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Uniformly hot nightside temperatures on short-period gas giants
Dylan Keating, Nicolas B. Cowan, Lisa Dang
Short-period gas giants (hot Jupiters) on circular orbits are expected to be tidally locked into synchronous rotation, with permanent daysides that face their host stars, and perma…
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Detection of a Westward Hotspot Offset in the Atmosphere of a Hot Gas Giant CoRoT-2b
Lisa Dang, Nicolas B. Cowan, Joel C. Schwartz +9
Short-period planets exhibit day-night temperature contrasts of hundreds to thousands of degrees K. They also exhibit eastward hotspot offsets whereby the hottest region on the pla…