next-generation space telescopes will observe the atmospheres of rocky planets orbiting nearby M-dwarfs. Understanding these observations will require well-developed theory in addition to numerical simulations. Here we present theoretical models for the temperature structure and atmospheric circulation of dry, tidally locked ...
Daniel D. B. Koll, Dorian S. Abbot
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ExoMDN: Rapid characterization of exoplanet interior structures with mixture density networks

Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2023
Aims.Characterizing the interior structure of exoplanets is essential for understanding their diversity, formation, and evolution. As the interior of exoplanets is inaccessible to observations, an inverse problem must be solved, where numerical structure models need to conform to observable parameters such as mass and radius.
Baumeister, Philipp, Tosi, Nicola
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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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The Radius Cliff is a Waterfall: Explaining Sub-Neptune Exoplanets with Steam Worlds

The Astrophysical Journal
The demographics of Kepler planets provide a key testbed for models of planet formation and evolution, particularly for explaining the radius valley separating super-Earths and sub-Neptunes.
Aritra Chakrabarty, Gijs D. Mulders, Artyom Aguichine, Natalie Batalha   +3 more
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Earth as a Transiting Exoplanet: A Validation of Transmission Spectroscopy and Atmospheric Retrieval Methodologies for Terrestrial Exoplanets

The Planetary Science Journal, 2023
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will enable the search for and characterization of terrestrial exoplanet atmospheres in the habitable zone via transmission spectroscopy.
Jacob Lustig-Yaeger, Victoria S. Meadows, David Crisp, Michael R. Line, Tyler D. Robinson   +4 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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