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most citedTransit Signatures of Inhomogeneous Clouds on Hot Jupiters: Insights From Microphysical Cloud Modeling

104 citations · 493 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

astro-ph.EP202210 cited

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…

astro-ph.EP202152 cited

Haze Evolution in Temperate Exoplanet Atmospheres Through Surface Energy Measurements

Xinting Yu, Chao He, Xi Zhang +13

Photochemical hazes are important opacity sources in temperate exoplanet atmospheres, hindering current observations from characterizing exoplanet atmospheric compositions. The haz…

astro-ph.EP2021

How to identify exoplanet surfaces using atmospheric trace species in hydrogen-dominated atmospheres

Xinting Yu, Julianne I. Moses, Jonathan J. Fortney +1

Sub-Neptunes (Rp~1.25-4 REarth) remain the most commonly detected exoplanets to date. However, it remains difficult for observations to tell whether these intermediate-sized exopla…

astro-ph.EP2020

Haze Formation on Triton

Kazumasa Ohno, Xi Zhang, Ryo Tazaki +1

The largest moon of Neptune, Triton, possess a cold and hazy atmosphere. Since the discovery of near-surface haze layer during the Voyager fly in 1989, the haze formation mechanism…

astro-ph.EP202032 cited

Surface Energy of the Titan Aerosol Analog "Tholin"

Xinting Yu, Sarah Horst, Chao He +3

The photochemical haze produced in the upper atmosphere of Titan plays a key role in various atmospheric and surface processes on Titan. The surface energy, one important physical…

astro-ph.IM2020

The Science Case for a Titan Flagship-class Orbiter with Probes

Conor A. Nixon, James Abshire, Andrew Ashton +36

We outline a flagship-class mission concept focused on studying Titan as a global system, with particular emphasis on the polar regions. Investigating Titan from the unique standpo…