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Towards Consistent Modeling of Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics in Exoplanets: Validation and Generalization of Chemical Relaxation Method
Shang-Min Tsai, Daniel Kitzmann, James R. Lyons +3
Motivated by the work of Cooper & Showman, we revisit the chemical relaxation method, which seeks to enhance the computational efficiency of chemical-kinetics calculations by repla…
Optical properties of potential condensates in exoplanetary atmospheres
Daniel Kitzmann, Kevin Heng
The prevalence of clouds in currently observable exoplanetary atmospheres motivates the compilation and calculation of their optical properties. First, we present a new open-source…
Analytical Models of Exoplanetary Atmospheres. IV. Improved Two-stream Radiative Transfer for the Treatment of Aerosols
Kevin Heng, Daniel Kitzmann
We present a novel generalization of the two-stream method of radiative transfer, which allows for the accurate treatment of radiative transfer in the presence of strong infrared s…
Simultaneous multicolour optical and near-IR transit photometry of GJ 1214b with SOFIA
D. Angerhausen, C. Dreyer, B. Placek +24
The benchmark exoplanet GJ 1214b is one of the best studied transiting planets in the transition zone between rocky Earth-sized planets and gas or ice giants. This class of super-E…
Exoplanet Characterization by Multi-Observatory Transit Photometry with TESS and CHEOPS
E. Gaidos, D. Kitzmann, K. Heng
Space-based photometric surveys have discovered large numbers of planets transiting other stars, but these observe in a single band-pass and yield only the planet radius, orbital p…
The theory of transmission spectra revisited: a semi-analytical method for interpreting WFC3 data and an unresolved challenge
Kevin Heng, Daniel Kitzmann
The computation of transmission spectra is a central ingredient in the study of exoplanetary atmospheres. First, we revisit the theory of transmission spectra, unifying ideas from…