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"Weather" Variability Of Close-in Extrasolar Giant Planets
Kristen Menou, James Y-K. Cho, Sara Seager +1
Shallow-water numerical simulations show that the atmospheric circulation of the close-in extrasolar giant planet (EGP) HD 209458b is characterized by moving circumpolar vortices a…
Dynamical Habitability of Known Extrasolar Planetary Systems
Kristen Menou, Serge Tabachnik
Habitability is usually defined as the requirement for a terrestrial planet's atmosphere to sustain liquid water. This definition can be complemented by the dynamical requirement t…
Changing Face of the Extrasolar Giant Planet, HD 209458b
James Y-K. Cho, Kristen Menou, Brad Hansen +1
High-resolution atmospheric flow simulations of the tidally-locked extrasolar giant planet, HD 209458b, show large-scale spatio-temporal variability. This is in contrast to the sim…
The Giant X-Ray Flare of NGC 5905: Tidal Disruption of a Star, a Brown Dwarf, or a Planet?
Li-Xin Li, Ramesh Narayan, Kristen Menou
We model the 1990 giant X-ray flare of the quiescent galaxy NGC 5905 as the tidal disruption of a star by a supermassive black hole. From the observed rapid decline of the luminosi…
Optical and Radio Properties of Extragalactic Sources Observed by the FIRST and SDSS Surveys
Z. Ivezic, K. Menou, M. Strauss +6
We discuss the optical and radio properties of 30,000 FIRST sources positionally associated with an SDSS source in 1230 deg of sky. The majority (83%) of the FIRST sources iden…