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…
An outline of the paper: Detecting bio-markers in habitable-zone earths transiting white dwarfs, by Loeb & Maoz Detecting bio-markers in the atmospheres of planets that…
With most of them orbiting a mere 5-10 stellar radii from their host stars, hot Jupiters get bombarded by so much stellar radiation that it…
An outline of the paper: Re-Evaluating WASP-12b: Strong Emission at 2.315 micron, Deeper Occultations, and an Isothermal Atmosphere, by Crossfield et al. WASP-12b is an…
An outline of the paper: IRSF SIRIUS JHKs Simultaneous Transit Photometry of GJ1214b, by Narita et al. The transmission spectrum of GJ 1214b has in previous…
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…
An outline of the paper: The Brown Dwarf-Exoplanet Connection by Adam J. Burgasser In my last post, I talked about how brown dwarfs and hot-Jupiters can…
