2 papers
astro-ph.EP2026
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
Wolf Cukier, Dominic Samra, Vighnesh Nagpal +3
Speculative fiction has long served an inspiration for genuine scientific inquiry. One notable work that has almost acted in this manner is the the seminal comedic speculative fict…
astro-ph.EP2026
Analytic Modeling of Tidally Locked Rocky Planet Atmospheres Across Dynamical Regimes
Christopher P. Wirth, Diana Powell, Robin Wordsworth
We present a new first-principles analytic approach to interpreting eclipses and phase curves of rocky planets. Observations with JWST have reported nondetections of atmospheres ar…