Wavelength Does Not Equal Pressure: Vertical Contribution Functions and Their Implications for Mapping Hot Jupiters

Toward Eclipse Mapping of Hot Jupiters

Recent Spitzer infrared measurements of hot Jupiter eclipses suggest that eclipse mapping techniques could be used to spatially resolve the day-side photospheric emission of these planets using partial occultations. As a first step in this direction, we simulate ingress/egress lightcurves for three bright eclipsing hot Jupiters and evaluate the degree to which parameterized photospheric emissio...

Mapping the Atmospheres of Hot Jupiters

We present the results of recent observations of phase-dependent variations in brightness designed to characterize the atmospheres of hot Jupiters. In particular, we focus on recent observations of the transiting planet HD 189733b at 8 μm using the Spitzer Space Telescope, which allow us to determine the efficiency of the day-night circulation on this planet and estimate the longitudinal positi...

Fitness does not equal competence.

Does NP not equal P?

The paper is made rediculously irrelevant in light of realization that NP is anything a DTM can solve in time 2^p(|n|). One theorem found on one page taking up about 1 inch in exactly one text. The author therefore no longer supports the nonsense it purports.

Atmospheric escape from hot Jupiters

The extra-solar planet HD209458b has been found to have an extended atmosphere of escaping atomic hydrogen (Vidal-Madjar et al. 2003), suggesting that “hot Jupiters” closer to their parent stars could evaporate. Here we estimate the atmospheric escape (so called evaporation rate) from hot Jupiters and their corresponding life time against evaporation. The calculated evaporation rate of HD209458...