2 papers
astro-ph.EP2025
Condensation Clouds in Substellar Atmospheres with Virga
Natasha E. Batalha, Caoimhe M. Rooney, Channon Visscher +14
Here we present an open-source cloud model for substellar atmospheres, called Virga. The Virga-v0 series has already been widely adopted in the literature. It is written in Python…
astro-ph.SR2025
The effect of stellar magnetic activity on measurements of morning and evening asymmetry of planetary terminator
N. Kostogryz, A. I. Shapiro, L. Carone +9
Differences in the ingress and egress shapes of transit light curves can indicate morning-evening temperature contrasts on transiting planets. Here, we pinpoint an alternative mech…