Variable and super-sonic winds in the atmosphere of an ultra-hot giant planet
Anusha Pai Asnodkar,
Ji Wang,
Jason D. Eastman
et al.
Abstract:Hot Jupiters receive intense irradiation from their stellar hosts. The resulting extreme environments in their atmospheres allow us to study the conditions that drive planetary atmospheric dynamics, e.g., global-scale winds. General circulation models predict day-to-nightside winds and equatorial jets with speeds on the order of a few km s −1 . To test these models, we apply high-resolution transmission spectroscopy using the PEPSI spectrograph on the Large Binocular Telescope to study the atmosphere of KELT-9… Show more
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