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Streams and Bubbles: Tidal Shaping of Planetary Outflows
Morgan MacLeod, Antonija Oklopčić, Fabienne Nail +1
Planets lose mass to atmospheric outflows, and this mass loss is thought to be central in shaping the bimodal population of gaseous giant and rocky terrestrial exoplanets in close…
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sunset: A database of synthetic atmospheric-escape transmission spectra for nearly every transiting planet
Dion Linssen, Antonija Oklopčić, Morgan MacLeod
Studying atmospheric escape from exoplanets can provide important clues about the formation and evolution of exoplanets. Observational evidence of atmospheric escape has been obtai…
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Cold day-side winds shape large leading streams in evaporating exoplanet atmospheres
F. Nail, M. MacLeod, A. Oklopčić +3
Recent observations of planetary atmospheres in HAT-P-32 b and HAT-P-67 b reveal extensive outflows reaching up to hundreds of planetary radii. The helium 1083 nm light curves for…