The Pluto System After New Horizons

SA Stern, WM Grundy, WB McKinnon… - Annual Review of …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
The New Horizons (NH) flyby of the Pluto–Charon binary planet and its system of four small
surrounding satellites in mid-2015 revolutionized our knowledge of this distant planet and its …

Formation of silicate and titanium clouds on hot Jupiters

D Powell, X Zhang, P Gao… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the first application of a bin-scheme microphysical and vertical transport model
to determine the size distribution of titanium and silicate cloud particles in the atmospheres …

Transit signatures of inhomogeneous clouds on hot Jupiters: insights from microphysical cloud modeling

D Powell, T Louden, L Kreidberg, X Zhang… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We determine the observability in transmission of inhomogeneous cloud cover on the limbs
of hot Jupiters through post-processing a general circulation model to include cloud …

New Horizons observations of the atmosphere of Pluto

GR Gladstone, LA Young - Annual Review of Earth and …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
New Horizons data provide a snapshot of the current state of Pluto's atmosphere. Winds are
slow and mostly controlled by sublimation of surface ices. Molecular nitrogen is the primary …

Atmospheric regimes and trends on exoplanets and brown dwarfs

X Zhang - Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
A planetary atmosphere is the outer gas layer of a planet. Besides its scientific significance
among the first and most accessible planetary layers observed from space, it is closely …

Deflating super-puffs: impact of photochemical hazes on the observed mass–radius relationship of low-mass planets

P Gao, X Zhang - The Astrophysical Journal, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The observed mass–radius relationship of low-mass planets informs our understanding of
their composition and evolution. Recent discoveries of low-mass, large-radius objects (" …

Global chemistry and thermal structure models for the hot Jupiter WASP-43b and predictions for JWST

O Venot, V Parmentier, J Blecic… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Global Chemistry and Thermal Structure Models for the Hot Jupiter WASP-43b and Predictions
for JWST - IOPscience This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this site you agree to our …

Sedimentation efficiency of condensation clouds in substellar atmospheres

P Gao, MS Marley, AS Ackerman - The Astrophysical Journal, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Condensation clouds in substellar atmospheres have been widely inferred from spectra and
photometric variability. Up until now, their horizontally averaged vertical distribution and …

Structure and composition of Pluto's atmosphere from the New Horizons solar ultraviolet occultation

LA Young, JA Kammer, AJ Steffl, GR Gladstone… - Icarus, 2018 - Elsevier
The Alice instrument on NASA's New Horizons spacecraft observed an ultraviolet solar
occultation by Pluto's atmosphere on 2015 July 14. The transmission vs. altitude was …

Global-mean vertical tracer mixing in planetary atmospheres. I. Theory and fast-rotating planets

X Zhang, AP Showman - The Astrophysical Journal, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Most chemistry and cloud formation models for planetary atmospheres adopt a one-
dimensional (1D) diffusion approach to approximate the global-mean vertical tracer …