3 papers
astro-ph.EP2025
Wind-AE: A Fast, Open-source 1D Photoevaporation Code with Metal and Multi-frequency X-ray Capabilities
Madelyn Broome, Ruth Murray-Clay, John McCann +1
Throughout their lives, short period exoplanets (<100 days) experience X-ray and extreme-UV (XUV) stellar irradiation that can heat and photoionize planets' upper atmospheres, driv…
astro-ph.EP2025
Understanding the Origins of Super-Puff Planets: A New Mass-Loss Regime Coupled to Planetary Evolution
Yao Tang, Jonathan J. Fortney, Ruth Murray-Clay +1
Super-puffs are a class of low-mass, large-radius planets that have challenged planet formation and evolution models. Their high inferred H/He mass fractions, required to explain t…
astro-ph.EP2024
PEPSI's non-detection of escaping hydrogen and metal lines adds to the enigma of WASP-12 b
Anusha Pai Asnodkar, Ji Wang, Madelyn Broome +5
WASP-12 b is an ultra-hot Jupiter (UHJ) of special interest for atmospheric studies since it is on an inspiraling orbit in an extreme environment of intense radiation and circumste…