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Diurnal temperature variations and migrating thermal tides in the Martian lower atmosphere observed by the Emirates Mars InfraRed Spectrometer
Siteng Fan, François Forget, Michael D. Smith +12
The Martian atmosphere experiences large diurnal variations due to the ~24.6 h planetary rotation and its low heat capacity. Understanding such variations on a planetary scale is l…
Venus Cloud Research: Progress and Perspectives
Longkang Dai, Dmitrij V. Titov, Wencheng D. Shao +3
Venus has regained attention on the international stage with the approval of three new missions by ESA and NASA. As the twin sister of Earth, Venus exhibits a distinct atmosphere,…
Deciphering Pluto's Haze: How a Solar-Powered Vapor-Pressure Plume Shapes Its Bimodal Particle Size Distribution
Sihe Chen, Danica Adams, Siteng Fan +3
Combining findings from New Horizons' suite of instruments reveals a bimodal haze particle distribution within Pluto's atmosphere, which haze models have not been able to reproduce…
Migrating Thermal Tides in the Martian Atmosphere during Aphelion Season Observed by EMM/EMIRS
Siteng Fan, François Forget, Michael D. Smith +11
Temperature profiles retrieved using the first set of data of the Emirates Mars InfraRed Spectrometer (EMIRS) obtained during the science phase of the Emirates Mars Mission (EMM) a…
2060: Civilization, Energy, and Progression of Mankind on the Kardashev Scale
Antong Zhang, Jiani Yang, Yangcheng Luo +1
Energy has been propelling the development of human civilization for millennia, and technologies acquiring energy beyond human and animal power have been continuously advanced and…
Seasonal variations of chemical species and haze in Titan's upper atmosphere
Siteng Fan, Daniel Zhao, Cheng Li +3
Seasonal variation is significant in Titan's atmosphere due to the large change of solar insolation resulting from Titan's 26.7° axial tilt relative to the plane of Saturn's orbit.…
Thermal Tides in the Martian Atmosphere near Northern Summer Solstice Observed by ACS/TIRVIM onboard TGO
Siteng Fan, Sandrine Guerlet, François Forget +8
Thermal tides in the Martian atmosphere are analyzed using temperature profiles retrieved from nadir observations obtained by the TIRVIM Fourier-spectrometer, part of the Atmospher…
Assessing Planetary Complexity and Potential Agnostic Biosignatures using Epsilon Machines
Stuart Bartlett, Jiazheng Li, Lixiang Gu +6
We present a new approach to exoplanet characterisation using techniques from complexity science, with potential applications to biosignature detection. This agnostic method makes…
A bimodal distribution of haze in Pluto's atmosphere
Siteng Fan, Peter Gao, Xi Zhang +8
Pluto, Titan, and Triton make up a unique class of solar system bodies, with icy surfaces and chemically reducing atmospheres rich in organic photochemistry and haze formation. Haz…
Earth as a Proxy Exoplanet: Deconstructing and Reconstructing Spectrophotometric Light Curves
Lixiang Gu, Siteng Fan, Jiazheng Li +7
Point source spectrophotometric ("single-point") light curves of Earth-like planets contain a surprising amount of information about the spatial features of those worlds. Spatially…
Global Mapping of an Exo-Earth using Sparse Modeling
Masataka Aizawa, Hajime Kawahara, Siteng Fan
We develop a new retrieval scheme for obtaining two-dimensional surface maps of exoplanets from scattered light curves. In our scheme, the combination of the L1-norm and Total Squa…
Earth as an Exoplanet: A Two-dimensional Alien Map
Siteng Fan, Cheng Li, Jia-Zheng Li +5
Resolving spatially-varying exoplanet features from single-point light curves is essential for determining whether Earth-like worlds harbor geological features and/or climate syste…
Retrieval of Chemical Abundances in Titan's Upper Atmosphere from Cassini UVIS Observations with Pointing Motion
Siteng Fan, Donald E. Shemansky, Cheng Li +3
Cassini/UVIS FUV observations of stellar occultations at Titan are well suited for probing its atmospheric composition and structure. However, due to instrument pointing motion, on…
Simulations of the Solar System's Early Dynamical Evolution with a Self-Gravitating Planetesimal Disk
Siteng Fan, Konstantin Batygin
Over the course of last decade, the Nice model has dramatically changed our view of the solar system's formation and early evolution. Within the context of this model, a transient…
Constraints on the Microphysics of Pluto's Photochemical Haze from New Horizons Observations
Peter Gao, Siteng Fan, Michael L. Wong +12
The New Horizons flyby of Pluto confirmed the existence of hazes in its atmosphere. Observations of a large high- to low- phase brightness ratio, combined with the blue color of th…