THREE-DIMENSIONAL ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION OF HOT JUPITERS ON HIGHLY ECCENTRIC ORBITS

Of the over 800 exoplanets detected to date, over half are on non-circular orbits, with eccentricities as high as 0.93. Such orbits lead to time-variable stellar heating, which has major implications for the planet's atmospheric dynamical regime. However, little is known about the fundamental d...

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Main Authors: Kataria, T. (Author), Showman, A. P. (Author), Lewis, Nikole (Contributor), Fortney, Jonathan J. (Author), Marley, Mark S. (Author), Freedman, Richard S. (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute of Physics/American Astronomical Society, 2015-02-12T19:50:03Z.
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