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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 821, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/821/1/9
Keywords
atmospheric effects; methods: numerical; planets and satellites: general
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- European Research Council under the European Unions Seventh Framework Program/ERC grant [336792]
- NASA program from STScI [HST-GO-12473]
- BIS National E-Infrastructure capital grant [ST/K000373/1]
- STFC DiRAC Operations grant [ST/K0003259/1]
- NASA
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1312305] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Astronomical Sciences [1312305] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- STFC [ST/K000373/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/K000373/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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We present results from an atmospheric circulation study of nine hot Jupiters that compose a large transmission spectral survey using the Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes. These observations exhibit a range of spectral behavior over optical and infrared wavelengths, suggesting diverse cloud and haze properties in their atmospheres. By utilizing the specific system parameters for each planet, we naturally probe a wide phase space in planet radius, gravity, orbital period, and equilibrium temperature. First, we show that our model grid recovers trends shown in traditional parametric studies of hot Jupiters, particularly equatorial superrotation and increased day-night temperature contrast with increasing equilibrium temperature. We show how spatial temperature variations, particularly between the dayside and nightside and west and east terminators, can vary by hundreds of kelvin, which could imply large variations in Na, K, CO and CH4 abundances in those regions. These chemical variations can be large enough to be observed in transmission with high-resolution spectrographs, such as ESPRESSO on VLT, METIS on the E-ELT, or. MIRI and NIRSpec aboard JWST. We also compare theoretical emission spectra generated from our models to. available Spitzer eclipse depths for each planet. and find that the outputs from our solar-metallicity, cloud-free models generally provide a good match to many of the data. sets, even without additional model tuning. Although these models are cloud-free, we can use their results to understand the chemistry and dynamics that drive cloud formation in their atmospheres.
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