3 papers
astro-ph.EP2026
Atmospheric Escape Rates of Planets in Stellar Tidal Fields from 3-D Hydrodynamic Simulations
Ritika Sethi, Morgan MacLeod, Sarah Millholland
Thermally driven atmospheric escape, including photo-evaporation and core-powered mass-loss, plays a key role in shaping the evolution of close-in exoplanets, yet most current mode…
astro-ph.EP2025
An Eccentric Sub-Neptune Moving Into the Evaporation Desert
Sydney Jenkins, Andrew Vanderburg, Ritika Sethi +31
Though missions such as Kepler, K2, and TESS have discovered 2,000 sub-Neptune and Neptunian planets, there is a dearth of such planets at close-in (P3 days) orbits. T…
astro-ph.EP2025
Tidal Inflation is Stronger for Misaligned Neptune-Sized Planets Than Aligned Ones
Ritika Sethi, Sarah Millholland
Recent observations have revealed an intriguing abundance of polar-orbiting Neptune-sized planets, many of which exhibit unusually inflated radii. While such misaligned orbits poin…