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Vertical Atmospheric Structure in a Variable Brown Dwarf: Pressure-dependent Phase Shifts in Simultaneous Hubble Space Telescope-Spitzer Light Curves
Esther Buenzli, Daniel Apai, Caroline V. Morley +6
Heterogeneous clouds or temperature perturbations in rotating brown dwarfs produce variability in the observed flux. We report time-resolved simultaneous observations of the variab…
Three-dimensional atmospheric circulation of hot Jupiters on highly eccentric orbits
Tiffany Kataria, Adam P. Showman, Nikole K. Lewis +3
Of the over 800 exoplanets detected to date, over half are on non-circular orbits, with eccentricities as high as 0.93. Such orbits lead to time-variable stellar heating, which has…
Two nearby sub-Earth-sized exoplanet candidates in the GJ 436 system
Kevin B. Stevenson, Joseph Harrington, Nate B. Lust +8
We report the detection of UCF-1.01, a strong exoplanet candidate with a radius 0.66 +/- 0.04 times that of Earth (R_{\oplus}). This sub-Earth-sized planet transits the nearby M-dw…
Doppler Signatures of the Atmospheric Circulation on Hot Jupiters
Adam P. Showman, Jonathan J. Fortney, Nikole K. Lewis +1
The meteorology of hot Jupiters has been characterized primarily with thermal measurements, but recent observations suggest the possibility of directly detecting the winds by obser…
3.6 and 4.5 Micron Phase Curves and Evidence for Non-Equilibrium Chemistry in the Atmosphere of Extrasolar Planet HD 189733b
Heather A. Knutson, Nikole Lewis, Jonathan J. Fortney +11
We present new, full-orbit observations of the infrared phase variations of the canonical hot Jupiter HD 189733b obtained in the 3.6 and 4.5 micron bands using the Spitzer Space Te…
The EVIL-MC Model for Ellipsoidal Variations of Planet-Hosting Stars and Applications to the HAT-P-7 System
Brian K. Jackson, Nikole K. Lewis, Jason W. Barnes +3
We present a new model for Ellipsoidal Variations Induced by a Low-Mass Companion, the EVIL-MC model. We employ several approximations appropriate for planetary systems to substant…