Mapping clouds on brown dwarfs with the Hubble Space Telescope
An outline of the paper: HST Spectral Mapping of L/T Transition Brown Dwarfs Reveals Cloud Thickness Variations. by Apai et al. 2M2139 and SIMP0136 are two…
The Diversity of Exoplanet Atmospheres
An outline of the paper: HST Spectral Mapping of L/T Transition Brown Dwarfs Reveals Cloud Thickness Variations. by Apai et al. 2M2139 and SIMP0136 are two…
An outline of the paper: 3D mixing in hot Jupiter atmospheres I:application to the day/night cold trap in HD 209458b, by Parmentier, Showman and Lian This paper examines the vertical mixing in a 3-D model of the atmospheric…
About the paper “A 3D general circulation model for Pluto and Triton with fixed volatile abundance and simplified surface forcing” by Zalucha & Michaels The…
An outline of the paper: Vertical atmospheric structure in a variable brown dwarf: pressure-dependent phase shifts in simultaneous HST-Spitzer light curves, by Buenzli et al. It is…
An outline of the paper: 3D modelling of the early Martian Climate under a denser CO2 atmosphere: Temperatures and CO2 ice clouds. by Forget et…
A few weeks ago at the Heidelberg meeting, David Sing presented the spectrum of WASP-12b between 300 nm and 600 nm (near-UV to red). This…
A few weeks ago, NASA organised a meeting on comparative planetology (Comparative climatology of terrestial planets, 25-28 June 2012, Boulder CO). The objectives of the…
An outline of the paper: 3.6 AND 4.5 μm PHASE CURVES AND EVIDENCE FOR NON-EQUILIBRIUM CHEMISTRY IN THE ATMOSPHERE OF EXTRASOLAR PLANET HD 189733B by Knutson…
An outline of the paper: Photometric variability of the disk integrated infrared emission of the Earth. by Gómez-Leal, Pallé and Selsis What could we infer…
An outline of the paper: Mass, Radii, and Cloud Properties of the HR 8799 Planets. by Marley, Saumon, Cushing, et al. The planets of HR…
