4 papers
Life 2.0: A Scalable Distributed Space-Telescope Array for Biosignature Spectroscopy
Jian Ge, Zhangqi Dang, Ziru Zhang +15
Answering the question "Are we alone?" requires atmospheric spectroscopy of nearby terrestrial planets. For an Earth--Sun analog, even the strongest transmission signals are expect…
Evidence of Long-Lived Powerful Gyrosynchrotron Radio Emission in the Close Binary FF UMa
Ruijie Gao, Jun Yang, Yang Gao +7
RS Canum Venaticorum (RS CVn) close binaries, characterized by tidal locking, rapid rotations, and strong magnetic fields, are ideal laboratories for high-resolution radio observat…
The influence of hypothetical exomoons on planetary thermal phase curves
Xinyi Song, Jun Yang, Yueyun Ouyang
More than 200 moons exist in our Solar System, yet no exomoon has been confirmed to date. While the innermost two planets of the Solar System lack natural satellites and most studi…
Three-dimensional Transport-induced Chemistry on Temperate sub-Neptune K2-18b, Part I: the Effects of Atmospheric Dynamics
Jiachen Liu, Duncan Christie, Jun Yang
The low equilibrium temperatures of temperate sub-Neptunes lead to extremely long chemical timescales in their upper atmospheres, causing the abundances of chemical species to be s…